A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West
Event Schedule
July 2026
- Thursday 30th 12:00 PM
- Friday 31st 12:00 PM
August 2026
- Saturday 1st 12:00 PM
- Sunday 2nd 12:00 PM
- Tuesday 4th 12:00 PM
- Wednesday 5th 12:00 PM
- Thursday 6th 12:00 PM
- Friday 7th 12:00 PM
- Saturday 8th 12:00 PM
- Sunday 9th 12:00 PM
- Tuesday 11th 12:00 PM
- Wednesday 12th 12:00 PM
- Thursday 13th 12:00 PM
- Friday 14th 12:00 PM
- Saturday 15th 12:00 PM
- Sunday 16th 12:00 PM
- Tuesday 18th 12:00 PM
- Wednesday 19th 12:00 PM
- Thursday 20th 12:00 PM
- Friday 21st 12:00 PM
One of the world’s most famous Black poets, Langston Hughes (1902–1967), is often associated with the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance in New York. But starting in the 1930s, though the upheavals of the Great Depression, World War II, and McCarthyism in America, Hughes spent significant time in the West, where he maintained deep connections and produced important work, including lectures, film scripts, plays, and his first book of short stories. Through recorded interviews, lyrical texts, archival photographs, and historic posters and prints, A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West reveals little-known aspects of Hughes’s work as a champion for justice and the special relationships he cultivated during his many sojourns in California, Nevada, and Mexico.