Registration: https://www.trifaith.org/events/color-of-law/

Tuesdays: July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28 & August 4
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm CDT
Zoom (Registration required)

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Join Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith for a five-week book discussion about this untold story to learn how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning and explore how the history of redlining still impacts our cities and communities today.

Co-hosted by Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith Initiative.

The Color of Law is available for purchase at Urban Abbey.

Facilitators: Jeff Spiehs & Mike Helgerson

Jeff Spiehs is the co-leader of Urban Abbey’s Justice Team and is actively engaged in the civic life of Omaha, serving on various boards in the community. He is a member of Leadership Omaha and was the Public Policy Chair for the Greater Omaha Young Professionals. Jeff also works at the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency and his efforts focus on affordable housing, racial equality, and increasing access to public transportation. He is an adjunct professor on community development. Jeff is also an Ordained Minister. He lives with his wife, Melany, and their three girls, Anna, Lauren, and Caroline.

Registration: https://www.trifaith.org/events/color-of-law/

Tuesdays: July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28 & August 4
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm CDT
Zoom (Registration required)

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Join Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith for a five-week book discussion about this untold story to learn how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning and explore how the history of redlining still impacts our cities and communities today.

Co-hosted by Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith Initiative.

The Color of Law is available for purchase at Urban Abbey.

Facilitators: Jeff Spiehs & Mike Helgerson

Jeff Spiehs is the co-leader of Urban Abbey’s Justice Team and is actively engaged in the civic life of Omaha, serving on various boards in the community. He is a member of Leadership Omaha and was the Public Policy Chair for the Greater Omaha Young Professionals. Jeff also works at the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency and his efforts focus on affordable housing, racial equality, and increasing access to public transportation. He is an adjunct professor on community development. Jeff is also an Ordained Minister. He lives with his wife, Melany, and their three girls, Anna, Lauren, and Caroline.

Registration: https://www.trifaith.org/events/color-of-law/

Tuesdays: July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28 & August 4
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm CDT
Zoom (Registration required)

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Join Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith for a five-week book discussion about this untold story to learn how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning and explore how the history of redlining still impacts our cities and communities today.

Co-hosted by Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith Initiative.

The Color of Law is available for purchase at Urban Abbey.

Facilitators: Jeff Spiehs & Mike Helgerson

Jeff Spiehs is the co-leader of Urban Abbey’s Justice Team and is actively engaged in the civic life of Omaha, serving on various boards in the community. He is a member of Leadership Omaha and was the Public Policy Chair for the Greater Omaha Young Professionals. Jeff also works at the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency and his efforts focus on affordable housing, racial equality, and increasing access to public transportation. He is an adjunct professor on community development. Jeff is also an Ordained Minister. He lives with his wife, Melany, and their three girls, Anna, Lauren, and Caroline.

Registration: https://www.trifaith.org/events/color-of-law/

Tuesdays: July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28 & August 4
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm CDT
Zoom (Registration required)

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Join Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith for a five-week book discussion about this untold story to learn how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning and explore how the history of redlining still impacts our cities and communities today.

Co-hosted by Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith Initiative.

The Color of Law is available for purchase at Urban Abbey.

Facilitators: Jeff Spiehs & Mike Helgerson

Jeff Spiehs is the co-leader of Urban Abbey’s Justice Team and is actively engaged in the civic life of Omaha, serving on various boards in the community. He is a member of Leadership Omaha and was the Public Policy Chair for the Greater Omaha Young Professionals. Jeff also works at the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency and his efforts focus on affordable housing, racial equality, and increasing access to public transportation. He is an adjunct professor on community development. Jeff is also an Ordained Minister. He lives with his wife, Melany, and their three girls, Anna, Lauren, and Caroline.

Registration: https://www.trifaith.org/events/color-of-law/

Tuesdays: July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28 & August 4
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm CDT
Zoom (Registration required)

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Join Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith for a five-week book discussion about this untold story to learn how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning and explore how the history of redlining still impacts our cities and communities today.

Co-hosted by Urban Abbey and Tri-Faith Initiative.

The Color of Law is available for purchase at Urban Abbey.

Facilitators: Jeff Spiehs & Mike Helgerson

Jeff Spiehs is the co-leader of Urban Abbey’s Justice Team and is actively engaged in the civic life of Omaha, serving on various boards in the community. He is a member of Leadership Omaha and was the Public Policy Chair for the Greater Omaha Young Professionals. Jeff also works at the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency and his efforts focus on affordable housing, racial equality, and increasing access to public transportation. He is an adjunct professor on community development. Jeff is also an Ordained Minister. He lives with his wife, Melany, and their three girls, Anna, Lauren, and Caroline.

Xiu Xiu w/ Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

July 1, 8pm CST

Virtual @ LOW END: Xiu Xiu

View on Bemis Center Instagram LIVE
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-low-end-xiu-xiu-virtual-concert-tickets-106828442748

Join us for a virtual live from home performance with Los Angeles-based Xiu Xiu. Started in 2002 by Jamie Steward, Xiu Xiu tries to make music for people opposed to and opposed by the horror and disquiet of life. Xiu Xiu draws upon musical traditions of British post punk, 20th century classical, industrial noise, experimental and traditional percussion musics, 50s rock and roll, field recordings, queer dance pop and kosmische musik. Xiu Xiu has toured relentlessly all over the world and has shared stages with Sun Ra Arkestra, Ben Frost, Zola Jesus, Deerhoof, Prurient, Liars, Swans, Matmos, Faust, Grouper, Genesis P Orridge, Angelo Badalamenti and thousands, perhaps billions, of other unstoppable musical fairies, dignitaries and saints.

