New Look for 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.
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Focus on Visual Arts
 Governor'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...
 Michael 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. |
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Focus on Performing Arts
 Nebraska 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 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... Great 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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