“Vietnam Legacies: Poems from the War and Back Home” will be presented Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. at The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and Vietnam Era Educational Center, Holmdel. The poetry reading will feature authors and Vietnam veterans Jan Barry, W. D. Ehrhart and Charles H. Johnson, Red Bank. The Vietnam Era Educational Center is the first educational center and museum of its kind in the United States. Barry is the author of “Earth Songs: New & Selected Poems,” co-editor of “Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans,” and staff writer at The Record of Bergen County. Ehrhart is author of “Beautiful Wreckage: New and Selected Poems,” editor of “Carrying the Darkness: Poetry of the Vietnam War,” and a teacher. Johnson is author of “Tunnel Vision” and of poems on Vietnam engraved on the Plainsboro Veterans Memorial and an editor at the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick. The entrance fee, which includes the poetry program, is $4.
Local rock band Philip’shead will host a costume party with live music Halloween night, Oct. 30, at 9 p.m. at the Brighton Bar, 121 Brighton Ave., Long Branch, 18 and over. Cover is $8 for those in costume, $10 for others. Free jazz band Mothguts will also perform. The evening will include a costume contest. Members of Philip’shead are Mike Noordzy, bass, Philip Alongi, vocals, Chris Cerratello, guitar,
Frank Guastella, keyboards, Ben
Ross, drums. For more information about the band, visit www.philipshead.com.
The Office of Business and Community Development at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft will present an Irish Heritage Series concert by Colcannon on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 7- 9 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Parking is most convenient in lots No. 1 and 2.
The renowned Australian musical group plays with a distinctive, inventive and contemporary style, keeping in firm touch with the heart and soul of traditional Irish music. For more information and to purchase tickets, call (732) 224-2315.
“The Scarlet Pimpernel” will swashbuckle its way into the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank for the first two weekends in November. Produced by Phoenix Productions, the musical set during the French Revolution will be presented Nov. 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 14 at 3 p.m. at the theater, located at 99 Monmouth St. Tickets are $26 and $24. For tickets or information, call (732) 842-9000.
Friends of Photography will hold its final meeting of 2004 on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center, 128 Ocean Ave. At the meeting, members will critique photos taken during the group’s September visit to Sandy Hook. For information, contact Friends of Photography at 28 Evergreen Lane, Oceanport, 07757.
The annual Jewish Film Festival will take place Nov. 4-18 at Clearview Cinemas in Ocean Township, Clearview Cinemas in Red Bank and headquarters of the Monmouth County Library in Manalapan. Sponsored by the Ruth Hyman Jewish Community Center of Greater Monmouth County, the festival will present screenings: Nov. 4, 7 p.m., “The Burial Society,” Ocean; Nov. 9, 7 p.m., “The Boys of Buchenwald,” Red Bank; Nov. 10, 7 p.m., Manalapan, and Nov. 10, 7 p.m., Ocean, “Make Me a Match: A Jewish Love Story”; Nov. 16, 7 p.m., Red Bank, “Delta Jews;” Nov. 18, 7 p.m., Ocean, “The Impossible Spy.” Tickets for each movie are $7 and are available at the JCC or at each venue on the evening of the event. For more information, call Robin Cohen at (732) 531-9100 ext. 130.
A free screening of “Shaolin Soccer,” a comedy film in Cantonese with English subtitles, will be held Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library, 1001 Route 35, Shrewsbury.
The Arts and Education Center, New Brunswick, will present “Master Artists Workshops in the Schools” at high schools in Monmouth County during October and November. The hands-on workshops led by master artists will be offered in theater arts, poetry, playwriting, fiction, vocal and instrumental music, modern dance, choreography and photography. They are designed to expose students to the level of instruction available in the weekly, tuition-free high school and middle school-level programs offered by The Arts and Education Center. Auditions for Monmouth County Arts High School are Dec. 11 and students can sign up for auditions during the workshops. Registration deadline for auditions is Nov. 19. For information, contact the center at (732) 249-5151 or e-mail [email protected].