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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
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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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SUMMARY:Nebraska Warrior Writers - Omaha Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon Nebraska Wildlife Rehab’s Baldwin Center conference room\, 9777 M Street. \nOption to attend via Zoom. \nFacilitators:  Jen Stastny and Cindy Cronn \nMore information here. \nFebruary 22 Speaker: Jody Keisner\nMarch 8 Speaker: Catherine King\nMarch 22 Speaker: Dan Boster\nApril 5 Speaker: Ted Wheeler\nApril 19 Speaker: Deron Larson\nMay 3 Speaker: John Price\nMay 17 Speaker: Karla Hernandez Torrijos\nMay 31 Speaker: Jewel Rodgers
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-warrior-writers-omaha-workshops-2/2025-05-17/
LOCATION:Nebraska Wildlife Rehab’s Baldwin Center conference room\, 9777 M Street\, Omaha\, NE\, 68127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nebraska Warrior Writers
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SUMMARY:A Century of Fashion: 1870-1970
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sue McLain \nSponsored by First Trinity Lutheran Church
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/a-century-of-fashion-1870-1970-77/
LOCATION:First Trinity Lutheran Church\, 11668 NE-4\, Beatrice\, NE\, 68310\, United States
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SUMMARY:All Original\, All Nebraska
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Holtz \nSponsored by the Neligh Mill State Historical Site
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/all-original-all-nebraska-19/
LOCATION:Neligh Mill State Historical Site\, N St. and Wylie Dr.\, Neligh\, NE\, 68756\, United States
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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
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SUMMARY:Buffalo Bill's Nebraska
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeff Barnes \nSponsored by the Hastings Museum Foundation
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/buffalo-bills-nebraska-11/
LOCATION:Hastings Museum\, 1330 N. Burlington Ave.\, Hastings\, NE\, 68901\, United States
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SUMMARY:Buffalo Bill's Nebraska
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeff Barnes \nSponsored by the Valley Community Historical Society
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/buffalo-bills-nebraska-12/
LOCATION:United Faith Community Church – Valley\, 921 South Mayne St.\, Valley\, NE\, 68064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charlotte Endorf \nSponsored by the Plainview Historical Society
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/excess-baggage-riding-the-orphan-train-34/
LOCATION:Plainview High School\, 301 W. Pilcher Ave.\, Plainview\, NE\, 68769\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cattle Trails and Songs of the West
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Wells \nSponsored by the Arlington Senior Center
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/cattle-trails-and-songs-of-the-west-74/
LOCATION:Arlington Multi-Purpose Senior Center\, 305 N. 3rd St.\, Arlington\, NE\, 68002\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250521T180000
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SUMMARY:Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charlotte Endorf \nSponsored by the Betsey Hager Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/excess-baggage-riding-the-orphan-train-27/
LOCATION:The Heritage at Sagewood\, 1920 Sagewood Ave.\, Grand Island\, NE\, 68803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250522T123000
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DTSTAMP:20250501T173003Z
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SUMMARY:Sisters from Outlaw Trail: Riders of the Hoot Owl Trail
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Marci Broyhill and Teresa Orr \nSponsored by the Ponca Carnegie Library
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/sisters-from-outlaw-trail-riders-of-the-hoot-owl-trail-2/
LOCATION:Ponca Carnegie Library\, 203 W Second St.\, Ponca\, NE\, 68770\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250522T190000
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CREATED:20250307T201816Z
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SUMMARY:A Musical Journey Across America: Songs That Helped Shape a Nation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Sayre \nSponsored by the United Lutheran Church
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/a-musical-journey-across-america-songs-that-helped-shape-a-nation-11/
LOCATION:United Lutheran Church – Lincoln\, 5945 Fremont St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68507\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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CREATED:20250521T153835Z
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SUMMARY:Sisters from Outlaw Trail: History through Poetry and Music
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Marci Broyhill and Teresa Kay Orr \nSponsored by the O’Neill Rotary
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/sisters-from-outlaw-trail-history-through-poetry-and-music-3/
LOCATION:The Evergreen Assisted Living Community\, 1600 N. Harrison St.\, O'Neill\, NE\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250523T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250523T213000
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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:20250524T140000
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SUMMARY:The Queen's Road: Nebraska's Bumpy Path to Statehood
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nancy Meyers \nSponsored by the Nuckolls County Museum
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-queens-road-nebraskas-bumpy-path-to-statehood-22/
LOCATION:Nuckolls County Museum\, 612 East 6th Street\, Superior\, NE\, 68978\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250524T183000
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SUMMARY:Sisters from Outlaw Trail: History through Poetry and Music
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Marci Broyhill and Teresa Kay Orr \nSponsored by the Niobrara State Park
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/sisters-from-outlaw-trail-history-through-poetry-and-music-2/
LOCATION:Niobrara State Park\, 89261 522nd Ave.\, Niobrara\, NE\, 68760\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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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
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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
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T120000
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/2025-05-28/
LOCATION:Asian Community & Cultural Center of Lincoln\, 144 N 44th St\, Ste A\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68503\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T203000
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/2025-05-28/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250528T124500
DTSTAMP:20250417T213639Z
CREATED:20250417T213639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T213639Z
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SUMMARY:Marking Nebraska: Our (Mostly) Hidden Historical Monuments
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeff Barnes \nSponsored by the Hamilton County Senior Center
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/marking-nebraska-our-mostly-hidden-historical-monuments-57/
LOCATION:Hamilton County Senior Center\, 1205 11th Ave.\, Aurora\, NE\, 68818\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250529T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250529T120000
DTSTAMP:20250422T204441Z
CREATED:20250422T204441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T204441Z
UID:10004664-1748505600-1748520000@humanitiesnebraska.org
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/2025-05-29/
LOCATION:Asian Community & Cultural Center of Lincoln\, 144 N 44th St\, Ste A\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68503\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
GEO:40.8142985;-96.6577895
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250529T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250529T170000
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/2025-05-29/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250529T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250529T150000
DTSTAMP:20250422T184626Z
CREATED:20250422T184626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T184626Z
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SUMMARY:Cattle Trails & Songs of the West
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Wells \nSponsored by the Matelyn Retirement Community
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/cattle-trails-songs-of-the-west-2/
LOCATION:Matelyn Retirement Community\, 602 O St.\, St. Paul\, NE\, 68873\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
GEO:41.2207262;-98.4558699
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250530T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250530T120000
DTSTAMP:20250422T204441Z
CREATED:20250422T204441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T204441Z
UID:10004665-1748592000-1748606400@humanitiesnebraska.org
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/2025-05-30/
LOCATION:Asian Community & Cultural Center of Lincoln\, 144 N 44th St\, Ste A\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68503\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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