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SUMMARY:Salon Reading Series: "Wasabia" @ Eastmont Living
DESCRIPTION:Each Salon Reading Series event features a reading of a play followed by a moderated discussion of the play’s themes and how these themes apply to the community. The theme for 2024-25 is “Hold On.” This theme will explore concepts of holding on and letting go. \nThe Salon Reading Series is free and open to the public\, with two readings each week: \n\nthe first on Sunday afternoon at 2pm in the Turbine Flats Resonator Gallery at 2124 Y St\nthe second Wednesday evening at 6:30pm  in the Eastmont Living’s theater space at 6315 O St in Lincoln.\n\nWasabia\nBy Wendy Herlich\nVivian\, staring down the barrel of dementia\, and Carla\, desperate to shine as a young hospice volunteer\, strike up an unlikely friendship\, which is thrown into question when Vivian enlists Carla’s help in getting life-ending drugs from a hapless musician. The drugs themselves are characters in this dark comedy\, which alternates between naturalism and the surreal as it explores one woman’s experience with medically assisted dying.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/salon-reading-series-wasabia-eastmont-living/
LOCATION:Eastmont Living Performing Arts Center\, 6315 O St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68510\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Culture Talk: Speak My Mind
DESCRIPTION:Omaha Performing Arts’ Hip Hop Lab was formed to educate\, elevate\, and amplify the 50-year legacy surrounding the global impact\, performance\, history\, and culture of hip hop. \nDance is more than movement—it’s a language that carries stories\, culture\, and expression. Join the dance collective Ladies of Hip Hop before their performance at the Holland Center (on April 10) for a conversation centering BIPOC Women and hip hop culture! This event takes place at Scott Hall in the Holland Center. \nThe panel discussion will be moderated by O-pa’s Vice President of Human Capital and Inclusion Bianca Harley in conversation with two company members from Ladies of Hip Hop (including Michele Byrd-McPhee)\, plus Girls Inc. Executive Director Candi Jones and local choreographer Rayneesha Yvonne. \nThe suggested ticket price is $10\, and there are options to pay more or less. If cost is a barrier\, there is a $0 option.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/culture-talk-speak-my-mind/
LOCATION:Holland Performing Arts Center\, 1200 Douglas St\, Omaha\, 68102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T090000
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DTSTAMP:20250220T160228Z
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SUMMARY:The Culture\, Science and Future of Fire
DESCRIPTION:Ferin Davis Anderson will give a keynote talk for Wild Great Plains\, the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 50th annual conference. Anderson will discuss reciprocal restoration and examples of how stewarding a place can lead to cultural revitalization within a community in a talk titled: “How Reciprocal Restoration Fosters Cultural Revitalization.” \nThis talk is free and open to the public\, no conference ticket needed\, but registration is requested to determine seating needs. Please register here: https://forms.gle/DEnFB1uuih2L5HL49. All other conference speakers require a conference ticket. Parking is available in the lot north of Transformation Drive in Zone 9900 and is paid through the Passport Parking app\, details at: https://innovate.unl.edu/parking-nic \n“Reconnecting with traditional practices such as cultural burning is central in our connection with the land and lessening the impacts of devastating wildfires. Fire holds such power\,” Anderson says. “It is our duty to acknowledge fire and to foster a good relationship. As our ancestors understood\, the land will teach us.” \nAnderson is the co-author of “Wildfire: The Culture\, Science\, and Future of Fire\,” a STEAM book exploring the science of wildfires\, the history of fire in the United States\, and the relationship Indigenous people have with fire. Anderson is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa/Ojibwe/Anishinaabe/Mitchifs in North Dakota. She is also the Natural Resources Manager for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Land and Natural Resources Department. \nAnderson is responsible for stewarding and restoring natural areas for the SMSC. She works to weave Indigenous knowledge and western science to implement holistic land stewardship practices. This includes using fire as an ecological and cultural tool to achieve beneficial and healing outcomes. Witnessing Indigenous people revitalize and reconnect with this practice has been one of the greatest gifts of her career. Anderson was also part of a team that helped bring bison back to the SMSC – a relative that will help the community connect with the land and their culture. \nClick here for more information about the Wild Great Plains conference.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/wild-great-plains-conference-ferin-davis-anderson/
LOCATION:Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center\, 2021 Transformation Dr.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 season Pre-Concert Chat posted online
