Mon, Nov 13, 2006
November 13, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION, NOON
Volunteers Sought for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
Information sessions for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, faculty and staff for a service project to provide tax preparation assistance in January and February for low-income working families are today at noon in the Nebraska Union; Nov. 14, 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union; and Nov. 15, 12:30 p.m. in the Nebraska East Union and 5:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Partnering with the Center for People in Need, the Human Services Federation, and the Internal Revenue Service, UNL will create "super-centers" in the unions for 12 nights in early 2007 for tax preparation assistance and information on social services. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program is sponsored by the Office of Student Involvement's Service-Learning/Volunteer Services. For more information or to sign up as a volunteer, go to the Student Involvement Web site. Eighty volunteers for various tasks are sought.
HARDIN HALL, 3PM
School of Natural Resources Fall Seminar Series - "Effects of Roads and Traffice on Wildlife Population"
Dr. Lenore Fahrig, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 7PM
Geske Lecture - "The Biggest Ass in the World:' Michelangelo as Writer"
William Wallace, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 7PM
Michelangelo Biographer To Speak at Sheldon Art Gallery
William Wallace, an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries, will deliver the next Geske Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His lecture, "'The Biggest Ass in the World:' Michelangelo as Writer," begins at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 in the auditorium of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture in Sheldon's Great Hall.
Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant distinguished professor of art history at Washington University in St. Louis, reveals Michelangelo the man through his written correspondence. The title of his lecture refers to a letter Michelangelo (1475-1564) wrote to his nephew, Lionardo, expressing his exasperation with his lamentable inability to write properly: "I do not know where you learnt to write. If you had to write the biggest ass in the world, I believe you would write with more care." more...
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
