The Phantom of the Opera

Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company
at the
Carson City Community Center
851 E. William Street
Carson City

The Phantom of the Opera
November 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 - 7:30pm
November 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 - 2pm

The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company is delighted to produce The Phantom of the Opera. The northern Nevada premiere of Broadway's longest running show and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece features the haunting, rapturous music that has delighted audiences for more than a decade including Music of the Night, Prima Donna, Angel of Music, All I Ask of You, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, The Point of No Return.

Mark Williams performs as the Phantom and Maria Arrigotti as Christine. Other leads include Emzy Burroughs as Raoul, Jen Coogan as Carlotta, Teddy Medlyn as Piangi, Nick Favero as Andre, Jim DeZerga as Firmin, Christina Bourne as Madame Giry, and Danita Bayer as Meg.

"It will be, by far, the most vocally and technically demanding show WNMTC has ever produced," said Stephanie Arrigotti, who has produced 86 shows for the company. "I've been working with technicians and set builders - it has taken us a whole year to build this production."

WNMTC audience surveys have put The Phantom of the Opera as the all time most requested production. For tickets, call 775.445.4249. Tickets individually cost $22/$20/$18. Great discounts and priority seating with season tickets from $45-$60.

The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company is a regional theater company that operates in Carson City through Western Nevada College's performing arts program. WNMTC presents its productions at the Carson City Community Center.

[image and text from WNMTC's press information]

Tracy McQuay at the Carson City Library

Capital City Arts Initiative
Books & Writers
at the
Carson City Library
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City

Tracy McQuay:
reading Friday, November 4, 7 - 8pm
writing workshop, Saturday, November 5, noon - 1pm


As part of its Books & Writers series, CCAI will present a literary reading by writer Tracy McQuay on Friday, November 4, 7pm at the Carson City Library. Tracy will also conduct a writing workshop at the Library on Saturday, November 5 from 11am – noon. Both events are free and open to the public.

Tracy McQuay teaches first grade at Mark Twain Elementary School in Carson City where, for the past seven years, she developed and facilitated an after-school poetry program for the school's students. Her current work received a 2011 Artists Fellowship Honorable Mention from the Nevada Arts Council. She is a recent graduate of Lesley University where she earned a MA in Integrating Arts into Education. Her writing has appeared in several literary journals and she published a story in "Chicken Soup for the Christmas Soul" in 2008. She is a member of Ash Canyon Poets, GCW (a women's critique group), and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

The Carson City Library co-sponsors the Books & Writers series with CCAI.

Art in the BRIC II

Capital City Arts Initiative
Art in the BRIC II
at the
Business Resource Innovation Center
108 E Proctor Street
Carson City

Wednesday, November 2, 4:30 - 6pm

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] and the Carson City Library are delighted to present Art in the BRIC II, a group exhibition of art work by northern Nevada artists and architects. A reception for the artists will be held at the Carson City’s Business Resource Innovation Center [BRIC] Wednesday, November 2, 4:30 - 6pm, 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City. The reception is free and the public is cordially invited.

Gallery visitors will find the artworks throughout the BRIC's first floor offices and conference rooms. To enable to public ample opportunity to view the artists' work, the exhibition will run through August 2012.

The artists and architects in this group show include photography by Mike Bates, ceramics by Jill Brugler, prints by Susan Kotler, all from Carson City; sculpture by Bryan Christiansen from Reno; drawings by H+K Architects of Reno; painting by Jean LeGassick and Jeff Nicholson, both from Silver City; and a printmaking/photography installation by Nancy Raven from Minden.

As part of Art in the BRIC II, the Carson City Library presents the architectural renderings for the new Carson City Knowledge + Discovery Center created by H+K Architects of Reno. Among its recent major accomplishments, the firm has created the designs for UNR's Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center and WNC's Joe Dini, Jr. Library and Student Center.

Artworks above: on left - Lost Soles by Nancy Raven; on right - Alexis by Mike Bates

Artisan Show and Sale

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
780 Del Monte Lane
Reno

Artisan Show & Sale
Friday, November 4, 3 - 7pm; opening reception 5 - 7pm
Saturday, November 5, 10am - 5pm

Over 30 artists will have work for exhibition and sale at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's annual Artisan event. Event visitors will find work by artists Jill Altmann, Dayna Galletti, Rima Kent, Jim McCormick, Dale Pappas, and Ann Weiss among others.

[image and text from the Artisan show flier]

Wild Women Artists 2011: Regeneration

Wilbur D. May Center
Rancho San Rafael Regional Park
1595 North Sierra Street, Reno

Artists' Reception: Friday, November 4, 5 - 8pm 
(please use Sierra Street entrance)

Wild Women Reno 2011: REGENERATION
The annual group exhibition and sale by the vibrant Wild Women Artists group takes place this weekend at Rancho San Rafael. Participating artists include Jimmie Benedict, Sidne Teske, Claudia Knous, Kathleen Durham, Gretchen Ericson, Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, Pat Wallis, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Gail Rappa, Barbara Uriu, Karel Hendee, Susan Church plus guest artists Ron Arthaud and Lara Alberti.