DESCRIPTION:Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season\, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer\, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical concert is available to view online as well as via podcast the Monday before the concert\, and for most events is also screened in person in the Steinhart Room at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts 45 minutes before the concert begins. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks to each pre-concert chat are included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel. \nSaturday\, October 26\, 2024 | 7:30pm – Melodies from Spain\nSunday\, November 24\, 2024 | 6:00pm – Love\, Loss & Eternity\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – French Impressions\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Star Wars: Return of the Maestro\nFriday\, April 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – A Tightrope Across Time\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Light & Renewal
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2024-25-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-04-21/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250424T193000
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SUMMARY:Winchell Lecture: "Where Do Pandemics Come From?" with Monica Green
DESCRIPTION:On April 24th at 6:00PM in Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center rooms 201-209\, the Department of History will welcome Dr. Monica Green as this year’s Richard Dean Winchell Lecturer. Discover how pandemics truly begin—and why they thrive—by tracing their path from medieval plagues to modern outbreaks. In this talk\, Dr. Green will reveal how infectious diseases jump species barriers\, travel global networks\, and persist for centuries. Drawing on cutting-edge genetics and fresh insights into the Black Death\, she’ll show how history can guide us in confronting pandemics today—and preventing them tomorrow. \nFree registration is required \nDr. Monica H. Green is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of medicine and global health\, with a particular focus on the medieval period. Her pioneering work bridges the humanities and sciences\, integrating historical research with cutting-edge genetics to explore the origins and spread of pandemics\, including the Black Death. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America\, Dr. Green has published extensively on the history of disease\, women’s health\, and medical knowledge transmission across cultures. As an independent scholar\, she continues to shape global conversations on historical epidemiology and the interdisciplinary study of health.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/winchell-lecture-where-do-pandemics-come-from-with-monica-green/
LOCATION:Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center\, 6001 Dodge Street\, Omaha\, NE\, 68162\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250426T093000
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SUMMARY:44th Annual Neihardt Spring Conference “Twilight of the Sioux: From the Indian Wars to Wounded Knee”
DESCRIPTION:The conference theme this year is inspired by the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Twilight of the Sioux. Published as a combination of the last two chapters (or songs) of John Neihardt’s book “A Cycle of the West\,” the book “Twilight of the Sioux” addresses the tragedy experienced by Plains Indians in the “Song of the Indian Wars” and “Song of the Messiah.” The former tells of the period of migration and the last great fight for the bison pastures between the invading white race and the Plains Indians (1854-1890)\, and the latter addresses the conquered people and the worldly end of their great dream\, closing with the battle of Wounded Knee (1890). The historical events that Neihardt wrote about changed the United States in innumerable and fundamental ways. Using his writing as the framework and centering Native American experts as speakers\, this conference will spark discussion by broadening perspectives and considering the long-term impact of how history is framed. \nTickets are required\, and the price ranges from $15-$35\, depending on student/member status and the inclusion of lunch. Click here for more information\, and to purchase tickets. \nTopics and speakers include: \nIncorporating and Engaging Native Histories on Public Lands\, Broc Anderson\, M.A.\, Director of Historic Sites for the Nebraska State Historical Society \nThe Act and Impact of Crazy Horse’s Death at Ft. Robinson\, Sandy Wounded Arrow\, M.A.\, Site Director\, Ft. Robinson Nebraska State Historic Site \nLakota Oral Tradition in “Black Elk Speaks\,” Delphine Red Shirt\, PhD\, Stanford University \n“The Oregon Trail” and Native Representation on the Plains\, Margaret Huettl\, PhD\, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh \nNAGPRA – Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act\, Calvin Harlan\, Acting Deputy Chief\, Omaha Tribe of Nebraska \nModerator: Nancy Gillis
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/44th-annual-neihardt-spring-conference/
LOCATION:John G. Neihardt State Historic Site\, 306 W. Elm St.\, Bancroft\, NE\, 68004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T160000
DTSTAMP:20250425T220942Z
CREATED:20250422T184147Z
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SUMMARY:Deadline for 2025 Bright Lights Summer Learning Adventures scholarships
