FEBRUARY 10, 2004
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THROUGH FRIDAY
Film Festival Celebrates Black History Month
February is Black History Month, and the African American and African Studies program at UNL are celebrating with a film festival at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
A different film will be presented at 7pm each night through Feb. 13, each depicting a significant element of African or African-American history. The viewings are free and open to the public. After each showing, Kwakiutl Dreher, UNL assistant professor of English and ethnic studies, will facilitate a discussion.
The remaining schedule of films:
02.10: Pieces D'Indentities, based in colonial Belgian Congo, raises some of the most troubling issues of identity facing all Africans in the ever-widening diaspora.
02.11: Faat Kine, based in Senegal, is a tribute to the 'everyday heroism of African women.'
02.12: Daresalam: Let There Be Peace is the first African feature film to focus on the civil wars convulsing the continent from Sierra Leone to Somalia.
02.13: The Middle Passage is a poetic rumination on the route that carried slaves from Africa to the New World. Narrated by Djimon Hounsou, who starred in Steven Spielberg's Amistad, it tells the story through the voice of an African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.
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NEBRASKA UNION, NOON
Tuesdays With H.R. Brown Bag Lunch Series - 'Navigating Worker's Compensation'
N172 BEADLE, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'Staphylococcus aureusPhysiology and Evasion of the Innate Immune Response'
Dr. Greg Somerville, Rocky Mountain Laboratories
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PERMANENT COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
Sheldon Presents New Exhibitions
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery is now presenting two exhibitions featuring works from its permanent collection of American art. Weldon Kees: Works from the Permanent Collection and Form and Function: Ceramics from the Permanent Collection are on exhibit through the early spring.
A small installation, Weldon Kees features paintings and collages by Weldon Kees, a Nebraska native who became a painter, poet, critic and musician. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a volume on Kees edited by Sheldon Curator Daniel A. Siedell.
Born in Beatrice in 1914, Kees graduated from the University of Nebraska and moved to New York City to advance his career as a poet. There, he also took up painting and became a member of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
In 1950, Kees moved to San Francisco, where he made short films and wrote and performed jazz and folk music. In 1955, Kees reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, although reports have surfaced that a writer claimed to have spotted him years later in Mexico City.
Weldon Kees: Works from the Permanent Collection closes April 25.
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Guest curated by ceramics artist and UNL art professor Gail Kendall, Form and Function: Ceramics from the Permanent Collection features works by artists such as Bernard Leach, Hans Coper, John Mason, Jun Kaneko and Peter Voulkos. The pieces trace the history and development of ceramics as a medium through the last half of the 20th century.
March kicks off with an interactive First Friday Celebration. Kendall will speak from 5-7PM March 5 about Ceramics from the Permanent Collection followed by tours of the UNL ceramics studios.
The exhibition runs through March 7.
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LIED, 7:30PM TUE & WED
Troupe Brings Nomade to Lied
Montreal-based circus troupe Cirque Éloize will present two performances of its show Nomade at 7:30pm Feb. 10 and 11 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Cirque Éloize is one of the new generation of circus performers focused on innovation, imagination and show-stopping feats with a more theatrical and artistic feel. Trading the usual big top for the theatre stage, Cirque Éloize has performed in more than 200 cities to more than 2 million spectators since its founding in 1993. Its aim: to offer a fresh look on circus arts by designing shows for general audiences of any language. The troupe's first production was a hit in Quebec and then the United States, Europe and Asia.
Rachel Klemme of Time Warner Cable will give a lecture 30 minutes before curtain in the Lied's Steinhart Room.
Tickets for this performance are $22, $15 and $12; 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.
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ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, THROUGH FEB. 19
Now Showing at the Ross: Shattered
Glass, The Cooler
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents the acclaimed films Shattered
Glass and The Cooler, showing through Feb. 18 at the center, 313 N. 13th St.
Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass,
a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The
New Republic and a freelance
feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George.
By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after
young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events – chronicled
in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which Shattered
Glass is based – suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
William H. Macy stars in The Cooler as Berni Lootz, the unluckiest guy
in Vegas. From a failed marriage to an estranged son to a lost cat, everything
Bernie touches turns bad.
Once upon a time, Bernie was a troubled gambler
with markers all over town, including a big tab at the Shangri-La casino
run by his friend Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin). When Bernie
couldn’t pay the debts, Shelly saved Bernie’s
life by covering them, but then disabled Bernie by kneecapping
him, causing Bernie to walk with a limp. Also, Shelly made
Bernie work the floor of the Shangri-La, allowing Bernie
the chance to pay off his debt day by day over the course
of many years.
Both films run through February 19 at the Ross. More information is available
at the Ross website.
MRRMAC
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