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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Matt Mason
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. \nSome songs have a magical way of transporting us through time. They evoke vivid memories\, stirring up feelings of nostalgia\, joy\, or reflection. In this workshop\, we’ll explore the songs that have shaped us and look at how music can serve as a powerful gateway to poetry. We’ll look at the songs that connect us to our past\, reliving moments of youth while discovering fresh insights in the present. Then\, we’ll discuss how to transform these emotional snapshots into poems. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or a newcomer to writing\, this workshop invites you to turn the soundtrack of your life into art. \nMATT MASON is the former Nebraska State Poet and was the Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009-2022. Through the US State Department\, he has run workshops in Botswana\, Romania\, Nepal\, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in The New York Times\, on NPR’s Morning Edition\, in American Life in Poetry\, and more. Mason’s 5th book\, Rock Stars\, was released by Button Poetry in 2023.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-matt-mason-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants Information Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Humanities Nebraska grants and get your grant questions answered! \nThis Zoom event will start with a short discussion of what a HN “connections” grant is and then will open for informal conversation. This session may be most useful for someone applying at these upcoming grant deadlines: \n\nJuly 1\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after August 1\, 2025)\nAugust 1\, 2025\, major grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\nSeptember 2\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\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-information-online-office-hour-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250606T120000
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SUMMARY:A Visit With the Nebraska State Poet\, Jewel Rodgers VIRTUAL PROGRAM
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jewel Rodgers \nSponsored by the Larksong Writers Place
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/a-visit-with-the-nebraska-state-poet-jewel-rodgers-virtual-program/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: John Brehm
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. \nBrehm’s poems explore the darkest and brightest moments of our lives. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are\, but all touch deep inside our hearts and into a greater connection with the world around us. \nJohn Brehm is the author of four books of original poetry: Sea of Faith\, Help Is on the Way\, No Day at the Beach\, and most recently\, Dharma Talk. He’s also the author of a book of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy\, and the editor of the bestselling anthology The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy\, both from Wisdom Publications. With his wife\, Felden­krais teacher Alice Boyd\, he leads mindfulness retreats that incorporate Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement lessons\, meditation\, and mindful poetry discussions. He lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-john-brehm/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Virtual Writing Workshop for Adults
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet\, author\, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for adults. The workshop is free\, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. \nRayma Ramana is an award-winning American author\, poet and lyricist. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater\, Celebrate Brooklyn!\, the Source magazine’s SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-writing-workshop-for-adults-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Kiara Nicole Letcher
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 from out of the ordinary in an exploration in peculiar poetry. In this workshop\, we will look at poems that deal with the supernatural — poems that peer beyond the veil and utilize a supernatural element. From Poe\, Keats\, Lorca\, and Rossetti\, among others\, we will explore these poems and what they say about the seen and unseen world. Through these works\, we’ll consider how the supernatural in poetry reflects deep-seated human questions about mortality\, reality\, and the limits of human understanding. By reading and discussing these pieces\, participants will engage with how different eras and cultures have expressed universal themes of fear\, mystery\, and fascination with the unknown. Participants will have the opportunity to ruminate and investigate poems of the paranormal\, gaining insights into how these eerie elements serve as a window into humanity’s beliefs and values. They will also craft their own poems with a twist of the eerie\, adding to a long-standing tradition of poetic exploration that bridges the tangible and intangible aspects of human experience. \nKIARA NICOLE LETCHER is the author of Oxblood\, (Agape Editions\, 2024) and the chapbook Scream Queen (Orchard Street Press\, 2019). Her work has appeared in South Dakota Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Plainsongs Magazine\, Solstice Literary Magazine\, Querencia Press and Mulberry Literary\, among other publications. Her work is also forthcoming in Laurel Review.      She received her MFA from The University of Nebraska at Omaha and previously served as a Board Member for the Nebraska Writer’s Collective. She was the 2024 Keynote Speaker for the Nebraska Scholastic Writing Awards and a Nebraska State Poet Nominee.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-kiara-nicole-letcher/
