Downtown and Council Bluffs OngOing eVentS:
On Sale now: hSm tickets at the rose theater. June
2009, The Rose Theater will debut Disney’s High School Musical. Tickets for this very popular show are on sale now for Rose Theater members only, and going fast! Single ticket sales for HSM to non-members will begin in November. Visit www.rosetheater.org for more information.
through 11/17: Classical Kids nominations. Classical
90.7 KVNO recognizes outstanding young musicians by designating them Classical Kids. There have been 112 Classical Kids since the program’s inception in 1999. Winners have come from throughout the KVNO listening area and have included students from Lincoln, Columbus, Elkhorn, Blair, Gretna, Omaha, and Council Bluff and Crescent, IA. Nomination forms are available at www.kvno.org and will be taken through 11/17, 2008. For more information, call Anne Hellbusch at 559-5866.
through 11/23: Chrysanthemum
Fall Show.
The indoor floral display hall is festooned in autumn colors during this Japanese-inspired show, featuring unique chrysanthemums, Japanese maples and water features, bamboo, Zen garden influences and multi-dimensional tiered displays. Cost is $7 for adults, $5 for children 6-12. Lauritzen Gardens – Omaha’s Botanical Center, 100 Bancroft Street. Visit www.lauritzengardens. org, or call 346-4002 for more information.
through 12/28: the many Faces of David Diaz at Joslyn art museum.
Caldecott Award-winning illustrator David Diaz uses bold, dynamic styles to create rich and striking illustrations for expressive children’s books. Inspired by the innovation of Viennese Secessionists such as Gustave Klimt and Egon Schiele, Diaz aims to break away from any constriction and develop his own way of telling stories through art. The exhibition includes 54 original artworks
from 15 children’s and young adult books including Smoky Night, Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman, Going Home, December and The Pot That Juan Built. This exhibition was organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature (Abilene, TX). Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. Visit www.joslyn.orgor call 3423300 for more information.
through 1/4/09: Omaha Children’s museum DinO!saurs: a Prehistoric DinO!saurs expedition.
brings a whole new herd of creatures sure to entertain and educate young and old alike. This exhibit features 13 spectacular robotic dinosaurs, including a massive, 22-footlong Tyrannosaurus rex - plus other favorites including Triceratops and Stegosaurus. There’s even a dinosaur nest with eggs and hatchlings. Little paleontologists will love the Dinosaur Dig where they can uncover fossils, and Paleo Camp, where a number of educational activities will be available. Kids can produce images of their favorite dinosaurs at the rub station and control the movements of a robotic Duckbill Dinosaur with a hands-on model. Daily Dino Activities with the museum’s education staff will teach kids all they ever wanted to know about these fascinating reptiles. Omaha Children’s Museum, 500 S. 20th Street. Call 402-930-2352 or visit www.ocm.org for more information.
through 1/4/09: eyewitness: american Originals from the national archives. Chronicles some of the most dramatic moments in history: the storming of Bastille in Paris, the explosion of the Hindenburg, and assassination of President Kennedy. Cost is $7 adults, $6 age 62+, $5 ages 3-12, free 2 and under. Durham Museum, 801 S. 10th St., Omaha. Visit www.durhammuseum. org or call 444-5071 for more information.
November/December Calendar of Events
through 1/11/09: Fantasy Uncoiled: Prints by CoBra artists at Joslyn art museum. This print gallery
exhibition celebrates three important suites of lithographs acquired by Joslyn in 2007. CoBrA, an acronym for the members’ cities of origin Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam — is one of the great abstract expressionistic movements of the 20th century. Though their formal relationship lasted a mere three years, artists such as Eugene Brands, Mogens Balle, and Anton Rooskens forged life-long commitments to the primal and fantastic. Initially resistant to printmaking, an introduction to lithography allowed them to produce multiples while preserving their hallmark spontaneity. The resulting prints pulled from images painted by the artists directly on lithographic stones are vividly colored and alive with childlike energy. Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. Visit www.joslyn.org or call 3423300 for more information.
through 1/18/09: Diego rivera exhibit at Joslyn art museum. Drawn from
the collection of the Museum of Art of the State of Veracruz in Orizaba, Mexico, the approximately 35 works in this exhibition survey the entire career of Diego Rivera, including his earliest work in Mexico and his period of study in Paris, where his paintings took on the influence of Impressionism, and later, as a colleague of Picasso, Cubism. The exhibition culminates with examples of Rivera’s monumental paintings of Mexican rural subjects, for which he is most well known. A student of the Academy of San
Carlos in Mexico City, Rivera was nurtured in the classical tradition but soon became part of the international avant-garde movement that gathered in Paris in the first two decades of the 1900s. Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. Visit www.joslyn. org or call 342-3300 for more information. November eveNts
11/1-12/11: Film Streams repertory Series – great Directors. Film Streams will
celebrate the work of director Stanley Kubrick, beginning with a 40th Anniversary presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ruth Sokolof Theater,
1340 Webster St. Call 933-0259 or visit www.filmstreams.org for more information.
11/2: Opera Omaha – Omaha Symphony Choral Collaborative. Opera Omaha
joins the Omaha Symphony in a collaborative venture with seven area high school choirs, members of the Opera Omaha Chorus, guest soloists of Opera Omaha, Omaha Symphony Resident Conductor Ernest Richardson, and the musicians of the Omaha Symphony for a performance at the Holland Performing Arts Center. In the weeks prior to the performances, students are
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through 1/11/09: the mastercraftsmen of Palekh miniatures at Joslyn art museum. The first American
exhibition to examine the tradition of hand-painted, lacquered, papier-mâché boxes from the Russian village of Palekh (pronounced poleck). The village, about 125 miles northeast of Moscow, was known before the Russian Revolution as a center for icon painting, but after the advent of official atheism, the craftsman moved away from religious images to a rich and acceptable genre of tourist boxes decorated with Russian folk tales, among other subjects. The exhibition examines the entire range of Palekh artistic production, in sizes ranging from a 1 x1 ½- inch box for beads to a 23 x 17-inch jewelry box decorated to honor Stalin. The display also includes icons, other boxes, and decorative objects such as Easter Eggs. Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. Visit www.joslyn. org or call 342-3300 for more information.
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