Brewery Arts Center

Bow Tie Ball | Mark Twain Days | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Nevada State Museum, 600 North Carson Street, Carson City, NV, 89701, United States
The second annual Bow Tie Ball will dazzle your senses with live music, dancing, enthralling performances, drinks, bites, and a museum wide scavenger hunt. Come dressed in your best! No costumes or period apparel required! Entertainment features The Sextones, and multiple other musical performance scattered through out the museum experience.
Purchase a blank planchet and watch as it becomes a Mark Twain Medallion in front of your eyes on the world’s most unique coin press. Coin Press No.1 began minting in 1870 and is only in operation for noteworthy occasions.
Tickets are limited, get yours today before they’re all gone!

Rivers and Bridges: The Way We Move Through and Toward | Gailmarie Pahmeier and Courtney Cliften | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | Grand Ballroom, 449 W KING ST, CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
This workshop will encourage participants to write about and consider the “ancient and deeply American quest, the search for home,” to quote poet George Bilgere. For example, how does our culture encourage, or discourage, physical relocation and personal reinvention? We’ll use the metaphor of rivers during our discussion, how water moves us from place to place, sustains and nurtures and cleanses us, both literally and metaphorically. The metaphor of bridges also resonates the literal and the metaphoric—how do we cross from one place or identity into another? What are the obstacles such movement presents? And ultimately, how do we define home? As Norman Maclean famously wrote, “all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

Workshop coordinators Gailmarie Pahmeier and Courtney Cliften will share their own work in addition to some from poets they admire, and they’ll offer prompts to help you generate your own poems.

Bio Notes: Gailmarie Pahmeier is a native of Missouri, a place whose history is both rich and troubling. She recalls many visits, with church groups and Girl Scouts, to Mark Twain’s hometown of Hannibal, grew up thinking that Missourians “owned” Mark Twain. Gailmarie is emeritus faculty at UNR and currently teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at UNR/Tahoe. Widely published, she recently served the state of Nevada as Poet Laureate, the first to be appointed to that position in 50 years. Courtney Cliften is a Nevada native with a deep and palpable curiosity about what it means to a Nevadan, a complicated identity for so many. She earned her MFA in Poetry at UNR and now teaches in their English Department. Her work has appeared in The Meadow, Helen Literary Magazine, An Anthology of Emerging Poets, The Hunger, The Racket, Caustic Frolic and more.

The Wind: Live with Fil Corbitt and Michael Branch | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | Grand Ballroom, 449 W KING ST, CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
A few years ago, radiomaker Fil Corbitt found a handsaw in the mountains and built a small desk out in the woods. High in the Sierra Nevada, flanked by an aspen grove and a lodgepole pine stand, this is where Fil makes “The Wind”, a critically acclaimed podcast that investigates our relationship to place through sound. The Wind has aired nationally and internationally on 99% Invisible, Snap Judgement, and BBC’s Shortcuts and a short-form version of their work “Postcards from The Wind” airs locally every thursday morning on KUNR. The show has featured interviews with John Luther Adams, buZ blurr, Jessica Bruder (Nomadland), Gary Farmer, Dom Flemons, and Joe Lally (Fugazi), among many others. After a tour in 2023, which included performances in Boise, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Glasgow and a sold-out show in New York City, Fil will be in Carson City to perform their unique sound-driven performance. Hear more at www.thewind.org
An award-winning nature writer and humorist, Michael Branch is the author of more than 300 essays, which have appeared in venues including CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Outside, Pacific Standard, Huffington Post, Bustle, Utne Reader, Orion, Ecotone, National Parks, The Scientist, High Country News, and Terrain.org. Mike’s ten books include his trilogy of place-based humor writing from the Great Basin Desert: Raising Wild, Rants from the Hill, and How to Cuss in Western. In the spirit of Mark Twain’s Roughing It, this session will use storytelling to explore the Great Basin Desert and the humor our engagement with this wild landscape often inspires. After hearing Mike’s stories you’ll likely agree with Huck Finn that “There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”

Guided Historic Mark Twain Tour | Saturday | May 11th
2024-05-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Bob McFadden Plaza
Presented by the Brewery Arts Center, join us for a historic guided tour of westside Carson City to hear tales about Mark Twain and his influence in Carson City. This is a guided walking tour beginning in Bob McFadden Plaza.

