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October 1 - Lecture with Elizabeth Martinez, 7:00pm, NE Union Auditorium
She is a Chicana writer, activist and teacher whose many years of social justice work are legendary. She speaks on racism, multiculturalism, women's struggles and today's new movements. In the 1960's and 70's, she worked in the Black civil rights movement and the Chicano movement. She co-founded and currently chairs the Institute for MultiRacial Justice to help build alliances between communities of color. Martinez is the author of six books and numerous articles. Her best-known work is "500 Years of Chicano History," which became the basis for the video she co-directed. Her latest book is "De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century."

October 3 - Hypnotist Jim Wand, 9:00pm, NE Union Centennial Room
Dr. Jim Wand has been nominated by the NACA (national Assocition for Campus Activities) for a major entertainment award for 12 consecutive years. He has been featured in Campus Activities Magazine several times in the last few years. He does over 150 College presentations each year and has over a 99% re-book rate for almost all College dates and brings at least one assistant to each date to insure a quality performance. He is one of the only entertainment hypnotists in the world to have an undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate degrees in the area of Psychology.

October 4 - Dembrebrah, 7:30pm, Kimball Recital Hall (UNL Student $4.00 & General Public $8.00)
Dembrebrah West African Drum and Dance Ensemble is a collection of both professional, semi-professional and lay artist/educators dedicated to the study, proservation and promotion of authentic, traditional West African Art, Culture and History in all of its power, beauty, strength and grace. The company includes musicians, storytellers, dancers, singers, and crafts artisans whose vibrant artistry has brought audiences to their feet cheering and demanding encores. Dembrebrah is committed to the study, practice, preservation and promotion of African drumming and dance as methods of healing, communicating, educating, and entertaining the public. Dembrebrah has been together eight years and continues to be unified in its pursuit of educating people on the glory, splendor and beauty of African Culture.

October 3-6, 2001 - Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis: a Living Light production, 8PM - Swan Theatre, Wyuka Cemetery, Tickets are $10 $5 for students. Reservations can be made by calling Wyuka Funeral Home at 474-3600.

"AS GREGOR SAMSA awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes. What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream ..."

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka's 'greatest short story' (Vladimir Nobokov), is brought to the stage by Living Light theatre company. This is a devised production, using as its sources translations of the original text and elements of Steven Berkoff's stage adaptation, and building a physical score collaboratively. The production breaks the bounds of naturalism, but never loses touch with the depth of human feeling in the story. The style of the production echoes the tension between the literal and the fantastic that is implicit in the magical realism of the text.

The Metamorphosis, an important work in the existentialist tradition as well as a gripping and immediate story of the bizarre and the familiar, tells the story of Gregor Samsa, young man who works as a travelling salesman to support his parents and younger sister. Then one morning he wakes to find he has been transformed into a giant bug, all his memories, thoughts and feelings intact, but without the means to speak or communicate with his family. He can still listen to and understand human speech, though: and listen he does, crawling across the ceiling of his bedroom while his family struggle to cope with his new insect state ...

Featuring Linda Adam-Hall, Kelly Sheridan, Laurence Mota, Susanne Evans Mostafa and Joshua Mostafa with original music by Mark Baldridge. The Swan is an open air theatre at Wyuka Cemetery, 3600 O Street in Lincoln, NE USA, so please dress for the weather. We have outdoor heaters in case of a chill, and an alternative indoor venue in case of rain. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students). Reservations can be made by calling Wyuka Funeral Home at 474-3600.

P.S. I'm moving to Australia in February with daughter Rhiannon and husband Joshua (and taking Living Light Theatre with me--it packs well), so this may be the last independent project I'll do in Lincoln for awhile. If you would like to see some inexpensive theatre that stretches your mind, please join us October 3-6 at 8pm at this magickal theatrical space in the beautiful and peaceful Wyuka cemetery.

Brightest Blessings of Love and Light,
Susanne Evans Mostafa 742-6405

October 8 - Lecture with Jackson Katz, 7:30pm, NE Union Centennial Room
The acclaimed program, "More Than A Few Good Men" is a lecture on American manhood and violence against women. He is the Director of the United States Marine Corps gender violence prevention program and co-creator of the video, "Tough Guise: Media Images and the Crisis in Masculinity." This acclaimed program inspires men and women to confront one of the most serious problems facing college students at the turn of the century: men's violence against women. The subjects he covers include rape, sexual harassment, abuse in college dating relationships, and other forms of gender-based discrimination and violence. This provocative presentation interposes irreverent humor with unpleasant reality. Jackson Katz stimulates dialogue between the sexes by heping to illuminate how the problems of individual women and men are linked to larger social forces.

October 16 - Lecture with Matthew Kerbel, 7:30pm, NE Union Auditorium
Through humorous real-life news clips spiced with stand-up monologue and audience participation, Matthew Kerbel raises the question, "How can we make sense of our world when it is filtered through the lens of entertainment, not journalism?" The answer lies in understanding what he calls the Fundamental Rule of Television News: far from being a serious enterprise, television is a pretend medium and news reports are television first, journalism second. After experiencing some of the tricks of the trade - how news people "pretend' things are happening when they really are not - the audience will never look at television news the same way again. Presentation highlights include: audience participation, clips from actual news programs and entertaining discussions.

November

November 17 - Powwow, 9:00am-11:00pm, NE Union Centennial Room/Ballroom (Cosponsor with UNITE)
November 18 - Powwow, Noon-8:00pm, NE Union Centennial Room/Ballroom (Cosponsor with UNITE)

Nov. 10 NU Football vs Kansas State Lincoln TBA
Nov. 23 NU Football at Colorado Boulder, Co. ABC 2:30 p.m.

December

Dec. 1 NU Football Big 12 Championship (Texas Stadium) Irving, Texas ABC 7 p.m.

Planet Butter - Dec 6th The Zoo Bar 9-1pm