Thu, Jan 24, 2008
January 24, 2008
Student Play and Film Screening are MLK Week Events
MLK Week at UNL continues with a student play and a film screening. At 11:30 a.m. in the Nebraska Union, Director Willie Banks and Clinton Elementary will perform Big Words, Strong Words. At 3:30 p.m. in the Prairie Suite of the East Campus Union, moderators Gina Matkin and Reshell Ray will screen the film Citizen King. Refreshments will follow the film.
Both events are free and open to the public.
MLK WEEK AT UNL
EAST CAMPUS UNION, 1-3PM
UNL Holds Open Forum for Strategic Plan
The UNL community has a chance to review and comment on the first public draft of the UNL Strategic Plan. The document, "A Strategic Plan for UNL: Setting our Compass," is designed to describe a general direction for university efforts. An open forum to discuss the plan will take place today from 1 - 3 p.m. in the East Campus Union (room posted).
Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor, and John Owens, IANR vice chancellor, will host the forum. The forum will be similar to those that helped shape UNL's core values documents in 2005-06. more...
UNL STRATEGIC PLAN
CAMPUS RECREATION CENTER, 11AM-5PM
2nd 'Get Rec'd' Event at UNL Offers Prizes, Activities
Thousands of UNL students, and campus and community supporters will have fun checking out the latest products, fashions, technology, services, sounds and tastes from local and national companies at "Get Rec'd" on Jan. 24 and 25 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Campus Recreation Center from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Admission to the two-day interactive festival is free and all are welcome. Attendees will haul away free gifts, sample some food, and enjoy a variety of entertainment. more...
GET REC'D
ROOM 107 HARDIN HALL, 4PM
Environmental Studies 2008 Seminar - Introduction to "Sustainable Societies Africa"
Bill Godfrey - President of Environic Foundation International (EFI)
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.