Carson City: Then and Now | Jed Block | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 10:00 - 23:30 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | Grand Ballroom, 449 W KING ST, CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
Join Carson City native, Jed Block, in exploring Carson City then and now through a photographic history of the region that turned Samuel Clemens into Mark Twain.

Twain Days Art Fair | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 10:00 - 15:00 | Brewery Arts Center | West Building | Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Experience over 30 vendors, live music, food trucks, and wagon rides while enjoying all the best that Mark Twain Days has to offer!

Wagon Rides featuring the Mule Stylings of Valkrie, Svana, and Freydis
2024-05-11 10:00 - 15:00 | Brewery Arts Center | West Building | Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Wagon Rides around Carson City’s historic westside. Experience traveling around Carson City like Mark Twain would have! Tickets are $3/per person when you show up to the event.

Rare Books and Author Fair | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 10:00 - 15:00 | Brewery Arts Center | West Building | Lobby, 511 W King St., CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
Join us in meeting local authors and perusing rare, antique books.

Nevada Inspired Shorts Hosted by Jesse James Ziegler | Saturday | May 11th 2024
2024-05-11 10:00 - 15:00 | Brewery Arts Center | West Building | Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Join Reno’s Poet, Jesse James Ziegler, in hosting a day of readings by local writers.
This event is free to the public.

2nd Annual Mark Twain Days Festival | May 10-12th 2024
2024-05-11, 2024-05-10 | NV
Visit Carson City and Brewery Arts Center present Mark Twain Days!
Mark Twain’s time in Nevada was fast, furious, and left a lasting impact. The region and Twain were changed forever and the dust he kicked up has never quite settled. To carry on with what Mark Twain loved most about Nevada—the characters, the excitement, and the spirit of the west—we invite you to the Mark Twain Days Festival in Downtown Carson City. Discover yourself like Samuel Clemens did when he left Missouri to find his true identity in Nevada with art, music, treasure hunts, costume contests, the Twain “Cocktail” Train, and so much more.
This is a city wide event with venues including:
Brewery Arts Center
Nevada State Museum
Nevada State Railroad Museum
Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada
Western Nevada College Library
Carson City Library
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Digital Mark Twain Program

Literature in the Digital Age | Scott Neuffer & Dani Putney | Friday | May 10th 2024
2024-05-10 19:15 - 21:00 | Brewery Arts Center | West Building | Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Gardnerville journalist and editor Scott Neuffer joins Reno poet Dani Putney to discuss literature in the Digital Age, from Twainian observations on social media to the advent of online literary magazines and new spaces for underrepresented writers.
Gardnerville journalist and editor Scott Neuffer and Reno poet Dani Putney are Northern Nevada literary pals who have worked together before, including at the digital magazine trampset that was founded by Neuffer in 2017. The online literary magazine draws global editors, contributors and readers, many connected through social media and other platforms.
Neuffer will discuss literature in the digital age: publishing nonfiction, fiction and poetry online and the sometimes strange intersection between writing and social media. He’ll cover the internet’s most popular literary form—flash—and help anyone interested in finding online journals to submit to.
Putney will speak on intersectionality and how the internet has brought together writers and readers from different walks of life. The Digital Age has seen an explosion of online literary magazines. Putney will explore the digital literary landscape and its effects on historically marginalized authors.
This event is free to the public.

PPI Presents: Fools by Neil Simon | Friday | May 10th 2024
2024-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | The Maizie Theater, 449 W King St, Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse.

