April 28, 2005
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PERSHING AUDITORIUM, 7:30PM
NRHH and University Housing Sponsor Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins is a spoken word performer
wit h a long history of involvement in rock and roll. Henry began
his career as front man to the punk band Black Flag in the 1980's
and found continued success with the Rollins Band through the 1990's.
Henry has benn touring the world presenting his insightful and entertaining
stories about American culture and his adventures touring overseas.
He has recently completed USO tours in Afganistan and Iraq and draws
on those for his show. He will be performing at Pershing Auditorium
this evening at 7:30 pm as part of his 'Shock & Awe' tour. Tickets
are $10 for UNL students and $15 for general admission.
The show has been organized by UNL student organizations NRHH, University Housing, and Res. Hall Governments as a charity event for Red Cross disaster relief. Both locally and around the world, the Red Cross provides food, water, and shelter to help families begin to rebuild after disasters.
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111 LOVE LIBRARY, 3PM
Electronic Text Center Workshop - 'Intermediate XML'
110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar - 'Altering Female Gametogenesis in Arabidopsis'
Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, Cinestav - Plant Biotechnology Unit
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UNL ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Libraries Acquire Kees, Helm Sheet Music Collection
The UNL Libraries have purchased 233 pages of Weldon Kees' unpublished sheet music, lyrics and poetry that were for sale in Berkeley, Calif. The purchase was possible through individual contributions, a successful concert/fundraising event and donations by UNL's School of Music and Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, and the Friends of the UNL Libraries.
Kees (1914-55), an NU graduate and native of Beatrice, published poetry, prose, directed art films and exhibited his art works in New York with artists like Robert Motherwell. Scholarly interest in his work remains strong. Kees' poetry has drawn the attention of such renowned poets as Donald Justice and Dana Gioia, and the University of Iowa Art Museum held a show of his art works in the 1990s.
While living in San Francisco in the 1950s, Weldon Kees was on the fringes of the "Beat Generation." Kees and his collaborator, Bob Helm, composed and wrote lyrics to many ragtime jazz pieces performed in San Francisco Bay Area nightclubs.
The collection contains several versions of each song on which they collaborated and outlines how the music developed.
Notes of the lyrics to some of the pieces show them to be "delightfully playful" while others have a "dark edge," according to Katherine Walter, chair of digital initiatives and special collections for UNL Libraries.
"This collection of sheet music enhances the already existing collections of Kees' materials housed at the Sheldon and the Lincoln City Libraries," Walter said.
The materials are available for study by visiting the University Archives and Special Collections at Love Library, 8 am to 5 pm, weekdays.
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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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