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 deadline is at least one week before each week’s camps begin (subject to availability). For details about camps, visit the Bright Lights camps list.
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 1918 novel as a title selected by the National Endowment for the Arts' 2024-2025 Big Read program. Additional conference programs will celebrate the 100th publication anniversary […]
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, Prince Eric, and all your favorite characters as they read, perform, and interact with students in this one-hour workshop “under the sea”!
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 […]
Speaker: Jewel Rodgers Sponsored by the Larksong Writers Place
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, Prince Eric, and all your favorite characters as they read, perform, and interact with students in this one-hour workshop “under the sea”!
Jane Smiley's talk on Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer will mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration of Cather's 1918 novel as a title selected […]
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 […]
Join Peter Cipkowski for a conversation with Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses of The Kilbanes, the acclaimed musical duo currently adapting Willa Cather's My Ántonia into an original stage musical. Commissioned by Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis, their adaptation reimagines Cather's masterpiece through their distinctive blend of storytelling and music. The panel will explore the […]
Architectural and interior styles, powerful landscapes, and domestic scenes all feature prominently in Willa Cather’s writing. These important backdrops to her novels were illuminated through her gift for idyllic description […]
