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Mayor's Arts Awards Winners Announced
Mark your calendar now for the 31st annual
Mayor's Arts Awards to be presented the evening of Wednesday, June 3, 2008 at
the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
 The event is sponsored by the Lincoln Arts Council (LAC),
and this year's presenting co-sponsors are The Woods Family and Union Bank.
The awards program formally recognizes artistic contributions and achievements
in the Lincoln area.
The event begins with a buffet reception at 5:30pm. The awards ceremony will begin at 7pm with a
video presentation co-sponsored by EyeCare Specialties and US Property. Tickets
for the event are $50, and reservations are required. Checks can be sent to LAC
at 920 "O" Street, Lincoln, NE 68508, or you can click the PayPal button below to purchase your tickets. More information is available by calling 434-ARTS (2787)
or on the LAC Web site at www.artscene.org. 
Click here to see the honorees.
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UNL School of Music Wins NOA Best Production Award
 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's School of Music 2008 opera production of Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking" has won the National Opera Association (NOA) Award for Best Production. It is the third time in 10 years that UNL Opera has won the award.
The 1998 UNL productions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" and the 2001 production of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" were past winners. More...
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Call for Artists
National Arts Program
 For the third year, Lincoln
City employees and their families are invited to participate in the National Arts ProgramŽ (NAP). Adults can enter in the
amateur, intermediate or professional classifications, and youth prizes are
awarded in two age categories: under 12 and 12 through 18. The
registration deadline is June 19, and entries must be delivered to the Lincoln Arts Council June 29 - July 1. The exhibit will be open to the
public at libraries throughout Lincoln from July 23 to August 21. City employees can visit the Lincoln Arts Council's NAP page
for more details and to download the registration brochure. For more
information, contact Beckie at 434-2787 or e-mail her at beckie@artscene.org. The art contest is funded by
the NAP Foundation, with support from the City of Lincoln, the Lincoln Arts
Council, AmeriCorps, and the Turbine Flats Project.
University Place Arts Festival
The 5th annual University Place Arts Festival is on Saturday, May 9, 2009 from 9am to 4pm. This is a family-oriented festival hosted by the local business
community. The festival features merchants with Handmade Arts &
Crafts items, flowers, plants, and garden fresh veggies. Area
businesses will be offering festival sales and specials.
Interested Vendors - it's not too late for space! Contact Deb Michel at 402-416-7735 or email her at michelshome@windstream.net. You can also download the vendor application here.
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Focus on Visual Arts
Great Plains Art Museum In April the Grat Plains Art Museum will be exhibiting "Women of the Plains" this exhibit depicts four women from four different tribes of Native Americans: Osage, Blackfeet, Lakota, and Apache. Gail Sundell will be completing the sanding, sealing, designing, and engraving handwork on the sculpture during her residency at the Great Plains Art Museum from April 21-26, 2009, who is the 2009 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-In-Residence for April. During her residency, Sundell will create an original figure grouping of Plains Tribe Natives sculpted in alabaster. The sculpture will become part of the museum's permanent collection. The public is welcome to observe and interact with the artist while she works. Sundell will be sculpting from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., April 21-25 and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 26. Groups may arrange tours by contacting Curator Amber Mohr at 402-472-0599. Noyes Art Gallery In April, join the
director of Noyes Art Gallery, Julia Noyes, for the First Friday reception on
April 3 from 6:30 to 9 pm. View the new
creations and chat with some of the 60 member-artists of this very unique co-op
gallery in the downtown Lincoln art district.
Featured work in the Focus Gallery include Joy Frame's water colors,
Carol Knieriem's photography, Donna Justsen's pastels, Shelly Rekte's acrylic
and wearable pieces, and Bonnie Sittig's jewelry. Kye Halsted's mosaics and Lori Wagner's
stained glass will be featured in the Main Gallery. Noyes Art Gallery is
open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Be sure to visit the First Friday Gallery openings on our calendar for additional gallery events. | Focus on Performing Arts
 The Importance of Being Earnest
In April the Haymarket Theatre and Flatwater Shakespeare Company will collaborate by performing The Importance of Being Earnest, on April 16-19, 23-26, 30-May 2. All shows are at 7:30 except on Sunday when performances are at 2:00.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. Set in England during the late Victorian Era the play's humor derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
You can reserve tickets by calling 477-2600. More...
Lincoln Continentals
 The Lincoln Continentals Annual Spring Show "Rockwell on Stage" will be held at the University of Nebraska in the Kimball Recital Hall on April 25, 2009 at 2:30pm & 7:30pm.
The Lincoln Continentals first began performing in the Lincoln Community in December of 1946. Since that time, their music has been performed throughout Nebraska and the United States. Today, the organization is stronger than ever with more than 70 members in the chorus and several chapter quartets. They are constantly striving for a better a cappella sound and work very hard to entertain their audiences. There's nothing like men's a cappella singing! More...
Diavolo at the Lied Center for Performing Arts
 Diavolo will be at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Friday, April 10th at 7:30PM. This daring troupe of performers takes dance, theater, and thrills to extreme heights. Diavolo leaps, flies, and twirls through oversized sets and structures to create metaphors for the challenge of relationships, the absurdities of life, and the struggle to maintain our humanity in the shadow of technology. A collaborative team of dancers, gymnasts, actors, athletes, and stunt performers improvise with sculptors, designers, and composers to shape a surreal and witty commentary on the ironic and humorous patterns, as well as the darker consequences, of human behavior. More...
Be sure to check out KZUM's Latin Jazz Festival Friday, April 17 from 8 pm to 1 am. Held at the Nebraska Club (20th floor of the US Bank Building). For tickets, call KZUM at 474-5086. More...
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