Fri, Jan 12, 2007
January 12-14, 2007
UNL CAMPUS, JAN 15-18
UNL Hosts Events for Martin Luther King Jr. Week
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Week at UNL, the campus will be holding a variety of events from Monday, Jan. 15 through Thursday, Jan. 18. On Monday, the Chancellors Program will keynote speaker Jane Elliott, and Senior Vice Chancellor Barbara Couture will present the Fullfilling The Dream Awards.
During the week, a variety of Brown-Bag lectures and discussions will be held at the Nebraska Union on City Campus, and several video features will also be shown. In addition to these events, there will be a student play and other presentations. For more information, visit the MLK week website.
MLK WEEK
HILLESTAD TEXTILE GALLERY, FRI 5-7PM
TCD Department Holds Biennial Juried Student Exhibition
As part of the Biennial Juried Exhibition being held from Jan. 8 - 26, the Textiles, Clothing and Design Department will hold an opening and awards announcement on Friday, Jan. 12 from 5 - 7 p.m in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, located on the second floor of the Home Economics building on east campus. 14 students are exhibiting their contemporary fashion and textile design work in this 2006-07 Biennial Juried Exhibition. Awards announcement at 6pm.
Juror Anne Fenner of Omaha, with the assistance of Lyubov Logvinenko, completed the jurying responsibilities for this edition of the juried exhibition, carefully studying the 53 works students entered in the competition. In a blind review process, she selected work based solely on the merits of the entries. This show includes 25 pieces of fashion and textile design, representing the work of 6 graduate and 8 undergraduate students. more...
RUNS THROUGH MARCH 31
Ceramics from China, Japan, Korea' Opens at Lentz Center
"Ceramics from China, Japan and Korea" will be the 2007 spring show at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture. "The center has been celebrating its 20th anniversary since September. For this reason, and because china is the traditional (albeit a western tradition) 20th anniversary gift, it seemed a good time to pair the two and extend our celebration into 2007," said Barbara Banks, curator/director of the Lentz Center.
The show, which will run Jan. 12 through March 31, will include the Lentz Center's extensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, and also feature Korean ceramics dating from the 14th through the 19th centuries that are on loan from the University of Nebraska State Museum. more...
LENTZ CENTER
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Selective Fluorination. Key for the Synthesis of Fluorinated Analogs of Natural Products"
Professor Gunter Haufe,Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY CENTER INDOOR TRACK, FRI 4PM, SAT NOON
Holiday Inn Invitational
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 12:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
SWIMMING | DEVANEY NATATORIUM, SAT 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas Jayhawks
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Sweet Land, Shut Up And Sing Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Sweet Land and Shut Up And Sing. Both films will be showing through Thurs, January 18.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Based on Will Weaver's short story A Gravestone Made of Wheat and shot on location in Southern Minnesota, Sweet Land is that rare independent feature that uses painterly images and understated performances to tell a universal story of love and discovery. David Tumblet's glorious magic-hour cinematography recalls classic American art cinema like Days of Heaven, transforming the amber majesty of Southern Minnesota's farm country into an elegiac metaphor for memory, family, and history.
While performing in 2003, singer Natalie Maines ignited a maelstrom of controversy and red-state rage when she declared--from a London stage on the eve of the Iraqi conflict--that she was ashamed President George W. Bush was from her home state of Texas. When a rabidly right-wing group picked up on it, the band found themselves in the center of controversy regarding the nature of patriotism, freedom of speech, feminism, and the split between pro- and antiwar Americans. In Shut Up And Sing, Filmmaker Barbara Kopple brings us the fly-on-the-wall view of the next three years: we find Haines and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire in dressing rooms, on stage, and in recording studios, bonding with each other, their families, producer Rick Rubin, and their supportive manager Simon Renshaw. Through the crises, they keep their sense of humor and sisterhood, not backing down from their liberal stance, and turning the backlash into a triumph. They also make some great music, and the film includes plenty of riveting, intense footage of the band in performance onstage and in the studio. Among the faces appearing in archival footage are President Bush, Bill Maher, and rabidly right-wing country star Toby Keith.
More information is available at the Ross website.
