Fri, Dec 01, 2006
December 1-3, 2006
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY FRI 5-7PM | DOWNLOAD MP3
Sheldon's First Friday features UNL Chamber Singers
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's Dec. 1 First Friday reception, Winter Escape, features the UNL School of Music's Chamber Singers performing in the Great Hall. Stunning decorations - featuring penguins and polar bears - appetizers, a cash bar and great American art welcome visitors to this festive evening. The event runs from 5-7 p.m.
Join the hundreds of art lovers who have discovered First Fridays at the Sheldon are an ideal beginning to the weekend. These receptions precede openings at other downtown galleries participating in the city's First Friday gallery walks.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION, REGENCY SUITE, FRI 6PM
STAR Presents 4th Annual Human Rights Dinner
Amnesty International and STAR present the 4th Annual Human Rights Dinner on Friday, Dec. 1 at 6PM in the Recency Suite of the Nebraska Union. A silent auction opens the event at 6 p.m., with dinner to follow at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds from the event go to benefit the Heartland Refugee Resettlement program, and a panel discussion at 7:10 p.m. includes Scott Wisor of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, as well as two local refugees from Sudan.
Tickets to the event are $10 for student/low income or $15 for adults. Tickets and more information can be obtained by calling 436-8988 or by emailing amnesty@unl.edu.
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING
Theatrix Continues Season With Speed-The-Plow
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSOTF), continues their successful fall season with David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow. The production will have performances Friday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Temple Building. In Speed-The-Plow, the tinsel of Hollywood is pulled off in this dark comedic dissection of the movie business. This tale of manipulation and seduction features JCSOTF's very own Will Heafer, Jim Hopkins, and Natalie Tavlin. This by Brian LaDuca, is the second 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
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 2PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Fall Seminar - "Irrigated Forages"
Jerry Volesky, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, West Central Research and Extension Center. Refreshments at 1:30 p.m.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Changing fluxes of water and sediments in an Appalachian carbonate aquifer: Climate, landscape evolution, and human impacts"
Ira Sasowsky, University of Akron
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Bed Bugs: Coming soon to a motel near you"
Neil Spomer, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics colloquium - "The poset of arithmetics of polytopes and cones"
Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Keeping Mum Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents This Film Is Not Yet Rated and Keeping Mum. Both films will be showing through December 7.
Passionate cinephiles can be found casting quizzical glances at the erratic and often conflicting decisions made by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as they slap ratings onto movies. So in an attempt to make sense of their working methods--which, until now, have remained shrouded in mystery--one of those cinephiles, Kirby Dick (Twist Of Faith), has made this full-length motion picture about the inner workings of the MPAA. Entertaining and informative, Dick's movie is everything a documentary should be. Revelations come thick and fast throughout, and the director skillfully creates a palpable feeling of injustice that will leave many viewers feeling the MPAA is in urgent need of a drastic overhaul.
Keeping Mum stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet, grey-haired old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house. One by one, the family members find that Grace is able to solve their problems, but they don't realize that her means are leading to a lot of ends and the population of their sleepy hamlet is rapidly diminishing.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED | KEEPING MUM
