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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERIENCE THE INTRIGUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online-2/2026-04-27/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERIENCE THE INTRIGUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online-2/2026-04-20/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260416T120000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the similarities and differences between Humanities Nebraska and Nebraska Arts Council grants and get your application questions answered! \nThursday\, April 16\n12:00 p.m. CDT/11 a.m. MDT \nHosted by Katie Bradshaw\, grants management and outreach specialist\, with Rachel Morgan\, Director of Programs at the Nebraska Arts Council and Kristi Kayek Carley\, HN Program Manager. \nAfter a brief presentation on some similarities and differences between Humanities Nebraska and Nebraska Arts Council grants\, 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: \nMay 1\, 2026\, mini grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after June 1\, 2026\, requesting $2\,000 or less) \nJune 15\, 2026\, media grant deadline\n(for media/website projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2026) \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) \nContact Katie Bradshaw to receive the Zoom link\, or sign up 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. \nPlease forward this email to anybody you know of who could benefit from an HN grant!
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/humanities-nebraska-grants-online-office-hour-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260411T113000
DTSTAMP:20260219T210306Z
CREATED:20260219T210306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T210306Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: m. mick powell
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 About the Dead and the Dying \nThis workshop invites writers to consider how we grieve\, honor\, and remember\, and how we celebrate life and legacy even as violence shapes our world. \nM. MICK POWELL is a queer Black Cabo Verdean femme\, poet\, artist\, Aries\, and the author of DEAD GIRL CAMEO (One World Books\, 2025) and the chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks\, winner of the 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize. An assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut\, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-m-mick-powell/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260407T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260407T193000
DTSTAMP:20260219T193757Z
CREATED:20260219T193757Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Todd Robinson
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTodd Robinson’s work moves between tenderness and wit\, exploring love\, loss\, and the beauty of the Midwest. His poems draw on pop culture\, memory\, and faith\, revealing both humor and heart in the ordinary and extraordinary. \nTodd Robinson is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (University of Nebraska Press\, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag\, 2012). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal\, Rattle\, North American Review\, and Rhino. He is an Associate Professor in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and caregiver to his partner\, a disabled physician. 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-todd-robinson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260406T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260228T195538Z
CREATED:20250730T172940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T195538Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERINCE THE INTRIgUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2026-04-06/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260328T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260328T103000
DTSTAMP:20251223T210517Z
CREATED:20251223T210517Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Alison Lubar
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. \nAlthough one of the most famous writers of the sonnet was Shakespeare\, the form has existed since the 13th century. In this history-meets-poetry workshop\, participants will explore classic and contemporary sonnets\, from poets like Petrarch\, Edna St. Vincent Millay\, Terrance Hayes\, and Nicole Tallman. We’ll look at the way that poets use the sonnet form to address the issues of their time and how this “little song” has evolved over its long existence. Participants will walk away with a broad understanding of the Sonnet\, the way its conventions both draw on and continually inspire other forms of poetry\, and ways to try writing their own “little songs.”​ \nAlison Lubar is a queer biracial Nikkei poet and educator who teaches literature to teenagers\, writing to adults\, and yoga to all ages. They’re the author of two full-length poetry books\, The Other Tree\, winner of Harbor Editions’ 2023 Laureate Prize\, and METAMOURPHOSIS (fifth wheel press\, 2024)\, four chapbooks\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West\, 2022)\, queer feast (Bottlecap Press\, 2022)\, sweet euphemism (Mouthfeel Press\, 2023)\, and It Skips a Generation (Stanchion\, 2023)\, and a forthcoming microchap\, American Kintsugi (Bull City Press\, 2026). Alison is also a board member for Philadelphia’s Blue Stoop.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-alison-lubar/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260305T130000
DTSTAMP:20260225T222420Z
CREATED:20260225T173041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T222420Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual update on NEH funding opportunities
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJulia 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. \nTo register and receive the Zoom link for the one-hour online event\, click here. \nThe update will focus on individual grant programs with April 8\, 2026\, application deadlines: \n\nFellowships\nFellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan\nPublic Scholars\n\nIt also will feature information about the education and media grant programs with June 25\, 2026\, application deadlines: \n\nInstitutes for Higher Education Faculty\nInstitutes for K-12 Educators\nLandmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education\nLandmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators\nMedia Projects\n\nThe 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. \nPlease send questions about the March 5 update to unlrd@unl.edu.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-update-on-neh-funding-opportunities/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:NEH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260303T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260303T193000
