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Kenneth Bé Lecture & Performance
Kenneth Bé will give a lute recital and lecture in conjunction with Voyage to Italia: Americans in Italy in the 19th Century on Tuesday, Aug. 3 at 5:30 p.m.
The lecture and performance will take place in the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Both events are free and open to the public.
Bé has been performing lute music since 1974, has studied under notable lute players including Paul O'Dette and Nigel North, participated as a musician in the Boston Early Music Festival and has performed frequently in duet recitals with lutenist Ronn McFarlane. He has a deep interest in the role of music and the visual arts in past culture. Kenneth Bé studied art history and also geology at Yale as an undergraduate, geology in graduate studies at the State University of New York at Albany and then art conservation and art history at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Originally from the Hudson River valley region just north of New York City, he was a conservator for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s painting collection since 1987 before moving to Nebraska in 2008.
In Omaha he works as a paintings conservator at the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center through a partnership between the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and UNO where he is a staff member of the Art and Art History Department.
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Kenneth Bé Performance and Lecture Tuesday, August 3, 2010 -- 5:30 PM Kenneth Bé performs and lectures in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. |
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First Friday Opening Reception for Parallel Starts: Outsider Art Inside Collections Friday, August 6, 2010 -- 5:00 PM Exhibition opening and keynote speech. |
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“Visionary Art on the Prairie” Symposium Saturday, August 7, 2010 -- 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Outsider Art Symposium |
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Cuban Film Series Screening (3 of 4) Tuesday, August 10, 2010 -- 7:00 PM Soy Cuba (I am Cuba) |
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Latino Bike Tour with El Centro de las Americas August 21, 2010 -- 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM The Sheldon is a destination for the weekly bike rides sponsored by El Centro de las Americas. This ride includes a tour of the sculptures on the UNL campus and the Sheldon Sculpture Garden. |
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Sheldon Sunday: Gallery Talk Sunday, August 29, 2010 -- 2:00 PM Gallery Talk by Andrea Bolland on Voyage to Italia: Americans in Italy in the 19th Century |
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Cuban Film Series Screening (4 of 4) Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -- 7:00 PM Cuba: Illogical Temple |
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Latino Bike Tour with El Centro de las Americas August 31, 2010 -- 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM The Sheldon is a destination for the weekly bike rides sponsored by El Centro de las Americas. |
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First Friday Friday, September 3, 2010 -- 5:00 PM |
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Angels Theater Performance Tuesday, September 7, 2010 -- 6:30 PM |
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Curator Lecture Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- 5:30 PM Curator Sid Sachs will give a lecture about Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968 in the Sheldon Museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. |
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Angels Theater Performance Tuesday, September 21, 2010 -- 6:30 PM |
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Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music Performance Sunday, September 26, 2010 -- 3:00 PM |
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UNL School of Music, Chiara String Quartet Tuesday, September 28, 2010 -- 7:30 PM |
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First Friday Friday, October 1, 2010 -- 5:00 PM |
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UNL School of Music, Faculty Jazz Tuesday, October 5, 2010 -- 7:30 PM |
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Orlan & Mind Over Matter Exhibition Opening Reception Friday, October 8, 2010 -- 5:00 PM |
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National Textiles Conference Friday, October 8, 2010 -- 2:00 PM |
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National Textiles Conference Saturday, October 9, 2010 -- Noon |
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National Textiles Conference Saturday, October 9, 2010 -- 7:30 PM Film Screening: The Desert of Forbidden Art |
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