Monroe Center Arts Community Blog

Keeping a creative eye on the world of art, entertainment and ideas.

Fire Walking At Monroe Center

Saturday, May 30, 6pm-10pm
FEAR Into Action– The FireWalk Experience
Spend an evening learning how to let go of your limiting beliefs.  Learn how to turn FEAR into Action.  We all experience fear from time to time.  Wouldn’t it be great to use FEAR to take Action, instead of being stopped by it.  This Seminar will teach […]

The Buzz Is On At Monroe Center

The next year is going to be a cultural filled one at The Monroe Center For Performing Arts. From Music to Theater and Comedy, Opera Singers, Classical Music Events, Rock and Pop Performances, the list goes on…
The Monroe Center has a fantastic new Theater on the Second Floor, Hoboken’s Mile Square Theater will be performing […]

Halloween Bash at Shades

Halloween Night, 31st October. Julio Fernandez of Spryo Gyra with his band Cat Lingo will be rocking at Shades restaurant and Bar. The concert begins at 8pm. Ends when all souls go home. There are a number of musical acts that will also be playing in Shades that night. Admission is Free. Parking is Free.
For […]

They’re he-e-e-re UFO Festival comes to Jersey City next weekend

The Jersey City Reporter
Sunday, October 12, 2008
By Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter staff writer 

Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly

 

Does the terms UFO and alien abduction get your heart racing with excitement? Do you feel like you’re the only one among your family and friends who thinks there are […]

An Extra Terrestrial Buzz At Monroe Center

Monroe Center is at the center of a creative buzz right now. Good things are happening here. Mile Square Theater has transformed Our Art Gallery into a Broadway stage where The Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 5pm.  Comedy of […]

Monroe Center’s Wolfman-WANTED

‘WANTED’
 A New  Recording by Guitarist Wolfgang Schalk who has his studio at The Monroe Center:
Wolfgang Schalk: guitar
Geoffrey Keezer: piano
Dave Carpenter: bass
Marvin “Smitty” Smith: drums
 Recorded at Encore/Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, CA
“Schalk creates impressive structures for improvisation, and he fits each and every structure with a hip, catchy melody. If other musicians pick up on these […]

The Master Lays His Sitar Down

Sitar Maestro Ravi Shanker recently gave his last public concert in London. He would have liked to play on but  his eighty eight- year- old body is not willing to cooperate. “It comes down to the fact,”  said a friend of Shanker, “that his spirit is willing to play on but his body will not […]

ART NEST— AN OPEN INVITATION

 ART NEST - OPEN HOUSE!Studio, E 505, Monroe Center
Friday, June 6th, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday, June 7th, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Please join us to Celebrate the Opening of Hoboken’s first Art Therapy Studio and Gallery. Meet the staff, take a tour of the studio, and learn about our upcoming events such as:
Summer Art […]

Hoboken Women and Politics

The National Federation of Democratic Women {NFDW} will hold a meeting at The Monroe Center in Gallery E-200 on 29 April, 2008,   at  7.30pm. The central theme of the discussion will focus on how to grow and foster women’s political participation. 
Ryn Melberg, Treasurer of the Hoboken Democratic Party, has invited Nancee May, President and Lorraine Joewonov, […]

The Dream Is Over, Definitely, Maybe…

The Black n’ White dream is over. Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama on one ticket. Finito! Thanks to Hillary Clinton. So, as the Village Idiot once asked no one in particular, “ Kay, What Happens Now, Amigo?”
Elections, Caucuses, Delegates and Super delegates.
What happened to the simple vote, where the one who got the […]