For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Nov. 28: "Rumors." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, "Rumors" follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
• Dec. 2: Flyover III. 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 concert for the link.
• Dec. 2-6: Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Free admission.
• Dec. 3: Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights Concert. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center for Performing Arts. Tickets available at the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or https://www.liedcenter.org. It’s show time as the Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights Concert returns to the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Come experience the sights and sounds of the Pride of all Nebraska as they perform halftime shows from the 2024 season, their Pre-game Spectacular and much more.
• Dec. 4: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130 with a simulcast in Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Wind Ensemble presents a program that celebrates homecoming from a different perspective. Each piece on the program is colored by, or is a direct expression of, the composer’s heritage and, thereby, a reflection and consideration of their home.
• Continuing through Dec. 5: "Anora." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner "Anora" is an audacious, thrilling and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story following a young sex worker from Brooklyn who impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch.
• Continuing through Dec. 5: "Bird." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From director Andrea Arnold, "Bird" is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society.
• Dec. 5-8: Theatrix presents "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley. Performances are Dec. 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. Lab Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building. Tickets are $7 general admission and $5 students available online only at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/unltheatreandfilm/7104. Theatrix is the student-run theatre company of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.
• Dec. 6-7: Student Dance Project. 7:30 p.m. each night in Howell Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building. Tickets for the performance are $10 general admission and $5 for students/seniors and are available in advance only online at https://go.unl.edu/gksomtickets.
• Dec. 6-12: "Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. "Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion" showcases the six-decade career of award-winning costume designer Bob Mackie, known for his iconic fashions worn by Carol Burnett, Cher, Tina Turner, and more. There will be a movie talk with Michael Burton and Kylin Flothe from UNL's Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design following the 2:15 p.m. screening on Sunday, Dec. 8, presented by Friends of The Ross.
• Dec. 6-19: "Flow." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A wondrous animated journey through realms natural and mystical, "Flow" follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood.
• Dec. 7: Nebraska Steel. 3:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 132. Free and open to the public. Nebraska Steel presents a concert titled "Cookie Decorating and Hot Chocolate Holiday Fundraiser." The concert will include a hot chocolate bar, where audience members can pay $3 per cup of hot chocolate, which also includes various additions such as candy cane, chocolate chips and marshmallows. The program includes “Sarah” by Len “Boogie” Sharp; “I Shot the Sheriff,” arranged by Brad Shores; “Cedar Fever” by Dave Walton; and a Chappell Roan mashup, among others. The second half of the concert will include different holiday tunes, including a sing-a-long.
• Dec. 8: "Welcome All Wonders" holiday choral concert. 2:30 and 7 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church. Free and open to the public. Four traditional choirs from the Glenn Korff School of Music will perform both individually and as a massed choir singing in the front, both side balconies and rear balconies, and will be accompanied by organ, percussion and brass. The choirs participating include University Singers, Varsity Chorus, University Chorale and the All-Collegiate Choir. The repertoire to be performed was written by many recognizable choral composers such as Benjamin Britten, Elaine Hagenberg, Shawn Kirchner, Felix Mendelssohn and Pavel Chesnovkov.
• Dec. 9: Native American Film Series: Animated Holiday Shorts. For showtimes and tickets, visit https://theross.org. The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and Vision Maker Media present a series of free screenings featuring short Native American films and tv programs from the VMM public broadcasting archives. In December, the series features three animated kid-friendly holiday short films: "That One Good Spirit: An Indian Christmas Story," "A Native American Night Before Christmas" and "The Twelve Days of Native Christmas." For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/vkaq.
• Dec. 9: Jazz Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Standing Bear High School. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 11: Campus Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Nebraska Union's Swanson Auditorium, 14th and R streets. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 11: 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 concert for the link. The Jazz Singers are under the direction of Glenn Korff School of Music Lecturer David von Kampen. The Jazz Singers will be joined by Bird Watching, a local jazz trio of UNL alumni Sean Lebita, Jonah Bennett (a former Jazz Singers bassist) and Erik Skoog (a former Jazz Singers vocalist/drummer), and the Elkhorn North High School vocal jazz ensemble ENsync, under the direction of Casey Allen.
• Dec. 12: Faculty Recital: Jamie Reimer, soprano, and Daryl White, trumpet. 7:30 p.m. St. Marks on the Campus. Free and open to the public. Reimer and White present a faculty recital titled "A (Mostly) Baroque Banquet." They’ll be joined on the program by Professor of Organ Christopher Marks, harpsichord/organ; Professor of Viola Clark Potter; Sam Stanley, cello; Jack Carlson, violin; Laura Watson, violin; and Julietta Rabens, harp. The program includes J.S. Bach’s “Cantata BWV 51” and “Cantata BWV 21”; Giovanni Pergolesi’s “Cujus animam gementem” from “Stabat Mater”; Georg Friedrich Handel’s “Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne” (“Eternal Source of Light Divine”) and “Let the Bright Seraphim” from the oratorio “Samson”; the hymn “How Great Thou Art” and “The Lord’s Prayer” by Alfred Hay Malotte, arranged by Julietta Rabens.
• Dec. 13: Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Open Studios. 5-8 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 13th and Q streets. Free and open to the public. Featuring work from multiple classes from the fall semester from students in both the emerging media arts and theatre-design and technical production programs.
• Dec. 13-14: UNL Clay Club and UNL Print & Photo Club Fall Sales. Dec. 13 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Dec. 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Clay Club Sale is in Richards Hall Rm. 118. The UNL Print and Photo Club sale is in Richards Hall Rm. 112. The raffle will take place on Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. Winners need not be present to win. Ceramic pottery and sculpture created by UNL graduate and undergraduate students will be available for purchase. In conjunction with the ceramics sale, the UNL Clay Club will be collected non-perishable canned food for donation to Husker Pantry. Every two non-perishable food items donated will be worth one raffle ticket (maximum of 5 tickets per day please). Photos and prints will also be available at the UNL Print & Photo Sale.
• Dec. 13-19: "Small Things Like These." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as a devoted father who discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and shocking truths of his own. Based on the best-selling novel by Claire Keegan.
• Dec. 13: UNL Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church. Free and open to the public. The UNL Symphony Orchestra presents a program titled "Holiday in Vienna." Tyler White, professor of conducting and composition and Director of Orchestras, says "Our concert is designed to evoke the spirit, grace and verve of life in Vienna during the Austrian capital’s glory days of the 19th and early 20th centuries."
• Dec. 14: UNL Opera presents "Amahl and the Night Visitors." 1:30 and 3 p.m. Studio Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building. Free and open to the public. The tradition continues. Three mysterious Kings arrive at the home of a poor mother and her son. This heartwarming story of kindness, generosity, and miracles will be the perfect start to the holiday season for the entire family.
• Dec. 16-20: Studio Art Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Free admission.
• Dec. 20-22: "All We Imagine As Light." Continues Jan. 3-9, 2025. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and Q streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. The light, the lives and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Centering on three women dealing with heartaches, hopes and disappointments, Kapadia’s film is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.