– Family Addiction Network to meet Nov. 17
The Family Addiction Network will hold their monthly meeting on Nov. 17 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the West Long Branch Community Center, 116 Locust Ave. West Long Branch.
The topic of this month is on “Finding Hope.” This meeting will feature presenters Melissa and Michael Skelly, a father and daughter who find hope in addiction recovery. While there are many paths to recovery, there is one constant, and that is hope. It is not always easy to see a life beyond the addiction, beyond the chaos, pain and suffering, but hope can be found.
For more information regarding The Family Addiction Network or future meetings, visit familyaddictionnetwork.org or visit the Facebook page Family Addiction Network.
– ‘The Producers’ coming to arts center
The Axelrod Performing Arts Center will present, “The Producers: The New Mel Brooks Musical,” in November at 100 Grant Ave., Deal Park.
Performances at 8 p.m. will be on Nov. 13, 14, 20 and 21 and at 3 p.m. Nov. 15 and 22.
The musical, written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, made Broadway history by winning 12 Tony Awards. The show is produced by Andrew De Prisco and Jess Levy.
Tickets are $32 for adults, $28 for seniors and $20 for students. Group rates are also available. For tickets or more information, call 732-531-9106 or visit www.axelrodartscenter.org.
– Award-winning poet set to speak Nov. 17
Monmouth University’s 2015-16 Visiting Writers Series will continue with a reading by award-winning poet and prose writer, Edward Hirsch, at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at Wilson Hall Auditorium, 400 Cedar Ave., West Long Branch.
Hirsch is the author of nine collections of poetry and five prose books. His first collection, “For the Sleepwalkers,” received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. In 1986, he won the National Book Critics Award for his second collection, “Wild Gratitude.”
He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, Prix de Rome and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
The Visiting Writers Series brings celebrated poets and authors from around the world to help the audience experience a renewed sense of relationship to poetry, fiction and language. For more information, contact Michael Thomas at 732-263-5635 or visit www.monmouth.edu/arts.