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:20250515T120000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants Information Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Humanities Nebraska grants and get your grant questions answered! \nThis Zoom event will start with a short discussion of the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Humanities Nebraska’s relationship with the NEH\, and then will open for informal conversation. This session may be most useful for someone applying at these upcoming grant deadlines: \n\nJune 15\, 2025\, media grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\nJuly 1\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after August 1\, 2025)\nAugust 1\, 2025\, major grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\nSeptember 2\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\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-information-online-office-hour/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T180000
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UID:10004597-1747245600-1747251000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Writing Workshop for Adults
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet\, author\, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for adults. The workshop is free\, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. \nRayma Ramana is an award-winning American author\, poet and lyricist. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater\, Celebrate Brooklyn!\, the Source magazine’s SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-writing-workshop-for-adults/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T170000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Nebraska Prime Time Family Reading Program
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. \nJuly 1 is the application deadline to host a Fall 2025 Prime Time in Nebraska. We accept applications from schools\, libraries\, community centers\, museums\, churches\, and other non-profit organizations. Prime Time is FREE to host and FREE for families to attend. \nWant more information? Join us for an online Introduction to Nebraska Prime Time on Wednesday\, May 14\, at 5:00 p.m. (Central). The Introduction is free to attend\, but registration is required. Click here to register. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/introduction-to-nebraska-prime-time-family-reading-program/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Prime Time Family Reading Time
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250507T193000
DTSTAMP:20250410T153648Z
CREATED:20250410T153648Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Writing Workshop for Teens
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet\, author\, and lyricist Rayma Ramana will present an online workshop focusing on the intersection of healing and poetry for teens age 13 and up. The workshop is free\, but registration is required. Click here to register. This event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective Visiting Writer Series. \nRayma Ramana is an award-winning American author\, poet and lyricist. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full-tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s Verses and Flow\, Pharrell’s Adidas campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater\, Celebrate Brooklyn!\, the Source magazine’s SOURCE360 Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, with a release at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, she has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana’s current endeavors include running a blog through Medium and working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-writing-workshop-for-teens/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250506T183000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Jeff Alessandrelli
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. \nJeff’s poetry interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. \nJeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the book And Yet (Future Tense Books\, 2024). The Kenyon Review called his 2019 poetry collection Fur Not Light an “example of radical humility…its poems enact a quiet but persistent empathy in the world of creative writing.” Recent work by Alessandrelli appears or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review\, Chicago Review\, and Buckmxn Journal. In addition to his writing Jeff also directs the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-jeff-alessandrelli/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250505T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250505T170000
DTSTAMP:20241009T162240Z
CREATED:20241009T162240Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 season Pre-Concert Chat posted online
DESCRIPTION:Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season\, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer\, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical 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 are included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel. \nSaturday\, October 26\, 2024 | 7:30pm – Melodies from Spain\nSunday\, November 24\, 2024 | 6:00pm – Love\, Loss & Eternity\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – French Impressions\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Star Wars: Return of the Maestro\nFriday\, April 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – A Tightrope Across Time\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Light & Renewal
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2024-25-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-05-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250421T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250421T170000
DTSTAMP:20241009T162240Z
CREATED:20241009T162240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T162240Z
