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Meaning is Always Here Art Exhibit
On display February 19 through April 12, 2024. The exhibit features 14 two-dimensional artworks curated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas’ Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection. This exhibit is funded by Nevada Art Council and National Endowment for the Arts. If you would like to participate in a future exhibit, fill out […]
A request for input…Famous Women Quotes, Past & Present
The project entails the compilation of inspiring quotes to be presented in a 20-minute video. To host two public presentations and to offer a free Calligraphy lettering session to those individuals that, live or work in the Reno, Tahoe area. We all have those words that we have stuck in our heads that keeps […]
6 events,
Goldilocks Zone offers authors/artists $500 plus publication
Sunspot Lit is looking for the perfect combination of craft and appeal in stories, CNF, novel or novella excerpts, artwork, graphic novels, poems, scripts/screenplays. Literary and genre accepted. Closes April 30. Entry fee: $10. Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/280344/goldilocks-zone-2024-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-or-graphic-novel or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/listing/34958/goldilocks-zone-contest-authors-artists.
(FREE EVENT) Visiting Artist Presentation: Baritone Christopher Grundy
(FREE EVENT) Visiting Artist Presentation: Baritone Christopher Grundy
Bass-Baritone Christopher Grundy will give a presentation on learning contemporary/avant-garde music, together with Bryan Chuan on piano. Paid visitor parking is available on the bottom floor of the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex located immediately north of Church Fine Arts building.
“Backyard Radiance: Photos and Videos of the Marvelous/Mundane” by 2024 Reno City Artist Chris Lanier
“Backyard Radiance: Photos and Videos of the Marvelous/Mundane” by 2024 Reno City Artist Chris Lanier
Reno, NV – The Metro Gallery at Reno City Hall is hosting "Backyard Radiance," a solo exhibition by 2024 Reno City Artist Chris Lanier. The show runs from March 25 – May 17, 2024, showcasing photographs by Lanier that embrace both the marvelous and the mundane. The artist reception will take place on Tuesday, April […]
THE 5 BROWNS
THE 5 BROWNS
The 5 Browns – Desirae Brown, Deondra Brown, Gregory Brown, Melody Brown, and Stephen Beus – all attended The Juilliard School in New York. The 5 Browns are delivering on their dream to wake up classical music by introducing it to the widest, largest and most excited audience they can find. Whether performing individually or […]
4 events,
Christopher Grundy Voice Recital
Christopher Grundy Voice Recital
Christopher Grundy presents a program featuring works by Schubert, Vaughan Williams, and contemporary composer Neely Bruce in collaboration with pianist Bryan Chuan.
5 events,
EXPERIMENT. IMAGINATION. — Dream Team Time Machine
EXPERIMENT. IMAGINATION. — Dream Team Time Machine
EXPERIMENT. IMAGINATION. Dream Team Time Machine A showcase of a period of time, physical works, interactive installations and limited merch offerings. Come by and step into the DTTM […]
An Evening with Tananarive Due
An Evening with Tananarive Due
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. […]
4 events,
Free Skate at Lifeguard Arena
Free Skate at Lifeguard Arena
Beat the heat, and get on the ice for skating at Lifeguard Arena! Skate on the same ice as your Henderson Silver Knights at the City of Henderson's FREE ice skating […]
6 events,
How to Craft a Book Proposal with Nicole Chung, Amy Brady, and Tajja Isen (Virtual Event)
How to Craft a Book Proposal with Nicole Chung, Amy Brady, and Tajja Isen (Virtual Event)
This virtual panel will bring together three nonfiction writers to discuss the craft of book proposals. It will cover subjects that include the sections and conventions of a book […]
Your Writing, Live!: The Reading
Your Writing, Live!: The Reading
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 […]
Your Writing, Live!
Your Writing, Live!