History of Books Workshop | Dr. Amy Ghilieri | Friday | May 10th 2024
2024-05-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Western Nevada College, 2201 West College Parkway, Carson City, NV, 89701-5717, United States
Dr. Amy Ghilieri is a tenured faculty member at Western Nevada College. She teaches courses predominately in History, and also Core Humanities, EPY 150, and Book Arts. Her research specializes in 16th century printed books about witchcraft.

In 2019 she began the Bristlecone Press at WNC in order to connect archival research, history of the book, and book making with Third grade through college age students in northern Nevada. The press specializes in producing and teaching letterpress and bookbinding on both cylinder and platen presses.
She lives in Reno with her family. In her spare time she enjoys running, woodworking, and knitting.
This event is free to the public.

Don Kuhl: Your Life is a Story
2024-05-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Carson City Senior Center, 911 Beverly Drive, Carson City, NV, 89701-5717, United States
Changing with Aging is a collection of over 150 brief stories with life messages behind each one. Hopefully it encourages readers to recognize they have stories of equal or greater value, and that we all share so much in common. Changing with Aging has broad readership in the United States and has been translated into Arabic and several other languages.

Mark Twain's Influence on African Americans and Society | Michael Smith | Friday | May 10th 2024
2024-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | Grand Ballroom, 449 W KING ST, CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
Michael, a native Mississippian received his Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Rust College, Holly Springs, MS. and a Master’s degree from the University of Mississippi in Educational Administration, and Supervision. A veteran educator of 33 years having served as a history and science teacher, basketball coach, President of the Shelby County, (TN.) Educators Association; assistant principal, student support services coordinator and Principal with school districts in North Mississippi, Memphis City, and Shelby County, Tennessee where he retired in 2017.
Throughout his personal and professional life Mike has received numerous awards and recognitions on a local, and state level. He has been a tireless and dedicated public servant, an advocate for the arts and humanities and an individual who build bridges to others. Mike is the founder and President of the Northern Nevada Cultural Foundation a (501c-3) organization.
Since moving to Carson City in June 2017, he resides with his lovely wife Margaret a fifth generation Nevadan. In 2018 he launched Ideas on Tap-a monthly series of interactive contemporary issues. He served as a board member on the Carson City, Redevelopment Authority Citizens Committee (RACC) (2017-2020), and a board of trustee with the Carson City Symphony Association (2018- 2020).
Through his fortitude to be a public servant, Mike was also a candidate for Carson City Board of Supervisors. Ward 4 in 2020. He is also an active member of Alpha of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. (Alpha Nu Nu chapter-Reno)
Mike serves as Vice-Chair on Nevada’s Employee Management Relations Board (EMRB). He currently sits on the Carson City Cultural Commission board, he has one adult son Phillip, who resides in North Richland Hills, Texas. Mike credits both of his adopted parents for shaping and molding his career in education, and instilling in him life-long skills, coupled with the intestinal fortitude to accomplish and overcome any, and all obstacles. Some of Mike’s hobbies and interest includes, reading, cooking, and showcasing his musical talents as a singer and saxophonist.

Ballet Folklórico | Cinco de Mayo Festival | Sunday | May 5th
2024-05-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | The Maizie Theater, 449 W King St, Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
“Esto es México!”
This is Mexico! You’re invited to join the folkloric cultural mosaic and tour a diverse and immense nation, full of colors, flavors, dances, rhythms, and sounds. The ancestral cultures have left a legacy for all humanity, Mexico is not a country, Mexico is a world in itself! Welcome to Estampas de México. Esto es México.”

