Wed, Oct 08, 2008
October 8, 2008
LGBTQA History Month Continues
Throughout the month of October, Student Involvment will celebrate LGBTQA Month with a variety of events and programs. They include the Safe Space/Ally Campaign an art exhibit in the Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery, movie night, LGBTQA History month banquet, a presentation from Dorothy Allison, and more.
LGBTQA MONTH SCHEDULE
Career Services Holds Fall Career Fair
The Fall Career Fair will be held today in the Nebraska Union from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., with the College of Engineering featured.
FALL CAREER FAIR
HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS
Hillestad Gallery Hosts Beaded Prayers Exhibition
Unique artworks created by more than 4,000 individuals and collected by Virginia-based artist Sonya Clark will be featured in a new exhibition titled "Beaded Prayers" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
For nearly a decade, Clark has worked with groups creating one-of-a-kind amulets, which are included in "Beaded Prayers." On her Web site (www.beadedprayersproject.com) she describes how she developed the idea of sealing peoples' writings inside beaded packets. more...
HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2008 Seminar - "Gene discovery and enzyme engineering for hemicellulosic biomass degradation"
Dr. Dominic Wong, Western Regional Research Center. Reception at 3:30 p.m.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tell No One and Trouble The Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tell No One and Trouble The Water. Both films will show through October 9.
In the shortcut language of a movie pitch, Guillaume Canet's delicious contemporary thriller Tell No One is Vertigo meets The Fugitive by way of The Big Sleep. That is meant as high praise. This French adaptation of Harlan Coben's 2001 best seller is the kind of conspiracy-minded mystery almost no one seems capable of creating anymore, except David Lynch in his surreal way. Watching it is like gorging on a hot fudge sundae in the good old days when few worried about sugar and fat. There are no bogus geopolitics weighing it down with a spurious relevance. Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In Trouble the Water, this voiceless population becomes vibrantly human as documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal engage with native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Scott, to create a powerful, partly autobiographical survival story that reflects many of the lives of the people of New Orleans.
More information is available at the Ross website.
