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  • The Wailin’ Jennys

    Join us for a night of unforgettable folk music as The Wailin’ Jennys grace the stage at Pollak Theatre. From their humble beginnings in a tiny guitar shop to becoming one of today’s most beloved international folk acts, The Wailin’ Jennys have captured hearts around the world. Founding members Moody, Mehta, and Masse continue to impress with each critically acclaimed recording, elevating their music to new heights while thrilling audiences with their renowned live performances.

    Their journey began with the release of their debut album “40 Days” in 2004, which garnered them a Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year. Since then, they’ve mesmerized audiences across Canada, the U.S., and beyond, earning accolades and nominations along the way. With hits like “Firecracker” and “Bright Morning Stars,” The Jennys have transcended genres, blending folk, alt-country, pop, and rock into their unique sound.

    Their live album “Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House” captured the essence of their electrifying performances, showcasing their show-stopping harmonies and impressive instrumental prowess. In 2017, The Jennys celebrated their 15th anniversary with the release of “Fifteen,” a collection of their favorite songs recorded true to their live sound. This album, steeped in artistry and elegance, highlights their heartfelt vocals, otherworldly harmonies, and sophisticated arrangements.

    Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience The Wailin’ Jennys live at Pollak Theatre!

  • Blue Hawk Records – Album Release Event

    The Record Label Strategies class along with the rest of the Blue Hawk team would like to invite you to celebrate the release of our 24th compilation album “Open 24 Hours”! Join us for some live music, food, and a giveaway!

  • Senior Exhibition 2024

    Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees from the Department of Art & Design.

    Closing Reception: April 28 from 1 to 4 p.m.

  • 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.

    Reception: Monday, April 1, 2024, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. 

    Born in Philadelphia in 1917, Landau launched his career as an illustrator, winning national prizes at age 16 and a scholarship to the Philadelphia College of Art. He went on to have over sixty one-person shows, featuring a wide range of drawings and paintings. The recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and National Arts Council grants, many of his works are featured in permanent collections, such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A master teacher, he retired as professor emeritus at New York’s Pratt Institute. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts by Monmouth University.

    The exhibition features the important series of drawings, The Frances Cycle, in dedication to his wife that died from Alzheimer’s disease. In 1999, Landau finished a limited-edition book, The Frances Cycle: Some Motions of the Earth.  He used his own art and the poetry of, former President of the Jacob Landau Institute, and writer/poet, David Herrstrom, to give voice to the words his wife spoke as she dealt with the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.  The completes series (14), and books, are all from Monmouth University’s extensive collection of Jacob Landau’s work, comprising over 300 prints, drawings, and paintings. The collection was gifted to Monmouth University in 2008 by the Jacob Landau Institute of Roosevelt, NJ.

  • Bill Rosenblatt and Howie Singer

    Join authors Bill Rosenblatt and Howie Singer as they discuss their new book Key Changes, which explores the top ten musical advances that have disrupted the music industry. A book-signing will follow their author Q&A with hosts Ken Womack and Joe Rapolla.

  • Women in Music 2024

    Join Blue Hawk Records at the 2nd annual Women in Music industry event for a discussion about navigating through the industry with some of the most successful women in the field, in celebration of women’s history month. We have four amazing panelists joining us from some of the best-known companies in the music industry such as Atlantic Records, Roc Nation, Primary Wave, and SiriusXm and Pandora.

  • Ross Gay – Toni Morrison Day Keynote Speaker

    Ross Gay is the author of the poetry collections Against Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding (2022), winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award. As an essayist, he has published The Book of Delights, a 2019 New York Times bestseller, Inciting Joy (2022), and The Book of (More) Delights (2023). Gay is founding co-editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin’ and an ardent gardener and founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project.

    Visit the Toni Morrison homepage for the complete program: https://www.monmouth.edu/department-of-english/toni-morrison-day/

    Co-Sponsored by the Department of English, Intercultural Center , Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Work, Leon Hess Business School, History & Anthropology, Guggenheim Memorial Library, Monmouth Review

    Special thanks to community partner Project Write Now

    Questions can go to english@monmouth.edu

  • Wit

    BY MARGARET EDSON
    Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

    THE STORY: Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. (source: Dramatists Play Service)

    Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.

    In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate.

    “[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —The New York Times.

    “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —New York Magazine.

  • Wit

    BY MARGARET EDSON
    Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

    THE STORY: Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. (source: Dramatists Play Service)

    Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.

    In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate.

    “[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —The New York Times.

    “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —New York Magazine.

  • Wit

    BY MARGARET EDSON
    Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

    THE STORY: Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. (source: Dramatists Play Service)

    Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.

    In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate.

    “[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —The New York Times.

    “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —New York Magazine.