Fri, Apr 24, 2009
April 24-26, 2009
Energy Usage Calculator Launches
Furthering our commitment to use resources wisely, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces the launch of an Energy Usage Calculator.
The Chancellor's Commission on Sustainability and the Office of University Communications have built this tool to help add up your current usage, figure out where you can reduce your energy use, and help you let your office friends know what you are doing to help the Big Red go green.
Theatrix Presents Kung Fu Hamlet
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSTF), closes out its 2008/2009 season with an over-the-top adaptation of Shakespeare's epic tragedy in Kung Fu Hamlet. In the play, the Prince of Denmark seeks high-flying, judo-chopping revenge for the murder of his father in this ridiculous, yet appropriate variation on the original. Includes extensive stage combat sequences and traditional kung fu voice over-dubbing.
Kung Fu Hamlet will play at the Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building. Show times are Friday April 24th at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Saturday April 25th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday April 26th at 2:00 p.m. Individual Show Tickets are $6 (some user fees may be applied) at UNL Theatre Tickets website or at the theatre the evening of performance (subject to availability).
UNL Print Sale Continues
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art and Art History and Lincoln Print Group will hold a print sale April 23-25, 2009, in Richards Hall Room 121 (conference room) on the UNL city campus. Hours for the sale are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, April 24; and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 25.
Original etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, monoprints, digital, mezzotints and screenprints from faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the UNL Department of Art and Art History will be on sale. Prints of all sizes, media and prices will be available. There will also be a benefit raffle to support the Lincoln Print Group.
E-Week Wraps Up With Open House and Speaker
E-Week at the UNL College of Engineering wraps up with an open house on Friday, April 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Othmer Hall. This 95-year tradition features lab tours, senior design project presentations, and student groups' innovations, this year including a bike that generates electricity, an in-shoe pedometer, and "Big Red Rover," a rock-collecting robot patterned after NASA's Mars Rover. Current and prospective students and their families, alumni, employers and the community are welcome at this free event.
As part of the event, Omaha Public Power District CEO Gary Gates will deliver the keynote address at 10:30 a.m. in 106 Othmer Hall. Gates will speak about the future of power generation and how engineering will help shape it.
E-WEEK
1909 Ford B tractor featured at Larsen Tractor Test Museum open house
The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have its annual open house 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 25. This event is free and open to the public.
This open house commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1909 Minneapolis Ford B tractor, which prompted the creation of the Nebraska Tractor Test Law of 1919 by Nebraska legislator William Crozier. This law stipulates that tractors sold in the state of Nebraska must first pass performance testing to be conducted by the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Nebraska. more...
NEBRASKA UNION, 1:30PM
Sustainability Panel Discussion : Focus the Nation - "Five Domains of Sustainability and Lincoln's Future"
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Fados, Everlasting Moments Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Fados, Everlasting Moments. Both films will show through May 7.
Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave of modern faudistas, he ingeniously deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting effects, and lush colors to frame each song, ranging from a campfire ringed by sinuous dancers to a balletic catfight between two jealous women to a thrilling desgarrada (musical duel) in a fado café. The result is a ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers.
Inspired by a true story, Everlasting Moments focuses on Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen), a Finnish mother and housewife who devotes all of her attention, care, and consideration to the well-being of her family. Not that her dockworker husband, Sigge (Mikael Persbrandt), particularly deserves such consideration; a brutish, alcoholic lout, his evenings consist of making life hell for Maria and their daughter with tyrannical, abusive behavior. As the dockworkers go on strike and the family's economic situation plummets, a ray of hope appears, in the form of a Contessa camera won in a local lottery. Unsurprisingly, Maria at first attempts to pawn it to reel in extra monies, but store owner Sebastian Pedersen convinces her otherwise; he teaches her how to use it, and she begins taking gorgeous, haunting photographs with the unaffected, instinctive perceptions of a young child. As the woman's self-discovery builds and her identity takes on form and definition, Sebastian unofficially takes her on as a protegee. Meanwhile, Sigge's life falls to pieces when the authorities connect him with the catastrophic explosion of a British vessel. - All Movie Guide
More information is available at the Ross website.
