Wed, Jun 11, 2008
June 9-13, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION PLAZA ARCADE, THURS NOON
'Fountain Frolics' to again feature live music, picnic lunches
"Fountain Frolics" will again be a Thursday lunchtime feature this summer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Free, live music will be presented on the Nebraska Union Plaza Arcade, 15th and S streets, from noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays from June 5 through July 31 (except July 3). A picnic lunch of a hot dog, chips and a Pepsi product will be available for $4.
This week features The Melody Wranglers, who play old-time country and western music. "Fountain Frolics" is presented by the University Program Council.
Lied Center for Performing Arts Announces 2008-09 Season
The Lied Center for Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska's "Home for the Arts," invites you to discover the many surprises of its 19th season. Featuring more than 30 distinctive performing artists, the 2008-09 season offers a variety of entertainment from demon barbers to political humor to illusionists.
For the entire Lied Center 2008-09 lineup, refer to the Lied Center's web site. Brochures will be available later in June and season ticket orders (four or more events) may be placed at that time. Patrons ordering four to eight events will receive a 10 percent discount on their entire order, while patrons who order tickets to nine or more events receive a 20 percent discount. Individual event tickets will go on sale at 11 a.m. Aug. 18. To receive a free Lied Center brochure, call the Lied Center ticket office at (402) 472-4747. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Young @ Heart and The Visitor Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Young @ Heart and The Visitor. Both films will show through June 19.
As early as autumn 2006, surreal and hilarious video clips of Stephen Walker's documentary Young @ Heart (which originally aired on the BBC) were making the rounds on YouTube and in email inboxes all over the U.S.--tantalizing, out-of-context glimpses of the Young @ Heart vocal choir, composed of elderly men and women, having a go at chestnuts by Sonic Youth, the Clash, and the Ramones. It seemed that the feature film, re-released for the screen in 2008, would perhaps be an uncomfortably comic look at a bunch of geezers set up to look ridiculous for the smug delectation of hipster audiences everywhere. The reality is not so far off-base, at least on first glance, but Walker's film, tracking the progress of the chorus as they prepare for a big gig, provides enough good-natured humor, personal narrative, and intimate details to inspire respect and admiration--and some major heart-string-plucking--in filmgoers. Viewers witness the blossoming of long-buried or completely latent musical talents in the elderly folks; learning the new, unfamiliar material, under the direction of irascible 50-something conductor Bob Cilman, keeps their neurons firing and their emotions kindled, while communing with and trusting each other staves off the isolating effects of old age, even as they cope with heartbreaking losses within their ranks.
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
More information is available at the Ross website.
