Thu, Apr 10, 2008
April 10, 2008
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Big Red Singers & Vocal Jazz Ensemble Perform
Big Red Singers under the direction of Lester Ray Miller III will present a new show learned in the spring semester featuring choreography by Stephen Todd and April James. They will be performing at Kimball Recital Hall this evening at 7:30 p.m.
The Vocal Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Jeff Spencer will perform both a capella and accompanied music. Tickets are $3 for student/senior or $5 for general admission and are available at the door approximately one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
242 MABEL LEE HALL, 10AM
Discussion about Teaching - "Promoting Effective Nature of Science Instruction: Linking Decontextualized and Contextualized Activities."
Jerrid Kruse
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium Series - "Tending Our Mothers Gardens: Digging Into Women's Expressive Culture"
Dr. Joan Jensen, Historian, Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University
107 HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 4PM
2008 Environmental Studies Seminar - Case Studies; Presented by Senior Seminar Student Teams. "Nebraska Food Cooperative"
Cannon, Frank, Shirk and Tiehen.
LAB THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
Theatrix Presents Delillo's The Day Room
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSTF), closes out its 2007/2008 season with Don Delillo's critical success, The Day Room, a postmodern look at the difference between appearance and reality set in a Beckett inspired psychiatric ward.
The Day Room will open April 10, 2008 at the Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building. Show times are Thursday April 10th at 7:30pm, Friday April 11th at 7:30pm and 10:30pm, Saturday April 12th at 7:30pm and Sunday April 13th at 2:00pm. Individual Show Tickets are $6 (some user fees may be applied) at UNL Theatre Tickets website or at the theatre the evening of performance (subject to availability).
THEATRIX
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Band's Visit and City of Men Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Band's Visit and City Of Men. Both films will show through April 10.
Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's debut feature, The Band's Visit, is a subtle, heartfelt, and humane work that goes a long way toward dissolving the incredibly complex cultural divide that continues to plague the Middle East. Kolirin perfectly navigates his film's slice-of-life tone, blending comedy and drama and poignancy without ever succumbing to one completely. In the wrong hands, this material could turn into a quirk-fest that parodies everyday life. Yet under Kolirin's assured command, it becomes something that feels like life itself.The Band's Visit is funny, lonely, inspiring, sad, and beautiful all at once.
In City Of Men, producer Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner) returns to the Brazilian favelas of his Academy Award-nominated film, City of God. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.
More information is available at the Ross website.
