Feathers & Verses Writing Workshop
2026-02-20 13:00 - 2026-02-27 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Wilson Public Library, 910 Meridian Ave., Cozad, NE, 69130, United States
Speaker: Bill Clemente
Sponsored by the Wilson Public Library

A Visit With the Nebraska State Poet, Jewel Rodgers
2026-02-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Immanuel Village, 6803 N. 68th Plaza, Omaha, NE, 68152, United States
Speaker: Jewel Rodgers
Sponsored by Immanuel Village

Nebraska Warrior Writers - Omaha Workshops
2026-02-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-03-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Nebraska Wildlife Rehab’s Baldwin Center conference room, 9777 M Street, Omaha, NE, 68127, United States
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 7 – Speaker: Catherine (“Cat”) King
February 21 – Speaker: Todd Robinson
March 7 – Speaker: Dan Boster
March 21 – Speaker: Steve Langan
April 4 – Speaker: Elizabeth Mack
April 18 – Speaker: Katie Hupp
May 2 – Speaker: Karla Hernandez-Torrijos
May 16 – Speaker: Summer Miller

Colonel Thomas Doane: Massachusetts Engineer to Nebraska Civic and Educational Leader
2026-02-21 13:00 - 14:00 | St. Marks United Methodist Church – Lincoln, 8550 Pioneers Blvd, Lincoln, NE, 68520, United States
Speaker: Tom King
Sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution

A Century of Fashion: 1870-1970
2026-02-21 14:00 - 15:00 | North Platte Public Library, 120 W. 4th St., North Platte, NE, 69101, United States
Speaker: Sue McLain
Sponsored by the North Platte Public Library

A Century of Fashion: 1870-1970
2026-02-24 12:45 - 13:45 | Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run, Omaha, NE, 68164, United States
Speaker: Sue McLain
Sponsored by the Assistance League of Omaha

Cattle Trails and Songs of the West
2026-02-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Fairview Manor, 255 F St., Fairmont, NE, 68354, United States
Speaker: Joan Wells
Sponsored by Fairview Manor

Stories and Rhymes for Difficult Times: Cultivating Our Emotional Heritage
2026-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church – Omaha, 14330 Eagle Run Dr., Omaha, NE, 68164, United States
Speaker: Jerry Bockoven
Sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church

Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors and WWII Veterans
2026-02-25 17:30 - 18:30 | Hastings Public Library
Speaker: Beth Dotan
Sponsored by the Hastings Public Library

Graffiti Legends: Culture Talk
2026-02-26 19:30 - 20:30 | Holland Performing Arts Center, 1200 Douglas St, Omaha, 68102, United States
Omaha Performing Arts’ Hip Hop Lab was formed to educate, elevate, and amplify the 50-year legacy surrounding the global impact, performance, history, and culture of hip hop.
This Hip Hop Lab culture talk will focus on graffiti art with national visual artists Justin BUA and Lady Pink, led by Omaha’s own Houston Alexander and Hugo Zamorano.
The suggested ticket price is $10, and there are options to pay more or less. If cost is a barrier, there is a $0 option.
To purchase tickets for this event, visit https://o-pa.org/learn-engage/hip-hop-lab/

Nebraska Territory Stories
2026-02-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Seward Civic Center, 616 Bradford St., Seward, NE, 68343, United States
Speaker: David Seay
Sponsored by the GFWC Seward Women’s Club

Nebraska Warrior Writers - Lincoln Workshops
2026-02-28 09:00 - 11:00 | Pius X High School, 6000 A Street, Lincoln, NE, 68510, United States
Lincoln Saturdays, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. in-person Pius X High School conference room, 6000 A Street (west entrance 8)
option to attend via Zoom
Facilitators: Tom Seib and Stephen Swinehart
More information here.
February 7 – Speaker: Kevin Clouther
February 14 – Speaker: Jewel Rodgers
February 28 – Speaker: Matt Mason
March 14 – Speaker: Joy Castro
March 28 – Speaker: Lucy Adkins
April 11 – Speaker: Maggie Christensen
April 25 – Speaker: Wendy Weitzel
May 9 – Speaker: Todd Robinson

