Mon, Apr 27, 2009
April 27, 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.
E228 BEADLE CENTER, 2PM
African Biofortified Sorghum Project Seminar - "The African Biofortified Sorghum Project - Applying Biotechnology to Develop Nutritionally Improved Sorghum for Africa"
Dr. Rudolf Jung, African Biofortified Sorghum Project. A reception will be held at 1:30 p.m.
237 WALTER SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER, 3PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "Multiscale modeling of impact on heterogeneous viscoelastic solids with evolving microcracks"
PhD Dissertation Defense by Flavio Vasconcelos de Souza
Sheldon Presents 'Evolving Eden,' Showcase Exhibition in Lincoln PhotoFest
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents "Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives," an exhibition of works by artists Arno Minkkinen, Hans Eijkelboom and Edward Burtynsky. Through diverse viewpoints, these contemporary photographers explore our environment and the human effects on its changes.
The exhibition will be on view through May 31. "Evolving Eden" is the showcase exhibition in Lincoln PhotoFest, a communitywide celebration of photography at 20 galleries and museums across the city. Exhibitions on view in PhotoFest range from contemporary, cutting-edge works by local and national photographers to historical retrospectives. Admission to "Evolving Eden" and all PhotoFest exhibitions is free. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
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 cafe. 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.
