Mon, Jun 16, 2008
June 16-20, 2008
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
'Peace, Love and Psychedelic Sixties' Continues at Sheldon
"Peace, Love, and the Psychedelic Sixties," an exhibition drawn from artworks in the Sheldon Museum of Art collection that were created in the 1960s, continues through August 3rd.
The exhibition includes three elements, the largest offering artworks that express the mythologized vision of the 1960s still alive in the popular imagination. These works are colorful, dream-like and even psychedelic. They give the sense of experimentation, vigor and youthful energy associated with the era. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, TUE NOON
International Quilt Study Center & Museum Lecture - "Quilts in Common" exhibition.
Curator Marin Hanson
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN, TUE 7PM
Sheldon's 17th Jazz in June Season Continues
Now in its 17th season, the Jazz in June concert series continues with great jazz and great food in the great outdoors on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus this summer. The concerts, which begin at 7 p.m. and draw thousands of music and art lovers each week, are held under the trees on the plaza west of Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets.
This week, The Dynamic Les DeMerle Band featuring Bonnie Eisele will perform. Led by DeMerle's explosive drumming and Eisele's swinging vocals, this Florida-based band delights audiences with its special panache. This experienced, high-energy ensemble has performed in venues from Florida to Singapore. more...
JAZZ IN JUNE
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.
