OPEN A NEW WORLD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 2018 12:00 – 8:00 P.M. OFFICIAL GUIDE ABOUT NEVADA HUMANITIES Nevada Humanities fosters cultural enrichment and connection for all Nevadans. By creating and supporting dynamic public programs that inspire engagement, we deepen a collective Reno Office sense of place and belonging and Nevada Humanities encourage mutual understanding and How to Open a New World 1670-200 North Virginia Street empathy, which are the foundations P.O. Box 8029 of community and democracy. Nevada Humanities is one of 56 Reno, NV 89507-8029 independent, nonprofit state and Tel: (775) 784-6587 territorial humanities councils affiliated Tel: (800) 382-5023 with the National Endowment for the Find friends. Study the map. Pick your path. Fax: (775) 784-6527 Humanities. With offices in Reno and Arrive at your first Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl session and go! Entry to all Nevada Humanities Las Vegas, Nevada Humanities creates Literary Crawl sessions are free. public programs and supports public Las Vegas Office projects statewide that define the Pop in and out of readings if you want to see as many authors as possible, but please be respectful of Nevada Humanities Nevada experience and facilitate the readers and other participants as you come and go. 1017 South First Street, Unit 190 exploration of issues that matter to Las Vegas, NV 89101 Nevadans and their communities. In between readings, see what is happening on the streets: dance performances, scavenger hunts, Tel: (702) 800-4670 interactive art projects, experimental walking tours, and much more. Fax: (702) 800-4665 As you go on your adventure, tweet us @nvhumanities with #litcrawlnv. NEVADA HUMANITIES Follow us on Instagram at nevada_humanities for news and updates throughout the day. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Share on Instagram: @nevada_humanities #litcrawlnv. Jane Tors, Chair, Reno William Marion, Vice Chair, Las Vegas Jennifer Satre, Past Chair, Reno Erika Bein, Reno Constance Brooks, Las Vegas Caleb Cage, Reno TAKING BOOKS TO THE STREETS Antoinette Cavanaugh, Owyhee Nancy Cummings, Reno When Nevada Humanities founded the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl five years Carolyn Dufurrena, Winnemucca Nevada Humanities/Jessi LeMay ago, we had no idea that it would grow to be the premier literary event in northern M. Todd Felts, Reno 2018 Great Basin Young Chautauqua scholars. Nevada. Now with nearly 100 authors from across the Silver State and beyond, read- Michael Flores, North Las Vegas ings, workshops, book signings, kids’ storytime and activities, and an Epilogue After Scott Gavorsky, Elko Party to beat the band, we are thrilled to see the event mature and thrive. Shaun Griffin, Virginia City Debra Harry, Nixon We are also delighted to welcome writer Gabby Rivera as the 2018 keynote writer to Andrew Kirk, Las Vegas the Crawl. Rivera is the author of Juliet Takes a Breath and Marvel Comics’ America Mary-Ellen McMullen, Henderson series, featuring America Chavez, Marvel’s first queer Latina superhero. Rivera has a lot to say about inspiring radical creativity - no matter who you are or where you Susanna Newbury, Las Vegas come from - and I am sure her inspiration will be felt throughout the Literary Crawl as Daniel Enrique Pérez, Reno Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Las Vegas the day unfolds. We encourage you all to tap your own radical creativity and to revel Taskar Shreesh in the creativity of others, this is why we Crawl. NEVADA HUMANITIES STAFF Christina Barr, Executive Director Stephanie Gibson, Program Manager Bobbie Ann Howell, Program Manager Aliza Pantoja, Administrative Assistant Christina Barr Executive Director Nevada Humanities/Stephanie Gibson 2017 Nevada Humanities Poet-In-Residence Olivia Romo at French Ford Middle School, Winnemucca, Nevada, 2017. 2 THE SALON & POP-UP SALONS Nevada Humanities provides Nevada Humanities Programs 2018 Part panel discussion, part opportunities for Nevadans to think creatively and explore the world through our programs and events. We produce conversation, and part social event, educational programs and events that define the Nevada experience, feature local culture and heritage, and facilitate The Salon and Pop-Up Salons bring the investigation of ideas that matter to Nevadans and their communities. For more information about Nevada people together to participate in conversations about thought- Humanities visit nevadahumanities.org. provoking topics and ideas. The Salon has filled a gap in our state’s GREAT BASIN YOUNG text by Ron James; The Donner Party collaboration with the City of Las cultural landscape, offering people CHAUTAUQUA Chronicles with text by Frank Mullen, Vegas, the Las Vegas-Clark County a welcoming place to learn new perspectives and share ideas. Reno’s Great