All events are in Central time unless specified.

Wednesday, October 5

Activity

Kicking my Blue Genes in the Butt: A Suicide Prevention Program

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1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Colonial Room
Featuring international public speaker Josh Rivedal. A comedic yet poignant one-man, broadway-style play showing how suicide is preventable. Educational session and q & A on signs/symptoms of depression and suicide will follow. FREE!
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Jericho Brown Reading

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7:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Colonial Room
Jericho Brown, born Nelson Demery III, is an American poet. In 2011, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Wikipedia
Activity

Drawn: The Art of Ascent

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7:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Auditorium
What does it mean to “see”? Shapes and shadows? Lines and color? When his friend dies in an avalanche, artist, rock-climber and dad Jeremy Collins goes to the ends of the earth to find closure and “see” his way up four new climbs. Drawn …
Performing Arts - Music

Wind Ensemble

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7:30 pm
Location: Kimball Recital Hall
The UNL Wind Ensemble will open their concert season with a program inspired by the sights and sounds of Paris throughout the ages. Opening with a late 20th century portrait of the City of Light (Martin Ellerby’s Paris Sketches), we will then …