Event Details
✨ BENSON FIRST FRIDAY ✨
🗓️ September 4 | 📍 Benson Creative District
Soak up the last stretch of summer with one more big night of art, music, and community in Benson! ✨
September First Friday features the final SUMMER OF PETFEST and our last outdoor BFF Artist Market of the season, plus visual art, live performances, gallery openings, karaoke, magic, local businesses, and more throughout the Benson Creative District.
Summer may be winding down, but there’s plenty more art, magic, and mischief ahead this fall. 🍁🔮
🎨 September First Friday poster artwork by Katera Brown
🖼️ Posters sponsored by BLICK.
✨ THANKS TO OUR SEPTEMBER FIRST FRIDAY SPONSORS ✨
❤️ Mutual of Omaha
🧡 Ted & Wally’s Ultra-Premium Ice Cream
💛 FiberFirst Internet
💚 Thermal King Windows
💚 Anytime Seltzer
🎨 BFF SUMMER ARTIST MARKETS
📍 Military & Maple | 62nd & Maple
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM
It’s the FINAL outdoor BFF Artist Market of the season!
Shop local and support Omaha artists with handmade goods, original artwork, prints, and one-of-a-kind finds from a rotating lineup of makers and creatives.
🎶 PETFEST SUMMER: SEPTEMBER
📍 Petshop Gallery | 2725 N. 62nd St.
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM | FREE
One last SUMMER OF PETFEST! PETFEST takes over the Petshop backlot with another night of live music to close out the summer First Friday season.
7:00 PM — Eddie North
8:00 PM — Conny Franko
9:00 PM — Marcey Yates
Huge shoutout to our PETFEST sponsors: FiberFirst, Benson Brewery, Ted & Wally’s, Ming Toy Gallery, and Central Skate Shop.
🌟 THE BAY & BFF OMAHA YOUTH ARTIST MARKET
📍 Benson Community Center | 6008 Maple St.
Support Omaha’s next generation of artists and entrepreneurs at the Youth Artist Market. Young artists will sell original artwork, handmade goods, and creative projects while gaining real-world experience in pricing, marketing, and connecting with customers.
🍦 TILT23 AT TED & WALLY’S
📍 Ted & Wally’s | 6023 Maple St.
LET’S END THE SUMMER AND SUMMON FALL!! 🍂🔮
TILT23 closes out the summer with an amazing lineup for the final First Friday Summer Market:
🐸⛓️💥 Amphibaphobia
☁️🥁 Happy John
🌲🎸 MCM Max
🛣️🗣️ Safe Haven
🎤 BENSON THEATRE: KRAZYOKE + ALEISTER KNIGHT
📍 Benson Theatre | 6054 Maple St.
⏰ 6:00–9:00 PM
💵 $1–$5 suggested donation to sing
SEPTEMBER BENSON FIRST FRIDAY WILL BE PURE MAGIC! 🔮✨
Krazyoke is BACK, Benson’s cult-classic karaoke-in-drag night. Come as you are, grab a feather boa, and sing as your favorite alter ego.
And Aleister Knight, Omaha’s premier mentalist, will be working the lobby. Fair warning: nothing you see can be explained.
Mic drops and mind tricks! See you there, BFF. 🎤🪄
✨ OPENINGS IN THE BCD GALLERIES ✨
❤️ PETSHOP
📍 2725–2729 N. 62nd St.
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM
SORT OUT
SORT OUT is an exhibition of mixed-media works created using paper materials collected from the streets of Manchester, England, and the East Village in New York City. The acts and decisions involved, what to select or discard, what to cut out or leave behind, reflect the daily behaviors of those of us living in a world of information overload.
Also on display:
Printed Memoria: Prints and Sculptures
🧡 BFF GALLERY
📍 5901 Maple St.
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM
The Art of Hope
Curated by Sarah J. Bird, founder of the Omaha art initiative Moments with Purpose, join BFF Gallery for a powerful exhibition featuring artworks and creations made by participants from Heartland Family Service.
💛 MaMO
📍 2725 N. 62nd St.
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM
Would You Just LOOOK At It? by Electricradbolt
Walk with us through the valley of Electricradbolt’s wonderfully wicked, whimsical creations. A 3D tapestry of fibers, clays, papers, and other mixed media hand-crafted into magical life forms from Electricradbolt’s universe. Would you just LOOOOK at it?!
💚 MING TOY GALLERY
📍 6066 Maple St.
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM
What We Carry
What We Carry brings together a body of work centered on ordinary moments that quietly reveal extraordinary human experiences. Gardea, a Mexican American painter, muralist, and sculptor, created the works after relocating to Santa Fe from Nebraska.
Also opening in the little gallery:
Raison d’Etre, works by Alexander R. Taylor
💙 CENTRAL SKATE SHOP
📍 2905 N. 59th St.
⏰ 6:00–9:00 PM
Clothes On Deck