Wed, Feb 28, 2007
February 28, 2007
RICHARDS HALL ROOM 15, 5:30PM
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Series Presents Sculptor Lecture
Sculptor Judy Fox is the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art and Art History. She will present a free public lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Room 15 on the UNL city campus.
Fox is an artist known for her exploration of human nature and culture through translated iconic images. She first attracted attention in the 1980s for her realistic, life-size babies and toddlers made of painted clay. In the 1990s, Fox began to include adults and older children in her allegorical work.
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 11AM - 5PM
Spring Blood Drive Continues
In conjunction with the Community Blood Bank of the Lancaster County Medical Society, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Red Cross will be holding a spring blood drive in the Nebraska Union Ballroom today from 11 am - 5 pm. You can register on the web for a time that suits your needs best, and walk-ins are also welcome.
As a proud member of America's Blood Centers network of 500 community-based blood centers in 46 states, the CBB distributes a portion of the blood supplied to more than half of the nation's 6,000 hospitals. In fact, through this affiliation with America's Blood Centers, CBB has helped respond to some of our nation's urgent calls for blood; the Oklahoma City bombings, the Columbine shootings, and the attacks on the World Trade Center.
BLOOD DRIVE REGISTRATION
HARDIN HALL - SCHOOL of NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCES, 3:30PM
Water Center, Water Resources Research Initiative, School of Natural Resources Seminar - "Measuring the Amazon from Space and Modeling Its Flow"
Doug Alsdorf, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Hosted by John Lenters, School of Natural Resources.
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2007 Seminar - "Exploiting genomics for understanding the barley-Fusarium graminearum interaction"
Dr. Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
RICHARDS HALL, 5:30PM
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Series - "Bright and Ultra-short Duration Charged Particles and X-Rays from High-Power Lasers"
Sculptor Judy Fox. Her participation in recent significant group shows include, “Uncanny”, Tate, Liverpool, England and the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, curated by Mike Kelley.
TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW
3rd Biennial Quilt Symposium is March 1-3
Every other year the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln brings together 150 to 200 individuals interested in quilt design and quilting traditions. An international audience has the opportunity to hear lectures, paper presentations and panel discussions and visit a variety of quilt exhibitions. The goal of this gathering is to celebrate quilts and quiltmaking.
The next IQSC symposium, "Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker," is March 1-3. Scholars, artists, quilt makers and quilt enthusiasts are invited to attend to study and discuss how the quiltmaker's art is learned, studied, applied and handed on. more...
QUILT SYMPOSIUM
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents Two Gentlemen Of Verona
UNL's University Theatre continues its season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with William Shakespeare's classic comedy Two Gentlemen Of Verona. The production, directed by Associate Director and Associate Professor Harris Smith, will have performances February 28 and March 1, 2, 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 PM and one hour prior to the performance in the Studio Theatre Lobby, or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231.
The cast of The Two Gentlemen Of Verona is made up of undergraduate theatre majors and costumes are designed by graduate student Helen Nosova in partial fulfillment of her Master of Fine Arts in Design. Likewise, the lighting design by graduate student Erik Vose is in partial fulfillment of his Master of Fine Arts in Design. Other designs are by graduate student Kathleen Lorenzen (scenic) and visiting faculty member Jeff O'Brien (sound). Stage management is by undergraduate Jenny Schenck.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Our Daily Bread, The Secret Life Of Words Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Our Daily Bread and The Secret Life Of Words. Both films will show through March 1.
Our Daily Bread reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture. In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, we see the places where food is cultivated and processed: surreal landscapes optimized for agricultural machinery, clean rooms in cool industrial buildings designed for maximum efficiency, and elaborate machines that operate on a 'disassembly line' basis. There's little space for humans here. They almost seem like flaws in this system: undersized and vulnerable, though they adapt as best they can, with chemical suits, respirators, ear protectors, and helmets. They do the jobs for which machines have not yet been invented. Dispensing entirely with explanatory commentary or 'talking-head' interviews, Our Daily Bread unfolds on the screen like a disturbing dream: an endlessly fascinating flow of images, an insistent gaze, accompanied only by the persistent industrial soundtrack - whirring, clattering, booming, slurping - of the ingenious marvels of mechanization employed by agri-business.
The Secret Life Of Words, written and directed by Isabel Coixet, follows Hanna (Sarah Polley), a factory worker who lives alone in a barren apartment, wears a hearing-aid, and keeps to herself with a rigorous daily routine. While on an extended holiday in Northern Ireland, she volunteers as a nurse, tending to a burn victim Josef (Tim Robbins) stationed on an oil rig. While Hanna coaxes him back to health, Josef, who has suffered temporary blindness, reaches out to her urgently, wanting to connect. With the shaky-camera technique, absence of a film score, and the backdrop of a lone oil rig, writer and director Coixet (who also wrote and directed Polley in the 2003 critically-acclaimed My Life Without Me), emphasizes the vulnerability and seclusion of the characters.
More information is available at the Ross website.
