Fri, Feb 20, 2009
February 20-22, 2009
Vegetable Gardening Among 2009's Trends
While the winter landscape sleeps in shades of gray and brown, gardeners dream in the colors of spring -- lush green foliage and the vibrant pinks, blues, oranges, yellows, and reds of blossoms.
It will be awhile before gardeners can dig in the dirt but already some gardening trends are emerging: landscape sustainability, native plants in home landscapes, container gardening, and increased interest in vegetable gardening. And this spring, just as in any other year, nurseries will sprout new varieties. more...
IANR NEWS
Theatrix Hosts New Artists Festival
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization is excited to bring back the New Artists Festival, a showcase of some of Lincoln's most exciting young playwrights, directors, and actors. A fully produced celebration of seven 10-Minute plays, the festival combines drama, comedy, absurdist, and physical presentations and includes over thirty student actors and both undergraduate and graduate student designers.
The New Artists Festival will run through February 21 in the Lab Theatre on the 3rd floor of the Temple Building. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m., with an additional performance at 10:30 p.m. on Friday, February 20. Individual show tickets are available for $6 via credit card (some user fees may be applied) at the UNL Tickets website or at the theatre the evening of the performance (subject to availability).
'Exposures of Landscape and Life' photography exhibit at Sheldon
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents "Exposures of Landscape and Life: Photographs from the Permanent Collection" now through May 17.
The exhibition includes photographs by artists who through their work and teachings have influenced the three contemporary photographers -- Arno Minkkinen, Hans Eijkelboom and Edward Burtynsky -- whose artworks are on view in the museum's current exhibition, "Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives." more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
ROOM 24 COLLEGE of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FRI 11:30AM
Anthropology Colloquium Series - "Darwinian Approaches to What You Had for Dinner"
Peter Bleed, Professor of Anthropology
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Ubiquitin-Dependent Negative Regulation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors: Cell Biology and Translational Possibilities"
Professor Hamid Band, from University of Nebraska Medical Center
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Recursive algebras"
Said Sidki of the University of Brasillia, Brazil. The talk will be preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Three Films Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Slumdog Millionaire, Obscene, and The Pool. All three films will screen through February 26.
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...
Obscene is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a tumultuous career of publishing and political engagement that continues to inspire today's defenders of free expression. Not only was he the first American publisher of acclaimed authors Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X, but he also battled the government in the highest courts to overrule the obscenity ban on groundbreaking works of fiction such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch. Ultimately he won and altered the course of history, but not without first enduring lawsuits, death-threats, grenade attacks, government surveillance, and the occupation of his premises by enraged feminists.
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a "room boy" working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants-indeed about the world around him-and his curiosity changes the shape of his future. Remarkably cogent and affecting, this is inspired storytelling distinctive for its ability to transmit a complete viewpoint in just a phrase or brief conversation. Working in Hindi with young actors and in a country obviously not his own, Smith has nevertheless created a superbly incisive portrait that will take a place on a global stage.
More information is available at the Ross website.
