:: propagandART ~ february 23, 2004 ::
ok...here's
an advance notice...
in honor of women's history month,
loft at the mill is hosting a special concert event
featuring three all-women music groups
(two of which feature my mom! :-)
on saturday march 6 at 7:30.
so get this on your calendar!!
check out the full scoop here: women of note
http://www.landisarts.com/propagandart/2004/040306-womenOfNote.htm
ok, people...the weather is getting
nicer.
it's time to get out and beat that cabin fever once and for all.
here are some great excuses to call some friends you haven't
seen in a while and get together. grab something to eat,
then head out and savor some of the lincoln art scene.
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Tall Tales From A Tinkertoy Heart ::
From earliest childhood, I have thought of myself as an artist. My art is based more on process than preconception. My ideas come in the moment when the brush touches the canvas. Over the past 10 years, my work has been increasingly abstract and complex, although my paintings are still recognized for their narrative quality. And while I have become more refined in my technique, I am more in love with the pure application of paint than ever. The very texture and build of the paint and its plasticity lends itself to discovery through which memories emerge and combine with concepts and symbos from nature. Through this process of paintint, I merge all of these elements into a visual narrative. I have been described as a colorist, a magical realist, a symbolist, and expressionist and an abstract realist. -wjb
New works in oil by Wendy
Jane Bantam
On display February 28 through March 26
Opening reception Friday, February 27, 6pm
Artist Talk & Brown Bag Lunch Wednesday, March 3, 11:30am
to 1pm
Kiechel Fine Arts ~ 5733 S. 34th ~ 420.9553 ~ http://www.kiechelart.com
http://www.wendybantam.com
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Brilliant! A Cabaret ::
While Smokey Joe's Café features the music of songwriting team Mike Leiber and Jerry Stoller, LCP pays homage to other rock'n'roll greats in our next Cabaret, which we call simply “Brilliant!” Saturday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre.
Brilliant! features music made famous by the great songwriting teams of Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Carole King & Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield and many more. Songs include: “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “Who Put the Bomp,” “Save the Last Dance For Me.”
Host Greg Flattery presents musical performances from Rich Caruso, Amber Burgess, Brian Mathers, Christina Silvestrini, Tracey Haefele -- and special performances by a few members of the Smokey Joe's Cafe cast.
Refreshments will be served. Admission to the Cabaret is free, but donations are welcome.
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The Second City ::
The Second City is a sketch comedy improv group founded in Chicago in 1959. The group, though their members have changed, has been entertaining audiences across the nation for more than thirty years and now brings their talents to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Former members of The Second City that have gone on to other fame include Joan Rivers, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, John Candy, Bill Murray, Chris Farley, and Mike Myers. The Second City is not only the primary provider of comedic talent in North America, but also produces talented writers and directors. For more information on The Second City visit www.secondcity.com.
Wednesday, February
25, 2004 at 7:30 at the Leid Center
Tickets: $15.00 General Public ~ $6.00 UNL Students
Tickets can now be purchased through the Lied Center box office Monday thru
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Box Office: 472-4747
or 1-800-432-3231 toll free ~ Website: http://www.unl.edu/lied/
The University Program Council (UPC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is
co-sponsoring with the Lied Center for Performing Arts
::
Yair Dalal & Erez Mounk ::
from Brent Martin (dbmartin5@hotmail.com)
Dear Music Lovers,
Please join us on the 25th of February as we welcome Yair Dalal and Erez Mounk
back to Lincoln for their only Nebraska performance. These two musicians were
here in 2003 as part of our spring concert series performing as part of a quartet
(Yair Dalal and Ensemble AL OL). Their performance that evening generated a
number of positive comments which have prompted us to ask them to return with
their desert inspired sounds so that we might imagine life in the Sinai on a
winters night in Nebraska. Dalal has played to audiences at the Kennedy Center,
the Lincoln Center, Nobel Peace Prize Gala in Oslo, Norway and extensively in
Europe and the Middle East. We are looking forward to another memorable concert
here in Lincoln!
This performance promises to be a memorable evening of uplifting music inspired by the desert winds of the Negev. Yair Dalal creates a contemporary take on ancient themes in a fusion of traditional and classical Jewish and Arab music.
"The musical instrument Oud, is the most beautiful and important instrument in the Middle East. It is the most beloved and shared instrument for Arabs and Jews. With the oud, as in the desert, time resonates in it¹s own boundless form, a type of taqsim . Peace too, takes its time." - Yair Dalal
For more about Yair Dalal, hit his website: http://www.yairdalal.com/
Thank you, Raag Members
Please share this message with others
2003 BBC Middle Eastern
Musician of the Year Nominee, Yair Dalal, To Give Only Nebraska Performance
February 25, 2004 - 7:00 pm - Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Tickets: $10 advance and students
/ $15 day of performance
Available: UNL City Campus UNION - Both MILL locations reservations on
line by e-mail raag@unl.edu or by calling
435.4769
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Powerless III ::
(from Tery info@starcityscene.com)
OK...Powerless is a bi-monthly music series I put on in conjunction with Duffy's Tavern, in which Lincoln rock and indie rock bands re-work their usual rock sets for an acoustic setting.
Unlike the other "acoustic
nights" around town, which are more like "amateur nights" where
any joe blow can wander in off the street with his guitar, I take regular rock
bands, and have them rework their sets for an acoustic venue.
For example, Marianas, who are playing in Powerless III on 2/25, their music
is mostly instrumental, very sequenced, relying heavily on computers, guitar
effects, etc. and making them re-think their music for an acoustic setting.
