Fri, Feb 29, 2008
February 29 - March 2, 2008
VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, FRI 10AM - 2PM
Celebration of Graduate Student Work Held Friday
The annual Celebration of Graduate Student Work will be Friday, February 29, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Van Brunt Visitors Center at 13th and Q Sts. The event is free and open to the public.
Twenty-two graduate students from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts (School of Music, Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and Department of Art and Art History), and the College of Architecture will display their work at the showcase. Visitors then have the opportunity to view their work, talk with the graduate students about their creative process, and ask questions about their projects.
HOWELL THEATRE, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents "An American Daughter"
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre presents "An American Daughter," by Wendy Wasserstein. The production follows the media frenzy and confirmation hearings of an accomplished female candidate for Surgeon General, and how intense media scrutiny threatens to divide her family and derail the process itself.
Performances will be held February 29, March 1 & 5 - 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building. Tickets are $16 regular, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizen, $10 student with ID. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Art Farm @ Sheldon Events Set For Weekend
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus will host events Feb. 29 and March 1 in conjunction with the exhibition "Art Farm @ Sheldon." Martin Hogue, an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, will present a lecture titled "Technique: Landscape: Site" at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 29. The talk is presented by the UNL's College of Architecture and its Hyde Lecture Series.
At 6 p.m. Feb. 29, Potter-Belmar Labs will stage an audience-participatory live video/sound performance titled "Fortune." Artists Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, who compose Potter-Belmar Labs, have been collaborating, experimenting and performing together since 1999. The San Antonio-based duo will present an evening of "Improvised Cinema," a unique multimedia experience. They will augment the performance with a program of their award-winning video shorts, and a discussion about their work and the broader "new media" and "live cinema" art scenes. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "Agricultural Research and the Future Prosperity of Nebraska"
Prem Paul, Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development. Refreshments at 2:30.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations"
David Montgomery, University of Washington
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "First-Principles Design of Novel Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Generation and Storage"
Professor Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, SUN 2PM
Midwest Plantsman Lectures on Great Plains Plants - "50 years of Great Plains Plants"
Harlan Hamernik, plantsman and founder of Bluebird Nurseries
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 1:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs UC Riverside Highlanders
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY CENTER INDOOR TRACK, SAT 9:30AM
Big XII Indoor Track & Field Championships
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 12:05PM (DH)
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs UC Riverside Highlanders
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs UC Riverside Highlanders
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Starting Out In The Evening and Persepolis Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Starting Out In The Evening and Persepolis. Starting Out In The Evening will show through March 6, while Persepolis will play through March 13.
Frank Langella gives the lead performance of a lifetime in Starting Out In The Evening, based on the novel by Brian Morton. Flanked by Lili Taylor and Lauren Ambrose, Langella plays an aging writer who feels as obsolete as the typewriter he is pounding away at. Though he has four novels to his credit, he has been working on his fifth for a decade. Enter Heather Wolfe (Ambrose, Six Feet Under), a grad student who plans to write her thesis on his work. Meanwhile, Schiller's daughter Ariel (Taylor, Six Feet Under) struggles not only with her elderly father, but also with her own desire to have children as she approaches 40. A character-driven film, Starting Out In The Evening features layered, subtle performances from all three main characters as it plays out on New York's Upper West Side.
Persepolis presents a deeply personal coming-of-age tale about finding one's place in the world. Based on her bestselling graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi teamed up with underground comic book artist Vincent Paronnaud to co-direct this animated big screen adaptation. The result is an electrifying, heartfelt, and original portrait of a spunky girl who surmounts countless obstacles to grow into a wise young adult. Satrapi and Paronnaud retain the stark, spare animated style of the graphic novels that inspired the film. This is a wise decision: the less specific they get in their visual presentation, the more universal their story becomes. Persepolis gives viewers several movies in one. It is equal parts coming-of-age story, history lesson, and an animated adventure tale.
More information is available at the Ross website.
