Events

Come to Asbury Park this April for the annual Restaurant Tour! The event, hosted by the Chamber of Commerce, features small “bites”, sampling and demos at 25+ Asbury Park restaurants, lounges, juice bars and breakfast rooms. Foodies will be treated to some of the classic restaurant pioneers of Asbury Park, as well as recent newcomers to the blooming Asbury Park culinary landscape.

This May at Count Basie Theatre, step into the world of DEA special agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, who were instrumental in the take down of one of the most gruesome and prolific drug lords of all time, ”The King of Cocaine,” Pablo Escobar. Come see their presentation and discussion on their experiences and what was the inspiration for the hit NETFLIX series “Narcos.”

Join NJ Audubon Naturalist, Dave Hall, for a birding tour of Greenwood Gardens. Explore habitats of hardwood forest, conifer stands, ponds and meadows and venture into South Mountain Reservation. $10 members; $15 non-members. Registration required. Additional walks: June, September and October

Sip and savor the award winning flavors of the area’s premier handcrafted fine wines. Includes tastings from Balic Winery and Tomasello Winery, signature wine glasses, stroll through the Historic Towne of Smithville and the Village Greene, salt water taffy, area meal coupons, professional tour host, and round trip transportation.

A “Behind the Scenes” tour is offered every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. This in-depth 2 hour tour leads guests through several sections of the organ which are normally closed to the public and gives an extremely detailed look at the mechanism of the instrument, its history and the current restoration project. This tour does involve an extensive amount of walking and stair climbing. An alternate tour path is available for persons with limited mobility.
The tour is followed by a 1/2 hour concert

A “Behind the Scenes” tour is offered every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. This in-depth 2 hour tour leads guests through several sections of the organ which are normally closed to the public and gives an extremely detailed look at the mechanism of the instrument, its history and the current restoration project. This tour does involve an extensive amount of walking and stair climbing. An alternate tour path is available for persons with limited mobility.
The tour is followed by a 1/2 hour concert

Seaside Park presents Disney Pixar’s COCO on Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 8:30pm. this event is friendly to audiences of all ages and provides a perfect opportunity for a family to spend time together. Rated PG; 109 min.

The Village Inn is located in Englishtown, Monmouth County, New Jersey and offers tours through out the house. Your tour takes you back into history when it was Washington’s Headquarters during the Revolutionary War. The building was built in 1732 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1972. They offer snacks and small gifts at the end of the tour.

Two tours to choose from! At 12:15pm Our Iron Works Tour invites you to explore the village history by learning about the iron making process and touring the historic sites that played a part in the Howell Iron Works production. Includes visits to the VisitorCenter/Museum, Foreman’s Cottage, Blast Furnace, Blacksmith Shop, Carpenter’s Shop, Carriage House, Enameling Building, General Store.

The Guild’s wacky “All-Member Edgy Exhibit” will be on display for the month of January. According to Webster’s Dictionary, “Edgy” means “at the forefront of a trend, experimental, avant-garde, innovative, original, or offbeat. The Main Gallery will showcase works in all media – acrylic, assemblage, collage and mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, sculpture, watercolor and wood in a variety of unusual subject matter. Reception Sunday, January 6, 3 – 5 pm.

The Guild’s wacky “All-Member Edgy Exhibit” will be on display for the month of January. According to Webster’s Dictionary, “Edgy” means “at the forefront of a trend, experimental, avant-garde, innovative, original, or offbeat. The Main Gallery will showcase works in all media – acrylic, assemblage, collage and mixed media, oil, pastel, photography, sculpture, watercolor and wood in a variety of unusual subject matter. Reception Sunday, January 6, 3 – 5 pm.

Enjoy this intimate, fun-filled evening with some of your favorite Television Housewives – onstage live in person! Hear all about these dazzling ladies, their sensational personal lives, cherished families, amazing businesses, and how fame has changed their lives forever. Grab a cocktail and have your own questions ready, as your favorite Housewife will answer . This special event will also benefit women’s charities by donating a percentage of the proceeds from all limited V.I.P. Meet & Greet Photo-op tickets . Don’t miss this outrageous, courageous, sometimes bawdy, but always honest evening with these fabulous Reality TV stars!

Featuring: Teresa Giudice (New Jersey), Dorinda Medley (New York) and more!

Come out to Monmouth University down at Pollak Theatre to see Corneliu Porumboiu’s 2006 film, East of Bucharest being shown. This film shows an unlikely group form together to discover the truth about whether or not a historic revolution occurred in their town. Stop by and check out this classic on the big screen!

Asbury Shorts New York is New York City’s longest running exhibition of the award-winning short films. Producer Doug LeClaire brings World’s Best Short Films back to Algonquin Arts Theatre.

Watching the world cinema series: ‘The Wave”, this movie will be showed in Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University. This movie is about a high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship. But is spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Engelbert Humperdinck never wanted to be a singer. A career in music, yes, but he was extraordinarily shy. The youngest boy of a family of ten children originally from Leicester, England, he grew up in Madras, India, where his father was stationed during World War II. Engelbert’s childhood was dominated by the love of his parents and his brothers and sisters. He knew he could sing harmonies, but the power of his own voice came as a surprise to him and other people. “It’s just so loud, but I discovered I can be tender with it at the same time.”

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Engelbert has generated sales in excess of 140 million records, including 64 gold albums and 35 platinum, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe, and stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Fame, and Leicester Walk of Fame. He has performed for the Queen four times, several presidents and many heads of state. He has recorded everything from the most romantic ballads to movie theme songs, disco, rock, and even gospel. His unique voice has charmed millions of fans around the globe. However, it’s not just the voice, but the man himself, with his endearing sense of humor and self-deprecating jokes. Engelbert has managed to strike a new chord with a younger generation after appearing on MTV several times.

Engelbert exploded on to the music scene in the sixties with The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. His sixties did not so much swing as rage. The shy handsome boy catapulted almost instantly to world icon. He became great friends with Elvis Presley and the two legends often performed each other’s songs. His first single in the charts was “Release Me,” which went into the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks on the charts. It was No. 1 in 11 countries. The song was re-released after being used for a UK national television commercial for John Smith’s beer.

The following decades saw Engelbert touring the world to sell-out crowds. Engelbert seems to take great pleasure in every moment on stage, a place where he can lose his inhibitions and no longer be the child who was once shy.

Engelbert’s music has transcended time and his voice still continues to reach out to people now – serving to transport and inspire, to embrace and to provoke feelings and emotions…ingredients that are no doubt the essence of his long-lasting success.

Make a Film in 24 Hours! Join us for a wild and fun day of creative filmmaking! Put a team together and compete against fellow filmmakers for cash prizes and a chance for your film to be included in FilmOneFest. Teams are given an assignment (a prop, a location and a line of dialog) and they have 24 hours to create a super short film (under 2 mins).

Dream Theater have steadily achieved a startlingly sublime synthesis of soaring and unmistakable melody, progressive instrumentation and aggressive heaviness unrivaled within hard rock music. The legacy established throughout their virtuosic career of astounding aesthetic alchemy has made their very moniker synonymous with the power of talent, ability and momentum when brilliantly forged together.