This Week, May 24 - 28, 2010
Lied Center, Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium Win NEA grant
The Lied Center for Performing Arts and the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have been awarded an Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for their activities in 2010-11.
With the $25,000 grant, the Lied Center and IAS will explore new perspectives on diversity via a series of performances and educational activities -- onstage and off, within the university and across the community. more...
Lectures
QUILT STUDY CENTER, TUE NOONTuesday Talk: ""Collecting and Researching South Asian Seams: A 2010 Journey to India"
Marin Hanson, Curator of Exhibitions
Registration Open for Nebraska Summer Writers Conference at UNL
Since 2001, the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference has brought some of the nation's most acclaimed authors and influential publishing professionals to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Registration is open for the 2010 conference, June 12-18 on the UNL campus, featuring workshops in poetry, novels, short fiction, memoir, cartoon, children's books and publishing.
The conference will also offer "dialogues" with visiting authors. These will be informal gatherings at various locations, in which authors will read from their work, discuss their influences and answer questions about their poetry, fiction or memoirs. These dialogues are free and open to the public. For more information or to register for the conference, visit the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference website.
(l-r) Matt Buxton, Aaron James, Charlie Litton
UNL Students Selected for News21 Carnegie-Knight Fellowships
Three students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications will participate in a 10-week national reporting project this summer as part of the prestigious News21 fellowship sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The students are Matt Buxton of Portland, Ore., Aaron James of Lincoln and Charlie Litton of Omaha. They join 100 students from 11 other universities who were enrolled in seminars this spring to prepare for the summer reporting project. more...
Maxwell Arboretum Walking Tours Continue on Tuesdays This Summer
Due to popular demand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Gardens' informal walking tours of the Earl G. Maxwell Arboretum on UNL's East Campus will continue through the summer. The tour schedule will shift from weekly to twice a month: the second and fourth Tuesdays, noon to 1 p.m.
Participants should meet at the Karl Loerch Gazebo, just off Holdrege Street one block east of the UNL Dairy Store. Some metered parking is available on the East Campus Loop south of the arboretum. In the event of rain, that week's tour will be canceled. The next regularly scheduled tour will be May 25. Other summer dates are June 8 and 22, July 13 and 27, and Aug. 10 and 24. more...
The Girl On The Train, The Secret of Kells Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Girl On The Train and The Secret of Kells. Both films will screen through May 27.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
