With Omaha Creative Week just a few days away, make sure to ask yourself: Is my calendar up-to-date? Below is the most current list of events, activities, and special discounts taking place from September 5-11. The purpose of the week is to connect, inform, and inspire Omaha’s creative community.
Note: The following list will be constantly updated throughout Omaha Creative Week to reflect the most current information on omahacreativeweek.com.
Sunday, September 5
Joslyn Museum Discount
- Host: Joslyn Musem
- Location: Joslyn Musem (2200 Dodge Street)
- Description: Mention Omaha Creative Week at a Joslyn Art Museum entrance desk, September 5 through September 11, and receive $5 admission! Omaha Creative Week is the last week of “Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism”.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
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Monday, September 6
10 a.m. – werd. Competition Kickoff
- Host: minorwhite studios
- Location: Kickoff is online only, details at minorwhitestudios.com/werd
- Description: By 10 a.m., Monday, September 6, contestants must be registered. The jury’s seven selected words will be drawn at 1 p.m. Thursday, September 9 at 7 p.m., all artwork must be submitted to werd@minorwhitestudios.com.
- More information: minorwhitestudios.com/werd
6-8 p.m. – Caretakers Forum
- Host: Silicon Prairie News & KANEKO
- Location: KANEKO (1111 Jones Street)
- Description: A panel discussion addressing the definition of creative, the purpose of creativity, the goals for Omaha to increase creative activity, and more.
- More information: siliconprairienews.com
Tuesday, September 7
8:30 a.m. – 8 p.m. – Stack Creative UnConference
- Host: Omaha Creative Week
- Location: Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street)
- Description: Stack is a Creative unConference: a forum to talk to your peers, learn new things, and build new collaborative networks for Creative Professionals.
- More information: stack2010.com
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Artist-in-Residence programming with Why Arts?
- Host: Omaha Children’s Museum
- Location: Omaha Children’s Museum (500 South 20th Street)
- Description: The Artist-in-Residence workshops on Tuesday and Thursdays will focus on the process of creating art, rather than the end product, encouraging children and their parents to learn about different art forms in a non-threatening way.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
Wednesday, September 8
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Creative Spacewalk
- Host: Omaha Creative Week
- Location: Departs from Westroads Mall (10000 California Street)
- Description: The Creative Spacewalk is an opportunity to visit other creative people, agencies, studios and work spaces. Meet the people, see the space, and learn more about who is doing what and where.
- More information: creativespacewalk.com
12-5 p.m. – Mobilize Your Design!
- Host: AIGA Nebraska
- Location: Scott Conference Center (6450 Pine Street)
- Description: Join us for a half-day seminar on designing for mobile devices. Discover techniques and best practices for creating successful cross-platform design and learn how to avoid some common pit-falls.
- More information: nebraska.aiga.org/events
5-8 p.m. – Old Market Gallery Walk
- Host: jLofts on the Market, Old Market Tavern & The Reader
- Location: Old Market
- Description: Visit galleries in the downtown Omaha area. Free, open to public. Prize drawing for local art at 8:30 p.m. at Old Market Tavern. Download map at jlofts.com or pick up at any participating gallery.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
TBA – Movement Workshop hosted by Joel Egger
- Host: Omaha Fashion Week and Omaha Creative Institute
- Location: Halo Institute (1022 Leavenworth Street)
- Description: Joel Egger will host a movement workshop focusing on the artistic consciousness that it takes to be both a model, acting as a human canvas, and a fashion designer, working to express oneself on such unique form.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
Heartland Developers Conference, Day 1 of 3 (Sold Out)
- Host: Heartland Developers Conference
- Location: Embassy Suites Omaha (12520 Westport Parkway, La Vista)
- Description: Heartland Developers Conference is one of the nation’s premiere software design and development conferences. This 7th annual event will draw over 500 attendees from across the U.S.
- More information: heartlanddc.com
Thursday, September 9
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Creative Spacewalk
- Host: Omaha Creative Week
- Location: Departs from Westroads Mall (10000 California Street)
- Description: The Creative Spacewalk is an opportunity to visit other creative people, agencies, studios and work spaces. Meet the people, see the space, and learn more about who is doing what and where.
- More information: creativespacewalk.com
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Artist-in-Residence programming with Why Arts?
- Host: Omaha Children’s Museum
- Location: Omaha Children’s Museum (500 South 20th Street)
- Description: The Artist-in-Residence workshops on Tuesday and Thursdays will focus on the process of creating art, rather than the end product, encouraging children and their parents to learn about different art forms in a non-threatening way.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
6 p.m. – Unwined with Webster Design
- Host: Webster Design
- Location: Webster Design Garage (102 North 51st Street)
- Description: A chance to unwind and connect with creative colleagues over a glass of wine or two. It’s also an opportunity to be creative without any design restrictions or requirements. How, you may ask? Make your own wine label. We encourage all who attend to design their own custom wine label and bring it (attached to a bottle of wine) with the intent of swapping said wine and label at the event.
