Fri, Feb 15, 2008
February 15-17, 2008
Campus Safety Update
Our hearts go out to the campus community of Northern Illinois University. Faculty and staff who feel like they need someone to talk to about the tragic incident are reminded that EAP is available for them: 472-3107. Students: Call Counseling and Psychological Services at 472-7450 or visit University Health Center.
Information and ideas on ways to help keep campus safe, and how to respond in specific emergencies, is located at http://emergency.unl.edu.
LIED CENTER, FRI 7:30PM
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Performs at Lied
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will make an appearance at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Friday, Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this performance are $42 and $32. 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.
Opening for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, will be the UNL Jazz Band - one of the high points of the UNL School of Music's Honor Jazz Weekend, February 15-17. Select high school students from the region will have the opportunity to work with UNL students, faculty, and members of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra in an exciting weekend of large and small jazz group playing, clinics, and master classes.
LIED CENTER
BESSEY HALL 117, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Geology and Paleontology of the Carmel Church Quarry in Caroline"
Alton Dooley, Virginia Museum of Natural History
HAMILTON HALL 112, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Designing Functional Metalloenzymes"
Professor Yi Lu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rustad's 'Expressions of Prairie Grasses' at Great Plains Art Museum
Nebraska artist Carol Rustad's paintings of prairie grasses will be featured in an exhibit, "Elegant Tangles: Expressions of Prairie Grasses," that runs Jan. 29 through March 7 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum.
Rustad said she only paints plants she has personally encountered, and she hopes her paintings of virgin grasses will inspire more people to research prairie conservation. The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place, is open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays (closed Mondays, holiday weekends and between exhibitions). There is no admission charge. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 3PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs St. Louis Billikens
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs UT San Antonio Road Runners
RIFLE | NU RIFLE RANGE, SAT 9AM
NCAA Qualifier
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 11AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Central Oklahoma RiberHawks
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 8PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs DePaul Demons
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Drake Bulldogs
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Orphanage and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Orphanage and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. Both films will show through February 28.
A woman discovers dark secrets hidden within her cherished childhood home in the supernatural drama The Orphanage, the feature film debut of acclaimed young Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona. A superbly atmospheric and emotionally powerful tale of love, loss and guilt, The Orphanage is the first film ever to be presented by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Guillermo delToro, who also produced.
Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with the audacious and personal The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable "locked in" syndrome at the age of 43. Bauby's only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye, and after several dedicated helpers helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoir. Schnabel somehow manages to convey Bauby's internal life with remarkable clarity, employing first-person perspective, striking cinematography (by the always great Janusz Kaminski), and Amalric's pained, life-affirming monologues. The result is a wholly original experience, a painful and tender portrait of a life that is made all the more exhilarating because of its close proximity to death.
More information is available at the Ross website.
