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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/2026-06-10/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Remember the Ladies: Stitching Together a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Janie York \nSponsored by the Valley Public Library
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/remembering-the-ladies-stitching-together-a-revolution-3/
LOCATION:Valley Public Library\, North Spruce Street\, Valley\, NE\, 68064\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Speakers
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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/2026-06-11/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T160000
DTSTAMP: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/2026-06-11/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260611T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T201754Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants - Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 11\n12:00 p.m. CDT/11:00 a.m. MDT \nHosted by Katie Bradshaw\, grants management and outreach specialist\, with Kristi Hayek Carley\, HN Program Manager. \nAfter a brief presentation\, we’ll open up the conversation for your questions. \nThis online office hour is an opportunity for you to ask questions about grants in a group setting\, and to learn from others’ questions. The session will not be recorded. \nThis zoom session may be most useful for someone applying at these\nupcoming HN grant deadlines: \nJuly 1\, 2026\, mini grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after August 1\, 2026\, requesting $2\,000 or less) \nAugust 3\, 2026\, major grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2026\, requesting more than $2\,000) \nSeptember 1\, 2026\, mini grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2026\, requesting $2\,000 or less) \nContact Katie Bradshaw to receive the Zoom link\, or sign up for future emails through the form on the Grant Information Sessions website. \nHumanities Nebraska grants staff are also happy to talk with you at any time during regular office hours\, via phone\, video or email! Just call 402-474-2131 and ask to speak to someone in grants\, or email info@humanitiesnebraska.org.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/humanities-nebraska-grants-online-office-hour-5/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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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/2026-06-12/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 29th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival is packed with opportunities to laugh\, have fun\, learn and remember. Journey through the dusty trails\, starlit nights\, and campfire tales of the American cowboy with nationally-renowned cowboy storytellers and musicians. Their gripping tales and raw\, authentic songs from the trail is the ultimate tribute to the Grit of the West. A guest visual artist will open your heart and stimulate your perceptions as you follow his life’s journey through his photography\, art and stories. A bus tour will take you to a site where ordinary Nebraskans had an extraordinary impact on history. Festival 2026 will be one to love\, from the Historic Fox Theatre stage show\, dinner cabaret\, historical tour and venues\, art shows\, museum melodies and memories\, open mic opportunities\, poetry sharing\, Kids Fest and more! \nEvents take place throughout McCook. Some events are free\, and some require ticket purchase. For full details\, visit the festival website. \nFeatured Cowboy Storytellers\, Poets and Musicians: Andy Hedges and Dom Flemons \nDom Flemons is known as “The American Songster®” since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a folk musician\, black country artist\, songwriter\, multi-instrumentalist\, music scholar\, historian\, actor\, slam poet\, record collector\, curator\, podcaster\, cultural commentator\, influencer\, and the creator\, host\, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville\, TN. He is considered an expert player on the banjo\, guitar\, harmonica\, jug\, percussion\, quills\, fife and rhythm bones. \nSongster\, reciter\, storyteller\, guitarist\, and collector of cowboy songs and poems\, Andy Hedges fell in love with traditional music by listening to his father’s cassettes of cowboy songs. Andy’s vast and varied repertoire includes classic cowboy poetry recitations\, obscure cowboy songs\, dust bowl ballads\, and blues. He also hosts a podcast\, Cowboy Crossroads.  \nFeatured Artist: Wesaam Al-Badry \nAt the age of eleven\, artist and photographer Wesaam Al-Badry’s family fled his home country of Iraq at the onset of the Gulf War. Before relocating to Lincoln\, the family spent four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia where he first experimented with a camera. Wesaam began documenting what was happening around him to help process his experiences. That experience has sculpted much of his work\, which focuses on capturing the human struggle. Believing that he could help others by telling their stories through his work encouraging them to see their beauty and begin a process of healing.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/28th-annual-buffalo-commons-storytelling-and-music-festival-2/2026-06-12/
LOCATION:McCook NE\, McCook\, NE\, 69001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Photography Workshop for 4-H Students (pre-registered students only)
