For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Sept. 1: "Mundos Enteros [Entire Worlds]: Selections from the Gloria Rodriguez Calero Collection of Puerto Rican Works on Paper at the Sheldon Museum of Art." Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. There will be a closing reception on Friday, Sept. 1 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. This bilingual exhibition of 25 prints, posters and conceptual artworks by Caribbean artists, ranging in date from 1957 to 2007, was organized by student curators in Assistant Professor of Art History Katie Anania's class, AHIS 805: Curatorial Methods in an Art Museum.
• Aug. 25: Lied Center's Big Red Experience free outdoor concert with Maude Latour. Food Trucks at 6:30 p.m. Concert at 8 p.m. 12th and R streets outside the Lied Center. Free and open to the public. Every August, the Lied Center's Big Red Experience kicks off the new school year with a free concert featuring a rising star. This year, the concert is outside, and the community is invited. Enjoy food trucks, including Made It Myself Shaved Ice, 402 Creamery and Papi Churros. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter Latour signed her first record deal, graduated from Columbia University, amassed a passionate fanbase, and appeared on the cover of the "Chicago Tribune" and in the pages of "The New York Times." The whole time, she's been honing her craft, pushing herself to tackle uncomfortable truths and blow open the idea of what a pop song can be. For more information, visit https://www.liedcenter.org/event/big-red-lied-experience-maude-latour.
• Aug. 26-27: Theatrix presents a 24-Hour Play Festival. Visit https://www.unl.edu/theatrix or on Instagram @unl_theatrix for more information.
• Sept 1: First Friday featuring UNL Dance. 6 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Free and open to the public.
• Sept. 1-14: "Past Lives" by Celine Song. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. "Past Lives" is the story of two deeply connected childhood friends who are reunited two decades later in New York for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make life in this heartrending modern romance.
• Sept. 6: Amicitia Duo featuring Diane Barger and Denise Gainey with Mark Clinton, piano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Sept. 7: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Arely Morales, painter. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Born in Jalisco, Mexico, and now based in East Texas, Morales explores issues related to identity, humanity and the vulnerability of the Latinx immigrant community in the United States. Through her large-scale portraits, she investigates the emotional complexity and psychological depth of the struggles and experiences that often go unseen.
• Sept. 8-21: "War Pony." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Stunning, tender and utterly compelling, "War Pony" tells the interlocking stories of two Oglala Lakota men coming of age on the Pine Ridge Reservation. "War Pony" is the directorial debut of Riley Keough and Gina Gammell.
• Sept. 15-21: "Close to Vermeer." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Award-winning director Suzanne Raes gives us a unique insight into the realization of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever.
• Sept. 20: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Ben Moore. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Moore is an associate professor of art at Luther College in Iowa. He makes two-dimensional, mixed-media works based on perceptions of reality and time travel.
• Sept. 21: Bach's Lunch. 12:30 p.m. St. Mark's on the Campus. Free and open to the public.
• Sept. 22-28: "Lola." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. With World War II escalating the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, with world-altering consequences.
• Sept. 22-Oct. 5: "Passages." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them begins a passionate affair with a younger woman.
• Sept. 27: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Sandra Fabara (Lady Pink). 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Lady Pink is the pioneer of female graffiti writing. For more than 35 years, she has been working as a graffiti artist, inspiring many young women and men to pursue the life of self-expression and creativity.
• Sept. 27: Flyover I. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series presented by composition students in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. The series is administered and overseen by composition faculty and students.
• Sept. 28: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Location to be announced. Free and open to the public.
• Sept. 28-Oct. 7: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Sense and Sensibility." Howell Theatre. For tickets and showtimes, visit https://nebraskarep.org. By Kate Hamill. Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
• Sept. 29-Oct. 12: "Radical Wolfe." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A deeply personal and illuminating look at the life of journalist Tom Wolfe.