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Omaha's Mexican Dance Academy performs during the New American Arts Festival - an annual collaboration between BFF & Lutheran Family Services to highlight local immigrant and refugee arts and cultures.
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Event goers embrace during a first Friday opening inside a Petshop artist studio.   "Petshop" is BFF's headquarters offering affordable artist studios, offices, galleries, and community spaces.  
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Benson artist Trudy Swanson works in her studio during a first Friday.

"With an influx of visitors, tourists, and artists in our area, we would see more jobs generated and economic activities would increase." - Leslie Clark, Auburn advocate &  Project Director, Honeybees in the Heartland

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"[BFF] has truly made a huge economic impact on the community and created a culture of creativity in our tight-knit neighborhood." 
​- Sarah Johnson, Benson building owner

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BFF partnered with Sarah Johnson (a cycling advocate) and The New Philharmonic to create a flash mob-style performance called Eine Brise (A breeze) - A Fleeting Action for 111 Bicycles. 
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Pedi-cabs transport event-goers during warmer months.

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Models show off fashions produced by REVIVAL during
​"LOOSE JUICE," a BFF fundraising event during Omaha Gives 2019, featuring local fashion, visual art, music, and performances.

"I can count on roughly doubling my sales" - Steph Lambert, owner of REVIVAL Buy-Sell-Trade

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"We had no idea what we were doing, but the BFF team was there to support us every step of the way!" - JP Gurnett, Creative Director &
​Co-Founder of Queer Nite

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Queer Nite performers in downtown Lincoln, outside BFF's MaMO Gallery, amidst a rain storm, at Lincoln Calling Music Festival, 2019.
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Queer Nite's Molli Poppinz performs for a celebratory crowd
​during BFF's annual Members ONLY Ball, 2019.

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High School students exhibit work inside Yoshitomo Gallery - BFF operated youth programming here 2017-2019 made possible through a donation from a building owner, but it has recently closed it's doors.
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Youth Engagement activities are a big attraction for families
during summertime first Fridays.

"The funding from this grant would have an immense impact on the local community by giving it's young people a safe place to express themselves and take ownership of their neighborhood." - Shelby Audiss, Youth Engagement Coordinator, BFF 

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Event-goers at BFF's annual art and music fundraising event, PETFEST.   Tim Carr was one of the many area musicians and artists who volunteered to perform the festival.

"BFF is half the reason I go to Omaha.  The other half is the people affiliated with BFF.  The art, artists, and culture they provide and support should be world wide.   I seriously love EVERYTHING BFF represents." - Tim Carr, Lincoln artist and BFF donor


Download a testimony submitted to the Urban Affairs Committee Hearing by Doug Zbylut, Executive Director - Nebraskans for the Arts.   
BFF was also invited to speak at this hearing :)

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