For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Aug. 29: "Seven Samurai" Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic masterpiece returns to theaters in a 4K restoration celebrating the film’s 70th anniversary.
• Continuing through Aug. 29: "Sugarcane." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. The stunning debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, "Sugarcane" is a cinematic portrait of a community reckoning with ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school.
• Aug. 30-Sept. 5: "Touch." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A widower embarks on an emotional journey to find his first love in this romantic drama based on the Icelandic best-selling novel.
• Aug. 30-Sept. 12: "Widow Clicquot." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. After her husband’s untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their fledgling vineyard, steering the company through dizzying political and revolutionizing the champagne industry.
• Sept. 3-26: "Liu Shiming: Life, Death & In-between" exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon-5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. A panel discussion will take place on Friday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 112 followed by an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. The panelists will include the Liu Shiming Foundation’s curator Fran Kaufman and Professor of Art Santiago Cal. The exhibition is a mini retrospective of Shiming’s work and inaugurates the Liu Shiming Scholar Award at Nebraska—a scholarship that will be given to one School of Art, Art History & Design student each year.
• Sept. 6-19: "Sing Sing." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity and the transformative power of art.
• Sept. 11-22: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Hard-Wired Wonderland," an interactive exhibition created by Assistant Professor of Practice in Emerging Media Arts Jinku Kim. Studio Theatre in the Temple Building. Hours are Sept. 11-13 and Sept. 18-29 and 21 from 5-8 p.m. and Sept. 15 and 22 from 2-5 p.m. For tickets and reservations, visit https://nebraskarep.org.
• Sept. 15: Concordia String Trio. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Sept. 18: Student Night at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Show your student ID to get $1 tickets, popcorn and drinks for all screenings.
• Sept. 18: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Janhavi Khemka. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Khemka is an interdisciplinary artist who works between Santiniketan and Varanasi in India and Chicago. With her impaired hearing, Khemka looks at disability not as a disadvantage, but as a lens through which one can see, understand, and negotiate with the world differently.
• Sept. 21-Oct. 3: "Kneecap." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, "Kneecap" fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue.
• Sept. 25: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Cassandra Pfeifer. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lecture is free and open to the public. Pfeifer is an English instructor at Mid-Plains Community College in McCook, Nebraska. Her research and creative writing specialties are folklore studies, narrative and genre theory, and American literature.
• Sept. 28: Viola Bash. All day. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. For more information, contact Professor Clark Potter at cpotter1@unl.edu.
• Sept. 28: Cellobration. All day. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 132. For more information, contact Professor Karen Becker at kbecker2@unl.edu.
• Sept. 29: Faculty Composition Recital: Tyler White. 3:30 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 concert for the link.
• Sept. 29: Friends of Opera Gala. 6 p.m. Country Club of Lincoln. For information on Friends of Opera, visit https://friendsofopera.org.
• Sept. 29: Public reading of "Dante Under the Desk," a new play by Christina Kirk. 7 p.m. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of Temple Building. Free and open to the public. The play addresses serious matters, including gun violence, mass shootings, substance abuse, suicide and bullying, but has an uplifting message. This reading is made possible through the generous support of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and will feature students in the Carson School.