Fri, Aug 01, 2008
August 1 - 3, 2008
Farrell's 'Hinterlands' Opens at Great Plains Art Museum
"Hinterlands," an exhibition of gelatin silver prints by Lincoln photographer Michael Farrell opens Aug. 1 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum. The landscape series runs through Oct. 31 and includes photographs from Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado, and focuses on remote locations that the artist has visited numerous times over the years.
The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place, is open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays (closed Mondays, holiday weekends and between exhibitions). There is no admission charge. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Jack McBride
Jack McBride, a pioneer of public television in Nebraska and a national leader in public broadcasting circles, died July 28 in Lincoln. He was 82 and his death followed surgery for a lung ailment.
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MUELLER PLANETARIUM, SAT
Mueller Planetarium Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Mueller Planetarium at the University of Nebraska State Museum will celebrate its 50th anniversary Aug. 2 with a one-day return to 1950s ticket prices. The planetarium will feature the new fulldome show, "Black Holes," and the show for young audiences, "Secret of the Cardboard Rocket."
Ticket prices for Aug. 2 (only) will harken back the planetarium's beginnings in the 1950s, with adults paying 50 cents and children paying 25 cents per show (in addition to the cost of Museum admission). Limited seating is available (the planetarium holds 80) and tickets will be sold on a first-come basis the day of the show. more...
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer and Roman De Gare Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer and Roman De Gare. Both films will show for only one week only through August 7.
In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature debut How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing, loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in a Mexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought. Like the folks in the story, Riedel's camera never hurries, savoring the poetic vistas and lazy rhythms of the rural Southwest without resorting to sentimentality. Her three heroines are utterly human--full of idiosyncrasies and unexpected charms. In each of them is a distinctive, newly discovered sensuality, an engine that drives them forward, kicking up dust as they go.
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken -- a blind educator and adventurer who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before.
More information is available at the Ross website.
