September 15, 2005
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ROCOCO THEATRE, NOON - 10:30PM
UNL Student Groups Plan 'Rock for Relief' Concert
The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, University Program Council and UNL Greek Affairs, in collaboration with The Rococo Theatre, will present 'Rock for Relief,' a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The concert is Thursday, Sept. 15 from 5 to 10:30 pm at The Rococo Theatre at 13th & P Street.
Admission is a $5 minimum donation at the door. The event is open to the public for those 18 years and older. The concert will feature performances by Kris Lager Band from 5 to 6:15 pm, Balance from 7 to 8:15 pm, and 40/20 from 9 to 10:15 pm. 102.7 KFRX will be the MC for the evening. Sound and lighting will be provided by ECHO Productions. Pizza and beverages will be available for purchase.
Monetary donations will also be collected during the day from noon to 5 pm outside The Rococo Theatre. All door proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for Hurricane Katrina. The event is a collaborative effort between several UNL recognized student oganizations, The Rococo Theatre and the Lincoln community.
ASUN | GREEK AFFAIRS
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TRANSCRIPT | PODCAST
PRIDE, PASSION AND POWER
Chancellor Delivers State of the University Address
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman
delivered his annual State of the University address on Sept.
9 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Perlman reviewed the previous year's accomplishments and announced objectives
and initiatives for the upcoming academic year.
The program for the year's State of the University address included a performance
by the Chiara String Quartet, artists in residence at the UNL School of Music.
The quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and
Gregory Beaver, cello) began its three-year residency at UNL this month after
previously occupying the Lisa Arnhold residency in the Juilliard School of Music
in New York City. The quartet was the Meadowlark Chamber Music Festival's artists-in-residence
in Lincoln in 2004 in collaboration with the UNL School of Music's Chamber Music
Institute. Note: due to technical difficulties, the audio of
the Chiara String Quartet does not appear on the podcast or video downloads.
OFFICE
OF THE CHANCELLOR | SCARLET SPECIAL SECTION
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BAILEY LIBRARY, ANDREWS HALL, 11AM
Harris Center for Judaic Studies Lecture - "Spinoza's Jewish Sources; Philosophy, Exegesis, Inter-Religious Polemics"
Danny Lasker, Ben Gurion University. Sponsored by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies.
111 LOVE LIBRARY, 3PM
Electronic Text Center Workshop - "Introduction to XML"
110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar - "Toward an Integrative Understanding of Virus Growth and Spread - A Systems Biology Approach"
Dr. John Yin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
211 BRACE HALL, 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - "Scale Your Enthusiasm: Designing Nanomaterials"
Stephen O'Brien, Columbia University
ARCHITECTURE HALL GALLERY, 4:30PM
Hyde Lecture Series - "Landscape And Public Spaces"
Architect and professor, Elias Torres Tur (Martinez Lapena-Torres Tur)
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM
Journalist T.R. Reid to Address Ascendance of United Europe
Popular and insightful journalist and author T.R. Reid will deliver the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, "The United States of Europe," at 7 pm Feb. 15 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
The Thompson Forum lectures, part of the Lied's season performance series, are free and open to the public. A pre-forum talk Sept. 15 will be given at 6:30 pm in the Lied's Steinhart Room by John Turner, professor of classics and religious studies at UNL.
Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine professor of religion at Princeton University. She received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1970. While at Harvard, she was part of a team that worked with early scriptures excluded from the Bible.
Her book, The Gnostic Gospels, sold 400,000 copies and won both the National Book Critic's Circle Award and the National Book Award. It was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best books of the 20th century. In the book, Pagels asserts that differences between the Gnostics and the orthodox Christians were more about politics and organization than theology. In her most recent work, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels ranges over the history of early Christianity, demonstrating the religion's initial tremendous diversity and its narrowing to include only certain texts supporting certain beliefs. She contends that, as Christianity became increasingly institutionalized, it became more politicized and less pluralistic.
