GUC Featured Movie and Conversation
GUC Featured Movie and Conversation with director, Lisa Gosses, documentary “My So Called Enemy”
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Second Senior Show: Graphic Design & Animation
Joan and Robert Rechnitz HallFeaturing the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Graphic Design and Animation.
Panel Discussion: Guatemala Public Health 2014
Location: Turrell Boardroom, Bey Hall Guatemala Public Health 2014: “It’s an Adventure,” Panel Discussion Students join professors for a panel discussion on the state of public health in Guatemala. Panel members include Prof. Chris Hirschler and Corey Inzana, Alexandra Evangelista, Chelsea McDermott, Melanie Pardun, Carly Samona, Angelica Santos, Students.
Met Opera: WERTHER Encore
Pollak TheatreJonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of Massenet’s sublime adaptation of Goethe’s revolutionary and tragic romance, opposite Sophie Koch as Charlotte. The new production is directed and designed by Richard Eyre and Rob Howell, the same team that created the Met’s recent hit staging of Carmen. Rising young maestro Alain Altinoglu conducts.
$23
On Screen/In Person: United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
The Great HallUnited in Anger: A History of ACT UP is the first feature-length documentary to explore ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from an historical perspective and describes how a small group of men and women of all races and classes came together to change the world and save each other’s lives. There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker Jim Hubbard following the screening.
Teacher From The Black Lagoon & Other Story Books
An exciting new musical revue based on favorite contemporary children’s books including Teacher From the Black Lagoon (by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee), Dogzilla (by Dav Pilkey), Grumpy Bird (by Jeremy Tankard), I Want My Hat Back (by Jon Klassen), Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse (by Kevin Henkes), Love Splat, Splat the Cat (by Rob Scotton), The Grasshopper and the Ant.
Natalie Diaz
The Great Hall AuditoriumNative American poet Natalie Diaz will speak about the language revitalization program at Fort Mojave, her home reservation, where she works with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language.
Spring Awakenings: A Concert Featuring Orchestra and Collegiate Chorus
Pollak TheatreA concert featuring three perennial favorites, each uncommonly effervescent, sweet and vibrant as if made for Springtime. This concert is sponsored by the Monmouth University Performing Arts Series with orchestra and collegiate chorus conducted by Dr. David M. Tripold.
$22, $30
Film Screening – Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
Pollak TheatreMonmouth University Honors School presents a screening of the acclaimed new documentary.
Visiting Writers: Louise Gluck
Louise Glück is one of America’s finest contemporary poets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Glück is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of a dozen widely acclaimed books. Stephen Dobyns, writing in the New York Times Book Review, said “no American poet writes better than Louise Glück, perhaps none can lead us so deeply into our own nature.” Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing.”