Past Events

Join Benjamin Taylor, author of Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, and our executive director, Ashley Olson, for a "Literary Cocktail Hour" at the end of the work week! This live, virtual event is free of charge and hosted by the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Brattleboro, Vermont. [NOTE: This live event is in Eastern Time.]

Aaay Oh! From the North American Queen Convention to our own opera house comes Rock a La Carte: A Tribute to Queen! Rock a La Carte has traveled near and far connecting audiences to a truly spectacular live show featuring some of America's greatest classic rock anthems: "We are the Champions," "Another One Bites the Dust,"  "Somebody To Love," "Bohemian Rhapsody," and many more! 

Over the past ten years, acclaimed artist Judy Gelles has interviewed and photographed more than 300 fourth-grade students from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds in China, England, India, Israel, Italy, Nicaragua, St. Lucia, South Africa, Dubai, South Korea, and multiple areas of the United States. She asked all of the students the same three questions: Who do you live with? What do you wish for? What do you worry about?

Immerse yourself in Great Plains and homesteading history during our first author series of 2024! Join us as we talk with Jacob Friefeld, author of The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration, and Angela Bates, founder of the Nicodemus Historical Society.

Come unwind from the busy holiday season and kick off the the New Year with The Wildwoods! An enchanting folk and Americana trio based out of Lincoln, whose flowing songwriting has been praised by Paste Magazine as "focused and charmingly human." The Wildwoods' delicate melodies and descriptive lyrics come from nature, experiences from the road, and growing up in Nebraska. 

As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather's 150th year, we are pleased to invite visitors to enjoy a special holiday tour of National Willa Cather Center historic sites!

As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather's 150th year, we are pleased to invite visitors to enjoy a special holiday tour of National Willa Cather Center historic sites!

As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather's 150th year, we are pleased to invite visitors to enjoy a special holiday tour of National Willa Cather Center historic sites!

Join us for a lecture about Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined, currently on display through January 6, 2024 at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery! Ideal for students studying 19th century American History, professor Eric P. Anderson from Haskell Indian Nations University will discuss how Native American culture and U.S. History are represented in the artwork featured in the exhibit.

The Boston Athenaeum is pleased to partner with The National Willa Cather Center to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Willa Cather's birth. Cather is one of the most singular and treasured American writers of the 20th century. Her groundbreaking fiction (O Pioneers!, My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes for the Archbishop) set a new standard in American literature. This special evening of brief selections from Cather's fiction and letters bring to life the uniquely American prose.