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 […]
5 events,
Art Lande Artist-in-Residence
Art Lande Artist-in-Residence
Art Lande-Grammy-nominated, internationally known pianist, composer, improviser, drummer and educator. Artist in Residence Art Lande will be teaching masterclasses April 9-11 accompanied by two evening performances: Wednesday April 10th at […]
Sweeney Todd: The Demo Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demo Barber of Fleet Street
A musical thriller Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler The Tony-award winning dark and bloody witty tale of love, murder, and revenge comes to Nightingale Stage […]
4 events,
The Quality of Life
The Quality of Life
From award-winning writer Jane Anderson comes this "magnetic work of theater" (The San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion and humor. Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest […]
10 events,
Sweeney Todd: The Demo Barber of Fleet Street
A musical thriller Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler The Tony-award winning dark and bloody witty tale of love, murder, and revenge comes to Nightingale Stage this spring. In collaboration with the University of Nevada, Reno Symphony Orchestra and Nevada Lyric Theatre (formerly Nevada Chamber Opera.) This production includes adult themes […]
Author Signing Event
Author Signing Event
Visit the Henderson Barnes and Noble for a local author book signing! Bethanie Finger will be there to sign copies of her new YA Trilogy, More Than Life, published by […]
Sandy Valley Earth Day
Sandy Valley Earth Day
Micro*Fest: Air and More! Saturday April 13, 2024 Earth Day is observed annually worldwide and will be celebrated locally in Sandy Valley, Nevada, Saturday April 13, 2024, 2:00-4:00 pm, at Sandy […]
Free Ensemble Performance
Free Ensemble Performance
UNR's Free Ensemble is an ensemble where all music is made spontaneously. Nothing is planned out ahead of time. We will be performing a selection of pieces ranging from audience […]
6 events,
Silver Springs Festival
Silver Springs Festival
Get out and get active this Spring at our neighborhood festival. There are activities for the whole family including games, entertainment, local artists, and music. Silver Springs instructors will demo […]
AVA Ballet Theatre and the Reno Phil Present: Cinderella
AVA Ballet Theatre and the Reno Phil Present: Cinderella
A.V.A. Ballet Theatre and the Reno Phil Present Cinderella The spring gala season for the A.V.A. Ballet Theatre opens with the classic fairytale Cinderella on April 13th and 14th at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts. The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the magnificent score to this wonderful ballet. Re-staged and re-choreographed by Alexander […]
Free Skate at Lifeguard Arena
Free Skate at Lifeguard Arena
Beat the heat, and get on the ice for skating at Lifeguard Arena! Skate on the same ice as your Henderson Silver Knights at the City of Henderson's FREE ice skating […]
6 events,
Full Scope Workshop April
Full Scope Workshop April
Full Scope Workshop for April will be a discussion between speakers from the International Sculpture Center about the upcoming International Sculpture Day. Speakers will cover what the event is about, […]
A Conversation with Brian Crane
A Conversation with Brian Crane
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 […]
Neon Lit Reading x Witness Launch Party
Neon Lit Reading x Witness Launch Party
Please join Neon Lit and Witness Magazine for a reading celebrating the fresh launch of Witness's spring issue on April 16th at 7 PM (doors 6:30 PM) at Vegas Theatre […]
4 events,
The Dysfunction of Food: On Food That Isn’t Beautiful or Comforting or Delicious with Kim Foster
The Dysfunction of Food: On Food That Isn’t Beautiful or Comforting or Delicious with Kim Foster
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 […]
Jazz Lab 2
Jazz Lab 2
Jazz Lab II performance featuring our large jazz ensemble. Free parking in the Whalen Garage
4 events,
Marty O’Reilly Live at The Virgil
Marty O’Reilly Live at The Virgil
Explaining Marty O’Reilly’s music is like describing a dream. It feels familiar, but at the same time unchartered. His songs sound bluesy but not blues, folk but not folk, soulful […]
Nevada Wind Ensemble & Choir 150th Celebration
Nevada Wind Ensemble & Choir 150th Celebration
The evening will feature choral and wind ensemble works which celebrate the University of Nevada, Reno, culminating in the premiere of a new work in its honor: And the Cities Rise Like Dreams by Steve Danyew. Rochester, New York based Danyew is an internationally recognized composer whose music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful… undeniably […]
4 events,
Blood Blooms by Sogand Tabatabaei