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 season Pre-Concert Chat posted online
DESCRIPTION:Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season\, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer\, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical 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 are included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel. \nSaturday\, October 26\, 2024 | 7:30pm – Melodies from Spain\nSunday\, November 24\, 2024 | 6:00pm – Love\, Loss & Eternity\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – French Impressions\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Star Wars: Return of the Maestro\nFriday\, April 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – A Tightrope Across Time\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Light & Renewal
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2024-25-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-04-21/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250405T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250405T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T153041Z
CREATED:20250102T162618Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: ​Raena Shirali
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 an era defined by turmoil\, poetry of witness is newly defined by resistance. Although anger is culturally maligned as immature\, reactionary\, hysterical\, and easily dismissed by the structures that be\, what connects us to seemingly insurmountable forces of oppression is our fury in the face of indignity. In this workshop\, participants will work in the lineage of poetry of witness\, considering the evolution and contemporary iteration of the response poem. Together\, we will work with\, not through\, righteous indignation at the state of the world. This is not fine. Let’s whine about it. \nRAENA SHIRALI is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book\, GILT\, was released by YesYes Books in 2017 and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022\, her second book\, summonings\, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Julie Suk Award. Winner of a Pushcart Prize & a former Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University\, Shirali is also the recipient of prizes and honors from VIDA\, Gulf Coast\, Boston Review\, & Cosmonauts Avenue. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day\, The Nation\, The Rumpus\, & elsewhere. Formerly Co-Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine\, Shirali now serves as Faculty Advisor for Folio—a literary magazine dedicated to publishing works by undergraduate students at the national level. She holds an MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-raena-shirali/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T130000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Nebraska Grants Information Online Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Humanities Nebraska grants and get your grant questions answered! \nThis Zoom event will start with a short discussion of the types of things HN can fund with grants and then will open for informal conversation. This session may be most useful for someone applying at these upcoming grant deadlines: \n\nMay 1\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after June 1\, 2025)\nJune 15\, 2025\, media grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\nJuly 1\, 2025\, mini grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after August 1\, 2025)\nAugust 1\, 2025\, major grant deadline (for projects beginning on or after October 1\, 2025)\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-grants-information-online-office-hour/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Nebraska":MAILTO:info@humanitiesnebraska.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250401T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250401T193000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Steve Langan
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. \nThis reading features modern-day parables that take stock of our society at the turn of the century. \nSteve Langan lived in Omaha for many years and now he lives in Maine. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he received the James Michener Postgraduate Fellowship. Langan formed Seven Doctors Project (7DP)\, an ongoing creative writing workshop designed for mid-career physicians who were willing to claim job burnout and dissatisfaction\, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2008. He returned to his alma mater in 2019 to help form and lead UNO’s Major in Medical Humanities. He currently teaches classes at Baylor University Medical Humanities. Langan’s poems are in a variety of journals\, including Columbia\, Cutbank\, Diagram\, DoubleTake\, Fence\, Flyway\, MAKE\, Meridian\, Pool\, Shade\, Slope\, Sweet\, Make\, Verse\, and Witness. His books are Freezing\, Notes on Exile & Other Poems\, Meet Me at the Happy Bar\, What It Looks Like\, How It Flies\, and Bedtime Stories (Littoral Books\, 2024)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-steve-langan/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 season Pre-Concert Chat posted online
DESCRIPTION:Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season\, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer\, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical 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 are included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel. \nSaturday\, October 26\, 2024 | 7:30pm – Melodies from Spain\nSunday\, November 24\, 2024 | 6:00pm – Love\, Loss & Eternity\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – French Impressions\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Star Wars: Return of the Maestro\nFriday\, April 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – A Tightrope Across Time\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Light & Renewal
