Mon, Jan 26, 2009
January 26, 2009
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Hosts Winter Winds Festival Finale Concert
The UNL School of Music presents the Fifth Annual Celebration of American Song, written and directed by Alisa Belflower. The Celebration of American Song features beloved American composer Jerome Kern and will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Continuing in the tradition of past celebrations, Dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts, Giacomo Oliva, will be featured at the piano accompanying the School of Music's voice faculty, alumni, and graduate students.
Presented in two acts with an intermission, tickets to the performance are $3 for student/senior and $5 for general admission and will be available at the door approximately one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Czech and Russian Relations
A short lecture on the relationship between Czechs and Russians since Communism followed by the film Kolya, about the same topic. Free and open to the public.
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
Stranded and Slumdog Millionaire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Stranded: I've Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains and Slumdog Millionaire. Both films will screen through January 29.
In October 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players from Montevideo, Uruguay, went down in a snow-covered valley in the Andes. The dramatic tale of the survivors' struggle to stay alive and be rescued, already told in a bestselling book and feature film, finds new depth and resonance in Stranded: I've Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains. Director Gonzalo Arijón, a childhood friend of some of the survivors, takes them back to the crash site, where they go into agonizing detail as they tell their remarkable, heartbreaking story, aided by re-creations of pivotal events. Florencia De Concillo-Perrin's score adds to the tension, and the film plays out like a gripping procedural, including interviews with people who were leading the rescue effort. Both frightening and exhilarating, Stranded, which has won awards at film festivals all around the world, is an unforgettable documentary about an unforgettable story.
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.