DESCRIPTION:Bone Creek Museum is partnering with the 4-H Extension Offices of Butler and Colfax counties to offer a photography workshop for students led by RJ Kern of Minnesota. Participants will build pinhole cameras and create original photographs in a darkroom setting. \n\n“Exploring Light\, Optics\, and Storytelling” invites learners to slow down\, observe carefully\, and rediscover the magic of early photography—when creating an image required curiosity\, patience\, and invention.\n\n\n\nParticipants will explore how a simple light-tight box with a tiny opening became the foundation of photography as we know it today. Along the way\, students will connect science\, creativity\, and personal storytelling through hands-on experiences with light\, exposure\, and image-making.\n\n\n\nMore than just a science activity\, this workshop highlights photography as a powerful form of human expression. Participants are encouraged to bring a personal photograph or small keepsake to incorporate meaning\, memory\, and storytelling into their work.\nThrough the slow and thoughtful process of working with light-sensitive materials\, students will discover how every photograph begins with attention\, creativity\, and connection. This unique experience blends art\, science\, history\, and reflection into an unforgettable hands-on learning opportunity.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/photography-workshop-for-4-h-students-pre-registered-students-only/
LOCATION:Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art\, 312 N 5th Street\, David City\, NE\, 68632
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T160000
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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/2026-06-12/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260827T170000
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CREATED:20260513T155159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T184133Z
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SUMMARY:Sorting Out Race exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Every day thrift stores across America receive donations of objects that display racial imagery— antique advertising cards\, collectible salt-and-pepper shakers\, vintage children’s books\, and mugs with sports team mascots. Are these objects harmless reminders of historical attitudes or do they continue to perpetuate negative stereotypes about race? Should thrift stores sell these objects? Or should they be “sorted out” of the resale environment and discarded? \nSorting Out Race arose out of a desire to divert artifacts with racial content from thrift stores to an exhibit that would generate a healthy community conversation about racial stereotypes past and present in order to heighten awareness of our continuing struggles with race. \nExhibit courtesy of the Kaufmann Museum at Bethel College. \n\n\n\n\nMuseum hours: Monday – Wednesday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Thursday – Friday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.\, Sunday 1 to 6 p.m.\nRegular museum admission $9 for age 13 and up\, $8 for seniors 60+\, $7 children 3-12.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/sorting-out-race-exhibit/
LOCATION:NE
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T143000
DTSTAMP:20260402T141611Z
CREATED:20260402T141611Z
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SUMMARY:No Time on My Hands: The Story of Grace Snyder
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charlotte Endorf \nSponsored by the Wahoo Krazy Quilters
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/no-time-on-my-hands-the-story-of-grace-snyder-23/
LOCATION:Bethlehem Lutheran Church – Wahoo\, 504 W 8th St.\, Wahoo\, NE\, 68066\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T210000
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SUMMARY:22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days
DESCRIPTION:Sidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park\, Sidney\, Nebraska\, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the Sidney to Deadwood Gold Rush Trail in the late 1870’s. Lots of activities are provided for children. Activities include free entertainment\, wagon rides\, hands-on historical activities\, craft projects\, and much more. Plus\, lots of food and merchandise vendors. \nThe event will include living history campsites\, demonstrations\, and educational talks by reenactors with Buffalo Soldiers of the American West on the Ninth and Tenth United States Cavalry regiments made up of African-Americans. \nMany other presentations and performances will take place throughout the festival. For full details\, visit the Sidney Gold Rush Days website.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/22nd-annual-sidney-gold-rush-days/2026-06-12/
LOCATION:Legion Park\, 2301 Legion Park Rd.\, Sidney\, NE\, 69162\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260614
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SUMMARY:Opening Day: Spark! Places of Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Spark! Places of Innovation will be on display at Custer County Museum in Broken Bow June 12-July 25\, 2026. \nSpark! Places of Innovation is part of Museum on Main Street\, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. It is based on an exhibition by the National Museum of American History. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress. \nThe Custer County Museum is open Monday – Saturday from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/opening-day-spark-places-of-innovation/
LOCATION:Custer County Historical Museum\, 445 South 9th Ave.\, Broken Bow\, NE\, 68822\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museum on Main Street
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T210000
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SUMMARY:22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days
