UNO Reading Series Features Lisa Sandlin
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—UNO Writers’ Workshop Reading Series continues virtually this season due to COVID 19. Tomorrow, UNO’s own Professor Emerita Lisa Sandlin will read from her ongoing mystery series, set in Beaumont Texas in 1973.
UNO Galleries Celebrate ‘100 People’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—This Friday, UNO Art Gallery and UNO Criss Library will host Watie White’s, 100 people, a public arts project that will soon comprise 100 individual portraits of members of Omaha’s community.
UNO’s Heartland Philharmonic performs Annual Haunt-cert this Sunday with New Director
By Melissa Dundis
DR BROOKS: “Being the new Director of Orchestra’s here at UNO, I knew there was a tradition of this annual Huant-cert, it took me a few months to get used to saying “Huant-cert”, but now I’m used to it so it sounds like a normal thing, a normal word and people look at me strange now.”
UNO Theatre Opens Season with ‘The Clearing’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Ireland, 1652. King Charles is dead and Oliver Cromwell rules, begining his crusade against Catholicism in the isles. For Irish Catholics, this policy meant nothing short of ethnic cleansing, and landowners were banished to Connaught, a barren, unforgiving part of the country.
Read MoreAmernet Quartet Visits Omaha
By Corbin Hirschhorn
This week, the Vesper Concert Series, in collaboration with the Omaha Conservatory of Music and UNO’s International Concert Series will host the acclaimed Amernet String Quartet. The ensemble has traveled the world and collaborated with some of the finest performers and composer of the day. While none of its current members are original founders, they’re part of a rich tradition, continuing the legacy that began at Julliard in the ’90s.
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