March 3, 2005
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NEBRASKA UNION, 7:30PM
Noted Author Dorothy Allison Speaking Tonight
Award-winning author Dorothy Allison will speak at 7:30 pm this evening in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union. Her talk, 'Changing the World One Story at a Time,' is free and open to the public. A reception and book-signing will follow.
The Boston Globe called Allison 'one of the finest writers of her generation' and the New York Times Book Review proclaimed her novel Bastard Out of Carolina, 'simply stunning . . . a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent.'
Bastard Out of Carolina was one of five finalists for the 1992 National Book Award and won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction. It has been translated into several languages, including French, German, Greek, Spanish, Norse, Chinese, and Italian. Allison's second novel, Cavedweller, was a New York Times Best Seller and won the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction. Her memoir/performance work Two or Three Things I Know for Sure was selected as a notable book of the year by the New York, Times Book Review. Trash, her collection of short stories, won the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Her collection of essays Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature was named a 1994 New York Times Notable Book and won the 1995 American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award.
Allison writes from a multifaceted point of view which encompasses her identities as female, lesbian, and poor. Like all great literature, her books start with the individual but contain truths relevant to all of humanity. Allison's visit is sponsored by the UNL Committee for GLBT Concerns. Co-sponsors include the Women's Studies Program, Friends of the UNL Libraries, the Faculty Convocations Committee, and the Research Council.
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WOMEN'S TENNIS | 4PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Baylor Bears
WOODS TENNIS CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM
UNL to Award $1,000 Prize at Real
Nebraska Movie Awards
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Real Nebraska Movie Contest will announce the winner of its $1,000 grand prize at an awards show event this eveinig at 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. All eight movies that were entered in the contest will be shown, as well as presentations of technical awards, three $250 runner-up prizes and the $1,000 grand prize. The first 100 attendees will receive a free bag of popcorn.
In November, amateur UNL student filmmakers submitted short films based on the theme, "There is no Place Like Nebraska" for a chance to win $1,000 in a single-elimination, tournament-style bracket competition sponsored by the Office of Admissions. Eight individual and team finalists qualified for the single-elimination tournament.
Through an online tournament-style competition, two entries have advanced to the final four and are qualified for at least a $250 prize. Two additional entries were chosen by a panel of volunteer judges to fill two "wild card" spots and ultimately compete with the online finalists for the grand prize.
The judges include Alan Cerveny, dean of admissions; Danny Lee Ladely, director of the Ross Media Arts Center Director; Trina Creighton, UNL broadcasting instructor; Katie Weichman, ASUN president; and Melissa Lee, editor of the Daily Nebraskan.
The contest is a variation of the popular "Real Nebraska" project developed in the fall of 2003 that featured UNL students on an interactive Web site. Cerveny said the contest was a way to keep the program fresh and exciting. "We have extremely creative students at UNL," he said. "We wanted to tap into that creative energy and provide our students with an opportunity to share their unique perspectives on UNL in interesting and entertaining ways."
For more information about the Real Nebraska Movie Contest, visit the Real Nebraska web site.
REAL NEBRASKA
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STUDIO THEATER, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30
Theatrix staging The Baby Dance
Theatrix, the student theatrical producing organization at UNL, opens its spring season with Jane Anderson's The Baby Dance. Directed by undergraduate Brittany Leffler, performances are at 7:30 pm March 3, 4 and 5 with an additional performance at 10:30 pm on March 4 in the Studio Theatre, third floor Temple Building. Admission is $5 at the door only. Doors open one-half hour prior to curtain.
The Baby Dance is a moving drama revolving around Rachel (played by Caitlin Brandes) who has everything in life but a child. She and her husband Richard (Gregory Peters) locate a poor couple, Wanda and Al (Courtney Pearson and Nathan Lange), who agree to let their next child be adopted. Will Wanda take good care of herself and have a healthy baby? Will Wanda and Al have a change of heart? Ron, Rachel and Richard's lawyer, (John Paul Wilson) arrives to seal the deal, or will he?
Director Leffler explains that, "This story of two families trying to plan the best life for an unborn baby is witty, disturbing, and emotional. It allows its audience a true glimpse into the complexities of the adoption process. Some people say the play is about the environment, or this baby, or just money. I like this play because it captures so much -racism, poverty, family dispute, abuse, as well as love, compromise, and family ties. I was compelled by the fact that this one baby could bring these strangers together and force them to face their differences. This play made me question my own sense of right and wrong, and I hope that audiences feel the same way when they walk out of the theatre."
The 2004-2005 Theatrix artistic director is Brianne Bassler, and the technical director is Matt Miller.
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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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