The groups Ballet Folklórico Internacional de Reno and Danza Azteca Aztlán, emerged in 2006 with the purpose of representing the multicultural mosaic of México, with interpretations of dancing and dances, characteristics of each state and different communities and towns of the country, proudly carrying the great ethnic and linguistic variety of a great nation. The greatness of México is marked by its ancient past, land of great civilizations such as the Aztecas, Mayas, Olmecas, Zapotecas, Purépechas among many others that have left a great legacy and a precedent for humanity, which upon the arrival of the conquerors was outraged and devastated but never erased, since it managed to mix its mysticism, colors and rhythms with the sounds of the old world, to thus giving rise to the great authenticity of which today is the folkloric greatness of México. Ballet Folklórico Internacional de Reno and Danza Azteca Aztlán have always made a commitment to represent with dignity and respect the essence of our roots and what we are made of, having as their main ideal to support and disseminate art and folklore as a learning tool for our youth.
Los grupos Ballet folklorico Internacional de Reno y Danza Azteca Aztlan, surgieron en el 2006 con la finalida de representar el mosaico multicultural de Mexico, con interpretaciones de bailes y danzas caracteristicass de cada estado y de diferentes comunidades y pueblos del pais, portando con orgullo la gran variedad etnica y linguistiaca de una gran nacion. La grandeza de Mexio esta marcada por su passado milenario,, tierra de grandes civilizaciones como los Aztecas, Mayas, Olecas, Zapotecas, Purepechas entre muchas otras mas que han dejado un gran legado y un precedene para la humanidad, que a la llegada de las conquistadores fue ulttrajada y devastada pero jams borrada, pues logro mesclar su misticismo, colores y ritmos con los sones de Viejo mundo, para asi dar pie a la gran autenticidad de lo que hoy dia es la grandeza folclorica de Mexico. Ballet Folklorico Internacional de Reno y Danza Azteca Aztlan diempre han tenido el compromise de representar con dignidad y respeto la esencia de nuestras raices y de lo que estamos formados, teniendo coo principal ideal apyar y difundir el arte y folklore como una herramienta de aprendizaje para nuestros Jovenes.

WHCT Presents | Finding Nemo Jr.
2024-05-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-05-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Brewery Arts Center | West Building | Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Presented by Wild Horse Children’s Theater
Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. is a musical adaptation of the beloved 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo, with new music by award-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Marlin, an anxious and over-protective clownfish, lives in the Great Barrier Reef with his kid Nemo, who longs to explore the world beyond their anemone home. But when Nemo is captured and taken to Sydney, Marlin faces his fears and sets off on an epic adventure across the ocean. With the help of lovable characters such as optimistic Dory, laid-back sea turtle Crush, and the supportive Tank Gang, Marlin and Nemo both overcome challenges on their journey to find each other and themselves.
Featuring memorable songs such as “Just Keep Swimming,” “Fish Are Friends Not Food,” and “Go With the Flow,” Finding Nemo JR. brings a vibrant underwater world to life on stage in a story full of family, friendship, and adventure.
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Ballet Folklórico | Cinco de Mayo Festival | Saturday | May 4th
2024-05-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | The Maizie Theater, 449 W King St, Carson City, NV, 89703, United States

Musicale @ The Maizie | Django Walker | Darren Senn | Friday | May 3rd 2024
2024-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | The Maizie Theater, 449 W King St, Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Once a month the Maizie Theater hosts rising stars in the songwriting world from both near and far. Friday May 3rd features Django Walker with opening act Darren Senn.
Django Walker is born and raised in Austin, TX and the son of Texas Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker. Django has made a name for himself as a singer-songwriter penning songs for Pat Green ( Texas on my mind,) Jimmy Buffett (something bout a boat,) Josh Abbott, Kevin Fowler and many other Texas artists. He himself has had success as an Artist with his own song “College Life” as well as “Texas Longhorn” which plays in DKR Texas memorial stadium every home game. He is set to go into the studio this fall for his 5th studio album and touring all over the country.
Darren Senn thrives on engaging his audiences with storytelling and simple, well-crafted songs. Through his slow and steady songwriting journey the past decade he has taken away the most precious lesson; honesty is the only way. His often melancholy humor is balanced with plenty of keen insight, ripe with colorful stories and revealing admissions of his shortcomings and how he moves past them with whatever grace he may stumble upon.
Doors open at 6:30 | Show begins at 7pm | Arrive through the Exhibition Hall | All Ages Welcomed

Adult Paint & Sip | Sugar Skull | Friday | May 3rd 2024
2024-05-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Brewery Arts Center | South Building | Painting Studio, 449 W King St, Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Enjoy a fun and easy acrylic painting class as you follow along with instructor Debbie Corona in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Includes two complimentary beverages and all materials.
Please arrive through 2nd St entrance.

