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Wed, Apr 06, 2005

April 6, 2005

NEBRASKA UNION, 10AM - 3PM
Student Job & Internship Fair is Today

Students looking for part-time jobs, summer jobs, or internships will have an opportunity to see what's available during the Student Job & Internship Fair April 6 at the Nebraska Union. Local and national employers will be on hand to recruit student staff from 10 am to 3 pm. All majors, including undecideds, are encouraged to attend.

For more information, visit the Career Services web site.

CAREER SERVICES

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
LPS Visual Art Mentor Program Exhibit Continues at Great Plains Art Museum

The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the Lincoln Public Schools Visual Arts Mentor Program annual Spring Art Exhibit beginning April 1. The exhibition will be presented through April 24 at the museum, 1155 Q St. The exhibit will feature both two- and three-dimensional works of art by 32 participants in the program. The exhibition, including the opening reception, is free and open to the public.

The purpose of the Visual Arts Mentor Program is to address the educational needs of a group of talented artists by establishing a mentor program for students with high ability in the visual arts in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Local artists are screened, interviewed, and hired as mentors for the program. Students are matched with mentors who have similar art interests. Students and mentors work for two hours per week and are also responsible for two hours per week of independent studio time. The work is done during school time to reinforce the belief that art is as important as learning. This is the third year that the Great Plains Art Museum has hosted the program. "We consider this exhibition to be a great way to reach out to young artists by giving them an opportunity to have their work on display in an art museum," said Stacey Walsh, museum registrar. "It is always fun to see what the kids in the program have created."

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM

LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
UPC Sponsors Ben Kweller Concert at Lied

The University Program Council at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present musical artist Ben Kweller in concert tonight at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show beginning at 7:30. Tickets are $10 for UNL students with a UNL I.D. and are on sale at the Lied Center box office Monday through Friday from 11 am to 5:30 pm. General public tickets at $15 each go on sale March 28 at the Lied Center.

Kweller has earned a reputation as one of the most compelling musical artists of the day. Kweller showed off his crafty songwriting and kinetic performance with his debut album, "SHA SHA." His style includes anti-folkadelica, indie-punkpop and warm, whimsical wordplay with piano-powered ballads. Kweller has toured both as headliner and alongside such bands as Dave Matthews Band and Dashboard Confessional. Also in April, Kweller will release his highly anticipated second studio album, "On My Way," on ATO Records.

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

HOWELL THEATRE, 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre to Produce The Voice Of The Prairie

UNL Theatre's University Theatre completes its 2004-2005 season with a play about the development of radio in the Midwest by John Olive. The Voice Of The Prairie performances are in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building at 12th & R Streets, April 6, 7, 8, 9 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.

This John Olive story begins when radio is first heard across America and tells of a teenage orphan, his youthful adventures with a spirited blind girl and their bittersweet reunion later in life.� Radio and storytelling play an essential role in this vibrantly dramatic exploration of memory, fear, laughter and hope. The Voice Of The Prairie is a wonderful tribute to the art of theatrical storytelling with three actors portraying many colorful characters.

This production of The Voice Of The Prairie has been invited to the internationally acclaimed Podium Festival in Moscow, Russia in late April.� In early May, this production will travel across Nebraska. Director, Associate Professor Virginia Smith, who directed the October production of Medea for University Theatre, says, "The Voice Of The Prairie is a tribute to the energy and ingenuity of the American spirit; part con artist, part dreamer.� It's about rules and regulations losing, and dreamers and lovers winning.� It's about the magic of radio and the transcendent power of storytelling." Smith continued, "The Voice Of The Prairie is truly an actor's piece.� Two MFA graduate and one undergraduate actors play nearly a dozen characters bouncing back and forth in time from a free wheeling adventure in the 1890s to the 1920s and the first days of radio.�Think of Garrison Keillor spinning yarns on The Prairie Home Companion and then imagine gathering in the parlor with all your neighbors listening to the adventures of Davey Quinn and Frankie the Blind Girl."

The actors are Ja'nelle Taylor and Andrew Beck, both members of the MFA Professional Actor Training Program and undergraduate theatre major Jordan Warren. Scenic design is by graduate student Stori Lauritzen with costumes by graduate student Cate Wieck.� Graduate students Erik Vose and Mike Legate design lighting and sound, respectively.

UNL THEATRE ARTS

E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - Compositional properties of the vertebrate genome from an evolutionary perspective: 'Chores' or 'Isochores'
Dr. Dan Graur, University of Houston