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• Nov. 24: Horn and Trumpet Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Continuing through Nov. 26: “It Was Just an Accident.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences in Jafar Panahi’s searing moral thriller.
• Continuing through Nov. 26: "Timestamp." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war. Without interviews, narration and reenactments, Kateryna Gornostai’s "Timestamp" intimately documents a year in the lives of rural students and teachers as they face the challenges of schooling during wartime.
• Nov. 29-Dec. 4: “Orwell: 2+2=5.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck ("I Am Not Your Negro"), "Orwell: 2+2=5" is the definitive feature documentary on visionary author George Orwell, interweaving a portrait of the writer with an examination of how prophetic his work has become.
• Nov. 29-Dec. 11: “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
• Dec. 1: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Symphonic Band presents a program titled “From Darkness to Light,” which includes the Twin Lakes Duo as featured soloists in the piece, “Run to the Light.” The Twin Lakes Duo includes Glenn Korff School of Music Assistant Professor of Percussion Emily Salgado and Jimmy Stagnitti.
• Dec. 1-5: Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. A closing reception will be held on Friday, Dec. 5 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. The work of graduating graphic design students will be on display.
• Dec. 2: UNL Film Club presents “Little Women.” 7:15 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. Join the UNL Film Club for a special free screening of “Little Women” (2019), Greta Gerwig’s heartfelt adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel. Tickets are available at the Ross Box Office (not available online). For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/f78m.
• Dec. 2: Repertory Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall in Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 2: Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights Concert. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center for Performing Arts. For tickets and more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/4me6. Experience the sights and sounds of The Pride of All Nebraska as they perform halftime shows from the 2025 season, their pre-game spectacular and much more.
• Dec. 4: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Kristina Paabus. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Paabus is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in printmaking. Her work examines systems of power and control, with a particular focus on Soviet and Post-Soviet histories.
• Dec. 4: Jazz Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 5-18: “Sentimental Value.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film.
• Dec. 7: Nebraska Steel Fundraiser. Noon. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116.
• Dec. 7: Friends of The Ross Holiday Party. Begins at 2 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. Friends of The Ross members and their guests are invited to a special holiday reception and free screening of “The Holdovers.” Not a member or need to renew? Visit https://go.unl.edu/25wm for more information.
• Dec. 7: Welcome All Wonders. 2:30 and 7 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The concerts will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Dec. 8: Native American Film Series: “Games of the North.” Time TBA. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. Free tickets are available at The Ross Box Office (not available online). For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/ef4k.
• Dec. 9: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Dec. 10: Campus Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Dec. 10: Jazz Singers. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 11-13: Student Dance Project. This year’s concert will be broken up into two programs due to the large number of pieces. Program One will be Thursday, Dec. 11 and Saturday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Program Two will be Friday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. All performances will take place in Howell Theatre, on the first floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R streets. The two Saturday performances at 2 p.m. (Program Two) and 7:30 p.m. (Program One) will be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the links. The choreographers are all students in the dance composition course, which was taught this semester by Associate Professor of Dance Susan Ourada.
• Dec. 12: Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Open Studios. 5-8 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, 13th and Q streets. Free and open to the public. Come see the work this semester of both emerging media arts students and entertainment design and production students in this engaging, interactive open studios event.
• Dec. 12: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 12-21: “Peter Hujar’s Day.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From filmmaker Ira Sachs (“Passages”), “Peter Hujar’s Day” invites audiences into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw).
• Dec. 12-21: “My Omaha.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Set against the backdrop of Omaha’s deep divides and burgeoning racial justice movement, “My Omaha” tells the story of filmmaker Nick Beaulieu’s personal journey to document the activism of his hometown and reconcile with his terminally ill father Randy. Director Nick Beaulieu will visit The Ross on Sunday, Dec. 21 to join the audience for a Q&A. Details coming soon.
• Dec. 13: Big Red Singers. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Dec. 13: UNL Opera presents “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” 1:30 and 3 p.m. Studio Theatre in the Temple Building, 12th and R streets. Ticket information to be announced.
• Dec. 14: “Doctor Zhivago.” 1:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Celebrate the 60th anniversary of David Lean’s epic romantic drama “Doctor Zhavago” with a special screening. Even if you’ve never seen the movie, you probably know the story: Doctor Zhivago’s comfortable life in Moscow is thrown into chaos by the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Throughout this violent turmoil he remains besotted by Lara, a wronged heroic woman whom he loves but barely knows. Every event conspires against them, yet fate keeps throwing them together. Will their love survive the Revolution? Or will history destroy them?
• Dec. 15-19: Studio Art Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. A closing reception will be held on Friday, Dec. 19 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. The work of graduating studio art students will be on display.
• Dec. 15-19: "Exposition Exhibition: Art and the 1898 Omaha World's Fair." MEDICI Gallery in Richards Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. The exhibition is curated by graduate students Toni Parker, Kerry Eddy and Jalen DeCoteau and includes 16 undergraduate students contributing artworks and 14 undergraduate students writing papers on the 1898 International Exposition in Omaha. The students are in the class on 19th century American art, taught by Professor of Art History Wendy Katz. The exhibit revises, revisits and reimagines the Trans-Mississippi Exposition.