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“The Gender Revolution” with Darrel Harris and Monica Reyna

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Trans? Cis? Bisexual? Zir? LGBTQ? Are you confused? You are not alone. Expressions of gender that go beyond masculine and feminine are nothing new, but they are increasingly moving from the margins to the mainstream. Join Darrel Harris and Monica Reyna of The Advocates for a community conversation on the evolving language and current culture around The Gender Revolution. They will share ideas on how to create a compassionate and inclusive community.

This program will be Livestreamed tonight and archived on our website. 

Darrel Harris currently serves as the Social Change Director for The Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Hailey, Idaho. Darrel has devoted her career to ending violence and abuse. She is committed to the idea that violence prevention is a human issue and that education is the key to creating the cultural shift needed to ensure safe communities for everyone. She is a National Writing Project Fellow and holds a BA in English and Secondary Education and a minor in Women’s Studies.

Monica Reyna serves as the Violence Prevention Educator at The Advocates. She believes that everyone has a role in ending violence in their communities, and that when we work together we have the power to change our culture and world. Monica has an MA in Sociology, with a focus on Applied and Public Sociology.

How Birds Can Save the World with John W. Fitzpatrick

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Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, John W. Fitzpatrick, will emphasize the role of birds and citizen science in understanding how humans and natural systems can begin coexisting more stably than we do today. He will show some very new and remarkable data about bird populations, gleaned from some unexpected sources. This talk is geared toward very general audiences of all ages, and is accessible even to individuals with only passing interest in nature.

At Cornell, Fitzpatrick has led the dramatic growth of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology into a world-renowned center for ornithology and conservation biology. With his colleagues, he pioneered the development of citizen science, most recently including eBird, an internet-based platform that has become the world’s largest citizen-science project and a revolutionary, global standard for ecological monitoring.

America in Transformation with David Domke

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Join David Domke, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication at the University of Washington and Director of Voter Fieldwork and Education for Common Purpose, an organization focused on voter mobilization and community building, for a discussion and conversation. The United States is in a time of tectonic social change, comparable in transformation and turmoil to some of the most defining eras in the nation’s history. At the heart of this moment are shifting racial, technological, and political patterns in America’s electorate. The impact and implications are omnipresent, from the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump on the political right to #blacklivesmatter and The Resistance on the political left. The civic choices that we make today and in months to come will define – and likely determine — this nation’s future. For all of us, we can not stand on the sidelines; it is essential that we engage. 

This program will be Livestreamed tonight and archived on our website. 

David worked as a journalist for several newspapers in the 1980s and early 1990s before earning a Phd. in 1996. He is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, and for the past decade he has served as Department Chair. His research has focused on communication, politics, and public opinion in the United States, and in recent years Domke has worked closely with several organizations on communication and engagement in the public arena. He is committed to inter-racial and inter-generational community building, and was one of a group of community members who created civil rights pilgrimages to the US South in 2014; that work is now led and organized by non-profit Project Pilgrimage. In 2002 he received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching. In 2006, he was named the Washington state Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2008 he was selected as the favorite professor of the UW graduating class. In 2018 he worked with an incredible team to launch Common Purpose, and he now serves as its Education Director.

 

The Yellowstone Wolf Story – From Reintroduction to the Present with Doug Smith

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July 17, 2019

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Living with Wolves brings Douglas W. Smith, Senior Wildlife Biologist with Yellowstone National Park, to tell the entire Yellowstone wolf story from reintroduction to the present. This recovery effort has been one of the highest profile wildlife conservation projects in the world and is now considered one of the most visible wolf populations and programs in the world. Told on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the reintroduction, he will talk about how wolves were reintroduced, how they have impacted elk and bison, the ecosystem, and how the human controversy continues to be the wolf’s biggest challenge.

Doug Smith supervises the wolf, bird and elk programs in Yellowstone National Park. His original job which he helped establish, was the Project Leader for the Yellowstone Wolf Project which involved the reintroduction and restoration of wolves to Yellowstone.