DESCRIPTION:Sidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park\, Sidney\, Nebraska\, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the Sidney to Deadwood Gold Rush Trail in the late 1870’s. Lots of activities are provided for children. Activities include free entertainment\, wagon rides\, hands-on historical activities\, craft projects\, and much more. Plus\, lots of food and merchandise vendors. \nThe event will include living history campsites\, demonstrations\, and educational talks by reenactors with Buffalo Soldiers of the American West on the Ninth and Tenth United States Cavalry regiments made up of African-Americans. \nMany other presentations and performances will take place throughout the festival. For full details\, visit the Sidney Gold Rush Days website.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/22nd-annual-sidney-gold-rush-days/2026-06-13/
LOCATION:Legion Park\, 2301 Legion Park Rd.\, Sidney\, NE\, 69162\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T200000
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SUMMARY:28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 29th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival is packed with opportunities to laugh\, have fun\, learn and remember. Journey through the dusty trails\, starlit nights\, and campfire tales of the American cowboy with nationally-renowned cowboy storytellers and musicians. Their gripping tales and raw\, authentic songs from the trail is the ultimate tribute to the Grit of the West. A guest visual artist will open your heart and stimulate your perceptions as you follow his life’s journey through his photography\, art and stories. A bus tour will take you to a site where ordinary Nebraskans had an extraordinary impact on history. Festival 2026 will be one to love\, from the Historic Fox Theatre stage show\, dinner cabaret\, historical tour and venues\, art shows\, museum melodies and memories\, open mic opportunities\, poetry sharing\, Kids Fest and more! \nEvents take place throughout McCook. Some events are free\, and some require ticket purchase. For full details\, visit the festival website. \nFeatured Cowboy Storytellers\, Poets and Musicians: Andy Hedges and Dom Flemons \nDom Flemons is known as “The American Songster®” since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a folk musician\, black country artist\, songwriter\, multi-instrumentalist\, music scholar\, historian\, actor\, slam poet\, record collector\, curator\, podcaster\, cultural commentator\, influencer\, and the creator\, host\, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville\, TN. He is considered an expert player on the banjo\, guitar\, harmonica\, jug\, percussion\, quills\, fife and rhythm bones. \nSongster\, reciter\, storyteller\, guitarist\, and collector of cowboy songs and poems\, Andy Hedges fell in love with traditional music by listening to his father’s cassettes of cowboy songs. Andy’s vast and varied repertoire includes classic cowboy poetry recitations\, obscure cowboy songs\, dust bowl ballads\, and blues. He also hosts a podcast\, Cowboy Crossroads.  \nFeatured Artist: Wesaam Al-Badry \nAt the age of eleven\, artist and photographer Wesaam Al-Badry’s family fled his home country of Iraq at the onset of the Gulf War. Before relocating to Lincoln\, the family spent four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia where he first experimented with a camera. Wesaam began documenting what was happening around him to help process his experiences. That experience has sculpted much of his work\, which focuses on capturing the human struggle. Believing that he could help others by telling their stories through his work encouraging them to see their beauty and begin a process of healing.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/28th-annual-buffalo-commons-storytelling-and-music-festival-2/2026-06-13/
LOCATION:McCook NE\, McCook\, NE\, 69001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Gage County Historical Society and Museum 250th Event
DESCRIPTION:A full day of history\, community\, and celebration. Please RSVP your attendance to the afternoon 2pm- 4pm sessions and evening programs at 402-228-1679. \n9:00 AM “How We Celebrate: Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the US” Exhibit open exclusively for neurodivergent guests \n10:00 AM Community Welcome on the Lawn “How We Celebrate: Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the US” Exhibit Opening\, Flag Ceremony Presented by the Sons of the American Revolution \n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Living History & Hands-On Activities\n• Victorian Children’s Games — Rayma Diltz Volkmer\n• Colonial & Victorian Crafts — Gage County Historical Society & Beatrice Art Guild\n• American Revolution Displays & Activities\no Daughters of the American Revolution: Children’s tri-corn hat craft\no Sons of the American Revolution: Artifact and weapons displays \n1:00 PM Ice Cream Social (Free Will Offering) Hosted by Gage County Historical Society\, Patriotic Songs on the Lawn\nFeaturing the Homestead Harmonizers (A cappella group) \n2:00 PM The History of the Declaration of Independence Presented by Dennis Applegarth\nLocation: Layman Room \n3:00 PM Remembering the Ladies Presented by Janie York\, Humanities Nebraska\nLocation: Layman Room \n4:00 PM Exhibit Closing “How We Celebrate: Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the US” Exhibit concludes \n7:00 PM Secrets of the Boston Tea Party (Hybrid Program)\nPresented by Tea with Claire \nThe story of tea has always carried an air of intrigue—none more dramatic than when it became a catalyst for revolution. Join Anglophile and former UK resident Claire Evans as she explores the political tensions tea created between England and Colonial America. Then\, author\, genealogist\, and librarian Debra M. Dudek uncovers the real participants (and the pretenders) behind the Boston Tea Party\, along with methods for tracing legitimate connections through lineage societies and historical groups. This event will also be conducted over Zoom.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/gage-county-historical-society-and-museum-250th-event/
