Celebrate Creativity - Early Sign Up!

An ingenious mixture of learning, symphonic music, and fun-filled discovery to ignite your students’ creative spark!

A partnership with the Joslyn Art Museum

Middle School & High school | $15 Per Student

October 14 - 16, 2025 | Joslyn Art Museum

Celebrate Creativity is a dynamic, day-long experience for middle and high school students that brings music, visual art, and other creative pursuits together in one immersive event. Students build their own personalized itinerary filled with hands-on workshops, a gallery tour, and a live symphony concert—each designed to spark imagination and creative thinking.

Led by top local arts professionals and created in partnership with the Joslyn Arts Museum, these exploratory sessions allow students to engage directly with industry experts in an inspiring, collaborative environment. All activities take place in the same space as the concert performance, showing how the arts are interconnected and essential.

Celebrate Creativity Registration

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Do You Have Any Special Accommodations?

Omaha Symphony reserves the right to photograph or video individuals present at our educational events. Photography and video will be used in a promotional capacity including, but not limited to, print materials, web site, print, online or out of home media and other mediums now or later developed; and may also be shared for use by media publications and institutions that fund Omaha Symphony operations and programs.

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About the Program

“Designed by students?”

After a class is registered by their teacher, students will complete workshop request forms. These forms are then used by Omaha Symphony staff to create personalized schedules for each student. Each student will participate in two workshops and a curated experience in a Joslyn art gallery.

“What are these workshops?”

We enlist the expertise of local industry professionals to teach hands-on exploratory sessions in an array of subjects, including dance, theatre, and visual art.

“Students get to do all that AND go to a concert?”

Following a brown bag lunch, students get to participate in an innovative Omaha Symphony concert that inspires and challenges their notions of art and symphonic music.

High Schools

We encourage high schools to attend on Wednesday, October 15. Schedules are created to group similar age groups together as much as possible.

Designed to address the following standards:

Nebraska Standards: 
Music: FA 8.4.1/8.4.2/8.4.3, FA 12.4.1/12.4.2/12.4.3 
Visual Arts: FA 8.2.1/8.2.3/8.2.4, FA 12.2.1/12.2.3/12.2.4  
Dance: FA 8.3.1/8.3.2/8.3.3, FA 12.3.1/12.3.2/12.3.3  
Theatre: FA 8.5.1/8.5.2, FA 12.5.1/12.5.2  
Media Arts: FA 8.1.1, FA 12.1.1  

Iowa Core Alignment: 
Music: 
MU:Pr4.2.8b, Pr4.2.8c, Pr6.1.8a, Pr6.1.8b, Re7.2.8b, Re8.1.8a 
MU:Cr1.1.C.la, Cr2.1.C.la, Cr3.2.C.la, Pr4.2.C.la, Re7.2.C.la, Cn11.0.C.la 
Visual Arts: 
VA:Cr2.3.8a, Pr5.1.8a, Pr6.1.8a, Re.8.1.8a 
VA:Cr1.1.la, Cr2.1.la, Pr6.1.la, Re8.1.la, Cn11.1.la 

National Core Arts Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 

Testimonials

“Truly, it is so special to see the students come alive at Celebrate Creativity. The next day the students are sharing what they learned in the Symphony concert and then are asking about it in class! This field trip is so incredible. Thank you for giving our students access to fine arts at the highest level.” – Omaha classroom teacher

100% of teachers agree that Celebrate Creativity was a valuable experience for their students. – 2024/25 Program

100% of teachers agree that the Omaha Symphony is a valuable resource to them as an educator. – 2024/25 Program