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2024-25-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-03-24/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250309T203000
DTSTAMP:20250225T200426Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Winter Lecture Series 2025: Envisioning A Resilient Future
DESCRIPTION:The Unitarian Church of Lincoln is hosting a series of virtual lectures at 7 p.m. central on Sunday evenings. The lectures are free via Zoom and will be posted on YouTube afterwards. For more information about receiving the Zoom link and viewing the lectures\, visit the Virtual Winter Lecture Series website. \nGovernments around the world have responded with different degrees of commitment to carbon reduction\, made at the annual climate-change summits. As individuals\, we frequently perceive the urgent threat of climate change with a sense of helplessness\, feeling that our individual actions may lack the capacity to effect meaningful change. This series seeks to transcend the conventional focus on carbon reduction by offering a vision of hope that emphasizes community-building solutions while addressing critical challenges related to shelter\, food security\, and sustainability. The activists and experts in the final panel will inform us on local issues and how we can each play a part in resolving them. \nFebruary 16 – Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead will provide an overview from her perspective of a career in climate\, weather\, and communication. \nBarb Mayes Boustead is a meteorologist and climatologist. She received her Ph.D. in Natural Resources: Climate Assessment and Impacts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a dissertation titled\, “The hard winter of 1880-1881: Climatological context and communication via a Laura Ingalls Wilder narrative\,” and her forthcoming nonfiction book Wilder Weather draws further into what we can learn from the weather and climate of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and life. She has served as an author for the 4th and 5th National Climate Assessments. \nFebruary 23 – Dr. Tim Crews will speak on regenerative agriculture. \nTim Crews is the Chief Scientist and directs the International Initiative at The Land Institute in Salina\, Kansas. He pursued a doctorate degree at Cornell\, carried out a post-doc fellowship at Stanford\, and developed an agroecology program at Prescott College in Northern Arizona. A significant amount of Tim’s research on perennial grains has focused on topics closely tied to climate change adaptation and mitigation. \nMarch 2 – Dr. John Ikerd will speak briefly on sustainable economics and then hold a conversation with Prof. Charles Francis on the topic. \nJohn Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time before moving to academia. He retired from the University of Missouri in early 2000 and has maintained an active writing and speaking schedule since retirement. He has published extensively on economic sustainability. \nCharles A. Francis is Professor emeritus Agronomy & Horticulture\, with expertise and teaching experience in agroecology\, farming systems\, and global food and equity issues. \nMarch 9 – Dr. Elizabeth Sawin will speak on multisolving and engage with Peter Hind and Marc Shkolnick on Lincoln’s Low Income Energy Efficiency Rental Rehab Program. \nElizabeth Sawin is the Founder and Director of the Multisolving Institute. A biologist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, she co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and led the scientific team that offered the first assessment of the sufficiency of country pledges to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dr. Sawin is an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health\, well-being\, and economic vitality. \nPeter Hind is the Director of Lincoln Urban Development. \nMarc Shkolnick has served as Manager of Energy Services at Lincoln Electric System for more than 17 years. The department is charged with providing comprehensive and customized customer experience for the city of Lincoln’s industrial\, commercial business and residential customers. His team is also responsible for administering the utility’s energy efficiency\, demand response\, customer-owned renewables and emerging technology programs.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/resilient_future/2025-03-09/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T153022Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Anastacia Reneé
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. \nMemory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was–that is research. The point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.\n-Toni Morrison \nIn this genre-bending workshop we will collectively and independently explore and interrogate stories\, communal folklore and our archival of memories. We will lay our memories (from multiple points of view) out and jigsaw them to create first drafts of The Haibun\, and The Nines poems. All class text will be provided by workshop facilitator. \nANASTACIA RENEÉ is a queer writer\, educator\, interdisciplinary artist\, playwright\, former radio host\, TEDX speaker\, and podcaster. She is the author of Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere\, Side Notes From The Archivist\, (v.) and Forget It. Sidenotes from the Archivist was selected as one of “NYPL Best Books of 2023\,” and\, The American Library Associations (RUSA) “Notable Books of 2024.” She is a recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award (Literary) and she was selected by NBC News as part of the list of “Queer Artist of Color Dominate 2021’s Must See LGBTQ Art Shows\,” for (Don’t Be Absurd) Alice in Parts\, an installation at Frye Art Museum. Renee served as Seattle Civic Poet (2017-1019) during Seattle’s inaugural year of UNESCO status. Renee has been\, Hugo House Poet-in-Residence\, and Jack Straw Curator. Their work has been published widely.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-anastacia-renee/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Elizabeth Clark Wessel