LOCATION:Gage County Museum\, North 2nd Street\, Beatrice\, NE\, 68310\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260717T170000
DTSTAMP:20260518T165956Z
CREATED:20260518T165317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T165956Z
UID:10005476-1781344800-1784307600@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:SPARK! Places of Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Explore the story of human history through rural American inventions and innovations. \n“Spark! Places of Innovation” is based on a Smithsonian exhibition. It will be at the Custer County Historical Society and Museum June 13-July 25\, 2026.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/spark-places-of-innovation/
LOCATION:Custer County Historical Museum\, 445 South 9th Ave.\, Broken Bow\, NE\, 68822\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museum on Main Street
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T181408Z
CREATED:20260403T204004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260412T181408Z
UID:10005377-1781350200-1781353800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska's Winding Road to Statehood: In the Footsteps of a Female Settler
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sara Crook \nSponsored by the Friends of the Arbor Lodge Foundation \nDownload flyer
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraskas-winding-road-to-statehood-in-the-footsteps-of-a-female-settler-10/
LOCATION:Arbor Lodge State Historical Park\, 2600 Arbor Ave\, Nebraska City\, NE\, 68410\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Speakers
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T201124Z
CREATED:20260513T155708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T201124Z
UID:10005467-1781359200-1781362800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Col. Thomas Doane: Massachusetts Engineer to Nebraska Civic and Educational Leader
DESCRIPTION:Step back to 1872 and experience a Chautauqua portrayal of Thomas Doane\, the chief engineer of the B & M Railroad and famous Hoosac Tunnel Project. Doane was responsible for 240 miles of railroad and telegraph from Plattsmouth to Kearney. He was the co-founder of the town of Crete\, Nebraska\, founder of the first bank in Crete and with the association of the Congregational church\, and founder of Doane College in 1872\, so named in his honor. \nCol. Thomas Doane will be presented by Thomas King.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/23661/
LOCATION:Hastings Public Library
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T160000
DTSTAMP:20260603T174919Z
CREATED:20260603T174919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T174919Z
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SUMMARY:Remember the Ladies: Stitching Together a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Janie York \nSponsored by the Gage County Historical Soceity
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/remember-the-ladies-stitching-together-a-revolution-9/
LOCATION:Gage County Museum\, North 2nd Street\, Beatrice\, NE\, 68310\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Speakers
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T190000
DTSTAMP:20260518T170811Z
CREATED:20260518T170811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T170811Z
UID:10005477-1781370000-1781377200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Grand Opening: SPARK! Places of Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Explore the story of human history through rural American inventions and innovations. \n“Spark! Places of Innovation” is based on a Smithsonian exhibition. It will be at the Custer County Historical Society and Museum June 13-July 25\, 2026.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/grand-opening-spark-places-of-innovation/
LOCATION:Custer County Historical Museum\, 445 South 9th Ave.\, Broken Bow\, NE\, 68822\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museum on Main Street
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260613T210000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145212Z
CREATED:20260526T145212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T145212Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska through Song and Story
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Holtz \nSponsore by Rock Creek Station State Historical Park
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-through-song-and-story-18/
LOCATION:Rock Creek Station State Historical Park\, 57426 710 Road\, Fairbury\, NE\, 68352\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T140000
DTSTAMP:20260526T194147Z
CREATED:20260526T194147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T194147Z
UID:10005525-1781424000-1781445600@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days
DESCRIPTION:Sidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park\, Sidney\, Nebraska\, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the Sidney to Deadwood Gold Rush Trail in the late 1870’s. Lots of activities are provided for children. Activities include free entertainment\, wagon rides\, hands-on historical activities\, craft projects\, and much more. Plus\, lots of food and merchandise vendors. \nThe event will include living history campsites\, demonstrations\, and educational talks by reenactors with Buffalo Soldiers of the American West on the Ninth and Tenth United States Cavalry regiments made up of African-Americans. \nMany other presentations and performances will take place throughout the festival. For full details\, visit the Sidney Gold Rush Days website.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/22nd-annual-sidney-gold-rush-days/2026-06-14/
