Mon, Aug 28, 2006
August 28, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION PLAZA, 8:30PM
UNL Opens Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
An Aug. 28 candlelight vigil marking the Hurricane Katrina anniversary kicks off a four-day University of Nebraska-Lincoln retrospective Sept. 5-8 when events will be scheduled on campus to educate and enlighten others on issues dealt with during the hurricane and its aftermath. The candlelight vigil from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Nebraska Union Plaza, 1400 R St., will reflect on lives lost and give others an opportunity to remember the human loss.
During the four day retrospective, faculty, students and invited guests will spend four days examining Hurricane Katrina with panels, lectures and discussions, and give people time to reflect emotionally and intellectually on an event that had historic significance. more...
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY, 5PM
Photography Exhibit Opens at Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
Three individual photography exhibitions will be featured in the first exhibition at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall, entitled "Heartland: 3 Photographers Respond to the Land and the People."
Rhondal McKinney's "Illinois Farm Families," Adam Jahiel's "Portraits of the West" and Charles W. Guildner's "Panoramic Photography of the West" will be on display Aug. 28-Sept. 28. An opening reception will be held Monday, Aug. 28, from 5-7 pm in the Gallery.
The Eisentrager-Howard Gallery is located on the first floor of Richards Hall. More information about each of the artists in the exhibit is available on the gallery web site.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Strangers With Candy, Lower City Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Strangers With Candy, and Lower City. Both films will be showing through August 31.
Strangers With Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. When Jerri arrives at her childhood home, she discovers her earlier disappearance has caused her father to slip into a self-induced coma. Moved by guilt, and with hopes of jarring her father from his eternal slumber, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off - as a high school freshman. She's going to start her life over, only this time she's going to do the wrong things the right way. Once reenrolled in high school, and seeking to find that special thing that will erase thirty-two years of debauchery, Jerri stumbles upon the school sponsored State Science Fair. Convinced that winning the fair will resurrect her father, she signs up, expecting an easy stroll down the road to victory. Not surprisingly, she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague all teenagers, but especially this forty-seven year old former boozer, user and loser.
In Lower City, steamy sex, glistening sweat, dark photography, grungy ghetto colors, and sudden violence pervade this Brazilian feature from director Sergio Machado. Alice Braga (City of God) stars as Karinna, a traveling prostitute who trades her favors to lifelong friends Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) for a ride back to Salvador on their run down boat. After Deco is almost killed at a cockfight, the three form a temporary menage-a-trois friendship, but the intense love each man feels for Karinna coupled with their homophobic macho wariness threatens to destroy their once unbreakable friendship.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | STRANGERS WITH CANDY | LOWER CITY
