March 2, 2005
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 5PM
UNL Wildlife Club Presents Being Caribou
The UNL Wildlife Club, Alaska Coalition,
and Ecology Now are hosting a screening of the film Being Caribou at
the Mary Ripema Ross Media Arts Center this evening at 5 pm. Admission to the event is free and Robert Kuezlka of the Environmental Studies Program will introduce the film.
In Being Caribou, a husband-and-wife team followed 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometres of rugged Arctic tundra in order to help raise awareness of threats to the caribou's survival. Dramatic footage and video diaries provide an intimate perspective of an epic expedition. At stake is the herd's delicate habitat, which could be devastated if proposed oil and gas development goes ahead in the herd's calving grounds in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Jazz Ensemble I & II Public Performances
The UNL Jazz Ensembles I & II will
give a open to the public recital in Kimball Recital Hall. The two
groups are key components of the music program at the School of Music
and the ensembles perform all styles of music from Duke Ellington
to the contemporary artists of today.
JAZZ
ENSEMBLE I | JAZZ
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NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Environmental Resources Seminar - 'How to be a Tree-hugger in a Business Suit'
Erin Novak, Mid-American Recycling and ENVR Alumni
NEBRASKA UNION, 4PM
Bureau of Sociological Research Lecture - 'Native American Postcolonial Psychology'
Bonnie Duran, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, presented by the University of Nebraska Intertribal Exchange (UNITE)
BAILEY LIBRARY, 228 ANDREWS HALL, 7:30PM
English Lecture - 'Culture and Technology: The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done'
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
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NEBRASKA UNION, CENTENNIAL ROOM, 7:30PM
UPC Sponsors Lecture With Afghan Author Farooka Gauhari
The University Program Council at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln will sponsor a lecture, reception and book
signing with Afghan author Farooka Gauhari this evening at the Nebraska Union,
1400 R St. The lecture begins at 7:30 pm in the Centennial Room, with the
reception and book signing to follow. The event is free for UNL students,
faculty and staff with ID. Admission is $3 for the general public.
Gauhari will share her experience as an Afghan woman searching for
her missing husband, witnessing the deterioration of her home country, and
struggling with the decreasing presence of women in Afghan politics.
Gauhari's book, "Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey," is a
first-person account of the national tragedy in Afghanistan after the
Communist coup of April 1978. "Searching for Saleem" further explores
Afghan human rights violated by the successions of Communist governments.
The University Program Council is a volunteer student organization
designed to address the co-curricular, social, recreational, cultural and
educational needs of the UNL campus.
UPC
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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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MEN'S BASKETBALL | 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Colorado Buffaloes
DEVANEY CENTER
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