- More information: websterdesign.com/unwined
6-9 p.m. – Power to the Poster: The Exhibition
- Host: The New BLK
- Location: The New BLK (1213 Jones Street)
- Description: An exhibition of posters selected from powertotheposter.org. This project exists to bring people together around a ready supply of well-designed, wild postings that comment on the issues of our time.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
7-9 p.m. – Creativity through Movement Public Workshop
- Host: Omaha Creative Institute
- Location: Hot Shops Art Center (1301 Nicholas)
- Description: Facilitated by Joel Egger, the workshop focuses on a sense of play and experiment using nothing more than the other actors/participants in the room or the simplified impulse of the performer.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
7:30 p.m. – The Lady With All the Answers – Special Promo
- Host: Omaha Community Playhouse
- Location: Omaha Community Playhouse (6916 Cass Street)
- Description: For Omaha Creative Week, the Omaha Community Playhouse will be offering $10 off tickets to the Thursday, September 9th performance of The Lady with All the Answers. To receive this special rate of $25, Creative Week participants should use the promo code CREATE.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
Heartland Developers Conference, Day 2 of 3 (Sold Out)
- Host: Heartland Developers Conference
- Location: Embassy Suites Omaha (12520 Westport Parkway, La Vista)
- Description: Heartland Developers Conference is one of the nation’s premiere software design and development conferences. This 7th annual event will draw over 500 attendees from across the U.S.
- More information: heartlanddc.com
TBA – The Business Of Fashion
- Host: TD AMERITRADE, Creighton University’s College of Business, Omaha Fashion Week, Omaha’s Council of Companies and Joslyn’s Young Art Patrons
- Location: Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street)
- Description: Come mix, mingle and broaden your network as you learn from both new and seasoned local artists about Omaha’s fashion culture. This is a great opportunity to meet other young professionals that are involved in the community and share best practices.
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
Friday, September 10
5:30 p.m. – Omaha Startup Weekend, Day 1 of 3 – Pitch Session / Kickoff
- Host: Omaha Startup Weekend
- Location: What Cheer, Secret Penguin and CAMP Coworking in the Mastercraft Building (1111 North 13th Street)
- Description: Startup Weekend Omaha is a community building startup event. Participants get together with local developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts and start companies in just 54 hours. Friday night’s gathering is the pitch session where the weekend’s projects are pitched and chosen for work.
- More information: omaha.startupweekend.org
7 p.m. – Fireside Photographers Discussion
- Host: minorwhite studios
- Location: minorwhite studios, Mastercraft Building (1111 North 13th Street, Suite 104)
- Description: We’re kicking it old school! Gather ’round a fire, drink libations and discuss topics that concern the community. Attendees are also invited to spend the night — bring a tent and sleep outdoors under the stars (weather permitting).
- More information: omahacreativeweek.com
TBA – werd. Awards Show
- Host: minorwhite studios
- Location: TBA
- Description: Seven words will be selected and then will be placed in hat and drawn on Monday afternoon the 6th. Contestants will have until Thursday evening at 7 p.m. on the 9th to submit digital copy of artwork. That evening a public vote will take place and jurors will select there favorites. On Friday awards will be given in the following categories: Concept, Execution, Aesthetic, Best Of Show, and The People’s Choice.
- More information: minorwhitestudios.com/werd
Heartland Developers Conference, Day 3 of 3 (Sold Out)
- Host: Heartland Developers Conference
- Location: Embassy Suites Omaha (12520 Westport Parkway, La Vista)
- Description: Heartland Developers Conference is one of the nation’s premiere software design and development conferences. This 7th annual event will draw over 500 attendees from across the U.S.
- More information: heartlanddc.com
Saturday, September 11
10 a.m. – Glassblowing with Ed Fennell
- Host: Omaha Creative Institute
- Location: Hot Shops Art Center (1301 Nicholas)
- Description: Ed Fennell will demonstrate his craft during this two hour and a half course. Students will then be guided through the process of creating their own paperweight to be mailed or picked up at a later date.
- More information: omahacreativeinstitute.org
1-4:30 p.m. – + |the plus one project: a creative approach to building community between now and 9.11.11
- Host: Rita Paskowitz and Joe Gerstandt
- Location: University of Nebraska at Omaha – CPACS building, Creative Commons (6001 Dodge Street)
- Description: Each of us has a story to tell and each of our stories has value. the plus one project: a creative approach to building community between now and 9.11.11, is an interactive workshop focused on this idea. Taking place nine years after the galvanizing events of September 11, 2001, its central theme is the addition of each of our voices, stories and actions to the process of creating a community that works for all.
- More information: theplusoneproject.eventbrite.com
2 p.m. – Poetry and Performance with Matt Mason
- Host: Omaha Creative Institute
- Location: Film Streams (1320 Mike Fahey Street)
- Description: Poetry Slams have popularized poetry written to be performed. Learn about writing poems that are funny, political, personal, whatever you feel the urge to do, and get insight into how to take that poem and deliver it to an audience.
- More information: omahacreativeinstitute.org
7:30 p.m. – OM Slam
- Host: Matt Mason
- Location: Omaha Healing Arts Center (1216 Howard Street)
- Description: It’s the longest-running poetry slam in Omaha, often featuring some of the best performance poets in the nation.
- More information: omahaslam.com
Omaha Startup Weekend, Day 2 of 3
- Host: Omaha Startup Weekend
- Location: What Cheer, Secret Penguin, and CAMP Coworking in the Mastercraft building (1111 North 13th Street)
- Description: Startup Weekend Omaha is a community building startup event. Participants get together with local developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts and start companies in just 54 hours. Friday night’s gathering is the pitch session where the weekend’s projects are pitched and chosen for work.
- More information: omaha.startupweekend.org