DTSTAMP:20251223T203304Z
CREATED:20251223T203304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T203304Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Kim Sosin
DESCRIPTION: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. \nKim 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-kim-sosin/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260302T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260228T195538Z
CREATED:20250730T172940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T195538Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERINCE THE INTRIgUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2026-03-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260211T221453Z
CREATED:20260211T221453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T221453Z
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion: From Eugenics to Ethics: Lessons for Today’s Medical Community
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition at the Calvin T. Ryan Library on the University of Nebraska Kearney campus\, an online panel discussion will be held by the Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library on the University of Nebraska Medical Center Campus. \nMedicine has come a long way—but its past still shapes the present. \nMcGoogan Library presents a thought-provoking panel\, exploring the troubling legacy of eugenics in medicine and its enduring impact on healthcare ethics. Matthew K. Wynia\, MD\, MPH and Patricia Heberer-Rice\, PhD\, MA\, will discuss how misguided “science” once justified harm\, and how those historical practices influenced the medical education\, policy\, and the ethical frameworks that guide contemporary care. Through critical reflection\, the discussion will highlight lessons for today’s clinicians and researchers\, emphasizing the importance of equity\, autonomy\, and justice in medical decision-making. \nTo register for the event\, please visit: Webinar Registration – Zoom \nMatthew K. Wynia\, MD\, MPH is a professor of medicine and of public health at the University of Colorado\, where he directs the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. \nPatricia Heberer-Rice\, PhD\, MA joined the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum in 1994 and is now the Museum’s senior historian. \nThis presentation is provided in partnership with Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska-Kearney\, host of Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. The Leon S. McGoogan Library developed a companion exhibition highlighting these themes\, A Poisoned Practice: The Holocaust\, Medical Complicity\, and the American Response\, on display at McGoogan Library\, Level 8\, Witson Hall and online.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/panel-discussion-from-eugenics-to-ethics-lessons-for-todays-medical-community/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260209T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260228T195538Z
CREATED:20250730T172940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T195538Z
UID:10004938-1770624000-1770656400@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERINCE THE INTRIgUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2026-02-09/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260207T113000
DTSTAMP:20251223T205520Z
CREATED:20251223T205520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T205520Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Aly Acevedo
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. \nDesire is one of the oldest subjects of human art\, not just romantic desire but the deep longing to be seen\, understood\, and connected. In this workshop\, we’ll explore how poetry gives voice to that yearning and how language becomes a bridge between isolation and intimacy. Through discussion and guided writing\, participants will consider what it means to reach for another person\, to be known\, and to find meaning through connection. \nAly Acevedo is a Puerto Rican and Vietnamese poet\, educator and speaker living in the Kansas City area. Her debut collection\, My Dear Cult Leader (Button Poetry\, 2026)\, examines the long shadows of a toxic relationship and the aftermath of sexual assault\, weaving personal history with persona poems that explore power\, trauma and reclamation. Her writing has been featured in Frontier Poetry\, TRASH MAG\, Ink and Marrow\, Anti-Heroin Chic and elsewhere. She lives with her husband\, two cats and dog.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-aly-acevedo/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260128T154853Z
CREATED:20260128T154853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T154853Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska grants information session
DESCRIPTION:Learn about updates to HN grants\, get an overview of the grants program\, and get your application questions answered in a live Zoom session! \nHosted by Katie Bradshaw\, grants management and outreach specialist\, and Kristi Hayek Carley\, Program Manager. \nThis general information session about grants may be useful for returning and new applicants to Humanities Nebraska in 2026. \nThe session will begin with an introduction to Humanities Nebraska and recent updates to HN’s grants. The remainder of the presentation will cover material similar to that presented in the October 2024 introductory Humanities Nebraska program grant recording. Questions are welcome at any time during the presentation\, which will not be directly recorded. A link to a separate recording of the material will be sent to anyone who registers for this information session and will also be posted on the HN grants website. \nClick here to register for the grants information session \nThis zoom session may be most useful for someone applying at these upcoming grant deadlines: \nMarch 2 mini grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after April 1\, requesting $2\,000 or less) \nMarch 2 major grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after May 1\, requesting more than $2\,000) \nMay 1 mini grant deadline\n(for projects beginning on or after June 1\, requesting $2\,000 or less) \nJune 15 media grant deadline\n(for media/website creation projects beginning on or after October 1) \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-information-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T193000
