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These are two of the photographs of campus gardens that will
be on display at the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union from
May 13-24.
"Unique Construction in Maxwell
Arboretum," by Karyn
Maxey, which won the Art and
Architecture category.
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"Magnolia bud in Sheldon Sculpture Garden,"
by Stephanie Taylor, which won the Plant Specimens category. |
Contest photos from gardens on
display
The UNL Botanical Garden & Arboretum will
display photographs
of campus that were submitted to the UNLBGA
2001 contest from
May 13-24 in the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska
Union. Gallery
hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The display is free and
open to the
public weekdays.
More than a dozen
8-by-10-inch color photographs taken within
the UNL gardens and
arboretum on East and City Campus by amateur
photographers will be
displayed in the Rotunda Gallery, including
the winners in each of
the four 2001 contest categories. The
winners were "People in
the Garden" and "Art &
Architecture" both by
Karyn Maxey, "Plant Specimens"
and "Garden
Scenes" both by Stephanie A. Taylor. Other
photos, including
runners-up and an honorable mention photo,
will also be
displayed.
The UNLBGA is sponsoring a similar amateur
contest in 2002
for black-and-white photography only. The deadline
for that contest
is Aug. 16. The four categories are spring,
summer, fall and
winter. Winning photos will be featured in a
calendar, on the
UNLBGA Web site, and at displays on the UNL
campus.
For contest rules, please visit the UNLBGA
website:<http://busfin.unl.edu/unlbga>
or call 472-2679 to
request an entry form, or obtain more information.
Jazz in June features music, tours, market
The Nebraska Art Association
announces the annual Jazz in
June concert series, offering free
jazz concerts in the Sculpture
Garden of the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery from 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays,
June 4-25.
In
conjunction with the performances, the Downtown Lincoln
Association
and UNL are again sponsoring an open-air market,
which will have
fresh produce, baked goods, ice cream from the
UNL Dairy Store and
other dinner items for sale from 4:30-8:30
p.m.
New
this year, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Botanical
Gardens
& Arboretum will offer free Jazz in June garden tours,
touring
a different location every Tuesday from 6-6:30 p.m. The
tours will
include Famous & Historic Trees, the Love Gardens,
Sheldon
Sculpture Garden and the Cather Gardens.
The Jazz in June
concerts are free, and concertgoers are encouraged
to bring
blankets or lawn chairs to the Sheldon garden, located
west of the
Sheldon Gallery. In case of rain, concerts will be
at the Champions
Club.
Parking will be restricted to prepare for the
open-air market
on 12th Street between Q and R streets and on R
Street between
12th and 13th streets. The city will restrict access
to metered
parking spots in these areas at 1 p.m. each Tuesday in
June.
This year's Jazz in June performers are:
June 4, Sons of Brasil: This six-member ensemble may
originate from Kansas City, but they play authentic Brazilian
jazz.
Since their formation eight years ago, the Sons of Brasil
have
performed in all major jazz settings and festivals in the
Kansas
City area. Jam Magazine calls them "some of KC's
finest"
who capture "the sounds of Brasil so effectively."
 June 11, George Cables (with Victor
Lewis & Cameron Brown): George Cables, (shown at left),
from California, has an impressive jazz background and is quoted
as
saying "I've played with everybody!" Past musical
collaborations include the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan,
Freddie Hubbard and more. Cables is traveling with both his trio
and quartet. He also performs as a featured soloist for groups,
a
clinician for college programs and bandleader for larger ensembles.
June 18, Hot Club of San Francisco: (shown above) A
quintet made up of entirely acoustic string instruments, the
Hot
Club of San Francisco plays a wide variety of "Gypsy"
jazz in a Django Reinhardt style. Their performance selections
range from traditional to tangos, bebop, to swing and some unique
pieces of their own.
June 25, Dave Pietro: Pietro
is an accomplished musician,
having played in more than 30
countries. He comes to Jazz in
June from New York, where he
currently performs as the lead alto
saxophonist for the Toshiko
Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra. In addition
to performing, Pietro takes
time to give workshops and concerts
at schools around the
country.
