April 8-10, 2005
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SAINT CECILIA CATHEDRAL, OMAHA, 8AM - 9PM
School of Music Co-Sponsors Organ Conference
Along with Saint Cecilia Schola Cantorum
and the Westfield Center, the UNL School of Music will be sponsoring
the 24th Organ Conference titled
"The Organ as Mirror of Religion & Culture: Temperament, Sound, and Symbolism." The
event will take place at Saint Cecilia's Cathedral at 701 N 40th Street in Omaha,
today through Saturday.
The conference will include performances on the Pasi Organbuilders Opus 14, a
dual-temperament organ. For more information, visit the Organ Conference web
site.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Moolaadé, The
Assassination 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 Assassination 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 Assassination 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
ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON |
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 3:30PM
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WEBCAST
Thompson Forum to Address U.S. Foreign Policy
John Gerard Ruggie, Kirkpatrick professor of international affairs and Weil director of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, will deliver the lecture "American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism and Global Governance" this afternoon at 3:30 pm at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
The lecture is the last in the 2004-05
E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will be broadcast
live on the UNL Web site (http://www.unl.edu), UNL radio station KRNU (90.3 FM) and Channel 21 on Time Warner Cable television in Lincoln. Lloyd Ambrosius, professor of history at UNL, will give a pre-lecture talk beginning at 3 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room.
The talk is also this year's Lewis E. Harris Lecture on Public Policy at UNL
and the keynote speech of the April 7-8 Hendricks Conference, which will address
the topic "U.S. Foreign Policy in a Divided World." The conference will be at
the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Its sessions are free and open to the public.
From 1997-2001 Ruggie was United Nations assistant secretary-general and chief adviser for strategic planning to Secretary General Kofi Annan. He served as dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he taught for many years. Ruggie has also taught at the University of California's Berkeley and San Diego campuses and directed the University of California systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ruggie is a recipient of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award and the American Political Science Association's Hubert H. Humphrey Award for outstanding public service by a political scientist.
Ruggie has published six books, including "Winning the Peace: America and the World Order in the New Era" and "Constructing World Polity."
E.N.
THOMPSON FORUM
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HOWELL THEATRE, 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Presents The
Voice of The Prairie
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pictured (l-r): Ja'nelle Taylor, Andrew Beck, Jordan Warren
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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 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.
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110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar - 'Finding a Niche: Mechanisms of Coexistence in Grassland Communities'
Heather Reynolds, Indiana University
NEBRASKA UNION, 4PM
Environmental Resources Seminar - 'Looking at Current Policy and Our Rural Environment'
Michael Holton, Center for Rural Affairs
211 BRACE HALL, 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Carlos Guilerrez, Texas State University - San Marcos
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SOFTBALL |
2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs North Dakota State Bison
BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK
SOCCER |
6:00PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Denver Pioneers
ED WEIR STADIUM
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