No Time on My Hands: The Story of Grace Snyder
2026-02-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Pender Community Center, 614 Main St., Pender, NE, 68047, United States
Speaker: Charlotte Endorf
Sponored by the Heritage Museum of Thurston County

Winter Lecture Series 2026: America First - Then and Now
2026-03-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Lincoln Unitarian Church, 6300 A St., Lincoln, NE, 68510
The Unitarian Church of Lincoln is hosting a series of lectures, in-person at the church and virtually via YouTube, at 3 p.m. central on Sundays in February and March. For more information about the livestream, visit the Virtual Winter Lecture Series website. Each lecture will last about 45 minutes, with a Q&A session following.
The principle of America First has existed almost from the founding of the United States, usually increasing with any influx of people different from Protestant Western European Americans. America First movements restricted trade and foreign entanglements, and excluded “others” of different cultures, ethnicities, and religions. Isolationism and antisemitism were often major components, especially prior to WWI and WWII. We examine similarities and differences in the historic movements with the current one that limits and leverages immigration, foreign aid, free trade, entangling alliances, etc.
February 8 – Sean Trundle, historical perspective of America First movements beginning with those preceding World War I
Sean Trundle of UNL’s History Department received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in American Studies. He specializes in post-war (WW II) U.S. culture, but more broadly he lectures on 20th century cultural history.
February 15 – Uche Jarrett, the historical perspective of leading economic issues today concerning trade, tariffs and national growth
Uchechukwu Jarrett of UNL Economics received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. His research interests include international trade and economics, developmental economics and the intersection between development and energy.
March 1 -Emira Ibrahimpasic and Julia Reilly, history of selective immigration policies based on racism and religious restrictions that have led to current concerns and policies of immigration and deportations
Emira Ibrahimpasic received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico. She researches the plight of women in West Africa and the Global South.
Julia Reilly received her Ph.D. in Political Science from UNL. She specializes in international relations, comparative politics, human rights, and refugee resettlement.
March 8 – David Forsythe, current foreign policy from an historical perspective emphasizing isolationism, unilateralism, and the policies toward Israel
David Forsythe has edited, co-edited, authored, and co-authored books on human rights and foreign policy. He has received various lifetime achievement awards from universities and professional societies including the national Phi Beta Kappa society.

Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
2026-03-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Virtual Program
Before selected concerts in its 2025-26 season, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a virtual conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and guest artists or composers, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each concert is available to view online as well as via podcast the Monday before the concert, and for most events is also screened in person in the Steinhart Room at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts 45 minutes before the concert begins.
The chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket.
Links to each pre-concert chat will be included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel.
PULSE & PANORAMA
Concert Date: Friday, September 19, 2025
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, September 15, 2025
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick
Topics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, programing a themed concert (dances)
EMOTIONAL TAPESTRY
Concert Date: Sunday, October 19, 2025
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, October 13, 2025
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, pianist Michael McHale
Topics: Franz Shubert’s Symphony in B minor (Unfinished), Sarah Gibson’s warp & weft, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, what an “unfinished” symphony means
EXPLORING THE EXPANSE
Concert Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, November 3, 2025
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson
Topics: Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), David Ferdinand’s Concertino for Trombone in E-flat major, Holst’s The Planets, performing The Planets with multi-media images and videos of our solar system
EXPERINCE THE INTRIgUE
Concert Date: Friday, February 12, 2026
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, February 9, 2026
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, violist Rita Porfiris, composer Julia Adolphe
Topics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the story of Scheherazade
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Concert Date: Friday, March 6, 2026
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, March 2, 2026
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis, harpist Julie Smith Phillips
Topics: Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, Marjan Mozetich’s “The Passion of Angels” (Concerto for 2 Harps & Orchestra), Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 (London), harp concerti and its performance practice
POWERFUL PERSEVERANCE
Concert Date: Friday, April 10, 2026
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, April 6, 2026
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, pianist Tony Siqi Yun
Topics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3
THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER
Concert Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, April 20, 2026
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, composer and professor of music for film, theater, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee, Young Artist Competition Winner
Topics: composing for film; the music of Harry Potter by John Williams and other composers; the similarities between film music and music for games and other media
INSPIRATION & COURAGE
Concert Date: Saturday, May 2, 2026
Pre-Concert Chat Available: Monday, April 27, 2026
Guests: Genevieve Randall (host), Edward Polochick, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr
Topics: LSO’s Composer-in-Residence program, Elena Ruehr’s new work for LSO, Elena Ruehr’s Violin Concerto written for Anton Miller and commissioned by LSO, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

