Events

An Evening with Tananarive Due

The Beverly Theater 515 S 6th St,, Las Vegas, NV

Please join us for an evening with Tananarive Due, award-winning author, screenwriter, and scholar. This program is co-presented by the Program on Race, Gender, and Policing at the William S. Boyd School of Law, as part of their Black Legal Futurism conference. Tananarive Due Bio: (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and […]

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Your Writing, Live!: The Reading

Majestic Repertory Theatre

  You are invited to the fabulous Your Writing, Live!: The Reading! Join BMI to cheer the students of Your Writing, Live!: The Workshop! These will perform original work to demonstrate what they have learned from Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera and Vegas Drag Queen Lexùs Chandeliér. The festivities start at 5:30 with light bites from Soul Belly, followed […]

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Your Writing, Live!

Majestic Repertory Theatre

You are invited to the fabulous Your Writing, Live!: The Reading! Join BMI to cheer the students of Your Writing, Live!: The Workshop! These will perform original work to demonstrate what they have learned from Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera and Vegas Drag Queen Lexùs Chandeliér. The festivities start at 5:30 with light bites from Soul […]

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A Conversation with Brian Crane

Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United States

Brian Crane is an American cartoonist who created Pickles, a comic strip featuring a retired couple, Earl and Opal Pickles, their family, and their family pets, Muffin (cat) and Roscoe (dog). After a career in graphic design, Brian revived his childhood dream of being a comic strip artist, eventually creating Pickles, which has seen success since its […]

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The Dysfunction of Food: On Food That Isn’t Beautiful or Comforting or Delicious with Kim Foster

UNLV 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154

Kim Foster, James Beard Award-winning Author of the forthcoming The Meth Lunches: The Care and Feeding of a Drug Addict, St. Martin’s Press. In this lecture, Kim Foster will examine the ways food can signify and complicate dysfunction in Las Vegas, for both individuals and communities – those with empty tables, and those with full plates. […]

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Maryam Ala Amjadi: A Reading + Conversation

UNLV 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154

  Please join us for a reading with Maryam Ala Amjadi. Following the reading, she will be in conversation with novelist and UNLV professor Doug Unger. Maryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian poet, translator, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections, a poetry chapbook, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s […]

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Their Divine Fires Book Launch with Wendy Chen

UNLV 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154

Join BMI and the UNLV Department of English as we celebrate Creative Writing faculty member Wendy Chen for her debut novel, Their Divine Fires. A captivating and intimate story interwoven with folktale and myth, the book is shaped by love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions, both political and […]

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Surface Tension: A Salon hosted by Black Mountain Institute

West Las Vegas Library 951 W. Lake Mead, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Join Black Mountain Institute, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District for Surface Tension: A Salon, an evening of art and community at the West Las Vegas Library. Surface Tension brings together local artists and performers on the stage at the West Las Vegas Library’s performing arts center, for one night […]

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