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. \nWessel unspools layers of mythology—of places\, people\, historical and ahistorical time—and finds their entanglements with everyday life\, revealing marvelous influences encoded in the ordinary. \nOriginally from rural Nebraska\, Elizabeth Clark Wessel now lives in Stockholm\, Sweden and works as a translator of Swedish literature. She’s the author of four chapbooks of poetry\, and her poems have appeared widely in journals\, including Fence\, Boston Review\, and the American Poetry Review. None of It Belongs to Me (Game Over Books\, 2024) is her first full-length collection.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-elizabeth-clark-wessel/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250302T203000
DTSTAMP:20250225T200426Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Winter Lecture Series 2025: Envisioning A Resilient Future
DESCRIPTION:The Unitarian Church of Lincoln is hosting a series of virtual lectures at 7 p.m. central on Sunday evenings. The lectures are free via Zoom and will be posted on YouTube afterwards. For more information about receiving the Zoom link and viewing the lectures\, visit the Virtual Winter Lecture Series website. \nGovernments around the world have responded with different degrees of commitment to carbon reduction\, made at the annual climate-change summits. As individuals\, we frequently perceive the urgent threat of climate change with a sense of helplessness\, feeling that our individual actions may lack the capacity to effect meaningful change. This series seeks to transcend the conventional focus on carbon reduction by offering a vision of hope that emphasizes community-building solutions while addressing critical challenges related to shelter\, food security\, and sustainability. The activists and experts in the final panel will inform us on local issues and how we can each play a part in resolving them. \nFebruary 16 – Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead will provide an overview from her perspective of a career in climate\, weather\, and communication. \nBarb Mayes Boustead is a meteorologist and climatologist. She received her Ph.D. in Natural Resources: Climate Assessment and Impacts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a dissertation titled\, “The hard winter of 1880-1881: Climatological context and communication via a Laura Ingalls Wilder narrative\,” and her forthcoming nonfiction book Wilder Weather draws further into what we can learn from the weather and climate of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and life. She has served as an author for the 4th and 5th National Climate Assessments. \nFebruary 23 – Dr. Tim Crews will speak on regenerative agriculture. \nTim Crews is the Chief Scientist and directs the International Initiative at The Land Institute in Salina\, Kansas. He pursued a doctorate degree at Cornell\, carried out a post-doc fellowship at Stanford\, and developed an agroecology program at Prescott College in Northern Arizona. A significant amount of Tim’s research on perennial grains has focused on topics closely tied to climate change adaptation and mitigation. \nMarch 2 – Dr. John Ikerd will speak briefly on sustainable economics and then hold a conversation with Prof. Charles Francis on the topic. \nJohn Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time before moving to academia. He retired from the University of Missouri in early 2000 and has maintained an active writing and speaking schedule since retirement. He has published extensively on economic sustainability. \nCharles A. Francis is Professor emeritus Agronomy & Horticulture\, with expertise and teaching experience in agroecology\, farming systems\, and global food and equity issues. \nMarch 9 – Dr. Elizabeth Sawin will speak on multisolving and engage with Peter Hind and Marc Shkolnick on Lincoln’s Low Income Energy Efficiency Rental Rehab Program. \nElizabeth Sawin is the Founder and Director of the Multisolving Institute. A biologist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, she co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and led the scientific team that offered the first assessment of the sufficiency of country pledges to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dr. Sawin is an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health\, well-being\, and economic vitality. \nPeter Hind is the Director of Lincoln Urban Development. \nMarc Shkolnick has served as Manager of Energy Services at Lincoln Electric System for more than 17 years. The department is charged with providing comprehensive and customized customer experience for the city of Lincoln’s industrial\, commercial business and residential customers. His team is also responsible for administering the utility’s energy efficiency\, demand response\, customer-owned renewables and emerging technology programs.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/resilient_future/2025-03-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250223T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250223T203000
DTSTAMP:20250225T200426Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Winter Lecture Series 2025: Envisioning A Resilient Future
