Fri, Jul 20, 2007
July 20 - 22, 2007
UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE, NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 8PM
Harry Potter Fever Invades University Bookstore
The eagerly anticipated arrival of the latest J. K. Rowling novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be celebrated with a festival at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's University Bookstore, hosted by the University Program Council.
On Friday, July 20, fortune-tellers, secret passwords, wailing ghosts and noble wizards will be out in force. Harry Potter-style games and decorations will set the scene for the party, and highlights will include a costume contest, lightning bolt tattoos and train rides on the Hogwarts Express. Festivities begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to Harry Potter fans of all ages. The bookstore will begin selling the latest novel at 12:01 a.m. on July 21more...
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING
Repertory Theatre Presents Metamorphoses
Based on the myths of Ovid, Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses mixes delight and poignancy, inventiveness and timelessness, the ancient and the sassy postmodern, while re-visioning the myths oat the very foundation of Western civilization. Set in and around a pool of real and metaphorical water, Apollo, Narcissus, Midas, Aphrodite, Orpheus and Eurydice lift our hearts and ignite our minds with a glimpse of the divine.
The production is directed by NRT Artistic Director Virginia Smith and is designed by Dan Stratman (lighting), Ed Stauffer (scenic - who constructed a pool inside the new Studio Theatre), Janice Stauffer (costumes) and Jeff O'Brien (sound) - all of Lincoln. Performances are July 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 31 and August 4 at 7:30 p.m. and July 29 at 2:00 p.m. Please note: The production includes brief male nudity.
Season passes are $50, $45 faculty/staff and senior citizens, $30 student/youth. Each season pass allows the pass-holder unlimited attendance to all three NRT 2007 productions, one free admission to each Destinations performance, and one free admission to the special screening of the film Gone with the Wind. Individual performance tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
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 on Wednesday, July 25. DCI represents the "big leagues" of the marching music experience, and there is no place like Memorial Stadium to enjoy the head-on impact of the world's best corps in competition.
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.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH AUGUST 5
3 Regional Artists Continue 'Sheldon Connections'
Works by Ann Gradwohl, Susan Knight and Jamie Burmeister have been installed in Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's exhibition spaces on the north side of the second floor through Aug. 5. The exhibitions are free.
Sheldon Connections is taking advantage of the museum's exterior renovations this summer to turn some exhibition spaces into dynamic public sites July 13 through Oct. 14. Two more sessions, Aug. 10-Sept. 9 and Sept. 14-Oct. 14, will offer more artists, exhibitions and events. The Nebraska Art Association, Sheldon's dedicated nonprofit support group, sponsors this initiative to bring new artists and audiences to the Sheldon. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
La Vie En Rose, Disappearances Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents La Vie En Rose and Disappearances. La Vie En Rose will play through July 26, while Disappearances will show through August 2.
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.
Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances stars legendary actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson as schemer and dreamer Quebec Bill Bonhomme -- in a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage (Charlie McDermott). Quebec Bill, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered cattle herd through a long winter, resorts to whiskey smuggling, a traditional family occupation. He takes his son, Wild Bill, on an unforgettable trip that will long remain etched in the viewer's mind: a journey through vast reaches of the Canadian wilderness and into a haunted and elusive past. What they find is the stuff of genuine legend.
More information is available at the Ross website.
