UNLV’s Department of Film is celebrating the success of two alumni whose work has earned nominations at the 2026 Academy Awards. Berenice Chávez, a 2013 UNLV film graduate, served as editor on Come See Me in the Good Light, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Tamiya Nadine, a 2023 UNLV film graduate, served as assistant art director on The Singers, nominated for Best Live Action Short Film.

The festival, organized in partnership with Women in Film Nevada and the UNLV Department of Film, aims to celebrate and support the fair representation of women in film and provide a platform for historically marginalized voices. The event will feature screenings, panels, mixers, and the annual Femmy Awards.

Back for its 12th year, the Nevada Women’s Film Festival returns to UNLV March 19-22. It includes 72 features, documentaries and shorts, both live-action and animated, directed by and starring a diverse array of inventive women filmmakers.

The festival is in partnership with Women in Film Nevada and the UNLV Department of Film.

The Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum is hosting a musical event featuring UNLV faculty and students. "Ancient Echoes: Baroque and Modern Resonance" is set for Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m.

Designating a space in your home as a screen-free zone can be hugely beneficial. It helps create boundaries, encourages connection and conversation, inspires new hobbies and movement, and can positively impact your sleep quality. If creating a screen-free space in your home sounds impossible, keep reading, and you'll find it's actually not that hard if you start small and help everyone acclimate.

Special VIP Guests Nikki Corda, Founder/Executive Producer of the Nevada Women's Film Festival, and Ashley Rapuano Sanchez, Communications Director. Attend the Nevada Women's Film Festival March 19th-22nd, 2026.

Hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Film, the festival transforms theaters, auditoriums, and classrooms into screening rooms, while hallways and patios turn into lively networking corridors. For four days, campus energy shifts into cinematic celebration, showcasing an unprecedented 72 films from 15 countries—all by and about women. Conversations spark about creative trends, career paths, and what's next for global storytelling. In short: this is where stories and storytellers meet.

Now in its 50th year, UNLV’s dance department is among Southern Nevada’s oldest arts programs. Led by department chair Louis Kavouras, UNLV Dance has performed -- and sent its graduates -- all around the world. On February 27 and 28, it will produce a show called Universal Motions, featuring nine works by seven different choreographers. It will also highlight the work of a cultural icon who has loomed large in UNLV Dance’s curriculum, choreographer and dancer Erick Hawkins.

Though Black History Month is winding down, experts examine why HIV/AIDS rates among Black Nevadans continue to climb disproportionately; how gaming regulations and more locals casinos might be playing into Strip tourism declines; and a look behind the curtain at UNLV Dance, as it marks its 50th anniversary. All that and more on the latest episode of KNPR's State of Nevada.

The project is part of the HUNDRED Plan, an acronym for Historic Urban Neighborhood Design Redevelopment. In 2016, residents worked with graduate students from UNLV to create a vision for what they wanted to see on the Historic Westside.

Black singers historically have not had an easy path to acceptance in opera. It wasn't until 1955 that the Metropolitan Opera featured its first Black singer in a leading role in Marian Anderson. Before that, Black singers had only been featured in supplementary roles or in the chorus on the Met stage. Other legends, like Jessye Norman and Leontyne Price, were among the first Black opera singers to achieve international acclaim, and are also considered trailblazers in this genre, which has taken a long time to embrace Black voices.