Fri, May 22, 2009
May 22-24, 2009
'Data & Donuts' Offers Summer Session
The Bureau of Sociological Research and the Survey, Statistics, and Psychometrics Core Facility, and Nebraska Evaluation and Research Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the first Data, Donuts, Survey and Solutions summer session May 22 at UNL.
Academic, state and nonprofit researchers are invited to the free, drop-in summer session 10 a.m. to noon May 22 in Room 104 Benton Hall. Benton Hall is in the northeast corner of Selleck Quadrangle, 15th Street between S and U streets. The event is open to anyone looking to develop a research project. Refreshments (donuts and coffee) will be provided. more...
Introducing the Future Design of UNL.edu
A process within the UNL Web Developer Network to create a refreshed and reimagined UNL.edu has culminated in a reference design, presented to WDN last week. The design is currently being coded into a new version of UNL site templates and is set for release on August 17, one week prior to the beginning of fall semester. Read more about the new design here.
'American Quilts in Modern Age' Opens May 23 at Quilt Museum
The quilts featured in the International Quilt Study Center and Museum's new exhibition, "American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940," showcase diverse examples of quilters' creations from a time of disenchantment with modern life. The exhibition will be on view May 23 through Nov. 15 at the museum, 1523 N. 33rd St.
The exhibition will open on the heels of publication of a book with the same title published by the University of Nebraska Press. It is the first of a series (funded in part by the Getty Foundation of Los Angeles) of major catalogues of the center's collection, featuring more than 500 quilts and more than 800 full color images. For more information on the book visit The Nebraska Press website. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Pope's Toilet, and Know Your Mushrooms Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Pope's Toilet and Know Your Mushrooms Both films will screen through May 28.
Bouncing between moments of humor and gentle drama, The Pope's Toilet is set in the late 1980s in a small town that is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Pope John Paul II. While the swell of visitors promises to be a boon for the local economy, smalltime crook Beto (César Troncoso) thinks he has figured out a unique way to capitalize on the pope's visit: charge a fee for the visitors to use a toilet on his front lawn. Of course, not everything goes according to Beto's creative plan, and The Pope's Toilet resolves in an unexpected way. Co-produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God), this film was Uruguay's submission to the 2008 Oscars.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Go Further and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, Know Your Mushrooms. Inspired by a chance conversation with fellow filmmaker and mushroom buff Jim Jarmusch, Mann set off to the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado. It was there he encountered the unique sub-sub-subculture surrounding fungi that includes an unlikely assortment of nerds, nuts, hipsters, tripsters, artists, chefs, musicians, foodies, foragers, and seekers all paying homage to the mighty mushroom. The film follows uber-myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.
More information is available at the Ross website.
