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Unapologetic Me
Category: Free • Performances | Season: Influence
Film Screening & Pop-Up Exhibition
Join KANEKO and Andrew Aleman Consulting for unapologetic me: A Celebration of Black Queer Art. We invite the Omaha community to join us for an evening filled with visual art from several Omaha-based black queer and trans artists. The evening will end with a showing of unapologetic me: Black | Gay | Man. This screendance by Justin Dominic and producers Justin Dominic, Micaiah Carter, and Daniel P. Calderon, tells a story through movement and visual imagery, about the intersectionality of being a black gay man. Justin Dominic and Daniel P. Calderon will be joining us from New Jersey for a filmmakers discussion following the showing.
Tickets: This program FREE, but registration is required and space is limited. A suggested donation of $10 cash donation is requested at the door – all money raised goes to our featured visual artists.
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Soundry Workshop: Sounds Inspired
Category: Generator Series • Performances • Workshop | Season: Influence
Spark your creativity with words of local authors!
Collaborating with members of KANEKO writing groups, Soundry participants will create original music to be performed at a 2020 Omaha Under the Radar event!
Soundry is a musical workshop part of the GENERATOR Series. With classes geared towards adult learners, Soundry investigates the art of sound installation, instrument building, and 21st century composition techniques. No music experience is required! Soundry is directed by composer and pianist Stacey Barelos, and includes expert instructors from Omaha and around the country!
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.
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Architecture with HDR
Category: Education • Members | Season: Influence
Build & Explore with HDR Architects
Join the HDR team for a five-day design camp that will introduce the interesting interplay between the concept of a circular economy and the practice of architecture. In this camp, students will explore how ideation, design techniques, modeling, drawing– and, above all, collaboration between fearless designers–can be applied to regenerate and reimagine form and structure, creating “new” architecture through the actual construction of a full-scale design-build project that will be displayed in the KANEKO galleries. Children Entering Grades 7-9.
Financial Aid Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer financial assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our financial aid program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what financial aid you’ve received.
Camp Lunches Provided by: No More Empty Pots & Kaneko Gardens
KANEKO is all about multi-disciplinary creativity, which is why we decided to partner with local community organization No More Empty Pots for our 2020 Summer Camp Season. Throughout the camps, students will not only embrace and explore their creativity through their chosen camp curriculum but are also given the opportunity to further that exploration in the enriching world of cooking! Each day of camp students are taught new recipes from the beginning to the end, including harvest process all the way to clean-up!
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Video Game Design
Category: Education • KANEKO Core Programs • Members | Season: Influence
Explore the creative process of video games.
A returning champion from summers past, Video Game Design camp welcomes a new instructor that offers an exciting new creative process! In this camp, students will jump into the video game development pipeline and practice 2D game design principles alongside the RHO Interactive game design team. Using the Unity game engine and open-source software, campers will create new character skins, animations, backgrounds, and complete playable levels using RHO’s multiplayer battle-game “Megaton Punchers”. This camp offering requires no coding, as we will focus on the creation of digital assets and the use of in-engine tools for making fully interactive experiences focused on core game design principles and narrative development practices. Children Entering Grades 7-9
Financial Aid Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer financial assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our financial aid program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what financial aid you’ve received.
Camp Lunches Provided by: No More Empty Pots & Kaneko Gardens
KANEKO is all about multi-disciplinary creativity, which is why we decided to partner with local community organization No More Empty Pots for our 2020 Summer Camp Season. Throughout the camps, students will not only embrace and explore their creativity through their chosen camp curriculum but are also given the opportunity to further that exploration in the enriching world of cooking! Each day of camp students are taught new recipes from the beginning to the end, including harvest process all the way to clean-up!
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Filmmaking in Action
Category: Education • Members | Season: Influence
Explore the creative process of the film industry.
