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September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
On Screen/In Person: Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
In her more than 60 years as a groundbreaking artist, Miriam Beerman has overcome loss and tragedy to inspire friends, family, and fans about how to remain defiant, creative and strong. Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos is the retrospective of a remarkable career and the profile of an artist whose personal demons and empathy for human suffering colored a lifetime of her work.
Indian Ink Theatre Company
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
New Zealand-based theater company Indian Ink blends western theatrical traditions with eastern influences and has been critically acclaimed for its use of live music, heightened theatricality, humor, pathos, and great storytelling.
February 2016
On Screen/In Person: The Winding Stream
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
The Winding Stream tells the story of the American roots music dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes, tracing the influence of their music from the 1920s through the present day, and how a seemingly unlikely young man named Johnny Cash would be the one to lift up the Carter legacy from obscurity. An intimate account of reciprocity and love, The Winding Stream features interviews and performances with roots music practitioners, including one of the last interviews ever granted by Johnny Cash.
March 2016
On Screen/In Person: REBEL
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
One of the thousand women said to have fought in the Civil War, Loreta Janeta Velazquez altered her sex, ethnicity, and identity in order to become a Confederate soldier spy and double agent for the Union, only to be dismissed as a hoax after revealing her story in her scandalous 1876 memoir, The Woman in Battle. REBEL is a detective story about a woman, a myth, and the politics of national memory.
April 2016
On Screen/In Person: Deaf Jam
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
Illuminating the extraordinary power of American Sign Language (ASL) poetry, Deaf Jam is story of Aneta Brodski’s bold journey into the spoken word slam scene. When Aneta, a deaf Israeli immigrant high school student, makes an extraordinary connection with a hearing Palestinian slam poet, they transcend personal and political divisions to generate a new form of poetry that speaks to both the hearing and the deaf.