"A" Festival Gets A+ from Campus VisitorsThe "A" Festival brought 700 grade school and high school students to campus on Friday for experiences in the arts. Below, dance major Becky Smith, left, paints with Lakesha Fletcher, age 10. At right, architecture student Pat Kiblinger, left, helps McPhee Elementary studnet Luke Garcia, age 11, with a chalk mural in front of Kimball Hall. (Photos by Richard Wright)
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The UNL Theatre Department will present a Theatre for Youth Pilot Production, "Wiley and the Hairy Man," at 7 p.m. Oct. 3 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 in 301 Temple Building.
The play was written by Suzan Zeder and is being directed by UNL student Sara Bucy. The story revolves around Wiley and his mammy who live deep in the swamps near the Tombigbee River. But somewhere lurking in the dark shadows, the Hairy Man awaits. Wiley must face him - without the help of his mammy's conjuring forces - and conquer his fears alone.
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children. For more information call Bucy at 477-4672.
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Ms. Frizzle will be bringing her Magic School Bus to Lincoln's Lied Center for live performances next week.(Photo by Jim Armstrong 1997 Bus Adventures Live) |
A specially priced Family Series Event means everyone young and old can enjoy a fabulous show at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. And headlining the first Family Series show is the warm and wonderful Scholastic's Magic School Bus - Live!
Two performances of this 65-minute live theatrical performance are scheduled for the Lied Main Stage. The first begins at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 and the second at 2 p.m. Oct. 11. The special times were arranged to accommodate the youthful audiences who will love this theatrical musical.
Every kid knows Ms. Frizzle, the delightful redhead who escorts her pupils through a wonderful world of science and fun on the Public Broadcasting Service television program. The live theatrical show is a spinoff off from the Scholastic series of science picture books created by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, which in turn spawned an animated PBS series that debuted in 1994.
The Magic School Bus - Live, intended particularly for children ages 4-10, uses adult actors to portray the adventurous Ms. Frizzle, an elementary science teacher, and her classroom of children. Also depicted is Ms. Frizzle's beloved mascot, a lizard named, - what else - Liz. In each program Ms. Frizzle and her kids learn some practical science while involved in a not-so-practical problem.
Subtitled Arnold's Favorite Field Trip, the live show investigates the subject of construction. Through the magic of theatrical imagination, the children "shrink" in size, and become stuck in a pantry. They have to build a bridge over a banana cream pie to escape. It's a truly awesome predicament.
The show includes a cast of seven, a three dimensional school bus, numerous scene changes and special effects. Nine songs by Peter Luyre, creator of the TV theme song, will have audience members humming.
As with all Magic School Bus programs, children and adults will come away with some new knowledge; this time it is of physics and construction. But then, that's the secret: Learning can be fun!
Tickets for the 7 p.m. and 2 p.m. performances of Scholastic's Magic School Bus - Live! are $9 for adults and $4 for children age 18 or younger. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College students with proper identification can purchase tickets for $4.50.
Call the Lied Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or toll free, 1 (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability. Box Office hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. On performance weekdays, the Box Office is open from 11 a.m. through the first intermission. For evening performances on weekends, the Box Office opens at 3 p.m.
The Lincoln Children's Museum has a permanent display of Ms. Frizzle and her Magic School Bus. Stop by the Museum at 13th and O streets to visit Ms. Frizzle and the other items at the Lincoln Children's Museum.
This presentation of The Magic School Bus - Live! is made possible in part with generous support from Pfizer. The Family Series is made possible in part with generous support from the Lied Foundation Trust.
A public African folk dance workshop taught by Dorian Williams Byrd will be conducted at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 in 304 Mabel Lee Hall.
A free-lance performer, choreographer and instructor at Augustana (Ill.) College, Byrd has a special interest in religious dance. Formerly with the Sounds in Motion and Elizabeth Keen dance companies in New York City, his theatrical productions include "Slaveship," "Amen Corner" and the International Theater Festival in Italy with the La Mama Troupe. He also performed in the American Arts Festival in Kofu, Japan, with River Dance Collage.
Byrd, who has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Juilliard School and a master's degree from the University of Iowa, has choreographed for church services, conferences and musicals.
Admission is $2 for students and $3 for the general public.
University Theatre and Dance will present George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance, at 8 p.m., Oct. 10-11 and 14-18 in Howell Theatre.
The story centers around John Tarleton, who has made a great deal of money out of Tarleton's Underwear and lives with his wife and daughter in a middle-class country house in Hindhead, Surrey, England. Visiting for the weekend are Tarleton's son Johnny and Bentley Summerhays, Hypatia Tarleton's fiancé, who describes himself as "all brains and no more body than is absolutely necessary." Into their midst comes Bentley's aristocratic father, a sputtering airplane carrying a pilot who turns out to be Bentley's old school chum and a Polish woman acrobat.
Tickets are available by calling the Box Office at 472-2073 from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or three hours prior to the performance. Ticket prices are $6 students; $9 UNL faculty/staff/senior citizens; $10 general.
Winging It, the Five Bright Chicks upcoming adventure in storytelling, is at 9 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Nebraska Union's Crib. The event is free.