Doug received a B.S. degree in Wildlife Biology from the University of Idaho in 1985. While working toward this degree he became involved with studies of wolves and moose on Isle Royale with Rolf Peterson, which led to long-term involvement (1979-1994) with this study as well as a M.S. degree in Biology at Michigan Technological University in 1988.  He then moved to the University of Nevada, Reno where he received his PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology in 1997 under Stephen H. Jenkins.

He has published a wide variety of journal articles and book chapters on beavers, wolves, and birds and co-authored three popular books on wolves (The Wolves of Yellowstone & Decade of the Wolf which won the 2005 Montana book award for best book published in Montana) as well as publishing numerous popular articles. His third book, Wolves on the Hunt, came out in May 2016 and his fourth book summarizing wolf restoration in Yellowstone is due out in a year. He has participated in numerous documentaries about wolves for National Geographic and British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and was recently featured on CBS 60 Minutes. He has done more than 2000 media interviews and speaks often about wolves to audiences all over the world and recently gave a TEDx talk on wolves. He is a member of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Team, the Re-Introduction Specialist Group, and Canid Specialist Group for the IUCN. Besides wolves, birds, elk, and beavers, he is an avid canoeist preferring to travel mostly in the remote regions of northern Canada with his wife Christine and their two sons Sawyer and Hawken.

Resolving Wildlife Conflicts in the Sawtooth Valley with Kit Fischer, Senior Program Manager, National Wildlife Federation

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As the human footprint expands, wildlife is being forced to find new habitat, new migratory routes, and new ways to survive in an ever-shrinking world. They are also threatened by livestock and the disease they carry. In the Sawtooth Valley, herds of wild bighorns have been decimated as they move between summer and winter ranges across the western U.S. 

The National Wildlife Federation’s Adopt-A-Wildlife Acre program provides a future to the wildlife in the West by addressing the conflicts between livestock and wildlife with a voluntary, market-based approach. We offer ranchers a fair price in exchange for their agreement to retire their public land grazing leases, an approach that can very quickly have a significant conservation impact and eliminate conflict. Using our funds, ranchers often simply relocate their livestock to areas without conflict. In turn, wildlife has secure habitat – a proven win-win situation!

Through this program, more than 1.2 million acres of vital habitat for wildlife has been secured, including connected landscapes in the Sawtooth Valley.

Kit Fischer is the Senior Program Manager for National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife Conflict Resolution Program, based in Missoula, MT.  This program has been extremely successful over the past 15 years, eliminating conflicts on over 1.3 million acres of public lands in the west and protecting grizzly bears, wolves, bighorn sheep and even trout and salmon.  In addition to Kit’s work with NWF over the past decade, he is the author of “Paddling Montana.”

Matthew Barney: “Redoubt” – Film Screening and On-Stage Conversation

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July 28, 2019

Matthew Barney’s new film, Redoubt, invokes the myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt, in the winter landscape of central Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. As she pursues a wolf through snow in burned forest, she herself is tracked by an Engraver who documents and also interrupts her hunt. The 134-minute film invites contemplation of the relationship between humans and the natural world and also the artistic process. It contains no dialogue; the characters communicate through choreography, and their encounters with wildlife are balletic, as they move through terrain from the Salmon River to the American Legion Hall in Challis to mountain crests high in the Sawtooths. The film is the central piece of Matthew Barney’s current major exhibition which includes copper plate engravings and sculptures from burned trees from the Sawtooths. The exhibition premiered at Barney’s alma mater in the Yale University Art Gallery, and it travels next to Beijing and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. 

This screening of Redoubt is an exceptional opportunity to view the film in the central Idaho context in which it was created, and to hear directly from Barney about the film and its themes. Immediately after the screening, Barney will have an on-stage conversation with Pam Franks, the class of 1956 Director of the Williams College Museum of Art, who curated the exhibit. 

Matthew Barney is an internationally-acclaimed artist who grew up in Boise. His previous major exhibitions include The CREMASTER Cycle and River of Fundament, and his work has been featured at the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London, Haus de Kunst in Munich, and many other prominent international museums and galleries. 

This event is from 2:00 – 6:00 pm at the Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum. Admission is FREE but advance reservations are requested through The Community Library.

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