Thu, Mar 08, 2007
March 8, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Jazz Ensemble I & II
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts presents performances by Jazz Ensembles I & II this evening at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The ensembles will perform selections by Bill Holman, Maria Schneider, Eric Richards, Edward C. Redding and others.
Tickets are $5 for general admission, $3 for students and seniors, and will be available at the door approximately one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
VAN BRUNT VISITOR CENTER, 3PM
Burge Shares "Anchor For Today" Experience
For more than a week, the UNL community rallied around Associate Director of Admissions David Burge as he vied for a gig as NBC Television's "Anchor for Today." Through it all, he deftly managed to promote UNL, the Real Nebraska on-line video series, and the State of Nebraska. Fresh from the East Coast, Burge will share videos, photos and stories about his experience at 3 p.m. today in the Van Brunt Visitor Center.
This event is free and open to the public.
WELCOME BACK DAVID BURGE
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 29
Sheldon Exhibit Focuses on Relationship Between Comic, High Art
Drawn from the permanent collection and loans from collectors, "Comic Art," a new exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, plots the relationship between comic and high art.
Chris Ware, one of the leading comic artists in the United States today, has written an essay for the gallery guide to the exhibition. In it, he shares his views on the place that comic art occupies in American culture and in the high art world today. The exhibition, on view from Feb. 6 through April 29, will include works from Enrique Chagoya, Jon E. Gierlich and S. Clay Wilson, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, George Herriman, Roger Shimomura, Saul Steinberg, Art Spiegelman and Walt Kelly, among many others. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION ROTUNDA GALLERY, 11:30AM
Women's Week Lecture - "We Can Play Too"
Talk to former and current female student athletes about challenges of being in athletics, what they have overcome, and how challenges have made them stronger today.
LOVE LIBRARY SOUTH, 3PM
Intermediate XML Workshop
Brian Pytlik Zillig, who works in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. This event is free and open to UNL faculty, staff and students. For information on location and registration, contact the CDRH at 472-4547.
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.
