Wed, Jul 22, 2009
July 20-24, 2009
Repertory Theatre Season Continues With Anatomy Of Gray
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the professional wing of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, continues its season with Anatomy Of Gray. This play will have performances July 22, 23, 25, and 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Howell Theatre. Tickets for the performance are $10 for students, $18 for faculty/staff, and $20 general admission. They can be purchased at the Lied Center Ticket Office (402) 472-4747 or toll free at 800-432-3231.
Award-winning playwright Jim Leonard's Anatomy Of Gray follows a 15-year-old girl from the mythical Gray, Indiana in the 1880s as a mysterious balloonist arrives in town and shakes up the small community. More information and ticket purchases are available on the Repertory Theatre website.
Academic Planning Committee Budget Hearings Set
The APC has announced a tentative schedule for Budget Hearings on proposed budget reductions, with hearings scheduled for July 30 and Sept. 18 (1-5 p.m. tentative times). The task of the APC is to review the Chancellor's proposed cuts in light of their probable impact on the university's academic mission and approve them or suggest other ways of meeting the budget reduction goal. To accomplish this task, the APC welcomes information from all who may be affected by the proposed reductions.
Information may be presented to the APC in person during scheduled budget hearings on July 30 or Sept. 18. Anyone wanting to appear at the July 30 hearing should notify the APC by 3 p.m. July 20. The APC will also consider written information about the impact of the budget reductions by contacting the Academic Planning Committee c/o Dr. William Nunez, APC Secretary, 332 Canfield Administration Building, 0435 or wnunez2@unl.edu. For more information about the APC hearing process, visit the APC Tentative Dates and Items - Phase Three of the UNL Budget Reduction Process document.
Libraries Assist ESPN's Lou Gehrig Letters Project
Librarians and archivists are always called on to help bring documents and their history to life. But Katherine "Kay" Walter - a baseball fanatic - recently had a chance to help give a baseball legend a new voice.
Working with ESPN.com’s reporters and producers on a special archiving and digitization project on Lou Gehrig’s last letters, Walter and UNL libraries’ expertise helped ESPN create an interactive digital archive of the baseball legend’s personal correspondence that captivated ESPN.com’s Web site visitors. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, TUE NOON
Tuesday Talk: "Meet the Makers"
Director, Dr. Patricia Crews
Louis Crompton
Louis Crompton, noted scholar of 19-century British literature and a pioneer of gay studies, died July 11 in El Cerrito, Calif.
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Donald L. Gregory
Donald L. Gregory 71, director of Division of General Studies, died July 17.
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Movies On The Green Continues With Sahara
Every Thursday night through Aug. 13, a movie that debuted from 1937 through 1946 will be screen on the lawn in front of Kimball Recital Hall, 12th and R Streets. The movies will begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.) and are free and open to the public.
This week, the film will be "Sahara" (1943), directed by Zoltan Korda. Starring Humphrey Bogart, this black-and-white World War II action classic follows the desperate retreat of a tank battalion across the Sahara Desert. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Lemon Tree and Moon Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Lemon Tree and Moon. Both films will screen through July 23.
Lemon Tree is Eran Riklis' (The Syrian Bride, Cup Final) engaging human drama of one woman's struggle to preserve her way of life in the midst of political turmoil. The wonderful Hiam Abbass (The Visitor) is Salma, a Palestinian widow who earns her living tending to her late father's lemon grove. When an Israeli government minister moves next door and declares the grove a potential security threat, Salma struggles to defend her peaceful livelihood. Personal drama gives way to political controversies as Salma forms an unexpected bond with the minister's lonely wife (Rona Lipaz-Michael), and takes her protest - with the help of her young lawyer (Ali Suliman, Paradise Now) - all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court.
Moon takes place in the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Suddenly, Sam's health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a "support crew" on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plans.
More information is available at the Ross website.
