The Brewery Arts Center is heading into fall with a lineup of films, theater productions, live music, art classes and community events running through October, including the return of the Carson Creepy Short Horror Film Competition.
Editor’s Note: Updated at 3:45 p.m. to include new information about the Vendor Fair during Mark Twain Days.
Movies & Film
Carson Creepy will culminate with three public screenings Oct. 9-10 at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall. Participating teams received a prop, sound effect and line of dialogue Sept. 16 and were given two weeks to write, shoot and edit an original five- to nine-minute horror film. Films are due Sept. 30, with screenings scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 9 and 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 10.
The competition draws Northern Nevada filmmakers with a range of experience, including newcomers and returning teams. The event dates to 2014, when the first Carson Creepy Film Festival challenged Carson City-area filmmakers to complete a short film in one week. The format has since expanded to a two-week production period, with filmmakers working from the same required prompts.
The center’s film schedule begins Thursday, Sept. 24, with a 7 p.m. screening of the 1985 film “Back to the Future” in the BAC Performance Hall.
The Lake Tahoe Documentary Film Festival’s “Best of Fest” follows at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25.
Film programming continues Sunday, Sept. 27, with a 2 p.m. screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent thriller “The Lodger.”
Mark Twain Days & Live Performances
The fall calendar also includes several events tied to Mark Twain Days, scheduled for Oct. 13-17 in Carson City. Programs include literary events, family activities, live entertainment and community gatherings.
Among the events is the Picon Punch Off, scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14. Nevada bartenders and establishments are invited to compete in a People’s Choice cocktail contest, with a $500 prize for the winner. There is no entry fee.
A Vendor Fair is planned from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, on Curry St. (from 2nd St. to 4th St.) as part of the Mark Twain Days Literary Festival. The event will include live music and poets in McFadden Plaza, vendors, family activities, and a pop-up shop by Desert Winds Rare & Exotic Books inside of Bub’s Bookstore.
The center’s theater schedule will feature Proscenium Players Inc.’s production of “Prescription: Murder” from Oct. 2-11 at the Maizie Blackbox Theatre. Written by William Link and Richard L. Levinson, the stage mystery introduced audiences to Lt. Columbo before the character became the focus of the television series “Columbo.”
Later in the month, Eric Bogosian’s “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” will be staged Oct. 23 and 24 at the Maizie Blackbox Theatre. The production consists of nine monologues examining themes including wealth, fame, consumerism, greed and power and is intended for mature audiences.
Live music also is part of the fall schedule. The Sugar Thieves will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 in the BAC Performance Hall. Harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh and guitarist Chris Newman are scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 22. The duo has performed internationally since appearing together at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1987.
Visual Arts
Visual arts programs continue throughout the season, including weekly adult paint-and-sip sessions, beginning art classes for adults and children and a monthly portrait and figurative drawing open studio. A sea glass jewelry class is scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 14, and a free clay frog sculpting activity inspired by Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is planned for Oct. 17.
The Brewery Arts Center’s Exhibition Hall also is featuring a rotating selection of work by several artists, while the Nevada Artists Association Gallery is showing “A Brush with Adventure,” featuring 156 entries from 42 local artists. The exhibition is scheduled to remain on display through Oct. 23.
The Brewery Arts Center is at 449 W. King St. in Carson City. Ticketing, registration and additional event information are available through their website.
