Fri, Apr 18, 2008
April 18-20, 2008
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, SUN 7:30PM
School of Music Presents UNL Philharmonia with the Chamber Singers
Directors Tyler Goodrich White and Therees Tkach Hibbard lead UNL's chamber orchestra and the Chamber Signers with faculty guest artists the Chiara String Quartet in a performance of Serenade to Music by Vaughan Williams, and the Chiara Quartet joins the Chamber Singers for John Corigliano's Fern Hill. They will be performing at Kimball Recital Hall Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m.
Also on the program is Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, and works by Boccherini, and Samuel Barber. 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
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents The Unvarnished Truth
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre presents The Unvarnished Truth by Royce Ryton. A black comedy in the true British style, the production features a procession of screwball characters and a pile of tangled events that leaves everyone grasping for straws and trying to cover their tracks.
Performances will be held April 18 - 19 and 23 - 26, 2008 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.
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 6:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Kansas Jayhawks
FOOTBALL | MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 1PM
Red/White Spring Game
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 3:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Kansas Jayhawks
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Kansas State Wildcats
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Kansas Jayhawks
Chemistry Celebrates 125 Years on Campus
Chemistry is celebrating a 125th anniversary and a laundry list of program firsts. In 1887, the department hired Rachel Lloyd, the first woman chemistry professor in the world. Lloyd was also the first woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry.
The first two women to join the American Chemical Society were from the University of Nebraska chemistry department. The first joined in 1891. And, the department offered the first graduate program of any kind west of the Mississippi River. The first master's degree was awarded in 1888. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
International Quilt Study Center Going Green
The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host its first Green Week April 19-25. The Earth-friendly week is full activities for students, families and professionals in celebration of Earth Day and Arbor Day. The new quilt center is the first sustainable "green" building designed and built from the ground up at UNL.
All Green Week activities and tours are free with paid admission to the museum. The week kicks off at 10 a.m. April 19. Saturday's activities will be family-oriented and include gallery and art-making activities, and a building tour at 11 a.m. highlighting the environmentally friendly features of the building. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
707 OLDFATHER HALL, FRI 12:30PM
Sociology Department Colloquium - "Correlates of Non-response in Panel Studies"
Dr. Kristen Olson, Deparment of Sociology and Survey Research and Methodology
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "Towards a Standardized Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biofuel Systems"
Adam Liska, Research Associate, Agronomy & Horticulture. Refreshments at 2:30.
210 FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Agriculture Economics Seminar - "Challenges to Assessing the Economic Potential for Carbon Capture and Sequestration"
Susan Capalbo, Montana State University
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 3:30PM
Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquium Series - "The Epic(al) as Short Narrative: Beloved and The Poetics of Scale"
Greg Rutledge, Assistant Professor English & Ethnic Studies
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "What's the Matter with Pangea?"
Rob Van der Voo, University of Michigan
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Snow Angels Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Snow Angels. Both films will show through April 24.
On the heels of Cristi Puiu's brilliant The Death of Mr. Lazarescu comes another outstanding picture, 4 Months, 3 Week, and 2 Days, which firmly establishes Romania as a major force in early 21st-century world cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu's excruciatingly intense drama is set in Bucharest in the mid-1980s, as Nicolae Ceaucescu and his evil dictatorship continue to reign. In a country where abortion is outlawed, a young college student, Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), finds herself in big trouble. Unsure what to do, she turns to her roommate, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), for help. The pair connects with a black market doctor Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), in order to take care of Gabita's pregnancy--but, of course, it isn't that simple. The resulting 24 hours reveals a harrowing descent into a world in which the possibility of tragedy lurks around every corner.
Snow Angels, adapted from the novel of the same title by Stewart O'Nan, is two stories of love and loss converging. One is of a recently separated couple attempting to pick up the threads of a future when faced with tragedy. The second is about an awkward young man, currently in the throes of discovering his first romance, forced to deal with the separation and subsequent strife of his parents' relationship. Snow Angels is written and directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker David Gordon Green.
More information is available at the Ross website.