DESCRIPTION:Bright Lights provides unique\, motivating\, hands-on summer learning camps for K-8th grade students\, including humanities subjects like literature and writing\, history\, world cultures. and languages. \nScholarships are available\, and the deadline to apply for a scholarship is May 1. For more information\, visit the Bright Lights scholarship page. \nThe first camps begin June 2\, and the application deadline is at least one week before the camp begins (subject to availability). For details about camps\, visit the Bright Lights camps list.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/deadline-for-2025-bright-lights-summer-camp-scholarships/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bright Lights":MAILTO:info@brightlights.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T160000
DTSTAMP:20250425T221118Z
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SUMMARY:Registration application deadline for 2025 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps
DESCRIPTION:Loper Launch is a fun\, engaging way for kids entering grades 1-8 to continue learning during the summer while connecting with the UNK campus. Families can choose from a variety of one-week workshops and four-week academies led by educators from UNK and area school districts. \nRegistration and fees are required\, and the deadline is May 1. For more information\, visit the website at https://www.unk.edu/loperlaunch/index.php
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/registration-deadline-for-2025-loper-launch-summer-camps/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250615T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T191154Z
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SUMMARY:Vaquero: The Genesis of the Texas Cowboy
DESCRIPTION:“Vaquero” was created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library\, Texas State University-San Marcos\, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas. It features sixty-two digital carbon prints with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle\, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. The exhibit traces the long history of vaqueros\, or cowboys\, into the earliest phases of westward expansion onto this continent\, and the legacy of early cowboys in the development of western locales like central Nebraska. Paired with this traveling exhibit is a Buffalo County rodeo history display that keeps the equine theme alive. \nThe exhibit opens to the public at 5 p.m. on May 1 and runs through June 15. \nMuseum hours are Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sunday 1 – 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for the general public\, $5 for children 3-12\, and free for children 2 and under and for members.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/vaquero-the-genesis-of-the-texas-cowboy/
LOCATION:Trails and Rails Museum\, 710 W. 11th St.\, Kearney\, NE\, 68845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250503T143000
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SUMMARY:24-25 Poetry & Music Project Concert
DESCRIPTION:Now in its 8th year\, the Poetry & Music Project connects student poets and their words with composers to create original music and explore the connections between poetry and music. For the 24/25 Project\, Opera Omaha received 66 poem submissions from students across Nebraska inspired by the theme “My Neighborhood.” Poets ranged from second graders to high school juniors\, including first time poets and seasoned writers. Project composer Sidney Marquez Boquiren and hip-hop artist Lite Pole selected 14 poems that inspired them to create original music with the poems as the lyrics. \nClick here for more information.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/24-25-poetry-music-project-concert/
LOCATION:Omaha Conservatory of Music\, 7023 Cass St.\, Omaha\, NE\, 68132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250504T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250504T160000
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SUMMARY:Salon Reading Series: "Chiaroscuro" @ Turbine Flats
DESCRIPTION:Each Salon Reading Series event features a reading of a play followed by a moderated discussion of the play’s themes and how these themes apply to the community. The theme for 2024-25 is “Hold On.” This theme will explore concepts of holding on and letting go. \nThe Salon Reading Series is free and open to the public\, with two readings each week: \n\nthe first on Sunday afternoon at 2pm in the Turbine Flats Resonator Gallery at 2124 Y St\nthe second on Wednesday evening at 6:30pm  in the Eastmont Living’s theater space at 6315 O St in Lincoln.\n\nChiaroscuro\nBy Brian Bornstein\nMichelangelo Merisi\, a leading artist of his time\, was neglected for several centuries before gaining renewed appreciation. Known now as Caravaggio\, he is regarded as one of the most talented and influential painters of the late Renaissance\, whose chiaroscuro style continues to be taught and copied. Through an exploration of Caravaggio’s life and work\, the play examines the nature of genius\, the role of the media\, and the relation of art to celebrity and madness.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/salon-reading-series-chiaroscuro-turbine-flats/
LOCATION:Turbine Flats\, 2124 Y St\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68503\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250505T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250505T170000
DTSTAMP:20241009T162240Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 season Pre-Concert Chat posted online
