This Week, June 7 - 11, 2010
'Fountain Frolics' Summer Concert Series Continues Thursday
The Fountain Frolics summer concert series continues with "The Melody Wranglers" June 10 on the Nebraska Union Plaza. The Melody Wranglers" play old-style country western, swing and honky-tonk music. Their influences include Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Bob Wills, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard.
Fountain Frolics concerts are noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday through July 29 (except July 1). UNL's University Program Council sponsors local musical entertainment and sells a picnic lunch of a hot dog, chips and a Pepsi product for $4 under the north overhang of the Nebraska Union.
'Flowers, Lies and Revolution: Contemporary Cuban Art' at Sheldon
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents "Flowers, Lies and Revolution: Contemporary Cuban Art," on view through July 18. The exhibit features work from Cuban artists from the past three decades. Their work continues a tradition of testing the limits of artistic freedom in Cuban society; the arts especially fell under intense state scrutiny during the 1970s.
Sheldon's "Havana Summer" program schedule celebrates this exhibition. Upcoming events include the June 8 performance of "Jazz in June" featuring Latin music, a June 10 gallery talk with Cuban-born art dealer Nina Menocal and the "Havana Nights" fundraiser June 12. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
The Good, The Bad, The Weird; Mother Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Good, The Bad, The Weird and Mother. Both films will screen through June 17.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
