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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1996)
UNL highlights ethnic diversity Ethnic entertainment helps celebrate culture. By Elizabeth Powers Staff Reporter Hola! ?Como estas? Bonjour! Comment t’allez vous? Guten Thg! Wie gehts? Looking for a new taste in enter tainment? Then try out the offerings of different tongues with ethnic festivals, culture lectures and foreign films in Lincoln. This weekend highlights two eth nic celebrations. On Saturday, the university’s Multi-cultural Affairs of fice will sponsor the Vietnamese Saigon Enchantment at the Nebraska Union featuring dinner, dances and skits. Helen Long Soldier, educational specialist, said the celebration was a good teaching tool for Vietnamese cul ture and a chance for Vietnamese stu dents to share their customs. On the same day, a fiesta unfolds for the 1 Oth annual Hispanic Heritage Festival Saturday at State Fair Park’s Agriculture Hall. The festival will of fer ethnic foods, music, stage perfor mances, crafts, fine art exhibits, a children’s area and a Latino dance. Sept. 23 is Nebraska American In dian day, which will be celebrated with a traditional powwow at the Lincoln Indian Center, 1100 Military Road. The Department of Modem Lan guages is holding two major cultural events this semester. The Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literature is taking place Sept. 19-21. The three-day conference will welcome more than 100 profes sors who will be presenting papers on Spanish and Spanish-American litera ture. Kay Nickel, conference director, said the papers will present Hispanic literature in a variety of countries and cultures. Two films from Spain also will be shown at the conference, including “The Arrangement,” a thriller that will have English subtitles for all those who are still trying to pass Spanish 202, and “To the Four Winds,” a story about a poet from the Basque country, which has dialog in Spanish, French, and English. The director will answer ques tions after the film. The department’s second function is the Festival of Japan, Oct. 24 at the Nebraska Union. Four speakers are coming to lecture on the following: relations between the Midwest and Ja pan, linguistic similarities of Japanese and American Indians, traditional the ater and Japanese gardens. There will be demonstrations of a tea ceremony and a Kendo perfor mance of styhzedswordplay as well. The fell lineup for the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater’s International Films series features productions from Iceland, Japan, France, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Spain. The season kicks off Sept 22 with a Japanese film, “The Mystery of Rampo.” Students looking for an academic way to broaden their cultural experi ence may attend the five E.N. Thomp son Forums cm World Issues, which will kick offlliursday at 3:3 0 pm with speaker Daniel W.Y. Kwok, a profes sor in Chinese and world history from the University of Hawaii. He will deliver his speech “China: The One and the Many,” which is an end-of-the-century view of culture and politics in China. Students interested in joiningan ethnic or multicultural organization at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln can call the Student Involvement of fice at 472-2454 or the International Affairs office at 472-5358. torfcw WftidbooK; •• -Untied Kingdom _ _ .- ,i?«hrr>u-if -.lanan 26-29 & Oct 3-5 - -United Kingdom Oct 6 I Cant Sleep -France Oct 10-13 From the Journals of Jean Seberg -U.S. Oct 19 & 20 The Kingdom -Swedden/Denmark Oct 24-27 & 31-Nov. 2 I Shot Andy Warhol -U.S. Nov.3 The Flower of My Secret -Spain Nov.7-10 414-16 Heavy -tfS. Nov. 17 Cold Fever -Iceland/Japan Nov.21,22 & 24 Experimental Cinema: The Films of Barbara Hammer -U.S. Nov. 29-Dec. 1 & 5-7 Ma Saison Prefer^ -France Dec. 8 French Twist -France Dec. 12-15 & 19-22 Cold Contort Farm -U.S. r'! at 28th annual festival Applejack festivities will begin with an , early morning pancake feed. From Staff Reports No worms allowed. Bursting bushels of red, yellow, green and golden apples will sweeten the weekend of Sept. 21 when Ne braska City celebrates its 28th annual Applejack Festival. 5 • . . > The two-day festival celebrates the crunchy fruit with parades, parties, pancake feeds, pigskin add a patch work of crafts shows, historical tours and other events. < . Plenty of apple spin-offs, including cider, pie, crisp, butter, jelly and other edible goodies, will tempt the taste buds of fruit fanatics. Saturday’s opening day highlights include: — Pancake feed at 6:30 ajn. to 10:30 ajn. at the fire and rescue com plex at 1409 Central Ave. —Applej ack parade and matching band competition at1p.m. on Central Avenue. ‘ * " -■ * — Arbor Day Farm Apple House Family Fun from 9 a.m. to 6 pan., which includes face painting, wood carvers, pie garden, apple butter stir, orchard tours, pony rides and painters at Arbor Day Farm at J. Sterling Morton Orchard. , —Apple Jam Fest at 330 pm. to 530 pm. at Nuckolls Square Park. —Apple Bowl football game be tween Peru State College and Dana College at 6 pm. at Pioneer Field at Nebraska City High School. — Applejack Street Dance with Thtp: Rumbles at 9 pm. in the parking lot of the Lied Conference Center. Sunday highlights include: —r An all-day 10K Volkswalk be ginning at the Apple Inn, 502 S. 11th St -^Go-kart races at 1 pm. through the downtown business district Nebraska City is about 55 miles west of Lincoln on Highway 2. For a complete schedule call 1 (800) 514 9113. *