Wed, Oct 25, 2006
October 25, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7:30PM
CEHS Presents Second in Signature Speakers Series
The College of Education and Human Sciences, in collaboration with the College of Business Administration, the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, and the UNL Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, is pleased to present the second in a series of Signature Speakers. At 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, Muriel Siebert (the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange) will give a presentation entitled, "Financial Literacy: A Must For Our Children."
Siebert's presentation will discuss how most teens are sent out into the real world without the personal money-management skills they desperately need. With discretionary income and spending increasing each year (along with rising personal debt), it promises to be one of the more important educational issues faced in the coming years. Siebert, through a foundation that bears her name, has developed a 21-lesson personal finance program that has been adopted by the New York City Department of Education and by next year, if all goes right, should be deployed in every high school in the city.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, GREAT PLAINS ROOM, 3:30PM
World Food Day Lecture - "Thinking Globally & Acting Locally"
Natalie Hahn, the Malaika Foundation
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar Series - "Soil-based Gene Discovery to Accelerate and Broaden Biocatalytic Applications"
Dr. Mani Subramanian, University of Iowa
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, 3PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Loyola-Chicago Ramblers
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, 7:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents Premier of Broadcast
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre and the School of Music present the premier of Broadcast, a new musical about the early history of radio with music by Scott Murphy and book & lyrics by Nathan Christensen. Performances are in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater October 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m. and October 28 and 29 at both 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 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 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The show's story spans 1901 to 1950, when visionaries and skeptics dealt with the new world of global possibilities sparked by the evolution of wireless communication. The audience will meet a wide variety of characters at pivotal moments in their lives forever changed by the presence of radio. As the characters so succinctly summarize: "The sound of a new age of history. You wanna listen? Freedom to choose if you think about it. Miracles at the touch of a dial." In 2005, Broadcast won the Daryl Roth Award, the Jonathan Larson Award, and the Richard Rodgers Award.
The production is directed by Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies, Alisa Belflower, musically directed by Assistant Professor Therees Hibbard, choreographed by guest artist, Daniel Kubert, and designed by Associate Professor Wenhai Ma (scenic), alum Jeff O'Brien (sound), graduate student Cassie Vorbach (lighting-thesis project), and undergraduate Joy Barlean (costumes).
UNL THEATRE ARTS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Science Of Sleep, Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields And Crossroads Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Science Of Sleep and Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields And Crossroads. Both films will be showing through October 26.
The Science Of Sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of "Stephane TV," expounding on "The Science of Sleep" in front of cardboard cameras. In "real life," he has a boring job at a Parisian calendar publisher and pines for Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the girl in the apartment across the hall. While Stephanie is initially charmed by Stephane, she is confused by his childishness and shaky connection to reality. Unable to find the secret to Stephanies heart while awake, Stephane searches for the answer in his dreams. Written and directed by Michel Gondry, the boundlessly inventive creator of award-winning films ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), music videos and commercials. The Science Of Sleep is a whimsical trip into a cut-and-paste wonderland fashioned from cardboard tubes, cellophane, and imagination.
After a childhood of playing cantinas and honky tonks from Texas to Tennessee, Los Lonely Boys rocked their way to the top of the American music industry, determined to fulfill their father’s long held dream. Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields And Crossroads tells the story of three Mexican American brothers from San Angelo Texas who are creating a unique sound that melds the core of the early San Angelo music scene of the 1950s and 60s with a signature style they call "Texican." The film weaves a historical and cultural perspective on brothers Henry, JoJo and Ringo Garza, highlighting their Mexican American roots and musical influences. The Garza brothers come from a long line of working musicians-music has always been a way of life for them. Like work in the cotton fields, music brought the family a means of survival. The film traces the early days as the young family band cuts its teeth learning from their father as they play in country bars and Mexican cantinas in and around San Angelo, Texas. The film travels with them to Nashville where they endure turmoil and heartbreak. These life experiences captured so eloquently by Galan's camera reveal a compelling portrait of a young band of brothers who against all odds, break out of poverty and find the American rock n roll dream.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP | LOS LONELY BOYS: COTTONFIELDS AND CROSSROADS
