National Willa Cather Center News
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Auditions for "Burning Barn"
Auditions for “Burning Barn”
Announcing AUDITIONS for BURNING BARN by A.P. Andrews
Part II of The Nebraska Cycle
Monday and Tuesday, June 13-14
7-9 pm
Rehearsals begin on the 15th, and will take place Monday-Friday at the Opera House from 7-9:30 pm, depending on the availablity of the cast. Actors will not be called to every rehearsal!
Come in prepared to read from the script, which will be provided at the audition. No advance preparation necessary.
Please be able to provide your weekly schedule, including any times you will be gone for longer.
Music on the Prairie
When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. This summer, the Willa Cather Foundation will provide two special opportunities for visitors to explore the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!.
“Music on the Cather Prairie”
featuring Mike Adams and Pilgrim Classic Country
May 28 at 2:00 p.m. --$10
Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012
The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the Great Plains region. Cather's close readers have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers!, yet her actual first book, April Twilights (1903), and its contexts, have received much less critical attention.
Hastings Community Theater
HASTINGS COMMUNITY THEATRE BRINGS A.P. ANDREWS' NEBRASKA PLAY TO THE STAGE Contact: Christine Cottam, Director 402-984-4099 jdcm_cottam@yahoo.com HASTINGS--Hastings Community Theatre will be one of three theatres bringing a local playwright's vision on Nebraska life to the stage this summer. Auditions for the first play Abby in the Summer will be held on May 1 at 4 p.m. with callbacks at 7 p.m. at Hastings Chamber of Commerce, 301 S. Burlington Ave. The cast calls for three females ages 18-60 and three males ages 30-70. Rehearsals are Monday-Friday evenings beginning May 2.
25th Anniversary of the Norma Rose Walter Scholarship Program
Since 1987, the Willa Cather Foundation has awarded 29 scholarships totaling more than $ 140,000 through the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship program. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Foundation's effort to provide scholarship support to female Nebraska high school graduates who continue their higher education as English majors in accredited colleges or universities.
25th Anniversary of the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship Program
Willa Cather Foundation Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship Program
Red Cloud, Nebraska, March 30, 2011 — Since 1987, the Willa Cather Foundation has awarded 29 scholarships totaling more than $140,000 through the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship program. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Foundation’s effort to provide scholarship support to female Nebraska high school graduates who continue their higher education as English majors in accredited colleges or universities.
Social Networking 1890
“Social Networking 1890: Nebraska Opera Houses in their Heyday”
Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
On Friday, April 1, 2011 the Empire State Center for the Book will induct nine authors into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Willa Cather is among this prestigious group of seven deceased and two living authors whose writings have made a lasting contribution to literature. A member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, along with a representative of the Cather family will be present to accept the honor on behalf of Ms. Cather.
56th Annual Spring Conference
The 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Coming April 29-30
Red Cloud, Nebraska, March 1, 2011 — The 2011 Willa Cather Spring Conference “Willa Cather and Her Popular Culture” will be held in Red Cloud, Nebraska April 29-30. This year's conference explores and celebrates a theme that has not been often considered by Cather's readers: her relationship to the popular culture of her day. From her enjoyment of popular music, movies, and books, to her writings about actresses and opera stars, Cather regularly engaged with the trendy, the famous, and the celebrated.
Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
On Friday, April 1, 2011 the Empire State Center for the Book inducted nine authors into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Willa Cather was among this prestigious group of seven deceased and two living authors whose writings have made a lasting contribution to literature.