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Narrative Cartography: A Graduate Workshop with Jessica Oreck
Join Jessica Oreck, filmmaker and curator (of the Office of Collecting and Design), for a non-credit, graduate-level exploration of how to think about narrative. This workshop is for anyone interested in storytelling structure — geologists, historians, physicists, architects, creative writers, filmmakers, and any other discipline you can imagine. Please complete this brief application no later than Sept. 16, […]
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The Poetry Kitchen at UNLV Art Walk
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesAt The Poetry Kitchen, anyone can cook!🧑🍳🐭 Discover your inner poet at UNLV Art Walk on Friday, Nov. 1 from 5-9 p.m. BMI graduate student assistants, volunteers, and the little chefs controlling their every move will guide you through our interactive and immersive literary experience. Create your own erasure, cut-up, and fridge magnet poetry and […]
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The Sandbox: A Southwest Writers Exchange
onlineJoin Black Mountain Institute for an reading “exchange” with writers from four different MFA programs: the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), New Mexico State (NMSU), the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). This program was created by writing programs at four institutions situated in unique southwest […]
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Fall 2024 Poetry Workshops at the Left of Center Art Gallery
Left of Center 2207 W Gowan Rd., N. Las Vegas, NV, United StatesCalling all beginning and advanced poets! Join Left of Center and the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for three free poetry workshops designed to engage both beginning and experienced writers in “ekphrastic poetry.” Ekphrastic poems are written in response to works of visual art, and these three workshops will utilize Left […]
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Kwentuhan at Chikahan: Las Vegas Filipino Book Club — Read Aloud Book Club Meeting #2
East Las Vegas Library 2851 East Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin us for Kwentuhan at Chikahan, a free event series centered on Filipino and Filipino-American authors. As we read and respond to the works of critically acclaimed Filipino authors, we find meaning in our everyday struggles and triumphs, enabling us to lay claim to our unique stories. Anyone can participate in the Kwentuhan at Chikahan […]
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An Evening with Teju Cole
The Beverly Theater 515 S 6th St,, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesNovelist, essayist, and photographer Teju Cole will give a presentation, followed by conversation with Black Mountain Institute executive director Colette LaBouff. The event is free and open to the public. The reading will be followed by a book signing. About Teju Cole: Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 to Nigerian parents and grew up […]
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Breakout Writers Series: ‘Pemi Aguda
The Beverly Theater 515 S 6th St,, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesNigerian novelist and short-story writer ‘Pemi Aguda, finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, will read from her acclaimed collection Ghostroots. True to its name, the book weaves horror, fantasy, and myth in short stories that explore women’s roles and female relationships as well as family conflict and identity. The reading will be followed by a […]
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Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law with Mandi Gray
Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin Black Mountain Institute and Mandi Gray for a discussion about her work and how it influenced her book, Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law. Gray, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Trent University (Ontario, Canada) in the sociology department. She is the author of Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law published […]
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Kwentuhan at Chikahan: Las Vegas Filipino Book Club — Read Aloud Book Club Meeting #3
The Writer's Block 519 S 6th Street #100, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin us for Kwentuhan at Chikahan, a free event series centered on Filipino and Filipino-American authors. As we read and respond to the works of critically acclaimed Filipino authors, we find meaning in our everyday struggles and triumphs, enabling us to lay claim to our unique stories. Anyone can participate in the Kwentuhan at Chikahan […]
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Kwentuhan at Chikahan: Las Vegas Filipino Book Club — Read Aloud Book Club Meeting #4
Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin us for Kwentuhan at Chikahan, a free event series centered on Filipino and Filipino-American authors. As we read and respond to the works of critically acclaimed Filipino authors, we find meaning in our everyday struggles and triumphs, enabling us to lay claim to our unique stories. Anyone can participate in the Kwentuhan at Chikahan […]
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BMI Live: The Art of Retelling the Truth featuring Melissa Febos, Jamie Hood, and Isle McElroy
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Hall 4327-4371 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesMelissa Febos and Jamie Hood are two of the most astute essayists working today on the subject of trauma and embodiment. For Febos, this has taken the form of memoirs like Abandon Me and The Dry Season, where she interrogates her life with the rigor and wit of a scholar. For Febos, no statement, no […]
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BMI Live: On Persian Poetry and the Art of Translation: Celebrating Ahmad Shamlou’s Centennial featuring Niloufar Talebi and Maryam Ala Amjadi
Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesNiloufar Talebi’s new book, a bilingual edition of Ahmad Shamlou, one of Iran’s most influential 20th-century poets, showcases her skill and dedication as a translator and cultural worker. In Elegies of the Earth, published to mark the poet’s centennial, Talebi brings Shamlou’s revolutionary voice of resistance and modernity to English readers. Join Maryam Ala Amjadi, […]
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