Kelley Lang

1 week ago | renonr.com | Kelley Lang

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center hosts its 10th annual Sci-On! Film Festival. Billing itself as the “Biggest Little Science and Fiction Film Festival in the World,” the event showcases science-fiction short films from the United States and around the world. The celebration kicks off with a night of science, storytelling and sweets featuring Maya Warren, the “Ice Cream Scientist,” and Page Buono, director of the featured short Frosty Formulations.

2 weeks ago | renonr.com | Kelley Lang

Young jazz musicians from across the region will gather for the 63rd annual Reno Jazz Festival this week at the University of Nevada, Reno. This event provides students an opportunity to receive educational feedback from world-renowned artist-educators as they participate in jam sessions, school performances and clinics led by top professionals. The three-day festival offers daytime events, clinics and concerts, as well as spotlight shows featuring headlining jazz artists later in the evening.

4 weeks ago | renonr.com | Kelley Lang

When the dust-caked, sun-blistered essence of Burning Man smashes headlong into Reno’s buzzing, neon-soaked streets, something feral is born: Fur—a gloriously unhinged, fur-clad party posse that’s been torching the Biggest Little City with playa-powered pandemonium for over 10 rip-roaring years! These aren’t your average event-throwers; they’re mad geniuses of chaos, unleashing sensory hurricanes that drag the untamed heart of Black Rock City straight into Reno’s gritty embrace.

1 month ago | renonr.com | Kelley Lang

In much of the Northern Hemisphere, April arrives with a pastel explosion of early spring blooms and a general sense of renewal. Many a poet has found inspiration in this vernal month—from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s joyful ode to spring, “An April Day,” to T.S. Eliot’s condemnation of April as “the cruelest month” in his poem “The Waste Land”—so it seems fitting that the Academy of American Poets designated April as National Poetry Month.

1 month ago | renonr.com | Kelley Lang

The city of Reno is hosting two new art shows in the galleries at McKinley Arts and Culture Center. The Nevada chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects presents selected works from statewide landscape architects and firms in its exhibition The Art of Designed Spaces: A Landscape Architecture Showcase in Gallery East.