DESCRIPTION:Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season\, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer\, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical concert is available to view online as well as via podcast the Monday before the concert\, and for most events is also screened in person in the Steinhart Room at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts 45 minutes before the concert begins. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks to each pre-concert chat are included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel. \nSaturday\, October 26\, 2024 | 7:30pm – Melodies from Spain\nSunday\, November 24\, 2024 | 6:00pm – Love\, Loss & Eternity\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – French Impressions\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Star Wars: Return of the Maestro\nFriday\, April 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – A Tightrope Across Time\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Light & Renewal
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2024-25-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-05-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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SUMMARY:Japanese Hall events at Legacy of the Plains Museum
DESCRIPTION:Alongside a special “Japanese Hall” episode for season 16 of Nebraska Public Media’s cultural series “Nebraska Stories”\, several in-person events surrounding the story of the Japanese Hall and History Project on the Legacy of the Plains Museum campus will take place in Gering and Scottsbluff. The Japanese Hall exhibit will be open without charge for anyone attending events throughout the day. Below is the schedule for events at Legacy of the Plains Museum. \n10:30 Julie Ushio presents Graves of Early Immigrants in the LPM Great Hall; afterwards she will lead a walking tour of Fairview Cemetery. (Transportation on your own to the cemetery.) Meet at the parking lot nearest the cemetery office. \n1:30 p.m. Vickie Sakurada Schaepler will give a presentation “The Legacy of Japanese Immigrants in Nebraska including stories of WWII.” \n2:45 p.m. Sharon Ishii-Jordan and Kim Hachiya will present on Japanese and Japanese American Incarceration Camps of WWII \n4 p.m. Dedication of a Nebraska State Historical Society Historical Marker at Japanese Hall
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/japanese-hall-events-at-legacy/
LOCATION:Legacy of the Plains Musuem\, 2930 Old Oregon Trail\, Gering\, NE\, 69341\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Public Media":MAILTO:customerservice@nebraskapublicmedia.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250506T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250506T190000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Alongside a special “Japanese Hall” episode for season 16 of Nebraska Public Media’s cultural series “Nebraska Stories”\, several in-person events surrounding the story of the Japanese Hall and History Project on the Legacy of the Plains Museum campus will take place in Gering and Scottsbluff. Below is the schedule for events at Legacy of the Plains Museum. \n5-6 p.m. Meet and Greet \n6-7 p.m. Nebraska Stories Preview Screening and Panel discussion with: \n– Vickie Sakurada Schaepler\, Japanese Hall and History Project coordinator \n– John Miyoshi\, Japanese Hall and History Project construction manager \n– Sharon Ishii-Jordan\, retired Associate Dean and Professor Emerita of Education at Creighton University\, and Japanese Hall and History Project advisor \n– Julie Ushio\, author\, historian\, and Japanese Hall and History Project advisor \n– Kim Hachiya\, author\, Japanese Hall and History Project editor and advisor (moderator) \nIf you miss the in-person event\, the broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” will be Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/japanese-hall-events-at-midwest-theater/
LOCATION:Midwest Theater\, 1707 Broadway\, Scottsbluff\, NE\, 69361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Public Media":MAILTO:customerservice@nebraskapublicmedia.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250506T183000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Jeff Alessandrelli
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nJeff’s poetry interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. \nJeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the book And Yet (Future Tense Books\, 2024). The Kenyon Review called his 2019 poetry collection Fur Not Light an “example of radical humility…its poems enact a quiet but persistent empathy in the world of creative writing.” Recent work by Alessandrelli appears or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review\, Chicago Review\, and Buckmxn Journal. In addition to his writing Jeff also directs the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-jeff-alessandrelli/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T193000
DTSTAMP:20250410T153648Z
CREATED:20250410T153648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T153648Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Writing Workshop for Teens
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet\, author\, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for teens age 13 and up. The workshop is free\, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. \nRayma Ramana is an award-winning American author\, poet and lyricist. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater\, Celebrate Brooklyn!\, the Source magazine’s SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-writing-workshop-for-teens/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T203000
