Friday, June 5th — Red Cloud 9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and remarks, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium 9:30 – 10:30 Norma Ross Walter and Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship awards and reading of winning essays, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium 10:45 – 12:15 Panel Discussion, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium “Awakening Young Artists: Arts Education Then and Now” Introduction by Tom Gallagher, President, WCF Board of Governors Panelists: A.P. Andrews, playwright and instructor, New York University Jane Dressler, vocalist and instructor, Kent State University Patsy Koch Johns, performer and educator, Grand Island, Nebraska Fritz Mountford, performer and educator, Hastings College Audrey Kauders, executive director, Museum of Nebraska Art 12:15 – 1:30 Lunch on your own Scholarship Luncheon in the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 1:45 – 3:20 Rotating Activities at Cather Historic sites Session A – 1:45 – 2:25 Session B – 2:40 – 3:20 • Kenneth Bé, art conservator, at Grace Episcopal Church • Christine Lesiak, filmmaker, and Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, Cather scholars, at Harling House 3:45 – 4:45 Premiere of NET Television documentary, Yours, Willa Cather, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium 5:00 – 6:15 Keynote address, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium Richard Norton Smith, historian 6:30 – 7:45 Dinner, Red Cloud Community Center Toast to National Willa Cather Center groundbreaking 8:00 – dark 3rd annual Wildflower Walk, Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Meet at the prairie at 8:00 p.m. sharp! Saturday, June 6th — Red Cloud 8:00 – 10:00 Coffee, kolaches, other breakfast items, Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 9:00 – 10:20 Worship service, Grace Episcopal Church 10:30 – Noon The Passing Show, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium “Enriching Human Experience: the Arts in Cather’s Life & Work” Panelists: Timothy Bintrim, Saint Francis University Angela Conrad, Bloomfield College
8:00 Live theater performance, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium Lark/Song, a theatrical retelling of The Song of the Lark Written by A.P. Andrews and performed by Andrews, Kerri Lowe, Adin Lenahan, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, and Alton Alburo Sunday, June 7th — Red Cloud 9:00 – 10:30 Brunch, Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 9:30 – 4:00 Town tours Seven-building tours at 9:30, 11:00, 1:30 and 3:00; meet at Front Desk Country tours, meet at Front Desk Session A, 10:45 – 1:15 Session B, 1:30 – 4:00 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch, Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 4:30 – 6:00 Plenary Panel and Discussion, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium “Lucy Gayheart” Chair: Guy Reynolds, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Panelists: David Porter, Skidmore College; Ann Romines, George Washington University 6:30 – 8:30 Barbecue and performance, Burlington Depot Folk music by Daniel Martinez Monday, June 8th — Red Cloud and Lincoln Travel Day 8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast, Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 9:00 – 10:30 Concurrent paper sessions Session A, Red Cloud Opera House Auditorium “Cather and Performance” Chair: Elaine Smith, University of South Florida 1. “Ántonia, Lena and Other Folks Who Dance in Cather’s Fiction,” Elaine Smith, USF 2. “Interpretation or ‘the Thing Itself’? The Art of Performance in Lucy Gayheart,” Florent DuBois, Université Paris-Diderot 3. “‘When I’m Eccentric, Catch Step with Me’: Playing with Musical Time in Lucy Gayheart,” John Flannigan, Prairie State College Session B, Grace Episcopal Church “Cather and Temperament” Chair: Peter Sullivan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1. “Cather’s Artists and the ‘Stupid’ People,” Peter Sullivan, IUP 2. “‘The Time is Very Dark’: The Psychological Context of Cather’s Ban