Year Founded
2020
EIN
85-4187964
Local Leader/Exec. Director
Mrs. Jessica Scheuerman
Primary Contact Name
Jessica Scheuerman
Main Address

1141 N 11th St
Omaha, NE 68102
United States

What We Do

Omaha Mobile Stage lifts up local performing artists and builds community.

In 2021, as a response to the pandemic, the Omaha Mobile Stage (OMS) project transformed a repurposed 18-foot box truck into an accessible, adaptable and easily transportable stage.

Today, OMS is a metro-wide venue and tourist attraction that provides community-driven entertainment and arts enrichment.

Free public events increase public safety, vibrancy and connection, and economic and social wellbeing for residents and businesses. Our events are free and open to the public. Events are co-produced with neighborhoods, schools, arts organizations, and national and local artists and creatives.

 

2023 Season Highlights

  • 30 events in the Omaha metro
  • Provided free arts enrichment and entertainment to more than 11,500+ visitors
  • Hosted more than 215 unique performances that featured more than 50 individual adult performers and more than 230 individual youth performers
  • Paid over $135,500 directly to Creative Industry workers, including event planners and managers, designers, audio engineers, stagehands, and professional artist stipends

     

OMS Programs

  • Creative Placemaking Program, which provides financial and production support for local performing artists and event organizers who work in low and moderate-income outdoor public spaces
  • Workforce Development Program, which provides paid internships for aspiring stagehands and audio engineers
  • Sliding-Scale Rental Program, which provides the general public with equitable access to a state-of-the-art mobile stage venue with professional audio and lighting equipment and event production services
  • Youth Talent Show Program, which relaunched Omaha’s beloved and historic Show Wagon series as a metro-wide youth performance competition for ages 3-19

 

Why Give Now? 

Your support provides a critical foundation for the OMS project to be fully realized, adding value and vibrancy to the city we love. 

OMS is a community-led initiative and creative placemaking project. Season 3 will run from April through October 2024.

OMS events entertain thousands of residents and visitors annually. These events help establish safe outdoor community spaces. These gatherings also increase the vibrancy, connection, and economic and social wellbeing for residents and businesses along the metro’s historic and revitalizing main streets and park systems.

We overcome common challenges to increasing access to the arts and creating arts-based gatherings in neighborhood public spaces. These challenges include prohibitive ticket costs, limited arts funding to neighborhood-led initiatives, and lack of transportation to traditional venues.

In 2024, the OMS Youth Talent Show series, a free talent show competition for youth ages 3-19, will take place at preliminary events throughout the metro, including Dance Night and Battle of the Bands, and a Finals Night in downtown Omaha. We are proud to re-establish the metro-wide legacy of Omaha’s Goodfellows Show Wagon, a former City of Omaha program that ran for nearly 60 years starting in the 1950s.

Omaha Mobile Stage is managed by Partners for Livable Omaha. Founded in 2020, Partners for Livable Omaha is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the livability of communities throughout the Omaha metro.(PLO Tax ID: 85-4187964).

All donations are tax deductible.

For more information on donations or sponsorship, contact Jessica Scheuerman, Executive Director, Partners for Livable Omaha, jscheuerman@livable.org.

Interesting Info
  • Omaha Mobile Stage is a mobile tourist attraction and regional asset for entertainment, community building, education and inspiration.
  • In 2023, OMS programming has entertained more than 10,000 visitors of all ages during free, live performing arts events throughout the Omaha metro.
  • We relaunched the metro’s beloved Show Wagon youth talent show program for youth ages 3-19.
Geographic Location

Douglas County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Pottawattamie County, IA, Washington County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Harrison County, IA, Mills County, IA

Girl dances on stage and smiles
OMS
Passion Yu poses with 1st place ribbon
Audio assistant engineer Logan Smith and Intern Sarah Sanchez work at the  production tent
OMS as a rental venue at BFF Omaha's New American Arts Festival.