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SUMMARY:The Origins of American Cowboy Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angel Vigil\, Chautauqua scholar \nWhy are there rodeos? Why are there cowboys? Why are there horses in\nAmerica? Where did the word cowboy come from? The Stetson cowboy hat? Why were there TV shows like Gunsmoke\, The Lone Ranger\, and The Cisco Kid? \nThis fascinating presentation traces cowboy culture’s roots from the open plains of Spain to the establishment of ranching culture in the New World. Angel Vigil describes the role of the Spanish/Mexican vaquero in the establishment of\ntraditional cowboy and ranching practices in the west\, placing the historical and fictional lore of the origins of the American cowboy in the historical context of the vaquero\, the true first cowboy. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-origins-of-american-cowboy-culture-2/
LOCATION:NE
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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SUMMARY:America 250 Homestead Days
DESCRIPTION:Homestead National Historical Park is hosting a full weekend of free activities\, demonstrations\, and performances that allow visitors to explore how the ideals and hopes of the American Revolution continued through the era of the Homestead Act\, extending into the 1980s and beyond. \nHomestead National Historical Park will be celebrating America’s 250th birthday with expanding demonstrations broken down by decades and a special Junior Ranger activity to explore it all. Through hands-on experiences and engaging presentations\, visitors can discover how the ideals of the nation’s founding continued through the Homestead Act and into the lives of homesteaders across generations. This year’s stage presentations will feature music\, dance\, and living history performances that share cultural traditions and personal stories connected to the homesteading experience and the broader American story. \nSaturday\, June 27 \n10 a.m.- 4 p.m.  Traditional craft demonstrations and antique farming demonstrations\nNoon  The Bloomer Costume: Dress Reform and Women’s Freedom\, Rayma Volkmer\n1 p.m.  Acapella Men’s Choir\, Homestead Harmonizers\n2 p.m.  Wichita War Dancer\, Greg Victors\n3 p.m.  Czech Band\, Kenny Janak Orchestra \nSunday\, June 28 \n10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Traditional craft demonstrations and antique farming demonstrations\nNoon  Dulcimer Music\, Courtland Opry House Dulcimer Players\n1 p.m.  Musical Review \, Beatrice Community Players\n2 p.m. Musical Patriotic Panoramas\, Donna Gunn\n3 p.m. Abraham Lincoln Living Historian\, Fritz Klein \nKlein\, the event’s keynote presenter\, has been featured in multiple Abraham Lincoln documentaries and will share how Abraham Lincoln connected the Homestead Act to the founding principles of the United States. \nAdditional activities will take place throughout the weekend\, including opportunities for visitors of all ages to participate in interactive demonstrations and explore the park’s rich history. \nThe site is fee-free year-round. No entrance fee or pass is required.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/america-250-homestead-days/2026-06-27/
LOCATION:Homestead National Historic Park\, 8523 West State Highway 4\, Beatrice\, NE\, 68310\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Grants
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SUMMARY:Picture Cave: Finding the Divine Within
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Taylor Keen \nPicture Cave is a 1\,300 year old rock art site approximately 60 miles south of present day St. Louis and the former city of Cahokia. Picture Cave was inhabited by the ancestors of the Omaha\, Ponca\, Kansa/Kaw\, Osage and Quapaw tribes\, otherwise known as the Dhegiha. The stories entombed in the rock art detail the first celestial family\, the Great Serpent\, and a mysterious being known as either Morning Star or Redhorn. There is a strong possibility that some of the stories may pertain to another Siouan speaking related group known as the Chirwere\, which includes the Hochunk\, Iowa\, Otoe and Missouri tribes. The site has been of recent controversy by its public auction and sale to an undisclosed buyer. The site may be inhabited by the spirit of the Great Serpent…
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/picture-cave-finding-the-divine-within/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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SUMMARY:Women's Rights and the Saucy Mrs. Adams
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jessica Downing-Ford\, Chautauqua Scholar \nFive years after Abigail Smith married John Adams\, the American colonies adopted the British law of coverture. This law held that no female person had a legal identity. Married women owned nothing—not even the clothes on their backs. More importantly\, they had no rights over their own bodies\, or custody of the children they bore. \nAbigail’s marriage was based on mutual respect\, and she understood how lucky she was. She witnessed families torn apart by a husband’s drunkenness\, lack of employment\, temper\, and/or money mismanagement. Abigail’s famous ‘remember the ladies’ letter to her husband in which she implores him to “not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands\,” speaks directly to the law of coverture. This was the women’s rights issue of her time—remnants of which still exist in the year 2024.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/womens-rights-and-the-saucy-mrs-adams-2/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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SUMMARY:An Evening with El Vaquero
