WRITING WORKSHOP FOR STUDENTS AGES 9-12
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 FROM 2:30PM-3:30PM

Per the recommendation of the Southern Nevada Health District, we request that students wear a face mask while attending workshops. We appreciate your cooperation. 

Join us for a story time and graphic novel writing workshop with author Ken Lamug. Ken is an award-winning professional dabbler. He was born in the Phillippines and moved to the US with his entire family during his teenage years. Ken will read from his middle-reader graphic novel Mischief and Mayhem. After the reading, everyone will be invited to write and draw their own graphic novel chapter with help from Ken. 

This workshop is free of charge.

Registration for this workshop is closed.

Books by the author will be available for purchase inside the store. 

AN EVENING WITH INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS SUPPORTED BY NEVADA HUMANITIES, THE ELKES FOUNDATION, AND NUWU ART.

Curated by Mercedes Krause (Oglala Lakota), the evenings' performers include  Theo Tso (Las Vegas Paiute), Dr. Natalie Weeks-O’Neil (Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of Montana), Carmen Gonzales (Dine),  Janine Winnemucca (Pyramid Lake Paiute), and Juliana Brown Eyes (Oglala Lakota).
 

Mercedes Krause (Oglala Lakota) was born and raised in Las Vegas, and is a dual-citizen of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation. She is a nationally recognized teacher who has worked extensively with international and tribal communities.

Mercedes is the Native American Alumni's Vice-chair, and she also currently serves as the Chair for the Clark County American Indian/Alaskan Native Democratic Caucus, Secretary for the State Native American Caucus, and serves on the Las Vegas Indian Center's Board, Clark County Dems Board, Battleborn Progress’ Board, and serves as Vice-chair of the Native American Alumni Club at UNLV.

Comic creator Theo Tso, an enrolled member of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, loved comic books as a kid. He was inspired to create Captain Paiute: Indigenous Defender of the Southwest because he "saw that there was a need for a superhero that was Native American and he would be deal with Native issues coming on and off the various reservations of the southwest."

Juliana Brown Eyes is an Indigenous/Polynesian writer, director, and artist from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She is an enrolled member of the federally recognized Oglala Sioux Tribe, the only tribe to never surrender to the US government. Juliana has been featured in many publications including the UK’s Marie Claire: Native American Women Fighting to Preserve Their Culture, Huffington Post, BBC, Radio New Zealand and Glamour Magazine for her contributions through film and music in social justice movements like the Standing Rock movement. For the past few years she’s worked on a variety of film and directing projects. Most recently living in Brazil, writing and directing alongside Katia Lund, Oscar-winning co-director of City of God. Together they created a 6 part docu-series (currently in post-production) on the oil industry and the Trump administration’s extraction of natural resources from Indigenous lands that are supposed to be protected by tribal treaties with the US government.

This event is free and open to the public.

EXPLORING BOOKS AND THEIR ON-SCREEN ADAPTATIONS

Join us for a discussion of Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and its 1969 film adaptation. 

This book club will be held in person and capped at 15 participants. Face masks are required for all individuals regardless of vaccination status. Please register at the link below to secure your spot.

At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and—most important—in her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set—Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy—is "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises her girls, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."

And they do. But one of them will betray her.

The Double Negative Book Club is a discussion group in which a work of literature is examined in reference to its on-screen (film or TV) adaptation. This film is available on YouTube, Amazon, Turner Classic Movies, and through the Las Vegas-Clark County Library district. Please note: The Writer's Block will not be screening The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Attendees are expected to have read the book in advance.

Please register at the following link. 

A BOOK DISCUSSION PAIRED WITH WHISKEY

For October, Bourbon Book Club attendees will discuss Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
 
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.

Attendees are expected to have read the book in advance.

This book club will be held in person and capped at 15 participants. Face masks are required for all individuals regardless of vaccination status. Please register at the link below to secure your spot.

Please register for this book club here. 

THIS FALL: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

A two-part book club discussion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’ novel, The Brothers Karamazov.

This book club will be held in person and capped at 15 participants. Face masks are required for all individuals regardless of vaccination status. Please register at the link below to secure your spot.