Tue, Aug 29, 2006
August 29, 2006
NEBRASKA EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 9:30AM
Osher Institute Announces Open House, Fall Lineup
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute plans an open house to kick off its new season. The open house will begin at 9:30 am, at Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Building, 1800 N. 33rd St.
Now in its third year, OLLI offers non-credit courses and special events year-round. Presentations are aimed at lifelong learners age 50 and above, but all ages are welcome. Course titles for the seven-week session beginning Sept. 5 include "Ancient Greek Civilization," "Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance," "It All Started with Abraham: Christianity," "Nebraska's Wine Industry Past and Future," "Become a Culinary Artist," "Presidents and America's Wars," and "Making the Elderquest Personal: Writing Our Own Quest Stories." more...
BEADLE N172, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Redox Signaling in the Central Nervous System"
"Dr. Matthew Zimmerman, University of Iowa
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 5:30PM
Artist Lecture - "Enrique Martinez Celaya Coming Home"
Enrique Martinez Celaya
ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7PM
Student Documentary, Magazine Examine 2 Natural Disasters
What do two disasters -- an Indian Ocean tsunami and a Gulf Coast hurricane -- separated by eight months and 12,000 miles have in common and how are they different? What can we learn from them? Will we be better prepared in the future? The answers are contained in a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln student-produced documentary film and companion magazine titled "In the Wake of Catastrophe."
At 7 p.m. Aug. 29, the documentary and magazine will debut at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. The premiere is free and open to the public. The magazine will be available for purchase at the event. A question and answer session with the student journalists involved in the project will follow the showing.
Late in December 2005 nine UNL student journalists and two journalism professors traveled to Sri Lanka, a country devastated by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami. There, they saw and heard first hand how the tsunami affected children, the poor and homeless, religious organizations, the environment, wild animals and domestic pets, the media, global aid and government responses. In March 2006 they traveled to New Orleans to compare the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Throughout the yearlong experience students questioned themselves and their role in the complex, interrelated world they will soon inherit. more...
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
