Tue, Feb 17, 2009
February 17, 2009
Rotunda Gallery Hosts CRITO
CRITO examines the nature of communication in a world susceptible to breakdowns, corruption, and misnomers. Trained as a sculptor and painter, Edward Sharp uses a variety of medium to present an interwoven experience of video, object, installation, and concept.
The show will be up the week of February 16-20 at the Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday and a closing reception is planned for Friday the 20th from 5-8 p.m. Edward Sharp received a Hixson-Lied Creative Research Grant and is mentored by faculty Santiago Cal.
NEBRASKA UNION, 3PM
Black History Month Event - Oasis Lecture - "Lincoln in Black and White: The Photography of John Johnson, 1910-1925"
Ed Zimmer, Historic Preservation Planner for the Lincoln Planning Department
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Cellulose Digestion in Insects: Harnessing Potential of Biofuel Production"
Sek Yee Tan, Entomology Graduate Student. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Lied Center Presents "To Kill A Mockingbird"
The Montana Repertory Theatre presents a poignant production of the American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, reigniting the resonance of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Fifteen actors and a crew of seven will bring a compelling performance to the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., with a student matinee performance at 12:00 p.m.
Tickets for this performance are $36 and $26; student matinee tickets are $4. University of Nebraska–Lincoln students with a valid I.D., as well as youth age 18 and younger, may purchase tickets for half price. Call the Lied Ticket Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability. Regular ticket office hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. Tickets may also be purchased online at the Lied Center website.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Three Films Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Slumdog Millionaire, Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father, and Ballast. All three films will screen through February 19.
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...
Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's excruciatingly powerful documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father, begins as a memorial to a lost friend, Andrew Bagby, who was brutally murdered in 2001 by a crazed ex-girlfriend. Yet as Kuenne traveled the globe to interview friends and family of the beloved young doctor, Bagby's killer, Shirley Turner, fled to Newfoundland to escape arrest. Under the backwards protection of the Canadian law, she was allowed to remain free; during that time, she revealed that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. A deeply personal home video memoir, a true crime thriller, an impassioned plea for judicial reform, and an ode to two of the most heroic, loving parents the screen has ever seen, Dear Zachary is painful viewing, but it is also nonfiction filmmaking at its most vital and important.
Winner of numerous prizes at prestigious film festivals all around the world, including Sundance, San Francisco, and Buenos Aires, Ballast is a stunning, emotionally powerful feature-film debut from Lance Hammer, who wrote, directed, and edited the film and served as one of the producers. Although there was a script, the dialogue was mostly improvised, and Hammer uses only natural sound and light, heightening the reality of the hard lives these people lead. Ballast is a bold, brutal work, filled with pain and honesty, violence and warmth, offering no easy answers.
More information is available at the Ross website.
