Wed, Mar 14, 2007
March 14, 2007
RUNS THROUGH MARCH 31
Ceramics from China, Japan, Korea Continues at Lentz Center
"Ceramics from China, Japan and Korea" is the 2007 spring show at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture.
The show, which will run through March 31, will include the Lentz Center's extensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, and also feature Korean ceramics dating from the 14th through the 19th centuries that are on loan from the University of Nebraska State Museum.more...
LENTZ CENTER
UNL'S IMPACT ON NEBRASKA
Arts Venues Draw More Than 250,000 Annually
Three of the university's top attractions bring more than one-quarter million visitors to Lincoln every year, in addition to taking exhibitions, art, education events and other programming "on the road" to tens of thousands of Nebraskans.
Typical annual attendance at the Lied Center for Performing Arts is 150,000.
The Lied runs student matinee programs that reach children from across the state, and statewide AdventureLIED programs are seen by thousands. The Lied Center's partnership with Lincoln Public Schools in 2005-06 reached over 30 schools through workshops, student matinees, and master classes. 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.
