Panel Discussion at Sci-Fi Center

Panel Discussion
Sci-Fi Center 900 E. Karen Ave.Suite D-202 Las Vegas, NV 89101
Date: 9 September 2010, Thursday 7:00 PM

Please join us for a round table discussion with CAC exhibiting artists and UNLV scholars on Thursday, September 9th.

This dialogue will present and expand on the relationship and overlaps between two consecutive CAC exhibitions that explore ideas particularly relevant to the Las Vegas community. The exhibitions are “America’s #1 Foreclosed City: Las Vegas” by Emily Kennerk (August 3 through September 18, 2010) and the previous installation “Reign of Glass” by Erin Stellmon.

Seating is limited. Registration is recommended but not required. Admission is free and open to the public, donations to the CAC a 501c3 non-profit are always appreciated.

Click here to read Emily Kennerk's interview with CACBlog

Click here to read Erin Stellmon's interview with CACBlog

Sustainable Urbanism Lecture

April 06, 2010 @ 7:30 p.m.

Location: Marjorie Barrick Museum Auditorium

The Copenhagen Protocol: the View from Las Vegas – Problems, Possibilities and Shifting Paradigms in Sustainable Urbanism

Dr. Robert Dorgan Lectures on Sustainable Urbanism

The rapidly growing city of Las Vegas, Nevada, with over 2 million residents, 40 million tourists annually, and an acute desert climate in the upper Mohave, provides one of the most compelling design laboratories in the world. This lecture re-examines well-known strategies of sustainable urbanism in practice today, and explores the unique ways in which these strategies are practiced in the Las Vegas valley. Event is free and open to the public.