For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Feb. 27-29 and March 1: Theatrix presents "Hand to God." Performances are February 27-29 at 7:30 p.m. and March 1 at 2 p.m. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R streets. Tickets may be purchased for $7 online by visiting http://www.unltheatretickets.com or at the door one hour prior to performance in the Lab Theatre’s third floor lobby (cash only; seats subject to availability).
• Feb. 28: IGNITE featuring Ted Schilowitz via Zoom. 10-11 a.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, 13th and Q streets. Free and open to the public. IGNITE is a weekly colloquium for all Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts students, which involve guest lectures, workshops and seminars around creative and professional development. Schilowitz is the first-ever Futurist-in-Residence for Paramount Pictures and a member of the Carson Center's Advisory Council.
• Feb. 28-29: Honors Spring Strings. All-day. Westbrook Music Building and Kimball Recital Hall. Honors Spring Strings is for high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, who will work directly with the Glenn Korff School of Music's award-winning string faculty. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/7mar. Registration deadline is Feb. 13.
• Feb. 29: Clark Potter, viola, and Christopher Marks, organ. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• March 2-13: Statewide High School Invitational Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Closing reception March 13 from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibition is part of the Hixson-Lied College's Nebraska Young Artist Awards visual arts component. Schools were invited to nominate up to three students to participate in the juried exhibition.
• March 4: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by printmaker Josh Winkler. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Winkler focuses on environmental issues connected to history and place. By combining personal experience with historic investigation, he builds landscape narratives that ask viewers to engage the social, political, and environmental contexts of their surroundings.
• March 6: NET's Friday Live radio show will broadcast live from the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, 13th and Q sts. 9-10 a.m. Free and open to the public.
• March 6: Arts Advocacy Day. 5-8 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 13th and Q sts. Free and open to the public. There will be an Arts Advocacy Station, offering information on Nebraskans for the Arts and materials to help participants write letters in support of the arts to their state representatives. There will also be several performances and presentations scheduled throughout the event.
• March 6: Director Amber McGinnis will appear with her movie "International Falls" at the 7:30 p.m. screening for a Q&A with the audience as part of the Geske Cinema Showcase. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. For showtimes and more information, visit http://theross.org.
• March 8: Guest Artist Éva Polgár, piano. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. A graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and Sibelius Academy, Polgár has earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of North Texas. Before joining the piano faculty at Azusa Pacific University, she taught at Texas Woman’s University and at the University of North Texas.
• March 8: Gagaku Japanese Imperial Court Music Concert. 6:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Gagaku, Japanese Imperial Court Music dating back to the 10th century, is still performed today. This performance will feature some of the top Gagaku musicians from the Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan and will be the very first of its kind in the history of Nebraska. The concert will conclude with the World Premiere of Glenn Korff School of Music doctoral student and Hixson-Lied Fellow Susumu Watanabe’s “Concertante for Sho and Jazz Orchestra,” featuring internationally renowned sho soloist Naoyuki Manabe and 16-piece jazz orchestra. The concert is supported by the Glenn Korff School of Music, the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Department of History and the Kawasaki Library at UNL, in addition to Japan Foundation and Tokyo Arts Council.
• March 9: Big Band and Grad Jazz Combo. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• March 10: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• March 11: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the night of the performance for the link.
• March 12: Jazz Orchestra with Guest Artist Dave Rezek and Jazz Singers. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• March 14: Day of Percussion. All-day in Kimball Recital Hall and Westbrook Music Building. Nebraska's largest percussion event of the year will be hosted in the Glenn Korff School of Music. Visit https://go.unl.edu/ohts to register.
• March 15: Afternoon of Choirs. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. Featuring Varsity Chorus, University Chorale and Chamber Singers.
• March 17: Bass Studio Recital. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• March 17: World Percussion Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The Glenn Korff School of Music's Percussion Studio presents a night of global percussion music.
• March 18: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by artist Kristian Bjørnard. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Bjørnard is a professor of graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
• March 18: Flyover New Music. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Flyover New Music Series, aka Flyover New Music, is the new music series from the composition studio at the Glenn Korff School of Music. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the night of the performance for the link.
• March 19: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. Student Soloist Night featuring winners of the 2019-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Solo Competition. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the night of the performance for the link.
• March 23-April 1: Nebraska Young Artist Awards Juried Exhibition. MEDICI Gallery in Richards Hall.
• March 30: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture by art historian Sabine Ladstätter. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Ladstätter is currently director of the Ephesus excavations in Turkey. Sustained by an interdisciplinary research approach, she is involved with economic and landscape archaeology, as well as with the documentation and preservation of archaeological cultural heritage.
• March 30-April 3: Up Next exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. First Friday closing reception on April 3 from 5-7 p.m. A group exhibition featuring 2nd year MFA students Christy Aggens, Chance Allen, Katie Bosley, Matthew Carlson, Isaiah Jones, Julia Leggent, Terry Ratzlaff, Taylor Sijan and Amythest Hultman Warrington.
• March 30: University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the night of the performance for the link.
• March 31: Faculty recital with Mark Clinton, piano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Clinton presents a program titled "The Power of the Tritone." For more on the program, visit https://go.unl.edu/0ago. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the night of the performance for the link.