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The Community Library Story Time presents: Spanish Story Time. Cándida Miniño reads stories in Spanish. This is an evening event (5:30 pm) for kids and families, with a fun craft to follow! It is held in the Treehouse in the Children’s Library on alternate Wednesdays. See our event calendar for details.
No unattended children please.
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Hemingway Writer-In-Residence Karima Walker leads a workshop in Deep Listening, a helpful tool for those who want to broaden their sensory and cognitive range. In this workshop we will be collectively sounding and listening, communicating and moving alongside each other and the environment around us. Come ready for gentle movement and with a yoga mat or blanket.
Deep Listening is a meditative and musical compositional practice developed by the late contemporary composer Pauline Oliveros, utilizing listening, moving and dreaming to expand one’s awareness of the wider environment, as well as one’s own inner and bodily world. Deep Listening can be a helpful tool for just about anyone, but especially artists and creative folks who want to broaden their sensory and cognitive range in approaching their creative work. In this workshop we will be collectively sounding and listening, communicating and moving alongside each other and the environment around us.
No registration required.
The group will meet in the Library’s Lecture Hall, but may also spend time outdoors on the 4th Street Lawn (weather permitting).
This event is sponsored in part by the Deep Listening® Institute.
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For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
Hemingway Writer-In-Resident Francisco Cantú joins us to discuss his book, The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From the Border, which was named a Top 10 Book of 2018 by NPR and The Washington Post, was winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Award.
Two special guests will also join Cantú to discuss their organizations’ work in our community. Alejandra Hernandez is Executive Director at Unity Alliance of Southern Idaho, a Twin Falls-based nonprofit that promotes understanding of the value of all immigrants and their contributions to the region’s competitive economy, workforce, and communities. Luis Campos is an attorney with The Alliance of Idaho, a Wood River Valley-based nonprofit working to protect the human rights of immigrants and their families and building safe, just, and welcoming communities for all. Campos represents clients across the U.S. and globally in all areas of U.S. immigration law, international human rights law, and related compliance law for organizations working with foreign nationals and/or in foreign jurisdictions.
A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow. This program will be livestreamed and available to view later on Vimeo. Click here to watch online.
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Hemingway Writer-In-Residence John Maclean will share and discuss a new piece he’s writing for a book of essays celebrating the centennial of Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Big Two-Hearted River.” The collection will be published in 2023—the centennial of the first notes for the short story-—by the University Press of Kentucky.
Maclean’s personal essay traces the importance of the Hemingway short story in the lives and writing of John and his late father Norman Maclean, but it also surveys the publishing and critical history of the story. Join us as John shares this new essay and invites your questions and feedback on this soon-to-be-published piece.
This event will be livestreamed and available to view later. Click here to watch online. A book signing with Chapter One will follow.
John Maclean is an award-winning author and journalist. He spent thirty year at the Chicago Tribune, most of that time as a Washington correspondent. He is the author of six books, most recently Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River. He has also written five nonfiction books about wildland fires—Fire on the Mountain, Fire and Ashes, The Thirtymile Fire, The Esperanza Fire, and River of Fire—that are considered a staple of fire literature as well as training material for firefighters. An avid fly-fisherman, Maclean divides his time between his residence in Washington, D.C. and the Maclean family cabin in Montana.
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Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library.
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In partnership with Men’s Second Chance Living, The Community Library welcomes Erica Spiegelman, author and addiction and wellness specialist.
During this presentation, Erica Spiegelman will provide an overview of the four cornerstones of self care: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and will explore how they are intricately connected to recovery from addiction.
Centered around the principles of Rewired, Erica’s bestselling book on addiction and recovery, this event provides attendees with a rich opportunity to connect with Erica, learn adaptive coping habits, identify triggers and challenges, and discover new pathways for personal growth.
Erica Spiegelman is a wellness specialist, recovery counselor, podcast host, wellness media contributor, and author of the book The Rewired Life Workbook (2019), The Rewired Life (2018) as well as Rewired: A Bold New Approach to Addiction & Recovery (2015), the Rewired Workbook (2017), the Rewired Coloring Book (2017), all published by Hatherleigh Press.In 2022, Hatherleigh Press will publish Erica’s book of recovery-focused affirmations designed to provide a framework for developing positive self-talk habits. Erica holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Arizona and is a California State Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor (CADAC)-II from UCLA.
A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow. The presentation will be livestreamed on the Library’s Vimeo, and a recording will be available for 24 hours after the event ends. Watch online here.
