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Willa Cather Foundation Events

Willa Cather Foundation Events

The Willa Cather Foundation holds a variety of events in Red Cloud annually, including several Opera House performances and gallery exhibitions, our Spring Conference, and the Prairie Writers' Workshop. A biennial International Cather Seminar and periodic symposia are also held in other locales that were relevant to Cather's life and work. Check this page often to see our upcoming events, conferences, workshops, seminars, and exhibitions. Don't forget the easiest way to keep up with our activities is to sign-up for our monthly electronic newsletter.

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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events

Celebrating Sandhill Cranes: An Exhibition by Jude Martindale

Dancing to the Technicolor Beat | Paper on Canvas |

Celebrating Sandhill Cranes: An Exhibition by Jude Martindale

Art Gallery
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 to Saturday, May 13, 2023
Experience beautiful artistic interpretations of the Sandhill cranes and meet the artist on April 7!

Free Author Talk: The Nebraska Poetry Pen Pals

Free Author Talk: The Nebraska Poetry Pen Pals

Opera House
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 7:00pm
Kick off National Poetry Month in April with this dynamic group of writers and performers who are touring the state to bring poetry to rural communities.

Celebrate Prairie Spring!

Spring prairie grassland with blue sky and dramatic clouds

Celebrate Prairie Spring!

Special Events
Friday, April 7, 2023
Welcome Spring to the prairie on First Friday, April 7, with tours, prairie readings, an artist reception and a special movie screening.

Virtual Author Series: Jamaica Baldwin

Virtual Author Series: Jamaica Baldwin

Opera House
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 7:00pm
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us! Poet Jamaica Baldwin will be on hand for a special poetry reading and discussion in anticipation of Bone Language , her brand new...

Free Author Talk: Bruce Whitacre

Free Author Talk: Bruce Whitacre

Opera House
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 1:00pm
Help us welcome poet Bruce Whitacre to Red Cloud! Whitacre will be reading poetry from his book The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks. The book...

68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

Spring Conference
Thursday, June 1, 2023 to Saturday, June 3, 2023
Commemorate Cather's 150th birthday by examining the evolution of her own writerly imagination.

18th International Cather Seminar

18th International Cather Seminar

International Seminar
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 to Friday, June 23, 2023
The 18th International Cather Seminar will be held in Greenwich Village, the neighborhood where Cather lived between 1906-1932.

Missoula Children's Theatre Presents: Cinderella

Missoula Children's Theatre Presents: Cinderella

Opera House
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 5:30pm to Saturday, August 5, 2023 - 2:00pm
Join us for a production of Cinderella featuring local youth! Auditions will take place on Monday, July 31, at 10:00 a.m., and are open to students entering grades 1 through 12...

Sarah Arneson and Anne Hooper Webb: World Renowned Soprano and Violinist

Sarah Arneson and Anne Hooper Webb: World Renowned Soprano and Violinist

Opera House
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 7:30pm
World-renowned opera soprano and Red Cloud native Sarah Arneson returns Friday, September 1, for a 7:30 pm performance with violinist Anne Hooper Webb.

Johnny Cash & Patsy Cline Tribute

Johnny Cash & Patsy Cline Tribute

Opera House
Friday, October 6, 2023 - 7:30pm
Sing along to some of the most iconic country music of the 20th century! Bill Forness is back to pay tribute to music legend Johnny Cash, and he is sharing the stage with Melinda...

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Past Events
Past Events

Virtual Author Series: Taylor Brorby

Virtual Author Series: Taylor Brorby

Opera House
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 7:00pm
We are proud to bring memoirist Taylor Brorby to our author series for a discussion about his book Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land . Brorby will read from his...

Blackberry Winter: SOLD OUT

Blackberry Winter: SOLD OUT

Opera House
Friday, March 3, 2023 - 7:30pm
This show is Sold Out! Our Red Cloud Opera House 20th anniversary celebration continues with Blackberry Winter! Their playlist always includes a wide selection of iconic 60s and...

Association of Nebraska Art Clubs Show

Watermelon by David Dorsey is an acrylic painting of a young girl eating a watermelon

Association of Nebraska Art Clubs Show

Art Gallery
Friday, March 3, 2023 to Friday, March 24, 2023
The Red Cloud Opera House is pleased to welcome once again the the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs traveling exhibition. ANAC, whose president is Christi Lewis of Red Cloud,...

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

Opera House
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 7:30pm
Animal Engine Theatre Company presents an original play, Henrietta Solway , commissioned by the National Willa Cather Center, that combines the short fiction and serialized novels...

Virtual Author Series: Ladette Randolph

Virtual Author Series: Ladette Randolph

Opera House
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 7:00pm
Join us for an evening with writer Ladette Randolph as she discusses her novel Private Way . Set in 2015, protagonist Vivi Marx winds up off the grid in Nebraska in order to...

Joseph Hall's Elvis Rock 'N' Remember Tribute

Joseph Hall's Elvis Rock 'N' Remember Tribute

Opera House
Friday, February 3, 2023 - 7:30pm
Joseph Hall is back for another, hip swiveling tribute to the one and only Elvis Presley!

Virtual Author Series: Oscar Hokeah

Virtual Author Series: Oscar Hokeah

Opera House
Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 7:00pm
Help us kick off the 2023 Author Series with critically-acclaimed novelist Oscar Hokeah! Calling for a Blanket Dance tells the story of Ever Geimausaddle and his struggle to carve...

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience

Opera House
Friday, January 6, 2023 - 7:30pm
The Red Cloud Opera House is celebrating 20 years of top notch performances by bringing back fan favorites! Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience is the nation’s...

Material Pulses

Mary Lou Alexander (b. 1947), Things Fall Apart #5, 2015; Shibori, overdyed cotton fabric using Procion MX dyes, wool batting, cotton thread, 80 1/2 x 76 3/4 inches; Courtesy of Mary Lou Alexander

Material Pulses

Art Gallery
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 to Saturday, March 11, 2023
Material Pulses: Seven Viewpoints presents seventeen works by seven fiber artists representing the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Curated by internationally...

Paramount

Paramount

Opera House
Friday, December 9, 2022 - 7:00pm
Paramount hits the Red Cloud Opera House stage playing high energy '80s anthems from Journey, REO Speedwagon, Def Leppard, Poison, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, and much more!

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