Tue, Mar 13, 2007
March 13, 2007
SHELDON ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 1
'Architect's Brother' Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Art Gallery
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's "The Architect's Brother" continues at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition features 42 large-scale, mixed-media images creating a mythical world that mirrors ours, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The show will be on view through April 1. more...
SHELDON ART GALLERY
UNL'S IMPACT ON NEBRASKA
Campus Research Develops Nebraska-Based Discoveries
Energy Science
The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research supports the development of renewable energy and enhanced energy efficiency. With $5 million in startup funding for the center from Nebraska Public Power District, the research center establishes a strategic partnership that will help address the diversity needed to produce power for the future of Nebraska. On its research agenda: biofuels made from Nebraska products; wind-generated power; and "anything that has the potential to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and foster economic opportunities," said Ken Cassman, center director.
UNL's energy research center will fund new projects and diverse energy-related research at UNL: biomass sconversion and bio-refineries, advanced technologies to improve energy generation efficiency, improved irrigation efficiency, carbon sequestration, highly efficient batteries, solid oxide fuels cells and ethanol-to-hydrogen conversion. more...
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. All 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.
