Community Invited to Attend Creating Pride—A Powerful, Youth-Devised Staged Reading Celebrating LGBTQ+ Identity
Our Center and Brüka Theatre are proud to invite the public to Creating Pride: Transcending Worlds, an original, youth-devised staged theatrical reading that explores themes of identity, self-actualization, and community in today’s complex world. This performance will take place at Brüka Theatre on Monday, June 30 at 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7 PM.
Created through a process known as Devised Theatre or Collective Creation, Creating Pride is an entirely original production developed by high school-aged youth (ages 14–18) from northern Nevada. With no pre-written script, the show was shaped collaboratively through improvisation, storytelling, and lived experience—guided by lead artists Mary Bennett and Stacey Spain trained in arts integration at The Kennedy Center Education Department.
Audiences can expect a heartfelt, courageous, and creative performance that amplifies the voices of LGBTQ+ youth and their allies. Creating Pride is not just a show—it’s a celebration of resilience, truth, and the power of community.
This groundbreaking collaboration is part of Brüka Theatre’s 32nd season, Transcendence, and is supported in part by the Nevada Arts Council and the City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission.
Event Details
What: Creating Pride – Transcending Worlds
When:, June 30, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Where: Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV
Admission: Donation
Ticket Link: https://www.simpletix.com/e/creating-pride-transcending-worlds-tickets-222615
SEATING IS LIMITED - PLEASE RESERVE YOUR TICKET TODAY.
For additional information, please contact Stacey Spain at stacey@ourcenterreno.org or 775-219-2095.
RESERVATIONS are available in person through the Brüka Box Office (775) 323-3221, online at www.bruka.org or at our new Brüka Studio 44 located next door to Brüka on First Street at 44 W. First St. Our box office hours open Thursday through Saturday from 4 - 6 PM and on occasional Wednesdays. We are closed on most holidays.
All Brüka mainstage evening shows begin at 7:30 PM. Matinees begin at 2:00 PM. Doors open 30 minutes before curtain time. There is NO late seating and all ticket sales are final.
PARKING
We suggest convenient parking in the Court Street parking lot across from The Pioneer Theater and walking across the new Virginia Street Bridge to Brüka, FREE after 5:00 PM and all day Saturday and Sundays. We also validate parking at the Parking Gallery on First and Sierra Street. The Downtown Ambassadors are present before and after performances for guidance and safety.
LOCATION Brüka Theatre is located at 99 N. Virginia Street at the corner of First and Virginia Streets in downtown Reno next to the Virginia Street Bridge.
Please arrive between 7:00 PM & 7:30 PM. There is NO late seating and all ticket sales are final.
About Our Center: Our Center provides northern Nevada’s LGBTQ+ community with access to advocacy, support, educational programs, services and resources. Our mission focuses on programming in support of our youth, senior and trans communities. Our Center routinely hosts community organizations for meetings at their 1745 South Wells Avenue Reno facility.
ABOUT BRÜKA THEATRE Brüka Theatre celebrates its 32nd season of live theatre in downtown Reno - Transcendence is the theme for the 2024/2025 season. As an artistic leader in the region, Brüka is recognized for innovative productions, exceptionally talented artists and an acclaimed Theatre for Children touring series since its founding in 1992. Central to Brüka is the commitment to the re-investigation of contemporary and classic plays and developing new plays within Brüka’s Artistic Collective, a group that includes winners of the Nevada Arts Council and Sierra Arts Foundation artist grants and nine local best actor honors. Brüka was named “Best Theatre Company” by Reno News and Review for twenty-one years. Brüka is a non-equity, small, not-for-profit member theater company and is a constituent of the national TCG (Theatre Communications Group). Brüka Theatre has produced hundreds of live shows in our downtown Reno location. Sign up for our newsletter by going to our website at www.bruka.org.