FEBRUARY 15, 2005
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NEBRASKA UNION AND NEBRASKA EAST UNION
Horticulture Club Holds Annual Rose Sale
The UNL Horticulture Club will be holding their annual Valentine's Day Rose Sale at both the Nebraska Union and the East Campus Union today. The group does not accept phone or email orders for flowers, so be sure to come by in person.
The Horticulture Club gives students opportunities to socialize, learn and experience different aspects of this discipline. They manage plant, flower, and Christmas tree sales; help landscape the campus grounds; and complete community for-hire landscaping projects. They initiate fundraisers, take field trips, share experiences, and investigate developments unfolding in horticulture professions.
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NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, FEB. 15-17, 11AM
- 5PM
Spring Blood
Drive Starts Tomorrow
In conjunction with the Community Blood
Bank of the Lancaster County Medical Society, the University of Nebraska
- Lincoln will be holding a spring blood drive in the Nebraska Union
Ballroom on February 15-17 from 11am - 5pm daily. You can register on the web for a time that suits your needs best, and walk-ins are also welcome.
As a proud member of America's Blood Centers network of 500 community-based
blood centers in 46 states, the CBB distributes a portion of the
blood supplied to more than half of the nation's 6,000 hospitals.
In fact, through this affiliation with America's Blood Centers, CBB
has helped respond to some of our nation's urgent calls for blood;
the Oklahoma City bombings, the Columbine shootings, and the attacks
on the World Trade Center.
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327 KEIM HALL, FRI, FEB. 11, 3PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'On-the-Go Sensing Update'
Viacheslav Adamchuck, UNL
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI, FEB. 11, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Multinuclear Solid State NMR Studies of Ferroelectric Perovskites'
Robert Vold, Applied Science, College of William & Mary
115 AVERY HALL, FRI, FEB. 11, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'On the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture'
Jonathan Cutler, University of Nebraska
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, SUN, FEB. 13, 1PM
UNL Garden Friends Lecture - 'Where the Sun Don't Shine: Shady Perennials'
Cindy Haynes, Iowa State University
UNITARIAN CHURCH, SUN, FEB. 13, 7PM
2005 Winter Lecture Series - Palestine and Israel, Religions, Homelands and Cultures - 'Ancient History of People, Cultures and Religions of Palestine and Israel'
Steve Burnett, UNL
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HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, UNTIL MARCH 4
Hillestad Gallery Exhibiting Walsh Quilt Collection
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"A Strange Riddle," 2002, 76" x 57" Digitally developed and digitally printed cotton; machine pieced and machine quilted. |
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The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery is exhibiting selections from the art quilt collection of New Jersey businessman John M. Walsh III, one of a handful of collectors interested in acquiring works by living artists in the area of non-traditional quilts. The exhibition runs through March 4.
Guided by the counsel of independent curator and art consultant Penny McMorris, Walsh has supports the vision of some of the foremost makers in the field, assuring that this 'niche' market in the broader quilt and textile art world not be marginalized.
READ THE FULL STORY IN THE SCARLET
The full story, "Hillestad Gallery Exhibiting Walsh Quilt Collection," is available
online in the Scarlet,
UNL's faculty/staff newspaper.
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Walsh first became aware of the energy and dynamic activity that characterizes this field during a trip to England in 1990 when he saw a Channel Four television production featuring interviews with contemporary British quilt artists, including Pauline Burbidge and Michele Walker, conducted by American quilt artist and teacher Michael James. James' own work was featured on the program, and Walsh was intrigued.
Walsh began collecting quilts, and by 1992 he was focused solely on the one-of-a-kind creations of these maverick makers. He has built an important holding of significant late 20th and early 21st century objects by direct purchase and has commissioned works.
Walsh will give a free public lecture, A Collector Grows With His Collection, at 1 p.m. Feb. 27 in Room 11 Home Economics Building. The talk, sponsored in part by the College of Education and Human Science's Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design and the Friends of the Hillestad Textiles Gallery, will be followed by a reception in the gallery. Walsh will also participate in a panel discussion on collecting at 7 p.m. Feb. 25, in the same location, as part of the International Quilt Study Center's second symposium, Collectors, Collecting and Collections. More information about the conference can be found on their website.
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing 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.
MRRMAC | A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT | VERA DRAKE |
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