Mon, Jul 14, 2008
July 14-18, 2008
MEMORIAL STADIUM, MON 7:30PM
UNL Hosts Cornhusker Summer Music Games
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Band Program will host the Cornhusker Summer Music Games Drum Corps International competition Monday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. Tickets will be on sale at the stadium starting at 4:30 p.m. on the day of the event.
Drum Corps International is a nonprofit youth organization serving junior drum and bugle corps around the globe. From modest beginnings in 1972, DCI has developed into a powerful youth activity with artistic and organizational influence on the world's drum and bugle corps, marching bands, and related activities. more...
Vote For New Logo and Title of Student Series
What do you call events on Friday nights at the Union that are fun, entertaining, and a great alternative to leaving campus? Student Involvement is now choosing a new name and logo will be used for a late night program, and your input is needed.
The new series will include free food and a variety of entertaining events in the Nebraska Unions on designated Friday Nights. Vote now!
163 HARDIN HALL, WED 1PM
M.S. Defense Seminar - "Alluvial and Eolian Depositional History of the Barrens Fan Northwestern Wisconsin"
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, TUE 3PM
Author Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs to Speak at UNL
Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, daughter of the late historian and best-selling author Stephen Ambrose, will present a talk July 15 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln about her own upcoming book, "Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail," to be published this fall by the University of Nebraska Press.
Ambrose Tubbs will speak at 3 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. She lectures nationally about her experiences and observations on the Lewis and Clark Trail, which she first followed in 1976 with her father. The talk and a reception at the museum are free and open to the public. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THU 9PM
Films of the 1960s is Theme of Summer 'Movies on the Green' Series
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the University Program Council will again unspool the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green 2008 series. The theme for this year's series is "Films of the 1960s." All screenings are presented on the lawn north of Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.).
This week's film is Franco Zeffirelli's Taming of the Shrew, a visually-arresting adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, featuring dynamic performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Mongol and The Edge Of Heaven Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Mongol and The Edge Of Heaven. The Edge Of Heaven will show through July 17, while Mongol will screen through July 31
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, Mongol transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad's landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (Zatoichi, Last Life in the Universe) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Asano's achievement is matched by those of his co-stars, including the radiant newcomer Khulan Chuluun as Khan's courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (The Road Home) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Khan's dearest friend and deadliest enemy. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages.
There are six principal characters in The Edge of Heaven: two mothers, two daughters, a father and a son, all arranged in more or less symmetrical pairs. In the course of this extraordinary film by the German writer-director Fatih Akin (which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last year) children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider. Yet at the same time, as the lives of the characters cross and entwine, there is a sense of human connections becoming stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral order coalescing beneath the randomness and cruelty of modern life. And even as the movie bristles with violence — accidental and systematic, sexual and political — its tone is curiously gentle. - A. O. Scott, The New York Times
More information is available at the Ross website.
