Culture festival comes to Las Vegas

  • 2020-03-05
The fourth annual Believer Festival will be held in Las Vegas beginning the end of next month.

The name of the festival comes from “The Believer,” a culture and literary journal published by Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute (BMI) at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) and honors the visual arts, comedy, film , music, and writing. Joshua Wolf Shenk, executive and artistic director of the BMI, said that this is roving celebration of music, art, and literature.

Authors Marie-Helene Bertino and Poet Kaveh Akbar and essayist Kristen Arnett are scheduled to participate in the event. Others who will be at the festival include Maile Chapman, an English professor at UNLV; Damián Ortega, sculptor; Stephanie Dinkins, transmedia artist; and T.R. Witcher, a writer from Las Vegas.

Among those providing entertainment are Y La Bamba, a folk pop band; entertainer Jean Grae; and Chase R. McCurdy and Salome Asega who will be contributing original work to the festival. There will also be local dancers at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area performing in an original, site-specific piece choreographed by Annie-B Parson, co-founder of the Big Dance Theater in Brooklyn.

Print shops can be hired to create schedules of all such performances and their locations.

The festival runs for four days, beginning the evening of Wednesday April 29 through Saturday May 2 at sites in and around Las Vegas.
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