April 4, 2005
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TODAY
Poet Laureate Kooser Awarded Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Board announced today that Ted Kooser's Delight And Shadows was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The award recognizes a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, and is accompanied by a prize of $10,000. Kooser is the current Poet Laureate of the United States, as well as the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, nine chapbooks and special editions, and Braided Creek, a collaboration with Jim Harrison.
More than 2,000 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories.
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NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 4PM
Dr. Tom Osborne is Featured Guest Speaker
The College of Arts & Sciences Student Advisory Board will be hosting Dr. Tom Osborne as their guest speaker for Arts & Sciences Appreciation Days. He will be speaking about the value of a college degree and other motivational college topics. The event will take place in the Nebraska Union Auditorium at 4pm and is
The College of Arts & Sciences features 50 majors and minors in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and interdisciplinary areas. The college offers two degree programs, the bachelor of arts and the bachelor of science, and 16 pre-professional programs, such as Pre-Medicine, Pre-Law, and Pre-Dentistry
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EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY, RICHARDS HALL
MFA Thesis Exhibition II Shows at Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
MFA Thesis Exhibition II, which runs April 4-14 in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall, will include the work of Jamie Burmeister, sculpture, Joshua Luther, printmaking, Nicholas Spohrer, printmaking, and Sean Scott, ceramics. An opening reception will be held Friday, April 8, from 5-7pm in the Gallery.
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Nicholas Spohrer - 'Diner'
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Burmeister's exhibition is entitled 'Where and When.' His show will be installed in two locations, the first part will be in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, and the second part will be in the basement of 247 N. 8th St. (8th and Q sts.) in Lincoln's Haymarket. He will be having a First Friday opening reception at the Haymarket location on April 1, from 7-9pm.
"I place common everyday items in situations that give them characteristics of human behavior," Burmeister said. "By merging new digital technologies with old mechanical technologies, I animate these humble materials seeking to change their context. The resulting videos, sculptures and installations are metaphors for various aspects of the human condition."
Luther's exhibition is entitled 'Five Lines.' His work deals with the nature of meaning through the analysis of language and perception. He is interested in how we acquire knowledge and what forms our understanding takes. Reality and truth are relative notions and can be played with artistically.
'A Dance of Moths' is the title of Nicholas Spohrer's thesis exhibition. His art has always been about storytelling and narrative. He often works in series and develops plots involving repeating characters and sequential action. Themes of desire, longing, loneliness and searching infuse his work. "I embrace the graphic tradition of printmaking as a means to communicate stories that are both accessible and ambiguous," Spohrer said.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Moolaadé, The Assasination of Richard Nixon
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Moolaadé, the Grand Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, and director Niels Mueller's debut feature film The Assasination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn.
Extending the strong feminist consciousness that marked his previous triumph Faat
Kiné (as well as such earlier classics as Black Girl and Ceddo),
81-year-old Ousmane Sembene directs Moolaadé as a rousing polemic
directed against the stillcommon African practice of female circumcision. Though
the subject matter might seem weighty, this buoyant film is anything but--Sembene
places the action amid a colorful, vibrant tapestry of village life and expands
the narrative well beyond the bounds of straightforward, socially conscious realism
employing an imaginative array of emblematic metaphors, mythic overtones, and
musical numbers.
In The Assasination of Richard Nixon, Sean Penn gives yet another remarkable performance as troubled soul Sam Bicke. As the Watergate scandal is breaking and President Nixon can be seen all over the television and newspapers, Bicke struggles to earn money as an office furniture salesman as he tries to win back his estranged wife, Marie (a brunette Naomi Watts). He has grand plans of starting a mobile tire store with his friend Bonny (Don Cheadle), but he is so blinded by truth and honesty that he stands in the way of his own potential success. His rage continues to build as he sees another man spending time with Marie and the kids until he cannot control it any longer and resolves to kill Nixon, whom he blames for all of society's ills. Based on true events, the film also deals with the racism and sexism that was rampant in the early-to-mid-1970s.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | MOOLAADÉ | THE ASSASINATION OF RICHARD NIXON |
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