WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 21, 2002--Free tickets for the Dec. 1 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, featuring lectures by U2 lead singer and noted humanitarian Bono and actress and activist Ashley Judd will be distributed on a first-come basis Nov. 22 beginning at 11 a.m. at the Lied Box Office, 301 N. 12th St.
The forum is Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts and features the two celebrity speakers, an AIDS activist from Africa, a group of African children singers and questions and answers in a World AIDS Day awareness program.
The lecture is free and open to the public, but because of the anticipated high level of interest, free general admission tickets will be distributed. Tickets will be distributed in person only at the Lied Box Office (no faxes, phone calls or Internet orders) and those in line will be limited to four tickets per person.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. Dec. 1 and ticket holders must be seated by 6:45 p.m., at which time non-ticket holders will be admitted to any empty seats. No backpacks or briefcases will be allowed at the Lied Center during the lecture. Still photography only will be allowed for the first 15 minutes of the lecture.
For those unable to obtain seating at the Lied, an overflow area will be set up at the Nebraska Union Auditorium. The lecture will also be broadcast live on the UNL Web site (www.unl.edu), Lincoln cable channel 21, UNL's KRNU radio station (90.3 FM) and UNL campus TV.
The lecture is part of a Heart of America Tour, calling attention to "Africa's Future and Ours," by DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa). Dec. 1 is World AIDS Awareness Day.
The Thompson Forum is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation and UNL. Other sponsors of the lecture are Save Sub-Saharan Orphans, and at UNL the University Program Council, the Chancellor's Office and the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
CONTACTS: Annette Wetzel, Coordinator, Special Events, (402)
472-8524, (awetzel1@unl.edu);
Dave Fitzgibbon, University Communications, (402) 472-8520 (dfitzgibbon1@unl.edu); and
Kelly Bartling, University Communications, (402) 472-2059 (kbartling2@unl.edu)
For questions regarding these releases, contact:
tsimons1@unl.edu
(402) 472-8514, Fax: (402) 472-7825