November 1, 2005
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LIED CENTER, 7:30PM
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers Perform At the Lied
Known as the godfather of the British Blues Boom of the late 1960s, John Mayall has also been called the greatest talent scout of all time, helping to ignite the careers of Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Mick Taylor, to name a few. Mayall will bring the Bluesbreakers to the Lied Center For Performing Arts this evening at 7:30.
Mayall and the Bluesbreakers are keeping the blues alive with one of three sets. Also featured in the performance are guitar greats Robben Ford and Eric Bibb. For more information on the show, including ticket prices, please go to the Lied Center web site.
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DOWNLOAD AUDIO
Banerjee Nebraska Lecture Podcast Now
Available
Ruma Banerjee's Oct. 26 Nebraska Lecture,
'Genes, Greens and Disease' is now available for individual download
(link above) or via podcast. To subscribe to UNL's podcast feed of
major addresses and lectures, copy the following URL into your 'podcatching'
software: feed://www.unl.edu/unlpub/podcasts/unladdresses.xml. In iTunes,
select 'Subscribe to Podcast' under the 'Advanced' menu. In iPodder,
set up the subscription using the 'Subscriptions' tab. Audio files
will become available within 24 hours after each lecture.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM, NOV 1- DEC 31
'Art & the Animal' Exhibit Opens at NU State Museum
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Mergansers in Motion,
oil on linen,
18" x 30",
by Jack Koonce, Hailey, Idaho.
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The Society of Animal Artists' 44th annual "Art and the Animal" exhibit will be exhibited at the University of Nebraska State Museum from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31. The show features 63 pieces, including paintings and sculptures, in the museum's Cooper Gallery in Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus.
The society is a worldwide organization founded in 1960 and whose mission is to promote excellence in the portrayal of animals, domestic or wild, in art. The traveling exhibit is the flagship of the organization and its stop at the NU State Museum is the fifth of six in this year's tour to cultural, art and scientific institutions. The museum also hosted "Art and the Animal," in 1993 and 2001.
The NU State Museum is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sundays. It is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is $4 for adults (19 years and over), $2 for children 5-18 years and free for children 4 years and younger. Family admission (up to two adults with children) is $8.
The art in the exhibit is available for purchase. For more information, visit the NU State Museum web site.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Shake Hands
with the Devil, 2046 Continue at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Shake Hands with the Devil and 2046. Shake
Hands with the Devil runs through Nov. 3; 2046 through
Nov. 10.
Shake Hands with the Devil is
the most powerful documentary produced about the Rwandan genocide.
Peter Raymont's film is a respectful portrait of Roméo Dallaire,
the Canadian commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in
Rwanda in 1994, according the Stephen Holden, film critic for the
New York Times.
In 100 days – between April 6 and July 16, 1994 – an
estimated 800,000 men, women and children were brutally killed in
the obscure African country of Rwanda. The victims – many horrifically
hacked to death with machetes – were Tutsi, and moderate Hutus
who supported them.
Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his
stunning film 2046. Picture period sets and intricate costuming,
finely wrought atmospheres, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke,
lamplight, and allusions to film noir make 2046 one of the
most compelling and beautiful films to be released this year.
2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and
longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed In
the Mood for Love (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual
sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows
the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womanizer who is writing
a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories
are suspended. The film shuttles between the Blade Runner-like
world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other
metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong – where
Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with
a series of beautiful, complex women. The film also journeys to Singapore
and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's
memory.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | SHAKE
HANDS WITH THE DEVIL | 2046 |
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NEBRASKA UNION, 1PM
"Preparing Intentional Learners Using Technology" series
An opening talk by Rita Kean, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, followed by an interactive presentation from Melissa Anderson, Pedagogical Adviser at Blackboard, Inc.
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