Mon, May 25, 2009
May 25-29, 2009
Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference Features Workshops, Readings
The Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be June 13-19 at UNL. The conference offers weekend and week-long workshops in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction writing, and publishing. Registration is open to the public. Fees, faculty information and other details are available on the conference website.
While workshops require registration, panel discussions and readings are free and open to the public, and are scheduled throughout the week. Topics include publishing work, researching historical novels, writing about family, and literature and the visual arts. 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.
'James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking' Opens at Sheldon
Forty etchings and lithographs from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection will be shown together for the first time in "James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking." The exhibition opens May 26 at the museum, 12th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus, and continues on view through Sept. 20.
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.
