Mon, Jan 19, 2009
January 19, 2009
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 2PM
MLK Week Events Start Today
Educator, poet and advocate Lloyd Daniel will be the keynote speaker Jan. 19 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.
Daniel will deliver "The Second Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." during the Chancellor's Program, beginning at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The program will also include performances by the Afrikan Peoples Union choir and the presentation of the 13th-annual Chancellor's Fulfilling the Dream awards.
MLK WEEK AT UNL
Juried Student Exhibition at Hillestad Textiles Gallery
Seventeen University of Nebraska-Lincoln students will exhibit their contemporary fashion and textile design work in the 2007-08 Biennial Juried Exhibition at UNL's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery through Jan. 30.
Jean L. Parsons, associate professor in the Iowa State University Department of Textiles and Clothing and co-author of "20th Century Dress in the United States" (Fairchild Publications, 2007), was the juror for the exhibition. She evaluated the 65 entries and in a blind review process, selected work based solely on the merits of the entries. This show includes 27 pieces of fashion and textile design, representing the work of five graduate and 12 undergraduate students. more...
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire. Synecdoche, New York will show through January 22, while Slumdog Millionaire will screen through January 29.
To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now. That at least would be an appropriate response to a film about failure, about the struggle to make your mark in a world filled with people who are more gifted, beautiful, glamorous and desirable than the rest of us — we who are crippled by narcissistic inadequacy, yes, of course, but also by real horror, by zits, flab and the cancer that we know (we know!) is eating away at us and leaving us no choice but to lie down and die. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
More information is available at the Ross website.
