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MOVEMENT Series: Workshop
Category: KANEKO Core Programs • MOVEMENT • Performances • Workshop | Season: Influence
Things That Move Us
Join tbd. dance collective for their first workshop within the MOVEMENT Series. During this interactive workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to not only learn about but also to engage with tbd.’s process of creating movement influenced by objects. The artists will demonstrate choreography created in response to various props and share how they were utilized within performance. Then, through a series of guided exercises and improvisation, attendees will interact with props + objects to create their own movement.
This workshop is open to all levels and abilities. No dance background is required to participate. Those who do not wish to participate in the movement portion, but would like to attend are invited and welcome to observe the process. Seats will be provided for all attendees. Space is very limited and registration is required.
Please wear clothing you feel comfortable moving around in, and bring water to stay hydrated! This workshop is comprised of both demonstration and interaction. The floor we will be moving on is concrete, therefore comfortable and supportive footwear is highly encouraged.
About MOVEMENT: Presented by KANEKO and tbd. Dance Collective, the MOVEMENT series will present site-specific, multidisciplinary performances focused on modern and contemporary dance. Performances will investigate the choreographic process, foster collaboration, and challenge audience perceptions of dance as an art form. There is a universal nature to the human condition; movement found within dance can be one of the most powerful tools of communication we possess and provide the medium in which we connect.
About tbd. Dance Collective: tbd. is a non-profit, modern + contemporary dance collective founded by a group of artists who wanted to create, explore, and perform movement together. Operating under the belief that movement can be a platform for communication and connection, it is our mission to provide accessible dance experiences through performance and education that encourage dialogue and challenge perceptions of dance as an art form.
With a creative process + vision built around exploration, we work with artists and organizations throughout the community to produce multidisciplinary movement based productions that feature site specific choreography and unique collaborations. Our work is highly imaginative, diverse in content and structure, and seeks to discover the possibilities for performance within unconventional spaces.
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LIVE! Storytelling
Category: Education • Free • Workshop | Season: Influence
Tell your story!
LIVE! Storytelling looks to bring together professional authors, aspiring authors, and community members to tell stories in a relaxed atmosphere. Our first event features Dr. Ferial Pearson, author of the Secret Kindness Agents, and community members Lucy Adkins, Haley Berzberg, Elaine Cary, Christina Joyce, and Michelle Ladwig.
There will be food, door prizes, and an open mic for audience members to share three minute stories as they are so led. Keep out the December chill by meeting new people and expanding your community. LIVE! Storytelling is produced by Jaye Viner.
About Jaye Viner: Jaye is a student and teacher of communication across genres. She has two masters degrees, and plenty of non-professional experience, exploring the art of saying what you want to the people you want to reach.
Born in Kobe Japan but raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Jaye has spent her life exploring other cultures. This has given her an awareness of her own culture, its particular norms, and how they are sometimes foreign to people outside of that culture. Her writing explores the influence of norms (both visible and invisible) on the behaviors of individuals and groups of people. She’s particularly interested in how myths about what kinds of people get to do particular things are constructed in society and how they might change in the future.
As a Midwesterner she’s interested in helping redefine myths about people in flyover country. Her first published novel, about a transplanted Nebraskan living in LA, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.
She’s also interested in challenging norms associated with literary culture and what stories are valued. She started the LIVE! Storytelling series to give community members a place to tell their stories. Her free time is spent at the salon trying to maintain her blue hair. She also cooks and worships her cat. Find pictures of both food and queen cat on Instagram.
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What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words
Category: Education • Free • Passages • What's Your Story • Workshop | Season: Influence
Discovering new meanings of health.
Stories and storytelling create the capability for communities and individuals to adapt, adjust and manage when faced with physical, mental or societal challenges and changes.
KANEKO presents it’s newest Partner Program, What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words, where you are invited to create and explore innovative meanings of health and sickness.
What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words offers a safe space to discover and write about new meanings of health and dis-ease as it applies to you and the community around you.
