Mon, Feb 02, 2009
February 2, 2009
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Haydn-Mendelssohn Chamber Festival
The UNL School of Music will celebrate the Haydn-Mendelssohn Chamber Festival with a performance by faculty artists in Kimball Recital hall at 7:30 p.m. The repertoire will include Sonata No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 65, No. 6, Sonata in C minor for Viola and Piano (1824), and String Quartet in Eb major, Op. 12.
Tickets for the recital are $3 for student/senior and $5 for general admission. They will be available at the door approximately one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Alexander Calder Sculptures on View at Sheldon Museum of Art
This winter Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents six sculptures by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in the Great Hall. Three pieces are from Sheldon's permanent collection: "Snake on Arch," "Sumac II" and "Red Disk, Black Lace." Three small sculptures, "Canine," "Cello Player" and "Slender Ribs" are on loan from a private collection. Five Calder posters are also on view in the Sheldon board room.
Calder is one of the 20th century's most acclaimed and innovative sculptors. Calder helped to redefine sculpture by adding the element of play. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
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.