In this camp, students will work in teams to learn the creative and technical processes of filmmaking while conceiving, shooting, and editing a short documentary to be screened at the end of the week. Participants will hear from professionals in the field about all the elements that converge in filmmaking — camera, lighting, story building, editing, directing, and producing. In addition, they’ll get hands-on practice with filmmaking tools, dedicated mentorship throughout the week, and will come away with skills to help them generate ideas and work collaboratively in a creative process. Children Entering Grades 7-9
Financial Aid Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer financial assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our financial aid program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what financial aid you’ve received.
Camp Lunches Provided by: No More Empty Pots & Kaneko Gardens
KANEKO is all about multi-disciplinary creativity, which is why we decided to partner with local community organization No More Empty Pots for our 2020 Summer Camp Season. Throughout the camps, students will not only embrace and explore their creativity through their chosen camp curriculum but are also given the opportunity to further that exploration in the enriching world of cooking! Each day of camp students are taught new recipes from the beginning to the end, including harvest process all the way to clean-up!
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Architecture with RDG
Category: Education • Members | Season: Influence
Explore your creativity in the overarching theme “Everything is Design.”
Join the RDG architects in an all-encompassing introduction to the fundamentals of architecture and design and explore your creativity in the overarching theme ‘Everything is Design.’ As a collaborative, we will explore the idea that design is all around us and can be found in color, material, and the built environment. Using multiple mediums, students will collaborate using inspiration gathered throughout the week to produce an installation for the KANEKO creating “The City of Found Form.” Children Entering Grades 7-9.
Financial Aid Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer financial assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our financial aid program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what financial aid you’ve received.
Camp Lunches Provided by: No More Empty Pots & Kaneko Gardens
KANEKO is all about multi-disciplinary creativity, which is why we decided to partner with local community organization No More Empty Pots for our 2020 Summer Camp Season. Throughout the camps, students will not only embrace and explore their creativity through their chosen camp curriculum but are also given the opportunity to further that exploration in the enriching world of cooking! Each day of camp students are taught new recipes from the beginning to the end, including harvest process all the way to clean-up!
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Sound Design
Category: Education • Members | Season: Influence
Making it’s Creative Camp debut.
Join us in a week of creating sound and music. In Sound Design Camp, students will learn the building blocks of creating musical sound by building new analog and electronic instruments, designing original soundscapes, visiting local music installations, and crafting musical compositions. Children Entering Grades 6-9.
Financial Aid Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer financial assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our financial aid program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what financial aid you’ve received.
Camp Lunches Provided by: No More Empty Pots & Kaneko Gardens
KANEKO is all about multi-disciplinary creativity, which is why we decided to partner with local community organization No More Empty Pots for our 2020 Summer Camp Season. Throughout the camps, students will not only embrace and explore their creativity through their chosen camp curriculum but are also given the opportunity to further that exploration in the enriching world of cooking! Each day of camp students are taught new recipes from the beginning to the end, including harvest process all the way to clean-up!
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Ceramic Philosophy
Category: Education • KANEKO Core Programs • Members | Season: Influence
Explore your inner Kaneko in this brand new ceramics camp.
Campers will learn the foundation of hand-building methods of slab, coil and pinching clay. Activities will be wide-ranging, including ideas about sound, architecture, the vessel, and personal narratives. Students will have the opportunity to discuss current pieces in the KANEKO exhibition, surrounding works in the Old Market, and a tour of the Jun Kaneko studio. Campers should come ready to have a high-energy week that includes quick sketch periods, short gallery and neighborhood tours, and multi-piece explorations of the ideas they bring for each assignment. No prior experience is needed and novice students are encouraged to join. Campers will be lead by ceramics artist and former Jun Kaneko studio assistant Peter Scherr. Children Entering Grades 6-9.
Financial Aid Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer financial assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our financial aid program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what financial aid you’ve received.
Camp Lunches Provided by: No More Empty Pots & Kaneko Gardens
KANEKO is all about multi-disciplinary creativity, which is why we decided to partner with local community organization No More Empty Pots for our 2020 Summer Camp Season. Throughout the camps, students will not only embrace and explore their creativity through their chosen camp curriculum but are also given the opportunity to further that exploration in the enriching world of cooking! Each day of camp students are taught new recipes from the beginning to the end, including harvest process all the way to clean-up!
