Friday party, Saturday festival
Reno Gay Pride
www.facebook.com/RenoPride
August 15, 2015, 11am-6pm. The 19th annual festival gets bigger every year at Wingfield Park by the Truckee River with thousands of visitors, families, & friends of Northern Nevada gay community; entertainment, comedy, vendors, food and beer garden.
Community, art, self-expression, & self-reliance
Burning Man 2015
burningman.com
August 31 - September 7, 2015. Annual Labor Day gathering. "Black Rock City is a kind of Petri dish... camps cling in fertile clusters to its latticework of streets, artworks tumble out of it, like pollen on the air... mutate, grow & reproduce their kind." See website for 2015 art theme and media for previous years.