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  • Virtual Tuesday Night Record Club: Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

    We have decided to continue with Record Club in virtual format using the ZOOM app. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom

    It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  • Virtual Tuesday Night Record Club: Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend

    We have decided to continue with Record Club in virtual format using the ZOOM app. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom

    It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  • Virtual Tuesday Night Record Club: Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill

    We have decided to continue with Record Club in virtual format using the ZOOM app. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom

    It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature Alanis Morissette; Jagged Little Pill.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  • “A Monument to Fallen Royalty”: Rediscovering Joseph Bonapartes Point Breeze Estate in Bordentown, New Jersey

    Hosted by Monmouth University Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Richard F. Veit, Ph.D.

    Recent archaeological excavations in Bordentown, New Jersey have unearthed the remains of Joseph Bonaparte’s palatial estate, Point Breeze.   Joseph, the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and former King of Spain and Naples, fled to the United States in 1815.  He lived in New Jersey from 1816 until 1839.  During this period he built two palatial homes, laid out a 1900-acre picturesque landscape, and acted as an unofficial cultural attaché.  His home was a center for French refugees in America.  His library and art collections were the largest in country. At Point Breeze, he entertained many of the leading intellectuals, politicians, artists, and military figures of the day.  Bonaparte’s passion was landscape architecture, and on his property he created one of the first purposefully-designed picturesque landscapes in America.  Archaeological excavations have revealed the remains of Joseph’s first mansion and recovered an intriguing collection of artifacts that provide a unique glimpse of the lifestyles of the rich and famous in 19th century New Jersey.

    RSVP to Stacey Ayers at sayers@monmouth.edu.

    Join via Zoom at 7pm EDT on May 21. or dial in by phone:

    Dial by your location

    +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

    +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

    +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

    +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

    +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

    +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)

    Meeting ID: 954 3560 9832

  • The Beatles Revolver – Record Club, Virtual Edition

    We have decided to continue with Record Club in virtual format using the ZOOM app. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom

    It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature The Beatles’ Revolver

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  • Virtual Living Room Concert Series – Stay Safe, Stay at Home

    Monmouth University Center for the Arts is proud to present the premiere of a Virtual Living Room Concert Series – Stay Safe, Stay at Home featuring some of your favorite singers, songwriters and musicians from the Jersey Shore and beyond! The concert will premiere on the Center for the Arts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/n2m9mKRFiqk on May 8, 2020 at 8 PM with a live chat from some of the artists and will be available to stream on the channel anytime afterward.

    This living room concert features: Steve Forbert, Pat Guadagno, Jessie Wagner, Marc Ribler, Harry Filkin, Carl Gentry, Bobby Bandiera, Lowell “Banana” Levinger, Sara Devine, Eddie “Kingfish” Manion, Franke Previte & Lisa Sherman.

    The concert is directed by Monmouth University Alumnus Tom Parr ’85  and sponsored in part by Riptide records.

  • Virtual Story Time for Kids

    Parents and children grades Pre-K through grade 2 are welcome for a virtual story time! This week’s theme is yoga.

    For more information or to learn how to become involved please contact:  Aimee Parks at 732-571-3569 or aedmunds@monmouth.edu.

    Register here.

     

  • Virtual Blue Hawk Records Release Show for “Sweet 16”

    This semester, Blue Hawk Records will be hosting their first ever virtual release show on the Blue Hawk Records Instagram page for their new album Sweet 16 on May 6 at 8pm. 

    Over the past few weeks, student life at Monmouth University, and everywhere, has changed dramatically, due to COVID – 19. Like all other schools and universities across the country, Monmouth has moved to online instruction for the remainder of the spring semester. However, despite the chaotic and tumultuous situation students found themselves, Blue Hawk Records carried on with its plans to release its 16th studio album. They innovated and found a way to remotely produce, promote and release the spring 2020 compilation EP, “Sweet 16”. A first for the student-run record label, as well as most major record labels.

    Artists on “Sweet 16” include Monmouth students, Shadiyah, featuring Gabriel Garza, Nicole Totland, Bruce Davis, featuring Janae, Mikey Sanchez, Drew Fournier, and Monmouth alumni, Anya Schildge Angeloni ‘12M, along with an ensemble of accompanying student musicians and producers.

    Sweet 16 will be available for streaming on all digital platforms on May 8.

    You can find and follow Blue Hawk Records at @bluehawkrecordsofficial

  • Online Panel: COVID-19 & New Jersey’s Environment

    With a large percentage of the world’s citizens sheltering in place, cars off the roads, planes grounded and factories dormant, COVID-19 has already made a measurable impact on the environment. News stories have carried stunning before/after scenes showing some of the world’s most smog-plagued cities in a suddenly far clearer light.

    How is the coronavirus affecting New Jersey’s environment? The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute will convene an expert panel on May 12 to share what their data shows so far, what they expect to see in the near-term, and what lessons the experience can teach us about New Jersey’s environment for the future.

    PANELISTS & TOPICS

    Air Quality: Luis Lim, Chief, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Air Monitoring

    Ocean Environment: Josh Kohut, Professor, Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

    Coastal Lakes, Streams & Estuaries: Jason Adolf, Endowed Associate Professor of Marine Science, Monmouth University

    Wildlife: Sean Sterrett, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Monmouth University

    Beach Conditions: Kimberly McKenna, Director of Sponsored Programs, Stockton University Coastal Research Center

    Moderator: Thomas Herrington, Associate Director, Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute

    An open Q&A session for attendees and panelists will be held at the conclusion of presentations.

    Participants can log on to the webinar at: https://monmouth.adobeconnect.com/coronavirus_environment/.

    For more information, contact Karl Vilacoba at kvilacob@monmouth.edu.

  • Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays

    Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion!

    This month’s novel is Joan Didion’s PLAY IT AS IT LAYS. A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul—it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.

    When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. CLICK HERE for more information on how to use zoom