Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center

Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center

Address
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68162 United States Get Directions
Phone 402.554.6000
Website https://www.unomaha.edu/community-engagement-center/index.php

Events at this venue

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  • Illustration of smiling Black students working on workbooks in a classroom with art hung around the walls.

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Junior Young History Detectives is open to 9-11 year olds (4th-6th grades). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and journaling […]

  • Illustration of smiling Black students working on workbooks in a classroom with art hung around the walls.

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Junior Young History Detectives is open to 9-11 year olds (4th-6th grades). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and journaling […]

  • Illustration of smiling Black students working on workbooks in a classroom with art hung around the walls.

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Junior Young History Detectives is open to 9-11 year olds (4th-6th grades). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and journaling […]

  • Illustration of smiling Black students working on workbooks in a classroom with art hung around the walls.

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Junior Young History Detectives is open to 9-11 year olds (4th-6th grades). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and journaling […]

  • Illustration of smiling Black students working on workbooks in a classroom with art hung around the walls.

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)

    Junior History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Junior Young History Detectives is open to 9-11 year olds (4th-6th grades). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and journaling […]

  • Winchell Lecture: “Where Do Pandemics Come From?” with Monica Green

    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    On April 24th at 6:00PM in Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center rooms 201-209, the Department of History will welcome Dr. Monica Green as this year's Richard Dean Winchell Lecturer. Discover how pandemics truly begin—and why they thrive—by tracing their path from medieval plagues to modern outbreaks. In this talk, Dr. Green will reveal how infectious diseases jump species barriers, travel global […]

  • Il Moro (The Moor): Movie screening & Director Q&A – Omaha

    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    This event will entail the showing of II Moro: short film longlisted for the Academy Awards, on the true story of Alessandro de’ Medici, the illegitimate son of an enslaved […]

  • Nebraska Language Learning in 2024

    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Join Alicia Dallman Shoemaker (2024 National Language Teacher of the Year, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) to discuss data and updates about language learning across Nebraska with a specific focus on indigenous languages. The in-person event is in room 231 at the UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center and the talk is […]

  • ArteLatinX: Dr. Claudia Zapata lecture

    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Dr. Claudia Zapata is the Inaugural Associate Curator of Latino Art, Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Their research interests include curatorial methodologies of identity-based exhibitions, Chicanx and Latinx art, digital humanities, BIPOC zines, and designer toys. Dr. Zapata will lead a combined discussion and a presentation on their work as a humanities scholar […]

  • The House of Afros, Capes and Curls Young History Detectives

    Young History Detective Summer Camp 2024 (registered students only)

    Young History Detective Summer Camp 2024 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Young History Detectives is a youth enrichment program for grades 7-12. It uses geek culture to promote literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy. The Young History Detectives learn Black History, both regional, national, and across the African Diaspora along with historical research methods to better understand US History. Research and documentation skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, […]

  • The House of Afros, Capes and Curls Young History Detectives

    Young History Detective Summer Camp 2024 (registered students only)

    Young History Detective Summer Camp 2024 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Young History Detectives is a youth enrichment program for grades 7-12. It uses geek culture to promote literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy. The Young History Detectives learn Black History, both regional, national, and across the African Diaspora along with historical research methods to better understand US History. Research and documentation skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, […]

  • The House of Afros, Capes and Curls Young History Detectives

    Young History Detective Summer Camp 2024 (registered students only)

    Young History Detective Summer Camp 2024 (registered students only)
    Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United States

    Young History Detectives is a youth enrichment program for grades 7-12. It uses geek culture to promote literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy. The Young History Detectives learn Black History, both regional, national, and across the African Diaspora along with historical research methods to better understand US History. Research and documentation skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, […]

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