DTSTAMP:20250401T144127Z
CREATED:20250401T144127Z
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SUMMARY:Salon Reading Series: "Chiaroscuro" @ Eastmont Living
DESCRIPTION:Each Salon Reading Series event features a reading of a play followed by a moderated discussion of the play’s themes and how these themes apply to the community. The theme for 2024-25 is “Hold On.” This theme will explore concepts of holding on and letting go. \nThe Salon Reading Series is free and open to the public\, with two readings each week: \n\nthe first on Sunday afternoon at 2pm in the Turbine Flats Resonator Gallery at 2124 Y St\nthe second on Wednesday evening at 6:30pm  in the Eastmont Living’s theater space at 6315 O St in Lincoln.\n\nChiaroscuro\nBy Brian Bornstein\nMichelangelo Merisi\, a leading artist of his time\, was neglected for several centuries before gaining renewed appreciation. Known now as Caravaggio\, he is regarded as one of the most talented and influential painters of the late Renaissance\, whose chiaroscuro style continues to be taught and copied. Through an exploration of Caravaggio’s life and work\, the play examines the nature of genius\, the role of the media\, and the relation of art to celebrity and madness.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/salon-reading-series-chiaroscuro-eastmont-living/
LOCATION:Eastmont Living Performing Arts Center\, 6315 O St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68510\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Angels Theatre Company":MAILTO:angelstheatreco@gmail.com
GEO:40.8127695;-96.6341255
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T193000
DTSTAMP:20250410T162422Z
CREATED:20250410T162422Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Writing Workshop for Adults
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet\, author\, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for adults. The workshop is free\, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. \nRayma Ramana is an award-winning American author\, poet and lyricist. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater\, Celebrate Brooklyn!\, the Source magazine’s SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-writing-workshop-for-adults/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T203000
DTSTAMP:20250417T204838Z
CREATED:20250417T204838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204838Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-15/
LOCATION:Statewide on Nebraska Public Media Television\, NE\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Public Media":MAILTO:customerservice@nebraskapublicmedia.org
GEO:43.2994285;-74.2179326
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250516T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250516T200000
DTSTAMP:20250417T204838Z
CREATED:20250417T204838Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-16/
LOCATION:Statewide on Nebraska Public Media Television\, NE\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Public Media":MAILTO:customerservice@nebraskapublicmedia.org
GEO:43.2994285;-74.2179326
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T153127Z
CREATED:20250102T173158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T153127Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Kiara Nicole Letcher
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nWriting from out of the ordinary in an exploration in peculiar poetry. In this workshop\, we will look at poems that deal with the supernatural — poems that peer beyond the veil and utilize a supernatural element. From Poe\, Keats\, Lorca\, and Rossetti\, among others\, we will explore these poems and what they say about the seen and unseen world. Through these works\, we’ll consider how the supernatural in poetry reflects deep-seated human questions about mortality\, reality\, and the limits of human understanding. By reading and discussing these pieces\, participants will engage with how different eras and cultures have expressed universal themes of fear\, mystery\, and fascination with the unknown. Participants will have the opportunity to ruminate and investigate poems of the paranormal\, gaining insights into how these eerie elements serve as a window into humanity’s beliefs and values. They will also craft their own poems with a twist of the eerie\, adding to a long-standing tradition of poetic exploration that bridges the tangible and intangible aspects of human experience. \nKIARA NICOLE LETCHER is the author of Oxblood\, (Agape Editions\, 2024) and the chapbook Scream Queen (Orchard Street Press\, 2019). Her work has appeared in South Dakota Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Plainsongs Magazine\, Solstice Literary Magazine\, Querencia Press and Mulberry Literary\, among other publications. Her work is also forthcoming in Laurel Review.      She received her MFA from The University of Nebraska at Omaha and previously served as a Board Member for the Nebraska Writer’s Collective. She was the 2024 Keynote Speaker for the Nebraska Scholastic Writing Awards and a Nebraska State Poet Nominee.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-kiara-nicole-letcher/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250518T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250518T140000
DTSTAMP:20250417T204838Z
CREATED:20250417T204838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204838Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-18/
