Past Events

Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn more about their place in it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free author series event!

As part of Cather’s 150th commemoration and Jaffrey’s 250th celebration, executive director Ashley Olson and Cather sculptor Littleton Alston will speak on “Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History” on Friday, August 11 at The Amos Fortune Forum.

Join us for a production of Cinderella featuring local youth! Auditions will take place on Monday, July 31, at 10:00 a.m., and are open to students entering grades 1 through 12. The first rehearsal will begin approximately fifteen minutes after the audition and go until 2:15 p.m. While not all students will have to stay for this rehearsal, all students should bring a packed lunch and be prepared to stay until 2:15 p.m., just in case. Show Times: Friday, August 4, at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, August 5, at 2:00 p.m.

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 Locally Grown provides innovative programming, education, and high quality arts experiences to communities across Nebraska. 

In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created forty intimate portraits of artifacts in the historic sites of Willa Cather’s home town, Red Cloud. In addition to being featured in our gallery as a part of our annual Spring Conference, the exhibition toured across the country as part of the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" project.

There is no better way to conclude the bright, beautiful, and lively 18th International Seminar than with a summer evening celebration against the stunning backdrop of the New York City skyline!

“The Two Greenwich Villages: Willa Cather’s New York City in a Time of Transition”

Join us at the 18th International Willa Cather Seminar for this free and engaging talk about the Greenwich Village surroundings that harbored and helped foster Cather’s life and career.

'"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York'

Join us at the 18th International Willa Cather Seminar in New York for this free program at The New School, with authors Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall, who will discuss Willa Cather's New York stories.

The premiere of an original Cather-inspired song cycle by Darci Griffith Gamerl and Grammy-nominated cellist, David Downing.