Omaha Under the Radar

Sunday, June 21, 2020 from 6 - 9:30 pm

Cost: Free

Watch: https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts

What: Seven artists, including Mesonjixx will be playing with Omaha Under the Radar through Experimental Sound Studio’s The Quarantine Concerts series.

Matmos w/ Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

June 20, 8pm CST

Virtual @ LOW END: Matmos

view via https://www.twitch.tv/bemiscenter
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-low-end-matmos-tickets-108164113776

Celebrate the summer solstice with a live virtual dance party performance by Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos. Currently based in Baltimore, the duo formed in San Francisco in the mid 1990s, and self-released their debut album in 1997. Marrying the conceptual tactics and noisy textures of object-based musique concrete to a rhythmic matrix rooted in electronic pop music, the two quickly became known for their highly unusual sound sources: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, rat cages, tanks of helium, a cow uterus, human skulls, snails, cigarettes, cards shuffling, laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions, balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones, Polish trains, insects, life support systems, inflatable blankets, rock salt, solid gold coins, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal. These raw materials are manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms, and often supplemented by traditional musical instruments played by them and their large circle of friends and collaborators. The result is a model of electronic composition as a relational network that connects sources and outcomes together; information about the process of creation activates the listening experience, providing the listener with entry points into sometimes densely allusive, baroque recordings.

Jazz Night

Sunday, June 14, 2020 from 9 pm - 12 am

Cost: Free

Read the article we published about Jazz Nite.

What: Every Sunday DJ WERD & Kethro of Make Believe Studios present some of their favorite selections in the Jazz realm. Pour a glass and join us on Zoom from 9-12 PM CST

“Jazz Nite 13 will feature a performance from KCMO’s Eddie Moore. His music has been featured on Netflix’s “Queer Eye”, and Morgan Cooper’s short film “Room Tone.” Will be playing tons of music from Kansas City based artists this Sunday. The classic, the present, and the future.”

Where: Zoom (room 236-821-2418)

Jazz Night

Sunday, April 19, 2020 from 9 pm - 12 am

Cost: Free

What: Every Sunday DJ WERD & Kethro of Make Believe Studios present some of their favorite selections in the Jazz realm. Pour a glass and join us on Zoom from 9-12 PM CST

Where: Zoom (room 236-821-2418)

POSTPONED

Introductions: MacKenzie Boner

Tuesday, March 24th from 5:30 - 7 p

Cost: $10

Buy your ticket: here

What:
Introductions is a series of events that we’ll host to connect you to people from all over Omaha. There are people and places that many of us haven’t met doing really good things locally and around the country. This is our effort to introduce you to them.

Our first one will host MacKenzie Boner, a local fashion writer, jewelry designer, and photographer to see some of her work and hear about her path to where she is today.  

Where: Bench, 1441 N 11th St, Omaha, NE 68102

Buy your ticket: here

(CANCELLED) SISSI

Friday, March 13 from 6 - 8 pm at the Generator Space

Cost: Free

RSVP here

What: SISSI reclaims an insult hurled across schoolyards and streets to shame and dehumanize by redefining the term as an epithet of pride and empowerment. Curated by Jared Packard, this exhibition features six artists--Jared Brown, Jared Buckheister, J. Michael Ford, Walker Green, Dawuane Lamont Hayes, Matt Morris--hailing from Omaha, New York City, and Chicago. SISSI celebrates the feminine, while pointing to the social and cultural forces that regulate and oppress gender expression.

A guiding objective of this exhibition is to memorialize the ongoing and historic erasure of gender non conforming individuals through artistic gestures that privilege quietness, risk being overlooked, and sometimes eliminate objecthood all together. The rigid enforcement of gender expression requires that those operating outside its framework use subversive strategies and coded content to infect and infiltrate--stealthily opening discourse that challenges the status quo. Although voices from the margins may be dismissed by those in power, they hold culture-shifting potential.

While this exhibition commemorates the silencing of sissi’s, it also recognizes the importance of raucous protest which has been integral to achieving visibility and civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community. Please join us on April 10, 2020 for NIGHT OF NOISE, a loud, flagrant celebration of gender expression.

Free and open to the public. This exhibition is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

Where: Generator Space, 1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE 68108

RSVP here

In Our Other Lives - Theodore Wheeler Book Release

Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 7 PM – 10 PM

RSVP here

What: Ted will read briefly from IN OUR OTHER LIVES, answer questions about how the book came to be, and sign copies. There will be music, refreshments, and snacks. And, as the novel is told from the perspective of a domestic spying campaign, the night's theme deals with impermanence and engaging your non-digital self. There will be Polaroid photography, a demonstration of anti-surveillance camouflage to stymie facial-recognition software, and helpful hints about how to keep your private life private. It's Leap Day--an extra 24 hours to be present in your life!

Dundee Book Company will offer copies for sale and DJ Darren Keen has been commissioned to oversee the ambiance.

If you can’t make it tonight, Theodore will be at the Bookworm on Sunday, March 1.

Where: Outrspaces

RSVP here