Fri, Jun 08, 2007
June 8 - 10, 2007
MEMORIAL STADIUM, JULY 25
Tickets on Sale for Cornhusker Summer Music Games
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Band Program will host the Cornhusker Summer Music Games Drum Corps International competition July 25 at Memorial Stadium.
Drum Corps International is a nonprofit youth organization serving junior drum and bugle corps around the globe. From modest beginnings in 1972, DCI has developed into a powerful youth activity with artistic and organizational influence on the world's drum and bugle corps, marching bands, and related activities. Thirty-five World Championships in 17 cities have provided entertainment to more than half a million people in stadiums and to millions more through a PBS telecast. Regional, focus, sponsored and sanctioned shows have brought the drum corps experience to several million more in hundreds of towns and cities throughout North America. more...
NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS
IS Sponsors Digital Imaging Summer Camp
Digital Imaging Summer Camp, sponsored by Information Services offers a variety of classes during June to sharpen your graphics skills. Learn to take better digital photos. Bring photos back from the dead by applying layering and photo retouching techniques in PhotoShop. Dust off those great old slides and scan them into a digital format.
Classes are offered at several convenient times and repeated throughout June. All classes are held in the New Media Center Classroom in Architecture Hall. Registered class members will also have a chance to win a free copy of Adobe Photoshop CS 3 from the UNL Computer Store. Take five classes and receive a Digital Imaging Summer Camp Certificate. For times and registration, visit the Digital Image Summer Camp site.
1,000,000 TREES IN 10 YEARS
ReTree Nebraska Proposes a Million Tree Challenge
One decade, 1 million trees - that is the goal of ReTree Nebraska. The 10-year cooperative initiative will raise public awareness of the value of trees, reverse the decline of Nebraska's community tree resources and improve the diversity and sustainability of trees in communities across the state for generations to come, said Scott Josiah, state forester and director of the Nebraska Forest Service at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Assessments of more than 200 community tree inventories conducted by the Nebraska Forest Service since 1977 show the state has lost nearly half its community forest resources since the late 1970s. more...
RETREE NEBRASKA
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
Mueller Planetarium Enters New Era With Fulldome Digital Shows
"It's the biggest advance -- or change -- in the Planetarium's capabilities since the theater opened 49 years ago." So said Mueller Planetarium coordinator Jack Dunn about the planetarium's new projection system in the digital fulldome format. Starting June 1, audiences will experience immersive high-tech adventures in Mueller Planetarium. Dunn said the closest other fulldome digital theaters with such features are in Denver, Chicago and Wichita.
eVisitors can fall through a black hole, witness the beginnings of the universe, fly through Saturn's rings and much more. Dunn said it's very difficult to describe the experience in words: "You really have to see it to understand how powerful a medium fulldome is." The purchase of the fulldome equipment was made possible by a gift through the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum. The actual projection design, known as "Sphemir," was invented by Paul Bourke at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Dunn is Bourke's U.S. collaborator to spread information about the spherical mirror design. more...
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Into Great Silence, Year Of The Dog Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Into Great Silence and Year Of The Dog. Both films will play through June 21.
Into Great Silence fits neatly into the sub-category of films that need to be experienced rather than just watched. Over 162 minutes director Philip Groening films a group of monks who dwell in the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps. The monks have taken a vow of silence, and live life at such a gentile pace that it took them 13 years to respond to Groening's request to make a film about them. The subjects of Groening's film fill their days with slow and highly repetitive routines, so the director shoots at a suitably slow pace, highlighting simple tasks such as praying, gardening, cooking, and doing laundry. Groening lived with the monks for four months and worked under strict conditions dictated to him by the order; no voiceover, music, or interviews were to be included in the film, and Groening was to be the sole crew member on the shoot. The film is mostly comprised of a long, lonely trip into silence, and will doubtless leave its audience members in a contemplative and restful state of mind once the journey comes to a peaceful end.
Year Of The Dog stars Molly Shannon as Peggy, a happy-go-lucky secretary who is a great friend, employee, and sister. She lives alone with her adorable beagle, Pencil and the two of them have a blissful relationship full of love, appreciation, and companionship. One night Pencil wakes up to go potty and unexpectedly sets off a chain of events that change the course of Peggy's life. Mike White, who has penned such Sundance favorites as Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl, makes an auspicious directorial feature debut at this year's Festival with Year Of The Dog, a richly crafted tale of self-discovery that is at once comedic, poignant, and compassionate. Taking place in a compelling world, populated with his signature brand of funny, off-kilter characters who are endearing and extremely committed to their cause, it's is a charming and resonant film that will leave you laughing and crying, especially if you are a dog lover.
More information is available at the Ross website.