DESCRIPTION:Meet El Vaquero\, America’s first cowboy\, as portrayed by Angel Vigil. A composite of many different historic figures\, El Vaquero is a Spanish colonial cowboy. These cowboys were the first Europeans to ride the open ranges and sleep under the stars. They learned to tame the wild horses of the plains and delivered vast herds of cattle across great distances\, mastering riding\, roping and other skills. \nAngel Vigil is a Colorado Heritage Artist storyteller.who is the author of six award-winning books on Hispanic and Western culture and arts. Vigil’s portrayal of El Vaquero will give color to the enduring American myth of a self-reliant cowboy riding tall in the saddle with an independent spirit representing all that is good in the American character. \n  \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/an-evening-with-el-vaquero-2/
LOCATION:French Memorial Chapel\, Hastings College\, Hastings\, NE\, 68901\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T191500
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SUMMARY:Raices de mi Pueblo
DESCRIPTION:Authentic Mexican dancing performed by area children. \nThe mission of Raices de mi Pueblo is to provide opportunity for the children to develop their self-esteem and confidence in their many talents and abilities.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/raices-de-mi-pueblo/
LOCATION:French Memorial Chapel\, Hastings College\, Hastings\, NE\, 68901\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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SUMMARY:A Chicano Ancestral Perspective of 485 Years of Great Plains History
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: José Garcia and Linda Garcia \nLinda and Jose were each raised by Mexican American parents who grew up in both urban and rural settings\, and who themselves were children of Mexican immigrants.Their deep understanding of the Spanish American experience—from the historical beginnings with the 1541 Coronado Expedition to the Fabled Land of Cibola (a legendary destination kept alive within Omaha’s urban culture) to the experiences of the century-and-a-half movement of Mexican migrant and railroad workers brought into Nebraska—fuels their Chautauqua presentation. The blending of Jose’s visual historical presentation and Linda’s oral storytelling creates a familiarity born within the movement of peoples between cultures and social environments.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/a-chicano-ancestral-perspective-of-485-years-of-great-plains-history/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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SUMMARY:Giving Voice to the Silenced Stories
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Beth Dotan\, Research Assistant Professor at the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska\, Lincoln \nThis program will take a glimpse into the collections of Holocaust survivors who settled in Nebraska and Nebraska WWII servicemen who liberated individuals interned in Nazi concentration camps\, existing under inconceivable conditions. A grave reflection on this period in American history that connects Nebraskans to this global event from over 80 years ago\, their silent experiences are now being shared. Archival materials are now preserved in a digital humanities web project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through the work of the Norman and Bernice Center for Judaic Studies and the UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. https://nestoriesofhumanity.unl.edu/  \nIn addition to making the stories available to the public digitally\, the website serves as a teaching tool integrating digital storytelling with state educational standards for secondary classrooms and higher-education research. Dotan will demonstrate how digital methods elevate these stories and how personal archives have provided unexpected historical discovery and networking within our Nebraska community.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/giving-voice-to-the-silenced-stories/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T140000
DTSTAMP:20260529T170443Z
CREATED:20260529T170407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T170443Z
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SUMMARY:Black Homesteaders in the Great Plains of America
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Ewing\, Executive Director of Great Plains Black History Museum \nAcross every state in the Great Plains\, African American homesteaders claimed land\, built communities\, and shaped a distinct chapter of American history. Though their numbers were smaller than those of the vast wave of White settlers\, Black homesteaders established homes\, cultivated farms\, and created a sense of place and belonging entirely their own. \nThe Homestead Act opened land ownership to male citizens\, widows\, single women\, and immigrants who pledged to become citizens. With the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment\, African Americans were also guaranteed the right to participate fully in this opportunity. Thousands seized it. \nBlack homesteaders used the promise of land to build new lives rooted in independence. They worked and owned the soil beneath their feet\, supported their families\, and ensured their children received an education. They organized churches\, schools\, and civic institutions\, nurturing rich cultural and religious traditions. In governing their own affairs\, they pursued the full rights and responsibilities of freedom—asserting their place as equal citizens in the American story.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/black-homesteaders-in-the-great-plains-of-america/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260213T214045Z
CREATED:20260213T214045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T214045Z
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SUMMARY:A Musical Journey Across America: Songs That Helped Shape a Nation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Sayre \nSponsored by the York Area Senior Center
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/a-musical-journey-across-america-songs-that-helped-shape-a-nation-15/
LOCATION:York Area Senior Center\, 725 Nebraska Ave\, York\, NE\, 68467\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T120000
