Thu, Jun 19, 2008
June 16-20, 2008
EAST CAMPUS UNION, THU 5:30PM
UNL Hosts "Surviving Darfur" UN Photo Exhibit and Reception
The International Affairs office in coordination with UNL's East Campus Union, Lincoln's New American Task Force, and Lincoln's Commission on Human Rights, has worked with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees to bring the Photo Exhibit "Surviving Darfur" by photojournalist Helene Caux is a to the city of Lincoln and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus.
The exhibit will be displayed June 18-30 at the East Campus Union. Admission to the exhibit is free. A reception will be held in the East Campus Union Thursday, June 19 at 5:30 p.m., and a speaker from Southern Sudan will give a presentation at 6 p.m.
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A UNL student takes pictures of cloud formations during a May 29 storm chase.
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A storm chaser with Ken Dewey takes pictures of clouds building on May 29.
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A storm chaser with Ken Dewey monitors radar.
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Students watch as storm clouds build into a tornado south of Kearney.
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UNL graduate student Jeremy Bower watches radar during a storm chase with Ken Dewey.n
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Skies darken during the storm chase of May 29.
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Ken Dewey stands on a gravel road as a May 29 tornado touches down south of Kearney.
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Ken Dewey gives an interview in a with a reporter at a tornado damaged truck stop.
Storms provide research inspiration for Dewey, Bower
When Ken Dewey was 10 years old, a funnel cloud passed over his Chicago neighborhood. He rushed to alert his parents, but was chastised for bothering them and sent to his room. The punishment became a reward when the view of the twister was better from Dewey's second-floor bedroom.
The next day, his father returned from work duly chastened by reports of tornado damage. After apologizing for not believing Dewey's announcement the night before, father and son took a driving tour of the storm's aftermath. A storm chaser was born. Dewey's professional journey would bring him to UNL and to severe weather systems dancing across Tornado Alley. 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.
