Locally Grown

Before our series celebrating Kearney’s Sesquicentennial, Kearney Creates had already given some attention to Jon Bokenkamp, Claire and Shelley Fort, Javi Fox, Jerry Fox, Jenny Homan, Tom Miles, Jim a …

Categories: Art, Culinary, Education, History, Literature, Music, Photography, Theater

Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff

Armin-Gerd spent the early years of his life in a monastery children’s home, later he spent most of his youth in boarding schools. After his parents divorced, his mother married the actor Hans Otto, w …

Categories: Education, Literature, Theater

Stages and Stagings

At this stage in the life of the gray wolf. What? You expected me to begin “All the World Is a Stage”? But stages, in all shapes and sizes and for all purposes, are stages of life, in the same way sta …

Categories: Music, Theater

Kearney Cultural Partners

The Kearney Cultural Partners is a group of local businesses that have joined together to bringing a rich assortment of art, music, dance, theater, movies, history, literature, and family fun to Kearn …

Categories: Art, Literature, Music, Theater

YMCA Creative Arts Program for Children

In the late 1980s Scott Morris donated a downtown building, giving Kearney’s YMCA its first physical location.  Known as “The Storefront,” this small building had a few offices and a large multi-purpo …

Categories: Art, Music, Theater

Kearney Community Theatre

Performing theatre for the community, by the community!

Categories: Music, Theater

Dancing in Kearney

“Our bodies are designed to move and there’s something intrinsic within us that wants us not only to move, but to move rhythmically.” ~ Bob Miller

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Crane River Theatre

Crane River Theater is established around the belief that lifting up the arts will only help in creating richer and more vibrant communities. Our mission is to serve the community of Kearney as a prof …

Categories: Theater

Kearney Area Arts Council

Best known for their Concerts in the Park annual summer event, Kearney Area Arts Council also supports theatre and music productions, and children’s activities and residence artists.

Categories: Art, Music, Theater

Jon Bokenkamp

Kearney’s Jon Bokenkamp has always had the determination to get in to film. “When I’ve made it in films, I want to reflect and see what a goof ball I was and still am.” ~ Jonathan Thomas Bokenkamp. Jo …

Categories: Theater