Fri, Jan 30, 2009
January 30 - February 1, 2009
UNL's Nebraska Repertory Theatre Holds Auditions
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre will hold auditions for its 2009 summer season Saturday, January 31 from noon to 3:00 p.m. in Howell Theatre on the first floor of the Temple Building. Email bbuffum1@unl.edu for a time-slot request between 12:00 & 3:00 p.m. Actors should include name, cell phone number and AEA status.
Actors should prepare one or two pieces, not to exceed THREE minutes total. Pieces should demonstrate both comic ability and show a transformational journey. Following the three minutes, actors should sing 16 bars of a traditional hymn a cappella. No accompanist is provided. Actors should NOT mail or email headshots and/or resumes. For more information about auditions, please go to the auditions and casting link and for complete play descriptions go to the main page at their web site.
Red Cloud Featured in Graduate's Exhibit
The photography of Jeffrey Haller will be featured in "Somewhere in the Middle of America: Life in a Prairie Town," an exhibit showing through Feb. 6th in the Great Plains Art Museum.
The exhibition explores Red Cloud, Neb., hometown to both Haller and writer Willa Cather. Red Cloud has a population of some 1,000 people and is located 18 miles from the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states. Cather highlighted the town’s pioneer existence in "My Antonia" and "O Pioneers!" more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
Unsettling Stripes Focus of New Quilt Exhibition
Arresting, unsettling striped quilts light up the walls this winter in the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "Yikes! Stripes: Eye-Catching Visual Effects in Quilts," is on display through April 5 and features 16 quilts from the center's collection.
Elizabeth Andrews, quilt studies graduate student in the UNL Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, designed the exhibition to show the striped textile surface from new vantage points. Visual, cultural, and historical accounts of the striped surface illuminate the unique nature of the stripe. Zebras, prison uniforms, flags and race cars all feature stripes. The exhibition explores the stripe as it relates to these examples and as it is used in quilting traditions from various cultures. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
N172 NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 3M
Agronomy and Horticulture Friday Seminars - "Learning Together Online"
Jim King, professor, Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication (AGLEC) Refreshments served at 2:30 p.m.
N172 BEADLE CENTER, FRI 3:30PM
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Seminar - "The Effect of Temperature and the Diel Cycle on Protein Expression in the Microbial Mat Community of Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park"
Dr. Laurey Steinke, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC
BESSEY HALL AUDITORIUM, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Tying Up the Ends: Recognition of Single-Stranded DNA at Telomeres"
Professor Deborah Wuttke, University of Colorado at Boulder
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "The Effect of Temperature and the Diel Cycle on Protein Expression in the Microbial Mat Community of Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park"
Dr. Laurey Steinke, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, FRI 4PM
NCUWM Math-Biology - "Feedback Loops in Biology and Climate"
Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Battle For Whiteclay and The Exiles Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Battle For Whiteclay and The Exiles. Both films will screen through February 5.
Forty thousand of the poorest people in America call the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation home. In this impoverished South Dakota community, jobs are scarce. Life expectancy is lower than that of Haiti. The Battle for Whiteclay follows Native American activists Frank LaMere, Duane Martin and Russell Means through the streets of Whiteclay to the halls of Nebraska's State Capitol in their campaign to end alcohol sales in the place Nebraska newspapers have dubbed 'Skid Row on the Prairie.' The film documents a little-known social disaster in which families are torn apart and advocates for the Indian way of life confront state and local authorities. Filmmaker Mark Vasina has devoted 5 years to filming and reporting on this tragic and compelling story.
Selected for the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, The Exiles (1961) is an incredible feature film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of twenty-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured in the writings of Raymond Chandler, John Fante and Charles Bukowski. The structure of the film is that of a narrative feature, the script pieced together from interviews with the documentary subjects.
More information is available at the Ross website.