DTSTAMP:20251223T202751Z
CREATED:20251223T202751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T202751Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Maria Nazos
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMaria Nazos grew up in Athens\, Greece\, and Joliet\, Illinois. Her work has been published in The New Yorker\, TriQuarterly\, World Literature Today\, and elsewhere. She’s the author of the poetry collection PULSE (Omnidawn\, 2026) and the translation collection The Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books\, 2023) from the poet Dimitra Kotoula\, longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award. Maria has worked almost every job\, including as a whale watch boat attendant\, table dancer\, teacher\, barista\, sunglass salesperson\, bartender\, and probably the worst waitress in the entire history of the Eastern seaboard. If she spilled Pinot Noir on you\, she apologizes.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-maria-nazos/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260127T151001Z
CREATED:20260121T204418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T151001Z
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SUMMARY:The People’s Recorder: A Virtual Discussion about the Federal Writers’ Project in Nebraska
DESCRIPTION:The People’s Recorder podcast launched to acclaim in 2024 and won a Silver Signal Award for History Podcasting and was nominated for an Ambie Award for Best Indie Podcast. This virtual event will build on the discussion started in the Nebraska-based episode\, “A Creative Incubator\,” further exploring the work and the literary and cultural legacy of the Writers’ Project in Nebraska. \nModerated by The People’s Recorder host Chris Haley\, the panel discussion will feature writer/co-producer David Taylor\, Marilyn Holt (author of Nebraska during the New Deal) and Stephen Cloyd\, who recently retired from the Lincoln City Libraries. The event will also feature University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Timothy Schaffert\, who will discuss the Prairie Schooner’s Centennial\, and Lincoln City Libraries’ Deb Arenz\, who will speak about the collections at the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors. \nWatch live on The People’s Recorder YouTube Channel. \nPart of the WPA\, the Federal Writers’ Project provided work for unemployed writers\, editors\, and other white-collar workers during the height of the Great Depression. The Writers’ Project had a mandate to produce state and city travel guides\, and interview everyday citizens. It was perhaps the largest and most chaotic publishing venture in American history\, and yet it produced over 200 publications\, and its flagship travel guide series remains important for its firsthand views of life in America. The Nebraska guide was a notable success and state bestseller. \nThis moderated discussion with a panel of experts will focus on that guidebook and the work of the staff of the Nebraska Writers’ Project and how that speaks to Nebraskans today. It will focus on the varied experiences of three Nebraskans: Rudolph Umland\, a hardscrabble farmer turned editor\, Weldon Kees\, a hardware businessman’s son turned poet\, and Ruby Wilson\, a former nurse who found a passion in first-person history. The event will also shine a spotlight on University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and founder of Prairie Schooner\, Lowry Wimberly\, whose influence was critical to the Project’s success. \nThis event is being produced in partnership with Lincoln City Libraries and Prairie Schooner with support from Humanities Nebraska.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-peoples-recorder-a-virtual-discussion-about-the-federal-writers-project-in-nebraska/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260131T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260131T113000
DTSTAMP:20251223T205009Z
CREATED:20251223T205009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T205009Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Tatiana Johnson-Boria
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. \nHow can we truly unearth the depths and sensations at the core of our memories to generate new poems? How can we talk about the unspeakable or the things that we have not quite been able to write into? This workshop will focus on working with writers to find different ways of excavating the self and leaning into the work that can come through this experience. We’ll also explore work by writers like Joy Harjo\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, Porsha Olaywiola\, and others. \nTatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023)\, winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As an educator\, artist\, facilitator\, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism\, reckon with trauma\, cultivate healing\, and to explore the complex magic of mothering. She has received fellowships and awards from Tin House\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, MacDowell\, the Brother Thomas Fellowship\, and St. Botolph Club Foundation\, among others. Tatiana is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee\, teaches at GrubStreet\, and has been on faculty at Emerson College\, among other institutions. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review Online\, and more. She is represented by Lauren Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-tatiana-johnson-boria/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260106T193000
DTSTAMP:20251223T193654Z
CREATED:20251223T193654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T193654Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Gene Fendt