LOCATION:Statewide on Nebraska Public Media Television\, NE\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Public Media":MAILTO:customerservice@nebraskapublicmedia.org
GEO:43.2994285;-74.2179326
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250521T193000
DTSTAMP:20250410T164210Z
CREATED:20250410T162726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T164210Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Writing Workshop for Adults
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet\, author\, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for adults. The workshop is free\, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. \nRayma Ramana is an award-winning American author\, poet and lyricist. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater\, Celebrate Brooklyn!\, the Source magazine’s SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-writing-workshop-for-adults-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250523T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250523T213000
DTSTAMP:20250513T191203Z
CREATED:20250509T190110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T191203Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Loren Eiseley's “The Star Thrower"
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 23\nScottsbluff WNCC Recital Hall 7:30 pm \nTuesday\, May 27\nUNO Strauss Performing Center Recital Hall 7:30 pm \nWith reflections from composer/performer and Eiseley scholar John Cimino discussing and performing highlights of his Eiseley inspired musical dramatization\, The Star Thrower. \nLoren Eiseley’s celebrated essay\, “The Star Thrower”\, is a marvel of brilliant natural science and philosophy\, thoughtful\, engaging storytelling and superbly crafted language.  It is a tale for our times and for all times\, a lifeline to something marvelous and true: “we are of Nature\, not above Nature”\, we are connected to the natural world and that connection is the essence of our humanity.  Eiseley helps us to feel and comprehend our impulse to “reach across the species barrier” to help fragile\, endangered lifeforms in need of our protection and support.  “The task was not to be assumed lightly\,” says Eiseley\, “For it was men as well as starfish that we sought to save.” \nThe commissioning team at the renowned Center for Creative Leadership which selected Eiseley’s “Star Thrower” essay to be transformed into an opera\, believed it could inspire in its listeners new behaviors and sensitivities and a realization that leaders — indeed\, all of us — have it within our power to lead by example and lift others from disillusionment and despair.  And just so\, “The Star Thrower” opera or musical dramatization was ushered into the world.  Please join us for an evening of big questions\, beautiful music and inspired conversation.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/an-evening-with-loren-eiseleys-the-star-thrower/
LOCATION:Western Nebraska Community College Recital Hall\, 1601 E. 27th Street\, Scottsbluff\, 69361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250525T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250525T203000
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SUMMARY:2025 New Play Festival
DESCRIPTION:The New Play Festival was founded in 2006 by Metropolitan Community College\, and continues\, now that the GPTC is its own nonprofit\, as a vibrant community partnership between the two organizations. The Festival takes place each spring at the Swanson Conference Center on MCC’s historic Fort Omaha Campus. \nEach year\, the Festival helps to develop a group of new plays that are selected from a pool of around 1000 submissions. During the Festival\, local and national playwrights\, actors\, directors\, dramaturgs\, designers and Omaha community members\, share a week of stories\, workshops\, readings\, meals\, performances and celebrations. All public festival events are free to attend. Click here for more information\, including links to the schedule and featured playwrights\, artists\, dramaturgs\, and directors.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2025-new-play-festival/2025-05-25/
LOCATION:Swanson Conference Center\, Metropolitan Community College\, 5300 N 30th St\, Omaha\, NE\, 68111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Great Plains Theatre Commons":MAILTO:commons@gptcplays.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250526T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250526T183000
DTSTAMP:20250429T201000Z
CREATED:20250429T201000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T201000Z
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SUMMARY:2025 New Play Festival
DESCRIPTION:The New Play Festival was founded in 2006 by Metropolitan Community College\, and continues\, now that the GPTC is its own nonprofit\, as a vibrant community partnership between the two organizations. The Festival takes place each spring at the Swanson Conference Center on MCC’s historic Fort Omaha Campus. \nEach year\, the Festival helps to develop a group of new plays that are selected from a pool of around 1000 submissions. During the Festival\, local and national playwrights\, actors\, directors\, dramaturgs\, designers and Omaha community members\, share a week of stories\, workshops\, readings\, meals\, performances and celebrations. All public festival events are free to attend. Click here for more information\, including links to the schedule and featured playwrights\, artists\, dramaturgs\, and directors.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2025-new-play-festival/2025-05-26/
