Thu, Feb 15, 2007
February 15, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Guest Artist Performance
Robert Spring, clarinet, and J.B. Smith, percussion, will give a recital on the Kimball stage that will include "Corker for Clarinet and Percussion" by Libby Larsen, "Prelude and Licks for Clarinet and Marimba" by Chester Mais, "Going Home, In Memoriam Peter Lewis" by Edward Miller, "Oncoming Traffic" by Michael Kocour, "Points in the Sky for Clarinet, Percussion and Computer-Controlled Electronics" by Glenn Hackbarth, and other pieces.
Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 for students and seniors, and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
BRACE LABORATORY, 3:30PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Computational Study of Nanostructured Matters"
Dr. Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Refreshments in Brace Lab 201 @ 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
HARDIN HALL, 4PM
Environmental Studies Seminar Series
Jeanne Miller, Educator, Fontenelle Nature Association.
HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, 5:30PM
"Quilt Surface Design Symposium: Incubating the Innovative Quilt"
Studio quilt artist and Textiles Clothing & Design Chair Michael James
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
Big 12 Student Conference Brings 1,200 to Lincoln
More than 1,200 students from Big 12 universities will converge on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Feb. 15-18 for the annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government. The leadership conference marks its 30th anniversary with events in Lincoln focused on social and academic empowerment in the African-American community. Its theme is "The Power of One."
During the conference, students will have the opportunity to attend workshops, a career and graduate/professional school fair, and hear keynote addresses from renowned speakers such as Jonathan Sprinkles and UNL alumnus Aaron Davis. All events will take place at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Pershing Center, 226 Centennial Mall South, and the Holiday Inn Downtown, 141 N. Ninth St. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Volver. Both films will show through February 15.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
Volver is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. Volver shatters all cliches of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