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGene Fendt taught at UNK\, where he was Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy\, for about 40 years and was blessed to have Don Welch for a colleague through most of those decades. Besides the usual (and unusual) scholarly publications\, he also wrote and published poetry in numerous journals winning several awards including Gemini magazine’s open poetry competition (nominated for a Pushcart)\, the Princemere Poetry Prize\, and two Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowships. Together with Don Welch he authored The Cranes\, A Book of Hours which was written out by noted Nebraska calligrapher Arthur Pierce. His first book of poetry\, Eternal Life and other poems was published by Angelico Press of Brooklyn NY in 2025. ​
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-gene-fendt/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251218T130000
DTSTAMP:20251210T215422Z
CREATED:20251210T213504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T215422Z
UID:10005151-1766059200-1766062800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Learn about risk management from a grantor’s perspective and get your HN grant questions answered! \nThursday\, December 18\n12:00 p.m. CDT/11 a.m. MDT via Zoom \nHosted by Katie Bradshaw\, grants management and outreach specialist. \nAfter a brief presentation on risk management – what it is and what that means for Humanities Nebraska grant applications – you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions about grants in a group setting\, and to learn from others’ questions. \nThis zoom session may be most useful for someone applying at the upcoming grant deadline: \n\nJanuary 2\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after February 1\, 2025\, requesting $2\,000 or less)\nJanuary 15\, 2026\, media grant deadline (for media projects beginning on or after May 1\, 2026)\nMarch 2\, 2026\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after April 1\, 2026\, requesting $2\,000 or less)\nMarch 2\, 2026\, major grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after April 1\, 2026\, requesting $2\,000 or more)\n\nContact Katie Bradshaw to receive the Zoom link\, or sign up 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\, Zoom 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-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251215T190000
DTSTAMP:20251124T175626Z
CREATED:20251124T175626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T175626Z
UID:10005130-1765821600-1765825200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Latin Flavor Cook-Along with Elie’s Chinchorro
DESCRIPTION:As part of its Voices AMPLIFIED! series\, Omaha Performing Arts is presenting a virtual cook-along program with a side dish of cultural conversation. \nElie of Elie’s Chinchorro will share how to make Mofongo con carne frita\, a beloved Puerto Rican dish that represents culture\, flavor\, and resilience. It’s a dish full of tradition and pride\, often enjoyed during special gatherings with family and friends. \nRegistration is required to receive the recipe and link to access the virtual presentation. The suggested ticket price is $10\, but options to pay more or less are available\, including a free ticket for people for whom cost is a barrier. \nFor more information\, visit the O-pa Voices AMPLIFIED website. \nElie Berchal started selling the food of her heritage out of necessity—she lost her job and had two kids in college and two more in high school. Berchal first started the business out of her home\, taking part in pop-ups\, street festivals\, and farmers markets. After a couple of years of hard work\, the family opened a restaurant across from the old Lo Sole Mio location on 36th Street. In June 2024\, the Berchal family moved into their new home at 16th and Cuming\, serving dishes that\, as she describes\, come from cooking with their hearts.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/latin-flavor-cook-along-with-elies-chinchorro/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Omaha Performing Arts":MAILTO:info@O-pa.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251206T113000
DTSTAMP:20250604T152329Z
CREATED:20250604T152329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T152329Z
UID:10004825-1765015200-1765020600@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Todd Robinson
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. \n“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.” —Czeslaw Milosz \nWith Milosz’s immortal wisdom as our lodestar\, we will take a tour through autobiographical poems ancient and modern\, studying the ways personal poems capture self and other\, place and purpose\, sound and sense\, framing the self as both mirror and window\, at once magnificent and minute. \nTodd Robinson affectionately known to acolytes as “Toddfather\,” is a poet and educator based in Omaha. He is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (Backwaters Press\, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Publishing\, 2012). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such epic venues as Prairie Schooner\, Flyway—Journal of Writing and Environment\, Kestrel\, North American Review\, Sugar House Review\, Cortland Review\, Natural Bridge\, Superstition Review\, Weber: The Contemporary West\, Chiron Review\, A Dozen Nothing\, and many others. Recipient of the 2011-2012 Thompson Learning Community’s Outstanding Faculty Award\, he has conducted writing workshops with The Seven Doctors Project\, The Naturalist School\, Nebraska Warrior Writers\, Nebraska Writers Collective\, and the CÚRAM center for research in medical devices. He is founder and host of the Kaneko Art Museum’s Bibliophilia reading series\, which is currently on a long pandemic pause. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Creighton University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves as vice president on the board of directors of Big Feels Lab.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-todd-robinson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T193000
DTSTAMP:20250528T170651Z
CREATED:20250528T170651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T170651Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working in fields\, factories\, and waters. A labor and environmental poet\, Hedge Coke was a sharecropper by the time she was mid-teens and continued manual labor until retraining for former fieldworkers nearing thirty years of age\, after disabilities precluded continuation. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke teaches for UC Riverside\, and is the author/editor of 18 books\, including Look at This Blue\, Burn\, Streaming\, Blood Run\, Off-Season City Pipe\, Dog Road Woman\, The Year of the Rat\, Effigies I\, II\, & III\, Ahani\, and Sing.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-allison-adelle-hedge-coke/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251119T130000
