Events
Carson City Senior Center
A Conversation with Brad McMullen: Folklife Specialist
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesBrad McMullen lives in Las Vegas, where he serves as the Folklife Specialist at the Nevada Arts Council. Previously, he spent five years as the Programs and Gathering Manager at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, where he oversaw the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and other programs. What does a Folklife Specialist do? Brad […]
Frontier Baseball in Nevada with Bob Nylen
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesBob Nylen, retired curator with the Nevada State Museum, has researched and written about the fascinating history of frontier baseball in Nevada. His talk will highlight how the sport spread across Nevada in the late 1860s, capturing the excitement of Nevadans. He will cover how teams were formed, how games were played, and why the […]
A Conversation with Jesse James Ziegler & Gailmarie Pahmeier
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesNational Poetry Month, a celebration of poetry which takes place each April, was introduced in 1996 and is organized by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase […]
A Conversation with Jill Derby
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesIn 1973, a radical choice that Jill Derby made while under pressure changed the trajectory of her career from a potential profession in academia to that of a lifelong political […]
A Conversation with Robin Holabird
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesAuthor, film expert, and world traveler Robin Holabird writes regularly about films and their locations, with her weekly program airing on Reno's NPR affiliate KUNR at 88.7 every Friday. Holabird's […]
A Conversation with Kathy Nelson & George Perrault
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesPoetry reading with two northern Nevada poets, Kathy Nelson and George Perrault. Nelson is a 2024 Nevada Arts Council Fellow with two chapbooks and one full-length collection, The Ledger of […]
A Conversation with Patty Cafferata: Christmas in Nevada
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesAuthor, historian, and attorney, Patty Cafferata is a lifelong resident of Reno, Nevada. Her background includes a diverse career in law and politics, becoming the first woman elected to any constitutional office in Nevada when she was elected as Nevada state treasurer in 1982, and later serving as district attorney in several Nevada counties. She […]
A Conversation with Laura Wetherington and Teresa Breeden
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesTwo northern Nevada poets will be sharing their work. Laura Wetherington is a poet, teacher, and editor. With several books, her poems have been described as being "like small paintings in words." Teresa Breeden lives in Carson City with a published novel and more than 60 poems in various journals and anthologies. Her writing revolves […]
A Conversation with Janice Oberding
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesJanice Oberding is historian, true crime buff, paranormal enthusiast and investigator. She is also the author of more than 50 books on topics ranging from ghosts to true crime to history, to the strange and unusual, and mystery. She writes both non-fiction and fiction. Raised in California and Nevada, much of her work is focused […]
A Conversation with Mark Vollmer & Jim Eaglesmith: StorySongs
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesTheDVD "StorySongs: From the Soul of the American West" captures the incomparable grandeur and heart of Nevada, the Sierra Nevada region, northern California, and the American Southwest with inspiring music and evocative photography. Award-winning Reno artists Jim Eaglesmith and Mark Vollmer take us on a compelling melodic/visual journey of the West's natural and cultural beauty […]
MOVED – Creative Aging Series: Story Telling & Writing Workshop
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesWriting Our Stories, Writing Our Lives In this free four-week creative writing workshop, you'll learn to turn meaningful thoughts into written stories with writing prompts and creative inspiration. Each workshop will build on the last with opportunities to share your stories. We will culminate our work together by presenting a public reading of work produced. […]
A Conversation with Michael Branch
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesMichael Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, University of Nevada, Reno professor, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert. His work includes 10 published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to […]