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2008 Mayor's Arts Awards Recap

The 2008 Mayor's Arts Awards "sparked" over 350 arts lovers celebrating and recognizing 13 stellar award recipients.   
Set on stage at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in dramatic lighting with gorgeous arrangements by Hillis & Company, the sophisticated yet casual evening enabled fun table hopping and a lively awards ceremony. 
This year's winners were featured in a clever, heartwarming and inspiring video produced by LAC Director of Development Melissa Epp and supervised by Hollywood's Ted Lange (Loveboat).  Kristian Anderson of Right Eye Digital donated talent as director of photography and editor. 
Special thanks to our event sponsor, Union Bank & Trust Company. Catch the "spark" and view the Mayor's Arts Awards video below, or on youtube.com using this link.  Please support our wonderful local sponsors identified in the video! 

 

Thinkin' Lincoln

The Lincoln Arts Council, in collaboration with The University of Nebraska Lincoln, The Lincoln Convention and Tourist Bureau  and a host of local arts organizations, is pleased to announce a Thinkin' Lincolnsecond wave of promotions for the Thinkin' Lincoln project. Through the generous support of the Nebraska Division of Travel and Tourism this cultural tourism initiative targets visitors beyond a 100-mile radius of Lincoln and invites them to come enjoy the wide variety of arts and humanities events our city has to offer. The Thinkin' Lincoln partners are ready and eager to greet out-of-town guests and provide them with what they want: Memorable experiences to share with loved ones. For more information on the project and its partners visit Lincoln.org and click on Thinkin' Lincoln.
Issue #7
July 2008


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New Look for Woods Charitable Fund
Woods Charitable Fund
Woods Charitable Fund, Inc. announces its redesigned look - a new logo, color scheme and tagline - adopted to reflect Woods Charitable Fund's distinctive grant-making approach.  For more information on the Fund's grant program, please visit its website at www.woodscharitable.org or call (402) 436-5971.
 


Focus on Visual Arts

Governor's Residence Exhibition ProgramGovernor's Residence Exhibition Program
Artist Jan Christensen will display her exhibit "Homegrown" July 1st through the 31st as part of the Nebraska Arts Council's Governor's Residence Exhibition Program.  The exhibit includes panoramic landscapes of Nebraska, Maine, and Massachusetts and magnified portraits of flowers grown in the artist's garden.  Jan is a native Lincolnite and her background as an artist includes a BFA from UNL and a Certificate of Arts Administration from Harvard Business School. Her artwork has been exhibited at venues such as Omaha's Botanical Center, Haydon Art Center, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, published in the New York Art Review, and is housed in corporate and private collections nationwide.
The Governor's Residence, 1425 H Street, Lincoln, NE, is open to the public on Thursdays from 1-4pm.  A reception will be held July 17th from 1-4pm.  More...

Foresburg/CooperMichael Forsberg's "On Ancient Wings" Now at Cooper Gallery
"On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes Of North America" will be displayed February 14 through August 14, 2008 in the Cooper Gallery at Morrill Hall.  Photographer Michael Forsberg engaged in an extraordinary five-year, 65,000 mile personal odyssey from the Alaskan tundra to the arid High Plains of the American west, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards in Florida to document the cranes' native habitat, flyways, and annual journey. Through 44 stunning color photographs, "On Ancient Wings" intertwines the lives of cranes, people, and their common places to tell an enduring story at a time when North American Sandhill Crane colonies and their natural habitats face daunting prospects.  More...


Reminder: The First Friday Gallery Walk is actually Second Friday this month, July 11th.

Focus on Performing Arts

Nebraska Repertory TheatreNebraska Repertory Theatre
For four decades now, the goal of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre is to produce quality theatre experiences for the residents of Nebraska, while providing professional opportunities for students and faculty members in collaboration with professional artists-in-residence. This year, the Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins" by Stephen Temperley, "Doubt, A Parable" by John Patrick Shanley, and "The Cripple of Inishmaan" by Martin McDonagh. Tickets for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre are on sale at the Lied Center Ticket Office.  More...


Meadowlark Music FestivalMeadowlark Music Festival: Comfortable, Casual, Classical!
Starting July 13, this year's Meadowlark Music Festival continues the tradition of offering family friendly, affordable, classical chamber music to Nebraskans. This year's performers include Metales M5, Mexico's leading brass quintet, prize-winning pianist Spencer Myer, the incomparable Jupiter String Quartet, and Marcos Krieger, organist extraordinaire and former Lincolnite!  Bring your picnic basket to James Arthur Vineyards, or ride your bike to the Walton Bike Trail Concert. Be the first to attend a concert at the International Quilt Study Center and top it off with the Festival Finale at Kimball Recital Hall. Dress casual, invite a friend, and be sure to attend this summer's Festival to hear some of the finest music available between Ravinia and Aspens.  More...


Pinewood BowlGreat Entertainment in the Great Outdoors!
Pinewood Bowl, Inc. is pleased to announce that they will be producing Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" nightly July 10-13 and July 17-20, 2008, at Pinewood Bowl Amphitheatre in Lincoln's Pioneers Park. Support from the community for the last 59 years has kept the Pinewood tradition a success and ensures the future of family-oriented, high quality, affordable entertainment in this unique and beautiful outdoor setting.  The Music Man is an award winning Broadway classic and follows the fast talking Harold Hill as he tries to con the unsuspecting citizens of River City, Iowa, into believing he is a music professor and is starting a boy's marching band. The show features several memorable numbers including Seventy-Six Trombones, My White Knight, Wells Fargo Wagon, and Gary, Indiana.  More...


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