Thu, Feb 14, 2008
February 14, 2008
VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, 1:30PM
UNL Kicks Off Celebration of 100th Anniversary of Teachers College
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Sciences will celebrate the centennial of the founding of one of its predecessor units, Teachers College, in a ceremony beginning at 1:30 p.m. today at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman will read a proclamation honoring the founding of Teachers College. Several other activities are being planned over the course of the year to continue the observance. more...
100 YEARS OF CEHS
NEBRASKA UNION CENTENNIAL ROOM, 11AM - 5PM
Spring Blood Drive Continues
In conjunction with the Community Blood Bank of the Lancaster County Medical Society, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Red Cross will be holding a spring blood drive in the Nebraska Union Centennial room today from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. You can register on the web for a time that suits your needs best, and walk-ins are also welcome.
As a proud member of America's Blood Centers network of 500 community-based blood centers in 46 states, the CBB distributes a portion of the blood supplied to more than half of the nation's 6,000 hospitals.
BLOOD DRIVE REGISTRATION
Kooser's 'Valentines' Offers Poetic View of Romance
For Valentine's Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote "Pocket Poem" and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to 50 women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next 21 years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,700 women all over the country.
- Watch Kooser read "Pocket Poem"
- Watch Kooser read "For You, Friend"
- Watch Kooser read "Song of the Ironing Board"
"Valentines," a new book out by Kooser, published by University of Nebraska Press, collects Kooser's 22 years of Valentine's Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. more...
NEBRASKA PRESS
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "We Know Where They're Coming From!! - Recent Physics Results from the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory"
Dr. Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Refreshments in Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 7PM
Nebraska Presence poets read work from the anthology of contemporary Nebraska poetry
Poets scheduled to read include: Marilyn Dorf, Charlene Neeley, Lucy Adkins, Kim Tedrow, Lorraine Duggin, Grace Bauer, Fred Zydek, Twya Hansen, Terry Oberst, Paul Dickey, Mike Skau, Marilyn Coffee, and Rich Wyatt, along with editors, Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell
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.
