Thu, Dec 13, 2007
December 13, 2007
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Peace Corps Hosts Informational Presentation
Learn more about the Peace Corps and meet a recruiter and returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Turkmenistan, Central Asia this evening in a presentation at the Nebraska Union at 7 p.m. The presentation will discuss the application process, qualifying for assignments, benefits and challenges of service, and life as a Peace Corps Volunteer (including a 15-minute video).
UNL PEACE CORPS
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences' Showcase Seminar - "The Politics and Economics of Disease in the Overdeveloped World"
Dr. Bruce Levin, Emory Univesrity
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
Globalization and Labor in Textiles' at Hillestad Gallery
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host "Making the Meaning: Globalization and Labor in Textiles," an exhibition through Jan. 11 that features new works by eight contemporary artist/designers. A public reception with the artists providing brief remarks about the work will be held today from 5:30 - 7 p.m.
While many of the Hillestad Textiles Gallery exhibitions address the fine art of apparel and design, this is the first of its kind to critically address the industry at large or "the making." The resulting works range from group installations with a participatory element to very personal interpretations. Collectively, they address the origin and nature of the controversial issue. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
King Corn and Before The Devil Knows You're Dead Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents King Corn and Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. King Corn plays through December 13, while Before The Devil Knows You're Dead will show through December 23.
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, is a suspenseful thriller directed by master filmmaker Sidney Lumet about a family facing the worst enemy of all - itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep.
More information is available at the Ross website.
