Events
In addition to author meet and greets and book signings, F&F celebrates performance and fine arts in our community with events.
may, 2022
06may5:00 pm7:00 pmFirst Friday Art Walk - Featured Musician - Lee Lohrberg
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Join us May 6th in welcoming guitarist Lee Lohrberg! Come to F&F to enjoy the music, refreshements, art, and of course, books! Headlining First Friday will
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Join us May 6th in welcoming guitarist Lee Lohrberg!
Come to F&F to enjoy the music, refreshements, art, and of course, books!
Headlining First Friday will be artist Cathy Harrington, presenting her new peices of linocut art.
About First Friday Art Walk:
First Friday Art Walks are held on the first Friday of every month at galleries and businesses in downtown Lincoln. While the opening and closing times vary depending on the curator, typically the first receptions begin at 5:00 pm, with the last ones winding down by 10:00 pm.
The largest network of art galleries is located in downtown Lincoln from 7th to 17th Streets East to West and the UNL Campus to the State Capitol North to South.
For more information on all Art Walk locations, visit the DLA website HERE
Time
(Friday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm CST
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
06may5:00 pm7:00 pmFirst Friday Art Walk - Featured Artist - Cathy Harrington
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Join us May 6th in welcoming artist Cathy Harrington! Cathy will talk about her inspiration for her newest series and bring some of her supplies to show
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Join us May 6th in welcoming artist Cathy Harrington!
Cathy will talk about her inspiration for her newest series and bring some of her supplies to show guests how she created these beautiful linocut prints.
Joining Cathy will be special guitarist Lee Lohrberg, playing live music!
There will be refreshments, local art, and of course books!
About the Art:
Linocut, is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a mirror image of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller, and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a printing press.
About First Friday Art Walk:
First Friday Art Walks are held on the first Friday of every month at galleries and businesses in downtown Lincoln. While the opening and closing times vary depending on the curator, typically the first receptions begin at 5:00 pm, with the last ones winding down by 10:00 pm.
The largest network of art galleries is located in downtown Lincoln from 7th to 17th Streets East to West and the UNL Campus to the State Capitol North to South.
For more information on all Art Walk locations, visit the DLA website HERE
Time
(Friday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm CST
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
13may5:30 pm6:30 pmAuthor Event - Andrew Farkas - author of The Great Indoorsman: Essays
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Join us as we talk with Andrew Farkas about his new book of essays, The Great Indoorsman! About the Book: Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in
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Join us as we talk with Andrew Farkas about his new book of essays, The Great Indoorsman!
About the Book:
Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him. Instead, in these essays, Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside.
Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influence us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” So come in out of the weather (it’s always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.
About the Author:
Andrew Farkas is an assistant professor of English at Washburn University. He is the author of The Big Red Herring, Sunsphere, and Self-Titled Debut.
Order a copy of The Great Indoorsman Here
Time
(Friday) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm CST
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
14may4:00 pm5:30 pmAuthor Event - Ed Zimmer & Jim Mckee - Lincoln Postcard History
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Join Francie & Finch on Saturday, May 14th at 4:00 for a book discussion with authors and historians Ed Zimmer and James McKee! They will be presenting their
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Join Francie & Finch on Saturday, May 14th at 4:00 for a book discussion with authors and historians Ed Zimmer and James McKee! They will be presenting their new book Lincoln (Postcard History), by telling the story of how Lincoln has survived and thrived through the last century. You do not want to miss it!
About the Book:
The village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska’s first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load of produce raised annually within ten, perhaps twenty miles of it. These postcards from the authors’ collections tell a different story in 200-plus images of a city that not only survived but thrived. Most of these images are from postcards’ heyday in the first quarter of the 20th century. Many show buildings and places still recognizable a century later, while some depict less familiar scenes now lost.
About the Authors:
Edward Zimmer is an architectural historian who served for 35 years as Lincoln’s historic preservation planner. James McKee has published widely on local history and numismatics, including over 1,500 weekly newspaper columns on Nebraska history. He is an independent bookseller and publisher and Lincoln’s recognized city historian. Together they coauthored Lincoln’s Early Architecture (2014), and Zimmer coauthored Lincoln in Black & White (2010).
Order a hardcover copy of Lincoln (Postcard History) here
Order a paperback copy of Lincoln (Postcard History) here
Time
(Saturday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm CST
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
25may6:00 pm8:00 pmVisiting Writers Series at Larksong Writers Place
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Francie & Finch is excited to join these amazing artists as they present their newest works at Larksong Writers Place! We will be there with their newest titles
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Francie & Finch is excited to join these amazing artists as they present their newest works at Larksong Writers Place! We will be there with their newest titles and other titles for you to buy and take home with you!
You can register online for this hybrid in-person/online event at larksongwritersplace.org
Purchase a copy of Unholy Heart by Grace Bauer HERE
Purchase a copy of The Track the Whales Make by Marjorie Saiser HERE
Purchase a copy of The Path to Kindness edited by James Crews HERE
Purchase a copy of Rock Tree Bird by Twyla Hansen HERE
About the Authors:
Grace Bauer:
Her most recent collection is Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). Previous books include MEAN/TIME, The Women At the Well, Nowhere All At Once, Retreats & Recognitions, and Beholding Eye, as well as several chapbooks. She also co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and have been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Society of Midland Authors’ Book of the Year Award, The Idaho Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and others. She has also received numerous awards for her teaching. Bauer is the Aaron Douglas Professor Emerita at the University of Nebraska.
Marjorie Saiser:
Her poems deal with relationships, the good and not so good. Her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing is from the University of Nebraska, where she received an Academy of American Poets Award. She sometimes likes to memorize her poems and those of others. Her books and a sample reading can be viewed at www.poetmarge.com. Of her work, Ted Kooser (U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006) has said: “No poet in this country is better at writing about love and, in a sense, all of her poems are about love.”
James Crews:
James Crews is the editor of the best-selling anthology, How to Love the World, which has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, in the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post, and is the author of four prize-winning collections of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. His poems have been reprinted in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and The Christian Century, and in former US poet laureate Ted Kooser’s weekly newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry,” and featured on Tracy K. Smith’s podcast, The Slowdown. He worked with Ted Kooser on “American Life in Poetry,” which reaches millions of readers across the world. Crews holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in writing and literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches poetry at the University at Albany and lives with his husband in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
Twyla Hansen:
Selected as Nebraska’s State Poet for 2013-2018. She co-directs the Poetry from the Plains website, and she has conducted readings/writing workshops through Humanities Nebraska since 1993. Her newest book, Rock • Tree • Bird, won the 2018 WILLA Literary Award and Nebraska Book Award. She has six previous books of poetry, including Potato Soup, which won the 2012 Nebraska Book Award and was selected as a Notable Nebraska 150 Book in 2017. Her writing is published in periodicals, anthologies, and websites, including Briar Cliff Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser (2021 University of Nebraska Press), Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867-2017 (2017 SFASU Press), Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (2016 University of Nebraska Press), Academy of American Poets, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud, and many more.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Larksong Writers Place
1600 N. Cotner Boulevard