Blood Blooms by Sogand Tabatabaei
Brought together by Sierra Arts Foundation, "Blood Blooms" is on display at The Depot Gallery & Bookstore now through April 28, 2024, with an artist reception scheduled on April 20th from 1 pm to 4pm. Sogand is an immigrant Iranian visual artist whose work explores intersections between culture, gender, and politics, offering a glimpse into […]
Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Brew Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Brew Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet presents a program of new choreography by 8 different choreographers at the Brewery Arts Center (April 20) and the Reno Little Theater (May 3-5), SNB partners with Steinway Piano Gallery to produce an exciting eclectic program that has become a signature SNB annual tradition offering audiences a chance to sample some local […]
5 events,
Tuesday Night DJ Trivia @ NSC
Tuesday Night DJ Trivia @ NSC
Join us every Tuesday night at the Nashville Social Club in Carson City for the ultimate trivia showdown! From 7pm to 9pm, rally your squad for an electrifying DJ Trivia Night experience that'll have you on the edge of your seats. Our fantastic DJ Host will keep the energy high as you battle it out […]
Riders In The Sky @ NSC
Riders In The Sky @ NSC
Join us at the Nashville Social Club in Carson City, NV, during Visit Carson City's 2nd Annual Mark Twain Days celebration for a concert featuring Riders in The Sky live on The Swan Music Hall stage on Friday, May 10th at 7:30pm. For over forty years, Riders In The Sky have brought Western music to […]
When We Were Young – Spring Choral Area Concert
When We Were Young – Spring Choral Area Concert
Spring Choral Area Concert featuring the University of Nevada, Reno School of Music Concert Choir, Chamber Chorale, and guest choirs from McQueen High School. Free parking at the Whalen Parking Garage
3 events,
Apex Concerts: Spark of Genius
Apex Concerts: Spark of Genius
Apex Concerts presents its Grand Season Finale with “Spark of Genius,” a program with an all-star cast featuring violinists Stella Chen and Sean Lee, violists Matthew Lipman and Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, as well as Apex co-Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park. Works explored are all centered on the idea of what exactly is the […]
6 events,
Shakespeare’s MacBeth
Shakespeare’s MacBeth
All performances are free to attend; no pre-registration needed MacBeth is one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays and this adaptation by the Nevada Shakespeare Festival will include plenty of surprises for new fans as well as those familiar with the dramatic themes of the story. All performances are suitable for all ages, and free. Guests […]
Reno Jazz Festival: Terell Stafford + Manzanita Quintet
Reno Jazz Festival: Terell Stafford + Manzanita Quintet
Acclaimed trumpeter Terell Stafford takes the stage alongside the University's faculty jazz ensemble, the Manzanita Quintet, as they kick-off the 2024 Reno Jazz Festival. Based in New York, Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as […]
2024 Reno Jazz Festival
2024 Reno Jazz Festival
The 2024 Reno Jazz Festival celebrates 62 years with an incredible lineup of jazz artists and artist educators-and, offering a richer, deeper and more diverse educational and artistic experience for participants-devoted to educating and inspiring the next generation of jazz musicians. This year's Festival features headliner performances by GEORGE, Terell Stafford and the Mazanita Quintet, […]
5 events,
2024 Reno Jazz Festival
The 2024 Reno Jazz Festival celebrates 62 years with an incredible lineup of jazz artists and artist educators-and, offering a richer, deeper and more diverse educational and artistic experience for participants-devoted to educating and inspiring the next generation of jazz musicians. This year's Festival features headliner performances by GEORGE, Terell Stafford and the Mazanita Quintet, […]
Reno Jazz Festival: GEORGE
Reno Jazz Festival: GEORGE
The 2024 Reno Jazz Festival presents the groundbreaking ensemble, GEORGE. GEORGE features four individual “earthworkers,” as the derivation of the moniker implies, who excavate and create intense and intriguing music, the sound of which defies categories and labels. The visionary behind the quartet, John Hollenbeck, is an award-winning, genrecrossing composer-percussionist, renowned in the jazz and […]
FREE EVENT: Reno Jazz Festival: Pro Jam Session
FREE EVENT: Reno Jazz Festival: Pro Jam Session
This free and open to the public Pro Jam Session kicks-off-with an all-star house band. Throughout the evening other pros will join in and take turns putting on an improvisational show sure to dazzle into the early hours of the morning.
