Upcoming Events

November 7th First Friday!
Nov
7
to Nov 8

November 7th First Friday!

Join us every First Friday of the month in the Benson Creative District for a night filled with art, live music, food, and community! From 5 PM to 2 AM, experience a variety of gallery openings, art exhibitions, local vendors, and live performances at venues across Maple Street and beyond!

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2nd Thursday Art Club
Nov
13

2nd Thursday Art Club

Every 2nd Thursday, 6–8 pm, Trudy’s Education Space turns into a community art room! Drop in anytime, bring your own project or play with our basic supplies. We’ll even have a still life ready if you want to try it out.

All ages, all skill levels, and all imaginations are welcome. Free to attend, no sign-up needed. Just look for the sandwich board out front and come make something with us!

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BFF Ball + Art Auction
Nov
14

BFF Ball + Art Auction

✨ Get ready for BFF’s most dazzling event of the year! The 2025 BFF Ball & Art Auction returns Friday, November 14th! Get ready for another unforgettable ball celebrating another memorable year of art, music, culture, and community!

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December 5th First Friday!
Dec
5
to Dec 6

December 5th First Friday!

Join us every First Friday of the month in the Benson Creative District for a night filled with art, live music, food, and community! From 5 PM to 2 AM, experience a variety of gallery openings, art exhibitions, local vendors, and live performances at venues across Maple Street and beyond!

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2nd Thursday Art Club
Dec
11

2nd Thursday Art Club

Every 2nd Thursday, 6–8 pm, Trudy’s Education Space turns into a community art room! Drop in anytime, bring your own project or play with our basic supplies. We’ll even have a still life ready if you want to try it out.

All ages, all skill levels, and all imaginations are welcome. Free to attend, no sign-up needed. Just look for the sandwich board out front and come make something with us!

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2nd Thursday Art Club
Oct
9

2nd Thursday Art Club

Every 2nd Thursday, 6–8 pm, Trudy’s Education Space turns into a community art room! Drop in anytime, bring your own project or play with our basic supplies. We’ll even have a still life ready if you want to try it out.

All ages, all skill levels, and all imaginations are welcome. Free to attend, no sign-up needed. Just look for the sandwich board out front and come make something with us!

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Handmade Parade
Oct
3

Handmade Parade

Experience the Handmade Parade, where giant puppets, dazzling costumes, and lively performances fill historic downtown Benson with color and energy. Whether you're marching, performing, or cheering from the sidelines, your presence is a symbol of resilience, creativity, and connection at a time when we need to celebrate our  differences, lift each other up, and showcase the beauty of self-expression…

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Breathing Occupation
Oct
3

Breathing Occupation

A vignette into the West Bank, Gaza, and the Palestinian diaspora in Omaha.


Through art and immersive displays by local Palestinians, Breathing Occupation offers space to educate, process, and encourage action.

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Benson Bolt .5k: The Race for People Who Hate Running
Oct
3

Benson Bolt .5k: The Race for People Who Hate Running

All the trauma bonding of a marathon—minus the trauma, the mileage, and the actual athleticism. Welcome to the Benson Bolt .5k, where we run a whopping .31 miles (yes, that decimal is intentional) through some of Benson’s finest spots.
Forget the starting gun—we’re kicking things off with a shot at St. Andrews. Hydration? Optional. Swagger? Mandatory. Then it’s a brisk stumble to The Sydney for shot number two, because cardio is better with gatorade vodka.
We’ll wrap things up somewhere around 58th and Corby and crash straight into the Handmade Parade. Costumes are highly encouraged—because if you’re going to run less than half a mile, you might as well look stellar doing it.
So lace up your sneakers, stretch your liver, and join us for the most gloriously unserious race of the year.

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Amoral City Folk
Oct
3

Amoral City Folk

Three NYC-based artists bring new works to Omaha:
🖌️ Original paintings by Kaitlyn Lang (@della.lang.92)
🎥 Video installations by Brandon Burkett (@bb_moves_nyc)
🖼️ Paintings by Jeffrey Jacobs (@the_dark_water)

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October 3rd First Friday!
Oct
3
to Oct 4

October 3rd First Friday!

Join us every First Friday of the month in the Benson Creative District for a night filled with art, live music, food, and community! From 5 PM to 2 AM, experience a variety of gallery openings, art exhibitions, local vendors, and live performances at venues across Maple Street and beyond!

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BFF Made a Maze: Recycled Art Workshop
Sep
28

BFF Made a Maze: Recycled Art Workshop

We’re putting on a show inspired by Dave Made a Maze and creating our own cardboard labyrinth in the BFF Gallery. Join us the last Sunday of every month (June-October) following the Green Team Clean up for workshops creating artwork out of recycled materials.

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2nd Thursday Art Club
Sep
11

2nd Thursday Art Club

Every 2nd Thursday, 6–8 pm, Trudy’s Education Space turns into a community art room! Drop in anytime, bring your own project or play with our basic supplies. We’ll even have a still life ready if you want to try it out.

All ages, all skill levels, and all imaginations are welcome. Free to attend, no sign-up needed. Just look for the sandwich board out front and come make something with us!

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Lidwina - Sheila Talbitzer
Sep
5

Lidwina - Sheila Talbitzer

When artist & educator Sheila Talbitzer was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, she began transforming her own MRI scans into embroidered works — flowers blooming in impossible places, each one marking a lesion from her first scan.

By combining photography, fabric, and embroidery, Sheila turns stark medical documents into meditations on resilience, fear, and beauty.

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Hunter Parry: Self-Titled
Sep
5

Hunter Parry: Self-Titled

Painter and draftsman Hunter Parry brings his classically trained eye to @thebffgallery with Self-Titled, a new exhibition that highlights his refined technique and quiet intensity.

Based in Omaha and a graduate of The Florence Academy of Art, Parry’s work bridges tradition and contemporary vision.

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APRIL VENDETTA — DREAM BABY DREAM
Sep
5

APRIL VENDETTA — DREAM BABY DREAM

April Vendetta is an artist and archivist whose work explores control, labor, punishment, and surveillance—examining the body’s resilience in the face of it all. With over a decade of experience in community-based performance art, they founded Human Trash Dump in 2015, an online, open-source collaborative archive.

Their practice also bridges personal history and cultural memory, including preserving a home movie collection documenting the art and life of their late uncle, Kent Bellows.

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September 5th First Friday!
Sep
5
to Sep 6

September 5th First Friday!

Join us every First Friday of the month in the Benson Creative District for a night filled with art, live music, food, and community! From 5 PM to 2 AM, experience a variety of gallery openings, art exhibitions, local vendors, and live performances at venues across Maple Street and beyond!

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BFF Made a Maze: Recycled Art Workshop
Aug
31

BFF Made a Maze: Recycled Art Workshop

We’re putting on a show inspired by Dave Made a Maze and creating our own cardboard labyrinth in the BFF Gallery. Join us the last Sunday of every month (June-October) following the Green Team Clean up for workshops creating artwork out of recycled materials.

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PETFEST 2025
Aug
16
to Aug 17

PETFEST 2025

🔥 PETFEST 2025 💥

PETFEST is a DIY-fueled, sweat-soaked, ear-ringing, all-day music explosion packed with the loudest, weirdest, and most face-meltingly good bands Omaha has to offer. No fluff. No filler. Just two stages of pure chaos.

💥 SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 | 2PM – MIDNIGHT

📍 PETSHOP | TWO STAGES!!

🎟️ $30 Advance / $40 Day of

🚨 TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 🚨

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