FEBRUARY 23, 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.
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NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 12PM
E.C. Speakers Meeting - A member of Toastmasters International
Visitors are welcome
L.W. CHASE HALL, 3:30PM
UNL School of Natural Resources Research Seminar - 'Reservoir Bottom Sediments: An Archive of Historical Human Activity and its Environmental Effects'
Kyle Juracek, U.S. Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
African and African American Studies Lecture - 'A History of the NAACP Lincoln Branch'
Leroy Stokes, president of the Lincoln Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Do Conjugating Enzymes Expand the Plant Hormone Signaling Repertoire?'
Dr. Paul Staswick, UNL
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WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL | 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas State Wildcats
DEVANEY CENTER
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HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
UNL Theatre Opens 2005 Season With Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
UNL Theatre's University Theatre
opens its 2005 spring season with one of William Shakespeare's most
popular romantic comedies Much Ado About Nothing. Performances
are in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building at 12th & R
Streets, February 23, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $14 regular,
$12 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth. Tickets
are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street,
472-4747 or 800-432-3231, 11:00 AM to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday
and one hour prior to performance in the Howell Theatre lobby.
Don Pedro, Claudio and Benedick arrive in Messina to visit the governor Leonato. Claudio who quickly becomes enamored with her pursues Hero, Leonato's lovely daughter. Benedick, a sworn bachelor, can't understand the concept of being love-struck but does find the time to exchange witty insults with Beatrice, Leonato's niece. Borrachio, a follower of Don John the brother of Don Pedro, spreads the news of Don Pedro's plan to help Claudio in his quest for Hero. Don John plots to destroy this intended marriage.
A masked party creates plots and schemes, not only to connect Hero and Claudio, but also to trick Beatrice and Benedick into falling in love with one another. Dogberry and Verges, two comic officers, establish a night watch prior to Hero and Claudio's wedding. Don John pays Borrachio to seduce Margaret outside of Hero's window so that Claudio and Don Pedro will witness this display, thinking Margaret is Hero. Through a series of mistaken identities and plot twists, it is "much ado about nothing."
This production of Much Ado About Nothing introduces director Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts G. Valmont Thomas. A member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for seven years, G. Valmont Thomas worked with such acclaimed directors as Lillian Garrett-Groag, Mel Shapiro, Daniel Sullivan, Arne Zaslove, David Ira Goldstein, and Kenny Leon. In 20 years of performing Shakespeare, Mr. Thomas has played the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello, as well as Simonides in Pericles, Prince Of Tyre, Feste in Twelfth Night, Nym/Michael Williams in Henry V, Mistress Quickly in Henry IV Part 2, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.
Much Ado About Nothing also introduces UNL Theatre's new class of Master of Fine Arts students in the Professional Actor Training Program. Acquah Dansoh plays Leonato. Dansoh comes to Lincoln from Miami, Florida and has a BA in Theatre from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. Ja'nelle Taylor plays Hero. Taylor hails from Baltimore, Maryland and did her undergraduate work at Frostburg State University. Beatrice is played by Rachel Charlop-Powers, a Bronx, NY native who comes to Lincoln after receiving her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal. Flynt Burton plays Hero's handmaiden, Margaret. Burton is from Asheville, North Carolina where she most recently was Managing Director of New World Stage. Jim Hopkins plays the multiple roles of Steward and Dogberry. Hopkins has been seen on Lincoln stages in the Bob Hall productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. He is a native of Aurora, NE but received his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Texas Christian University. Greg Parmeter plays Benedick. Parmeter, married to MFA Costume Designer Mandy Eilers, comes to UNL from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Andrew Beck plays Borrachio, the follower of Don John. Beck received his BA from the University of Oregon. Understudies are husband and wife, Max Razdolskiy and Liubov Razdolskaya. They are studying in Lincoln after having completed work at the Schepkin School in Moscow, Russia.
Undergraduate theatre students Rachael Miller, Charisa Ramsey, Jesse Glasgow, Somer Sloan, Seth Petersen, Mikael Walter, Matt Miller, Brett Waldon, Rob Krecklow, and Jack Carpenter are also cast members.
New UNL Scenic Design faculty member Guowen Fang designs the production. Costumes are by graduate student Mandy Parmeter Eilers, who designs Much Ado About Nothing as her thesis project. Graduate students Cassie Vorbach and Jeff O'Brien design lighting and sound, respectively. Faculty members Heath Lane and Alisa Belflower are technical director and musical director, respectively. Undergraduate Taylor Bendgen is stage manager.
THEATRE ARTS
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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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