Art-centered community conversations that challenge tradition, question social narratives, and invite varied perspectives. Awakenings panels include artists, academics, government officials, and/or business leaders of our community. Awakenings events are free admission, and everyone is welcome. Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 6-7:30 PM Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health 708 Magazine Street, Louisville

This Little Light of Mine, composed by Chandler Carter to a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover, is inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a former Mississippi sharecropper’s daughter who rose to national prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. As a Black woman of humble origins, she spoke truth to power, coalescing broad support...

Kentucky Opera’s innovative production of this classic tale weaves the original myth with an empowering opera reimagined through the lens of a woman’s perspective in the contemporary world. Céphise is a 1950s housewife trying to live up to society's standards. What will she find when she gets there? Sung in English. April 4, 2025, 8...

Commemorating 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camps of the Holocaust, we remember those who suffered and perished at the hands of the Nazis in WWII. This chamber concert will include a performance of For a Look or a Touch by Jake Heggie and Gene Schemer, Brundibár by Hans Krása — a short opera known...