FEBRUARY 22, 2005
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NEBRASKA UNION, REGENCY SUITE, THU. FEB 24, 1:30PM
UNL Departments of Textiles, Clothing, & Design Present the Guerrilla Girls
"The Subversive Use of Information," an interactive seminar with the Guerrilla Girls, will provoke students to think about what information could be useful to their activist campaigns, and how to use it. The GGs will talk about how they used information in many of their posters and books to raise consciousness and change minds. This expansion of the material that will be at the core of the GGs keynote presentation at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery opening event of the International Quilt Study Center's 2nd biennial symposium later the same day, will include images of their work and time for Qs and As.
The GGs are an anonymous group of women who assume the names of deceased female artists to illustrate the gender discrimination faced by women in the arts. They wear gorilla masks to hide their true identities and have been causing a stir in the art world since their inception in 1985. Three books have been published on their performances and activism. They have earned recognition and numerous awards, including one from the National Organization of Women. This event is FREE to UNL students, but pre-registration is required! Phone 472-2911(TCD) or 472-9392(WSP) to register.
TEXTILES, CLOTHING, & DESIGN |
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105 OTHMER HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar - 'Shape Memory Polymers'
Dr. Kenneth Gall, University of Colorado at Boulder
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'Ones and Zeros: Looking for Similarities in Genome-wide Binary Data'
Arcady Mushegian, Stowers Institute/Kansas University Medical Center
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MEN'S BASKETBALL | 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
DEVANEY CENTER
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LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE, UNTIL MAY 8
Lentz Exhibits Japanese Sword Collection of Prof. Peter Bleed Ph.D.
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Tsubas (sword guards), Japan
from the Collection of
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The Lentz Center for Asian
Culture is happy to announce its winter exhibition, "Steel Art: Japanese
Swords from the Collection of Prof. Peter Bleed, Ph.D.," beginning
February 15 through May 8th.
Professor Bleed is an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Anthropology. He has been involved in studying Japan since his graduate school days at the University of Wisconsin when he wrote his dissertation on early Japanese ceramics. His studies have included numerous stays in Japan.
Well known as a sword collector, Professor Bleed has not shown his swords at the Lentz Center for more than a decade. During that time he has added to the collection. The exhibition will include a sword from the Han Dynasty in China (206 BCE-222 AD) and one from the Nara Period in Japan (645-749 AD). Most of the swords are from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The collection includes long and short swords, various types of blades, fittings and tsubas (sword guards). A samurai helmet and matchlock pistols will also be on display. Other relevant objects from the Lentz collections will be on exhibition as well.
Professor Bleed aided Donald and Velma Lentz in their founding and early management
of the Lentz Center for Asian Culture and is a member of the Center's Policy
Advisory Board. We are especially happy that he is sharing his collection with
the museum.
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture recognizes the rich and varied cultures of
the many diverse peoples of Asia. As an entity within the University of Nebraska
- Lincoln, the LCAC's unique collection provides a singular opportunity for enhancing
instructional programs on the campus as well as enriching the cultural environment
of the citizens of the State of Nebraska. It is dedicated to the enrichment of
knowledge and understanding of Asia, and is the only institution in Nebraska
devoted solely to Asian art.
The Lentz Center is located in the lower level of the Hewit Place building, across from the Lied Center for Performing Arts, at 1155 Q Street. Hours are 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Friday, 11 am to 5:00 pm Saturdays and 1:30 to 4 pm Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing 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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