For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through April 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.
• Continuing through April 25: "My Love Affair With Marriage." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From Signe Baumane, director of "Rocks in My Pockets," comes a new award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the bewildering world.
• 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: 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.
• April 26-May 2: "Vishniac." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Director Laura Bialis’s penetrating documentary looks at the complicated life of the legendary photographer Roman Vishniac, known for his difficult and flamboyant personality and his iconic images of 1930s Eastern European Jewish life.
• 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.
• May 1: "Running Towards The Fire" Free screening and discussion. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. R.S.V.P. for free tickets at https://go.unl.edu/n6b4. Gilbert and Martha Hitchcock Professor of Journalism Barney McCoy and the College of Journalism and Mass Communications present a free premiere screening of the documentary "Running Towards The Fire—A War Correspondent's Story" followed by a panel discussion with McCoy; Assistant Professor of Practice and documentary videographer Kristian Anderson; Award-winning filmmaker and project consultant Christine Lesiak; and Project Consultant, author, military historian and senior archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration Mitch Yockelson. "Running Towards the Fire" vividly captures the pivotal roles war correspondents played during the Allies 1944 D-Day invasion of Europe and subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in 1945.
• May 2: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2110 Sheridan Blvd. Free and open to the public.
• May 3: Percussion Ensemble. 6 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performances for the link.
• May 4: Wind Ensemble. 3:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 with overflow simulcast in Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• May 5: Campus Bands. 3:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 with overflow simulcast in Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• May 6: Opera Scenes. 4:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• May 6: Repertory Jazz Ensemble. 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.
• May 7: Opera Scenes. 6:30 p.m. International Quilt Museum. Free and open to the public.
• May 8: Campus Orchestra. 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.
• May 10: Open Studios. 5-8 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Free and open to the public. Join us for an evening of exploration and experimentation as students in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts share their projects from the spring 2024 semester.
• May 10-11: Clay Club, Printmaking and Photography Spring Sales. Richards Hall Rm. 118. Hours are Friday, May 10 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• May 10-17: Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are May 10-11 from noon to 5 p.m. and May 13-16 from 12:30-4:30 p.m. A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 17 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery with awards presented.
• May 10: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St. Free and open to the public.