Fall 2018 Events in Silver City

Silver City, Nevada -There are lots of good things going on in Silver City this Fall. Here are a few highlights:

Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Silver City School House (or outside at the Silver Pavilion stage in the park if the weather is good). Monthly Acoustic Jam. Bring your instruments or just your voice to the School House and jam. Everyone welcome.

Saturday, October 27 from 3pm to 11:30pm. Mylo McCormick, the Resident Artist Program in Silver City's current visiting artist, will be on stage with Mo'z Motley Blues for the annual Halloween costume party in historic Virginia City at the Red Dog Saloon. Full bar, food, classic rock and dance music. https://www.mozmotleyblues.com/shows

Sunday, October 28 at 3:00 at the School House. Prep Day for the later Halloween event (see below for details about Halloween party). Volunteers will set up for the Wednesday party (see below), create a plan for decor, prepare some spooky snacks ahead of time, etc. Contact Sheree for more details.

Wednesday, October 31 from 7pm -10pm at the Silver City School House. Halloween costume party for ADULTS with music by Red Rose and friends. The entry fee is a contribution of "creepy snacks" or beverages. The event includes a prize for people’s choice of the favorite costume.

October 6, 2018 - Remembering American Flat: Long time Silver City denizen Ron Reno, PhD, gave a fascinating illustrated lecture on "The Art of Architecture at American Flat." Silver City Arts group partnered with Bureau of Land Management, with Alicia Jensen of BLM offering an introduction to a screening of their film "American Flat: Icon of the Comstock." Theo McCormick and Jack Freer provided additional photographs of the mill ruins, while SCA members provided refreshments. The event attracted about 40 people from Reno, Carson City, Dayton, Silver City, and even Abington, Virginia. If you missed the event but would like to see the film, it can be found online at this link: https://youtu.be/Xotaj-ywdkE

October meetings:

Silver City Town Board met on Oct 9th instead of the first Tuesday this month. On the agenda: Discussion of proclaiming Silver City and Carson City to be "Arts and Culture Sister Cities." Carson City Supervisor and elected official Karen Abowd, along with Carson City Arts Coordinator Mark Salinas, will be at the November town meeting to accept a formal proclamation. The Nov. town meeting will be on Tues Nov. 13 at 7pm due to conflict with midterm voting the previous Tuesday.

Silver City Arts group's monthly meeting: Wednedsay October 10th at the Silver City School House at 7pm. On the agenda: an upcoming Halloween party and the Dec. 1st SCA holiday event at the School House featuring work by local artists and artisans, etc.

Silver City's Cemetery Advisory Board meets Saturday, October 20 at 11:00 am at the Silver City School House. Agenda: have cemetery information placed on the county website. 2) An engineered plan for the new section of the cemetery. Everyone is welcome at the meeting.

American Flat Remembered At October 6 Film, Photo Show and Lecture

Silver City, Nevada - There will be a free event called “Remembering American Flat” this Saturday on the Comstock. The event includes three parts – a screening of a new documentary that covers the history of the American Flat mill from its inception in the 1920s to its demolition in 2014; a short lecture about the unique qualities of the mill by consulting architectural historian and industrial archaeologist Ron Reno, PhD; and a pop-up show with locals’ rare photos of the site.

The United Comstock Merger cyanide mill at American Flat was the largest of its kind during its operation. After being abandoned in 1926 due to the collapse in the price of silver, the unusual architecture of the remaining ruins became an attraction. Over the decades, the site drew artists, photographers, film-makers, paintballers and others who re-imagined the industrial ruin as a a place of unusual beauty and freedom.

PHOTO BY JACK FREER

The public is cordially invited to the free event which will be held on Saturday, October 6 at 1pm at the Silver City School House (community center) at 385 High Street in Silver City, Nevada 89428. Silver City is located within a national historic landmark three miles from Virginia City, 12 miles from Carson City and 29 miles from Reno.

“Remembering American Flat” is sponsored by the Silver City Arts group in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (Carson City District) and the Silver City Volunteer Library.

For more information, contact Quest Lakes at (775) 847-0742.

The Silver City Arts group is composed of volunteers whose mission is "to encourage the arts, build community, and share our unique town through free, public events.” The group draws on the town’s own wealth of resources for programming, and also connects with other groups to bring public programming from well known artists, writers, musicians, etc. to the community. Silver City has been declared an "Arts and Culture Resources Production Center" due to its support for arts and culture, and for its own residents’ high output of art, music, publications, and historic preservation resources over the last 50 years.

Longtime Silver City denizen Ron Reno, PhD, an Industrial Archaeologist and Architectural Historian, is among those interviewed in the film The American Flat Mill: Icon of the Comstock

The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 Western states. The agency's mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America's public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. Diverse activities authorized on these lands generated $96 billion in sales of goods and services throughout the American economy in fiscal year 2017. These activities supported more than 468,000 jobs.