For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Nov. 10: "Material Joy" exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. "Material Joy" features works from the collection of Lincoln collectors Sue and Tom Tallman.
• Continuing through Oct. 26: "Our Body." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations in the gynecology ward of a public hospital in Paris.
• Continuing through Nov. 2: "Fremont." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.
• Oct. 25: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Christine Hult-Lewis. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Her lecture is titled “A New Kind of Evidence: Landscape Photography in the Courtroom in the American West." Hult-Lewis is the interim pictorial curator at the Bancroft Library, the special collections library at the University of California Berkeley. She co-authored the award-winning “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs” (Getty, 2011). Hult-Lewis has taught classes on the history of photography and photographs of the American West at Boston University and the University of California Berkeley, and she has written on 19th century culture and photography.
• Oct. 25: Dr. Vanessa Cornett presents "A Presentation About Nothing." 11:30 a.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 114. This presentation is open to Hixson-Lied College of Fine and performing Arts faculty. Many contemplative traditions focus on the importance of “nothing,” the empty spaces in between perceived “somethings.” Musicians understand the power of rests as having weight and presence. Imagination is often sparked in moments of stillness. Yet, our attention is frequently hijacked, and we are conditioned to believe that we are only valuable when we are productive. This session is designed to challenge cultural assumptions, inspire healthy resistance, and help improve our creativity and well-being. Cornett is professor of piano and piano pedagogy at the University of St. Thomas and author of the book, "The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance."
• Oct. 26: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 with additional seating available in 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.
• Oct. 27-Nov. 2: "Uncharitable." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A one-of-a-kind movie that shows how our charitable traditions and prejudices have suffocated the charitable sector and prevented it from leading the charge to truly change the world.
• Oct. 29: Afternoon of Choirs. 3 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2110 Sheridan Blvd. in Lincoln. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 30: Repertory Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 31: Don Gorder presents "The Business of Music—Creator to Consumer." 2-3:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Gorder (B.M. 1973) is chair emeritus and the former chair and founder of the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee College of Music. He is an attorney, educator and musician.
• Oct. 31: Flyover II. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building 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.
• Nov. 1: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 with additional seating available in 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.
• Nov. 3-9: "The Royal Hotel." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. After taking a temporary live-in job in a remote Outback mining town, Americans Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
• Nov. 3-16: "The Persian Version." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Leila is an Iranian American woman who strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures. When her large family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, she keeps everyone at arm’s length—until a secret is revealed.
• Nov. 6: Horn and Trumpet Studio Recital. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 7: Book talk featuring Hixson-Lied Professor of Art Dana Fritz. 11 a.m. The Mill at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Fritz will discuss her book, "Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape," an exploration of the Bessey Ranger District and Nursery of the Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands in north central Nebraska. She also will display her photographs, which are among the last images captured before the fall 2022 wildfires near Halsey. "Field Guide" was published in 2023 by the University of Nebraska Press. Part of Nebraska Research Days. Registration is required: https://go.unl.edu/n3pe.
• Nov. 9-18: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play." Howell Theatre. For tickets and showtimes, visit https://nebraskarep.org. "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play," by Anne Washburn, is a darkly humorous exploration of the power of storytelling and its evolution in a post-apocalyptic world. Set in a future where civilization has crumbled, survivors gather to retell episodes from "The Simpsons," which provides solace and connection. Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre David Long.
• Nov. 9: Faculty Recital: Karen Becker, cello, and Mark Clinton, piano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building 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.
• Nov. 10-22: "Anatomy of a Fall." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. When her husband Samuel is found dead at their remote mountain home, Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of their conflicted relationship.
• Nov. 12: Faculty Recital: William McMullen, oboe. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building 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.
• Nov. 13-15: ChamberFest Concerts. 7:30 p.m. each night. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concerts will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performances for the link.
• Nov. 18: World Premiere Reading "A House Divided," a new play by Professor of Theatre Christina Kirk. 2 p.m. Studio Theatre. Free and open to the public. "A House Divided" confronts distressing choices facing Abraham Lincoln that threaten to unravel his family and the country during a week in 1863 when Mary Lincoln’s half-sister, Emilie Todd Helm, visits the White House. Emilie, a fiercely loyal Confederate, refuses to pledge allegiance to the union when trying to cross the border to return to Kentucky after her Confederate husband’s death in battle. Unsure of what else to do, Lincoln suggests the soldiers send Emilie to the White House.
• Nov. 19: Saxophone Quartets. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building 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.
• Nov. 29: UNL-LPS String Project Winter Concert. 5:30 p.m. Park Middle School in Lincoln. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 30: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture with Terry James Conrad, assistant professor and program head of printmaking at the University of Iowa. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Conrad is an Iowa Print Media Faculty Fellow and also serves as the University of Iowa liaison to Frogman’s Print Workshops. Conrad’s work often revolves around scientific collaborations and tool making.
• Nov. 30: Jazz Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Location to be announced. Free and open to the public.