✨ BENSON FIRST FRIDAY PRIDE ✨
🗓️ June 5 | 📍 Benson Creative District
Pride is back in Benson! First Friday is celebrating all the colors of the rainbow! Give it up for the L, the G, the B, the T, the Q, the + and everyone in between! It's also our birthday month! 14 years of building community through arts engagement. For everyone!
Start your Pride month in Benson.
Plan your night and learn more at bensoncreativedistrict.org/firstfriday
Check back Thursday before First Friday for the FINAL event lineup!
✨ Benson First Friday is brought to you by BFF Omaha ✨
The mission of BFF Omaha is to build community through arts engagement in the Benson Creative District and beyond! Become a Friend of BFF today and get exclusive PERKS every First Friday! Support BFF Omaha and become a Friend at the Artist Market or the BFF Happy Hour!
🎨 BFF SUMMER ARTIST MARKETS
📍 Military & Maple | 62nd & Maple
⏰ 6:00 - 10:00
Shop local and support Omaha artists at the BFF Artist Market. Discover handmade goods, original artwork, prints, and one-of-a-kind finds from a rotating lineup of makers and creatives.
PETFEST SUMMER: JUNE
📍 Petshop Gallery, 2725 N 62nd St
⏰ 6:00–10:00 PM FREE
PETFEST takes over the Petshop backlot all summer long. From May through September, we’re bringing your favorite PETFEST bands to every First Friday.
6:00 SWAMPD
7:00 Quilt
8:00 Birthday Girl
9:00 Sweat FM
Huge shoutout to our PETFEST sponsors:
Fiber First, Benson Brewery, Ted and Wally’s, Ming Toy Gallery and Central Skate Shop
🌈🍦 First Friday Pride @ Ted & Wally’s 🍦🌈
Come out Friday, June 5 from 6–9 PM for a sweet Pride night with the TILT23 Showcase, featuring:
🍋🟩 Citrus Kids @citr.uskids
🌈 Pride Players @rosetheater_tnt
🎸 Midwest Depressed @themidwestdepressed
🪐 NE☆Bula @ne_buladancecrew
🪩 LTGTA @ltgacademyllc
Plus Clothing Swap Omaha @clothingswapomaha, Maggie Pop’Nz @maggie_popnz at the Wonder Station, and BFF All Ages Art Club with youth art activities and chalk.
✨ SHAKE N-GO with your favorite Queens this First Friday Pride! ✨
Join Juanna V. Mii, Lola Valentino, Dee Dee Monic and Alana Viviana for an interactive art gallery tour with pop-up drag performances throughout Benson.
Follow the queens live on instagram, explore the galleries, and celebrate Pride with BFF all night long. 🌈💖
✨ Openings in the BCD Galleries ✨
PETSHOP | 2725 - 2729 N. 62nd St. | June 5th | 6:00 - 10:00 | @petshopgallery
“Impotent Rage” is defined as a state of anger, fury, or frustration paired with the inability to act effectively, change the situation, or exert control. Recognizing 250 years of the USA.
Also on display:
BFF Gallery | 5901 Maple St. | June 5th | 6:00 - 10:00 | @thebffgallery
Omaha For All features artwork created through Omaha For Us’s artist residency with Nebraska Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Kim Darling. The exhibition explores collectivism as a creative practice within the ever-changing life of a community center.
MaMO | 2725 N. 62nd St. | June 5th | 6:00 - 10:00 | @bffmamo
MiNMG is a participatory art project that aims to strengthen Omaha’s economy and our bonds as a community by turning hundreds of one dollar bills into unspendable art pieces together!
Ming Toy | 6066 Maple St. | June 5th | 6:00 - 10:00 | @mingtoygallery
This exhibition is the result of a decade long, unsanctioned public art project in which more than 1,000 original artworks were installed on power poles throughout Omaha, NE. Concentrated in parts of the city where wooden power poles still exist, the works use their function as public message boards and alternative community space.
Trudy's Artist Studios | 2814 N. 60th St. | June 5th | 6:00 - 9:00
Benson Theatre | 6054 Maple St. | June 5th | 5:00 - 12:00and so much more!
Check back Thursday night for the final event listings! Not seeing your event? Email jp@bffomaha.org to get on the list!
💛 FRIEND OF BFF PERKS
Become a Friend of BFF and enjoy PERKS every First Friday!
Alley Cat Vintage: 20% off purchase
Benson Brewery: Half off draft beer
Beercade: $1 off all drinks
Burke’s Pub: Buy one apple pie shot, get another for a penny (3-6 PM)
Burrito Envy: Free cinnamon crisp with purchase
Central Skate Shop: 10% Off Purchase
Edge of the Universe: Free cookie with drink purchase
Jake's Cigars: Half off sangria on tap
Kai Tei: Buy one get one sake
Snowy Sundaes: $1 off any drink
St. Andrew’s: $1 off tap beers until 7. $1 off Sangria all night
Star Deli: 10% off purchase
Ted & Wally's: Free scoop of ice cream
The Sydney: $1 off all drinks
Become a Friend of BFF HERE!
🌈✨ THANK YOU TO OUR JUNE FIRST FRIDAY SPONSORS ✨🌈
❤️ Mutual of Omaha
🧡 Ted & Wally’s Ultra-Premium Ice Cream
💛 FiberFirst Internet
💚 Fielder Law Firm
Friend of BFF Business Members:
11Eleven • Access Period • Alley Cat Vintage • ASL Interpreting Services • Benson Brewery • Blue Line Coffee • Central Skate Shop • Dahlia House • Edge of the Universe • Gregg Grossman, Inc. • Heather Tedesco, Realtor • Jake’s Cigars • Legend Comics & Coffee • Maple St. Construct • Maven Social • Metropolitan Community College • Ming Toy Gallery • Nebraska AIDS Project • Omaha Roller Derby • Removery • SET the Bar • Shipment Vintage / Floors, Floors, Floors • Shop Five Nine + Ceremony • Slowdown • Snowy Sundaes • Star Deli • Taco Co. • The Bay • The Sydney
💚 Made possible with support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment
🏳️🌈 Proudly produced by BFF Omaha and rooted in the Benson Creative District