Thu, Dec 14, 2006
December 14, 2006
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for First Semester 2006-2007 will be given throughout this week (December 11-15).
Click the link to view the university's official policy on Final Examinations and 15th Week, from Registration and Records.
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MLK Day Planning Committee Sponsors Essay Contest
In recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, the MLK Day Planning Committee at UNL is sponsoring an essay contest. They invite UNL students to share their experiences and perspectives regarding the impact that the Civil Rights movement has had on them while growing up. The theme for the essay contest was inspired by the piece All Deliberate Speed, created as part of the Lincoln Arts Council "Stories of Home" project.
The deadline for the essay contest is January 5, 2007, and all currently enrolled UNL undergraduate or graduate students are eligible to participate. For more information on the contest, visit the MLK Week 2007 website.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Final Days of Sheldon Photo Exhibit On Harlem Renaissance
Eighteen prints, representing a cross-section of photographer James VanDerZee's work in the 1920s and 1930s, are on exhibit at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery through Dec. 17. A superlative studio photographer, VanDerZee (1886-1983) captured the spirit and energy of life in Harlem during the early 20th century. With his second wife, Gaynella, he opened a photo studio in 1916 and quickly established himself as Harlem's preeminent photographer. He photographed successful African-American families and celebrities in carefully staged portraits, using costumes, furniture and painted backdrops to achieve an aura of glamour. He also photographed landmarks, parades, funerals and social clubs.
VanDerZee's business declined as did Harlem after World War II. He was nearly destitute before his collection was discovered and shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969. His work won widespread attention during the 1970s and has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and scholarship. The James VanDerZee Photographic Collections are at The Studio Museum in Harlem. This exhibition of prints held in the Sheldon's collection is presented in conjunction with professor Patrick Jones' course, "Americans in the Jazz Age," at UNL this fall.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Jesus Camp, Half Nelson Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Jesus Camp and Half Nelson. Both films will be showing through December 21.
Jesus Camp, which is directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, Tory and a number of other young children to Pastor Becky Fischer's Kids on Fire summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army. The film follows these children at camp as they hone their prophetic gifts and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.
In Half Nelson, high school teacher Dan (Ryan Gosling) and quiet teenager Drey (Shareeka Epps) are two lonely souls who wander the planet looking to attach some semblance of meaning to their chaotic lives. Dan teaches Drey in a dilapidated school in Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship is unremarkable until Drey discovers Dan collapsed and clutching a crack pipe in a grimy toilet cubicle in the high school gym. It is from this pivotal moment that director Ryan Fleck builds a tentative friendship between these two unlikely allies, creating one of 2006's most arresting films in the process.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | JESUS CAMP | HALF NELSON
