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

DiMattio Gallery at Rechnitz Hall

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 and open to the public

Michael Anthony Donato: Angels & Devils

Pollak Gallery

Michael Anthony Donato, a School of Visual Arts graduate, is an award-winning children’s book illustrator. His work on Squanto and the First Thanksgiving aired on Showtime and earned honors from the American Library Association. His illustrations for Tales Alive, a collection of global folktales, received a Parents’ Choice Award. Donato also collaborated with Simon & Schuster and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Voyage Up the Nile. He currently teaches drawing and advanced painting at Monmouth University.

Free and Open to the Public

Game Room

Library Room 101 – 1st Floor

Enjoy some games to de-stress for finals!

Game Room

Library Room 101 – 1st Floor

Destress from finals with some games!

MU Chanukah Party

Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Join Us for Monmouth University’s Chabad Chanukah Party! Sign up for the Party! Celebrate the Festival of Lights with us! Enjoy delicious food, an exciting dreidel competition, a ventriloquist show […]

Cookie Decorating & Hot Cocoa

Guggenheim Memorial Library Cafe Area

Enjoy some restful cookie decorating and tasty hot cocoa in the Library Cafe!

Percival Everett, James

Virtual

Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack. This month’s novel is Percival Everett’s James. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Free and open to the public, registration required.

Snack Night

Guggenheim Memorial Library Cafe Area

Join the library for a de-stress week event featuring a free Yogurt and Cereal Bar!

Holiday Bazaar

Guggenheim Memorial Library

Need to get friends, family, and loved ones some Christmas gifts but haven’t had the time? Visit the Holiday Bazaar to shop for them and for yourself! Then stop by […]