Tue, Apr 22, 2008
April 22, 2008
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, APR. 22-27
Albrechtsen to be Great Plains Art Museum Artist-in-Residence
Michael Albrechtsen of Olathe, Kan., will be the 2008 Elizabeth Rubendall artist-in-residence April 22-27 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum. During his residency, Albrechtsen will create two original oil paintings of the nearby Nebraska landscape based on site visits and photographs taken by the artist. Both paintings will become part of the museum's permanent collection.
The public is welcome to observe and interact with the artist while he works. Albrechtsen will be painting from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., April 22-26 and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 27.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "The Long Reach of Vacuolar H+-ATPases"
Patricia M. Kane, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Refreshments available prior to seminar.
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM | LIVE STREAM
Bruce Babbitt is Thompson Forum Speaker
Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001, will replace William K. Reilly as the final E. N. Thompson Forum speaker of the season. Babbitt will give the lecture titled, "Nebraska's Water Future: Feast or Famine?" at 7 p.m. this evening at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Babbitt was governor (1978-87) and attorney general (1975-78) of Arizona. As governor, he brought environmental and resource management to the forefront in the state. He negotiated and steered to passage the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980, which remains the most comprehensive water regulatory system in the nation. He was also responsible for creation of the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. more...
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
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.
