For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through July 24: "Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Based on Alexandra Fuller’s acclaimed memoir, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" captures the childhood of 8-year-old Bobo on her family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence in 1980.
• July 25-31: "Ran." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Akira Kurosawa’s epic retelling of King Lear returns to theaters in a new 4K restoration celebrating the film’s 40th anniversary.
• July 25-31: "Before We Forget." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. An Argentine filmmaker, unable to finish editing a movie about his unrequited first love, receives an unexpected invitation to revisit his past, reconstruct his memories, and perhaps even find a new ending to the story.
• July 29: Made in Nebraska: "Ballad of Buster Scruggs." 7 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” tells six stories, united by their dark, offbeat takes on traditional tales from the American West. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
• Aug. 1-7: "Folktales." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In Oscar®-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s life-affirming film, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway where they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.
• Aug. 1-7: "Mr. Blake at Your Service." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A grieving British widower (John Malkovich) becomes the butler of a French manor to stay close to his late wife’s memory—only to find his orderly world upended by the manor’s eccentric lady and her unpredictable staff.
• Aug. 3: Mary Riepma Ross Award presented to Betty Levitov and H. Peter Reinkordt. 4-6:30 p.m. Reception and Program. 6:45 p.m. Free screening of your choice at The Ross. For tickets and more information, visit https://theross.org/events/mrra-25/. RSVP deadline is Saturday, July 26. Join the Friends of The Ross as we present Levitov and Reinhardt with the 2025 Mary Riepma Ross Award in recognition of their invaluable contributions to The Ross and to cinema.
• Aug. 5: Made in Nebraska: "Nomadland." 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration of the American West.
• Aug. 8-14: "The Last Class." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich always considered teaching his true calling. As he faces his final class, he wrestles with the dual realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.
• Aug. 8-21: "Sorry, Baby." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From writer-director Eva Victor, "Sorry, Baby" is the warm and bitingly funny story of a woman moving forward with her life after a traumatic event.
• Aug. 12: Made in Nebraska: "Bones and All." 7 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis, “Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Timothée Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It is a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
• Aug. 19: Made in Nebraska: "Snack Shack." 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Inseparable best friends A.J. (Conor Sherry) and Moose (Gabriel LaBelle) seize the opportunity to run the local pool’s rundown snack shack after their plan to gamble on dog races and sell home-brewed beer goes down the drain. Dreaming of striking it rich, things take an unexpected turn when they meet summer visitor Brooke (Mika Abdalla), an effortlessly cool lifeguard who puts their big summer plans, and their friendship, at risk.
• Aug. 22: Westbrook Music Building Open House. 4-6:30 p.m. Enter at 10th and Q streets. Free and open to the public. See the new music building before classes begin.
• Aug. 22: Cornhusker Marching Band Exhibition Concert. 7 p.m. Memorial Stadium. Free and open to the public. Fans attending the exhibition should enter Memorial Stadium through Gate 3 (southwest entrance) and Gate 11 (northwest entrance). The gates will open at 6 p.m. Get a first glimpse at what the band has been working on at their band camp and see a preview of their Pregame Spectacular, some of their upcoming halftime music and other Husker favorites, including the Drill Down competition.
• Aug. 26: Made in Nebraska: "Daft State." 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Easton’s mysterious psychological destruction drives him to the edge of sanity and possible self-harm by those who love him most…his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at play?
• Sept. 2: Made in Nebraska: "My Friend Norman." 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Take a journey with Norman Geske, Nebraska’s Father of the Arts, with this feature-length documentary about the impact one man has had on the artistic and cultural heritage of Nebraska and beyond. Directed by Laurie Richards.
• Sept. 8: Bernard Rosenberg Lecture: Scott Mubarak. 5 p.m. Peterson Room of Love Library. Free and open to the public. Mubarak, who writes as C.J. Cook, is an award-winning author and historian with a long interest in the history of the South Pacific. His lecture is titled “Leeteg, Tyree and Rembrant: Black Velvet Art and the South Pacific.” Black velvet is a distinctive and dramatic medium that emerged as a popular genre in the 20th century. The Bernard Rosenberg Lecture is made possible with a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation by Dr. Stuart P. and Lynn S. Embury of Holdrege, Nebraska. The lecture is named in honor of Rosenberg, who died last year. Rosenberg lived in New York and became a premier book dealer for American Art books and was very knowledgeable about both the art and the artist.
• Sept. 17-19: Robert Owens Centenary Festival. Westbrook Music Building. Hosted by the Glenn Korff School of Music. The festival is organized by Jamie Reiman Seaman, the Richard H. Larson Distinguished Professor of Music (Voice), and will celebrate the life and legacy of this influential African American composer. All festival events are free and open to the public, though advanced registration is requested. Registration is due by Aug. 15. Visit https://go.unl.edu/owensfestival for registration and a schedule of events.