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September 2024

Sep 3 - Dec 20, 2024
9/3 at 12 AM DiMattio Gallery at Rechnitz Hall

Gallery Exhibitions

I Wish That I Had Spoken Only of It All: 20 Years of Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say

With backgrounds in journalism and fine art, Sheryl Oring began her ongoing project I Wish to Say in 2004 from a concern that many people’s voices were not being heard. She started to take dictation from the public about what they wanted to say to the (next) President. Dressed as a 1960s secretary with a typewriter, she records whatever participants say onto a postcard, making copies with carbon paper. During larger events, a secretarial bank takes dictation. Oring mails the postcards to the White House and exhibits copies. To date she has mailed over 4100 postcards.

Free Event
Sep 13 - Dec 20, 2024
9/13 at 12 AM Rotary Ice House Gallery

Gallery Exhibitions

Mike Richison’s Election Collection: 2004-2024

Mike Richison’s Election Collection: 2004-2020 showcases 20 years of design and video art inspired by the presidential election cycle. Richison began working with this topic in 2004 when he created a short video loop of George W. Bush drinking water during the debates. This evolved into performances and interactive video projects that break down language into musical and abstract elements.

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 19, 2024, from 5:30-7:30pm

Free Event

December 2024

Thu Dec 19, 2024
12/19 at 7:30 PM Virtual

Adult Education Series

Adult Education Series: Christmas Time Is Hear Again

From 1963 to 1969, the Beatles sent Christmas messages on flexidiscs to their US and UK fan clubs. In 1970, a compilation of these messages was sent out, and they were re-released as a collector’s set in 2017. Join SCOTT FREIMAN and KEN WOMACK for a one-session virtual course to explore this unique aspect of the Beatles’ history.

Class Schedule: Thursday, December 19 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM

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January 2025

Tue Jan 7, 2025
1/7 at 7:30 PM The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual

Grammy Museum Affiliation

Tuesday Night Record Club

The Doors

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 Doors.

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Tue Jan 14, 2025
1/14 at 7:30 PM Virtual

Tuesday Night Book Club

Harold Pinter, Betrayal

Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack. This month’s novel is Harold Pinter, Betrayal. “One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century. Pinter’s work gets under our skin more than that of any living playwright.” —New York Times. Upon its premiere at the National Theatre, Betrayal was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. It won the Olivier Award for best new play, and has since been performed all around the world and made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, and Patricia Hodge. Betrayal begins with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time through the stages of their affair, ending in the house of Emma and her husband Robert, Jerry’s best friend.

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Jan 21 - Mar 23, 2025
1/21 at 12 AM DiMattio Gallery at Rechnitz Hall

Gallery Exhibitions

Michael Malpass: Renaissance Man

Through the alchemy of welding and traditional blacksmithing, Michael Malpass commanded steel, bronze, copper, and brass with a sculptor’s precision. He elevated these industrial remnants, liberating them from their utilitarian past, and reimagined them as vibrant works of art— imbuing them with new life and meaning.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 5:30 - 7:30

Free Event
Sat Jan 25, 2025
1/25 at 12:30 PM Pollak Theatre

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

Aida

Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, and tenor Piotr Beczała is the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. The all-star cast also features baritone Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

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February 2025

Mon Feb 3, 2025
2/3 at 6 PM The Great Hall -104

Visiting Writers

Akhil Sharma – Visiting Writer

Sharma is a highly decorated short-story writer and novelist; he’s been awarded many of the most prestigious prizes and recognitions that a fiction writer can receive. His first novel, An Obedient Father (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), hailed in New York Magazine by Jonathan Franzen as “A great novel” and described by Hilary Mantel in the New York Review of Books as “uncompromising,” with a “first chapter . . . [that] blasts off the locks and splinters the wood,” received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Free Event
Mon Feb 3, 2025
2/3 at 7:30 PM Pollak Theatre

Art on Screen

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery is a journey into the Italian Renaissance through the most beautiful, representative works of art of the period. It is a totally immersive and unique experience and allows the audience t0 see, listen, feel and savor the most outstanding and celebrated breeding ground of creativity in the history of art.

