Mon, Jul 02, 2007
July 2 - 6, 2007
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.
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
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, THROUGH AUGUST 31
'Recycling and Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s' at Hillestad Gallery
The quilt exhibition "Recycling and Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s" will be on view at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery July 2 through Aug. 31. Quilts from the collection of the International Quilt Study Center show how one group in American society responded to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The Great Depression was the longest and most severe economic crisis in U.S. history. Jobs were scarce, standards of living and well-being plummeted and many areas of American popular culture showed the effects. Passed on orally in many families, the experience of life in hard times has become part of the common heritage of millions of Americans. more...
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
La Vie En Rose, Private Fears In Public Places Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents La Vie En Rose and Private Fears In Public Places. Private Fears In Public Places will show through July 5, while La Vie En Rose will play through July 26.
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars 2005 Cesar Award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Born into abject poverty, surrounded by street performers, hookers, and pimps, Piaf's magical voice made her a star on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nominated for eight Cesar awards in its native France, Private Fears In Public Places is an intelligent, adult look at loneliness in the twenty-first century. Directed by French master Alain Resnais (Last Year At Marienbad, Hiroshima, Mon Amour), the film examines the interrelated lives of six main characters who are trying desperately but failing at making real, long-lasting connections.
More information is available at the Ross website.
