Tue, Mar 20, 2007
March 20, 2007
GREAT PLAINS ART GALLERY, 7:30PM
Prize-Winning Author Lucille Clifton Speaks Tonight
Children's book author and poet Lucille Clifton will give a public reading of her work tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q St. Her visit to campus is sponsored by the UNL English Department.
Clifton's more than 20 children's books include "My Friend Jacob" and "Three Wishes." She also wrote an award-winning series of books featuring events in the life of Everett Anderson, a young African American boy. Besides appearing in over 100 anthologies of poetry, she has come to popular attention through television appearances on the "Today Show," "Nightline," and the Bill Moyers series, "The Power of the Word." more...
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School Of Music Presents Faculty Recital
This evening, Dr. Nicole Narboni, Senior Lecturer of Piano in the School of Music, will join with colleagues Dr. Kevin Hanrahan (tenor) and Professor Gregory Beaver (violoncello) to perform the second recital in a series entitled "Music With Friends." This all-Beethoven program includes the exciting first Sonata for Piano and Cello and his contemplative song cycle, "An die Ferne Geliebte."
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
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7:30PM
Speaker to Discuss Religious Right in Historical, Contemporary Perspectives
Randall Balmer, an evangelical Christian and professor of religion at Columbia University, will present his views of the religious right in a March 20 talk at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Balmer will deliver "Taking Our Country Back: The Religious Right in Historical and Contemporary Perspective" beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The talk is free and open to the public. more...
DEPT. OF CLASSICS AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Ware Exhibition Continues At Sheldon
"Chris Ware" is an exhibition that includes drawings and materials related to the artist's upcoming graphic novel based in Omaha. The exhibit will continue through April 29 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Of his novel, the artist writes: "'Rusty Brown' is a graphic novel I began many years ago and am serializing chapter by chapter in my regular comic book, 'The ACME Novelty Library.' It concerns the doings of a group of seven people all either employed by or attending a private high school in Omaha, Neb., which bears a striking, affectionate and hopefully non-litigious resemblance to the 1970s version of my own high school, Brownell-Talbot, though all of the main characters and situations are completely invented." more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Influential Czech Composers - "The Influences of Czech Composers"
College of Music Student, Caroline Faflak
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Domain Alternation in the Adenylate-Forming Enzymes"
Dr. Andrew M. Gulick, Hauptman-Woodward Institute, Department of Structural Biology at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 5:30PM
Panel Discussion: The Architect's Brother
Susan Seacrest, President of the Nebraska Groundwater Foundation
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 7:30PM
Public reading
Children's book author and poet Lucille Clifton
NEBRASKA UNION, 7:30PM
Lecture - Taking Our Country Back
Randall Balmer, Evangelical and Professor of Religion at Columbia University.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Lives Of Others, Commune Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Lives Of Others and Commune. Commune will show through March 22, while the Oscar-winning (for best foreign-language film) The Lives Of Others will play through March 29.
At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives Of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. The Lives Of Others traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's Funny Games and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' Amen), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).
During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the American landscape. They aimed to reshape the world with "free love" and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongs local residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naive past, Berman discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black Bear Ranch in Siskiyou County, California. With archival footage from the early days, and the present-day views of Black Bear members and their offspring, Commune is a revealing look at how our most basic choices about family, work, and the nature of our relationships send powerful and lasting shock waves through the fabric of society.
More information is available at the Ross website.
