Fri, Feb 08, 2008
February 8-10, 2008
LIED CENTER, FRI 11:30AM
Lied Center Hosts Obama Address
Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama, will address a noontime rally today at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Doors at the Lied open at 11:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public and tickets are not required.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, MON. 3PM
Hendrickson Memorial Service on Monday
Dr. Barbara Couture, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, invites friends and colleagues of Dr. Kent Hendrickson to attend a memorial service in his honor on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, followed by a reception in the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, colleagues send memorials to the Doctors Without Borders organization or to the University of Nebraska Foundation for UNL Libraries.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Adventures in Dispersion Modeling: The Effect of Field Shelters on the Dispersal of Maize Pollen"
Craig Clark, Valparaiso University
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, FRI 4:30PM
College of Architecture Hyde Lecture Series
Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir
141 MORRILL HALL, FRI 5PM
Biological Sciences Graduate Student Symposium - "Darwin among the Microbes"
Carl Zimmer, author of "Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life"
Kent Hendrickson
Kent Hendrickson, associate vice chancellor for Information Services, died Feb. 5 of injuries suffered in a car accident while commuting from Omaha. He was 68.
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 11AM
Prominent Ceramic Artist to Speak at Sheldon Art Gallery
During a three-day visit to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art and Art History, three renowned ceramic artists will give lectures in Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.
Matthew Metz will talk at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8. Metz will also give a demonstration from 9-11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 8 in 118 Richards Hall. The lecture, sponsored by the UNL Clay Club and Sheldon, are free and open to the public. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 3PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Drake Bulldogs
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Iowa Hawkeyes
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, FRI 5PM, SAT 11AM
Adidas Classic
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, SAT 3PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas Tech Red Raiders
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Wyoming Cowboys
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, SUN 1:15PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Denver Hawks
WRESTLING | NU COLISEUM, SUN 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
War Dance and The Savages Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents War Dance and The Savages. Both films will show through February 14.
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine's War Dance is a powerful documentary that follows a group of schoolchildren as they overcome nearly insurmountable odds in their quest to participate in the annual Kampala Music Festival. For over 20 years, Northern Uganda has been a war zone, as a vicious rebel force, the Lord's Resistance Army, has run rampant, destroying villages, kidnapping children, and murdering parents. Somehow, the children of the Patongo Primary School have qualified for the Kampala Music Festival competition for the first time, a feat unto itself; yet these children are determined to take home the championship prize.
Director Tamara Jenkins made audiences sit for nearly a decade for her follow-up to the hilarious dark comedy Slums Of Beverly Hills, but it's been worth the wait. Like her previous film, The Savages is a sometimes-funny, sometimes-sad look at family dynamics, but this time around the sense of humor is more wry than riotous. Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play Wendy and Jon Savage, a pair of siblings on the cusp of middle age. Their estranged father (Philip Bosco) lives across the country, but the Savages reluctantly rush to see him when they learn that he may not be able to take care of himself any longer. Jon and Wendy bicker over problems old and new as they try to figure out what's best for a man they barely know.
More information is available at the Ross website.
