FEBRUARY 25-27, 2005
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NEBRASKA UNION, SUN, FEB. 27, 7PM
Music and Dance to Highlight "A Taste Of Harlem IV"
The Office of Academic Support and Intercultural
Services and the UNL Culture Center in collaboration with Minorities
in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Science are hosting "A
Taste of Harlem IV," at the Nebraska Union on Feb. 27 at 7 pm. Featured
artists are Kwakiutl Dreher with Deah Harriet and the Daryl White
Quartet. This is the Culture Center's culminating Black History month
event.
The theme for the night will be "Know Your History to Know Your Future - With No History, There is No Future." The evening will showcase music, dance and other artistic performances reminiscent of the era known as the Harlem Renaissance, the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are being sold during the noon hour at the Nebraska Union, or at the UNL Culture Center, 472-5500.
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
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 Friday Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm, Saturday Feb. 26
at 2 pm and 7:30 pm, and Sunday 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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UNL STUDENT OBSERVATORY, FRI 7PM - 10PM
UNL Student Observatory Hosts Open
Viewing
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student
Observatory's next public night will be on Friday, Feb. 25, from
7 to 10 pm for viewing comet Macholz, Saturn and the moon. Although
comet Macholz is now pulling away from the earth, the observatory's
telescope will still give a close-up view of the icy nucleus and
surrounding dust and steam coming off the comet. Comet Macholz will
be well placed high in the sky all evening, but it will be visible
best before 9:30 pm. The main attractions of the evening will be
Saturn and the moon.
There is no charge for admission to the observatory. Children of all ages are particularly welcome. The observatory is unheated, so visitors should dress accordingly. The observatory will not be open if it is mostly cloudy. If in doubt call the observatory at (402) 472-4728.
The Student Observatory is located on the roof of the Stadium Drive Parking Garage, 10th and T streets. Parking is available on the roof of the garage near the observatory.
The next public viewing will be on Astronomy Day, April 17. For more information about the Student Observatory contact the observatory coordinator, Martin Gaskell, at (402) 472-4788 or by e-mail, or visit the observatory's web site.
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327 KEIM HALL, FRI, FEB. 25, 3PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'On-the-Go-Canopy Sensors'
Garald Horst
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI, FEB. 25, 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Ecology and Survival of Carabid Beetles in Agroecosystems'
Abby Stilwell, UNL
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI, FEB. 25, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Density-Functional Theory for Molecular Assembled Materials'
Mark Pederson, Naval Research Laboratory
115 AVERY HALL, FRI, FEB. 25, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'An Introduction to the Theory of Non-Unique Factorizations in Integral Domains and Monoids'
Scott Chapman, Trinity University
UNITARIAN CHURCH, SUN, FEB. 27, 7PM
2005 Winter Lecture Series - Palestine and Israel, Religions, Homelands and Cultures - 'Politics, Nationalism and Conflicts in the Middle East Region Since 1918'
Jeff Spinner-Halev, UNL
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KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, FRI, FEB. 25, 7:30PM; SUN, FEB. 27, 7:30PM
School of Fine & Performing
Arts Presents The Gondoliers
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing
Arts presents Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. The
production will have two separate performances this weekend at Kimball
Recital Hall, one on Friday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm, and the other on Sunday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 pm.
It's time to hop into a Venetian gondola and sail off to that delightful kingdom of Barataria in the sunniest of all Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Sullivan's music sparkles, and Gilbert is at his wittiest best in this happy tuneful romp through topsy-turveydom. Two handsome gondoliers find out that one of them has inherited the throne of Barataria. But which one will it be? No worries. The bona fide king is revealed in the end, but only after an evening of effervescent music, lively dancing, and the requisite entangled plots, last minute revelations, mistaken identities, and even a Spanish Inquisitor. "O Rapture!" A fun-filled evening of merriment for all ages.
This all-student cast of UNL graduate and undergraduate singers will be staged by William Shomos, Director of UNL Opera, and choreographed by Elizabeth Nesi, UNL Professor of Dance. The UNL orchestra, under the baton of Kristin Quigley Brye, accompanies the high-spirited production designed by Laurel Shoemaker.
Tickets are $20 adult and $10 for student and senior. They are available at the Lied Center Box office, (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
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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.
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 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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TRACK | FRI, FEB. 25, 9:30AM; SAT, FEB. 26, 9:30AM
Big 12 Indoor Championships
DEVANEY CENTER TRACK
WOMEN'S TENNIS | FRI, FEB. 25, 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Drake Bulldogs
WOODS TENNIS CENTER
WOMEN'S TENNIS | SAT, FEB. 26, 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Utah Utes
WOODS TENNIS CENTER
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | SAT, FEB. 26, 7:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
DEVANEY CENTER
WOMEN'S TENNIS | SUN, FEB. 27, 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Wichita State Shockers
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