7 events,
2024 Reno Jazz Festival
The 2024 Reno Jazz Festival celebrates 62 years with an incredible lineup of jazz artists and artist educators-and, offering a richer, deeper and more diverse educational and artistic experience for participants-devoted to educating and inspiring the next generation of jazz musicians. This year's Festival features headliner performances by GEORGE, Terell Stafford and the Mazanita Quintet, […]
Left of Center Gallery Reception: Hanging by a Thread
Left of Center Gallery Reception: Hanging by a Thread
Left of Center Art Gallery is pleased to present: Hanging by a Thread A juried social justice exhibit featuring a group of 32 local, national, and international artists Display Run: April 10 – June 1, 2024 Reception: Saturday, April 27, 2024 Time: Noon – 3:00 p.m. Gallery Hours: Tuesday, by appointment Wednesday – Friday, noon […]
Jazz at the Bird Viewing Preserve
Jazz at the Bird Viewing Preserve
Spend your Saturday listening to the sounds of local jazz musicians in the beautiful outdoor setting at Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. This afternoon event features two jazz groups, the Michael […]
Reno Jazz Festival: Festival Showcase
Reno Jazz Festival: Festival Showcase
The Saturday night Festival Showcase finale features a curated selection of student performances that showcase creativity, innovation, fresh perspectives and exceptional sound. The closing showcase provides a compelling crosssection of performances, celebrating the future of jazz.
4 events,
Tuesday Night DJ Trivia @ NSC
Tuesday Night DJ Trivia @ NSC
Join us every Tuesday night at the Nashville Social Club in Carson City for the ultimate trivia showdown! From 7pm to 9pm, rally your squad for an electrifying DJ Trivia Night experience that'll have you on the edge of your seats. Our fantastic DJ Host will keep the energy high as you battle it out […]
(FREE EVENT) Studio Recital of Katherine Parker and Brittney May
(FREE EVENT) Studio Recital of Katherine Parker and Brittney May
An evening of art songs, musical theatre, pop/rock, and operatic arias from the applied voice studios of Professors Katherine Parker and Brittney May. Free parking in the Whalen Garage
3 events,
Their Divine Fires Book Launch with Wendy Chen
Their Divine Fires Book Launch with Wendy Chen
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 […]
UNR Symphony Final Concert of the Season
UNR Symphony Final Concert of the Season
This is the final concert of the 23/24 Season. It will be a concert not to be missed.
4 events,
Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Brew, Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Brew, Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet presents a celebration of new choreography at the Brewery Arts Center (April 20), the Reno Little Theater (May3-5) and partners with Steinway Piano Gallery to produce an […]
Socks In The Frying Pan @ NSC
Socks In The Frying Pan @ NSC
Get ready for an unforgettable night of Irish music as Socks in The Frying Pan takes the stage at Nashville Social Club on Friday, May 3rd! Hailing from Ennis, County […]
5 events,
Spring Arts & Gifts Show
Spring Arts & Gifts Show
Join us for the Spring Arts & Gifts Show, a vibrant celebration of creativity and craftsmanship! This exciting event will take place at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in […]
Free Skate at Lifeguard Arena
Free Skate at Lifeguard Arena
Beat the heat, and get on the ice for skating at Lifeguard Arena! Skate on the same ice as your Henderson Silver Knights at the City of Henderson's FREE ice skating […]
Shakespeare’s MacBeth
Shakespeare’s MacBeth
All performances are free to attend; no pre-registration needed MacBeth is one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays and this adaptation by the Nevada Shakespeare Festival will include plenty of surprises […]
4 events,
Reno Modern Brass Album Release Concert
Reno Modern Brass Album Release Concert
Come celebrate with us as we perform a few pieces from our recently-released album, plus a few other fan favorites and surprises. Family-friendly, free. Performing works by Larry Engstrom, Zack Teran, Timothy Gay, Tristan Selzler, Gary Mayne, Jef Derderian, and more!! RMB is a 6-piece ensemble consisting of 5 brass musicians and one world-class drummer/percussionist: […]
Cinco de Mayo with El Santo Golpe
Cinco de Mayo with El Santo Golpe
We are celebrating with a special night on the Water Street Plaza. Join us for a free concert with El Santo Golpe in the amphitheater. The music of El Santo Golpe honors different cultures, history and traditions. This talented band features traditional instruments and dances influenced by Mexican Folklore. On the plaza, enjoy Mexican cuisine and […]
Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Brew, Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Brew, Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet presents a celebration of new choreography at the Brewery Arts Center (April 20), the Reno Little Theater (May3-5) and partners with Steinway Piano Gallery to produce an exciting program with works by 8 different choreographers that has become a signature SNB annual tradition. This event offers audiences a chance to sample some […]