Beauty and the Beast will be at the
Lied for eight performances
beginning May 28.
Beauty and the Beast at Lied May 28
Disney's Beauty
and the Beast, the Broadway smash hit musical,
will roar into
Lincoln May 28 through June 2 for a limited one-week
engagement.
Beauty and the Beast features the animated
film's Academy
Award-winning score with music by Alan Menken and
lyrics by the
late Howard Ashman. The play also includes seven new
songs with
music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. The book is
written
by Linda Woolverton, who also wrote the screenplay for the
animated
film. The play is directed by Robert Jess Roth.
With technical wizardry and imaginative design, Beauty and
the
Beast is transferred from screen to stage, enhancing the
elements
that made the animated film a world favorite. The Tony
Award-winning costumes are by Ann Hould-Ward and lighting design
by
Natasha Katz. Director Robert Jess Roth, choreographer Matt
West
and scenic designer Stanley A. Meyer have worked together
as a team
for a number of years developing projects for Disney.
Jim
Steinmeyer and John Gauhan, creators of the illusions, have
invented effects that have been performed by David Copperfield,
Siegfried and Roy, Harry Blackstone and many others.
Beauty
and the Beast is the classic story of Belle, a young
woman in a
provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young
prince
trapped in a spell placed by an evil enchantress. If the
Beast can
learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and
he will be
transformed to his former self. Time is running out.
If the Beast
does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household
will be doomed
for eternity.
Beauty and the Beast has played to more than
17 million people
worldwide. The musical has three companies
including New York,
where the Broadway production is now in its
ninth year; the United
Kingdom Touring Company; and the Third
National Touring Company.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. May
28 through June 1, with
matinees at 2 p.m. on May 29, June 1 and 2.
Ticket prices range
from $20 to $60 depending on performance time
and seat location.
To charge by phone call the Lied Center box
office at 472-4747
or stop by the box office or order online at
liedcenter.org.
Discounts are available for groups of 20 or
more.
UNL dancers perform on
East Coast
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Dance
Division concludes
a year-long "Celebrating Charles
Weidman" project this
month with performances in New York City
and Washington, D.C.
UNL dancers performed May 3 in New
York City at the Sylvia
and Danny Kaye Playhouse in a concert
titled "Sharing the
Legacy: Dance Masterworks of the 20th
Century," which was
part of a national conference on
historical dance works sponsored
by Hunter College and the Harkness
Foundation for Dance. UNL
was one of six U.S. universities
performing in this concert.
They performed two Charles Weidman
pieces, "Lynchtown"
and "Bargain Counter."
The dancers will also perform May 14 as one of 12 dance programs
participating in The Kennedy Center's Celebration of College
and
University Dance May 13-15 on the Kennedy Center's Millennium
Stage. There, they will perform "Lynchtown."
The
Millennium Stage free performance series was launched
in 1997 as
part of the Kennedy Center's Performing Arts for Everyone
Initiative. In five years, more than 1 million people have joined
the Millennium Stage audience. The stage went worldwide in 1999
when the Kennedy Center began transmitting each night's performance
live over the Internet using RealPlayer technology. Anyone can
view
UNL's performance at 5 p.m. CDT May 14 at http://www.kennedy-center
.org/millennium.
The staging of these works was part of
the year-long project,
"Celebrating Charles Weidman and early
American Modern Dance,"
for which the dance division received
the National College Choreographic
Initiative Award last fall.
Weidman, a leading figure in the development of American modern
dance who was recently named to the Dance Heritage Coalition's
"America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100,"
was born in Lincoln in 1901. His home was located near where
the
Lied Center for Performing Arts now stands, at 12th and R
streets.
The UNL dancers have given more than 20
performances and lecture
demonstrations this year as part of the
project, including performances
in public and private schools and
public performances in Lincoln,
Seward, Firth and Bellevue.
