Bright 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 […]
Using nationally-acclaimed actors from Crane River Theater’s upcoming production of The Little Mermaid, the page transforms into a stage in an interactive and engaging hour-long performance. Join Ariel, Sebastian, Scuttle, Ursula, […]
Kick off the 70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference with a talk from Ann Lundberg, English professor and longtime interpretive ranger, about Cather at Mesa Verde. As a professor of American Literature, Ann studies the literature of geological and archeological exploration of the American West in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and […]
Using nationally-acclaimed actors from Crane River Theater’s upcoming production of The Little Mermaid, the page transforms into a stage in an interactive and engaging hour-long performance. Join Ariel, Sebastian, Scuttle, Ursula, […]
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley will give a talk on "Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer" to mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration of Cather's […]
Using nationally-acclaimed actors from Crane River Theater’s upcoming production of The Little Mermaid, the page transforms into a stage in an interactive and engaging hour-long performance. Join Ariel, Sebastian, Scuttle, Ursula, […]
This event is weather-permitting and depends on partly cloudy or clear skies. Join author and tour guide Garrett Peck as he leads a special stargazing program at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie for our second year! As you prepare to participate in this nighttime prairie event, please do the following: Download the Skyview app on […]
Loper Launch Enrichment Camp is a fun, engaging way for kids entering grades 1-8 to continue learning during the summer while connecting with the UNK campus.
Bright 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 […]
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley will give a talk on "Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer" to mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration of Cather's […]
Using nationally-acclaimed actors from Crane River Theater’s upcoming production of The Little Mermaid, the page transforms into a stage in an interactive and engaging hour-long performance. Join Ariel, Sebastian, Scuttle, Ursula, […]
The Ollie Webb Center, Inc.'s Art of Imagination program, in collaboration with University of Nebraska Omaha professor and screenwriter Todd Richardson, has created two short films based on excerpts from two Willa Cather novels. The first film, “Tom Outland's Story,“ is from Cather’s novel The Professor‘s House and is about discovering an ancient cliff city. The other […]
