TEDxNavesink presents ACCELERATORS
Pollak TheatreWe’ll explore how Accelerators are creating game-changing innovation and cutting edge thought. Accelerators are: Catalysts. Change makers. Inflection points. Pivotal moments.
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Global Understanding Convention Opening Ceremony
The Great Hall AuditoriumPracticing Nonviolence in a Violent World
Music for Piano Solo, and Violin & Piano
Lauren K. Woods TheatreFeaturing Monmouth University Professors Laura Dubois and Michael Gillette performing the music of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, deFalla, and Albeniz. A wonderful variety of music from different eras, with some commentary and background provided by the performers. The program will also include classical guitarist and MU student Matt Jordan, playing a piece by Villa Lobos an original composition by Laura DuBois, sung by MU alumnus Dana Ferrara, and MU students Margaret Lymberis and Mahalia Jackson.
On Screen In Person: Tie it Into My Hand
Pollak TheatreAt once entertaining and deeply insightful, Tie It Into My Hand is an unprecedented look at the life of an artist, told entirely through interviews with pre-eminent directors, filmmakers, visual artists, writers and performers, including Alan Cumming, Barbara Hammer, and Harold Bloom, among many others. The filmmaker sets his interactions with the artists in the context of a fake violin lesson while using his personal struggle to play the violin despite a chronic hand injury as the catalyst for dialogue.
Non-Violence and Anti-Violence in Different Religious Traditions
Magill CommonsPanel Discussion: Hear from adherents from multiple religious and wisdom traditions about non-violence.
Mind and Life: Humanity in a Creative Universe
The Great Hall AuditoriumMind and Life: Humanity in a Creative Universe by Stuart A. Kauffman, Author of Reinventing the Sacred: A new View of Science, Reason and Religion and Katherine P. Kauffman, EPS […]
Janet Boltax – Aging in America: Portraits and Commentary
Pollak GalleryAging in America: Portraits and Commentary, is an exhibition of portraits by Janet Boltax comprised of individuals who are 90 plus years old, along with excerpts of interviews with them. The interviews focus on interesting facets of their lives and how they are adapting to the process of aging. Opening Reception: April 15, 6-8 pm
World Cinema Series: Ida
Pollak TheatrePawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” (PG-13) Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960’s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.