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This week, the UNL School of Music pays tribute to one of America's greatest composers, Ned Rorem, with a production of his opera, OUR TOWN, opening Thursday, November 12th at Kimball Hall in Lincoln.

The 2009 Nebraska Book Festival is Saturday, November 14th at the Nebraska State Historical Society’s Museum of Nebraska History in Lincoln. NEBRASKA WRITERS: CULTIVATING CREATIVITY features a host of Nebraska writers reading their work, workshops for participants, and will highlight Nebraska poets Ted Kooser, Bill Kloefkorn, and Don Welch in a conversation about reading and writing poetry and sharing insights on how their intentional writing community has supported each other’s work through the years.

The Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music present the Zodiac Trio, a young clarinet, violin, and piano ensemble, Sunday, November 8th at 3 p.m. in Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln.

Sheridan Lutheran Church's annual dinner theatre musical in Lincoln opens November 12th for a two weekend run. It's a family affair with father/son combo Mark and Jordan Klasek playing a brother and Jordan is playing Joseph in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. They chat up another reason to attend; proceeds from the event will benefit the Lincoln Food Bank Backpack Program.

Also, artist Michael Burton's RUMPF opens at the Haydon Art Center with a reception for First Friday Gallery Walk in Lincoln, November 6th. Michael drops by Friday Live to talk about how his work creates a narrative based on time and process through his multi-layered paintings and videos. And, Haydon Director Lora Rocke chats up the center's prints by Michelle Murillo.

And, a statewide arts calendar and William Kloefkorn's Poetry of the Plains.

That's on Friday Live at 9 a.m. Central, or as a podcast on netnebraska.org.