Exhibition and Sale Hours:
Friday, November 4, noon - 8pm

Saturday, November 5, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, November 6, 11am - 4pm
Artists' Demos + Tea and Scones: Friday - Sunday, November 4 - 6, 1 - 3pm.

The annual raffle will benefit the Wilbur May Museum and The Wild Women Emerging Artist Award through the Nevada Museum of Arts Scholastic Arts Awards Program. For information on additional Wild Women Artists events, please visit http://www.wildwomenartists.com/

[image and text from the Wild Women's website]

WNC Craft Fair

Western Nevada College
2201 W College Parkway
Carson City

Joe Winter, a ceramic artist who has shown his work at both WNC Carson and Fallon campus galleries, will have a booth in this year's Craft Fair.


[poster image and text from WNC press info]

Giacomo Fiore: Brewery Arts Center

Brewery Arts Center
449 West King Street
Carson City

Saturday, October 29, 2pm

Giacomo Fiore brings his exciting guitar skills to the Brewery Arts Center on Saturday, October 29 at 2pm. The performance is part of the Brewery Art Center’s Classical Performance Series and is presented in collaboration with the Sierra Nevada Guitar Society.

The Italian born musician will perform both traditional and modern works to create a magical musical experience. Fiore is an imaginative and accomplished guitar player who is comfortable in a wide variety of styles. His music making has both flair and depth.

A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory and Belmont University, Fiore has performed across the U.S. and around the world. Today Giacomo is continuing his musical explorations as a Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he focuses on the development of alternative guitar repertoires in just and microtonal tunings.

Pre-concert lecture and brief classical guitar open mic at 1:00pm

Tickets: General admission $13.50, student/senior $11.50, BAC member $8.50.

[images from artist and from BAC websites, text from BAC website]

El Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead

University of Nevada, Reno
Latino Research Center
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno

Day of the Dead | El Dia de los Muertos Exhibition|Celebration
Sponsored by UNR's Latino Research Center at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

Saturday, October 29th from 2 – 5pm

Come celebrate the Latino Research Center’s 3rd Annual Celebration of Dia de los Muertos on campus in the Knowledge Center's Rotunda. In celebration of this holiday, the Latino Research Center will be providing an exhibition area for altars to be put on display. Prizes will be awarded to winners for best altars.* Attendees are welcome to submit their own altars or just come and enjoy the altar displays. Food, beverages, music and many fun activities for children, including mask-making and sugar skull decoration will also be provided at the event. This event is free and open to the public.

*The deadline for requesting a space for an altar entry is Friday, October 28. 3’x3’ tables will be provided to those who have requested space. Please call the Latino Research Center 775.682.9043 or email iwest@unr.edu to request space for altar entry.

For more information visit: http://www.unr.edu/latinocenter Diadelosmuertos.html

[image and text from Latino Research Center]

Wafaa Bilal: Sheppard Gallery Visiting Artist Lecture

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Art Department
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St

Reno

Thursday, October 27, 5:30pm: visiting artist lecture by Wafaa Bilal in the University's Knowledge Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium, room 124.

[poster from Sheppard Gallery]

Mick Sheldon: Gone 30 Years But Still a Nevadan

Capital City Arts Initiative
Nevada Neighbors
at the
Carson City Library
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City

Wednesday, October 26: reception 6:15pm, talk 7pm

Mick Sheldon's talk, Gone 30 Years But Still a Nevadan, is another in the Nevada Neighbors series of public talks presented by the Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] on contemporary art practice. Mick will speak at the Carson City Library Wednesday, October 26 at 7 pm; an informal reception for the artist will begin at 6:15pm. The reception and talk are free and the public is cordially invited.

Mick's talk is a companion piece to his exhibition, Still Lifes for Cowpokes, at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E Musser St, Carson City. The exhibition closes Friday, January 6, 2012.

Mick Sheldon, a tenured professor at American River College in Sacramento and a working artist for most of his adult life, will discuss his unique approach to creating and composing artworks of various mediums and styles: sculpture, oil painting and woodblocks. His talk, with a generous dose of his idiosyncratic humor, will center on how he vigorously approaches his art on a daily basis, driven by his appreciation of contemporary life in the West. Mick’s work embodies a synthesis of formal and expressive styles that assemble figures, light, color and space qualities that celebrate the heroic energy of our region.

Mick is a Reno native and UNR alumnus. He earned a MFA degree in painting from the University of California at Davis in 1992. After working a series of “dead end jobs,” he started teaching at two schools and a prison back in the late eighties. In 2004, he began teaching as a full-time professor at American River College where he is now tenured and serves as Director of the James Kaneko Gallery. Sheldon lives with his wife in Yolo, California.

[Mick Sheldon painting: Last Out of the Rodeo, oil on linen, 2009]