Film Streams gets $25,000 NEA grant
Film Streams, Omaha's nonprofit arthouse movie theater, has won a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its exhibition of repertory film and its special programs.
Film Streams founder and director Rachel Jacobson called the grant “a tremendous honor and major institutional milestone for our young nonprofit.”
Since opening in July 2007, Film Streams has presented more than 500 movies, including more than 140 first-run premieres of American independent movies, foreign films and documentaries. Most of those movies would not have played to Omaha audiences otherwise.
Repertory series at Film Streams' Ruth Sokolof Theater added another 330 titles of classic movies to the total.
The grant supports not only screenings but special programs such as audience Q and A sessions with visiting filmmakers and guests, plus partherships with more than two dozen community organizations on collaborative film events.
Exhibit includes video projection, photos
The Moving Gallery, 1042 Howard St. in the Old Market passageway, will celebrate the opening of a new exhibition at 7 p.m. Thursday. The exhibition, titled “Transatlantik,” includes recent photos, paintings and a video projection by European artists Fulvio de Pellegin, Paolo Dolzan and Heidi Lichtenberg.
The exhibition is the result of a trip the three artists took across the United States in 2007. Their artworks will be on view through Feb. 16 in the Garden of the Zodiac Gallery from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Information: 402-517-8719.
Arts group names Maas as director
The Nebraskans for the Arts board of directors has named Marjorie Maas as its new director.
Nebraskans for the Arts is a nonprofit advocacy group that promotes learning through the arts and promotes the arts with local, state and federal policymakers.
Maas owns a public relations and marketing firm, Palette Promotions. As part of her new job she will serve on the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network. She will also handle marketing, membership and board organization for Nebraskans for the Arts.
Local arts groups receive council grants
The Nebraska Arts Council has awarded $144,585 in grants for projects in the first half of 2011.
Among Omaha-area recipients are El Museo Latino, $2,954, for artists in the schools; African Culture Connection, $7,339; Omaha community Playhouse, $884; and The ARTery, $9,228, for school partnership project grants.
Arts access project grants went to Autism Society of America Nebraska Chapter, $1,485; College of St. Mary, $2,639; El Museo Latino, $3,516; John Beasley Theater, $4,311; Kent Bellows Foundation, $3,388; Metropolitan Community College Foundation, $4,604; Omaha Summer Arts Festival, $4,957; Siena/Francis House, $2,604; and Skinner Magnet Center, $1,580.
Arts project grants were awarded to Ballet Nebraska, $4,413; Cathedral Arts Project, $4,676; Lauritzen Gardens, $4,178; Metropolitan Community College Foundation, $5,057; Omaha Chamber Music Society, $4,110; Omaha Children's Museum, $1,591; Omaha Conservatory of Music, $3,704; Omaha Film Festival, $2,877; and Orchestra Omaha, $1,909.
Ross to host talk by Doane professor
Friends of the Ross is sponsoring a movie talk today after the noon screening of “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest” at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. in Lincoln.
Admission to the movie is at regular prices. The talk, led by Betty Levitov, is free.
Levitov, who teaches English at Doane College in Crete, Neb., wrote a travel memoir, “Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari.” She has also traveled extensively in Europe and Asia.
Auditions
“Three Tall Women,” Blue Barn Theatre, 2 p.m. today and 6 p.m. Monday at The Downtown Space, 614 S. 11th St. Show runs March 10-April 2. Information: 402-345-1576.
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Omaha Community Playhouse, 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the theater, 6915 Cass St. Use west stage-door entrance. Show runs Feb. 18 to March 27. Information: 402-553-4890, ext. 110.
“Autistic License,” SNAP Productions, 11 a.m. today at SNAP/Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California St. Show runs March 3-27. Information: e-mail mmichelep49@gmail.com.
“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” Bellevue Little Theatre, 5 p.m. today and 7 p.m. Monday at the theater, 203 W. Mission Ave. in Bellevue. Show runs March 18 to April 3. Information: 402-292-1920.
“My Occasion of Sin,” Shelterbelt Theatre, 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at SNAP/Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California St. Show runs April 14-May 8. Information: e-mail the director at roxwach@aol.com.
— Compiled by Bob Fischbach
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