The Guide

Niloufar Talebi’s new book is a bilingual edition of Ahmad Shamlou, one of Iran’s most influential twentieth-century poets. It showcases her skill and dedication as a translator and cultural worker. In Elegies of the Earth, published to mark the poet’s centennial, Talebi brings Shamlou’s revolutionary voice of resistance and modernity to English readers.

Join Maryam Ala Amjadi, Iranian poet, scholar, and City of Asylum Fellow, for a conversation with Talebi on Shamlou’s enduring legacy, the power of poetry as witness, and the craft of translation.

Free. More info at Get Tickets.

On a winter night in 1959, the music stopped – but the story didn’t.

Join author and historian Tommy Canale for a one-night presentation that goes beyond the legends of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and the history-making 1959 Winter Dance Party.

This is an immersive evening about memory, myth, and the legacy that still echoes more than 65 years later. Explore the puzzling research, hidden records, and overlooked moments that shaped rock ’n’ roll’s most tragic event — and forever changed the course of American music.

It's an evening of connection and reflection. Hear from five powerful women as they share the pivotal moments, challenges and triumphs that shaped their paths. Don’t just read history: hear it from the women living it.

Free, but more info at Get Tickets.

The short play festival is back! This year’s theme “The Worker” is a contemporary and immediate snapshot of the American workforce—a compelling and fascinating look at work, jobs, and the people who do them.

Join NCT for six world premiere short plays written for Las Vegas by some of the most thrilling voices in American theatre. Shorts is made possible by the David and Stephanie Vondrak Short Play Festival Fund.

This is an exhibition of photo-based artwork that creates new forms from cast-off photographic materials as it explores widely ranging topics. Illinois-based artist Shawn Michelle Smith's work as an artist, scholar, writer, and educator is focused on photography: what it is, what it means, and what it does.

She is interested in the materiality of photographs and photographic technologies as well as their social functions. She says: “My artwork is photo-based and ranges widely from the personal to the more broadly cultural. It is informed by my work as a writer, scholar, and educator, and explores questions about the nature of photography and its social function. I often begin with already existing photographs, and over the past few years, I have been using cast-off color snapshots as raw material to make new images.”

March 13 through April 25
North Las Vegas Campus - Artspace Gallery

Ride with High Fives is a special celebration of adaptive winter sports. The event is part of Lee Canyon's Feel Good Fridays fundraiser, taking place every Friday through the end of the winter season. You can support a great cause by hitting the slopes, with $5 from every Friday lift ticket benefiting the High Fives Foundation, a nonprofit supporting athletes with life-changing injuries through adaptive sports programs and community empowerment.

High Fives founder Roy Tuscany, local sit-skier Shelby Estocado and a team of adaptive athletes will be on-site to celebrate the power of inclusion in winter sports. The event also coincides with the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games happening in Cortina, Italy.

It's the 58th annual Southern Nevada Sons and Daughters of Erin St. Patrick's Day Festival, the 21st year in Henderson. The carnival and festival kick off on Friday. They continue on Saturday after the parade, and on Sunday, with a classic car show thrown in. Food, vendors, children's activities, music, and more.

Free, with more info at Get Tickets. Check their website for times.

The College of Southern Nevada Dance Program is proud to present the CSN Student Dance Concert 2026, a showcase of original works that serves as the final capstone project for the program’s graduating seniors. It will feature a wide range of dance styles.

The 75-minute production is built from the ground up by the students themselves. The program has Senior Dance Certificate of Achievement majors with navigating the entire lifecycle of a professional production — from business management and marketing to choreography and technical production. This immersive experience is designed to prepare students for the rigors of life as working artists, choreographers, and producers.

Also at 2:00 on Saturday.

The short play festival is back! This year’s theme “The Worker” is a contemporary and immediate snapshot of the American workforce—a compelling and fascinating look at work, jobs, and the people who do them.

Join NCT for six world premiere short plays written for Las Vegas by some of the most thrilling voices in American theatre. Shorts is made possible by the David and Stephanie Vondrak Short Play Festival Fund.

In this classic Baroque opera, the enchantress Alcina lures men to her magical island. There, she turns them into animals or objects when she grows bored with them. But when she captures a dashing knight, his fiancée follows him to the island, disguised as a man. She hopes to free him with the help of a magic ring, but then Alcina’s sister falls in love with her.....

Music by George Frideric Handel.