Mon, Jul 10, 2006
July 10-14, 2006
UNL CAMPUS
UNL to Host 200 Students for Circle of Nations Conference
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host approximately 200 Native high school students on campus for the 2006 Circle of Nations Youth Conference July 10-12. Students representing Omaha, Santee, Ponca, Winnebago and other tribes will participate in a variety of activities to unite Native American youth and expose them to the benefits of higher education.
Highlighting the conference will be speakers Maggie Steele, an expert in gang education/intervention and conflict resolution, and JR Redwater, native comedian and speaker, multiple career exploration sessions, basketball and volleyball tournaments and an essay contest for a $250 college scholarship.
The three-day conference is co-sponsored by the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation and UNL and carries the theme, "Circle of Nations: Where Culture, Tradition and Education meet Success." This is the fifth year for the conference, which was most recently held on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2005. It's the first time UNL has hosted it.
HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, SAT 10AM - 3PM
Quilt Center Taking Registrations for 3rd Annual Quilt ID Day
How do you get a quilt to talk? Every quilt has a story, but often the story dies with the quilt maker. What do you know about that family heirloom tucked in the closet? Quilt owners will have an opportunity to learn more about their quilt's history July 15 at the International Quilt Study Center's third-annual Quilt ID Day.
To reserve a time slot between 10 am and 3 pm, call (402) 472-6549. Each participant may bring one or two quilts for inspection. The event will be held on the second floor of the Home Economics building, on 35th Street north of East Campus Loop.
Staff from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln center will examine quilts and offer information about patterns, fabrics, styles and estimated age. A history form and documentation label will be completed for each quilt. This event has grown in popularity as people research and record family histories. Quilts are often the most lasting and cherished pieces of material memory connecting families past and present.
For more information, contact Maureen Ose at (402) 472-7232 or visit the center's Web site.
Quilt Center Taking Registrations for 3rd Annual Quilt ID Day
To reserve a time slot between 10 am and 3 pm, call (402) 472-6549. Each participant may bring one or two quilts for inspection. The event will be held on the second floor of the Home Economics building, on 35th Street north of East Campus Loop.
Staff from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln center will examine quilts and offer information about patterns, fabrics, styles and estimated age. A history form and documentation label will be completed for each quilt. This event has grown in popularity as people research and record family histories. Quilts are often the most lasting and cherished pieces of material memory connecting families past and present.
For more information, contact Maureen Ose at (402) 472-7232 or visit the center's Web site.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, will show through July 13 while Water will play through July 20.
The Daily Show regular Rob Corddry takes the spotlight in this wonderfully silly mockumentary, starring as Bobby Dukes, a former paintball champion who gets one last shot at putting a paintball team together and competing at the highest level of the game. Dukes's career ended in shame after he "wiped" in a competition--yes, even the rugged Dukes wasn't above a little cheating, rubbing off a clear splash of paintball and continuing with the game as if he hadn't been hit. After 10 years in the paintball wilderness, Dukes returns to his hometown determined to assemble a kick-ass paintball team that will destroy everyone else in sight. There's just one problem: no self-respecting paintballer will go anywhere near Dukes, so he has to scrape together a team from some of the biggest misfits he can find, most of whom are more likely to paintball themselves or each other instead of gunning down the opposition. A spoof of the sports movie genre that also has a lot in common with Christopher Guest movies such as Best in Show, Blackballed is a neat vehicle for Corddry's first starring role in a motion picture. The supporting cast is mostly culled from the impressive improv comedy troupe the Upright Citizens Brigade, and director Brant Sersen keeps the laughs coming thick and fast throughout.
When Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of Water takes a tragic turn.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BLACKBALLED | WATER
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, will show through July 13 while Water will play through July 20.
When Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of Water takes a tragic turn.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BLACKBALLED | WATER
