October 28-30, 2005
|
NEBRASKA CITY UNION
Student Involvement Sponsors Two Events for GLBT History Month
As part of GLBT History Month, Student Involement is sponsoring two events today in the Nebraska City Union. From 5:15 - 6 pm, a GLBT and Ally history exhibit will be on display, and at 6:05 pm, the 3rd annual GLBT History Month celebration dinner will be held. Tickets for the dinner are $6 for students with an NCard and $12 for non-students.
For questions or more information, contact D. Moritz.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT | UNL CGLBTC
|
 |
|
 |
AVERY HALL, 3:30PM
CSE Colloquium
Mark Boddy, Adventium Labs
229 ANDREWS HALL, BAILEY LIBRARY, 3:30PM
English Lecture - "Twentieth-Century Literacy Work in Appalachia and the South"
Susan Kates, Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
211 BRACE HALL, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "The CMS Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
Dr. Dan Green, Fermilab
ARCHITECTURE HALL GALLERY, 4PM
Hyde Lecture Series - "What Your Planning Professors Forgot to Tell You"
Paul C. Zucker, President of Zucker Systems in San Diego, California
|
|
|
JOHNNY CARSON THEATER, 7:30PM
Lied Center Presents World Premiere of Eckert's - Horizon
View the world through the eyes of Nebraska-based theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and renowned composer, singer, director, and performance artist Rinde Eckert, whose Horizon presents a timely and thought-provoking examination of modern ideas, ideals, and ideologies. This play with music is deeply rooted in the soil and spirit of Nebraska, inspired by Eckert's visit to the state. The Lied Center For Performing Arts presents the World Premiere of Horizons this evening at 7:30, with another performance to follow tomorrow evening.
Horizon is, among some other things, a tale of one theologian's crisis of faith, not over his religious convictions, but over the character of his service to those ideals. Reinhart Poole has been asked to leave the seminary where he teaches 'ethics.' His teaching methods are Socratic and exciting, drawing from the Bible surprising insights and provocative questions. It is just these insights and questions that have landed him in trouble with the stolid, self-righteous, or simply ignorant powers of his day.
Reinhart Poole is working on his last lecture. During the night he will talk with his wife Patricia; he will imagine himself teaching, he will recall conversations with his father and mother and he will speak with the ghost of his brother. Reinhart will wonder if he has the patience and restraint for a ministry outside the classroom. He wonders if he has the talent for the life of a pastor. He fears he has become too accustomed to the control and freedoms of his academic world, his marketplace of Christian ideas within the seminary. This night in the life of Reinhart Poole is a kind of desert he will have to cross; it's a deserted road he has to walk down.
Horizon was co-commissioned by the Lied Center in conjunction with the Mondavi Center at the University of California, Davis, the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University.
LIED CENTER
|
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week At The Ross: Junebug
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Junebug, the first feature film from director Phil
Morrison.
Giving an art-film aesthetic to a touching family drama, director
Phil Morrison and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan present their first
feature, which was shot in their hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The film is set in nearby Pfafftown and Pilot Mountain, and location
is itself a character in the film as long sequences of soundless photography
show rows of houses, or rooms in a house, or stretches of farmland--capturing
the essence of this area of the South. Successful, cosmopolitan,
and adorable Chicago couple Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) and George (Alessandro
Nivola) meet at a fancy art auction where she is working as a dealer,
and they are married six months later. Madeleine is recruiting
an outsider artist, and she travels to rural North Carolina to meet him.
George accompanies her, as he is originally from Pfafftown, and though
it has been three years since he visited home, Madeleine insists on meeting
his family. When she does, she finds herself in a world totally different
from her own, and sees a new side of her husband. His mother Peg (Celia
Weston) and father Eugene (Scott Wilson) are quiet homebodies who aren't
sure what to make of Madeleine's sophisticated career and lilting British
accent. George's deadbeat brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie) never finished
high school, and lives at home with his young wife Ashley (Amy
Adams), who is naive and bubbly--and very pregnant. While the family's
simplicity, traditional values, and religion make them suspicious of
Madeleine, Ashley is the one bright-eyed spirit who is happy to have
Madeleine as a sister-in-law and celebrates her marriage to George. Junebug is
an affecting film that sheds light both on the always-surprising nature
of in-laws, and the unique culture of the South.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | JUNEBUG |
|
