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  • Yankee Stadium: Houston Astros vs. New York Yankees

    Join Monmouth University and the New York Yankees for a fun-filled day at Yankee Stadium as the Yankees take on the Houston Astros Included in your ticket price is a $5 donation to Monmouth University. In compliance with IRS regulations, your fees are tax-deductible to the extent that payment exceeds the fair market value of goods and services received by attendee. The tax-deductible portion will benefit the Monmouth University Access Fund.

    The first 1,000 fans who purchase through this offer will receive an exclusive New York Yankees Hat co-branded with the Monmouth University logo.

  • Bilingual Poetry Reading and Q&A with Salgado Maranhão and Alexis Levitin

    Join us for a bilingual reading (Portuguese and English) and Q&A with Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão and translator Alexis Levitin.

    Salgado Maranhão

    Salgado Maranhão

    Born in the impoverished interior of Maranhão, in northeast Brazil, Salgado Maranhão became one of the most prominent Afro-Brazilian poets. Twice winner of Prêmio Jabuti, he has been awarded major prizes from the Academy of Brazilian Letters and the Writers’ Union. Five collections of his work have appeared in English: Blood of the Sun (2012), Tiger Fur (2015), Palavora (2019), Mapping the Tribe (2020), and Consecration of the Wolves (2021), all in Alexis Levitin’s translation. In addition to seventeen books of poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil’s leading jazz and pop musicians.

    Maranhão’s poetry explores, via metaphor, the various kinds of devastation we bring upon our lands and thus upon ourselves.

    Alexis Levitin

    Alexis Levitin

    Alexis Levitin translates works from Portugal, Brazil, and Ecuador. His forty-eight books of translation include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm, Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words, Astrid Cabral’s Cage and Gazing Through Water, and five collections by Salgado Maranhão, including the most recent, Consecration of the Wolves. He has served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Oporto and Coimbra (Portugal), The Catholic University in Guayaquil (Ecuador), and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and has held translation residencies at the Banff Center (Canada), The European Translators Collegium (Germany), and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio (Italy).

    This presentation is co-sponsored by the Department of English, Monmouth Intercultural Center, Institute for Global Understanding, and Department of World Languages and Cultures

  • AlumniFest

    All alumni are invited back to experience the first ever AlumniFest, which will include live music, a beer garden, food trucks, games and fun!

    Cost:

    • Adults: $40
    • Kids ages 10 and up: $35
    • Kids under 10: Free

    $1 from the price of each adult ticket will benefit the Access Fund.

    Be Advised: All beer garden participants must be at least 21 years old. Attendees must bring a valid photo ID to verify their age. Current students are strictly prohibited.

  • The Night Sea Journey – An Artist Talk by Associate Professor Kimberly Callas

    Associate Professor Kimberly Callas will give an artist talk on the artwork she created during a two-year Monmouth Fellowship, where she served as the artist-in-residence for the Urban Coast Institute. During the fellowship, Callas created a series of large-scale (10′) drawings that connect images of the ocean, ocean archetypes, and the human body. Inspired by historical nautical charts hand-drawn and mounted on muslin, Callas’ drawings are made of graphite, dye, and India ink on paper and dyed muslin. They are then mounted on canvas. In the drawings, Callas uses latitude, longitude lines, and depth charts to ‘specifically place’ the work in places that follow the Right Whales’ annual migration through the Jersey Shore. The drawings include symbols like the Whale, Fish, Boat, Net, and Horizon Line, and archetypes like ‘the night sea journey,’ a journey navigated by stars to a new shore.

    Kimberly Callas is a multi-media artist, sculptor, and the lead artist of the Social Practice project Discovering the Ecological Self. She uses digital emerging technologies with traditional hand and clay modeling techniques to create life-size figures that combine the human body with symbols and patterns from nature. The figures are drawn or cast in plaster or bronze, 3D printed or routed out of wood with a CNC. Ground pigments, beeswax, and natural materials such as wasp paper or birch bark are often used to finish the work.

    Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums and has received national and international grants and awards. Recent awards include a Pollination Project Grant, an Urban Coast Artist-in-Residence, and a Monmouth University Faculty Fellowship. In 2020, she received 1st Place Award in Sculpture at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s Annual Exhibit in New York City. Other recent exhibits include the 2019 International New Media Exhibit at the CICA Museum in South Korea, Summer Exhibition at Flowers Gallery in New York City, 9×12 at Dual Galleria in Budapest, Hungary and Crossing Boundaries: Art and the Future of Energy at The Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL. Her work has been published in Post Human, New Media Art 2020 by CICA Press and has appeared in the Huffington Post and Art New England. Callas received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA from Stamps School of Art at the University of Michigan. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Monmouth University, in West Long Branch, NJ and maintains a studio in both Maine and New Jersey.

    ***This lecture can also be viewed virtually through Zoom – please CLICK HERE to register to receive the zoom link***

     

  • National Pizza Day Party with the Hawks

    Celebrate National Pizza Day by bringing the family for a pizza party at the new Alumni House.

    Cost:

    • Adults (18+): $15
      • Included in the adult ticket is pizza, soft drinks, and a $5 donation to the Access Fund.
    • Child Ticket: $10
      • Included in the child ticket is pizza, kids drinks and a craft!

  • Wine vs Stein 2023

    Sip and sample beer and wine back at the place you once called home. This alumni favorite includes live music, breakout sessions hosted by beer and wine experts and food pairings! All tickets include a commemorative glass.

    Cost: $50 Regular Price, $45 for Alumni

    $5 from the total cost per person will benefit the Access Fund (scholarships for students with unmet financial need).

    Be Advised: All attendees must be at least 21 years old to participate. Attendees must bring a valid photo ID to verify their age. Current students are strictly prohibited. Payment for registrations not kept or cancelled are non-refundable.

  • Party with a Purpose

    Join fellow alumni and friends and “party with a purpose” in support of The NEST.

    The NEST is a student-run food pantry created by the Student Government Association (SGA) in September 2018 to address the growing prevalence of food insecurity among college students. The pantry supports Monmouth University undergraduate and graduate students by increasing food assistance and access by providing non-perishable food items (i.e., pasta, canned goods, cereals, crackers, etc.), beverages, and personal hygiene items (i.e., toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, toilet paper, etc.) at no cost. In addition to providing food and hygiene products, the pantry offers additional resources to students who may be food insecure, including community and state programs or organizations for food, healthcare, or financial assistance.

    Be Advised: All attendees must be at least 21 years old to participate. Current students are strictly prohibited.

  • 5th Annual MLK Distinguished Lecture in Social Justice featuring Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D.

    Elite colleges are accepting diverse and disadvantaged students more than ever before—but to Anthony Jack, access does not equal acceptance. An assistant professor at Harvard and author of The Privileged Poor, Jack—once a low-income, first-generation college student himself—studies how poor students are often failed by the top schools that admit them. In talks, he details how class divides on campus create barriers to academic success—and shares what schools can do to truly level the playing field.

    This program is presented annually by the President’s Advisory Council for Diversity and Inclusion and will be moderated by Professor Claude Taylor. 

  • Hawks on the Road: Watch Party at Deal Lake Bar & Co

  • Hawks on the Road: Pre-game Reception before Monmouth vs. Princeton

    Pre-game fan meet-up before Monmouth University Men’s Basketball vs. Princeton!

    Join fellow Monmouth fans and alumni at a pre-game reception. Enjoy food, drinks and fun before cheering on the Hawks!

    Jadwin Gymnasium is approximately three miles from On the Border.

    Basketball game tickets sold separately and can be purchased at this link. The Monmouth team bench is located in front of sections 107-108.

    For question or additional information contact Ken Taylor (ktaylor@monmouth.edu).

    Be Advised: Payment for registrations not kept or cancelled are non-refundable. Guests under 21 must be accompanied by an adult, only guests 21 and older can access the cash bar.