Arts NIGHT OUT!

Experience the Arts

Participate in interactive arts activities, see and hear instruments up close, meet visual artists, dancers, musicians, actors, directors, conductors and designers, learn to tango (no partner required), go on a backstage tour, and learn more about the arts and how the arts are part of our everyday lives. These opportunities and more will be available throughout the Church Fine Arts Building. Join us and be
prepared to have some fun!

Showcase Performances

5:30-8:00p.m., Redfield Studio Theatre

5:30-5:50 “Turning Thoughts into Movement”
A discussion by Barbara Land about the choreographic process and presentation of a short ballet piece “Hopes and Dreams” based on music from Lord of the Rings

5:50-6:10 Scenes from Juvenilia and This is Our Youth presented by Nevada Repertory Theatre

6:10-6:30 Wolf Pack Woodwind Quintet instrument introduction and performance

6:30-6:50 “Everyone wants to Tango”
Join professional dancer and instructor Suzette Feinlein as she demonstrates the Tango! After this, Ms. Feinlein is teaching a Tango class. No partner required!

6:50-7:10 Monologues presented by Theatre Division students

7:10-7:30 “Think Fast!”
Experience an on-the-spot creation of a performance by the University of Nevada, Reno Improvised Music Ensemble and members of the University Dance Program.

7:30-8:00 University Jazz Combo

Wolf Pack Marching Band
“Pride of the Sierra”

Meet the “TUBAS,” Band Performances and Auction 5:30-8:00 p.m., Room 110
Your chance to meet the “TUBAS” in person, to listen to the “Pride of the Sierra” perform some of your favorite rally songs and bid on auction items and help the band raise money to support future band activities.

“Glow Show”

TBA, Sculpture Studio Lab, Room 21
Feel the heat and see the glow with a bronze pour in the foundry area of the sculpture studio. Timing of the bronze pour is dependent on many factors so it is difficult to predict, but all efforts will be made to pour during Arts Night Out!. We’ll keep you posted.

Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life

5:30-8:00 pm, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
This group exhibition is inspired by an essay, Eco-Sophia (1989) written by German philosopher Wolfgang Schirmacher. Eco (trans. house) - sophia (trans. wisdom) implicates the inner intelligent self as the deepest and most dynamic location of wisdom and survival. Artwork is about the necessary yet complicated and nuanced symbiotic relationship between technology, the environment and individual agency. The exhibition features Allora & Calzadilla, Ann Hamilton, Kahn & Selesnick, Andrea Polli, and Paul Stout.

Art Sale

5:30-8:00 pm, central lobby
Purchase one-of-a-kind works of art created by University of Nevada, Reno Department of Art students and faculty.

Arts Night Out

6 pm, somewhere in CFA
Join Cari Cunningham, assistant professor of dance, in a discussion dealing with the creation of sitespecific dance work and the premiere performance of "Arts Night Out!" created in celebration of the School of the Arts.

Open Rehearsal: Much Ado About Nothing

7:00-8:00 pm, Redfield Proscenium Theatre
Stop and see a sneak peek of Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Jan Powell’s early work on the Nevada Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production.

Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven

7:30-9:00 pm followed by an artist CD signing, Nightingale Concert Hall
After touring as a banjo-playing teenage prodigy, Alison Brown took a detour through Harvard, then UCLA to earn an MBA, and two years in finance with Smith Barney. Thankfully for bluegrass audiences
everywhere, she returned to her musical roots, earning Grammys to go with that MBA. She’ll be joined by mandolinist, violinist and percussionist extraordinaire, Joe Craven, whose own credentials as a member of the Garcia/Grisman band put him in esteemed company indeed. More info: www.alisonbrown.net

Tickets: $20/$17/$12/$7. Tickets are available in person at Lawlor Events Center or online at www.unr.edu/arts, or by calling (800) 225-2277.

“Alison Brown left a career in investment banking for a life as a banjo musician. Anyone who thinks this was a foolish move hasn’t
heard her play.” — The New Yorker

Backstage Tours

5:45 and 6:30 pm, tours start in central lobby near the Box Office
Join long-time Nevada Repertory Theatre Director, Jim Bernardi, on a backstage tour featuring the theatre shops, dressing rooms and back stage areas where all the pre-show action happens!

Open Art Studio

5:30-8:00 pm, CFA Rooms 213-214
Visit the Light Studio and get your photo taken with your friends and check out the photography lab! 5x7 photos are $5 and 8x10 photos are $10 each.

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Arts Night Out is sponsored by the University of Nevada, Reno School of the Arts, Performing Arts Series and Nevada Alumni Association. For more information on Arts Night Out, call
(775)784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/arts.