The second week in September, top creative organizations will hold events to connect, inform, and inspire the creative community.
Omaha Creative Week is about head-turning, groundbreaking creativity. Whether you make games, petit fours, films, music or sentences, Creative Week wants to help you reach out and expand your community of all things creative. Start planning and posting your events now!
EVENTS
EVERYDAY OF CREATIVE WEEK
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Museum Discount
Joslyn Museum
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". Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is a captivating exhibition of 38 paintings, including many of the finest examples of mid nineteenth- through early twentieth-century French and American landscape in the Brooklyn Museum's collection. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1920s, the works presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent.
*Admission to the Museum is free on Saturdays, 10 am to noon. Joslyn Art Museum is closed on Mondays.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, 2010
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 2010
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Silicon Prairie News & KANEKO Present: Caretakers Forum
KANEKO, 1111 Jones St
Join us Monday evening of Omaha Creative Week from 6 to 8 p.m. for a lively conversation with three of Creative Week's Caretakers and Hal France, Executive Director of KANEKO.Moderated by Danny Schreiber, Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News, the topic at hand will be creativity. Questions addressed include: How is creativity defined? What is Omaha's creative tolerance? Where is creativity needed most? Audience Q&A will close out the panel.
Caretaker Panel: Joe Olsen of Phenomblue, Susan Thomas of Omaha Creative Institute and Brian Wetjen of Bozell
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werd. - Competition Kickoff
Minorwhite Studios, Mastercraft Building, 1111N 13th St Suite 104
werd. | is a visual artist competition that challenges artists of all walks of life in an exercise to create a visual piece based on one word. We want submissions from chef’s, photographers, painters, designers, engineers, film makers, etc. Jury will select words submitted by public via twitter/facebookSeven 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 7pm 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.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 2010
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Artist-in-Residence programming with Why Arts?
Omaha Children's Museum, 10AM-Noon
Omaha’s youngest creative minds let their imagination soar and their creativity becomes unleashed through the Omaha Children’s Museum events taking place during Omaha Creative Week. 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. Artist-in-Residence workshops are included with admission and no advance registration is required. Guests are asked to spend 20 minutes with an artist to get as significant an experience as possible.
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Stack Creative UnConference
Nomad Lounge, Downtown Omaha
This 1st annual event is modeled off the hugely successful unConference thrown annually by the One Club bringing advertising agency professionals, designers, designer educators, and other industry service providers together for a day of knowledge sharing. Group with your peers in open forums to talk trends, challenges, and the future of our business. Learn new things and build new collaborative networks.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th, 2010
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HDC10
Embassy Suites, LaVista
HDC is one of the nation's premiere software design and development conferences. This 7th annual event will draw over 500 attendees from across the US.
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Creative Spacewalk
Departs from the Westroads Mall
WHAT IT IS
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.
HOW IT WORKS
SpaceWalkers will board a bus outside of Westroads' Food Court. The bus will depart promptly at 9:00am and take attendees to each stop on the SpaceWalk. The bus will return to Westroads for a lunch break (you‘re on your own) before setting off on the afternoon leg of the tour.
Participating businesses are free to tailor their tours in any way they see fit, so you don't know if you’ll get the We’d Love to Work with You tour or the Please Let this Meeting be Over tour. Either way, you get to visit several of Omaha's top creative spaces. On a bus. For free.Registration is free, but limited. Click here for more details and registration. »
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AIGA Nebraska presents: Summer Seminar 2010 "Mobilize Your Design!"
Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine Street
Feeling out of the loop, out of touch, or just plain "out of it" when in comes to designing for mobile? 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.
Mobile experts Christopher Kingsley, CEO of Roundscapes, Dave Nelson, Owner/Designer at Secret Penguin, and Emir Plicanic, Senior Interactive Designer at Nelnet and Web Designer/Developer at Asari, will share their secrets for successful mobile campaigns. We invite you to bring your questions and mobile challenges for discussion. Find out about the current state of mobile and learn what the future may hold.
Join us at noon for an informal lunch mixer before (12PM) our speakers start at 1p.m. Event goes until 5PM.
AIGA members: $30
Non-Members: $45
Students: $25
(Registration fee includes lunch, beverages, and snacks.
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Old Market Gallery Walk
Downtown Omaha, 5-8PM (Download Map from JLofts Website
Visit galleries in the downtown Omaha area. Free, open to public. Prize drawing for local art at 8:30pm at Old Market Tavern. Download map at www.jlofts.com or pick up at any participating gallery. Sponsored by: jLofts on the Market, Old Market Tavern & The Reader.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th, 2010
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Artist-in-Residence programming with Why Arts?
Omaha Children's Museum, 10AM-Noon
Omaha’s youngest creative minds let their imagination soar and their creativity becomes unleashed through the Omaha Children’s Museum events taking place during Omaha Creative Week. 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. Artist-in-Residence workshops are included with admission and no advance registration is required. Guests are asked to spend 20 minutes with an artist to get as significant an experience as possible.
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The Business Of Fashion
Nomad Lounge, 1013 Jones St.
TD AMERITRADE, Creighton University’s College of Business, Omaha Fashion Week, Omaha’s Council of Companies and Joslyn’s Young Art Patrons are pleased to announce that on Thursday, September 9 together they will partner to bring you the social networking event of the year -- “The Business of Fashion”!
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.
In addition, Nick Hudson, founder of Omaha Fashion Week and Nomad Lounge, will share his success story with the group and introduce one of Omaha’s upcoming fashion designers, Daniel Muñoz.
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Creative Spacewalk
Departs from the Westroads Mall
WHAT IT IS
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.