DTSTAMP:20251114T203417Z
CREATED:20251105T192814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T203417Z
UID:10005117-1763553600-1763557200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Introduction to Nebraska Prime Time webinar
DESCRIPTION:Prime Time Family Reading (for families with children ages 6 to 10) and Prime Time Preschool (for families with children ages 3 to 5) are six-week programs designed to strengthen early literacy skills\, critical thinking\, and family engagement. Each week includes an interactive reading of an award-winning children’s book\, discussion among families over themes found in the book\, and hands-on literacy activities for preschoolers. \nPrime Time is FREE to host and FREE for families to attend. Humanities Nebraska accepts applications from schools\, libraries\, community centers\, museums\, churches\, and other non-profit organizations. The application deadline to host a Spring 2026 Prime Time in Nebraska is December 1\, so now is the time to learn more. \nJoin us for an online Introduction to Nebraska Prime Time on Wednesday\, November 19\, at 12:00 Noon (Central). The Introduction is free to attend\, but registration is required. \nRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aTn9WRVKRMOV0-VnnvKsfA
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/introduction-to-nebraska-prime-time-webinar/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Prime Time Family Reading Time
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251108T113000
DTSTAMP:20250604T151955Z
CREATED:20250604T151955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T151955Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Courtney LeBlanc
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. \nHow can pop culture provide new and inventive ways to write poems\, present complex truths\, and provide an avenue into our deepest emotions? In this generative workshop\, poet Courtney LeBlanc will provide examples that effectively\, and creatively\, weave pop culture into their poems. How does an American Girl doll represent your childhood? How does Nirvana or Taylor Swift inspire you? How does your favorite horror movie reflect your own truth or trauma? We’ll read poems together\, discuss them\, and then Courtney will provide prompts to write your own pop culture-inspired poems. \nCourtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Dark Everything; Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody\, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat\, an independent poetry press. She is also the founder of the Poetry Coven\, a monthly generative poetry workshop. She loves nail polish\, tattoos\, and a soy latte each morning.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-courtney-leblanc/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251104T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251104T193000
DTSTAMP:20250528T165836Z
CREATED:20250528T165836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T165836Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Charles Fort
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCharles Fort is the author of eight books of poetry and ten chapbooks including: The Town Clock Burning (St. Andrews Press)–We Did Not Fear the Father (Red Hen Press)–Darvil\, Prose Poems Book 1 (St. Andrews Press)—We Did Not Fear the Father (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, reprint\, Contemporary Classic)–Frankenstein was a Negro\, Prose Poems Book 2 (Backwaters Press)– Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz\, Book 3 (Backwaters Press) and appears in 43 anthologies and The Best American Poetry\, 2001\, 2003\, and 2016. Fort is Emeritus Distinguished Endowed Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of Fine Arts.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-charles-fort/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251103T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260228T195538Z
CREATED:20250730T172940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T195538Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERINCE THE INTRIgUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-11-03/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251018T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251018T113000
DTSTAMP:20250604T151423Z
CREATED:20250604T151423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T151423Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Melissa Fite Johnson
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. \nIn this workshop we’ll discuss how often poetry is perceived as something very serious—unsmiling writers wearing black and spouting purposefully obscure references. And while poetry is certainly sometimes that (or a version of that)\, it absolutely doesn’t have to be. There’s so much room for playfulness and joy and humor in poetry—and those qualities don’t mean the poems themselves are necessarily light or light-hearted. Humor can happen for many reasons\, one of which is that it can help make traumatic topics more palatable and accessible. Of course\, another reason to write with humor is just to give others something to read that moves them to tears of laughter rather than tears of despair\, and now more than ever that is as noble and necessary a purpose as any. Together we’ll read terrific humorous poems by writers like Erin Adair-Hodges\, Chen Chen\, and Luisa Muradyan—and then we’ll write and share our own. \nMelissa Fite Johnson is the author of three full-length collections\, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat\, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Pleiades\, HAD\, Whale Road Review\, SWWIM\, and elsewhere. Melissa teaches high school English in Lawrence\, KS\, where she and her husband live with their dogs.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-melissa-fite-johnson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T130000
DTSTAMP:20251008T143900Z