Basin Young Chautauqua is Jr., and photography by Marilyn Library District, the Black Mountain Nevada Humanities/Stephanie Gibson an award-winning youth program Newton; and more. These books Institute at UNLV, and other partners. version of The Salon takes place on with more than a hundred inspired are available for purchase at outlets the third Friday of every other month throughout Nevada and by calling The Salon with author Julie Buntin, 2018. at Sundance Books and Music in Reno, satellite programs throughout Nevada LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE and around the nation—Young Nevada Humanities at 775-784-6587. and Pop-Up Salon programs can be Letters About Literature is a national Chautauqua has become a rite of contributions to Nevada’s notable Nevada authors at venues found statewide throughout the year. reading and writing contest for passage for young people, ages communities by using the humanities throughout the Downtown Reno Arts HUMANITIES ON THE ROAD students in grades 4-12, run through 8-18, who share a love of history and to strengthen and enhance the lives Corridor, where they give readings of the Library of Congress. Students exploring characters from the past. Humanities on the Road is one of of Nevadans. Awards include the fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Access across the country are asked to read Now in its 27th year, Great Basin Nevada Humanities’ longest running Judith Winzeler Award for Excellence to all events is free, and all ages are a book, poem, or speech and write to Young Chautauqua continues to impart programs, providing a roster of in the Humanities, the Friend welcome to participate at a variety of the author (living or dead) about how a deeper appreciation of history to carefully selected creative thinkers and Champion of the Humanities family-friendly readings and activities. the book affected them personally. young scholars throughout northern who travel across Nevada to bring Award, the Outstanding Teaching Letters are judged on state and Nevada. To learn more about this engaging public presentations to local of the Humanities Award, and the national levels with Nevada winners program, or to become a Great Basin communities. These presentations Outstanding Humanities Project NEVADA READS announced in May and national Young Chautauqua participant, call explore history, culture, heritage, Award. The next slate of Nevada Nevada Reads is a conversational winners announced by the Library of Nevada Humanities at 775-784-6587 and more. Humanities on the Road Humanities Awards will be conferred statewide book club that invites Congress in late spring. or email [email protected]. presentations are available for booking in March 2019. Nevadans to read selected works of by any nonprofit or educational literature and come together in their organization in Nevada. For a communities to share the ideas and NEVADA CENTER FOR THE BOOK HALCYON PUBLICATION SERIES complete roster of presenters and NEVADA HUMANITIES EXHIBITION perceptions inspired by the books they The Nevada Center for the Book is Nevada Humanities has published a programs, visit nevadahumanities.org. SERIES have read. New books are selected Nevada Humanities/Bobbie Ann Howell dedicated to promoting literature and number of important and informative In 2013, Nevada Humanities moved each year, providing the opportunity literacy throughout the Silver State. books by Nevada authors under into its first publicly accessible for book club discussions and/or Paiute Voices opening event at the LAS VEGAS BOOK FESTIVAL Programs include Nevada Reads, the “Halcyon,” Nevada Humanities’ storefront in the downtown Las Vegas community partnership events that Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in National Book Festival, Letters About Las Vegas, 2016. publication imprint. A sampling of Founded by Nevada Humanities in Arts District. This Program Gallery focus conversation around Nevada Literature, and additional literary these books include: Sagebrush 2002, the annual Las Vegas Book has become home to the Nevada Reads books. Nevada Reads offers programs throughout the state. In Vernacular: Rural Architecture in Festival is an innovative celebration Humanities Exhibition Series, which avenues for the discussion of topics 2017, Nevada Humanities became the Nevada, edited by Stephen R. Davis; of the written, spoken, and illustrated showcases the work of Nevada artists, that matter to Nevadans. home for the Nevada Center for the Into Their Own: Nevada Women word that features authors participating writers, photographers, and other Book. The Nevada Center for the Book Emerging Into Public Life, by Anita in a full schedule of panel discussions, creative thinkers who explore and is the state affiliate of the Center for Ernst Watson; You Know You’re a book signings, readings, workshops, articulate