July 25 - July 31, 2005
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LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL HALL, THU 9PM
Free 'Movies on the Green' Feature Film Classics
The stars will shine once more on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus during the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection series, "Movies on the Green," presented by the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the University Program Council.
Screening will take place on six consecutive Thursday evenings, July 7 - Aug.
11. This week's film is Terrance Fisher's "The Revenge of Frankenstein" from
1958.Lawn chair and blanket-toting patrons will also be able to enjoy movie classics
including "The
Heartbreak Kid" by Elaine May (1972), and "American Grafitti" by George Lucas
(1973).
All of the screenings are presented on the grass in front of Kimball Recital
Hall located at 12th and R streets (extended). Screenings are free and open to
the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 pm). Popcorn and soda is sold
at the screenings. Film commentary written by Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection donor
Jerry Jensen will be distributed free of charge.
Co-sponsored by Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and UPC, the series is presented with the assistance of and donations from Jerry Jensen, Kimball Hall, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 151, Friends of Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, and US Bank.
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ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
Hillestad Gallery Shows Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion
"Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Patriotic and Political Persuasion," an exhibition of quilts with political and patriotic themes, will be on view at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery from June 3-Aug. 31.
he exhibition includes approximately 17 quilts from the International Quilt Study Center's Ardis and Robert James Collection, and explores the impact of war, politics and political candidates on 19th- and early 20th-century American women's quilting designs. There will be a variety of examples of the "Whig Rose" pattern, also known as the "Democrat Rose." These red and green applique quilts are outstanding examples of technical skill and early innovative design put to a partisan purpose. Patriotic quilts using stars, flags, federal eagles, campaign ribbons and kerchiefs will round out the display.
All the quilts in this exhibition are visual reminders of a time when women had no public forum. Against all odds, these quilts survive to give us evocative insights into the ways American women expressed political and patriotic sentiments during an era when they could not vote.
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STUDIO THEATRE, 3RD FLOOR TEMPLE BUILDING, TUE 7:30PM
Tuesday Destinations - Staged reading of Retreat from Moscow -
resented by Virginia Smith, Joel Story and Matthew Landis
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STUDIO AND HOWELL THEATRES, TEMPLE BUILDING
Productions for All Ages Comprise
Nebraska Repertory Theatre 2005 Season
Nebraska Repertory Theatre,
the professional wing of UNL's Department of Theatre Arts, announces
its 38th Season including two main stage comedies and a musical for
the entire family. New Artistic Director, Virginia Smith, associate
professor of Theatre at UNL, announces a Season of Journeys! Smith
said, "The image of embarking on a journey is such a perfect metaphor
for this season. We've selected plays exploring journeys about finding
community, love and freedom. At the same time, as an organization
we're on a journey of redefinition and reinvigoration that will make
us an even more vital part of the artistic community of Lincoln."
Androcles and the Lion by Aurand
Harris is a romp through the old fable of the slave who takes the thorn
out of the lion's paw only to receive payment for his kindness when
the lion spares his life later. This journey to friendship and freedom
is told in Commedia style with Fred Stuart as the miserly Pantalone,
Jim Hopkins as the braggart Captain and Jeremy Kendall as Androcles.
This version is full of slapstick, live music and song. Performances
are in the Studio Theatre, third floor Temple Building, 12th and R
streets. Performances are set for July 30, 31 at 2:00
pm. Tickets to Androcles and the Lion are $15, $12 for faculty/staff
and senior citizens, $7 for student/youth. Lincoln Children's Museum
and Folsom Children's Zoo members may take $2 off of regularly priced
tickets. There is also a 5 for $25 special. This special allows five
people of any age to attend the same performance for just $25.
Resident Alien by Stuart Spencer is a play about an alien abduction
in the most comic way. A Martian bus boy jumps the "Mother Ship" in northern
Wisconsin and joins the local residents in a journey of finding community as
he makes sly, insightful and often hilarious comments about our society. Performances
are in the Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building, 12th and R streets. Dates
and curtain times are July 29, 30 and August 3 at 7:30 pm.
William Inge said that Bus Stop is his exploration of all different kinds of love. Imagine a bus stranded on the Great Plains in a blizzard. The people on the bus and the people in the restaurant where it stops discover love in all its various guises. We guarantee that on one of our hot Nebraska nights you'll be cool on the outside and warmed on the inside. Performances are in the Howell Theatre, first floor Temple building, 12th and R streets. Dates
and curtain times are July 27, 28 and August 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 pm. Audience members are invited to join the cast for a wine and cheese reception following the July 14 opening performance.
Individual tickets to Resident Alien and Bus Stop are $20, $18 faculty/staff and senior citizens, $10 student/youth. Season tickets, which include three admissions to any or all of the productions, are $40, $35 for faculty/staff and senior citizens.
Nebraska Repertory Theatre tickets are available through the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 North 12th Street, PO Box 880157, Lincoln NE 68588-0157, 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 PM and one hour prior to performances in the designated theatre lobby. For more information about the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, or to volunteer as an usher, please contact Julie Hagemeier, General Manager at 402-472-1619.
