Archive: 05/2010
May 27th 2010 | Posted In: Visual | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
Each year the Meadowlark Music Festival collaborates with a Nebraska visual artist to create a unique piece inspired by the Festival and its offerings. The work is displayed at the majority of the concert venues, and then joins The Meadowlark Collection at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska.
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May 26th 2010 | Posted In: Visual | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
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Students at the Asian
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Come explore fascinating cultures and countries at the Asian Community and Cultural Center. Drawing from the many cultures that our staff and clients represent, children will learn about the language, art, food, festivals and customs of places like Vietnam, Japan, Burma, China, Sudan, India, Iraq, Korea and Ukraine. Join us for fun and exploration as we enrich children's lives with the chance to discover the world without leaving Nebraska!
Click here to download a registration brochure.
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May 17th 2010 | Posted In: Music | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
On June 13th at 8pm the Chiara String Quartet will be playing to raise money as a fundraiser for the Clawfoot House. The concert will take place at the Clawfoot House at 1042 F St.
Playing "Chamber Music in Any Chamber," the Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer, Julie Yoon violin; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) reaches from the concert hall into clubs, bars and galleries, expanding the places to hear live classical music while returning chamber music to its roots in intimate spaces. Described by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "vastly talented, vastly resourceful, and vastly committed to the music of their time," the Chiara is also continually finding new meaning within pieces from the well-established quartet canon. Their performances have been described as "luminous," "searing," (New York Times) "soulful," "biting," and possessing a "potent collective force" (Strings Magazine).
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May 16th 2010 | Posted In: Visual | Posted by: LUX Center for the Arts
Debra Johnson, Southeast Community College Instructor, will speak about contemporary female artists and craftspeople at LUX Center for the Arts on May 18 at 6:30 p.m. She focuses on how the feminist art movement helped to elevate traditional craft work to fine art. Free and open to the public.
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May 14th 2010 | Posted In: Theater | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents Humble Boy. Felix Humble, an astrophysicist, returns home to escape the gravitational pull of his mother in the comedy about broken wows and the joys of bee-keeping.
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