They're apparently going to be using cornets, accordians, and other types of
instruments to do a completely different version of their usual rock set.
Suzy Dreamer & Her Nightmares, who played in Powerless II are a very Psychedelic
Pop band with a 12-string Rickenbacker driven sound (using a lot of guitar effects
& such), did a phenomenal job of re-doing their set with 6 string acoustics.
They'll be releasing their Powerless set on Lone Prairie records later this
year.
Powerless III: Wednesday,
February 25, 2004 - 9:30pm
Duffy's Tavern - $3 cover
Featuring: Shyaway, Shacker, and Marianas
hit the events page at http://www.starcityscene.com
for more
:: Tape ::
In Tape, two old high-school buddies reunite in a motel room in Lansing, Michigan. Jon, a driven indie filmmaker, has his first feature showing at the local film festival, and Vince, his oldest friend, part-time fireman and drug dealer, has come to visit him on the eve of his success. But things quickly turn confrontational, because there’s something else going on - something to do with Amy, the girl Vince dated in high school, and the thing that happened at the end of senior year...
Rough Magic Productions is proud to be producing Stephen Belber’s play Tape in both Lincoln and Omaha. Tape is a pressure-chamber examination of the subjectivity of truth, the tension between the ambitious and ambitionless, manipulation, revenge, violence, and its aftermath, with high-velocity dialogue and dark humor.
February 26
- 7:30 PM, February 27 - 7:30 PM & 10:00 PM, February
28 - 7:30 PM, February 29 - 2:30 PM
The Loft at The Mill
For more information email: roughmagicproductions@yahoo.com
Or contact: Brynn Taylor, Publicity Director at 770-0870
::
Opera A La Carte: The Pirates of Penzance ::
Founded by Richard Sheldon, Opera A La Carte has staged authentic productions of Gilbert and Sullivan works since 1975 and is acclaimed as the foremost company dedicated exclusively to the work of these masters of musical theater. For their return to the Lied Center, the company will present The Pirates of Penzance.
Thursday, February
26, 2004 - 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $45/35/30
~ Students/Youth: $22.50/17.50/15
Box Office: 472-4747 or 1-800-432-3231 toll free
Website: http://www.unl.edu/lied/
:: Broadway Lights—Fosse Nights ::
UNL's Dance Division received a National College Choreography Initiative (NCCI) award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the guest residency of Bill Hastings to restage the works of three different musicals by the legendary Bob Fosse.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC Dance Concert:
Broadway Lights—Fosse Nights
February 28 & March 1 at 7:30pm
February 29 at 3 pm
Kimball Recital Hall.
Tickets: $12 general, $10 faculty/staff, $7 students/seniors available at the
door.
::
Glactic ~ Voodoo Funk! ::
Superfunk is coming to Lincoln! Galactic is a New Orleans-based jazz-funk ensemble, in otherwords Voodoo Funk. Not merely content to grasp the Mardi Gras Indians or Dr. John esthetics, Galactic points firmly toward the technological present with their primordial groove machine music. It seems they use as many loops as organic drums and bass, bass and more bass is the order of the day. Strange keyboard sounds come bubbling under like some lost Lee Perry session gone digital. Does that make this a "techno" or "electronica" record? No way, dude. Ruckus is a spooky ride to the other side of midnight. The party is either gonna break out or break up; it exists on the edge of that fine distinction, that moment in time when anything is possible.
Galactic
at the Rococo Theater
Monday, March 1 at 8pm ~ Tickets $20.
Hit the Galactic site for more about the band http://www.galacticfunk.com/
Omaha's Living Picture Project presents PARALLEL LIVES by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy
This is a play based on the Kathy and Mo show where the audience is wisped through the outrageous universe of two women who play both male and female roles struggling through the common rituals of modern life: teenagers on a date, sisters at their grandmother's funeral, a man and a woman at a country western bar and many more. Directed by Brandon Higdem with performances by Kim Clark-Kaczmarek and Teresa Sindelar.
February 27-28
8pm ~ RSVP 402-556-5616
Omaha Healing Arts Center
1216 Howard Street ~ 345-5078
http://www.omahahealingarts.com
.... tick
.... You know about the phenomenon.
.... tick .... You've heard about the awards.
.... tick .... You remember the heartbreak.
.... tick .... But you might not know the whole story.
.... tick .... Before RENT, Jonathan Larson had another story to tell ....
BOOM! - His own.
tick, tick ... BOOM! is the musical tale of Jonathan's days as a struggling artist in SoHo - an artist on the verge of exploding!
It is 1990, and RENT is still six years away from its Broadway debut. He is on the verge of 30 -- faced with life-altering choices and fighting to keep his dreams. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city; his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue; but he's still waiting tables and trying to write the great American musical. With fourteen songs, ten characters, three actors, and a band, tick, tick...BOOM! takes you on the playwright/composer's journey that led to the Broadway blockbuster, RENT.
If you love RENT, then see the Midwest Premiere of the musical about the events that inspired it. You know how his story ends -- now see the beginning. Presented by Stages of Omaha at the Millennium Theater in Omaha.
February
12 - March 7, 2004; Thursday-Saturday @ 7:30, Sundays at 2:30
Adult Ticket Price $15 ~ Student, Sr Citz (>60 yo), Military, TAG Members
$12 ~ Groups of 10 or more $10
Hit the Stages of Omaha
Website for more information: http://www.stagesofomaha.com/
