Week of Events
War Horse – Virtual Event Cinema
Now seen by more than 8 million people around the world, War Horse is a powerfully moving and imaginative stage drama, a show of phenomenal inventiveness, filled with stirring music and songs. At its heart are astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses thrillingly to life on stage. Based on the beloved novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford.
Songwriting: Unlocking Your Creativity
This three session virtual course, taught by Jay Sweet, provides participants with techniques to help give directions and creative elements that will help unlock the potential of active and aspiring songwriters. The workshop will also provide a supportive outlet for those songwriters looking to share their works for evaluation or for those looking to learn from others’ processes.
A Conversation with Olivia Nuzzi: The Future of American Politics and the Press
A Conversation with Olivia Nuzzi: The Future of American Politics and the Press
Join Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Poll, in a discussion with one of the nation’s highest profile political reporters about the state of the news media and how it covers political issues and players. Olivia Nuzzi is currently New York magazine’s Washington correspondent. She grew up in Monmouth County, New Jersey, cutting her […]
Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! This month’s novel is Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years
As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.