Capital City Arts Initiative

Monday, March 5, 2012
Writing workshop, 4pm
Reading, 7pm
at the Carson City Library Auditorium
900 N Roop Street, Carson City

The Capital City Arts Initiative’s [CCAI] Books & Writers series invites you to attend a reading and writing workshop Monday, March 5 with Josh Galarza, an award-winning local writer. The free events will take place at the Carson City Library’s Auditorium, 900 N Roop Street, Carson City, Nevada. The writing workshop begins at 4pm followed by the reading at 7pm. The Carson City Library and CCAI co-sponsor the Books & Writers events.

Joe Galarza is a novelist and essayist whose first novel, Corpse, is currently in search of an agent. He is currently working on two other novels: Silence and False Face: The Musical! Galarza was awarded a prestigious Artist Fellowship in Literary Arts from the Nevada Arts Council in 2011.

Galarza is a member of Lone Mountain Writers, a writers’ group based at Western Nevada College, and has shown work in three literary art shows including Always Lost: A Meditation on War, currently touring the United States. Galarza also teaches creative writing at Western Nevada College where he directed Affirmations: A Writer’s Truth, a literary art show that was in WNC’s College Gallery in 2012.

Galarza teaches a primary class at the Minden Montessori School and holds primary and lower-elementary teaching credentials from the North American Montessori Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has also written four curriculum manuals on cultural subjects widely used in Montessori schools. In his free time, he enjoys watching movies and extreme trampoline air drumming, a sport he invented himself.