MEOW WOLF’S OMEGA MART DANCES INTO TO AUTUMN
WITH LOCAL ART AND COMMUNITY DOINGS
Ever get your toe tapping to a catchy tune? Want to make your voice heard? Feeling colorful? September brings diverse activities in the Las Vegas Valley and our energized, engaged Meow Wolfers are there for it. Join us? Here is your monthly reminder of where Omega Mart is dancing into different art and community settings.
Here’s what’s happening in September…
National Dance Day Community Storytime event with local dancer and author Hanifa Jackson
- Saturday, September 16th from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. inside AREA15’s “The Wall” space
- Jackson, a veteran of Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Hispanico and Alvin Ailey, was a performer in the Lion King on Broadway as well as a lead dancer in Cirque du Soleil’s Mystere.
- She will lead an informal dance workshop and read from her children’s book (available in the adjacent Meow Wolf Gift Shop): Jaxan’s Twinkle Toes “The Big Day.” at this all-ages Community Storytime event.
- Free and open to the public, this fun, family-friendly event hopes to inspire and break down racial barriers in ballet, showing a young black child overcoming her nerves to excel in this art form.
- Meet Jackson and listen as she shares her story and love of dance with the Vegas community.
STEAM Saturdays at the Neon Museum – “Creating with Color”
- Saturday, September 16th from 10:00 a.m. until noon at the Neon Museum
- Life’s a palette… Join us to learn how colors work and how to use them at this colorful event to explore the science and art of color. Participants can learn how to mix colors, create optical illusions, and make their own rainbow. A great chance to brighten a day with creativity!
- Registration is recommended for this fun, family event. Cost is $5 for attendees age 7 and up, children 6 and under are free. Members are FREE. Museums for All guests are FREE with EBT/SNAP/WIC or foster placement letter and valid ID.
- In addition to being a title sponsor of STEAM Saturdays since its inception, Omega Mart volunteers at this monthly event to advocate on behalf of promoting arts and culture in Las Vegas. STEAM Saturdays is a Neon Museum program that offers fun make-and-take activities, hands-on learning, and demonstrations designed to promote creative and critical thinking, and problem solving, promoting a life-long love for the arts and sciences.
National Voter Registration Day with Asian Community Development Council
- Let’s make your voice count…
- Tuesday, September 19th at Ed W. Clark High School
- Get #VoteReady with Meow Wolf
- We’ll be at Clark High School in partnership with the Asian Community Development Council registering eligible individuals to vote!
- Want to join pitch in or learn more about this event? Contact Asian Community Development Council for more information on volunteering or registering to make your vote count.
National Public Lands Day with Get Outdoors Nevada
- Saturday, September 23 from 8:00 a.m. until noon at Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area
- Help us conserve the world’s of Las Vegas’ multiverse in real time together.
- Join the Meow Wolf team on National Public Lands Day and help us maintain Sloan Canyon’s Petroglyph Trail.
- Registered volunteers will receive a meeting spot map and event details a few days before the event.
- While all ages are welcome, minors without an adult guardian present will need to bring a signed waiver. Waivers will be emailed to registrants prior to the event.
- Register here before it closes on September 21st.
Hispanic Heritage Month
- September 15 – October 15
- All employee donations to select organizations across the multiverse will be matched by Meow Wolf in celebration of the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
- Learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month
“This month’s activities, brought to us by Artist Liaison Robin Slonina and Impact Manager Christy Sakamoto, are full of colorful, community and conservation opportunities to contribute and we’re fortunate to be able to reap the benefits of their efforts,” says Omega Mart General Manager Jeff Lund. “As the first themed entertainment certified B Corp, we strive to make art accessible to all, including the communities in which we live and work,” he adds.
About Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf is a Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company that creates immersive, interactive experiences that have transported participants of all ages into fantastic realms of story and exploration. Recognized in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies (2022 and 2020) and USA Today’s Top 10 Best Immersive Art Experiences (2022), Meow Wolf experiences engage millions of curious seekers through discovery and play.
The company’s first exhibition in Santa Fe (2016) is the THEA Award-winning, international sensation, House Of Eternal Return, which reveals a multidimensional mystery house with secret passages, portals to magical worlds, and surreal, mesmerizing art exhibits. Omega Mart, at AREA15 in Las Vegas (2021) is an eye-popping smorgasbord of art in a dreamlike grocery store where other worlds gleam just beyond the frozen aisle. Denver’s Convergence Station (2021) is a maximalist grandiosity of architecture, a quantum transit station that connects to four alien worlds forged together in a post-singularity moment of amnesia. Meow Wolf’s The Real Unreal in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex opened July 2023 with the next location opening in Houston in 2024. Meow Wolf is proud to be the first certified B-Corporation in the themed entertainment industry.
