DECEMBER 10-12, 2004
RICHARDS HALL, FRI & SAT
Clay Club Holds Annual Pottery Sale
The UNL Clay Club will hold its biannual
Pottery Sale December 10-11 in Room 118 of Richards Hall, Stadium
Drive and T streets. Sale hours are 9am to 6pm on Friday, Dec. 10,
and 9am to 5pm on Saturday, Dec. 11.
All of the work for sale is made by UNL ceramic graduate and undergraduate
students and ranges from functional pottery to vessels to sculpture.
Profits from the sale help fund the UNL Clay Club visiting artist
program, field trips, and conference attendance.
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FINALS DEC. 13-17
Last Week of Regular Classes
The last week of regular classes of First
Semester 2004-05 at UNL begins today, and ends with classes this
Saturday. Final examinations will be conducted Dec. 13-17, with commencement
on Dec. 18.
Click the link to view the university's official policy on
Final Examinations and Dead Week, from the Academic Services Handbook.
ACADEMIC
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UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Planetarium Temporarily Closed For
Renovation
Due to a small electrical fire in a piece
of equipment, the Mueller Planetarium will be closed until further
notice for renovations. Although there was no major damage done,
inspections and renovations will be taking place over the course
of the next couple days in order to make sure everything is completely
safe and compliant.
MUELLER
PLANETARIUM |
210 FILLEY HALL, 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Consumer
Demand for a Ban on Antiobiotic Drug Use in Pork Production'
Jason Lusk, Purdue University
EAST UNION, 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Nest Architecture
of Bees'
Nick Aliano, graduate student, UNL
115 AVERY, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'Recent Examples
of the Lavrentiev Phenomenon'
Mikil Foss, Kansas State and UNL
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MEN'S
BASKETBALL | SAT, 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Creighton Bluejays
DEVANEY CENTER
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NORTH STAR HIGH SCHOOL, SAT, 3PM
UNL Opera to Perform 'Amahl and
the Night Visitors'
After a successful collaboration
last year, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music and
Lincoln Public Schools will again present "Amahl and the Night Visitors" as
a holiday program this year.
There will be two performances of Gian
Carlo Menotti's one-act opera, at 3 p.m. Dec. 11 at Lincoln North
Star High School, 5801 N. 33rd St., and at 3 p.m. Dec. 19 at Lincoln
Southwest High School, 7001 S. 14th St. Tickets are $5 for adults
and $3 for students and are available at the door.
In the opera, a poor mother and her crippled child are in desperate
straits. They are cold, hungry and destitute. Then suddenly one night,
three kings appear at their door bearing magnificent gifts for an
unknown child, led by a great star in the sky, and the stage is set
for miraculous events. Originally composed for NBC television, Menotti's
opera was first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1951. Its memorable melodies
and inspirational story have touched audiences of all generations.
The opera will feature lead singers from the UNL opera program alongside
the outstanding choruses of North Star and Southwest high schools.
Sung in English with a running time of one hour, it is a perfect
holiday treat for the entire family, celebrating the true spirit
of giving.
Support for "Amahl and the Night Visitors" has been provided by the
Woods Charitable Fund Inc. and the Lincoln Arts Council. For more
information, contact William Shomos, associate professor of music
at UNL at (402) 472-2494 or wshomos1@unl.edu, or visit the School
of Music's Web site
SCHOOL
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Starting this week at the Ross: Since
Otar Left, Being Julia
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize
at the Cannes Film Festival, Since Otar Left and the film Being
Julia, the newest film from director István Szabó.
Since Otar Left is a bittersweet
tale of deception and affection. Three Georgian women--strong-willed
matriarch Eka (90-year-old former dental assistant and fledgling
star Esther Gorintin), her long-suffering daughter Marina (Nino Khomassouridze)
and rebellious granddaughter Ada (Freeze, Die, Come to Life's Dinara
Droukarova)--all live together in their stately-yet-crumbling apartment
in contemporary Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic.
Eka pines for her beloved son Otar, a physician who is now a construction
worker in Paris.
Marina is deeply resentful of her mother's obsession with her absent
brother, while Ada endures their bickering and yearns for a more
adventurous existence. When a friend of Otar's calls with tragic
news, Marina and Ada must make a seemingly impossible choice: Do
they keep Eka from learning the truth? Former assistant director
to Bertrand Tavernier and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bertuccelli deftly
spins the delicate threads of familial conflict and maternal love
into a bewitching tangle of intergenerational duplicity.
In Being Julia, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette
Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West
End, but is growing too old for ingénue parts. Enter Tom Fennell
(Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, and a clandestine affair
begins. Though she's happy for a while, Julia eventually winds up
in a face-off with a Tom's other, much younger lover (Lucy Punch).
Luckily, the spirit of Julia's cantankerous old acting coach (London
theater legend Michael Gambon) follows Julia around offering some
tough-love encouragement.
Set in the late 1930s, this is a fine costume comedy-drama about
the sorrows and joys of art. The eternal question of "when am I acting
and when am I myself?" has seldom been addressed as intelligently
as it is here; Bening seems to be not only tangling with her own
status as an aging beauty, but also with the limits of her own acting
abilities, and it's a pleasure to see her transcend both with such
triumphant exuberance. Bravo, Miss Bening, and kudos to director
Szabó (Mephisto) for rendering his obvious love of theater,
cinema, and actors with such contagious warmth. Other fine performances
include Jeremy Irons as Julia's manager/husband and Juliet Stevens
as her jaded maid.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | SINCE
OTAR LEFT |
STUDIO THEATER, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
UNL's Theatrix to End Fall Season with Burn
This
Theatrix, the student theatrical producing
organization at UNL, concludes its fall season with Lanford Wilson's Burn
This. Directed by undergraduate Jack Carpenter, performances
are December 9, 10, and 11 at 7:30 PM with an additional performance
at 10:30 PM on December 10 in the Studio Theatre, Temple Building,
third floor. Admission is $5.00 at the door only.
Through the shared grief of a friend's
death, four New Yorkers confront their deepest fears and passions. The
four are played by undergraduate theatre majors William Haefer, Mark
Romano, and Ivan Lovegren, and Meredith Wachter.
According to the director, Jack Carpenter, "Burn This, Lanford
Wilson's self-proclaimed best work, explores loss, stagnation and
the passions which find and change our lives forever. It has been
a vehicle for such stars as John Malkovich and Joan Allen and, most
recently, Edward Norton and Catherine Keener. Its realism, comedy
and fire have consumed audiences for twenty years, and its timeless
story ensures it a place among the American classics. Thought-provoking,
touching and inspiring, it is truly a masterpiece of contemporary
theatre."
The 2004-2005 Theatrix Artistic Director is Brianne Bassler, and
the Technical Director is Matt Miller.
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