LOCATION:Legion Park\, 2301 Legion Park Rd.\, Sidney\, NE\, 69162\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T150000
DTSTAMP:20260109T152250Z
CREATED:20260109T152250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T152250Z
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SUMMARY:Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Deb Carpenter-Nolting \nSponsored by the High Plains Historical Society
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history-19/
LOCATION:Museum of the High Plains\, 498-400 Norris Ave\, McCook\, NE\, 69001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T150000
DTSTAMP:20260526T200754Z
CREATED:20260526T200754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T200754Z
UID:10005528-1781445600-1781449200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 29th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival is packed with opportunities to laugh\, have fun\, learn and remember. Journey through the dusty trails\, starlit nights\, and campfire tales of the American cowboy with nationally-renowned cowboy storytellers and musicians. Their gripping tales and raw\, authentic songs from the trail is the ultimate tribute to the Grit of the West. A guest visual artist will open your heart and stimulate your perceptions as you follow his life’s journey through his photography\, art and stories. A bus tour will take you to a site where ordinary Nebraskans had an extraordinary impact on history. Festival 2026 will be one to love\, from the Historic Fox Theatre stage show\, dinner cabaret\, historical tour and venues\, art shows\, museum melodies and memories\, open mic opportunities\, poetry sharing\, Kids Fest and more! \nEvents take place throughout McCook. Some events are free\, and some require ticket purchase. For full details\, visit the festival website. \nFeatured Cowboy Storytellers\, Poets and Musicians: Andy Hedges and Dom Flemons \nDom Flemons is known as “The American Songster®” since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a folk musician\, black country artist\, songwriter\, multi-instrumentalist\, music scholar\, historian\, actor\, slam poet\, record collector\, curator\, podcaster\, cultural commentator\, influencer\, and the creator\, host\, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville\, TN. He is considered an expert player on the banjo\, guitar\, harmonica\, jug\, percussion\, quills\, fife and rhythm bones. \nSongster\, reciter\, storyteller\, guitarist\, and collector of cowboy songs and poems\, Andy Hedges fell in love with traditional music by listening to his father’s cassettes of cowboy songs. Andy’s vast and varied repertoire includes classic cowboy poetry recitations\, obscure cowboy songs\, dust bowl ballads\, and blues. He also hosts a podcast\, Cowboy Crossroads.  \nFeatured Artist: Wesaam Al-Badry \nAt the age of eleven\, artist and photographer Wesaam Al-Badry’s family fled his home country of Iraq at the onset of the Gulf War. Before relocating to Lincoln\, the family spent four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia where he first experimented with a camera. Wesaam began documenting what was happening around him to help process his experiences. That experience has sculpted much of his work\, which focuses on capturing the human struggle. Believing that he could help others by telling their stories through his work encouraging them to see their beauty and begin a process of healing.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/28th-annual-buffalo-commons-storytelling-and-music-festival-2/2026-06-14/
LOCATION:McCook NE\, McCook\, NE\, 69001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260614T153000
DTSTAMP:20260601T202904Z
CREATED:20260513T160217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T202904Z
UID:10005468-1781445600-1781451000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Germans from Russia in Hastings
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Becky Matticks and Marilee Aufdenkamp
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/germans-from-russian-in-hastings/
LOCATION:Adams County Historical Society\, 1330 N Burlington Ave\, Hastings\, 68901\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Chautauqua
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ORGANIZER;CN="Adams County Historical Society":MAILTO:achs@adamshistory.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
UID:10005510-1781508600-1781528400@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/2026-06-15/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T162742Z
CREATED:20260527T162742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T162742Z
UID:10005543-1781514000-1781539200@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/2026-06-15/
LOCATION:Lincoln – multiple locations\, Lincoln\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T193000
DTSTAMP:20260316T195017Z
CREATED:20260316T195017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T195017Z
UID:10005351-1781548200-1781551800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:KIND Nebraskans:  Personal Stories of Nebraskans in World War II
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charlotte Endorf \nSponsored by the Plainview Historical Society
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/kind-nebraskans-personal-stories-of-nebraskans-in-world-war-ii-38/
LOCATION:Plainview Social Center\, 108 S. Maple St.\, Plainview\, NE\, 68769\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260616T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260616T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T184330Z
CREATED:20260526T184330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184330Z
UID:10005511-1781595000-1781614800@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/2026-06-16/
LOCATION:Kearney NE
CATEGORIES:Grants
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