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CREATED:20260529T165945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T165945Z
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SUMMARY:Weaving a Nation Storytime
DESCRIPTION:Special story time for kids!
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/weaving-a-nation-storytime/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T162742Z
CREATED:20260527T162742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T162742Z
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SUMMARY:2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-bright-lights-summer-camp-registered-students-only/2026-06-26/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260626T073000
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DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
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SUMMARY:2026 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The 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 camps that are not only fun and engaging\, but also educational. \nLoper Launch Campers (and their adults) can choose between our academies and our one-week themed workshops. Countdown Hour is also available for those needing an early drop-off option.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-loper-launch-summer-enrichment-camps-registered-students-only/2026-06-26/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260628
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CREATED:20260107T204924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T141137Z
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SUMMARY:Weaving a Nation
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Hastings to hear the lesser-known stories of the forging of our nation and our state. Details here.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/weaving-a-nation-2/
LOCATION:Hastings College\, 710 Turner Ave\, Hastings\, 68901\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T130000
DTSTAMP:20251119T183146Z
CREATED:20251119T183146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T183146Z
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SUMMARY:Cattle Trails and Songs of the West
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Wells \nSponsored by the Lexington Grand Generation Center
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/cattle-trails-and-songs-of-the-west-88/
LOCATION:Lexington Grand Generation Center\, 407 East 6th St.\, Lexington\, NE\, 68850\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T162742Z
CREATED:20260527T162742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T162742Z
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SUMMARY:2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-bright-lights-summer-camp-registered-students-only/2026-06-25/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260625T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
UID:10005518-1782372600-1782392400@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:2026 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The 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 camps that are not only fun and engaging\, but also educational. \nLoper Launch Campers (and their adults) can choose between our academies and our one-week themed workshops. Countdown Hour is also available for those needing an early drop-off option.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-loper-launch-summer-enrichment-camps-registered-students-only/2026-06-25/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260624T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260624T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T162742Z
CREATED:20260527T162742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T162742Z
UID:10005550-1782291600-1782316800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-bright-lights-summer-camp-registered-students-only/2026-06-24/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260624T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
UID:10005517-1782286200-1782306000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:2026 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The 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 camps that are not only fun and engaging\, but also educational. \nLoper Launch Campers (and their adults) can choose between our academies and our one-week themed workshops. Countdown Hour is also available for those needing an early drop-off option.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-loper-launch-summer-enrichment-camps-registered-students-only/2026-06-24/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:The Heart’s Compass: Women on the Trails
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Deb Carpenter Nolting \nSponsored by the Scotts Bluff National Monument
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-hearts-compass-women-on-the-trails-3/
LOCATION:Scotts Bluff National Monument\, 190276 Old Oregon Trail\, Gering\, NE\, 69341\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T162631Z
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SUMMARY:Uncle Sam: The Origins and Evolution of an American Icon
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Donald Hickey \nSponsored by the Norfolk Public Library
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/uncle-sam-the-origins-and-evolution-of-an-american-icon-2/
LOCATION:Norfolk Public Library\, 308 W. Prospect Ave.\, Norfolk\, NE\, 68701\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T150000
DTSTAMP:20260210T142728Z
CREATED:20260210T142728Z
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SUMMARY:Cattle Trails and Songs of the West
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Wells \nSponsored by Primrose Retirement Community
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/cattle-trails-and-songs-of-the-west-98/2026-06-23/
