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. Scholarships are available, and the deadline to apply for a scholarship is May 1. For more information, visit the Bright Lights scholarship page. The first camps begin June 2, and the application deadline […]
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. Registration and fees are required, and the deadline is May […]
Speaker: Peg Gilbert Sponsored by the Westminster United Presbyterian Church
“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. […]
Speaker: Jeff Barnes Sponsored by the Alliance Public Library
Speaker: Carol Levin Sponsored by the Morton-James Public Library
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon Nebraska Wildlife Rehab’s Baldwin Center conference room, 9777 M Street. Option to attend via Zoom. Facilitators: Jen Stastny and Cindy Cronn More information here. February 22 Speaker: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Speaker: Jeff Barnes Sponsored by the Odell Public Library
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 […]
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 […]