LOCATION:Swanson Conference Center\, Metropolitan Community College\, 5300 N 30th St\, Omaha\, NE\, 68111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Great Plains Theatre Commons":MAILTO:commons@gptcplays.com
GEO:41.3103886;-95.9578547
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250527T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250527T120000
DTSTAMP:20250422T204441Z
CREATED:20250422T204441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T204441Z
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SUMMARY:Camp Culture 2025 (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The Asian Community and Cultural Center in Lincoln offers a weeklong summer camp where kids grades K-5 can learn about the different cultures represented within their community through dance\, music\, food\, and games led by representatives of each culture.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/camp-culture-2025-registered-students-only/2025-05-27/
LOCATION:Asian Community & Cultural Center of Lincoln\, 144 N 44th St\, Ste A\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68503\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250527T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250527T203000
DTSTAMP:20250429T201000Z
CREATED:20250429T201000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T201000Z
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SUMMARY:2025 New Play Festival
DESCRIPTION:The New Play Festival was founded in 2006 by Metropolitan Community College\, and continues\, now that the GPTC is its own nonprofit\, as a vibrant community partnership between the two organizations. The Festival takes place each spring at the Swanson Conference Center on MCC’s historic Fort Omaha Campus. \nEach year\, the Festival helps to develop a group of new plays that are selected from a pool of around 1000 submissions. During the Festival\, local and national playwrights\, actors\, directors\, dramaturgs\, designers and Omaha community members\, share a week of stories\, workshops\, readings\, meals\, performances and celebrations. All public festival events are free to attend. Click here for more information\, including links to the schedule and featured playwrights\, artists\, dramaturgs\, and directors.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2025-new-play-festival/2025-05-27/
LOCATION:Swanson Conference Center\, Metropolitan Community College\, 5300 N 30th St\, Omaha\, NE\, 68111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Great Plains Theatre Commons":MAILTO:commons@gptcplays.com
GEO:41.3103886;-95.9578547
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250527T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250527T213000
DTSTAMP:20250513T191146Z
CREATED:20250509T190326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T191146Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Loren Eiseley's Star Thrower
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 23\nScottsbluff WNCC Recital Hall 7:30 pm \nTuesday\, May 27\nUNO Strauss Performing Center Recital Hall 7:30 pm \nWith reflections from composer/performer and Eiseley scholar John Cimino discussing and performing highlights of his Eiseley inspired musical dramatization\, The Star Thrower. \nLoren Eiseley’s celebrated essay\, “The Star Thrower”\, is a marvel of brilliant natural science and philosophy\, thoughtful\, engaging storytelling and superbly crafted language.  It is a tale for our times and for all times\, a lifeline to something marvelous and true: “we are of Nature\, not above Nature”\, we are connected to the natural world and that connection is the essence of our humanity.  Eiseley helps us to feel and comprehend our impulse to “reach across the species barrier” to help fragile\, endangered lifeforms in need of our protection and support.  “The task was not to be assumed lightly\,” says Eiseley\, “For it was men as well as starfish that we sought to save.” \nThe commissioning team at the renowned Center for Creative Leadership which selected Eiseley’s “Star Thrower” essay to be transformed into an opera\, believed it could inspire in its listeners new behaviors and sensitivities and a realization that leaders — indeed\, all of us — have it within our power to lead by example and lift others from disillusionment and despair.  And just so\, “The Star Thrower” opera or musical dramatization was ushered into the world.  Please join us for an evening of big questions\, beautiful music and inspired conversation.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/an-evening-with-loren-eiseleys-star-thrower/
LOCATION:University of Nebraska-Omaha
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Camp Culture 2025 (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The Asian Community and Cultural Center in Lincoln offers a weeklong summer camp where kids grades K-5 can learn about the different cultures represented within their community through dance\, music\, food\, and games led by representatives of each culture.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/camp-culture-2025-registered-students-only/2025-05-28/
LOCATION:Asian Community & Cultural Center of Lincoln\, 144 N 44th St\, Ste A\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68503\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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