Thu, Mar 15, 2007
March 15, 2007
LIED CENTER for PERFORMING ARTS. 6PM
Paddywhack Performs at Lied's "Free At Six"
The "Free At 6" Series is a monthly event hosted by the Lied Center for Performing Arts to showcase local artists. This Thursday, the Lincoln-based trio Paddywhack will perform folk music from the British Isles and North America, including jigs, hornpipes, polkas and reels. The event is free and begins at 6 p.m.
Spend an evening with Paddywhack and experience haunting tunes on Northumbrian bagpipes, soulful songs on the English concertina and English fiddle, delightful melodies on the musical saw and intricate rhythms on the Irish drum, the bodhran.
LIED CENTER
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NUMSA Holds Annual Malaysian Night Event
The Nebraska University Malaysian Students Association (NUMSA) will once again be holding its annual Malaysian Night event. This year's Malaysian Night theme is "You Thought You Knew...", will be held at March 24, 2007. Tickets are sold for $16 (students/faculty/staff) and $18 (others).
More information can be obtained by emailing at malaysiannight@numsa.org or visiting our web site.
UNL'S IMPACT ON NEBRASKA
Program Ushers High-End Science Into Area High School Classrooms
A UNL program is introducing high-end science to high school students in Lincoln and across Nebraska.
Through a series of three experiments - including the crime lab-like replication of DNA and the eerie green glow of plasma DNA injected into E. coli - the Center for Biotechnology Outreach program is designed to pique interest and draw students to the field of science at an earlier age.
The project is funded through a $100,000 EPSCoR grant from the National Science Foundation. Those funds are a portion of a four-year, $6 million NSF Infrastructure grant awarded in 2004. "This has been an amazing project to work on," said program coordinator Sarah Zulkoski-Benson. "I get to go out, work with teachers and see these students get excited about science." 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.
