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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

Make a Gingerbread House

Library Room 102

Need some holiday décor? Come with your friends by the library to create your Gingerbread House for the holidays!

Self-Service Gift Wrapping and Holiday Cards

Library Room 101 – 1st Floor

Create some holiday cheer by gift wrapping the things you got at the Holiday Bazaar on Thursday 12/12/2024 at our special wrapping event!

Self-Service Gift Wrapping and Holiday Cards

Library Room 101 – 1st Floor

Create some holiday cheer by gift wrapping the things you got at the Holiday Bazaar on Thursday 12/12/2024 at our special wrapping event!

Self-Service Gift Wrapping and Holiday Cards

Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room #101 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States

Create some holiday cheer by gift wrapping the things you got at the Holiday Bazaar on Thursday 12/12/2024 at our special wrapping event!

The Doors

The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States

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.

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

Harold Pinter, Betrayal

Virtual

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.

Free and open to the public, registration required.

Michael Malpass: Renaissance Man

DiMattio Gallery at Rechnitz Hall

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.

Free and open to the Public

First-Time Home Buyer Workshop

Virtual (Zoom)

This virtual program hosted by Thomas Vogel, seasoned loan officer with OceanFirst Bank, will inform first-time home buyers on the steps needed to be mortgage ready while discussing budget creation […]

Akhil Sharma – Visiting Writer

The Great Hall -104

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 . . . 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 and open to the public