FEBRUARY 7, 2005
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, TUES. FEB 8, 7:30PM
Poet Laureate Kooser to Give Nebraska Lecture
Ted Kooser, 13th poet laureate consultant
in poetry to the Library of Congress, will read from his works and
discuss poetry in a special Nebraska Lectures event tomorrow evening. The event, co-presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and the City of Lincoln, begins at 7:30 pm in the Lied Center for
Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. The event is free and open to the
public on a first-come, first-seated basis. The event will be broadcast
live on the UNL Web site (http://www.unl.edu)
and on Neb*Sat Channel 107, state Channel 4, campus Channel 4.
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FCLA WEB SITE
FCLA Presents Funniest Story Contest
The Freshman Campus Leadership Associates
is now taking entries on their website for a funniest freshman story
contest. All current UNL students are eligible to enter the contest,
but the embarrassing story, joke, or experience should be about freshman
year. The story must be under 500 words and entries can be made on
the FCLA
website.
Up for grabs are over $700 in prizes from a variety of Lincoln businesses,
and the winner of the contest will be selected by members of the
Freshmen Campus Leadership Associates. The deadline to submit an
entry is Friday, March 11. Entries with lewd or offensive language
will not be accepted.
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RICHARDS HALL, TUES, FEB. 8, 7:30PM
UNL Art & Art History Hosts Guest Artist Ellen Driscoll
Ellen Driscoll, head of sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, will be in the UNL Department of Art and Art History
February 7-10 as the second visitor in the new Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Driscoll will give a free public lecture on Tuesday, February 8 at 7:30 pm in Richards Hall auditorium, Room 15, on the UNL city campus.
Born in Boston, she received her Bachelor of Arts in fine arts from
Wesleyan University and her Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from
Columbia University. Prior to beginning her teaching at the Rhode
Island School of Design in 1992, she taught at Princeton University,
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University
of New York at Purchase, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston.
Her work includes installations such as 'The Loophole of Retreat'
(Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, 1991), and 'Passionate Attitudes'
(Threadwaxing Space, New York, 1995); public art projects such as *As
Above, So Below' for the new Grand Central Terminal North (1999),
'Turnscope,' an interactive piece created in collaboration with artist
Nick Tobier for the Gallery at Green St. on the Orange Line T stop in
Boston (2001), and a theater production done as part of the 1998
Henson International Puppet Festival at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on
Staten Island, New York entitled 'Ahab's Wife.'
Recent projects include 'Catching the Drift' (2003), a women*s
restroom for the new Brown Fine Arts Center at Smith College, and
'Ghost' (2003), for SmackMellon Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Arts, Anonymous?Was a Woman, Radcliffe
College's Bunting Institute, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
Her work is included in major public and private collections such as
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art.
For a full itinerary and more information on Driscoll's visit, please contact the
Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-5522.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Opening this week at the Ross: A Very Long Engagement, Vera Drake
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the newest film from Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, A Very Long Engagement and Vera Drake, the newest film from highly acclaimed director Mike Leigh.
A Very Long Engagement, is based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. Screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant.
The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl.
It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiance, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
The title character in Mike Leigh's new movie Vera Drake is a middle-aged cleaning lady (Imelda Staunton) who races through her London working-class neighborhood singing to herself. The time is 1950, and though the dark and depressed city still suffers from wartime austerities Vera brings the light. The short, pudding-faced woman drops in on invalids, offers a few words of sympathy, and then makes her way to the luxurious flats of the wealthy, whose objets d'art and fireplace grills she dusts and polishes, sometimes on her knees. Vera gives of herself freely and easily, and it is precisely in that selfless and attentive way--brisk, efficient, consoling--that, using a tube and a noxious solution, she terminates one unwanted pregnancy after another.
Working with an almost preternatural calm, Leigh sets up the repressive and sexually inarticulate atmosphere of the time; Vera's furtive activity is part of an entire system of shadowy reticence and embarrassed dithering. And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class. The movie is hushed and intense; it evokes an entire way of life.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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