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PASSAGES: In Praise of Wasting Time
Category: Free • KANEKO Core Programs • Lectures • Passages | Season: Influence
The value of wasting time.
The KANEKO, along with the University of Nebraska Omaha, welcomes distinguished physicist and bestselling author Alan Lightman for the spring session of our PASSAGES Literary Series.
Discussion will center around the ‘art’ of wasting time. A description of Lightman’s recent book In Praise of Wasting Time includes the themes for the evening:
We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the twenty-four hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduce down to ten-minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with “extras.” Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in “wasting time,” of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks.
Doors open at 6:30; please join us early to write down your questions for Lightman. A special addition to the program, internationally recognized fiddler Bonnie Rideout will begin the evening with an informal concert in connection with her creative process of ‘wasting time’.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
About Alan Lightman: “A scientist who is a humanist in the noblest sense of the word.” – Los Angeles Times
After serving on the faculty of Harvard University for a dozen years, Alan Lightman moved to MIT, where he became the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in the sciences and the humanities. In astrophysics, Lightman has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of black holes, radiation processes at the center of galaxies, and the foundation of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
Dozens of independent theatrical and musical production worldwide have been adapted from Lightman’s novel Einstein Dreams. An international bestseller, this book is one of the most widely used texts in universities today and has been translated into 30 languages. A prolific author, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, 2018, and the novel Three Flames, 2019.
Lightman’s appearance at KANEKO PASSAGES, which includes a discussion with expert panelists and the audience, will center around his book In Praise of Wasting Time, which was released in 2018.
See more about Alan Lightman here.
About the Panelists
Kevin Clouther serves as Coordinator of the UNO MFA in Writing Program. He’s an assistant Professor at the UNO Writer’s Workshop. Clouther’s story collection, We Were Flying to Chicago, was published by Catapult. His stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto Del Sol, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among other journals, and he has contributed essays to The Millions, NPR, Poets & Writers, Salon, and Tin House’s “Art of the Sentence.” He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award.
Dr. Christine Cutucache is UNO’s Haddix Community Chair of Science, the Acting Director of the UNO STEM TRAIL Center, and Associate Professor of Biology. She is a tumor immunologist and science education convert. Consequently, her teaching and research interests range from cancer biology to discipline-based education research methods. She has published copious primary articles on her work, authored 3 textbooks, and is a strong advocate for undergraduate professional development.
Dr. Christopher Moore is UNO’s Haddix Community Chair in Physical Science and Associate Professor of Physics. Dr. Moore conducts research in physical science education and teacher preparation, focusing on how we learn/teach creativity and innovation in STEM Dr. Moore is author of the books Creating Scientists and Teaching Science Thinking (which was written at the UNO-Kaneko Library), over 40 peer-reviewed articles, and is co-author of the best-selling high-school curriculum Experience Chemistry. He has recently given invited lectures internationally on the parallels between sense-making in the sciences and humanities.
Bonnie Rideout: On stages from Scotland’s Edinburgh International Festival to America’s Kennedy Center, her unique style of Scottish fiddling has charmed audiences across the globe. Bonnie has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR’s Performance Today, Morning Edition and The Thistle and Shamrock. In addition to authoring seven music books for Mel Bay Publishing Company, Bonnie has recorded over fifteen solo albums. Her Scottish Christmas CD became a New York Times “Top Ten Holiday Best Seller.” Three of Bonnie’s recordings received Grammy nominations.
About PASSAGES: PASSAGES is the core literary program at KANEKO that seeks to intersect and expand all offerings and forms of creative literacy activities across the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan area. PASSAGES programming includes critical readings, interactive writing workshops and sessions, and events featuring accomplished and diverse authors.
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African Fashion Week
Category: Exhibitions • Performances | Season: Influence