Mon, Mar 05, 2007
March 5, 2007
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER, 10AM - 2PM
Free Spring Break Survival Kits Available Today
The University Health Center and Campus Rec Centers will be distributing free (while supplies last) Spring Break Survival Kits today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University Health Center.
Each kit includes a water bottle with antacid tablets, antiseptic towelette, band-aids, a toothbrush, and more. You can return any unwanted items to the University Health Center or Health Aide booths in the Nebraska Unions.
SPRING BREAK TIPS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7PM
Ross Hosts Film Premiere With Director
The son of a Kenyan journalist, Salim Amin, will premiere his film Mo & Me at The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Monday, March 5, at 7 p.m. The film immortalizes Amin's father, Mohamed, who broke story after story about the turmoil of Africa's emergence into the 20th century. The film is open to the public and admission is free.
The documentary has been named best international documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival in Canada, best documentary at the Kenya International Film Festival in Nairobi and best feature documentary at the SMTV India F.I.C.T.S. festival in India. More information about this film is available at The Ross website.
WESTBROOK RECITAL HALL, ROOM 119, 7:30PM
School Of Music Presents UNL Student Chamber Fest
The UNL School of Music will host the UNL Student Chamber Fest this evening at 7:30 p.m. in Room 119 of the Westbrook Music Building. Chamber music enthusiasts will enjoy the Piano Trio in B-Flat, Op. 97 "Archduke" by Ludwig van Beethoven as performed by Rebecca Longhenry, violin, Meryl Nash, cello, and Lily Spader, piano. Then the Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op. 47 by Robert Schumann will be performed by Elizabeth Webster, violin, Seth May-Patterson, viola, Travis Kulwicki, cello, and Jennifer Donelson, piano.
This event is free and open to the public.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, THROUGH MAR 26
'Journey Home' Continues at Great Plains Art Museum
The Journey Home: Native American Art Show" continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum. The exhibition will run through March 26.
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 renovation. more...
BESSEY HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Colloquium - "The Program of Excellence"
Sheldon Solomon, Psychology Department, Skidmore College, New York
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry Special Seminar
Dr. Sabeeha Merchant, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
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.
