Thu, Oct 05, 2006
October 5, 2006
ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM
Alloy Orchestra Accompany The Phantom Of The Opera
The Alloy Orchestra is a three man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources.
The group will be performing for the second time in recent years at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. They will accompany one of the greatest horror films of modern cinema, The Phantom Of The Opera, starring Lon Chaney. Tickets for this special event are $10 for students, seniors, and friends of the Ross, or $15 general admission.
MRRMAC
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
Lied Hosts "Crimethink: A 1984 Symposium"
During the week of October 2-6, the Lied Center will be hosting a CRIMETHINK symposium to celebrate our freedom and right to question, discuss, and disagree. Guest speakers, student presentations, and artwork displays will enrich the symposium, covering topics inculding civil liberties, human rights, war, and media. All events will lead to the Actor’s Gang's performance of Orwell's novel, 1984, on Friday, October 6. All symposium events are free for students and open to the public.
On Thursday, Reverend Andrew McDonald will present a lunch lecture entitled "“The Ministry of Love and the Dynamics of Evil" at 12:15 p.m. at the Chestnut Tree Cafe in Lied Center's Steinhart Room. At 7:15 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room, the Actors Gang will talk about creating their characters and bringing the book 1984 to life in a behind the scenes actors discussion.
For more information about the weeks events, visit the Crimethink Symposium web site.
LOVE LIBRARY SOUTH, 7PM
Historic Sites in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
Bruce Pauley, a native of Lincoln, a graduate of UNL, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of History
EAST CAMPUS SITE, 4PM
Morrison, Researchers Break Ground for New Virology Research Building
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrates today the ground breaking of a new virology research building, the Ken Morrison Life Sciences Research Center. The $18.6 million, 70,000-square-foot building will house laboratory and offices for the Nebraska Center for Virology. The building will provide a research facility designed to foster interaction and collaboration among researchers, visiting fellows, students and staff. It will include full laboratories for 12 scientists plus separate spaces for tissue culture work, a Polymerase Chain Reaction suite, cold and dark rooms, shared microscopy and cell-flow cytometry facilities and a Biological Safety Level-3 research laboratory suite. The building will provide virology center researchers much needed space to continue and expand on research under way at the UNL Beadle Center where the center is now headquartered.
Construction on the site on UNL's East Campus, east of the Vet Diagnostic Lab and northeast of McCollum Hall, begins later this fall, with an expected completion in December 2007. Expected to be on hand for the 4 p.m. ceremony today are Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Vice Chancellor for Research Prem Paul, Nebraska Center for Virology Director Charles Wood, and Morrison, the donor. The Nebraska Center for Virology was established in 2000 as a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence with a five-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. In 2005 the center received a second $10.6 million grant to support the center over the next five years. The center links scientists at UNL, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University. Center researchers are working to understand the molecular mechanisms that diverse viruses employ to cause diseases. Charles Wood, a molecular virologist and Lehr/3M university professor at UNL, directs the center. more...
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Kicks Off 2006-2007 Season With Judevine
UNL Theatre's University Theatre kicks off its 106th season of productions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with David Budbill's Judevine. The production, directed by Associate Professor Virginia Smith, will have performances October 5, 6, 7 & 11, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. 4-Admission Season Passes are $50, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens. Tickets and passes are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 North 12th Street or by credit card at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 p.,.
Judevine is a parade of lives seen singly and in relation to others: Raymond and Ann, who in their 50 years together have become a mythic vision of love and warmth and cooperation; Grace, whose tortured and lonely life explodes into bitterness, jealousy and finally into madness; teenage Carol Hopper, middle-aged Conrad and the Vietnam vet, Tommy, who each in their isolation withdraw into themselves; Lucy, who lives in a past that's gone, and Jerry who loves and protects her; Alice who is "half man half woman," who "embraces other people's lives;" Laura and Edgar who pass their ordered, proper and restrained days while bursting with repressed passion for each other; and Antoine, the foul mouthed saint, the irrepressible, effusive, loquacious and ebullient lover of women and life. These and many others populate the town and the life of Judevine and are brought to the stage by David, the poet, who is the narrator of this play and our guide to these compelling portraits of ordinary people, by turns raucous and bawdy, delicate and painful, funny and angry. David reveals to us an intensely passionate and caring song of praise celebrating human nature.
