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  • SOLD OUT – A Celebration of Bruce Springsteen’s The River, The Ties That Bind Preview Screening

    Please note this event is SOLD OUT.

    The Friends of the Bruce Springsteen Special Collection, along with Monmouth University Center for the Arts and Backstreets.com announce a special event to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of The River and the forthcoming release of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set.

    The event will include a special guest appearance by Grammy- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny who will be introducing the film, as well as a big-screen preview presentation of Zimny’s new documentary The Ties That Bind, which focuses on the making of Bruce Springsteen’s fifth album, The River. The film contains rare photos and period concert footage, as well as commentary and solo acoustic guitar performances from Bruce. As an added bonus, Thom will also present a special one hour big-screen preview cut of the new Zimny-edited concert film Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: The River Tour, Tempe 1980. Both films will be included in the forthcoming box-set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, which will be released worldwide on December 4, 2015.

    A Celebration of Bruce Springsteen’s The River, The Ties That Bind Preview Screening will mark the New Jersey premiere of New Jersey native Thom Zimny’s The Ties That Bind documentary, as well as a unique extended preview of the Zimny-edited Tempe 1980 film. Bruce Springsteen: A Photographic Journey, a traveling photography exhibition curated by the GRAMMY Museum Los Angeles, features 45 iconic images of Bruce Springsteen. The exhibit serves to document a great American music legend, and will feature photos taken by noted Springsteen photographers Danny Clinch, Ed Gallucci, Eric Meola, Pamela Springsteen and Frank Stefanko will be on view in the Rechnitz Gallery before the film.

    All proceeds from the film screening will benefit The Bruce Springsteen Special Collection at Monmouth University.

  • Downton Abbey Exclusive Preview Screening

    Join Monmouth University and NJTV for an exclusive screening and celebrate the final season! Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Season 6, Episode 1. There is another screening Sunday, December 20 from 2 – 4 PM. Free and open to the public but RSVP is required. Space is limited and festive dress is encouraged.

    Please RSVP with date of choice at specialevents@monmouth.edu

  • Downton Abbey Exclusive Preview Screening

    Join Monmouth University and NJTV for an exclusive screening and celebrate the final season! Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Season 6, Episode 1. There is another screening Thursday, December 17 from 6 – 8 PM. Free and open to the public however RSVP is required. Space is limited and festive dress is encouraged.

    Please RSVP with date of choice at specialevents@monmouth.edu

  • Heidi Rose Performance Artist in Mirror Image and Twin

    Mirror Image: Two cousins are born five months apart to identical twin mothers. Shaped by their mothers’ careers as 1950s pop singers, these women both complement and contradict one another as their lives unfold. Mirror Image reveals a life and relationship that now exist only in dreams, memories… and on stage.

    Twin: Identical twin girls each have a personality that is in some ways too big for their bodies. Too big to control. Too big to contain. They have lived their whole lives off-balance. Would they have been better proportioned had the egg not split? This performance is presented as a work in progress.

    There will also be a post-show discussion following the performance.

    Co-sponsored by: the Monmouth University Communication and Gender Studies Department, CommWorks: Students Committed to Performance, the MU Master’s Program in Corporate and Public Communication, and The Center for the Arts

    Dr. Heidi Rose holds a B.S. in Speech/Theatre from Northwestern University, an M.A. in Communication from Emerson College, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Communication and Performance Studies from Arizona State University. She is currently associate professor in Communication, with an emphasis on performance studies, and director of the graduate program in Communication at Villanova University. Dr. Rose’s teaching and research focus primarily on performance, culture, and identity.

    Dr. Rose’s research has been supported by grants from Villanova University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society. Her current projects examine Jamaican theatre and post-colonial identity, and the phenomenology of auto/biographical solo performance. Her two solo performances, Mirror Image and Good Enough, explore individual identities across generation and time periods. A third piece, Twin, is currently being workshopped and will complete the family trilogy.

    Dr. Rose was Editor-in-Chief for Text and Performance Quarterly, the flagship journal of performance studies for the National Communication Association 2010-2012. She is president of the board of directors for PlayPenn, an organization dedicated to the development of new plays and is a member of the National Communication Association, PSi: Performance Studies International, and the Eastern Communication Association.

