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Fri, Feb 06, 2004

FEBRUARY 6-8, 2004

LIED CENTER, FRI & SAT
Music Man to March into Lied

Strike up the band! Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman's dynamic re-invention of the American classic The Music Man will take the stage at the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30pm Friday (Feb. 6) and 2 and 7:30pm on Saturday (Feb. 7).

Con artist turned conductor Harold Hill convinces the citizens of River City, Iowa, that he can teach their children to play in a marching band. Only after Marian, the town librarian, discovers his secret does the plot thicken. The Music Man features classic songs such as Till There Was You, Gary, Indiana, and Seventy-Six Trombones.

Meredith Willson's The Music Man originally opened on Broadway on Dec. 19, 1957, and won eight Tony Awards, beating out West Side Story for the Best Musical Award. In addition, the cast album won the first Grammy Award for Broadway Musical Score. The movie, starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, also won an Academy Award for Best Score. The recent Broadway production opened April 27, 2000, and closed on Dec. 30, 2001.

Tickets for this performance are $46, $40 and $36; tickets are half-price for university students and those 18 and under. Call the Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for tickets.

LIED

NEBRASKA UNION, SUN 1:30PM
Garden Writer to Speak

Award-winning horticulture writer and photographer Lauren Springer will speak at a free public lecture at 1:30pm Sunday (Feb. 8) in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union. The lecture is sponsored by UNL Garden Friends.

Her topic is Continental Ideas for American Gardens. Springer worked in public gardens on both sides of the Atlantic before receiving her master's degree in horticulture from Penn State. She is a contributing editor for Horticulture magazine and author of The Undaunted Garden, named one of the 75 best American gardening books of the last century by the American Horticultural Society.

Her most recent book, Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates, co-authored by Rob Proctor, received the 2001 AHS Book Award.

GARDEN FRIENDS

UNITARIAN CHURCH, 6300 A ST., SUN 7PM
Lecture Series to Investigate Global Problems

The 2004 Winter Lecture Series begins this Sunday with Trends in Development and Philanthropy in a Globalized World, presented by Natalie Hahn, adviser to the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships.

The 2004 winter lecture series offered in part by the UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture runs Feb. 8 through March 21 at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln. This semester's series is titled National Identity and Global Citizenship: The Benefits and Negative Results of Globalization and International Cooperation. Each two-hour session, except for the March 21 event, begins at 7pm with the lecture and is followed by an open discussion. The Nebraska Humanities Council provides major funding for this program. All sessions are free and open to the public.

AGRONOMY & HORTICULTURE | HUMANITIES COUNCIL

FRI & SAT
Ross to Host Micheaux Film Festival

This weekend, the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater will present Celebrating Oscar Micheaux, a film festival intended to enrich the understanding and appreciation not only of a giant in black American cultural production but provide further enrichment and appreciation of the development of African American art and life in the twentieth century.

Micheaux was the first great black film impresario. Commencing his career in 1918, he was author, director, producer, and distributor of his independent productions. Micheaux actively produced film for three decades and successfully spanned the transition from silent to sound film, concluding his career in the late 1940s.

The screenings of films by and about Micheaux will be presented by visiting scholars Pearl Bowser and Thulani Davis. Films to be shown are Within Our Gates, Midnight Ramble, and Body and Soul. Live piano accompaniment for the silent films will be provided by Kansas City jazz musician Luqman Hamza. A reception, co-sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press, in honor of the special guests will be held in the Van Brunt Visitors Center Great Hall following the evening screening and panel discussion on Saturday (Feb. 7). Co-Sponsored by Department of Black Studies, UNO.

The schedule:

Friday (Feb. 6) at 7pm, Within Our Gates, presented by Thulani Davis

Saturday (Feb. 7) at 3pm, Midnight Ramble, presented by Pearl Bowser

Saturday (Feb. 7) at 7pm, Body and Soul starring Paul Robeson. Followed by a panel discussion including Ms. Bowser and Ms. Davis.

Tickets are $7.50, $5.50 for children, senior citizens and students. more...

MRRFT | NEBRASKA PRESS | UNO

11 HOME EC. BLDG., SUN 2PM
Artist to Lecture on Design Technique


	Geometry Weave, 2003, Hand-dyed and pieced silk pique

Ana Lisa Hedstrom has been an innovator in surface design for more than 25 years working with contemporary applications of the Japanese technique called arashi shibori, a resist dyeing process. She will give a lecture titled Rewrapping Shibori at 2pm Sunday (Feb. 8) in room 11 of the Home Economics Building.

Hedstrom's nationally touring exhibition, Process and Pattern: Hand-dyed and Digitally Printed Textiles by Ana Lisa Hedstrom, organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, is running now through March 12 at the gallery.

A reception on the second floor will follow the lecture at 3pm. A limited collection of the artist's hand-dyed silk scarves will be available for purchase at the reception only. Fabrics, clothing, and interior wall pieces will be exhibited.

HILLESTAD GALLERY

NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 7PM
UNL Students to Participate in Dance Marathon

UNL students will kick off the first ever university Dance Marathon to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network and Children's Hospital in Omaha. Opening ceremonies begin at 7pm Friday (Feb. 6) at the Nebraska Union, and participants will dance through the night until closing ceremonies at 9am Saturday (Feb. 7).

To join the event, participants had to raise $150 and will not sit during the Dance Marathon. Several families whose children have been patients at Children's Hospital will be present at the event to give support and remind them what they are dancing for.

Money raised by Dance Marathon will go to the Children's Child Life Program, which advocates for the psychosocial, developmental, emotional and educational needs of patients and their families.

Revenue comes from sponsors and money collected by dancers. Registered dancers have collected money for the event in parking lots and tailgate parties before football and volleyball games and on weekends by collecting money downtown.

CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

LOVE LIBRARY, SAT 1PM
Saturday is Second Annual Scholars' Day

Four UNL students, all recipients of prestigious scholarships or scholarship finalists, will speak about their award experiences at 1pm Saturday (Feb. 7) in the Love Library Auditorium, with a reception following. They will discuss how they prepared for the awards, the process of applying and the opportunities the award has created for them.

Panelists will include: Angela Clements, Truman Scholar; Greg Krafka, Fulbright Scholar; Elizabeth Beer, Goldwater Scholar and Rhodes Finalist; and Kyle Wyatt, Rhodes Finalist. Those attending will be able to ask questions and learn more about these awards and others. Students, especially freshmen, sophomores and juniors who are interested in these prestigious awards, are encouraged to attend.

For more information, call Karen Lyons at 472-2456 or Laura Damuth at 472-5024. This program is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Honors Program.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES | HONORS PROGRAM

327 KEIM HALL, FRI 2PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'Biomass for Bioenergy'
Ken Vogel, USDA-ARS, UNL

210 FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Non-Linear Pricing for Food Certification Schemes'
Jim Vercammen, University of British Columbia, Canada

112 HAMILTON, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Optical Excitations in Branched Macromolecules'
Theodore Goodson, III, Wayne State University

SHELDON GALLERY, FRI 5PM
First Friday Celebration - 'The Absent Presence of Weldon Kees'
Dan Siedell, Sheldon curator