New Edition of Neon Nevada by Former Silver City Folks: On November 9, 2023 from 6pm-8pm at the Nevada Museum of Art, Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer, authors of Neon Nevada, will discuss the influence of neon signage on Nevada’s unique culture. Stay for a book signing of their expanded 2023 edition after the talk. Peter Laufer and Sheila Swan began documenting the state's neon decades ago when they were living in Silver City. About Neon Nevada: First published in 1994, Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer take readers on a journey across the state on a quest to discover Nevada’s neon. Full-color photographs and historical commentary bring the state’s hues of neon to life through the year 2022 in the newly updated and expanded edition. The updated edition of the book was released on Oct. 24, 2023.
Rick Shea and Tony Gilkyson play the Silver City Schoolhouse on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 7PM! Rick Shea and Tony Gilkyson, seasoned guitarists and songwriters with well known resumes (Shea with Wanda Jackson, R.E.M and others, Gilkyson with Tom Waits and Bob Dylan) team up. $15-$25 donation at the door. RSVP: evangeline@evangelinepresents.com This is a benefit for the Silver City Preservation Society. "Gilkyson is a fine guitarist and an equally fine songwriter with an eye for the ironic and darkly humorous." - Los Angeles Times "Shea is.. a hauntingly nostalgic vocalist, imperative guitarist and literate, detail rich songwriter, do yourself a favor" - Sing Out Magazine. The event is at the Silver City Schoolhouse (community center) at 385 High Street, Silver City, NV 89428.
SMAC Fall Exhibition: St. Mary’s Art Center’s fall exhibition includes art by Scott MacLeod, a former artist-in-residence in Silver City, plus art by Honey Coughlin, Shaun Griffin, Edw Martinez, Fredric Hobbs, and many others. The exhibition is on view until Nov. 26, 2023. See SMAC’s website for hours.
Annual Holiday Fair December 2: Join Silver City for its festive holiday celebration and shopping event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023 from 10am-5pm. Handmade fine art, pottery, beadwork, metal work, jewelry, photography, textiles and more from local artists!
Enjoy mimosas, hot cocoa, music and a festive atmosphere while you peruse the wonderful offerings. There will also be an art raffle and a bake sale with delicious baked goods from Comstock bakers. Proceeds benefit the Silver City Preservation Society, a 501c3 nonprofit. The event is at the Silver City Schoolhouse (community center) at 385 High Street, Silver City, NV 89428.
Silver City Displays: At the U.S. Post Office in Silver City you'll find a changing display inside of the large glass cabinet on the south wall. Past exhibits have featured the local community garden and gardeners, musicians of Silver City, publications by Silver City locals, artifacts saved from the fire that destroyed the original Schoolhouse in 2004, and many more.
Silver City Reads: Borrow books at the Silver City Volunteer Library (located inside the Silver City Schoolhouse), which is now open on Saturdays from 2:30pm-5pm. You can also take and keep (or exchange) books that you find at the Silver City Little Free Library (located outside the post office) and the bookshelves inside the post office.
Alice Cazenave of London, UK, who was an artist-in-residence in Silver City Oct-Dec. 2022, writes, "As part of my PhD fieldwork, I've been tracing the mobilisation of silver used in analogue photographic industries. This time last year I spent two months living in [Silver City, Nevada.] Across only two decades around the 1870s, these sites extracted nearly 7 million tonnes of silver. The toxic legacy of that extraction is extreme and the site is now a U.S National Priorities Superfund site...Whole mountain sides were honeycombed by corporations searching for silver...My time there was spent making photo-chemistry out of the plants that help restabilise the ground. I also spent time with some of the communities living there today, as well as mining corporations that were active in the region. Every evening I went up to Tommy's to look at the view of the Sierra Nevada. He built his house on a pile of mining tailings. He drank beer and I drank tea and those moments were simple and special. I'm so grateful for those I've met along my journeys following silver." Earlier this year Alice presented some of her research at the Photographic Histories Research Centre, De Montfort University during a conference titled "Photography in Its Environment." She has exhibited some of the work she created during her artist residency in Silver City at exhibitions, including one in Silver City, Nevada ("Desert Treasure") as well as in Birmingham, England ("Beyond Silver"). Alice's website is https://www.alice.cazenave.co.uk/
SILVER PALOOZA: The annual Silver Palooza Music and Art Festival in Silver City is scheduled for July 2024 at the Silver City Park, Schoolhouse and stage.
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