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Gallery Exhibition: Massachusetts
Joan and Robert Rechnitz HallThis exhibition is comprised of nine artists: Steve Smalley, Henry Pinardi, Brenda Atwood Pinardi, John Stevens, Suzanne Howes-Stevens, Candace Walters, Bob Stein, Robert Cumming, and Vincent DiMattio; who all have strong personal ties related to Massachusetts.
Selections from the Monmouth University Permanent Collection
Pollak GallerySelections from the Monmouth University permanent collection featuring works by various artists, including ebony carvings, etchings by Adam Wurtz, and lithographs by Salvadore Dali.
On Screen/In Person: Shored Up
Pollak TheatreSet in Long Beach Island, New Jersey and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Shored Up explores the political conflicts and personal stakes of seaside communities, culminating with the impact of Hurricane Sandy. There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker Ben Kalina following the screening.
Gallery Exhibition: Zaun Lee’s My No-Man’s Land
Rotary Ice House GalleryMy No-Man’s Land, an exhibition by Zaun Lee, highlights the raw senses of emotions. The exhibit depicts a journey into a transitional dynamic of one’s own understanding of internal logic of senses in decomposed narratives.
Free
Katie Ford
Katie Ford is the author of Deposition, Colosseum, and the forthcoming Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons, and their young daughter.
Springsteen & I
Pollak TheatreTickets on sale 9/16. Forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen burst onto the rock scene and changed it forever. His music defines a generation, but behind the songs were remarkable stories about the fans who lived them. Come celebrate Bruce’s birthday with this documentary-biographical film directed by Baillie Walsh documenting his life and career through the eyes and insights of his fans throughout the world.
Adults $15; Students $5
Dawes
Pollak TheatreThe California-based roots rock band consisting of brothers Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith (lead vocals/guitar and drums, respectively), Wylie Weber (bass), and Alex Casnoff (guitar) was heavily influenced by the gentle, acoustic-based musical trappings and rich vocal harmony of the Laurel Canyon sound (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell), as well as by the shambling, romanticized Americana of The Band.
$25, $35, $45