Nevada County Art, Culture & Media Digest

The public is invited to an open house hosted by Bright Futures for Youth on October 22 to hear more about recent milestones including the one-year anniversary of the NEO Youth Center.

The third annual Latino Family Festival will be held in Condon Park in Grass Valley on September 12, hosted by PARTNERS Family Resources and the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools .

A roundup of Nevada City news, including an upcoming car show, plans for homeless camp clearing, and an upgrade to a middle school sports field.

A look at the 2024 Nevada County Fair at the fairgrounds in Grass Valley.

The 28th annual Jerry Bash is returning to the Miners Foundry Cultural Center in Nevada City on August 3, celebrating the life and music of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia.

This year the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is presents The Merry Wives of Windsor along with the musical Always…Patsy Cline through August 26.

The North Columbia Schoolhouse will be the location of the annual Sierra Storytelling Festival this June 28 and 29.

The weekly Art Walk returns to downtown Nevada City every Friday from 6-9PM through August.

Featuring locally grown fresh produce and food and craft vendors, the downtown Grass Valley Open Market is running through June, Thursday nights from 6-9PM.

More than half of the U.S. House supports a bill to extend the funds, but it can’t get out of committee.

The Nevada County Arts Council announced publication of a new guide to local artists and cultural heritage.

The San Juan Ridge Community Library has requested a funding commitment from the Nevada County Board of Supervisors.

A photo contest promoting dark sky lighting has been launched by the Nevada County Arts Council, Nevada County, the City of Nevada City and the City of Grass Valley.

The 3rd annual Nevada City Earth Fest Street Fair will is taking place downtown on Sunday, April 21 from 11AM - 5PM.

Leaders from YubaNet, KNCO and The Union will discuss the future of local media and other topics at the Nevada County Community Forum on Friday, April 19th 10:30 - 11:30AM.

I thought my journalism and others’ could change policy, perhaps even inspire a New Deal-style response equal to the challenge. Such was my naiveté.

It quickly became clear that Elon Musk’s SpaceX was responsible for the show. The lights were a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 new Starlink satellites into orbit. The rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:30 p.m., and it’s trail was visible from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree National Park.

The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.

The Story of Land, Water, and People, will be the 6th exhibit showing at ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan Arts and Culture in downtown Nevada City.

The Nevada County Library announced a new searchable online database of digitized photographs from the collection of the Doris Foley Library for Historical Research in downtown Nevada City.

Following an evening of recitation from high school students at the Eric Rood Center, the Nevada County Arts Council revealed the winners of its 2024 Poetry Out Loud County Championships.

The Center for the Arts is thrilled to present “Penntucky Country Music Series” at Penn Valley Rodeo Grounds, featuring Lonestar on July 20 and the Sawyer Brown on Sept. 8.

After five years as general manager at KVMR, Ali Lightfoot is returning to Colorado to be with family. “I will miss this incredibly dedicated and passionate group of staff and volunteers and this beautiful spot we live in,” Lightfoot said.

Journalism and democracy are undeniably intertwined. As the late media critic James Carey put it, “No journalism, no democracy; but, equally, no democracy, no journalism.”

UC Merced will be highlighted on an Amazon Prime show that showcases universities around the world.

The Grateful Dead have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums to chart on the Billboard 200.

She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public’s imagination for decades. No, not Taylor Swift; Ellen Beach Yaw, also known as Lark Ellen.

Nevada County Arts Council has announced the hiring of Heather Heckler as Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District’s program manager, a new position at the heart of one of the state’s coveted California cultural districts.

James Dean’s last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell’s Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn’t the draw it once was.

A shrink-wrapped Endeavour was hoisted and then carefully placed in its final location at the still-under-construction Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

What do local authors, jewelry makers, actors, musicians, directors, dancers, photographers, filmmakers, sculptors, painters, and designers have in common? The Nevada County Arts Council is supporting them.

The proposal aims to help working artists become arts teachers in elementary schools.