April 27, 2005
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LIED CENTER, 7PM
Lied Family Series Presents Scrap Music
Ever since STOMP and the Kodo Drummers before them, percussion has become an audience favorite. What's not to love about high-voltage rhythm for the eye and ear? Scrap Arts Music brings together five musicians, 25 sculptural instruments, and precision choreography. The group will bring their tactile and unique show to the Lied Center For Performing Arts this evening at 7pm as part of the Lied Family Series.
True to its name, the group plays mobile instruments that have been crafted from salvaged and recycled junk. The sound is part scrap, part pop, and part world music. The show is hyperkinetic "action-percussion." This performance is part of LiedFamFest which includes a free party before the show featuring food, entertainment, and hands-on activities.
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L.W. CHASE HALL, 3:30PM
UNL School of Natural Resources Research Seminar - 'Evaluation of Stream-Aquifer Hydrologic Connection in the Platte and Republican River Valleys of Nebraska'
Xun-Hong Chen, UNL
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Genetic and Molecular Characterization of a Disease Resistance Gene Family in Phaseolus vulgaris'
Dr. C. Eduardo Vallejos, University of Florida, Gainesville
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NORTHEAST OF ABEL-SANDOZ DINING CENTER, 4:30PM
UNL Students Plan to Fling Frisbees for a World Record
Students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Abel-Sandoz Residence Hall will attempt to set a world record April 27 for flinging a large number of Frisbees into the air at once. The fling will coincide with a picnic in the lawn northeast of Abel-Sandoz Dining Center at 17th and Vine streets on the UNL campus. It begins with food, live music and games at 4:30 pm. The organized Frisbee toss is set for approximately 6 pm. In case of bad weather, the event will be held April 28.
"Our hope is to have at least 500 or more residents participate in the 'World's Largest Frisbee Throw,'" said Harry Tilley, Abel-Sandoz Dining Center manager.
Ann Johnson, assistant manager, researched and found such an event has never been staged before, so she said the students should clearly set a record. Organizers will document the event, but the record will be considered unofficial, as they won't seek to have it listed in Guinness Book of World Records.
"We're going to give the students a break from studying, give them a little fun," Johnson said. The event coincides with the final week of UNL classes, when students are preparing for final exams.
Bob Sildmets, assistant manager, says he has arranged for live music from three bands: Last One Standing, Von Kampen Trio and Secondhand Ransom.
Suppliers donating products to the event are: Crown Marketing, Advance Foods, Cash-Wa Distributing and Unilever Co.
Two years ago, Abel/Sandoz set an unofficial world record by constructing and serving a 358-foot long tortilla wrap sandwich.
UNIVERSITY HOUSING
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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.
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