HOW IT WORKS
SpaceWalkers will board a bus outside of Westroads' Food Court. The bus will depart promptly at 9:00am and take attendees to each stop on the SpaceWalk. The bus will return to Westroads for a lunch break (you‘re on your own) before setting off on the afternoon leg of the tour.
Participating businesses are free to tailor their tours in any way they see fit, so you don't know if you’ll get the We’d Love to Work with You tour or the Please Let this Meeting be Over tour. Either way, you get to visit several of Omaha's top creative spaces. On a bus. For free.Registration is free, but limited. Click here for more details and registration. »
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HDC10
Embassy Suites, LaVista
HDC is one of the nation's premiere software design and development conferences. This 7th annual event will draw over 500 attendees from across the US.
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The Lady With All the Answers - Special Promo
Omaha Community Playhouse
For Omaha Creative Week, the Omaha Community Playhouse will be offering $10 off tickets to the Thursday, Sept. 9 performance of The Lady with All the Answers. To receive this special rate of $25, Creative Week participants should use the promo code CREATE. For tickets, call (402) 553-0800, visit www.omahaplayhouse.org"For decades, renowned newspaper advice columnist Ann Landers responded to countless questions from lovelorn teens, confused couples, and a multitude of others in need of advice on matters small and momentous – like the proper way to hang toilet paper rolls. This one-woman show provides a compelling portrait of this folksy, funny, frank, and slightly eccentric writer and personality. At the height of her popularity, Sioux City native Ann Landers was read by some 90 million people. Her daily dialog with America helped shape the social landscape for almost half a century."
Click for the Omaha Community playhouse website to register. Use the promo code "CREATE".
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Omaha Creative Institute Creativity through Movement Public Workshop
7 to 9 p.m. at Hot Shops Art Center, 1301 Nicholas ($10 at the door)
“Creating theatre out of nothing, but each other.” 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. The time will concentrate on a technique of improvisation providing a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture. In addition to that technique, participants will experiment with text, song, music, and the physical space to inform the story they'll tell.Click here to contact OCI to pre-register. (Pre-registration not necessary, but appreciated.)
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Power to the Poster: The Exhibition
The New BLK - 1213 Jones St., 6-9 PM
An exhibition of posters selected from www.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. These 11x17 posters in PDF format are for anyone, anywhere to download, print and post. The hope is that this site gets people talking about where we've been and where we're going in these historic times.
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Unwined with Webster Design
Webster Design Garage - 102 N. 51st St. - 6PM Start
What is it?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.
Want to see an example? Visit websterdesign.com and click on “Rewined.” Can’t find the time to make your own label? Use your best art appreciation skills and purchase a bottle of wine with a great label. But still be prepared to swap it.
We’ll provide some light hors d’ oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages, too.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 2010
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Fireside Photographers Discussion - 7PM START
Minorwhite Studios, Mastercraft Building, 1111N 13th St Suite 104
Who should attend?
Local photographers and motion image makers, professionals and amateurs alike.What's the big idea?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).
Our goal is two-fold: Create a stronger sense of community among local image makers; and have a venue where we can talk candidly about photography with a large, diverse group of image makers into the wee hours of the morning.
Initial discussion topics include:
the value of an image, inspiration, the value of creating a photographic community, the end of print(?), Photocine the future(?), is it possible to kill the green hulk(?), etc..Click here to RSVP, ask questions or suggest discussion topics or here for more info.
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HDC10
Embassy Suites, LaVista
HDC is one of the nation's premiere software design and development conferences. This 7th annual event will draw over 500 attendees from across the US.
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Omaha Startup Weekend - Pitch Session/Kickoff
Mastercraft Building, 1111 North 13 St.
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 p[itch session where the weekend's projects are pitched and chosen for work.
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werd. - Awards Show
Minorwhite Studios, Mastercraft Building, 1111N 13th St Suite 104
werd. | is a visual artist competition that challenges artists of all walks of life in an exercise to create a visual piece based on one word. We want submissions from chef’s, photographers, painters, designers, engineers, film makers, etc. Jury will select words submitted by public via twitter/facebookSeven 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 7pm 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.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 2010
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Omaha Creative Institute Presents: GLASSBLOWING with Ed Fennell - 10AM START
Hot Shops Art Center, North Downtown Omaha
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. Please wear cotton or simple non-synthetic fabrics and closed-toe shoes. Class members should be 13 years or older.
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Omaha Creative Institute Presents: POETRY AND PERFORMANCE with Matt Mason - 2PM START
Film Streams, North Downtown Omaha
First of two workshops on poetry and related performance that can be taken as a progression through the art form or independently. 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. Matt Mason has won two Nebraska Book Awards, been published in over 150 magazines, competed on three National Poetry Slam teams, and run a poetry slam and done lectures in Minsk through the U.S. State Department.
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OM Slam - 7:30PM START
Omaha Healing Arts Center, 1216 Howard Street
Tonight features Minneapolis poet Wonder Dave. Dave is the co-slam master of SlamMN and the poet laughette of the Monday Night Comedy Show. It's the longest-running poetry slam in Omaha, often featuring some of the best performance poets in the nation. Open mic starts at 7:30 followed by the poetry slam (poetry slam is a poetry reading where audience members are made judges, holding up scores for poems, putting the crowd in charge of what we hear more of). Hosted by Matt Mason. $7 suggested donation.
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Omaha Startup Weekend
Mastercraft Building, 1111 North 13 St.
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.
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+ |the plus one project: a creative approach to building community between now and 9.11.11
UNO – CPACS building, Creative Commons
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 11th, 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.
Whoever we are and whatever we do, community matters, and storytelling is an integral part of how we understand, define and create community. In addition to sharing stories, we will examine the acts of inviting, witnessing and telling as deliberate and intentional ways of creating community.This conversation is a call to add our voices, stories and actions to the process of creating community between now and 9.11.11.