Twenty UNL dancers made the trip to New York City, and 12
will
travel to Washington, D.C. The New York trip was made possible
by
the UNL School of Music and private donations from Embree
Learned
and Ruth Diamond Levinson.
Arts are Basic summer workshop begins June 6
Arts Are
Basic's Summer Workshop will be offered June 6 and
7 and 10-14 in
the Johnny Carson Theater of the Lied Center for
Performing Arts.
The workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day. A Sunday showcase
will be from 1-4:30 p.m. June 9, and attendees
are encouraged to
bring families.
Performances for this year will include
"Ramble Shoes,"
featuring tap and clog with Rhythm in
Shoes company, and the
Red Clay Ramblers musicians; Turtle Island
Tales, featuring Hobey
Ford, a shadow puppeteer who will present
Native American Tales;
and The Bohemian Girl opera, presented by
Ariel Bybee and the
UNL School of Music.
Graduate
credit (2-4 credit hours) may be earned through either
Teachers
College or the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing
Arts for
Arts Are Basic Workshop participation.
For more
information, or to register, contact Kit Voorhees,
472-9347.
Turtle Island
Tales part of Cultures of Puppets Festival
Arts Are Basic,
in collaboration with the Lincoln Community
Performance and the
Lincoln Puppetry Cooperative, will present
two public performances
of Turtle Island Tales at 7 p.m. June
7 and 8 at the Lincoln
Community Playhouse, 56th Street and Normal
Boulevard.
The performances are part of the 2002 Cultures of Puppets
Festival that will culminate on June 9 with a series of workshops,
exhibitions and a series of mini performances by local puppeteers.
These performances are presented with the assistance of the
Nebraska Arts Council.
For ticket information, call
489-7529.
Arboretum offers
orchid field trip
The UNL Botanical Garden & Arboretum
will sponsor a field
trip to view species of Nebraska orchids
growing in their native
habitats on May 18 in Fontenelle Forest
near Bellevue and in
Neale Woods near Omaha. Participants will meet
to carpool from
the parking lot north of the Nebraska East Union at
10 a.m. The
field trip is free and open to the public. To attend,
call 472-2679
to pre-register. There is a fee for park entry. The
field trip
may be canceled if viewing conditions for orchids are
unfavorable.
Please dress appropriately for weather and
ground conditions.
The field trip will conclude mid-to
late-afternoon; attendees
may either bring along their own lunches
or purchase lunch at
nearby restaurants.
Tim Janssen,
president of the Greater Omaha Orchid Society
and founder of the
Lincoln Orchid Society, will lead participants
on the trip.
BFA Capstone Exhibition opens
today
The BFA Capstone Exhibition will run May 9-16 in the
Eisentrager·Howard
Gallery in Richards Hall. An opening
reception will be from 5-7
p.m. May 10 in the gallery.
Graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts majors will
present their work in a variety of media.
For more
information, call the Department of Art and Art History,
472-5522.
Islamic History
and the Koran on display at Love Library
Handwritten
illuminated manuscripts and other printed works
are on display in
the exhibit Islamic History and the Koran:
Handwritten Illuminated
Manuscripts and Printed Works from the
18th to the 20th Centuries.
The exhibition is on display now
until May 31 in the second floor
exhibit case at Love Library.
The works, selected from the
Archives/Special Collections
of the University Libraries, include
the first English version
of the Koran, translated by George Sale
and published in London
in 1734. The intricately designed materials
are in their original
bindings.
Landscape Services offers 'Orchids Unlimited'
The UNL
Botanical Garden & Arboretum will present a program
on
"Orchids Unlimited" at 7 p.m. May 16 in 327 Keim
Hall on
East Campus. The program is free and open to the public.
The
program will be presented by Tim Janssen and David Taylor
of
Lincoln.
The program will cover topics such as orchid
diversity, the
co-adaptation of orchids and their pollinators,
orchids native
to Nebraska and how to grow orchids in your
home.
For more information or to register, call UNL
Landscape Services
at 472-2679.
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