Nebraska Community Foundation Presents The Dream Switch Project

The Nebraska Community Foundation (www.nebcommfound.org), in partnership with Blixt, are challenging Nebraskans to “turn up their dream switch” through a co-produced community arts and development endeavor known as The Dream Switch Project.

Centered on a brand new original song cycle (an album that tells a story consecutively through the composition and order of songs) written by the award-winning, Nebraska-based musical theatre team Becky Boesen and David von Kampen, The Dream Switch focuses on welcoming, belonging, and how Nebraska, especially Greater Nebraska, can further its efforts to attract returners and newcomers, as well as retain those who currently call it home.

The Dream Switch story revolves around a young outlier from the sandhills who decides after her first year of college in Nebraska that happiness awaits elsewhere. Audience members follow her journey as she leaves home, explores the world beyond, and then comes to her own understanding that “everything I needed to be me, was around me.”

Nebraska’s own rising star, Andrea von Kampen, and a band of seven outstanding musicians have signed on to be part of the project. In addition to public performances of the song cycle, Blixt, the Nebraska Community Foundation, and local community partners will host candid, post-show conversations exploring the show’s themes, what it means to belong, and what Nebraska’s hometowns can be doing to create more welcoming places.

Learn more about The Dream Switch Project and upcoming performance dates at www.nebcommfound.org/dreamswitch.