DESCRIPTION:The Unitarian Church of Lincoln is hosting a series of virtual lectures at 7 p.m. central on Sunday evenings. The lectures are free via Zoom and will be posted on YouTube afterwards. For more information about receiving the Zoom link and viewing the lectures\, visit the Virtual Winter Lecture Series website. \nGovernments around the world have responded with different degrees of commitment to carbon reduction\, made at the annual climate-change summits. As individuals\, we frequently perceive the urgent threat of climate change with a sense of helplessness\, feeling that our individual actions may lack the capacity to effect meaningful change. This series seeks to transcend the conventional focus on carbon reduction by offering a vision of hope that emphasizes community-building solutions while addressing critical challenges related to shelter\, food security\, and sustainability. The activists and experts in the final panel will inform us on local issues and how we can each play a part in resolving them. \nFebruary 16 – Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead will provide an overview from her perspective of a career in climate\, weather\, and communication. \nBarb Mayes Boustead is a meteorologist and climatologist. She received her Ph.D. in Natural Resources: Climate Assessment and Impacts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a dissertation titled\, “The hard winter of 1880-1881: Climatological context and communication via a Laura Ingalls Wilder narrative\,” and her forthcoming nonfiction book Wilder Weather draws further into what we can learn from the weather and climate of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and life. She has served as an author for the 4th and 5th National Climate Assessments. \nFebruary 23 – Dr. Tim Crews will speak on regenerative agriculture. \nTim Crews is the Chief Scientist and directs the International Initiative at The Land Institute in Salina\, Kansas. He pursued a doctorate degree at Cornell\, carried out a post-doc fellowship at Stanford\, and developed an agroecology program at Prescott College in Northern Arizona. A significant amount of Tim’s research on perennial grains has focused on topics closely tied to climate change adaptation and mitigation. \nMarch 2 – Dr. John Ikerd will speak briefly on sustainable economics and then hold a conversation with Prof. Charles Francis on the topic. \nJohn Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time before moving to academia. He retired from the University of Missouri in early 2000 and has maintained an active writing and speaking schedule since retirement. He has published extensively on economic sustainability. \nCharles A. Francis is Professor emeritus Agronomy & Horticulture\, with expertise and teaching experience in agroecology\, farming systems\, and global food and equity issues. \nMarch 9 – Dr. Elizabeth Sawin will speak on multisolving and engage with Peter Hind and Marc Shkolnick on Lincoln’s Low Income Energy Efficiency Rental Rehab Program. \nElizabeth Sawin is the Founder and Director of the Multisolving Institute. A biologist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, she co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and led the scientific team that offered the first assessment of the sufficiency of country pledges to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dr. Sawin is an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health\, well-being\, and economic vitality. \nPeter Hind is the Director of Lincoln Urban Development. \nMarc Shkolnick has served as Manager of Energy Services at Lincoln Electric System for more than 17 years. The department is charged with providing comprehensive and customized customer experience for the city of Lincoln’s industrial\, commercial business and residential customers. His team is also responsible for administering the utility’s energy efficiency\, demand response\, customer-owned renewables and emerging technology programs.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/resilient_future/2025-02-23/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250222T110000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: MK Chavez
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. \nThis workshop will explore how hybrid poetry serves as a powerful tool for self-exploration and expression. By engaging with the fluid and transformative nature of hybrid forms\, we’ll delve into how our identities\, shaped by the intersections of various influences\, can be authentically reflected in our writing. We will examine how hybrid poems\, which blend elements of narrative\, memoir\, and cultural commentary\, allow us to navigate the complexities of our inner and outer worlds. Participants will have the opportunity to create works that capture the richness of their experiences\, exploring themes of identity\, place\, and the self in all its dimensions. This workshop invites writers to move beyond traditional forms\, using hybrid poetry as a way to express the multifaceted nature of their authentic selves. Whether you’re experienced in poetry or new to this form\, this workshop will provide a supportive space to explore the connections between our lived experiences and our creative expressions. \nMK CHAVEZ is a writer and educator whose work explores mixed-race identity\, social justice\, environmental resilience\, horror cinema\, magic\, ritual\, and the creative process. As founder of the Ouroboros Writing Lab\, MK Chavez provides a nurturing space for writers to grow. The Lab offers workshops designed to expand creative boundaries and individual and group creative coaching. Chavez’s work is recognized with the Pen Josephine Miles Award\, San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award\, and the Ruth Weiss Maverick Award. Chavez’s publications include Dear Animal\, Mothermorphosis\, the lyric essay chapbook A Brief History of the Selfie\, and Virgin Eyes. Recent work can be found as part of the art installation Manifest Differently. \n​
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250217T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250217T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T210637Z
