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• Continuing through March 28: "Four Daughters." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood, Four Daughters reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and performance.
• Continuing through March 28: "One Life." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. "One Life" tells the incredible true story of Nicholas “Nicky” Winton, a young London broker who helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in a race against time before Nazi occupation closes the borders on the verge of World War II. Fifty years later, Nicky (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of those he wasn’t able to bring to safety.
• Continuing through April 3: "The Arc of Oblivion." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From executive producer Werner Herzog and director Ian Cheney, "The Arc of Oblivion" illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.
• Continuing through April 5: MFA Thesis Exhibition: Christopher Williams (ceramics). Lux Center for the Arts, 2601 N. 48th St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A closing reception will take place on Friday, April 5 from 5-8 p.m. at the Lux Center. Both Casey Beck and Christopher Williams will present artist talks on Friday, April 5 starting at 4 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. There will also be a live performance at the Lux Center on Saturday, March 30 at 3 p.m.
• March 27: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Isabel Barbuzza. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Barbuzza is professor in the sculpture and intermedia program in the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History. As a sculptor, she works in installations, objects and site-specific; she is interested in the power of materiality and the narratives that accompany them.
• March 27: Guest Artist: Sohee Kwon, 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 event for the link.
• March 28: Bass Studio Recital. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• March 29-April 3: "32 Sounds." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. An immersive feature documentary and sensory film experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
• March 29-April 4: "Io Capitano." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Academy Award Nominee for Best International Feature Film, writer-director Matteo Garrone’s "Io Capitano" examines the immigration experience through a treacherous, cinematographically epic odyssey from West Africa to Italy.
• April 1-5: MFA Exhibition II and "Blue Horizons" exhibition in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Beck will present an artist talk on Friday, April 5 at 4 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. A closing reception will be held Friday, April 5 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. MFA Thesis Exhibition II features the work of Casey Beck (ceramics). "Blue Horizons" showcases the work of five second-year MFA candidates in painting, printmaking, photography and ceramics as they delve into interdisciplinary materials. Participating in the exhibition are Sara Alfieri, Dominique Ellis, Angelica Tapia Estrada, Charlotte Middleton and Alex Renbarger.
• April 2: Horn Bootcamp. 1-6 p.m. Westbrook Music Building, room to be announced. Free and open to the public.
• April 3: Nebraska Young Artist Awards Day. All-day at various locations. The awards ceremony will be at 3:15 p.m. in Sheldon Museum of Art. Eighty students from more than 40 high schools in Nebraska will be recognized at this day of activities. The Nebraska Young Artist Awards annually recognize Nebraska high school juniors who are talented in art, music, dance, theatre, or film and emerging media.
• April 3: AIA Lecture: Mont Allen, associate professor of classics and art history at Southern Illinois University. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Allen's lecture is titled "When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi."
• April 5: Guest Artist: Scott Tixier, French jazz violinist. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Meadowlark Music Festival, in collaboration with the Glenn Korff School of Music and Lincoln Public Schools present this concert with five-time Grammy winner Tixier. Tixier will give workshops for students in the Glenn Korff School of Music and seven LPS high schools during his visit.
• April 5-18: "Wicked Little Letters." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.
• April 6: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St. Free and open to the public.
• April 8: Soprano-Alto Choral Festival. 6:30 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St. Free and open to the public.
• April 8: Jazz Combos. 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.
• April 10: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Kim Dorland. 5:30 p.m. The lecture will be via Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/98942017687. The Zoom lecture is free and open to the public. Dorland lives and works in Toronto. He pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. Drawing heavily from the Canadian landscape and his huge appetite for the history and language of painting, the loose yet identifiable scenes are interjected with areas of heavy abstract impasto. His refusal to remain faithful to one medium or approach plays into the symbiotic nature of his work.
• April 11-14: Evenings of Dance. 7:30 p.m. April 11-13 and 2 p.m. April 14. Lied Center’s Johnny Carson Theater. Tickets are $12 general admission and $7 for students/youth and are available online at https://go.unl.edu/gksomtickets. The April 12 performance will be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performances for the link. There will be a Post-Performance Meet and Greet following the April 13 performance at Screamers Dining Cabaret, 803 Q St. See the April 13 calendar entry for more details.
