Fri, Mar 02, 2007
March 2-4, 2007
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 5PM
First Friday Lecture With ParkeHarrison Cancelled
Artist Robert ParkeHarrison will not speak at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery tonight as scheduled because his flight from Chicago was cancelled this afternoon. His talk has not been rescheduled. Sheldon's monthly First Friday reception, featuring gallery talks about three current exhibitions, free appetizers and a cash bar, will be held as scheduled beginning at 5 p.m.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
WICK ALUMNI CENTER, FRI 4:30PM
Student Alumni Association Hosts Foehlinger Fountain Groundbreaking, Spaghetti Splash
Groundbreaking for the Bob Foehlinger Memorial Fountain in the Wick Alumni Center's Holling Garden will highlight the Student Alumni Association's third annual Spaghetti Splash March 2.
The first two spaghetti dinner events raised $43,000 for construction and maintenance of the fountain memorial honoring Foehlinger, the former SAA president, Cornhusker Marching Band twirler and student leader who died in 2003. This year's event is expected to put the fund over the top in meeting its $50,000 goal. more...
VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, FRI 10AM - 2PM
Visitor's Center Hosts Celebration of Student Work
The annual Celebration of Graduate Student Work will be Friday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Van Brunt Visitors Center at 13th and Q sts. The event is free and open to the public.
The projects include three architecture projects that examine the reconstruction of New Orleans by Leslie Hill, Bruce Yoder, Matt Smith and Kristin Ubben; a consideration of the organic world through the framework of print by Department of Art and Art History student Jewel Noll; an exhibition of digital textiles by Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design student Andrew Boettger; a study of historic costumes by Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film student Helen Nosova; and the original musical composition of *Minimal Effort* by School of Music graduate student Jeffrey Richmond, among many others. more...
FRIDAY, MARCH 2 PERFORMANCE OF MAN OF LA MANCHA CANCELLED
The 7:30 pm performance of Man of La Mancha scheduled for tonight, March 2, has been cancelled due to the cast being unable to travel into Nebraska in time for tonight's curtain. The Saturday performances will go on as scheduled.
Patrons with tickets to the cancelled performance should call the Lied ticket office at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231 to exchange their tickets for either the 2 p.m.or 7:30 p.m. performance on Saturday, March 3.
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, FRI, SAT 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 March 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 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
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, THROUGH MAR 25
'Journey Home' Opens at Great Plains Art Museum
The Journey Home: Native American Art Show" opens March 2 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum. The exhibition, which runs through March 26, will have an opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 2 for a "First Friday" event.
The exhibition is the reopening of the Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q St., following a crisis with water on Jan. 20 that left the Hewit Place galleries closed for cleanup. No art was damaged and new carpet, trimming and walls in some areas completed the remediation. more...
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 11AM
Keynote Address, International Quilt Study Center Symposium
Free to symposium registrants and UNL students, faculty and staff. $10 public admission.
201 BRACE LAB, FRI 1:30PM
Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience/NSF-MRSEC Seminar - "Electrodynamic Response of Low Dimensional Correlated Systems"
Professor Leonardo Degiorgi, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "Physical And Chemical Characteristics Of Aging Golf Greens"
Roch Gaussoin, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Refreshments at 2:30.
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Catalytic Nanomotors and Pumps"
Professor Thomas Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University
211 BRACE LAB, FRI 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers & Nonlinear Optics: New Frontiers in Technology & Applications"
Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 @ 3:30 p.m.
AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Uniqueness Implies Existence and Uniqueness Criterion for Certain Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems for Third Order Ordinary Differential Equations"
Johnny Henderson, Baylor University. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 5PM
First Friday Lecture and Reception - "The Architect's Brother"
Artist Robert ParkeHarrison will discuss The Architect's Brother, an exhibition on view at the Sheldon, and his current work. Their talk will be followed by the monthly First Friday reception in the Great Hall.
NEBRASKA UNION, SAT 11AM
Closing Session, International Quilt Study Center Symposium
Free to symposium registrants and UNL students, faculty and staff. $10 public admission.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
God Grew Tired Of Us, The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents God Grew Tired Of Us and The 79th Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films. Both films will show through March 15.
God Grew Tired Of Us tells the remarkable story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 1987, with explosive violence in the Sudan because of civil war, 25,000 young boys between the ages of three and thirteen fled from their homes, beginning a five-year trek that ultimately led the survivors--many of the boys died along the treacherous journey through the desert--to a United Nations refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Nicknamed the Lost Boys after the characters in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, they formed a tight community in the camp, though they still had little food and shelter and a bleak future. In 2001, 38,000 of the boys, now grown into men, were selected to be relocated to the United States, where they were to be given a new lease on life. Writer-director Christopher Quinn and co-director Tommy Walker closely follow three of the men as they try to make a go of it in what for them is a whole new world--they never before had flown in an airplane, shopped in a supermarket, or turned on an electric light. Narrated by Nicole Kidman, and with Brad Pitt serving as one of the executive producers, God Grew Tired Of Us is a powerful, compelling, important documentary.
Every year our patrons ask where they can see the Oscar nominees in the short film categories. This year, just like last year, there's an answer: at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The capsule reviews are provided by the films distributors. Note: Each of these three programs will screen separately and a separate admission will be required.
More information is available at the Ross website.
