MARCH 10, 2004
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CHRISTLIEB GALLERY, 7:30PM
Zimmerman to Offer Directing Insight
The Robert Knoll Lecture at UNL today will provide a first-hand account of the difficulties and pleasures of staging Shakespeare for modern audiences.
Mary Zimmerman, professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, will describe the process in Directing Shakespeare, beginning at 7:30pm at the Great Plains Art Collection, 1155 Q St. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Author of several plays including Metamorphoses, The Odyssey and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Zimmerman has also directed her own and other plays, including Henry VIII for the New York Shakespeare Festival. She is a 1998 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and has received many awards, including a Tony Award for Metamorphoses. A Lincoln native, Zimmerman will also be a visiting artist in the UNL Department of Theatre Arts.
ENGLISH
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E103 BEADLE, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Functional Genomics of Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila'
Dr. Brian Oliver, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md.
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CHRISTLIEB GALLERY, 3PM RECEPTION, 3:30PM LECTURE
Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail, Visitors Center to be Olson Seminar Topic
The Missouri River Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitors Center will be the topic of today's Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at UNL.
Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City, president of the River Country Economic Development Corp. and vice president of the Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitors Center Foundation, will discuss the trail and visitors center from 3:30-5pm today at the Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. The seminar and a 3pm reception in the gallery are free and open to the public.
The unique focus of the Missouri River Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitors Center will be the natural history studies and similar scientific discoveries of the Corps of Discovery's transcontinental journey from 1803-06. The significant role of Native Americans to the success of the endeavor will also be told throughout the center in displays, exhibits, and hands-on materials.
The 12,000-square-foot interactive interpretive center will be located on a 79-acre scenic wooded site overlooking the Missouri River in Nebraska City. The National Park Service is designing and constructing the center. Upon completion, it will be turned over to the Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Center Foundation, which will have raised 90 percent of the center's $8.8 million cost. The foundation will maintain ownership, operation and maintenance. Split Rock Studios of Minnesota is producing the interpretive concepts and exhibits for this regional center.
GREAT PLAINS STUDIES | LEWIS & CLARK TRAIL
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CHASE HALL, 3PM
Grew to Address Museum Future
The School of Natural Resources will present Priscilla Grew at 3pm today in 116 L.W. Chase Hall. She will speak on The Future of the University of Nebraska State Museum.
Grew was appointed director of the University of Nebraska State Museum on Aug. 18, 2003. She has been a professor in the Department of Geosciences since 1993 and served as vice chancellor for research from 1993 to 1999. Since 1998, she has also been the UNL coordinator forcampus compliance with the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
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ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, THROUGH MARCH 18
Ross Continues Tribute to Women Make Movies
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is presenting a tribute to Women Make
Movies, one of this country's most successful media arts organizations, through
March 18.
Created in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization that facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
Comprised of all new releases, both feature length and short films, exploring the current conditions of women in the Middle East to Africa to South America to the United States, MRRMAC's Women Make Movies, retrospective will celebrate the diversity, vitality, quality and breadth of creativity in WMM's catalogue of more than 400 films and videotapes. more...
MRRMAC | WOMEN MAKE MOVIES |
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