• April 12-18: "Bad Press." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring their free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian Country. Producer Tyler Graim will join the audience for a Q&A following the 7:30 p.m. screening on Friday, April 12. Presented by Friends of the Ross and The Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase.
• April 12-18: "Call Me Dancer." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A street dancer from Mumbai struggles against his parents’ insistence that he follow a traditional path. Then he meets a curmudgeonly ballet master, who inspires him to follow his dreams.
• April 13: Evenings of Dance Post-Performance Meet and Greet. Screamers Dining Cabaret, 803 Q St. in Lincoln. Following the 7:30 p.m. Evenings of Dance concert. UNL alumnae Shelley Bracken Fritz, Kari Swanson Neth and Cary Twomey invite you immediately following the 7:30 p.m. Evenings of Dance performance for light hors d'oeuvres, fresh conversation, and time to connect with and hear from alumni and current dance students. Support the UNL Dance Program by making a gift at https://go.unl.edu/wzhf. For more information, contact unldancealumni@gmail.com.
• April 14: Symphonic Band. 3:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119 with a simulcast available for overflow in Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• April 15-19: MFA Exhibition III. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public. The exhibition features the work of Jewelya Coffey (painting and drawing) and Matthew Meyer (sculpture). They will present artist talks on Friday, April 19 at 4 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. A closing reception will be held on Friday, April 19 from 5-7pm in the gallery.
• April 17: UNL String Project Spring Concert. 5:30 p.m. Park Middle School, 855 S. 8th St. Free and open to the public.
• April 19: Phi Mu Alpha’s American Music Festival. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• April 19-25: "The Monk and the Gun." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In this gentle fable from Bhutan, an American gun collector and a young monk match wits over what will happen to an antique rifle, against the backdrop of the country’s first modernizing election in 2006.
• April 20: Chamber Singers. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performances for the link.
• April 21: 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 performances for the link.
• April 22: Flyover V. 7:30 p.m. Location to be announced. Free and open to the public.
• April 23: Guest Lecture by Emily C. Burns. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Burns' lecture is titled "Building Black Histories and Futures through Diorama: Architectural Models on Exhibition, 1900-1940." Burns is director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma.
• April 23: Chamberfest Concert No. 1. 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 performances for the link.
• April 24: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art and multimedia installation. Fazlalizadeh, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. She makes site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women and Black folks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments.
• April 24: Jazz Singers. 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 performances for the link.
• April 25: Chamberfest Concert No. 2. 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 performances for the link.
• April 25-May 4: Nebraska Repertory Theatre in partnership with the Glenn Korff School of Music presents “Big Fish.” Howell Theatre in the Temple Building. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://nebraskarep.org. “Big Fish” is a fantastical musical that revolves around the extraordinary life of Edward Bloom, a charismatic storyteller with a penchant for embellishment. As his son, Will, attempts to separate fact from fiction, the musical takes the audience on a magical journey through a world of tall tales, love and reconciliation while celebrating the power of imagination. Directed by Ann Marie Pollard.
• April 26-May 9: "The Beast." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Visually audacious director Bertrand Bonello ("Saint Laurent," "Nocturama") fashions his most accomplished film to date: a sci-fi epic following Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) as she relives romances from her past lives to learn from their mistakes.
• April 27: Chamberfest Concert No. 3. 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 performances for the link.
• April 29: Horn and Trumpet Ensembles. 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 performances for the link.
• April 30: Jazz Orchestra. 7 p.m. Storm Cellar, 3233 S. 13th St. Free and open to the public.
• April 30: University Singers. 7:30 p.m. First Plymouth Congregational Church, 2000 D. St. Free and open to the public.
• April 26: Honors Day Celebration. 5 p.m. Embassy Suites Hotel. By invitation only. The Honors Day Celebration will recognize the achievements of students, faculty/staff and alumni.