• Monmouth University Music & Arts Festival 2021

    Virtual

    Entering its 2nd year on the virtual stage, this year’s Monmouth University Music & Arts Festival will feature members of the Garden State Philharmonic performing music from Civil War era Marches through Ragtime, Dixieland, and Jazz featuring music by composers George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, C.W. Handy, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. The festival will also highlight selections and solos from The Monmouth University Chamber Choir, a performance by the Blue Hawk House Band and a special reading by former United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethaway. The festival will premiere at 7:00 PM on July 1st and be available to view through July 31st. To receive the streaming link for the festival you will need to register.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required
  • Natasha Tretheway – Monmouth University Summer Music & Arts Festival

    Virtual

    A special reading by former United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Tretheway, as part of the 2021 Monmouth University Summer Music & Arts Festival. For more information on the festival visit: https://www.monmouth.edu/mca/festival/.

    Free and open to the public.
  • Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

    Virtual

    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 David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars.

    Free and open to the public
  • Virtual Tuesday Night Record Club: The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

    Virtual

    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 Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.

    Free and open to the public
  • Music Contracts Made Simple

    Virtual

    Music Contracts Made Simple Music Industry Webinar Series Learn the key terms and clauses to be mindful of when negotiating music contracts. The event, hosted by Blue Hawk Records through the Department of Music & Theatre Arts, is free but registration is required to attend.

  • Hermitage: The Power of Art – Virtual Event Cinema

    Virtual

    A spectacular documentary event tours through St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, a wonderful complex of buildings with the largest collection of paintings in the world, to retrace two and a half centuries. Audiences pass through the magnificent interiors that provided a meeting point for foreign artists, architects and intellectuals creating connections through art and culture.

    $10
  • Poetry Appreciation

    Virtual

    This three-session virtual course, taught by Michael Thomas, provides attendees with an introduction to the craft of poetry, while also carefully considering poems that have been deeply meaningful to our lives.

    $50 (for three sessions)
  • 42nd Street: The Musical – Virtual Event Cinema

    Virtual

    Captured live from the London stage and directed by the original author of the show, Mark Bramble, 42ND STREET is one of Broadway's most classic and beloved tales. Full of crowd-pleasing tap dances, popular musical theatre standards including “Lullaby of Broadway”, “We’re in the Money", “42nd Street” and more, plus show-stopping ensemble production numbers. Not to be missed!

    $15
  • Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six

    Virtual

    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 Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six. A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required