Co-sponsors of Pagel's lecture are Westminster Presbyterian Church and the Cotner College through a project grant from the Eli Lilly foundation. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2210 Sheridan Blvd., will be the site of a community breakfast with Pagels at 9 am Sept. 16. Pagels will participate in a question-and-answer session. For more information, contact Westminster Presbyterian Church at (402) 475-6702.
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THOMPSON FORUM | GOSPEL OF THOMAS LECTURE PDF
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH OCT 23
April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings at Sheldon
The exhibition "April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings" will be on display at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Aug. 27 through Oct. 23. The exhibition includes nearly 40 monumental and small-scale paintings and drawings that act as a mid-career survey of April Gornik's work from 1980 to the present. Gornik is well known for her ability to bring forth the Western Romantic tradition in light-bathed landscapes inspired by memories of places visited, as well as by her imagination.
Dede Young, curator of modern and contemporary art for the Neuberger Museum of Art at State University of New York-Purchase, organized the exhibition, which was at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia before coming to the Sheldon. According to Young, the relevance of Gornik's work lies in the fact that she revels in her landscapes at a time when painting and drawing are considered outdated. "Since the mid-20th century art has expanded in uncountable ways, and painting and drawing have been rejected for nearly two decades as lacking in potential to fully express our contemporary world. April Gornik has chosen to maintain a steady process of exploring the vocabulary of painting and drawing as consistently viable and compelling. Rather than bow to the recent trend of artists to seek and make images from urban experiences in a world of mass production, Gornik stays a passionate course, utilizing landscape images and light to reference shared human experience."
With light as a primary subject, along with past, present, and future worlds imagined and portrayed with imposing clarity, Gornik puts forth images that are fresh, timeless and lasting. Her compelling relevance lies in the palpable, hand-made-ness of her work. She has said of painting, "It holds within itself the history, time, and tale of its formation, the person looking at it is informed, enriched, and subliminally able to experience all of the above. The object speaks to us in its physicality, a connection and an interface of time and space, intent and emotion."
Gornik will discuss her work in a public talk on "Landscape As Metaphor" at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, with a reception to follow. The talk is free and open to the public.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: Rize, Me And You And Everyone We Know.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Rize, the debut film from famed photographer David LaChapelle
and performance artist Miranda July's debut film, Me And You And Everyone We Know
Photographer David LaChapelle gets behind a different kind of lens for Rize,
his feature film debut. LaChapelle heads to Los Angeles to make his mark in
the cinematic world, shooting a documentary about a style of hip-hop dance called "krumping." Dividing
his time between the personal lives of the dancers and some spectacular on-screen
demonstrations courtesy of the cream of the krumpers, LaChapelle's bright, vivacious
photographic style makes an impressive translation to the big screen. As the dancers perform a jaw-dropping array of moves, a deliriously infectious mixture of fun, intensity, and jubilant release pours from the screen. Playing out like a west-coast relative to fellow 2005 film, the New York-based Mad Hot Ballroom, LaChapelle's movie gloriously demonstrates the healing powers of dance.
Miranda July's debut feature film, Me And You And Everyone We Know, is a charming, quirky romantic comedy that is entertaining from start to finish. Writer-director July stars as Christine, an offbeat performance artist who becomes instantly smitten with Richard (John Hawkes), a brooding department-store shoe salesman who is having trouble dealing with his divorce and his separation from his two kids--the shy, private Peter (Miles Thompson) and the very funny Robby (Brandon Ratcliff). Christine is trying to get her latest work accepted at a major museum, but first she has to get through mean-spirited Nancy (Tracy Wright), who is not necessarily very interested in her submission.
Meanwhile, Natasha Slayton and Najarra Townsend are a riot as a pair of teenagers who think they're ready for sex as they tease neighborhood pervert Andrew (Brad Henke) and consider experimenting with Peter. Amid all the tender, comedic, well-acted, and well-written scenes, Ratcliff nearly steals the film as Robby gets involved in a dirty, hysterical online chat with a mystery person. July's marvelous, surprising movie won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in addition to well-deserved prizes at the Philadelphia and San Francisco International Film Festivals.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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