Dr. Marion Ellis, UNL extension bee specialist, will present a two-day program which covers the basics of beekeeping to help interested people learn to keep bees. The first day of this two-day program, Saturday, Feb. 21 is classroom training. Some of the topics you will learn, include: • understanding bee biology and behavior to manage bees • location of hives for best survival and production • learning about management of honey bee parasites and diseases. The Saturday, April 11 program will include hands-on training to give you some experience working with bees. You will open a bee hive, learn to install packaged bees, assemble a bee hive, harvest honey and beeswax and prepare your crop for market. The April 11 program will take place at the UNL Apiculture Lab, Agriculture Research and Development Center (ARDC), near Mead. Please preregister by calling or send registration form at web address listed below.

The NEW ARTISTS FESTIVAL features an amalgamation of original pieces including an Absurdist presentation “What Goes Up” a story that explores love, violence, friendship and life. Directed by junior Jenn Olson, the dramatic piece “From Grace” written by Ryan Kathman (Performance Graduate) follows the story of two brothers as one serves a prison sentence for killing a man while driving under the influence. These pieces accompany “Sonnets in Cyberspace”, “Three Little Pigs Communists Version”, “Living, Or, …and Then You Die”, “Gunslingers”, and “Fault Line Perspective”, a devised movement piece by Shannon Cameron.