Event Archives
Children's Theater & Art Auction
Join us for a FREE performance of an original play featuring local area children who attend the Valley Child Development Center! Established in 2015, Blixt provides innovative programming, education, and high quality arts experiences to communities across Nebraska.
Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library
In collaboration with the Jaffrey Public Library in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured American writers of the 20th century. Cather’s story is one defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence.
Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home
The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to partner with The Mount, writer Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, Massachusetts, to launch a new series for the 2024 summer season! Join us at the Mount on the third Wednesday of June, July, and August for a sesquicentennial celebration of our beloved Willa Cather, who, along with Edith Wharton, is among the most treasured American writers of the 20th century.
"A Very Genuine Pleasure:" Willa Cather Readers Theater
Beginning at a young age, Willa Cather was a voracious reader. Her life-long love of reading will be highlighted as actors share curated selections from her letters and published works. Follow along as we explore Cather’s own bookish interests and revisit the joy her characters find in reading.
Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
Join Willa Cather Foundation leadership, project partners and supporters, Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason, and Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate Miranda Davis for a dedication and ribbon-cutting at the Willa Cather Childhood Home. We are honored to celebrate the reopening of this National Historic Landmark and its status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years.
The Passing Show
Join panelists Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Pat Leach, Arielle Zibrak, and Kari Ronning as they explore our Spring Conference topic, "Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively."
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
We are pleased to welcome acclaimed author Kali Fajardo-Anstine, who will join us for an invited lecture, "From Bookshelf to Dreamworld: Cather and the Underground Stream." Part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, this event will be presented from the Red Cloud Opera House, and will also be available digitally.
Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold
This short film chronicles Cather’s pursuit of literary acclaim alongside the creation and unveiling of her statue in Washington, D.C. Using archival imagery, Cather’s own words, and observations from contemporary readers and scholars, this documentary invites viewers to revisit and reexamine Cather’s importance to American literature and encourages exploration of her life more fully through literary pilgrimage.
69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
Our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, "Willa Cather and the Readerly Imagination," will examine Willa Cather's bookish interests. Cather was an avid reader; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends, and she was pleased by hearing the comments from her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered. As our conference explores the many facets of Cather’s interactions with both her books and her readers, we hope attendees will be inspired to examine their own relationship to Cather's writing.
One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center
join us for a day in Red Cloud, home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather! On this one-day bus trip, you will experience the “Divide” as described in O Pioneers!, tour the recently restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, and visit other settings from her acclaimed novel My Ántonia. $125 per person includes motor coach fare, lunch, guided tours, and refreshments.*