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Tue Feb 4, 2025
2/4 at 7:30 PM The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual

Grammy Museum Affiliation

Tuesday Night Record Club

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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 Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

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Feb 6 - Mar 23, 2025
Rotary Ice House Gallery

Gallery Exhibitions

Ocean Bodies, A Solo Exhibit by Kimberly Callas

Monmouth University’s Ice House Gallery presents Ocean Bodies, a powerful solo exhibition by multimedia artist Kimberly Callas. The exhibition will open on February 6, 2025, with an evening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, and will run through April 4, 2025. Ocean Bodies offers an immersive exploration of humanity’s interconnectedness with the ocean, drawing on symbols, archetypes, and ecological narratives to invite contemplation and action.

Opening Reception: February 6, 2025, 5:30–7:30 PM

Free Event
Thu Feb 6, 2025
Rotary Ice House Gallery

Gallery Exhibitions

Ocean Bodies, A Solo Exhibit by Kimberly Callas

Monmouth University’s Ice House Gallery presents Ocean Bodies, a powerful solo exhibition by multimedia artist Kimberly Callas. The exhibition will open on February 6, 2025, with an evening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, and will run through April 4, 2025. Ocean Bodies offers an immersive exploration of humanity’s interconnectedness with the ocean, drawing on symbols, archetypes, and ecological narratives to invite contemplation and action.

Opening Reception: February 6, 2025, 5:30–7:30 PM

Free Event
Tue Feb 11, 2025
2/11 at 7:30 PM Virtual

Tuesday Night Book Club

The 1619 Project

Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack. This month’s novel is The 1619 Project. A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself.

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Sat Feb 15, 2025
2/15 at 8 PM Pollak Theatre

Performing Arts Series

A Bronx Tale: The One Man Show starring Chazz Palminteri

Bronx-born and raised Chazz Palminteri wrote A Bronx Tale in 1988. The powerful one-man stage play depicted his bruising childhood which included witnessing a gangland killing when he was nine years old. Palminteri played 18 characters and brought them all to life in his autobiographical play where his friends, enemies and family came alive on stage.

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Mon Feb 24, 2025
2/24 at 7:30 PM Pollak Theatre

Art on Screen

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.

Tickets will be on sale on 11/22 at 10 AM

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Thu Feb 27, 2025
2/27 at 6:05 PM Pollak Theatre

World Cinema Series

The Look of Silence

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers’ family members about what happened in the past – much to Adi’s disappointment

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March 2025

Sat Mar 1, 2025
3/1 at 8 PM Pollak Theatre

Performing Arts Series

Roxey Ballet’s Journey Back to the 80s

Roxey Ballet’s Journey Back to 80s is a pop/rock music and dance extravaganza featuring top hits from the 80s like: features songs including Flashdance, Jenny Jenny, Tainted Love, Walk Like an Egyptian, Billy Jean, Like A Prayer, Footloose, and many more! Phenomenal choreography and dancing by Roxey Ballet will take the audience back to the era of rock ‘n roll, shoulder pads and iconic music and have them to on their feet, singing and dancing in the aisles!

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Tue Mar 4, 2025
3/4 at 7:30 PM The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual

Grammy Museum Affiliation

Tuesday Night Record Club

Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis

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 Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis.

Free/Register
Thu Mar 6, 2025
3/6 at 7:30 PM Pollak Theatre

National Theatre: Broadcast in HD

The Importance of being Earnest

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
 While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, filmed live from the National Theatre in London.

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Sat Mar 8, 2025
3/8 at 8 PM Pollak Theatre

Performing Arts Series

Cherish the Ladies

Join us in celebrating Cherish the Ladies 40th anniversary with a high energy performance in honor of St. Patrick’s Day! Led by Joanie Madden, this Grammy-nominated, all-female ensemble delivers traditional Irish music and spirited step dancing. This experience filled with heart, humor, and heaps of music will have everyone tapping their feet and clapping along!

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