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SUMMARY:The Relevance of Classical Music in Today's Culture
DESCRIPTION:Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra presents a special podcast conversation with Music Director Edward Polochick\, Concertmaster Anton Miller\, and Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr\, hosted by Executive Director Barbara Zach Lee\, discussing the relevance of classical music in today’s culture. \nThe podcast will be available starting Monday\, February 17 on the LSO YouTube and Spotify channels. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/@lincolnsymphonyorchestra\nhttps://open.spotify.com/show/5d0llxHXGWTys9xxmOGZKl
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-relevance-of-classical-music-in-todays-culture/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T203000
DTSTAMP:20250225T200426Z
CREATED:20250225T200426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T200426Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Winter Lecture Series 2025: Envisioning A Resilient Future
DESCRIPTION:The Unitarian Church of Lincoln is hosting a series of virtual lectures at 7 p.m. central on Sunday evenings. The lectures are free via Zoom and will be posted on YouTube afterwards. For more information about receiving the Zoom link and viewing the lectures\, visit the Virtual Winter Lecture Series website. \nGovernments around the world have responded with different degrees of commitment to carbon reduction\, made at the annual climate-change summits. As individuals\, we frequently perceive the urgent threat of climate change with a sense of helplessness\, feeling that our individual actions may lack the capacity to effect meaningful change. This series seeks to transcend the conventional focus on carbon reduction by offering a vision of hope that emphasizes community-building solutions while addressing critical challenges related to shelter\, food security\, and sustainability. The activists and experts in the final panel will inform us on local issues and how we can each play a part in resolving them. \nFebruary 16 – Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead will provide an overview from her perspective of a career in climate\, weather\, and communication. \nBarb Mayes Boustead is a meteorologist and climatologist. She received her Ph.D. in Natural Resources: Climate Assessment and Impacts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a dissertation titled\, “The hard winter of 1880-1881: Climatological context and communication via a Laura Ingalls Wilder narrative\,” and her forthcoming nonfiction book Wilder Weather draws further into what we can learn from the weather and climate of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and life. She has served as an author for the 4th and 5th National Climate Assessments. \nFebruary 23 – Dr. Tim Crews will speak on regenerative agriculture. \nTim Crews is the Chief Scientist and directs the International Initiative at The Land Institute in Salina\, Kansas. He pursued a doctorate degree at Cornell\, carried out a post-doc fellowship at Stanford\, and developed an agroecology program at Prescott College in Northern Arizona. A significant amount of Tim’s research on perennial grains has focused on topics closely tied to climate change adaptation and mitigation. \nMarch 2 – Dr. John Ikerd will speak briefly on sustainable economics and then hold a conversation with Prof. Charles Francis on the topic. \nJohn Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time before moving to academia. He retired from the University of Missouri in early 2000 and has maintained an active writing and speaking schedule since retirement. He has published extensively on economic sustainability. \nCharles A. Francis is Professor emeritus Agronomy & Horticulture\, with expertise and teaching experience in agroecology\, farming systems\, and global food and equity issues. \nMarch 9 – Dr. Elizabeth Sawin will speak on multisolving and engage with Peter Hind and Marc Shkolnick on Lincoln’s Low Income Energy Efficiency Rental Rehab Program. \nElizabeth Sawin is the Founder and Director of the Multisolving Institute. A biologist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, she co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and led the scientific team that offered the first assessment of the sufficiency of country pledges to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Dr. Sawin is an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health\, well-being\, and economic vitality. \nPeter Hind is the Director of Lincoln Urban Development. \nMarc Shkolnick has served as Manager of Energy Services at Lincoln Electric System for more than 17 years. The department is charged with providing comprehensive and customized customer experience for the city of Lincoln’s industrial\, commercial business and residential customers. His team is also responsible for administering the utility’s energy efficiency\, demand response\, customer-owned renewables and emerging technology programs.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/resilient_future/2025-02-16/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250204T193000
DTSTAMP:20241127T205556Z
CREATED:20241127T205556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T205556Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Lisa Fay Coutley
