Fri, Jan 18, 2008
January 18-20, 2008
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, FRI 1PM
W.W. Norton Editor to Give Lecture
Robert Weil, Executive Editor at W.W. Norton & Co., will deliver the lecture "Publishing, History, and the Crisis of the Book," at 1 p.m. on Friday at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
Weil has been involved in book publishing since the late 1970s, and has worked with many leading figures in the literary and academic worlds, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nadine Gordimer, George Kennan, Paul McCartney, and Edmund Morgan. He lives in New York.
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY CENTER, FRI 4PM, SAT NOON
Holiday Inn Invitational
MEN'S TENNIS | WOODS TENNIS COMPLEX, SAT NOON
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Creighton Bluejays
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 5PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Baylor Bears
MEN'S TENNIS | WOODS TENNIS COMPLEX, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Air Force Academy
MEN'S GYMNASTICS | DEVANEY CENTER, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Oklahoma Sooners
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, FRI 7:30PM
Lied Hosts Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Among the world's great ensembles, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has a reputation known to even the most casual of classical music listeners. The RPO will return to the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Friday, January 18, 2007 at 7:30 pm. For this performance, the RPO will be joined by Pinchas Zukerman, renowned violinist and conductor.
The evening's repertoire will include Elgar's Serenade for Strings, Violin Concerto No. 1 by Bruch, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. Tickets for this performance are $50 / $45 / $40. University of Nebraska-Lincoln students with a valid I.D., as well as youth age 18 and younger, may purchase tickets for half price. Call the Lied Ticket Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability or visit the Lied Center website.
201 BRACE LABORATORY, FRI 3:30PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Nanoscale Magnetism: Physics and Applications"
Dr. Roger Kirby, UNL. Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
I'm Not There and For The Bible Tells Me So Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents I'm Not There and For The Bible Tells Me So. For The Bible Tells Me So will show through January 24, while I'm Not There has showings through January 31.
Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven) delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music's most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan. In keeping with the impossible-to-pin-down nature of Dylan himself, Haynes chose to cast six different actors to portray several incarnations of the groundbreaking troubadour. The result is a challenging, sprawling work that spans several decades and genres. Much in the same way that Dylan appropriated a vast array of musical styles to create his own vernacular, Haynes does the same thing with I'm Not There, using his expansive knowledge of movie history to pay homage to a variety of movements and directors (Godard, Fellini, Lester, etc.).
Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival, Dan Karslake's provocative, entertaining documentary brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture. Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, For The Bible Tells Me So offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
