By Bruce Isaacson
Even in the shadow of Casinosaurus
Life springs irrepressible from the sands
Artists, poets, lovers, children
Dream of the seventh gold city...
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By Christina Barr
The seeds of Great Basin Young Chautauqua began in 1992 at the urging of a group of young people who saw their parents enjoying Nevada Humanities' newly formed Great Basin Chautauqua festival. Recognizing the program's value for young people, Nevada Humanities created the concept of Young Chautauqua and launched the Great Basin Young Chautauqua program in 1993.
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By Kelli Luchs and Derek Weis
The recent designation of neon as Nevada’s official state element ensures that neon and Las Vegas will be forever linked. It was thus auspicious timing for the Neon Museum and the Las Vegas News Bureau to join forces to highlight some of the most iconic Las Vegas signs in their exhibit Then and Now: The Neon Boneyard,
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By Deon Reynolds
A few years back, my wife Trish and I were commissioned to create several large-scale wheat paste murals for the Western Folklife Center’s National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada … we cooked up our own flour and water mixture to make the glue, which is applied to the wall, as well as over the art work itself. The images were printed on 24-inch-wide rolls of light-weight plotter paper.
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By Christopher Daniels
Author Barry Lopez states “the only thing holding us together are stories and compassion.” I love stories of all genres and media. I live for terrible made-for-TV movies, binge on gripping Netflix dramas, have a stacks of books on my nightstands (that I vow I am going to read before purchasing more new books), gleefully research the mythologies of various world wisdom traditions, and watch, with wide-eyed wonder, the magic of live theatre.
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By Frank X. Mullen
If you want to get to know someone well, walk a mile in their shoes, so the saying goes.
The scholars in the Nevada Humanities Great Basin Young Chautauqua program go further than a mere mile: for a time, they inhabit historical characters from the inside out. It’s scholarship as performance. They act— then react— to an audience.
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By Kelbey Hilliard
I was never a kid who was afraid of the spotlight. My whole life, I’ve always been happy to take center stage and put on a show. I was shy meeting new people, and still can be, but always dreamed of performing one day in a huge, bright theatre.
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By Max Stone
It’s a not-so-well-kept secret that Reno is home to a burgeoning literary community. As evidenced by the number of people who were packed into the community’s home base of sorts, Sundance Books and Music, on April 25, 2019 for the finale of the National Poetry Month Reading Series.
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By Gavin Markovic
This letter is one of the 2019 “Letters About Literature” winners for the state of Nevada.
The right book can change your life. It happened to me. During seventh grade, I was to read a coming-of-age novel and present on the book and its author to my English class. My mom suggested I read her favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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By Nikki Florio
The Great Pollen Nation
The Pollen Nation is a collective of thousands of species of winged and terrestrial insects, birds, bats, and small mammals. These animals have evolved with flowering plants in ecosystems throughout our planet. Without them, we will be left with only wind pollinated plants.
Personal Space: Stereoscopic Nevada has been installed for a month now at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Las Vegas. The exhibition has been a great success with over 450 guests having come through. But the most satisfying part of it has been the high level of engagement.
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By Jennifer Battisti
Ascending takes effort.
My hamstrings protest; dizzy spells,
a cold sharp ache coiling in my ears,
my mind like an open door— all the flies let in, the bodies below, still
waiting on warm asphalt.
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By Staff of Nevada Humanities
Congratulations to all of our 2019 Nevada Humanities awardees who will be honored at the Nevada Humanities Award Ceremony tonight in Reno.
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By Fawn Douglas
I remember the late ‘80s in Las Vegas. The city of Las Vegas was growing, and we walked in areas that were on the edge of development. We walked through the dirt side of Craig Road, near the old Craig Ranch in North Las Vegas.
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By Max Stone
As the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra heads into its 50-year anniversary season this March, Laura Jackson, music director of the Reno Philharmonic, gave an insiders perspective into the orchestra through a recent talk at the Nevada Historical Society.
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After Reckless Abandon
By Heather Lang-Cassera
We drove east just far enough
to be one time zone closer.
The Path Home
By Ashley Vargas
I was welcomed to the desert,
By a flower,
Whose petals burned as a sunset.
Like lights guiding me home,
I followed.
No question.
No hesitation.
By the Staff of Nevada Humanities
Nevada’s Big Give is coming on March 21, and Nevada Humanities invites you to participate and help us meet our goal of $5,000.
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By Frank Bergon
The rural West and its small towns get a bum rap. Or no rap at all. That’s what I hear from friends and relatives everywhere from Battle Mountain, Nevada, to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, to Madera, California, all places where I’ve lived.
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By Kimberly Roberts
Figure 1: Scene near Winnemucca, Nevada, undated. The eye of the viewer is drawn first to the automobile, nestled within the circle of the earth. The focus is on the car and its immediate surroundings and only afterward to the horizon and beyond.
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