FEBRUARY 24, 2005
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 2 & 7:30PM
Riverdance Returns to The Lied Center
Riverdance, the internationally-acclaimed
celebration of Irish music, song, and dance that has touched the
hearts of millions around the world, triumphantly returns to the
Lied Center for several shows this week, including several days with
both afternoon and evening performances. Riverdance performances
take place today at 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm, Feb. 26
at 2 pm and 7:30 pm, and Feb. 27 at 1 pm and 5 pm.
Since 1995, when the show began, each Riverdance company has been
named after an Irish river. The Boyne is the name of the Riverdance
company currently touring North America. Named after an Irish Goddess,
Bóinn, the Boyne River is not much more than a stream at its source,
Trinity Well in County Kildare. By the time it has reached the sea
at Drogheda, County Louth, the Boyne has widened to 70 metres and
flowed past 5000 years of Irish history. Tickets for performances
of Riverdance range from $39 to
$55 and can be ordered through the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231, or on their web site.
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110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar - Scale-Dependence of Species Coexistence in Plant Communities: Paradox or Paradigm?
Jason Fridley, University of North Carolina
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Invertebrate Pest Control by Carabids'
Tierney Brosius, UNL
NEBRASKA UNION, 4PM
Office of Graduate Studies - Conversations for First Year Doctoral Students - 'Moving Forward: Planning for the Second Year'
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VARIOUS SITES, CITY AND EAST CAMPUS
Symposium Focuses on Collectors
Influence on Museums, Markets, Artists
"Collectors, Collecting, and Collections," the second biennial symposium organized by the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be held February 24-26. The symposium focuses on the phenomenon of collecting, particularly the collecting of quilts. Participants will engage in discussions about the ways collectors influence museums, markets, artists and source communities.
The keynote address, "From Hand to Hand, From Time to Time: Creating, Collecting and Caring," by Russell W. Belk, Eldon Tanner professor of business at the University of Utah, will begin at 11 am Feb. 25 in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. There is a charge of $15 per person for non-registered participants for this lecture.
Belk's areas of expertise are consumer behavior, qualitative research and marketing. He has published more than 250 books, articles, and videotapes, including "Collecting in a Consumer Society" (Routledge, 2001); "The Double Nature of Collecting: Materialism and Anti-materialism" in the Dutch journal Etnofoor (1998); and "The Fire of Desire: A Multi-Sited Inquiry into Consumer Passion" in the Journal of Consumer Research. He has received several awards for best journal article, best journal reviewer and best instructor. He is president of the Society of Marketing and Development and past president of the Association for Consumer Research.
The Guerrilla Girls will open the symposium with a presentation at 7 pm Feb. 24 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets.
A group of anonymous female artists who coalesced in 1985 out of frustration over the lack of representation of women artists in most influential museums and art galleries, the Guerrilla Girls assume the names of dead women artists and appear in public wearing gorilla masks to keep the focus on the issues, not on their personalities or their own work. Their presentation takes the audience through their 18-year history confronting discrimination in the world of art and culture. A limited number of seats are available to the public on a first-come basis. Registered participants will have reserved seating.
Concurrent sessions will be held morning and afternoon Feb. 25 and on the morning of Feb. 26. Presenters from around the world will deliver papers on topics such as "Collecting Contexts: Contexts of Collecting," "Wealth, Ambition, and Decoration: Motivations for Collecting," "Collectors as Outsiders: Cross-Cultural Collecting," "Institutional Collecting: Shaping Cultural Values," "Quiltmakers as Collectors: Quilts as Collections" and "Collecting Antique Quilts: Issues and Perspectives."
There will be a special tour of the exhibition "The Collector's Eye: Amish Quilts from IQSC Collections" Feb. 25 at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Collectors Jonathan Holstein and Henry Barber will lead the tour beginning at 4 pm That evening, after a panel discussion on "Collecting Art Quilts: Issues and Perspectives," there will be a reception and viewing of contemporary quilts from the John M. Walsh III Collection in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on the second floor of the Home Economics Building, 35th Street and Center Drive on UNL's East Campus.
Advance registration for the symposium is $125 and includes a luncheon and curator-led tours of two related exhibitions on campus. UNL students may attend the conference free of charge, but must pre-register. For more information or to register, call the symposium coordinator, Kathy Moore, at (402) 472-7232 or visit the symposium web site and click on the "Symposium" link.
The symposium is sponsored at UNL by the International Quilt Study Center, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the College of Education and Human Sciences, the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, the College of Business Administration, the Department of Marketing and the Women's Studies Program, and by the American Quilt Study Group.
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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 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.
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