April 18, 2005
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UNL CAMPUS
Ecology Now Hosts UNL Earth Week Activities
Ecology Now, UNL's student environmental group,
will host a variety of educational activities and free entertainment this week in celebration of
Earth Day. The events will take place on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's City Campus and
celebrate our planet through art, music, debate, and community involvement. 'Earth Week'
culminates Friday, April 22 with Ecology Now's annual Earth Day festival.
"Earth Week is an opportunity to bring varied interests, talents and opportunities to the
UNL campus and Lincoln community," said Maggie Wenger, president of Ecology Now. Events
include a screening of films that explore humans' interaction with their environment on Tuesday,
and public discussions about groundwater rights in Nebraska and the future of UNL's recycling
efforts on Thursday. An exhibit of art made only of recyclable materials will be on display from
Monday through Thursday in the Alcove of UNL's City Campus Union.
Ecology Now is the student environmental group at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. Founded in 1989, Ecology Now seeks to raise awareness of environmental
issues and promote ecologically-sound choices on UNL's campuses and in the greater
community. The group is a recognized student organization in good standing at the university
and is sponsored by UNL's Environmental Resource Center.
Download a PDF of the full slate of events for Earth Week 2005.
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ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY
Hillestad Gallery Show Features Repeated Patterns
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This pattern, by senior Sarah Trausch, is one of many on display at the Hillestad Gallery.
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"Repeat After Me," an exhibition of hand-painted and digitally developed and printed repeat patterns for textiles opens today in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design.
This installation of dozens of imaginative and experimental designs is the culmination of a semester's work by undergraduate and graduate students in professor Michael James' course, "Advanced Textile and Apparel Design."
Students developed highly detailed patterns in numerous textile print formats, from full drop and half drop orientations to spot and Swiss repeats. Responding to a range of themes and concepts, the students created patterns that could easily be adapted for use as printed textiles for home furnishings as well as for apparel. Color palettes range widely as do the motifs and their formal configurations within the repeat unit.
Examples of floral and foliage patterns abound as do unusual camouflage repeats, geometrics, conversationals and coordinate sets. Directed to research their ideas and concepts through a broad range of media, and to document the development of their ideas in sketchbooks, the students explored both historical and contemporary approaches to printed textile design. The results demonstrate a spirit of exuberance and inventiveness, and the current re-interest in printed textiles for apparel in the fashion world makes this collection of student work especially timely.
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery is open from 9 am to 4 pm weekdays and is located on the second floor of the Home Economics Building, north of 35th and Holdrege streets on UNL's East Campus. A free public reception saluting the student designers will be April 22 from 5 to 7 pm in the gallery. Refreshments will be served.
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY | DEPT. OF TEXTILES, CLOTHING & DESIGN
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Head-On, Born Into Brothels
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents director Fatih Akin's Head-On, and
Born Into Brothels, the 2005 Academy-Award Winning film for
best documentary.
Fatih Akin's Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) is a powerful film about sexuality and suicide, centering on two Turks living in Germany. Drunken loser Cahit (Birol Unel) drives his car into a wall; Sibel (Sibel Kekilli) slashes her wrist because she can't stand living with her traditional Muslim family. The two meet in the hospital and decide to join in a marriage of convenience in which he can get himself a cute young housekeeper and she can finally move away from home. They live together in Hamburg, where she begins to sleep around dangerously and he grows surprisingly jealous, leading to tragedy. To a soundtrack of 1980s music (Depeche Mode, Talk Talk, Sisters of Mercy), their lives continue to fall apart, lost to a world of lies and deception, drugs and violence, and emotional pain.
In Born Into Brothels, British-born photojournalist Zana Briski overcame barriers of language, culture, and ethnicity when she immersed herself into an impoverished and illegal neighborhood in the Third World metropolis of Calcutta, India. An award-winning photographer, Briski befriended the children of Sonagachi (the city's red light district), starting a photography workshop for them and equipping them each with their own camera. The transformative power of this simple object is remarkable; within weeks, the children show new spirit and several have discovered a talent for the art. Briski and her co-director, Ross Kaufman, follow the children as they filter their marginalized, forgotten world through the camera lens. Over the course of the film, a central narrative unfolds--the children's quest, fueled by their newfound hope and strength, to leave the brothels for a better life. The film won the 2005 Academy Award for best documentary feature.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | HEAD-ON | BORN INTO BROTHELS |
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UNIVERSITY LAW COLLEGE AUDITORIUM, 12PM
Lecture in conjunction with the conference - "From Selma to Washington: A 40th Anniversary Celebration of the 1965 Voting Rights Act" - 'The Heroically Troubled Future of Voting Rights Law'
Sam Issacharoff, Columbia University
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Panel discussion in conjunction with the conference - "From Selma to Washington: A 40th Anniversary Celebration of the 1965 Voting Rights Act" - 'What is the Legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?'
Sam Issacharoff, Columbia University; Michael Pitts, U.S. Department of Justice; D'Andra Orey, UNL
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