  • Art Walk & Michael Malpass Film Screening

    This event will include a tour of the sculpture on campus including the new J. Seward Johnson pieces and the Michael Malpass Retrospective in Pollak Gallery. There will also be a screening of the new documentary about Michael Malpass titled “Michael Malpass – A Great Circle” created by Monmouth University Communication Students under the direction of Erin Fleming, Director of Production Services. The documentary will be screened in Wilson Auditorium at 4:00 PM and the guided tour immediately follow at 4:45.

    Free and open to the public but RSVP required. To RSVP please call 732.263.5715 

  • Art Walk and Michael Malpass Film Screening

    This event will include a tour of the sculpture on campus including the new J. Seward Johnson pieces and the Michael Malpass Retrospective in Pollak Gallery. There will also be a screening of the new documentary about Michael Malpass titled “Michael Malpass – A Great Circle” created by Monmouth University Communication Students under the direction of Erin Fleming, Director of Production Services. The documentary will be screened in Pollak Theatre at 4:00 PM and the guided tour immediately follow at 4:45.

    Free and open to the public but RSVP required. To RSVP please call 732.263.5715 

  • Janice Wolfe – “The Lady” Dog Whisperer of New Jersey

    Help is here!! Janice Wolfe is an internationally known behaviorist who specializes in rehabilitating fearful dogs. She has rehabilitated more than 25,000 dogs as well as written and co-authored many books on animal behavior.

    Janice has so kindly offered to provide a seminar to teach us all how to help, work with, and ultimately understand how fearful dogs think! Shelters and rescue groups will always have frightened, scared dogs – that’s a given. The recent Howell dog hording case of close to 300 dogs, and a more recent case in Jackson where 17 large dogs were living in horrible conditions, made us realize dogs from circumstances such as these need professional help. We reached out to Janice so we could all learn how to help them together. Your donations of food and supplies came in car loads and we are so very grateful for the generosity the public has shown us, but the real work is still ahead of us! Some of these animals have never been touched by a human being. One can only imagine how frightening this is for them to be in this situation!

    Adopters, dog owners, shelter workers, rescue groups, dog trainers, veterinarians, technicians — anyone in this field of work would benefit to attend this seminar. Seating is limited so please reserve your spot for this exciting, educational experience.

    Who: Shelter workers, volunteers, rescue groups, veterinarians and technicians, previous and potential adopters, all dog owners or if you just love dogs, come join us!

    How: Seating is limited for this seminar. Donation only. Payment can be made via one of the avenues below:

    • Email: Send a secure email to bookkeepingNWK1@aol.com with your full name/address/phone number/credit card type (Visa, MasterCard, and Amex) and number (including expiration date). In the subject line please specify that it’s for the Monmouth University Seminar with Janice Wolfe.
    • Phone: You can call the shelter in Tinton Falls and one of the front office staff can run your card while you’re on the phone: 732.922.0100
    • In Person: The shelter in Tinton Falls is open Saturday – Sunday 9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m.& Monday – Thursday 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. You can pay by cash, credit card or check in person. The address is 2960 Shafto Road, Tinton Falls.

    Thank you for your support!!

  • Humane Society Concert

    The best fundraiser of 2016 to benefit the Humane Society of Tinton Falls, NJ with Stormin’ Norman Seldin, Pam McCoy, Jillian McCoy, Mary McCrink, Ronnie Brandt, Joe Pitillo, Dave McCarthy, Kevin Feehan with “3 Sheets To The Wind”, Gerry Gironda, Ray Johnson, Sam Sims-Kyle Ward- Dimitris Kulaga, Tom Pharo, and special guest master of ceremonies Frank Dicopolous all on stage during one very exciting evening for a great cause! Let’s pack the house full of people!

  • Light it up Blue

    Each April 2nd, Autism Speaks celebrates the start of its signature campaign, Light It Up Blue, along with the international autism community in recognition of UN sanctioned World Autism Awareness Day and April, World Autism Month . Thousands of iconic landmarks and buildings join the hundreds of thousands of homes and communities around the world to “light blue” in support of people living with autism. Monmouth University will be joining the campaign lighting dramatically lighting up the Monmouth Library and Wilson Hall for the entire month of April.

  • Karaoke 
For A Cause

    Join the sisters of Alpha Xi Delta for Karaoke for a Cause, a talent competition where individuals will sing karaoke songs or original songs of their own to raise funds in support of Autism Speaks. Alpha Xi Delta formed a philanthropic partnership with Autism Speaks in 2009, and since has proudly raised more than $5,000,000  collectively through their national college chapters and alumnae associations for the cause.