Fri, Nov 10, 2006
November 10-12, 2006
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, FRI 7:30PM, SAT 3PM
UNL Opera Presents La Boheme
The most beloved of all operas, Puccini's La Boheme is sometimes called the "perfect opera," with its timeless story of love, jealousy, loss, and death. University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts presents performances of the opera on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $10 for students / senior citizen or $20 for adults, and are available through the Lied Center Box Office at 402/472-4747or 1-800/432-3231.
UNL Opera's production features an outstanding student cast, staged by UNL Director of Opera, William Shomos. The performance will also feature the nationally acclaimed University Singers under the direction of Peter Eklund and the UNL Opera Orchestra conducted by Tyler White. Pre-performance Talks will be in the Westbrook Music Building, 11th & R Streets on the UNL Campus and just west of Kimball Recital Hall, in room 130, 45-minutes before curtain.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Cougars (Exhibition)
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, VARIOUS TIMES
Theatrix Opens Its Fall Season With Scooter Thomas...
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, opens up their Fall 2006 season with Peter Parnell's Scooter Thomas Makes it To the Top of the World. The production will have performances Friday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Temple Building. Scooter Thomas is a journey for two friends, Dennis and Scooter, who upon one's death explore their past, their friendship, while discovering things they never knew about each other. This production directed by Mary Gaetz, is the first of two MFA directed shows this semester for Theatrix.
Theatrix is the academic year's student run stage. It is run completely by students acting as Artistic Director, Managing Director and Technical Director. Five to six productions are performed primarily in the Studio Theatre. Productions are directed, designed, cast with and sometimes written by students.
THEATRIX
BRACE LABORATORY, FRI 1:30PM
NCMN/NSF-MRSEC Seminar - "Electric and Magnetic Field Control of Exchange Bias"
Professor Christian Binek, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, UNL
KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Fall Seminar - "Experimental Grassland Destabilization in the Sandhills"
Dave Wedin, School of Natural Resources. Refreshments at 2:30 p.m.
FILLEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar - "To Adopt or Not to Adopt GM Crops: The Exporter's Dilemma"
Dr. James Oehmke, Professor of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Synthetic Strategies for Glycomics"
Professor Nicola Pohl, Iowa State University
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Gas vent mineralogy, geochemistry, and combustion metamorphism: Coal fires and their catastrophic effects around the world"
Glenn Stracher, East Georgia College
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Evolutionary molecular studies of juvenile hormone esterase in Gryllus assimilis"
Dr. Erica J. Crone, Post-Doc Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics colloquium - "Critical Aspects of Gene Synthesis: Accuracy, Codon Usage and Expression"
Hendrik Viljoen, UNL
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 4:30PM
Hyde Lecture Series
Paul Preissner, UNL Hyde Chair QuaViarch & 2006 Hyde Chair of Excellence / Chicago, Ill.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tales Of The Rat Fink and Shortbus. Both films will be showing through November 23.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink." Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important. Mann’s largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, and The Smothers Brothers. Filmed in Kandy color. Recorded with real 426 hemi engines. Rated F for Fink’s everywhere.
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | TALES OF THE RAT FINK | SHORTBUS
