Fri, Jun 13, 2008
June 13-15, 2008
Nebraska Natives Headline Summer Writers Conference at UNL
The 2008 Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be June 14-20 on the UNL City Campus.
Since 2003, UNL's creative writing program has hosted the conference, a seven-day event consisting of intensive writing workshops and master classes, panel discussions, readings and receptions. Workshops require registration, but a number of panel discussions and readings are open to the public. more...
NEBRASKA SUMMER WRITERS' CONFERENCE
Nancy Crow Exhibition Continues at International Quilt Study Center & Museum
Nancy Crow's "Cloth, Culture, Context" exhibition continues at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum through August 31. The show is a contemporary complement to "Quilts in Common," tracing quilting luminary Crow's evolution as studio quilter. The quilts of this exhibit represent the extensive scope of Nancy Crow's role as a member of the American studio quilt vanguard.
Admission to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum is free for UNL Students, Faculty & Staff. $5 for adults and $3 for children (under the age of 4 are free). Museum hours on Friday and Saturday are 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sunday hours are 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
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.
