Mon, Jun 02, 2003
 TUESDAY CONCERT: SHELDON SCULPTURE GARDEN 7-9PM, MARKET: 5-9PM, TOURS: 5-7PM Jazz in June Concerts, Market, Garden Tours Set for Tuesdays in June The annual Jazz in June concert series, organized by the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Nebraska Art Association, Downtown Lincoln Association and Updowntowners, begins this Tuesday with the hot Latin jazz of Norman Hedman & Tropique.
The Jazz in June Market, which runs from 5-9pm each Tuesday during the series, is open for dinner or midweek shopping. Dinner items, fresh produce, baked goods, ice cream from the UNL Dairy Store and many more items are available for purchase. The UNL Botanical Garden and Arboretum will offer free tours of the gardens on city campus. Tours start at 6pm each Tuesday in June on the east side of the Sheldon Gallery. Each tour will last about 30 minutes. Inside the Sheldon, visitors can enjoy a scavenger hunt and visit the Sheldon's permanent collection and Big Canvas exhibition. Docents will be available inside the galleries for tours from 5 to 7pm. This year's scheduled Jazz in June performers are:
June 10, Greg Abate Quartet: Abate is widely considered to be one of the "best post bebop alto players" in the jazz world. According to the Chicago Tribune, Abate's work has "a constant feeling of invention and creativity." Abate's hard-driving bebop is fast enough to blow away an audience, yet at times light and merciful enough to let the melody slowly tell its story.
June 24, Don Stiernberg: One of Chicago's busiest musicians, Stiernberg turns up on recording sessions and at performances of all kinds to play mandolin, guitar, tenor banjo, fiddle, or to sing. According to the Chicago Tribune, Stiernberg's brilliance "stands in nobody's shadow." With sweet, inviting melodies and unmatched improvisations, Stiernberg both complements and redefines the swing jazz world. His playing has an air of constant authenticity. HEDMAN | JAZZ IN JUNE | SHELDON |
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STATE MUSEUM, OPENS SAT Renovated Pine Ridge Diorama Opens at NU State Museum If one were lucky enough to have a cabin at Fort Robinson in Nebraska's Pine Ridge, and were looking out the cabin's window on an overcast early winter afternoon, one might see Mule Deer and White-winged Juncos as part of the landscape. Now, one can experience that event in Lincoln in a newly renovated Pine Ridge diorama at the University of Nebraska State Museum.
The original Pine Ridge diorama was completed in 1959. The next 44 years took its toll on the exhibit, as harsh lighting faded the deer fur and the acrylic paint in the background deteriorated. In addition, the museum's philosophy in presenting dioramas has changed and the new exhibit incorporates that thinking. Dioramas, according to Judy Diamond, the museum's associate director for public programs, showcase wildlife in their natural environments. While that approach remains, the museum's staff has changed the way that visitors interact with the dioramas and also has enhanced the content of the dioramas with new materials that highlight biodiversity. "We try to involve the visitor to experience the habitat group by surrounding the visitor with the diorama," Diamond said. "Our new emphasis is to make the visitors paramount and to communicate with them to enhance their learning experience." The Pine Ridge diorama was designed to recreate the landscape outside a Pine Ridge cabin setting. Two mule deer, an antlered buck and a doe, step amid brown grasses and small ridges of snow. The doe's gaze appears focused on a bird in the foreground. Behind the pair rises the Pine Ridge escarpment. Other parts of the exhibit include mounts of two bucks who were found near death with locked antlers, and a pair of skulls - one from a mule deer and the other from a white-tailed deer, allowing viewers to compare the two. New signage explains the habitat and life cycles of the wildlife. Diamond said dioramas depict a moment in time; the Pine Ridge diorama showcases an early winter scene from the late 1950s. Thus, said Freeman, there are no insects and the dormant brown grasses would not be grazed down. Part of the educational materials for the diorama explain what the animals eat during the winter, she said. Diorama renovations are costly, Diamond said. Depending on the scope and size of the project, each diorama can cost between $10,000 and $60,000. Private donations pay for the renovations. STATE MUSEUM |
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Huskers Host Track Regional
Nebraska is coming off a trip to the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas, where the Huskers claimed eight individual titles but came up short of both team titles, with the women taking silver and the men taking bronze. Texas captured both team titles on its home turf and the Longhorns will likely be the favorites coming into the regional championships. Fifty individuals have qualified for the regional meet for 62 event entries, as well athletes who qualified on relay teams. NU has 24 athletes currently ranked in the top 10 in the region in their respective events and 16 rank in the top five. In order to make the NCAA Outdoor Championships, athletes must finish in the top five of their event or in the top three in the relay events. The NCAA will also use the national descending order list to fill the rest of the NCAA Championships field. TRACK & FIELD Huskers Host Baseball Regional
The Huskers (44-16) will be looking for their fourth straight regional title and a chance to play the winner of the NCAA Auburn Regional, which features top-seeded Auburn (40-19), which is also the No. 4 national seed, along with No. 2 Clemson (38-20), No. 3 Ohio State (41-19) and No. 4 Princeton (27-21). BASEBALL | TOURNAMENT BRACKETS (PDF) |
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N172 BEADLE, MON 11AM Special Center for Biological Chemistry/Plant Science Seminar - 'Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase: Catalytic and Regulatory Mechanisms on the Basis of Its Three-Dimensional Structure' Professor Katsura Izui, Kyoto University |
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NEBRASKA UNION, WED 9AM-4PM Seminar to Focus on Media Relations Policymakers and the Fourth Estate: Working with the Media, the first installment of the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center's 2003 Thomas C. Sorensen Policy Seminar Series, is scheduled for June 4 at UNL City Campus Union. The seminar will cover issues, strategies and basic 'how-tos' for working with the media and communicating messages to the public on policy. The seminar is open to the public, including university staff and students, and those working in policy, advocacy, or community services with an interest in enhancing understanding and skills necessary for effective media relations. Registration is $40 ($15 for students and NU faculty and staff) through June 1. Add $10 for late or on-site registration. For more information and registration, visit the Policy Seminar Series website or contact Tarik Abdel-Monem at 472-3147 or tabdelmonem@nebraska.edu. |
