Jacob Landau: The Frances Cycle
Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room #101 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch
Free and open to the public
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Metamorphosis: Works by Nanci France-Vaz
Metamorphosis: Life is all about transitions from one time in life to another. Artists of any art from have dreams of becoming a master in their genre, successful in their career, and recognized to the masses. The models in the paintings are artists in music, art, and performing art based on a moment in their life or a narrative Nanci has created from film, literature or poetry. Figurative storytelling is infused with light, patterns, and human presence to that have visual impact and make the viewers ponder over the meaning and left to their interpretations. France-Vaz is known for her Imaginative Portraits that render allegorical symbols combined with story and imagination. Most of the work is of female artists that never give up hope or their dreams of becoming a reality.
Free and open to the public
Jacob Landau: The Frances Cycle
Monmouth University Galleries opens an art exhibition that features the important series of drawings: The Frances Cycle, created by the American artist, humanist, and teacher Jacob Landau.
Free and open to the public
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack. This month’s novel is Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
Free and open to the public but registration is required
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Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two novels translated into thirty-four languages. He is the recipient of the John Updike award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, given to “a writer whose contributions to American literature have demonstrated consistent excellence.”
Free and open to the public
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Daniel Alarcon of NPR’s Radio Ambulante podcast – Stories Everywhere: Listening to Latin America
Daniel Alarcon of NPR’s Radio Ambulante podcast – Stories Everywhere: Listening to Latin America
Please join us for a special evening with award-winning journalist, writer, professor and podcast host and producer, Daniel Alarcón! Daniel has found great success as a writer of fiction, a journalist for outlets such as El País, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times, and co-founder and executive producer of NPR’s podcast “Radio Ambulante”. Daniel […]
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Dear England
Dear England
Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.
$23; $21 (seniors), $10 (non- MU students), $5 (monmouth students)
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School of Science Student Research Conference
School of Science Student Research Conference
The 22nd Annual School of Science Student Research Conference will showcase 31 research projects by teams of students and their faculty mentors. The keynote address will be delivered by Kevin Dillon ’15, Ph.D., a faculty member who did student research at Monmouth University and presented at the Student Research Conference in 2014. Sample project titles […]