MARCH 1, 2004
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MARCH 1-6
Everyday Activism Women's Week Theme
The UNL Women's Center is collaborating with many other organizations to celebrate Women's Week from March 1-6. Activities are scheduled throughout the week that focus on this year's theme, 'Everyday Activism.' The theme was chosen to highlight the importance of part-time activism and the impact that small daily acts can have.
A weeklong exhibit in the Rotunda Gallery of the Nebraska Union features past and present UNL students, faculty and staff whose efforts in a variety of fields have shaped our community and the world. Participants will also be given suggestions on how to become an activist through small changes.
UNL's radio station, KRNU 90.3 FM, will spotlight activism throughout the week with an 'Activist Minute.' Each day, a nationally known activist and a UNL student will be recognized for their commitment to making change. The spots will include suggested small changes that listeners can make to start thinking of themselves as everyday activists.
Women's Week is a series of events held the first week of March to celebrate women's accomplishments and recognize the struggles women face. For more information on other events for the week, stop by the Women's Center at 340 Nebraska Union, call 472-2597 or follow this link.
WOMEN'S CENTER
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117 BESSEY, 3:30PM
Panel to Discuss Passion
The UNL Department of Classics and Religious Studies will conduct a panel
discussion today titled Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ':
Context and Reflection. The panel begins at 3:30pm in the
Bessey Hall Auditorium (room 117), 12th and U streets on the UNL city
campus.
Gibson's interpretation and production of the last 12 hours of the
life of Jesus Christ, The Passion of the Christ, opened nationwide at
theaters Feb. 25.
The discussion will focus on the professors' particular area of
expertise and their impressions of the film from their viewpoint as
academic researchers and scholars, including the use of language in the
film, historical accuracy in the portrayal of the film, and the context of
the Gospels in the period depicted.
"There has been so much discussion about this film already and we are
very interested in helping people find answers to questions they may have,
and to provide a scholarly viewpoint on the subjects that have been
discussed in conjunction with the film," Crawford said. "As an academic
department, we don't embrace any theological viewpoint, but hope instead to
provide a neutral venue where information can be shared."
The discussion is free and open to the public and the panelists
will be open to questions.
CLASSICS & RELIGIOUS STUDIES
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH MAY 16
Arneson Works Communicate Big Idea
Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson is being featured at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery through May 16. Sheldon is a stop on the exhibition's current tour that also includes Honolulu, Tacoma, Chicago, and Worcester, Mass.
Robert Arneson has been described as one of America's most original artists, prestigiously known for his reinvention of ceramics as a form of language. Arneson created over 100 maquettes between 1964 and 1992, which remained in the seclusion of his private studio. Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson is the first exhibition to display the artist's private collection of three-dimensional sketches.
Arneson's artistic background and original interest in arts rested in the world of comics. Throughout his education and instruction experience, Arneson was able to capture the ability to transmit his sketchings into magnificent and often cynical sculptures.
Some of Arneson's works include such humorous creations as Model for Temple of Fatal Laughs, 1988. This ceramc piece depicts tall pedestals created for the display of prominent heads which have fallen and been slightly mashed into the floor. All of the faces were smiling, as they laughed their heads off. Arneson also created sculptures in reference to other artists' works such as Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, and Jackson Pollock.
Big Idea also includes a commissioned piece Arneson created in memory of San Francisco's late mayor George Moscone. After his murder, Moscone's wife hired Arneson to build a sculpture to honor her late husband. Although approved by the widow, it was quickly taken down after it was considered offensive due to its reference to the man's killer. Arneson returned the commission and kept the piece for his own collection.
Admission to the Sheldon is free. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday noon-5pm. The gallery is closed Monday.
SHELDON
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EISENTRAGER•HOWARD GALLERY, 5PM RECEPTION
Undergrad Exhibition to Open
The Department of Art and Art History's Annual Studio Art Undergraduate Competitive Exhibition will run March 1-12 in the Eisentrager•Howard Gallery in Richards Hall, Stadium Drive and T streets on the UNL city campus.
An opening reception will be held today from 5-7pm in the gallery. Awards, including the Jean R. Faulkner Memorial Awards, the Department of Art and Art History Freshman and Sophomore Awards and Entry fee Awards will be presented at the reception.
Gallery hours for this exhibition are Monday-Friday, noon-4pm.
ART & ART HISTORY
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KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Dance Gala Salutes Fosse, Broadway
Broadway Lights, Fosse Nights
is the theme of Spring Dance Gala 2004, presented by the Dance Division
of the UNL School of Music. The final performance will be staged at 7:30pm tonight in Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets.
The Spring Dance Gala includes some of Broadway's biggest show-stopping dance numbers from Cats, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, and more. Faculty artists Darryl White, Donna Harler-Smith and Charles Smith, and Alisa Belflower are featured in the gala program, and UNL music majors sing a variety of musical selections. The Lincoln Irish Dancers and dancers from Karen McWilliams School of Dance also join the UNL dancers.
Tickets are $12 general, $10 faculty/staff, and $7 student/senior and will be available at the door.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, THROUGH MARCH 4
Now Showing at the Ross: Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Triplets of Belleville
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents the acclaimed films Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Triplets of Belleville, showing through March 4 at the center, 313 N. 13th St.
Director Peter Webber's film, Girl with a Pearl Earring, is set in Delft, Holland, 1665. After her father, a tile painter, is blinded in a kiln explosion, seventeen-year-old Griet must work to support her family. She becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer and gradually attracts the master painter's attention. Though worlds apart in upbringing, education and social standing, Vermeer recognizes Griet's intuitive understanding of color and light and slowly draws her into the mysterious world of his paintings.
Girl with a Pearl Earring will be preceded by the short film The Vest, written and directed by Paul Gutrecht.
From director Sylvain Chomet
comes the animated French film The Triplets of Belleville. It is the story of a boy named Champion who trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing trains). But when the big race comes, Champion is kidnapped and shipped off to Belleville where The Triplets, former scat singing jazz prodigies turned experimental musicians, come to their rescue.
Filled with inspired, twisted imagery, this nearly dialogue-free film is a crowd-pleaser of unusual power, with the strange, measured pacing of a dream, and a great soundtrack of bizarre alternate-reality '30s jazz. It also has offers a touching and believable evocation of a dog's life. A great throwback to the time before animation became dominated by CGI effects; The Triplets of Belleville is a very strange, very loving French salute to obsession, affection, and persistence.
The Triplets of Belleville will be preceded by the short film Day Off the Dead, written and directed by Lee Lanier.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING | TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE |
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