This workshop meets on the first Saturday of every month to write our experiences into existence. This program is free and open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required.
***Please note: for our January What’s Your Story workshop, we will be meeting January 11th instead of January 4th.
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What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words December 2019
Category: Education • Free • Passages • What's Your Story • Workshop | Season: Influence
Discovering new meanings of health.
Stories and storytelling create the capability for communities and individuals to adapt, adjust and manage when faced with physical, mental or societal challenges and changes.
KANEKO presents it’s newest Partner Program, What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words, where you are invited to create and explore innovative meanings of health and sickness.
What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words offers a safe space to discover and write about new meanings of health and dis-ease as it applies to you and the community around you.
This workshop meets on the first Saturday of every month to write our experiences into existence. This program is free and open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required.
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MCC Creative Writing Forum
Category: Education • Members • Workshop | Season: Influence
Join us for the fourth annual MCC Creative Writing Forum!
The Metropolitan Community College Creative Writing Forum is a two-day event to promote original, inspired writing in our College and community, as well as showcase the work of accomplished authors from across Nebraska and beyond. This year’s event is Oct. 25-26, 2019. The Forum includes sessions from keynote presenter, F. Douglas Brown. The opening reception, reading and Q&A with F. Douglas Brown, and an open mic with Todd Robinson will be hosted at KANEKO on Friday, October 25 from 6 – 10 PM. This event is free for KANEKO Members and $10 General Admission. KANEKO members can register through the KANEKO website and General Admission should reach out to Annette Guy to register at amguy@mccneb.edu.
About F. Douglas Brown: F. Douglas Brown is the author of ICON, a new collection of poetry from Writ Large Press in 2018, and Zero to Three (University of Georgia, 2014), winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (URB Books, 2016), a chapbook of poetry as part of the Floodgate Poetry Series. Brown, an educator for over 20 years, currently teaches English and African American Poetry at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, an all-boys Jesuit school. He is both a Cave Canem and Kundiman fellow, and was selected by Poets & Writers as one of their ten notable Debut Poets of 2014. His poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, The PBS News Hour, The Virginia Quarterly (VQR), Bat City Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review (CQR), The Southern Humanities Review, The Sugar House Review, Cura Magazine and Muzzle Magazine. He is co-founder and curator of “un::fade::able – The Requiem for Sandra Bland,” a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism.
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Cultural Workshop: France and it’s Products
Category: Education • Lectures • Members • Workshop | Season: Influence
Cheese and Wine by Region
Did you know there are almost 1000 different types of cheeses in France? Learn the major kinds of cheeses, where they’re made, what they taste like and the wines that go best with them. Join Sam Tepanossian in an interactive workshop that takes you on a tour of these French products that grace French tables all over France.
About Sam Tepanossian: A French-Armenian, Sam Tepanossian moved to Omaha in the summer of 2017. He received his MBA from ICHEC, and before that was a graduate of Haute École de Lucia de Broukère, where he received a BA in Public relations. Samuel began his career in Brussels, where he specialized in Team Management and Human Resources at the European Institutions, eventually leading to a prominent position at Procter & Gamble where he later became a Brand Ambassador. In 2012 Samuel had the opportunity to move and live in the US. He worked in New York City for a home décor company as an e-Commerce Business Development Manager. Living in different countries has taught Samuel to enjoy meeting new people, trying new cuisines and exploring new cities.
About Alliance Française d’Omaha: Founded in Paris in 1883, The Alliance Française is the largest network of French language and cultural institutions in the world, with chapters in 138 countries, including 115 chapters in the United States. The Omaha chapter began in 1917 and recently celebrated our centennial in 2017. To share and celebrate the French language and the francophone world through cultural and educational programs is the Alliance’s mission.
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What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words November 2019
Category: Education • Free • Passages • What's Your Story • Workshop | Season: Influence
Discovering new meanings of health.
Stories and storytelling create the capability for communities and individuals to adapt, adjust and manage when faced with physical, mental or societal challenges and changes.