Film screening and discussion: Most Honorable Son
2026-03-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Kearney Public Library, 2020 1st Ave., Kearney, NE, 68847, United States
In conjunction with the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition at the Calvin T. Ryan Library on the University of Nebraska Kearney campus, the 1970 film “Most Honorable Son” will be screened at the Kearney Public Library.
Most Honorable Son tells the story of Nebraskan Ben Kuroki. Kuroki was the only Japanese American in the US Army Air Forces to serve in combat in the Pacific.
The post-film panel discussion features Vickie Sakurada Shaepler, Japanese Hall Coordinator, Dr. Donna Andersen, UNL, and Dr. Nathan Tye, UNK, discussing Japanese Americans, Nebraska, and World War II.
For more information about the exhibit and other related events, visit the exhibit website.

Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Kim Sosin
2026-03-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual Program
The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website.
Kim McNealy Sosin is a retired university professor of economics who eagerly took up writing poetry and photography in retirement, making her a “new poet” in her seventies. She loves to create ekphrastic poetry using her own travel photographs. Her poems and photographs have appeared in publications including Raw Art Review, Fine Lines (poems and several cover photos), Failed Haiku, Voices from the Plains, Verses from the Plains (several poems and cover design), Landscape Photography Magazine, The Heron’s Nest, The Good Life Review (poem and cover photo), Wanderlust Journal, Ekphrastic Review, and Sandcutters. She published her first poetry chapbook, Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years, which explores the challenges and joys of growing up as a young girl in a rural town in the forties and fifties. Her second chapbook is coming out in the fall with poems by a co-author Janet Rives and Sosin’s photographs of France. Reflections of France: Images and Poems.

Not Too Far Distant - York
2026-03-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Bartholomew Performing Arts Center, 1098 E 10th St, York, NE, 68467
The play “Not Too Far Distant” by Becky Boesen will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on March 3 at the York University Bartholomew Performing Arts Center. Free will donation for tickets.
“It’s almost unbelievable that anyone could be hardened to the point of doing the brutal things they did. …”
A young man from the Midwest is sent to war, carrying with him the hopes of the free world. What Staff Sergeant Clarence Williams encounters there challenges and changes humanity forever. History touches the present when a new generation takes a journey through time to experience World War II alongside Clarence himself. Centered around his personal letters home, we learn that sometimes what seems so far away is much closer than we think. Filled with hope and heart, Not Too Far Distant honors the experience of the American soldier and reminds us that we all have the power — and the responsibility — to help create a brighter future.

Virtual update on NEH funding opportunities
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Program
Program staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities will provide a virtual funding opportunity update on Thursday, March 5, beginning at 12 p.m. CST/11 a.m. MST.
Julia Nguyen, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Lifelong Learning, and Daniel Sack, Deputy Director of the Division of Research, will share information about current grant opportunities, deadlines, and application requirements and offer suggestions for writing an application.
To register and receive the Zoom link for the one-hour online event, click here.
The update will focus on individual grant programs with April 8, 2026, application deadlines:

Fellowships
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
Public Scholars

It also will feature information about the education and media grant programs with June 25, 2026, application deadlines:

Institutes for Higher Education Faculty
Institutes for K-12 Educators
Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education
Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators
Media Projects

The virtual update is presented by NEH in partnership with Fostering Opportunities Through Collaborative University Synergies (FOCUS). FOCUS is a collaboration among research development professionals at Montana State University; University of Idaho; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; University of Nevada, Reno; and Utah State University.
Please send questions about the March 5 update to unlrd@unl.edu.