LOCATION:Primrose Retirement Center\, 3990 W. Capitol Ave.\, Grand Island\, NE\, 68803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T162742Z
CREATED:20260527T162742Z
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SUMMARY:2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-bright-lights-summer-camp-registered-students-only/2026-06-23/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260623T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
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SUMMARY:2026 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The 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 camps that are not only fun and engaging\, but also educational. \nLoper Launch Campers (and their adults) can choose between our academies and our one-week themed workshops. Countdown Hour is also available for those needing an early drop-off option.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-loper-launch-summer-enrichment-camps-registered-students-only/2026-06-23/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260622T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260622T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T162742Z
CREATED:20260527T162742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T162742Z
UID:10005548-1782118800-1782144000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-bright-lights-summer-camp-registered-students-only/2026-06-22/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260622T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260622T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
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SUMMARY:2026 Loper Launch Summer Enrichment Camps (registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:The 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 camps that are not only fun and engaging\, but also educational. \nLoper Launch Campers (and their adults) can choose between our academies and our one-week themed workshops. Countdown Hour is also available for those needing an early drop-off option.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/2026-loper-launch-summer-enrichment-camps-registered-students-only/2026-06-22/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260621T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260621T150000
DTSTAMP:20260309T142704Z
CREATED:20260309T142704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T142704Z
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SUMMARY:The History of Trick Roping and the Wild West Show
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Wells \nSponsored by the Jennifer Reinke Public Library
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-history-of-trick-roping-and-the-wild-west-show-29/
LOCATION:Jennifer Reinke Public Library\, 311 E. Pearl St.\, Deshler\, NE\, 68340\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260621T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260621T140000
DTSTAMP:20260620T202006Z
CREATED:20260513T160732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260620T202006Z
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SUMMARY:*CANCELLED* Family Picnic
DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, folks. The weather is not cooperating\, so this event has been cancelled.  \n2200 W. 3rd St\, Hastings\n\nPlease join us to enjoy food\, fun\, and community at a picnic for everyone!\nPlease bring lunch and picnic blanket. (Some picnic tables will be available in the park)\n\nPlay lawn games with Hastings Parks & Recreation\, buy a delicious treat from Special Scoops\, and connect with your friends and neighbors. Also enjoy local music with Gracie’s Uncles\, the Tehama Shriners’ Calliope\, and more!\n\nEvent sponsors\nHastings Museum\nHastings Public Library\nHastings Parks & Recreation\nHumanities Nebraska
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/family-picnic/
LOCATION:Chautauqua Park\, Hastings\, W 5th St\, Hastings\, 68901\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260620T170000
DTSTAMP:20260616T150526Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260616T150526Z
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SUMMARY:Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charlotte Endorf \nSponsored by the Genoa Public Library
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/excess-baggage-riding-the-orphan-train-44/
LOCATION:Genoa City Hall\, 107 N Walnut St\, Genoa\, 68640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260620T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260620T113000
DTSTAMP:20260219T211152Z
CREATED:20260219T211152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T211152Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Hadara Bar-Nadav
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. \nImagery and Imagination: For the Love of Objects \nWhat do your cherished objects reveal? Explore imagery and imagination as we write about the objects that carry memory\, meaning\, and mystery in our lives. \nHADARA BAR-NADAV is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a fellowship from the Poetry Foundation\, and other honors. She is the author of five books of poetry\, most recently The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books\, 2024)\, awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry\, selected by Jericho Brown. Her other books are The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books\, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books\, 2013)\, awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues\, 2012)\, Editor’s Selection/Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House\, 2007)\, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press\, 2015)\, awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize\, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press 2010)\, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-hadara-bar-nadav/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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