KANEKO presents it’s newest Partner Program, What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words, where you are invited to create and explore innovative meanings of health and sickness.
What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words offers a safe space to discover and write about new meanings of health and dis-ease as it applies to you and the community around you.
This workshop meets on the first Saturday of every month to write our experiences into existence. This program is free and open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required.
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BarCamp Omaha 2019
Category: Education • Lectures • Workshop | Season: Influence
BarCamp Omaha isn’t one of those suit‑and‑tie networking conferences built by The Man.
Tune that bummer out, friend, because BarCamp Omaha is a “user‑generated” conference where the speakers are everyday free spirits talking about what they think is groovy. Talks aren’t scheduled or planned until right before things kick off, and anyone — flower children, hunks, heck, even squares — can give a talk.
BarCamp attracts people from all walks of life. It draws in Entrepreneurs who are in their first year of building their business, as well as seasoned professionals from some of Omaha’s most engaged and compelling organizations. It brings in designers, both new and established, who are helping solve fascinating or mundane problems. It engages budding engineers who are looking to get a foot in the door at your business, and established developers who are looking to learn more about the world around them. Each of these people attend BarCamp, and each of them are what makes the event so special. You’ll learn about fonts from one person, and how to brew moonshine from another.
Stoked, but feeling like taking the stage is a little too heavy? No sweat — don’t get uptight! Just come and hang loose.
At BarCamp, you won’t find a predetermined speaker list or a line of suits passing out business cards. What you will find is a mop‑top in a t‑shirt talking about moonshine, a web developer talking about the best practices in SEO, or a world traveler sharing their far‑out experiences.
BarCamp is a chance to network, learn something fab, and share what makes you feel outta sight!
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Soundry Workshop: Theme & Variation
Category: Education • Workshop | Season: Human Condition
Exploring Sound through Theme & Variation.
With classes created for adult learners, we will investigate the classical structure of Theme and Variations, and compose music using non-traditional sounds. No experience required! Soundry is directed by composer and pianist Stacey Barelos and includes expert instructors from Omaha and around the country.
About Stacey Barelos
Omaha native Stacey Barelos is a performer and composer specializing in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regarding her first solo release, The Midwest American Piano Project, the American Record Guide said, “Stacey Barelos…plays with authority and poetic nuance, her beautiful tone captured vividly in this warm recording…” As a composer, Stacey’s works have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe and Australia. In addition to her concert works, Dr. Barelos frequently writes pieces for her studio. Her recent article, “Composing for Your Students!” encourages other teachers to do the same. Currently, Dr. Barelos teaches piano and composition at the Omaha Conservatory and is the Education Director for the Omaha Under the Radar Festival. For more information, see her website, staceybarelos.com.About Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. They celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. They work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. Learn More ->
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Examining French Literature
Category: Education • Workshop | Season: Reality
Learn about the great unknown or forgotten French women in history.
Pack a bag lunch and join Alliance Française d’Omaha’s two-hour workshop on Saturday, September 15th at KANEKO.
History is full of famous men and their accomplishments. So much so that they often overshadow the many women who have contributed to and had an impact on the world. Learn about French women before 1914 who led amazing and trailblazing lives and left the world a richer place. This workshop will be English with an opportunity to improve your French vocabulary.
Requirement: For all levels of French learners.
Instructor: Juliette Parnell was raised and educated in Paris. She is currently a Professor of French at UNO, where she teaches a variety of French classes. She particularly enjoys teaching French history and culture. Last semester, she offered for the first time a class on Francophone West Africa literature and culture.
About Alliance Française d’Omaha
Founded in Paris in 1883, The Alliance Française is the largest network of French language and cultural institutions in the world, with chapters in 138 countries, including 115 chapters in the United States. The Omaha chapter began in 1917 and this year we celebrate our centennial. Our mission is to share and celebrate the French language and the francophone world through cultural and educational programs. Learn More ->