Film screening and discussion: From Swastika to Jim Crow
2026-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 | University of Nebraska Kearney Calvin T. Ryan Library, 2508 11th Ave, Kearney, NE, 68849, United States
In conjunction with the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition, the 2000 film “From Swastika to Jim Crow” will be screened at the Calvin T. Ryan Library on the University of Nebraska Kearney campus. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
From Swastika to Jim Crow (2000) explores the similarities between Nazism in Germany and racism in the American south during Jim Crow. It does this through the stories of Jewish scholars expelled from Germany who found teaching positions in historically Black colleges when the rest of academia was aloof or hostile. Their shared experience of oppression united the two groups leading to impactful collaborations that influenced the nascent Civil Rights movement and had broad societal impact.
For more information about the exhibit and other related events, visit the exhibit website.

Cattle Trails and Songs of the West
2026-03-06 14:30 - 15:30 | York General Hearthstone, North Lincoln Avenue, York, NE, 68467, United States
Speaker: Joan Wells
Sponsored by York General Hearthstone

Nebraska Poetry, Nebraska Poet
2026-03-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Plymouth Community Building, 313 East Main St., Plymouth, NE, 68424, United States
Speaker: Matt Mason
Sponsored by the Plymouth Public Library

The Children’s Blizzard of 1888
2026-03-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Dvoracek Memorial Library, 419 W. 3rd St., Wilber, NE, 68456, United States
Rayma Volkmer will present a program on the children’s blizzard of 1888, with true stories of loss, bravery, and survival in the storm that came without warning.
Seats are limited, please contact the library to reserve your spot.
Event is free. Freewill donations appreciated.

Why is Lincoln the State Capital and not Yankee Hill?
2026-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Columbus Community Building, 2500 14th St., Columbus, NE, 68601, United States
Speaker: Jim McKee
Sponsored by the Friends of the Columbus Public Library

The Role of Music During the Holocaust
2026-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 | La Vista Public Library, 9110 Giles Rd, La Vista, NE, 68128, United States
Speaker: Christine Erlander Beard
Sponsored by the La Vista Public Library

Native American Film Series: Coming Round
2026-03-09 19:10 - 21:00 | Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 North 13th Street, Lincoln, NE, 68508, United States
Every second Monday evening of each month, Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center present free in-person public screenings that feature Native American films by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Native American Film Series showcases stories about cultural heritage, art, history, music, civic leadership, youth, and more.
Coming Round
The spectacular Sonoma pacific coast and the mighty redwood forests are iconic elements of California’s and American identity. And forever intertwined with these inspiring landscapes is the cultural richness of the Native American tribes that have lived for thousands of years along the coastal bluffs and forested waterways. In December 2016, 700 acres of land was returned to the Kashia Pomo Indians from which they had been separated nearly 200 years before. (1 hour, 30 minutes)
The film will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with J. Mitchell Johnson moderated by Georgiana Lee.
J. MITCHELL JOHNSON, Coming Home Co-producer/Director/Writer/Camera Operator/Editor, worked for four-time documentary Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim after finishing the cinema graduate program at USC.
GEORGIANA LEE, a proud member of the Diné (Navajo) tribe, holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism and Theater from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

American Roots Music and the Resophonic Guitar (SCHOOL AUDIENCE ONLY)
2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired, 824 10th Ave., Nebraska City, NE, 68410, United States
Speaker: Mike McCracken
Sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Note: Due to the location, this program is not open to the general public. This listing is for informative purposes only.

History brownbag with Dr. Hannah Lahti
2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Kearney Public Library, 2020 1st Ave., Kearney, NE, 68847, United States
In conjunction with the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition at the Calvin T. Ryan Library on the University of Nebraska Kearney campus, a lunchtime lecture will be held at the Kearney Public Library.
As the Holocaust persisted in Europe, Americans reacted to the humanitarian crisis in real time and memorialized its victims. In the decades that followed, memorial efforts in the United States evolved and expanded to create new archives, museums, and media to preserve Holocaust memory. Dr. Hannah Lahti, Assistant Professor of History & Public History, will highlight the various ways the Holocaust was memorialized in the United States from World War II to the present day, and how those efforts have changed over time.
For more information about the exhibit and other related events, visit the exhibit website.
