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On Screen in Person: Rebels With a Cause

Pollak Theatre

Rebels With A Cause explores how a handful of politically savvy activists fought to protect San Francisco’s Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area from the threat of sprawl and over-development at a time when California was the nation’s fastest-growing state. Their efforts set new precedents for protecting open space and helped shape the environmental movement as we know it today. There will be a post screening Q&A with the director Nancy Kelly.

Asbury Park’s West Side Music Legacy Presentation

Pollak Theatre

A multimedia presentation of the music from Asbury Park’s West Side from 1910 to 1970. Includes song clips, videos and fascinating stories that go along with the exhibition, “Asbury Park’s Springwood Avenue Harmony”.
The presentation covers Jazz, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop and Soul music from Asbury’s Springwood Avenue area, from Count Basie to Billy Brown.
Presented by music historians Charlie & Pam Horner of Classic Urban Harmony LLC, who also curated the current exhibit.

Met Opera: IOLANTA / DUKE BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE (Broadcast in HD)

Pollak Theatre

New Production

On the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle).

$23

Graduate Information Session

The Great Hall

This Information Session is for prospective students interested in Graduate School at Monmouth University. All programs will be represented.

Nine for IX: Pat XO

Pollak Theatre

An in-depth look at the legendary University of Tennessee Lady Vols Coach, Pat Summit, from her exceptional career to her new life fighting early-onset Alzheimer’s. Nine for IX is a series of documentary films which originally aired on ESPN celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Four of the episodes will be screened during the year.

Mavis Staples with Nicole Atkins

Pollak Theatre

There are few living musicians who can lay claim to being the voice of America’s conscience, and even fewer who continue to make vital music. For six decades Mavis Staples has been the solid rock of American music. Alongside the family group she is so identified with, the Staple Singers, Mavis has managed to transform herself as she goes, yet never alter.

$38, $48, $60 (Gold Circle)

Met Opera: LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Encore (Broadcast in HD)

Pollak Theatre

The magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece, in the Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production.

$23.00

World Cinema Series: Zelary

Pollak Theatre

Ondrej Trojan’s “Zelary” (2003) (R) A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940’s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Turtle Island String Quartet

Pollak Theatre

Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of the art has inevitably been redefined. Cellist nonpareil Yo-Yo Ma has proclaimed TIQ to be “a unified voice that truly breaks new ground – authentic and passionate – a reflection of some of the most creative music-making today.” Formed in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings.

$25, $35