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*CANCELLED* Curbing Food Waste Through Composting

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*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We may attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.

As part of the valley-wide EarthWeek series, join the Blaine County Food Council to learn about current actions and future solutions to increase composting throughout our community. Keynote speaker and sustainability leader Matt Robinson, manager of the Konditorei in Sun Valley, will share the cafe’s journey to becoming the first 3-Star Certified Green Restaurant in the Wood River Valley.

A panel discussion and audience Q&A session with local leaders and entrepreneurs will follow. Panelists include Kaz Thea, Hailey City Council, and Mike Goitendia, Clear Creek Disposal. The panel will be moderated by Grant Loomis, Blaine County Extension Educator.

This program will be LIVE STREAMED and available for later viewing on the Library’s website.

Visit blainecountyfoodcouncil.org/events for more information.

*CANCELLED* Film Screening: “Our Gorongosa”

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*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We will attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.

In collaboration with the Sun Valley Film Festival, The Community Library presents a special screening of Our Gorongosa.

Our Gorongosa is the story of an African park in Mozambique that recognized that to thrive in today’s world, protecting the animals is only half the battle. Gorongosa National Park is working towards empowering communities with a focus on women to lift them out of poverty and achieve their full potential. This is a new vision for conservation in the 21st Century, where people and animals must coexist, to the benefit of them all.

The screening is free and open to the public.

Note special start time of 5:00 p.m.

 

Our Gorongosa Trailer from Gorongosa National Park on Vimeo.

“Lost Children Archive” a conversation with author Valeria Luiselli

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WATCH THE PROGRAM

Join us on December 10, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. for a virtual conversation with award-winning novelist and essayist Valeria Luiselli. Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive, was a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, and has been named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture and Time. Luiselli will be in conversation with the Library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson.

Lost Children Archive re-imagines the classic road trip novel as an urgent examination of the immigration crisis of the U.S. Southern Border. Luiselli’s inventive and compelling novel blends perspectives, literary forms, photographs, news reports and sounds to follow the paths that this unforgettable novel takes to the heart of the most urgent and timely questions of national identity and social justice.

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.

*CANCELLED* Coffee and Conversation about Mozambique with Larissa Sousa

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*THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED* We may attempt to reschedule it for later in 2020.

As a prelude to a Sun Valley Film Festival screening of Our Gorongosa on Friday, the Library hosts Larissa Sousa of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique for a conversation about Mozambique and the national park’s efforts around conservation and sustainable tourism.

Larissa Sousa was born near Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Although she is not from a wealthy family, through hard work she earned a scholarship to attend university in Finland and Germany. She is employed by the Gorongosa Project and led the creation of “Girls’ Club” in primary schools near the Park. Girls’ Club helps keep rural teen girls in school and out of child marriage. Clubs meet every day and the members have a chance to improve their reading and writing, learn about health and human rights, and have some fun. Larissa’s early work experience helps us see the challenges faced by post-conflict nations: she was once employed as a ‘location manager’ for a de-mining company.

Larissa will be in conversation with Matt Jordan, Director of the Sustainable Development Department, and they will be joined by the renowned Mozambican singer Mingas. They will share samples of Gorongosa coffee during their conversation.

“The Wrong Kind of Women” with Naomi McDougall Jones

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This program will be held outdoors on the Library Lawn on 4th Street. Bring your low-back chairs and blankets, and please practice social distancing. Face coverings will be required for the duration of the program. A book signing with Chapter One will follow.

Join us for an evening with former Hemingway Writer-In-Residence, Naomi McDougall Jones, who’ll discuss her new book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood. The new book is a brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film—an industry with massive cultural influence—and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard.

Informed by the journey of her own career; by interviews with others throughout the film industry; and by cold, hard data, Jones deconstructs the casual, commonplace sexism rampant in Hollywood that has kept women out of key roles for decades. She also details the growing women-driven revolution in filmmaking—sparked by streaming services, crumbling distribution models, direct-to-audience access via innovative online platforms, and outside advocacy groups—which has enabled women to build careers outside the traditional studio system.

 

Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer, and women in film activist. She was also a 2019 Hemingway Writer-In-Residence with The Community Library, where she worked on the manuscript for this book and an upcoming feature film. Naomi grew up in Aspen, Colorado and attended Cornell University before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Naomi has been a vocal advocate for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. She has spoken at film festivals and conferences around the world and written extensively on this subject.

She has written, produced and starred in two feature films, Imagine I’m Beautiful (2014), and Bite Me (2019). Both films received rave reviews in screenings across the country and were shown at The Community Library in 2019. She is currently at work on her third feature screenplay, Hammond Castle, a magical realism film that explores themes of identity, legacy and gender through a modern-day seven-month pregnant woman’s unexpected interaction with the brilliant, eccentric and deceased inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. Naomi and a cast of local actors performed a public reading of the draft script during her 2019 residency.

Vote Here!

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The Community Library will be open on Tuesday, March 10 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for presidential primary voting for Ketchum Precincts 3 and 4.

For information about registration, requirements, and ballot options visit: https://www.co.blaine.id.us/196/Elections

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