✨ BENSON FIRST FRIDAY ✨
🗓️ March 6th | 📍 Benson Creative District
Look! The first signs of spring are sneaking through the final days of winter!
Consider it lucky that you’ll be spending March First Friday in Benson. Manifest a year of growth, gratitude, and green with your BFFs. This March, we’re bringing you those classic BFF vibes from the luckiest crew in town.
Luck favors the Friends of BFF! Become a member and unlock perks so good people will think Lady Luck is truly on your side.
March First Friday poster by DĂ©Shaun the Fruit @deshaunthefruit
Posters sponsored by @blick_omaha
✨ WHAT TO EXPECT ✨
🎨 BFF ARTIST MARKET
đź“Ť Mercer Lodge | 5903 Maple St.
⏰ 6:00 - 9:00
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.
🍻 FRIEND OF BFF KARAOKE HAPPY HOUR
đź“Ť The Sydney (5918 Maple St.)
⏰ 6:00–7:00 PM
Kick off First Friday with a relaxed happy hour celebrating connection and community. Enjoy special programming, occasional live performances, and learn more about becoming a Friend of BFF, including exclusive perks and giveaways.
✨ BENSON FIRST FRIDAY OPENING RECEPTIONS ✨
For What It’s Worth
đź“Ť PETSHOP| 2727 N. 62nd St.
⏰ March 6 | 6:00 - 10:00
For What It’s Worth features new work by Nebraska-based artist Ramon Guzman. With over a decade of experience and formal training from Metro Community College, Guzman creates artwork designed to offer viewers a lift — whether through a smile, a moment of curiosity, or a pause from the everyday.
Malnourished Humanity
đź“Ť BFF Gallery | 5901 Maple St.
⏰ March 6 | 6:00 - 10:00
A series of work by Denise Hapke focusing on the most hidden and grotesque parts of humanity. In a culture where we tend to share only the beautiful and the perfect, this series accepts a different reality.
Bringing the real world to light, the work invites viewers to confront discomfort, pain, and unease — to tell the story of humanity in its truest form; meager and malnourished.
Experiences in Femininity
đź“Ť Ming Toy Gallery | 6066 Maple St.
⏰ March 6 | 6:00 - 9:00
Experiences in Femininity explores the diversity and critical dialogue of the feminine experience. Managed by University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) students, E.I.F. was founded in 2023 as a 2.5-week-long display in Criss Library and has occurred annually since. Its goal is to create an immersive environment that encourages reflection and dialogue, inviting visitors to engage with the complexities and nuances of gendered experience.
Asking For It
đź“Ť Radial Arts Center| 6066 Maple St.
⏰ March 6 | 6:00 - 9:00
Asking For It is a curated group exhibition exploring internalized misogyny and patriarchy through the voices of contemporary artists.
As professors in a small art department working closely with young people, many of whom are women, the curators have witnessed the subtle yet pervasive ways internalized misogyny surfaces in everyday life. This exhibition emerges from that reckoning.
Neal & Laura’s Birthday Block Party
đź“Ť Central Skate Shop | 2905 N. 59th St.
⏰ March 6 | 5:00 - 11:00
It’s a Benson birthday bash! Come down and celebrate a couple of Benson’s shiniest gems, Neal and Laura!
Expect grilling, skating, live spray painting, and big speakers pumping all night long.
đź’› 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 (3-6 PM)
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
Shaheen’s: 15% off any purchase
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!
Friend of BFF Business Members:
ASL Interpreting Services • Access Period • Blue Line Coffee • The Bay • Central Skate Shop • Dahlia House • FiberFirst • Gregg Grossman, Inc. • Heather Tedesco, Realtor, BHGRE • Jake’s Cigars • Maven Social • Metropolitan Community College • Ming Toy Gallery • Nebraska AIDS Project • Omaha Roller Derby • RAIL + STEAM • Removery • SET the Bar • Shaheen’s Afghan Cuisine • Shipment Vintage • Slowdown • Snowy Sundaes • Star Deli • StudioDaze Omaha • Taco Co. • The Garage by the Grey House • The Sydney
đź’› THANK YOU TO OUR BENSON FIRST FRIDAY SUPPORTERS
Mutual of Omaha • Ted & Wally’s Ultra-Premium Homemade Ice Cream • Nebraska Arts Council • Nebraska Cultural Endowment
Produced by: BFF Omaha • Benson Creative District