Cinco de Mayo Festival | Friday, Saturday, Sunday | May 3rd, 4th, and 5th
2024-05-03 17:00 - 2024-05-05 19:00 | NV
Cinco de Mayo Celebración 2024 will be a 3-day celebration of Mexican culture for the northern Nevada region to enjoy. Including a taco competition in Fuji Park, DBA themed Wine Walk, live painting with Edwin ‘Esco’ Martinez, live music with Just Alfredo, an arts and crafts vendor fair, interactive kids’ activities, food, drink, and free performances by Ballet Folklórico Internacional de Reno and Danza Aztlan. This event is free and open to the public.
Friday

Family Fun Fridays – Taco Judging Contest, 5 pm, Winners Announced at 7 pm – Fuji Park

Saturday

DBA ‘Cinco de Mayo’ Themed Wine Walk, 1 to 5 pm – Brewery Arts Center
Ballet Folklórico Internacional Performance, 7 pm – Brewery Arts Center

Sunday

Cinco de Mayo Festival, 12 to 5 pm, Brewery Arts Center

Art and Craft Vendor Fair
Create a Papel Picado Activity
Sugar Skull Activity
Live Art by Edwin ‘Esco’ Martinez
Live Music by Just Alfredo
Make the Road Nevada Dance Lesson for all ages
Ballet Folklórico Internacional Performance, 5 pm – Brewery Arts Center
Tacos los Tios Food Truck

Learn to Sketch | Wednesday | May 1st 2024
2024-05-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Brewery Arts Center | South Building | Drawing Studio, 449 W KING ST, CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
In this class you’ll learn about problem-solving through art, as well as how to draw with instructor Kaleb Wyckoff. Whether you can sketch a stick figure or a portrait, this class is for you! All skill levels are welcome. Every class is different and designed to strive for accessibility. Classes take place every other week and focus on stand alone lessons, meaning you can join at anytime without being behind.

All materials included. Arrive through the 2nd Street entrance.

TCMS Presents | Dan Flanagan | Saturday | April 27th 2024
2024-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | The Maizie Theater, 449 W King St, Carson City, NV, 89703, United States
Presented Toiyabe Chamber Music Society as a FREE event.
Dan Flanagan has built a multifaceted career as a soloist and orchestral musician, performing concertos with orchestras in California and recitals throughout the United States and Europe. Flanagan currently serves as Concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Concertmaster of West Edge Opera, and Instructor of Violin at University of California, Berkeley. Described as an “excellent violinist” (New York Concert Reviews), “stellar musician” (Nevada Reviews) and “superior violinist” (Piedmont Post), he has been praised for his “exquisite tones” and “forthright brio” (Sacramento Bee), and his “solos were excellent” (San Francisco Classical Voice).

High Sierra Swing Dance Club | Lesson & Dance | Fourth Saturday Each Month
2024-04-27 18:30 - 21:30 | Brewery Arts Center | East Building | Grand Ballroom, 449 W KING ST, CARSON CITY, NV, 89703, United States
High Sierra Swing Dance Club’s monthly lesson & dance welcomes a variety of guest instructors to teach Intermediate lessons from 6:30-7:30pm.
Open social dancing follows from 7:30-9:30pm. All levels welcome, no partner needed.
Lesson and Dance are each $15 ($10 for HSSDC Members). No advanced tickets, pay at the event.
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