After being online the last two years, the Gladys Frisch Harris Piano Festival returns to Hastings College in person in March, bringing an outstanding teacher-performer to campus for a day of informative and inspiring activities. The 35th rendition of the festival features a recital and talk by guest clinician Dr. Grace Huang of the University […]

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The Hastings College Broncos Forensics team is continuing its strong momentum this semester, finishing second in overall team sweepstakes at the Nebraska Intercollegiate Forensics Tournament (NIFA) earlier this month. This was the highest finish at NIFA for the Broncos since they placed second in 2018. Nikki DeSeriere, a junior from Westminster, Colorado, was named third […]

The Hastings Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist & Youth Concert on Sunday, February 27, features Hastings College student Maria Pytlik, who was selected as the winner of the Young Artist Competition held earlier this year, and the symphony will play a piece composed by student Benjamin Howie. The concert begins at 3:00 p.m. at the Masonic […]

Hastings College will recognize 24 outstanding young writers from across Nebraska as an affiliate of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards during a virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. The Scholastic Writing Awards program is one of the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition programs for creative students in […]

Life-long friends with more than a decade of collaboration in the fields of youth engagement, creative arts and community building are bringing The Bridge Project to Hastings college on Wednesday, February 16. Kane Smego and Cj Suitt will host a workshop during the day for students and employees, and public spoken word/hip hop performance in […]

Dr. Thomas J. Reeves, the 12th President of Hastings College, serving from 1985 to 1995, passed away on Saturday, February 5 in Denmark, South Carolina. He was 86. During his tenure at Hastings College, Reeves oversaw construction of the Gray Center for the Communication Arts and the Daugherty Center, and the renovation of several other […]

Sculptural paintings by artist David Andree are being featured in the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center at Hastings College. Titled “Interface Paintings,” the exhibit centers on segmented site-specific paintings that conform their shape to the environment. These painted surfaces record their history through layering. The exhibition is open in the west gallery and will be available […]

Hastings College is showing “We Will Not Be Silent,” a story of hope, empowerment and inspiration chronicling Lincoln (Nebraska) Public Schools fifth graders, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 7 in French Memorial Chapel. The showing is part of the College’s Black History Month programming and is free and open to the public. It will […]

Through the fall semester, the Hastings College forensics team competed in 18 tournaments through both asynchronous and synchronous formats. During the semester, the team qualified 22 events to the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST), which will be held at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in April 2022. Highlights for the fall included competing in-person […]