For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Oct. 7: "Building a Narrative: Production Art and Pop Culture" exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. (with a brief closure each day from 2-2:30 p.m.). Free admission. The exhibition features original artwork from popular films, animated television series, comics and trading cards from local collector Trent Claus (B.F.A. 2006).
• Sept. 28: Seminar by Hixson-Lied Professor of Art Dana Fritz. 3:30 p.m. 107 South (auditorium) Hardin Hall on East Campus. Free and open to the public. Fritz will share photographs from her new book and exhibition "Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape." Over five years, Fritz visited, photographed and researched the forest and tree nursery, as well as the history and ideas that drove what was once the world's largest hand-planted forest. This fascinating and little-known story is especially relevant to our current challenges with climate chaos and biodiversity collapse. The seminar is also available online. Visit https://go.unl.edu/p40c for more information.
• Sept. 28: Flyover New Music Concert. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Sept. 30: Guest Artist: "Words Like Freedom." 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. All the works on the concert are composed by Black artists. The performers include Jamie Reimer, the Richard H. Larson Distinguished Professor of Music (Voice), and guest artists Byron Jones, baritone, and Stacie Haneline, piano. The program includes two world premieres: “Words Like Freedom” by Shawn Okpebholo and “Undoing Poems” by André Myers.
•Oct. 3: Let All Men Sing. All-day. Kimball Recital Hall. Men’s Choirs from the area take part in a festival throughout the day. A festival performance will take place at 7 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 6-15: "The Wilds." 7:30 p.m. Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://go.unl.edu/wilds. Step into the world of The Wilds – a new mixed reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music as emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds fuses live dancers with motion capture technology and real-time animation inspiring a profound bond of a shared, collective experience. Co-created by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Jesse Fleming, acclaimed choreographer Laurel Jenkins and Grammy-nominated producer/composer Lewis Pesacov.
• Oct. 6: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents Bread and Puppet Theatre's "The Apocalypse Defiance Circus." 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. A free public performance, but tickets are required. Reserve yours at https://nebraskarep.org. The historic, Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater travels to Lincoln to present its iconic puppet circus, "The Apocalypse Defiance Circus." The Bread and Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance, and slapstick. The Apocalypse Defiance Circus is a political spectacular, with large-scale puppetry, singing, dancing and a brass band. Directed by Peter Schumann.
• Oct. 7: Closing reception for "Building a Narrative: Production Art and Pop Culture" exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery. 5-7 p.m. Free and open to the public. The exhibition features original artwork from popular films, animated television series, comics and trading cards from local collector Trent Claus (B.F.A. 2006).
• Oct. 7: UNL Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 8: Viola Bash. All-day festival. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Registration is free. Visit https://go.unl.edu/viola-bash to register.
• Oct. 8: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Carolyn Barber, is the university's premier concert band.
• Oct. 11: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Symphonic Band, under the direction of Tony Falcone, is the band program's top symphonic ensemble.
• Oct. 12: Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 13-30: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "ShakesFear at the Haunted Temple." Studio Theatre, 1st floor of the Temple Building. Visit https://nebraskarep.org for showtimes and ticket information. Shows run every 15 minutes. An immersive theatrical experience. Enter the demented mind of William Shakespeare. Go on a harrowing journey to recover one of Shakespeare’s lost plays.
• Oct. 13: University Singers and All-Collegiate Choir. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center, 320 N. 16th St. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 14: Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Singers. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 15: Bass Day. All-day festival. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Hosted by Hixson-Lied Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Studies Hans Sturm. Contact Sturm at hsturm2@unl.edu for more information.
• Oct. 15: Cellobration. All-day festival. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to cellists of all ages. Hosted by Professor of Cello Karen Becker. This year's event features guest cellist Zlatomir Fung, the first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division. To register, visit https://forms.office.com/r/6Q1GDLeuMc.
• Oct. 19: Faculty Recital: Scott Anderson, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 23: Afternoon of Choirs. 4:30 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2110 Sheridan Blvd. in Lincoln. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 23: UNL String Fling with Zachary Carretin. 6 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 26: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture: Dr. Christina Hult-Lewis. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Hult-Lewis is the interim pictorial curator at the Bancroft Library, the special collections library at the University of California Berkeley.
• Oct. 30: Concordia String Trio. 3 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 30: Carson Lecture featuring Pat Hazell and Teresa Ganzel. 3:30 p.m. Swanson Auditorium in the Nebraska Union. Free and open to the public, but free tickets are required due to limited space. Tickets will be available on the Carson School website in October at https://carsonschool.unl.edu. Omaha native Hazell is a comedian and was a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." Ganzel was one of the Mighty Carson Art Players. The Carson Lecture Series was created to connect students and the community with a speaker on campus who worked with Johnny Carson or was influenced by his work in television.
• Oct. 31: Flyover New Music Concert. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.