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Convergence

Convergence is a group exhibition organized in affiliation with Project Vortex, a non-profit organization committed to reusing plastic debris from our oceans and shorelines. This exhibition brings together seven contemporary artists responding to the current environmental crisis in our oceans.

Free

Faculty and Friends: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall Inaugural Exhibition

Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall

This invitational exhibition features the work of 57 accomplished artists from across the country – including current faculty and former faculty, alumni and artists who have exhibited in the Monmouth University galleries over the years.

Free

Student Movie Posters from the Department of Art & Design

Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall

Student Movie Posters from the Department of Art & Design

What can you do with 4 colors, 4 names, 2 locations, 2 dates, 2 film genres and 4 adjectives?

For this project, students are asked to create a concept for a movie poster for a film that does not exist. Here are the results of their work.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Have you ever had a really rotten day? Alexander has… He wakes up with gum in his hair, he trips on a skateboard, and then he accidentally drops his sweater in the sink – all before breakfast! Laugh and sing along with Alexander’s misadventures in this hilarious musical, featuring book and lyrics by Judith Viorst, author of the best-selling classic book. Discover along with Alexander that sometimes, everyone has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Appropriate for Grades Pre K – 4

On Screen In Person: Cafeteria Man

This feature documentary film by Richard Chisolm chronicles an ambitious effort to ‘green’ the public school diet serving 83,000 students in Baltimore.

Met Opera: MARIA STUARDA (Encore)

Fresh from her triumph in the Met’s The Enchanted Island, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. 
Having scored a major success with his production of Anna Bolena, director David McVicar now turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

Met Opera: AIDA (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)

The Met’s unforgettable production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He. The story centers on the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle with the heroic Radamès, played by Roberto Alagna. The proud Egyptian princess Amneris is played by Olga Borodina. Fabio Luisi conducts this revival, which features recent choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.

Provost Film Series: Bamako

In this film by Abderrahmane Sissako, Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work, and the couple is on the verge of breaking up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa’s woes. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by Africa’s desire to fight for its rights.