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Upcoming Events
Events
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Vision Maker Media: Everything is Connected Online Film Festival
Virtual ProgramVision Maker Media is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a full year of film programming featuring powerful American Indian and Alaska Native films, both in person at the Mary Riepma […]
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Exhibition: Tajimal K’in La Fiesta del Sol / Festival of the Sun
El Museo Latino 4701 South 25 Street, Omaha, NE, United StatesTAJIMAL K'IN La Fiesta del Sol / Festival of the Sun A Collective Photography Exhibit Cristina Kahlo, Marcos García, Marco Girón Museum hours are Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. […]
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How We Celebrate
Gage County Museum North 2nd Street, Beatrice, NE, United StatesThe Gage County Museum will join the nation in commemorating 250 years of American independence with a special summer exhibition. This exhibit will highlight how our communities have celebrated patriotism, […]
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Sorting Out Race exhibit
Every day thrift stores across America receive donations of objects that display racial imagery— antique advertising cards, collectible salt-and-pepper shakers, vintage children’s books, and mugs with sports team mascots. Are […]
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SPARK! Places of Innovation
Custer County Historical Museum 445 South 9th Ave., Broken Bow, NE, United StatesExplore the story of human history through rural American inventions and innovations. "Spark! Places of Innovation" is based on a Smithsonian exhibition. It will be at the Custer County Historical […]
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22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days
Legion Park 2301 Legion Park Rd., Sidney, NE, United StatesSidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park, Sidney, Nebraska, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the […]
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Museum of the High Plains 498-400 Norris Ave, McCook, NE, United StatesSpeaker: Deb Carpenter-Nolting Sponsored by the High Plains Historical Society
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28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival
McCook NE McCook, NE, United StatesThe 29th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival is packed with opportunities to laugh, have fun, learn and remember. Journey through the dusty trails, starlit nights, and campfire tales […]
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Germans from Russia in Hastings
Adams County Historical Society 1330 N Burlington Ave, Hastings, United StatesSpeakers: Becky Matticks and Marilee Aufdenkamp
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2026 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps (registered students only)
Kearney NEThe University of Nebraska at Kearney is excited to bring curriculum-based summer camps to our community. We invite students entering grades 1-8 to join us on UNK's campus for enrichment […]
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2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
Lincoln - multiple locations Lincoln, United StatesBright Lights provides unique, motivating, hands-on summer learning camps for K-8th grade students, including in humanities subjects like literature and writing, history, and world cultures and languages. The camp application […]
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KIND Nebraskans: Personal Stories of Nebraskans in World War II
Plainview Social Center 108 S. Maple St., Plainview, NE, United StatesSpeaker: Charlotte Endorf Sponsored by the Plainview Historical Society
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