Upcoming Featured Events

(Panel de jóvenes líderes latinos)

Friday, October 13, 2023
5:00pm – 6:00pm
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall

As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and in partnership with ProjecTooluccess and the Crisis Hotline, The Community Library will host the 3rd annual panel discussion celebrating and hearing from young Latino leaders in our community. Panelists to be announced.

The conversation will highlight the incredible work of high school students, recent graduates, and other young leaders, inviting them to share with us their visions for the Wood River Valley. The event will be livestreamed and recorded for later viewing.

More/register here.

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Como parte del Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana, y en asociación con ProjecToolSuccess y Crisis Hotline, The Community Library será la anfitriona de la tercera mesa redonda anual que celebra y escucha a los jóvenes líderes latinos de nuestra comunidad. Los panelistas serán anunciados.

La conversación destacará el increíble trabajo de los estudiantes de secundaria, recién graduados y otros jóvenes líderes, invitándolos a compartir con nosotros sus visiones para el valle de Wood River. El evento será transmitido en vivo y grabado para su posterior visualización. Próximo enlace.

with Doug Chadwick

Thursday, October 12, 2023
5:30pm – 6:30pm
ohn A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall

Veteran environmental writer Douglas Chadwick will present ideas from his most recent book Four-Fifths A Grizzly:  A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All.  He will explore the amazing interconnectedness of nature, advocating that the path toward conservation begins with how we see our place in the world. In the book Chadwick explores how our genetic identity and similarity with every other species challenges us to consider whether we are separate from or part of nature. Answering the question of how we can change this era’s trajectory, Chadwick presents examples of successful recoveries of species and habitats, with the thought that “we really can save a whole lot in a hurry.”

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Doug will be introduced by Ryan Lutey from The Vital Ground Foundation, a land trust working to protect and connect wildlife habitat in the West. Vital Ground offers a model for large landscape connectivity and letting a single species – grizzly bears – guide us to conserving biodiversity.

Doug Chadwick is an American wildlife biologist, author, photographer and frequent National Geographic contributor. He is the author of fourteen books and more than 200 articles on wildlife and wild places. Chadwick is a past officer and current member of the board of The Vital Ground Foundation, and chairman of that organization’s Lands Committee, responsible for choosing acquisition properties as part of Vital Ground’s One Landscape wildlife corridor system. He is also a director of the Gobi Bear Fund, part of the Gobi Bear Initiative, which attempts to restore the world’s least known and most endangered population of grizzly bears. Since 2013 he has served on the advisory board of the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation, a New York-based non-profit that supports wildlife research and collaborative, community-based conservation projects around the world.

Chadwick graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle, with a B.S. in Zoology. He then earned an M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana, Missoula. After graduating, he worked as a research wildlife biologist studying mountain goats and grizzly bears in northwestern Montana. 

Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Obie Award winner Rajiv Joseph will be in conversation with Martha Williams, The Community Library’s Programs and Education Director.

Monday, October 9, 2023
5:00pm – 6:00pm
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall

Joseph is the third annual Sun Valley Playwright’s Resident, a residency that fosters new relationships between theatremakers and Idaho’s Wood River Valley community and offers creative support to foster a new project over the course of a year. The residency is hosted at The Community Library’s historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House, and programs are presented in partnership with SVPR, the Library, and The Argyros Performing Arts Center.

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During his residency, a reading of Joseph’s 2009 play Gruesome Playground Injuries will be read at The Argyros on October 14, 2023. Learn more here.

Rajiv Joseph’s play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama and also awarded a grant for Outstanding New American Play by the National Endowment for the Arts. He has twice won the Obie Award for Best New American Play, first in 2016 with Guards at the Taj( also a 2016 Lortel Winner for Best Play) and then in 2018 with Describe the Night.  Other plays include King James, Letters of Suresh, Archduke, The North Pool, Gruesome Playground Injuries and Animals Out of Paper.  He wrote the book and co-wrote lyrics for the musical Fly, based on Peter Pan, and he wrote the libretto for the opera Shalimar the Clown, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie.  He has written for TV and film and has been awarded artistic grants from the Whiting Foundation, United States Artists and the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.  He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023  
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Library Programs Studio

December’s pick for The Community Library Book Club is Living Untethered by Michael A. Singer. The discussion will be led by communications manager Kyla Merwin.

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A New York Times bestseller, this transformative and highly anticipated guide will be your compass on an exciting new journey toward self-realization and unconditional happiness. The luminary author of The Untethered Soul takes us even deeper into the quest for inner peace and an energetic flow. Living Untethered offers powerful, practical guidance to understand and transform ourselves, our relationships, and our lives.

Please come in or talk to our librarians about reserving a copy to read. 

The Community Library Book Club is hosted the first Wednesday of every other month and led by a diverse range of library staff. Books cover all genres from new fiction to classics to nonfiction, young adult, graphic novels, and everything in between.

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with Idaho Ranchers & Friends 

Friday, October 6, 2023
2:30pm – 4:00pm
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall

Hear stories and ask questions of Idaho ranchers and learn what it is really like to be an Idaho rancher. Panelists include Cindy Siddoway, Cory Peavey, Henry Etcheverry, and Darby Northcott. The panel will be moderated by Mike Guerry.

This event is open to all, no registration required. The conversation will be livestreamed and recorded. Presented in partnership with the Trailing of the Sheep Festival.

More here.

What Working Landscapes Bring to the Table 

Tuesday, October 3, 2023
5:30pm – 7:00pm
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall

This panel conversation, in partnership with the Western Landowners Alliance and the Trailing of the Sheep Festival, will focus on the importance of both private and public lands, the critical role of agriculture in conservation, and obstacles that landowners face in stewarding these landscapes. The panel will also touch on the idea of stewardship beyond boundaries: the need for all of us—landowners, sportsmen, recreationalists, ranchers, urban residents—to look beyond the boundaries of our land or immediate self-interests.

Panelists will include Lesli Allison, the CEO of the Western Landowners Alliance, Cameron Westcamp, the Operations Manager for Rinker Rock Creek Ranch, and a local producer. The discussion will be moderated by Eric Winford, Associate Director of the University of Idaho Rangeland Center.

This program will be livestreamed and available to view later online. 

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