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“The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies” with Megan Griswold

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The Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love, connection and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents — from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil, to academia, the Ivy league, & the study of Eastern medicine.

Join us for a reading and discussion around Megan’s story.

Books will be available for sale and signing, courtesy of Chapter One Bookstore.

 

Megan Griswold holds a Bachelor’s from Columbia University, a Masters in International Relations from Yale and a licentiate from the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture. She has worked as a mountain instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School, an NPR ‘All Things Considered’ commentator and a classical acupuncturist in private practice. She’s a trained doula, Zero Balancer, NIA instructor, NCCAOM acupuncturist, Wilderness First Responder, shiatsu practitioner, NASM personal trainer and has completed advanced yoga teacher trainings with Richard Freeman. She resides in a yurt in Wyoming.

Bald Mountain Forest Decline: What Do We Do? with the National Forest Foundation

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Join us as we discuss the challenges of bark beetle and disease epidemics and specifically the implications for Bald Mountain. This gathering will cover past, ongoing, and potential future efforts to improve forest resilience on and around Bald Mountain.

The National Forest Foundation engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System, and administers private gifts of funds and land for the benefit of the National Forests.

This presentation will be recorded for later viewing on our LIVESTREAM page.

 

 
 

An Evening with Cheryl Strayed

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Join The Community Library and The Sun Valley Center for the Arts at the Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum for evening with Cheryl Strayed, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild. At age 22, Strayed found herself shattered by two major life events: her mother’s sudden death from cancer and the end of her young marriage. After hitting rock bottom, Strayed decided to confront her emotional pain by trekking over 1,000 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed is also the author of The New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things, a collection of her widely popular Dear Sugar columns for TheRumpus.net, and the critically acclaimed novel Torch, a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine and elsewhere. Cheryl Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She is a founding member of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and serves on its board of directors.

Tickets can be purchased through the Sun Valley Center for the Arts ($20/$30 nonmembers) beginning August 29 as a Center member. Beginning September 13 tickets will be available to the general public.

CLICK HERE to visit the Center’s website for ticketing information.

Tickets are available to students and educators for $15 (limit one per educator). 

Part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit, Jan 17–Mar 11, 2020.

This lecture is presented in partnership with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and has been generously supported by an anonymous gift.

 

 

“E.H. and Basque Idahoans: What a Small World!” by Hemingway Research Fellow Iñaki Sagarna

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During his travels through Spain and Idaho, Ernest Hemingway developed friendships with Basque communities wherever he went. 

Iñaki Sagarna, The Community Library’s Center for Regional History 2019 Hemingway Research Fellow, has studied these friendships and history during his ten weeks in fellowship. Sagarna has uncovered new information about Basque history of the Wood River Valley, and he has gathered a compelling story demonstrating Hemingway’s affection for Basque Idahoans.

Join us for this free lecture. A question and answer with Sagarna will follow.

Iñaki Sagarna is a Basque classical Historian and native of Spain. He is currently completing his M.A. in History at Boise State University.

This program will be recorded and ARCHIVED for later viewing on our Live Stream page.

“A Constitutional Odyssey: Securing Passage of the Historic 19th Amendment” with Dr. David Adler

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Join us for a presentation examining the historic fight waged by women since the dawn of the Republic to enjoy constitutional status, access, and the power of voting. Securing the right of women to vote represented one of the greatest story lines in the evolution of American Constitutionalism. A nation that denied the franchise to half of its population mocked democratic values and the principle of equal protection of the law. Dr. Adler’s presentation will explore the ratification of the amendment and emphasize how winning rights in America requires persistence.

David Gray Adler is President of The Alturas Institute, a non-profit organization created to promote the Constitution, gender equality, and civic education.  A recipient of teaching, writing and civic awards, Adler has lectured nationally and internationally, and published widely, on the Constitution, presidential power and the Bill of Rights. He is the author of six books, including, most recently, The War Power in an Age of Terrorism, as well as more than 100 scholarly articles in the leading journals of his field.  He is currently writing a book on the landmark Supreme Court decision in Reed v. Reed, which had its origins in Idaho and transformed the law for American women.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will write a Forward to the book, the research and  writing of which is supported by a Research Fellowship from the Idaho Humanities Council.

Dr. Adler’s presentation will be livestreamed and archived for future viewing.

Screening of “Chihuly Short Cuts” – Short Films

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Join us for an afternoon of short films documenting a decade of Dale Chihuly’s personal odyssey. The films serve as an intimate guide of some of his most well-known projects, including “Chihuly Over Venice” and “Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem,” as well as some of his lesser-known work that will surprise even the most avid followers. From his glass hotshop and others in Finland, Ireland, Mexico, France, Murano and the Hebron, to exhibitions and installations in London, Chicago, and his home state of Washington, Chihuly’s passionate mission to explore and push beyond the boundaries of glass never falters.

The short films are being screened in celebration of the Ulysses Cylinders currently on display in The Community Library’s main foyer. The collection of twenty-two glass cylinders depict scenes from James Joyce’s Ulysses, and were a collaboration between Chihuly and artist Seaver Leslie. The cylinders have been shown only twice before — with their debut in Dublin (2014) and at the Vassar College Library in Poughkeepsie, New York (2015). Special thanks to the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition, which will be on display thru early January.

The short films average 6 minutes in length, and the entire collection (84 minutes) will be screened on a rolling basis over 3 hours. Please drop in to view one, two or many of these incredible short films.

We’ll also have Chihuly-inspired coloring in the back of the Lecture Room for artists of all ages!

Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) has spent his life on the move, seeking out innovation and inspiration. A native of Tacoma, Washington, Chihuly was first introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in
the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. 

In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to work at the Venini glass factory in Venice. There he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in more than 200 museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and twelve honorary doctorates. 

Chihuly has created more than a dozen well-known series of works, among them, Cylinders and Baskets in the 1970s; Seaforms, Macchia, Persians, and Venetians in the 1980s; Niijima Floats and Chandeliers in the 1990s; and Fiori in the 2000s. He is also celebrated for large architectural installations. In 1986, he was honored with a solo exhibition, Dale Chihuly objets de verre, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, in Paris. In 1995, he began Chihuly Over Venice, for which he created sculptures at glass factories in Finland, Ireland, and Mexico, then installed them over the canals and piazzas of Venice. In 1999, Chihuly started an ambitious exhibition, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem; more than 1 million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations. In 2001, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated the exhibition Chihuly at the V&A. Chihuly’s lifelong fascination for glasshouses has grown into a series of exhibitions within botanical settings. The Garden Cycle began in 2001 at the Garfield Park Conservatory, in Chicago, and continued at several locations, among them the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London, in 2005, and the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, in 2006 and again in 2017. Meanwhile, Chihuly has exhibited at other venues as well, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, in 2008; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2011; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, in 2012; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 2013; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, in 2016; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2017. In addition, Chihuly Garden and Glass, a major long-term exhibition, opened at Seattle Center in 2012.

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