FEBRUARY 18-20, 2005
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 11AM
- 5PM
Final Day of Spring Blood Drive
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 today from 11 am - 5 pm.
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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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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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Perform at Lied
The a cappella harmonies of Ladysmith Black Mambazo are stirring, even haunting. So it's no surprise to find out that those harmonies came to Joseph Shabalala, the group's founder, in a dream. Originally created by Zulu workers as a form of resistance against their displacement to coal mines and factories, this song-and-dance tradition has been transformed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo into a post-apartheid vision of universal harmony. Regarded as one of South Africa's cultural emissaries at home and around the world, the group will bring their unique performance to the Lied Center For Performing Arts this evening at 7:30 pm.
Since their American debut on Paul Simon's Graceland, the group has performed for Nelson Mandela, the Pope, and even the Queen of England. The synchronicity of their voices and their bodies, too, stepping out their own rhythms, has earned the 10-member chorus critical acclaim and sold-out concerts around the globe. After a few hours in the theater, you will understand the power of harmony.
After a radio broadcast in 1970 brought about their first record contract, the
group has since recorded over forty albums, selling over six million records
at home and abroad, establishing them as the number one record selling group
from Africa. Their work with Paul Simon on the Graceland album attracted a world
of fans that never knew that the subtleties of Zulu harmony could be so captivating.
LIED CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Opening this week at the Ross: Bad Education, Brother To Brother
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Bad Education, the newest film from celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, and Brother To Brother, the winner of the special jury prize for drama at the Sundance Film Festival
In All About My Mother and Talk to Her, Pedro Almodóvar deepened Hollywood’s screwball comedy tradition with unpredictable bursts of violence, melodrama, and theatrical irony. Here, he performs the same trick on film noir. In Bad Education, the hero-victim Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal), like many recent Almodóvar protagonists, alters his destiny by turning his experiences into a work of art.
His short story "The Visit" tells of the revenge he dreams of taking against his femme fatale (a pedophile priest) and of his childhood love for a boy named Enrique. "The Visit" comes into the hands of the grown-up Enrique (Fele Martónez), a successful gay filmmaker who is tempted to rework his own erotic-romantic past with Ignacio in both art and life. Bad Education reconfirms Pedro Almodóvar as one of our greatest directors.
Brother To Brother is a feature length narrative film which follows the emotional and psychological journey of a young Black gay artist as he discovers the hidden legacies of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.
After being found in an intimate, sexual encounter with another young man, Perry is thrown out of his house by his family and forced to survive on his own. As he struggles to hold on by working in a homeless shelter and trying to maintain a college scholarship, he is haunted by his homosexuality and becomes increasingly withdrawn due to his family's rejection of him and their condemnation of his desires. As his friend Marcus is performing his new poetry for him, an elderly man, Bruce, appears seemingly out of nowhere and begins reciting verse to them. He disappears just as quickly and elusively as he arrived, before they get a chance to talk to him. In his library research for a class project, Perry finds a book about the Harlem Renaissance and recognizes a poem ("Smoke, Lilies and Jade" by Bruce Nugent) as the same one that the elderly man was reciting.
They encounter each other again at the homeless shelter where Perry works. He confronts Bruce about who he is and begins to ask him about the Harlem Renaissance. They go on a literal and metaphorical journey to the house that was known as "Niggeratti Manor" which was the creative center for the younger, rebellious generation of the Harlem Renaissance as they created their revolutionary literary journal, "Fire!". Although the house is now dilapidated, we are transported through the landscape of Bruce's memories of the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance. Perry learns about the lives and personalities of Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas and sees how they became a surrogate family for Bruce. Perry begins to recognize this era as his history. He sees the pride that Bruce exuded in those times in terms of being Black, gay and unashamed. His pride and self-esteem begin to have an empowering effect on Perry as he gains a stronger sense of his identity. As the story progresses, we witness the transformative power that they have on each other’s lives through their shared passion for art and storytelling.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BAD EDUCATION | BROTHER TO BROTHER |
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210 FILLEY HALL, FRI FEB. 17, 12PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Rivalry in Price and Variety Among Supermarket Retailers'
Dr. Timothy Richards, Arizona State University East
105 OTHMER HALL, FRI FEB. 17, 2:30PM
Mechanical Engineering Seminar - 'Development of the Influence Function Method in Structural Mechanics'
Yuri Melnikov, Middle Tennessee State University
327 KEIM HALL, FRI FEB. 17, 3PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'Gardens and Golf'
Kim Todd
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI FEB. 17, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Drug Leads from Marine Cyanobacteria - Unlocking a Treasure Trove of Useful Natural Products by Chemical, Biosynthetic and Molecular Genetic Approaches'
William Gerwick, Oregon State University
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WRESTLING | 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
NU COLISEUM
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