Past Events

Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and drinks while meeting the artists behind the Complete and Great exhibit now showing in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. The artists’ reception will take place on Friday, June 1, from 5:00 -6:00 pm.

“Black Hawk, the new world in which we had come to live”: Stories from the Red Cloud Community

A special session of the 63rd Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will focus on life in Red Cloud, Nebraska, both during Cather’s life and today.

My Ántonia, Willa Cather's celebrated novel, continues to inspire the work of artists around the world. Complete and Great showcases the work of a number of regional and national artists as they explore the themes and settings of the novel through their preferred media. The exhibit will be showing during the 63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference May 31-June 3. The theme for this year's conference is "Here at Last Is an American Novel": Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia. 

Artists participating in the show:

The Cather Foundation welcomes author and landscape designer Benjamin Vogt of Monarch Gardens, LLC, to the Red Cloud Opera House on Friday, April 27, at 4:00 p.m. as part of the WCF’s Earth Week activities. Vogt will be discussing his book, A New Garden Ethic, and discuss the importance of native plants in our landscapes. “Native plant gardens are not looking backward,” Vogt writes in his book. “Using native plants .is . . .

Willa Cather’s My Ántonia solidified her growing esteem as a keen observer of the American experience of migration and settlement and as a pioneering artist when it was published in 1918.  It remains a paradigmatic American narrative and continues to invite new and varied interpretations.  This program, to be held at the John Handley Regional Library in Winchester, Virginia, is scheduled for April 7, 2018, at 2 p.m.  “My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration” opens new opportunities for understandi

Join the Willa Cather Archive in partnership with the Willa Cather Foundation, Audubon Nebraska, and the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary for an ecotourism event focused on Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and the complex ecosystem of central Nebraska. This event is part of a series of events funded by Humanities Nebraska celebrating the centennial of the publication of My Ántonia in 2018.

The Red Cloud Opera House is excited to present Wonder on Saturday, March 31^st, at 11:00 a.m. The film follows August Pullman, a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome, as he tries to fit in to a mainstream elementary school for the first time. This movie party is complete with pizza and refreshments. A parent or another adult must accompany children to the movie.