CREATED:20251008T143900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T143900Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Have a conversation about upcoming challenges and get your Humanities Nebraska grant questions answered!\nThursday\, October 16 12:00 p.m. CDT/11 a.m. MDT via Zoom \nHosted by Katie Bradshaw\, grants management and outreach specialist. \nAfter a brief presentation on how Humanities Nebraska is adapting to budget uncertainty in fiscal year 2026\, we’ll open up the conversation to hear about the challenges your organization is facing in this moment. \nThis online office hour is also an opportunity for you to ask questions about HN grants in a group setting\, and to learn from others’ questions. \nThis zoom session may be most useful for someone applying at the upcoming grant deadline: \n\nNovember 3\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after December 1\, 2025\, requesting $2\,000 or less)\nJanuary 2\, 2026\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after February 1\, 2026\, requesting $2\,000 or less)\nJanuary 15\, 2026\, media grant deadline (for media projects beginning on or after May 1\, 2026)\nMarch 2\, 2026\, major grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after May 1\, 2026\, requesting more than $2\,000)\n\nContact Katie Bradshaw to receive the Zoom link\, or sign up 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 chat\, 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/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T130000
DTSTAMP:20250925T160025Z
CREATED:20250925T160025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T160025Z
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SUMMARY:The life and paintings of Thomas Naegele
DESCRIPTION:Micah Huyser\, Executive Director of the Nebraska Prairie Museum\, will be the featured speaker at the Institute of Holocaust Education’s Lunch and Learn. In his presentation\, Huyser will discuss the life and paintings of Thomas Naegele\, who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 when he was just 14 years old. A few years after settling in New York with his family\, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was eventually assigned to Internment Camp Indianola in Nebraska\, where he served as an interpreter. During his free time\, Thomas Naegele painted what he saw. \nFor the Zoom link and to get more information about the presentation\, please contact Scott Littky at slittky@ihene.org. \nThis presentation is in conjunction with a Nebraska Jewish Historical Society October exhibition of Thomas Naegele’s paintings from the Nebraska Prairie Museum in the Jewish Community Center of Omaha’s Eisenberg Gallery\, which is funded in part through a collaboration with UNL’s Nebraska Stories of Humanity project.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-life-and-paintings-of-thomas-naegele/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251013T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251013T170000
DTSTAMP:20260228T195538Z
CREATED:20250730T172940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T195538Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season pre-concert chat posted online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe chats are free to view online. The in-person screenings require the purchase of a ticket. \nLinks 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. \nPULSE & PANORAMA\nConcert Date: Friday\, September 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, September 15\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\nTopics: Jesse Montgomery’s Coincident Dances\, Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphony Dances\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances\, programing a themed concert (dances) \nEMOTIONAL TAPESTRY\nConcert Date: Sunday\, October 19\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, October 13\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Michael McHale\nTopics: 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 \nEXPLORING THE EXPANSE\nConcert Date: Friday\, November 7\, 2025\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, November 3\, 2025\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, trombonist and LSO Principal Trombone Scott Anderson\nTopics: 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 \nEXPERINCE THE INTRIgUE\nConcert Date: Friday\, February 12\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, February 9\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violist Rita Porfiris\, composer Julia Adolphe\nTopics: Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia\, Julia Adolphe’s Unearth\, Release: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra\, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade\, the story of Scheherazade \nTHE SPACE BETWEEN\nConcert Date: Friday\, March 6\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, March 2\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, LSO principal harpist Katie Wychulis\, harpist Julie Smith Phillips\nTopics: 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 \nPOWERFUL PERSEVERANCE\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 6\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, pianist Tony Siqi Yun\nTopics: Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum\, Lincoln Youth Symphony side-by-side rehearsing and performing\, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2\, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 \nTHE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER\nConcert Date: Friday\, April 24\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 20\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, composer and professor of music for film\, theater\, games and other media Damon Thomas Lee\, Young Artist Competition Winner\nTopics: 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 \nINSPIRATION & COURAGE\nConcert Date: Saturday\, May 2\, 2026\nPre-Concert Chat Available: Monday\, April 27\, 2026\nGuests: Genevieve Randall (host)\, Edward Polochick\, violinist and LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller\, LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\nTopics: 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)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2025-26-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-10-13/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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