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. \nThese readings explore parasitic relationships — between men and women\, sons and mothers\, and humans and the earth — and considers their consequences. How much control do we have over our lives? To what extent are we being controlled? \nLisa Fay Coutley is the author of HOST (Wisconsin Poetry Series\, 2024)\, tether (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020)\, Errata (Southern Illinois University\, 2015)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition\, In the Carnival of Breathing (BLP\, 2011)\, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition\, Small Girl: Micromemoirs (Harbor Editions\, 2024)\, and she is the editor of In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (BLP\, 2023). Her poetry has been awarded an NEA Fellowship\, an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize\, chosen by Dana Levin\, and the 2021 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize\, selected by Natalie Diaz. Recent prose & poetry appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Barrelhouse\, Brevity\, North American Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and on The Slowdown. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry & CNF in the Writer’s Workshop at UNO.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-lisa-fay-coutley/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:The People's Recorder: A Creative Incubator
DESCRIPTION:The People’s Recorder is a national podcast on the 1930s Federal Writers’ Project: what it achieved\, where it fell short\, and what it means for Americans today. An episode about Nebraska is now available. \nEpisode Summary \nIn the 1930s\, the notion of making an incubator for creativity in a region devastated by the Great Depression got tested in Nebraska. This episode looks at what happened there when the Writers’ Project came to town\, through a group of creatives from contrasting backgrounds\, including a hobo\, a nurse and a hardware store poet – all under the watchful eye of a university professor and a celebrated novelist. \nStarting from chaos\, they ignited a surprising alchemy and made the Lincoln office one of the most productive Writers’ Project hubs in the country. The Season 1 finale listens in as Americans face war clouds on the horizon\, and a national radio show asks\, “Can we count on youth to uphold the American Way?” \nListen to episode 10\, A Creative Incubator\, on their website\, or on your favorite podcast platform. \nApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peoples-recorder/id1693003215\nAcast: https://shows.acast.com/peoples-recorder\nSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72IK20V1a7nNhhbehGBIYm?si=479e79a135be4187\nAudible: https://www.amazon.com/The-Peoples-Recorder/dp/B0C88BW4R2\niHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-peoples-recorder-117528281/
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-peoples-recorder-a-creative-incubator/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Jessica Poli
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 do the landscapes we’ve lived in shape the way we think\, feel\, and create? In Crossing Open Ground\, Barry Lopez suggests that “the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes.” There is a profound connection between our inner lives and the physical spaces we inhabit. In this generative workshop\, we will consider the ways the physical world influences our interior landscapes\, and how those interior landscapes\, in turn\, might shape our poems. Through guided prompts\, reflective discussion\, and close readings of place-inspired poems\, you’ll learn to translate your experiences of land — whether wide-open spaces\, urban corners\, or intimate settings — into vivid\, textured poetry. \nJESSICA POLI is the author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press)\, which was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Prize. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets\, North American Review\, Poet Lore\, and Salamander\, among other places. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, where she is an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-jessica-poli/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 season Pre-Concert Chat posted online
DESCRIPTION:Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season\, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer\, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical 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 are included in each event’s page listed below. The entire series to date may be viewed on the LSO YouTube Channel. \nSaturday\, October 26\, 2024 | 7:30pm – Melodies from Spain\nSunday\, November 24\, 2024 | 6:00pm – Love\, Loss & Eternity\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – French Impressions\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Star Wars: Return of the Maestro\nFriday\, April 25\, 2025 | 7:30pm – A Tightrope Across Time\nFriday\, May 9\, 2025 | 7:30pm – Light & Renewal
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/lincolns-symphony-orchestra-2024-25-season-pre-concert-chat-posted-online/2025-01-20/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra":MAILTO:barbara@lincolnsymphony.com
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Carolina Hotchandani
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. \nHotchandani’s poems interrogate what it means to be full or empty (of words\, of the past\, of another human being). She examines shifts in identity due to Partition\, immigration\, illness\, and birth. \nCarolina Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters\, 2023 Perugia Press Prize Winner\, which was one of the ten debut poetry books featured in Poets & Writers Magazine’s 2024 debut poets issue and winner of the Nebraska Book Prize in the Poetry Honor category. Hotchandani’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic\, AGNI\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Missouri Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and various other journals. She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English in Omaha\, Nebraska\, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-carolina-hotchandani/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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