Event Archives

Our annual Spring Conference will explore the landscape of literary prizes as we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours.

In this exhibition, artist Cassia Kite's distinctive Soundstitching process allows visitors to experience Willa Cather's world in a whole new way.

SOLD OUT! Donovan Johnson returns with Nebraska Showdown and Shameless!—a tribute to one of the biggest stars in all of music history, Garth Brooks.

Join us as author Steven Trout takes a hard look at Cather's analysis of the Great War.

This special exhibit allows visitors a special glimpse into the people and places that have shaped Red Cloud over the last century and a half.

Cabaret Theatre brings a celebration of the great American songbook to the Red Cloud Opera House!

Don't miss this captivating look into the Exodust movement, as freed African Americans established Black communities across the Great Plains during the late 19th century. At once a look at the diversity of Great Plains history as well as an opportunity to consider history as a catalyst for art, author and professor DeMisty D. Bellinger explains how these migrations informed her forthcoming novel, New to Liberty.

In conjunction with Smithsonian's Museums on Mainstreet exhibit Crossroads: Change in Rural America, the Red Cloud Opera House is pleased to present the Great Plains Mini-Film Festival!