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Gifford Park residents reopen haunted house
Ghouls and goblins 10 and older can visit Gifford Park’s 15th annual Haunted House.
Creighton students will do the scaring, and the Gifford Park Neighborhood Association will provide treats.
The haunted house is in the PKA Fraternity House, 3100 Chicago St. Admission is free.
It will be open Friday from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for those who don’t need too much fright and from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for the fearless.
Glass fusion ornament class set for Nov. 3
The Bluffs Arts Council will offer a class on making a glass fusion ornament in the latest of the Black Squirrel Arts Classes on Nov. 3 at the Council Bluffs Library, 400 Willow Ave.
Cost is $25 for the 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. class.
For more information, visit www.bluffsarts.org or call the library at 712-323-7553.
Lecture-concert shows power of music
The Rev. Eugene Lowry of the St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo., will present “Dancing the Edge of Mystery,” a lecture-concert exploring the power of music in religion at 7 p.m. Sunday.
The event will be at Countryside Community Church, 8787 Pacific St.
Lowry is a concert pianist.
The lecture is part of the Center for Faith Studies series. Tickets are a $10 suggested donation.
Forum focuses on Brownville cemetery
Sunday is All Saints Day, which is commemorated around the world by visits to cemeteries.
The Brownville (Neb.) Lyceum Forum will note the day at 2 p.m. with a discussion of the history of Brownville’s Walnut Grove cemetery at the Lyceum, 228 Main St. A tour of the cemetery will follow.
Sue Cowan, a Walnut Grove Cemetery Association board member, will lead the discussion and tour.
Conference explores struggles of Indians
Creighton University will host an international conference, “Nations Within Nations: Living Dialogues on Governance and Cultures,” Monday and Tuesday.
The free event will be held in the Mike and Josie Harper Center, 620 N. 20th St. Hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Creighton University’s Native American Studies program will lead the conference, which aims to place American Indian struggles in the wider context of similar global efforts.
Speakers include Adae Deer from the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin and indigenous people from the Kurdish area of Iraq, Nagaland in India, the Karin region of Myanmar, areas in the United States, and the Basque region of Spain.
For a conference schedule, visit http://puffin.creighton.edu/bucko/projects/nations.html.
Students sending supplies to S. Africa
Students at magnet schools in the Omaha Public Schools have been collecting school supplies for students in South Africa. Their efforts are part of Schools Beyond Borders, a semester-long Service Learning Academy project at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Service Learning Academy participants will hold Trick or Treat for UNICEF at the UNO hockey game Friday night and at the UNO football game Saturday.
Their efforts will culminate on World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. that day, UNO will host an AIDS awareness and educational fair in the Milo Bail Student Center on campus. At 5 p.m., there will be a candlelight vigil to highlight the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
‘Brundibar’ cast member to speak
Hear from Ela Weissberger, one of the original cast members of the “Brundibar” children’s opera performed at the Terezin concentration camp in 1943, on Tuesday.
She will talk at the Abrahams Library, 5111 N. 90th St., at 6:30 p.m.
The native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, was sent to Terezin by the Nazis at age 11. She will discuss her experiences and the lending library in the camp, which had a clandestine school for children.
Her presentation is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Institute for Holocaust Education in collaboration with Opera Omaha.
A “Brundibar” opera production will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Rose Theater. Tickets are available at operaomaha.org.
A good day to learn about stroke risks
Today is World Stroke Day. This year’s theme is, “What Can I Do?” and encourages people to take action against stroke. Action includes learning about stroke risks and warning signs or volunteering to help educate others about stroke.
To learn more, visit www.nebraskamed.com/services/neuro/.
Compiled by Carol Bicak and Sue Story Truax
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