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Gude, Murphy Exhibition Continues
This Week At Great Plains Art Museum
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Deborah J. Murphy, "The Silence Is Golden" 2005, prismacolor on board
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Parallel exhibitions featuring
the work of two Great Plains artists will open June 3 and run through
July 31 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art
Museum.
"From the Heart of a Regionalist: Paintings by Anthony Benton Gude"
will include nearly 60 works, mostly oil paintings, but also a number of
watercolors and drawings.
"WaterWays & Other Perspectives" will feature 13 Prismacolor drawings
by Deborah J. Murphy of Omaha, all completed in the last two years.
Both artists will be featured at an opening reception from 7-9 pm
June 3 at the museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. The receptions and
exhibitions are free and open to the public.
"These are two wonderful exhibits and each is powerful in its own
right, although they do complement each other in some ways," said Reece
Summers, curator of the museum. "The two artists work with different
materials, Gude mostly with oils and Murphy with Prismacolor pencils, but
both look at the landscapes of the Midwest and Great Plains, and the
interactions of humans with the natural world."
Gude attended the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston in
1986-87 and later studied at the Art Student's League in New York City,
focusing on drawing and paint. He mastered the Venetian technique of oil
painting, a system that employs the use of monochromatic under painting to
develop form and composition before the color is painted on. The many
layers of paint give the final result a stronger body.
His recent commissions include four historical murals covering 480
square feet for the St. Joseph River Boat Partners in St. Joseph, Mo.; "The
Benton," a portrait of a stern-wheeler, for The River Club in Kansas City,
Mo.; and a mural, "A Century of Service," 8 feet by 12 feet, and five
paintings of various Kansas themes for Western Resources in Topeka, Kansas.
Gude and his family live on a small farm in southeastern Marshall
County, Kan. (county seat Marysville). The farm was originally purchased in
an unusual fashion by his grandfather, muralist Thomas Hart Benton
(1889-1975). Benton painted a picture of the farm's barnyard and silo, sold
the painting and purchased the farm with the proceeds of the sale.
A native of North Platte, Murphy has been a professional artist for
more than 30 years and has shown extensively around the Midwest, where her
work has been collected both publicly and privately. She is known primarily
for her Midwestern landscapes, and in recent years has come to prefer using
Prismacolor pencils to capture the texture and colors of prairie
vegetation. She uses poster board of a particular texture that allows her
to build many layers of color.
Murphy, who earned a bachelor's degree in music education at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney (then Kearney State College), was the
recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in painting in
1994 and a Distinguished Achievement Grant from the Nebraska Arts Council
in 1998.
The Great Plains Art Museum is part of the Center for Great Plains
Studies at UNL. It is open from 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday
and 1:30-5 pm Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Kontroll, Nina's Tragedies.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the Academy-Award nominated Kontroll, and
Nina's Tragedies, the newest film from Israeli director Savi Gabizon.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Academy Awards, writer-director Nimrod Antal's debut Kontroll is a thrilling, claustrophobic, wild ride through the subway system in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Sandor Csanyi stars as Bulcsu, the leader of a small crew that patrols the underground making sure that passengers have purchased a ticket. However, the men actually have little power themselves, so many people that they stop humiliate them, physically and verbally abuse them, and easily run away. Within this small world, Bulcsu and his gang, which includes the older Professor (Zoltan Mucsi), the narcoleptic Muki (Csaba Pindroch), the diminutive Lecso (Sandor Badar), and the young and innocent Tibi (Zsolt Nagy), battle Gonzo (Balazs Lazar) and his far more successful group of ticket checkers
In one of the film's most exciting scenes, Bulcsu and Gonzo go railing--racing down the tracks in between two moving trains. Meanwhile, a mysterious hooded person in black is pushing people in front of trains, a man named Bootsie (Bence Matyassy) continually escapes from the ticket checkers' clutches, a train conductor (Lajos Kovacs) indulges himself in food, drink, and smoke, and an odd woman (Eszter Balla) roams around the subway wearing a cute bear costume. But the more the story focuses on Bulcsu, who lives in the subway and always seems to be bleeding, the more powerful the film becomes, propelled by NEO's thumping techo soundtrack.
Birth. Death. Life. Love. Marriage. Divorce. Infatuation. Passion. Joy. Heartbreak. And dancing Hassids! Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of Nina's Tragedies, writer/director Savi Gabizon's serio-comic look at an Israeli teenager's coming-of-age and his attraction to his beautiful but emotionally fragile Aunt Nina. Winner of 11 Israeli Academy prizes (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay) as well as Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Nina's Tragedies takes place over an intensely emotional six months in the life of 14 year-old Nadav (Aviv Elkabets). The film unfolds through a series of funny and touching journal entries in which Nadav reminisces about this turbulent period in his family's history--from his high-strung Uncle Haimon's (Yoram Hattav) untimely death to the passing of his estranged, deeply religious father, Amnon (Shmil Ben-Ari). By turns profound and whimsical, sexy and surprising, Nina's Tragedies is ultimately about unconditional acceptance--and the power of love to heal.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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