Tue, Nov 14, 2006
November 14, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
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 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.
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Impact of Copper Deficiency on Mammalian Neurochemistry"
Joseph R. Prohaska, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs University of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
'Expressing Identity...' Continues at Sheldon
More that 20 prints from Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's collections will compose "Expressing Identity, American Prints Since 1980," an intimate yet diverse exhibition that continues through Jan. 28. Referencing personal experiences and cultural influences, these works reveal the creative power of printmaking. Among the artists included are: Rupert Garcia, Keith Jacobshagen, Ed Ruscha, Martin Puryear, Judith Shea, Tanya Softic and Roger Shimomura.
While artists have explored their identities in many media, the Sheldon's outstanding print collections offer many fine and diverse examples. In part this is because in printmaking, artists create images - inscribed or etched in copper, drawn on stone, carved into wood, or blocked out on silkscreen - that are used to produce an edition, or limited number, of original prints. Since they are multiples, prints are generally more widely available and modestly priced than paintings or drawings and hence often reach a larger, more democratic audience.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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