These five, unpredictable mad women from the Big "O" - Vicki Baines, Lucy Duncan, Ozzie Nogg, Rita Paskowitz and Peggy Reinecke - will take their audience on flights of fancy and bring them back alive, and then some. Always ready to push the envelope and take a risk, the Chicks expand the boundaries of traditional storytelling by presenting their own personal tales in fresh and unconventional ways. With backgrounds ranging from theater, stand-up comedy, dance and graphic design, these five women share their stories in ways that are unexpected, hilarious and poignant.
Based on the sold-out success of the Five Bright Chicks past storytelling performances - including their appearance at Omaha's Blue Barn Theater, McFoster's Natural Kind Cafe and last spring's Women's Leadership Conference '97 in Lincoln - Winging It is guaranteed to be a real trip.
Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chairman of Theatre Studies at the City University of New York, will deliver the next Geske Lectureship in the History of the Arts at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 in the auditorium of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception follows the lecture in Sheldon's Great Hall.
Carlson's lecture is titled "Booth, Lincoln and Theatrical Reception."
Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, was one of the greatest actors of the late 1800s. He and Lawrence Barrett went on tour from 1886-1889 all over the country, including a stop in Lincoln in April 1888. Carlson's lecture will explore audience expectations and perceptions of superstars like Booth.
Carlson earned his B.S. in language arts and his M.A. in English from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in drama and theatre from Cornell University. His major publications include Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University 1984); Places of Performance (Cornell University Press 1989); and Performance: A Critical Introduction (Routledge 1996).
The Norman and Jane Geske Lectureship in the History of the Arts was established in 1995 through the generosity of Norman and Jane Geske and features noted scholars in the history of the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, or architecture.
An evening of conjunto music is in store beginning at 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Seventh Street Loft. Juan Tejeda, button accordion, and Armando Tejeda, bajo sexto, bring this vibrant Latino-German music to Lincoln in a program cosponsored by the College of Fine and Performing Arts Artist Diversity Residency Program and The Wagon Train Project
Tickets are $5, $3 for students, and are available at the door
Juan Tejeda is the director of Xicano Music Program at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio and organizes the annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio. Tejeda is a musician and a songwriter. He plays the button accordion, guitar, mandolin flute, percussion and sings. He learned to play the accordion from Santiago Jimenez when he was 9-years-old.
This month, the Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History features the works of two artists, Henry Chodkowski Jr. and Jean Dibble. Chodkowski is professor of advanced and graduate painting at the University of Louisville. On exhibit will be selected works from his "Mavros Labyrinthos" Series of 1986-1995.
Dibble is associate professor of art at Notre Dame University. Her work combines printmaking, photography, computer graphics and collages and reflects an ongoing meditation upon her concerns as a woman. "While my work is based upon autobiographical concerns, the work itself is broader in its scope," Dibble said.
The two artists will speak on Oct. 30. Dibble will talk from 2:30-3:30 p.m. and Chodkowski will talk from 4-5pm. A closing reception for both artists will begin at 5 p.m. in the Gallery, which is located in 102 Richards Hall. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Jeff Oestreich is an acclaimed American potter with an international reputation. He apprenticed with Bernard Leach in St. Yves, Cornwall, England, for two years during the 1970s. He has exhibited around the world.
The culmination of his workshop at UNL in the ceramics area will be a sale of his work from 2-6 p.m. Oct. 9 in 104 Woods Art Building. Proceeds from this sale will benefit the UNL Ceramics Club, which supports visiting artists in the area. Demonstrations will be held Oct. 6 and 7 from 2:30-4:30pm in 104 Woods. Oestreich will present a slide talk at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 8., location to be announced.
Michael Aurbach is associate professor of fine arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He will visit UNL Oct. 8 and 9. He has exhibited his provocative sculpture in solo and group shows at galleries, museums and universities throughout the United States. His work has often focused on issues of death, identity and systems of belief. Says Aurbach, "People say, 'Don't you get tired of building boxes?' I say, 'Well, don't you get tired of painting on rectangles?'"
His workshop begins at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Richards Hall Auditorium on the topic "Survival Strategies for Artists."
A description of the plot is wholly inadequate to convey the intelligence, emotional power, and spirit of Brassed Off!, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater on Oct. 9. Using a delightful amalgamation of music, class struggle, and a Yorkshire mining town, Brassed Off!'s director Mark Herman has combined seemingly disparate elements to create a charming, extremely touching drama.
In the midst of an acrimonious 1980s showdown between miners and the Tory government at the Yorkshire pit of Grimley, the town's brass band, led by tradition-bound Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father), continues to practice for the regional competition despite sinking morale. But the arrival of flugelhornist Gloria (Tare Fitzgerald from Hear My Song) and her subsequent sparks with bandmate Danny (Ewan McGregor from Trainspotting) shake up everything.
Brassed Off! is showing on Oct. 9 through Oct. 12 and again on Oct. 16 through Oct. 18. Screenings are at 7 and 9 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays; at 1, 3, 7, and 9 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $6; $5 for students; and $4 for senior citizens, children, and members of the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.
The Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Theater will have special opening night festivities with picnicing at 6 p.m., a concert at 6:30 p.m., followed by the movie. The cost is $10, which includes soft drinks, cookies, the concert and the movie. Participants should bring their own picnic and blanket. In case of rain, the activities will take place inside. For reservations, call Judy Hoppe, 423-6559.
The presentation of this program at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater
is made possible. in part, with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council,
a state agency.
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