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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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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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Cattle Trails and Songs of the West
Lexington Grand Generation Center 407 East 6th St., Lexington, NE, United StatesSpeaker: Joan Wells Sponsored by the Lexington Grand Generation Center
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I am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice
Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Visitor Center 100 Valmont Dr., Nebraska City, NE, United StatesSpeaker: Joe Starita Sponsored by the Friends of Arbor Lodge Foundation
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I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice
Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Visitor Center 100 Valmont Dr., Nebraska City, NE, United StatesAward-winning author Joe Starita will be the keynote speaker of events on Saturday, July 11. Starita's presentation will discuss the legal, social, and political importance of the landmark 1879 Supreme […]
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George Custer and the Great Plains: History, Landscape, and Legacy
Hastings Public LibrarySpeaker: Jeff Barnes Sponsored by the Hastings Public Library
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Exhibit opening: Walk through Memory Lane with African American Activists (RSVPed guests only)
Saratoga History- Arts-Humanities Multicultural Center 4401 North 21st Street, Omaha, NETogether We Achieve Miracles is celebrating the opening of the exhibit "Walk Through Memory Lane with African American Activists" with an evening of hors d'oeuvres on the occasion of Senator […]
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Dreams & Goals: Pioneers Striving for Success
Gere Branch Library 2400 S. 56th Street, Lincoln, NebraskaSpeaker: Marci Broyhill Sponsored by the Lincoln City Libraries
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