Main Library

In partnership with Treasure Valley Hospice and Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley. 

About the film:

Filmed by high school students, The Teal Chair intertwines a thread of insights in what makes us uniquely human. People from all walks of life and generations, ranging in ages 102 to eight, reflect how limited time would affect the importance of living today. If you knew you had limited time.. what would you do?

* Nominated for the 2018 Sun Valley Film Festival- Future Filmmakers Forum film.
* Best Documentary- 2018 Twin Fall Film Kiwanis Club- Film Contest

A discussion will follow the screening. 

 

Robin DiAngelo is an American academic, lecturer, and author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies. She is known for her work pertaining to white fragility, a term which she coined in 2011.

Two community presentations:

September 12, 6:30 – 8 p.m., Sun Valley Community School, Sun Valley

September 13, 6:30 – 8 p.m., Community Campus, Hailey

Racial Relations Workshop:

September 13, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., The Community Library, Ketchum

“My race-relations sessions take an anti-racist approach. An anti-racist approach includes: acknowledging and challenging the historic and current power differentials between people of color and white people, addressing the patterns that develop due to the dynamics of internalized racism and internalized dominance, building processes and norms that are designed to be vigilant about these patterns. I make sure to: (1) set a constructive climate for learning through role-modeling and use of self, (2) take into account the groups’ diversity and how that diversity impacts the group’s dynamics, (3) balance the intellectual with the emotional components of learning, and (4) make learning resources available. In addition to content knowledge, my expertise is in presenting information that is difficult or emotionally charged clearly and accessibly. My primary goal is always to deepen skills and relationships among team members and between social groups.” (https://robindiangelo.com/)

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This series is brought to you by a coalition of local nonprofits and educators: The Advocates, The Hunger Coalition, Nosotros United, The Community Library, The Community School, CSI Nonprofit Education Initiative, and Blaine County Education Foundation.

In partnership with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. The screening coincides with the Symphony’s Mozart Forever! series. 

Amadeus: “The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporary composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.”

The film runs 2 hours and 40 minutes. Please note the 5 p.m. start time. 

Local author Kerrin McCall reads from and discusses her new book, Confluence. 

About the book:

“In the shifting seasons we witness a changing Earth,” Kerrin McCall tells us. Chronicling the flow of one month into another for the passage of a year in the Idaho Mountains she relates observations and perceptions of mountain ecology as relative markers of change. Ranging from the Wood River Valley’s undulant foothills and riparian forests to the Pioneer Mountains’ alpine summits, to ranch lands of the Sawtooth and Pahsimeroi Valleys, she explores our entangled kinship with an enigmatic world. She contemplates the merging of humanity with the wildness that defines us and dwells within us, the wildness with which we sometimes collide. Reactivating innate sensory intelligence she finds herself embedded in a community of beings where grace, order, chaos, reciprocity and love flow from the land’s wild heart. As beautiful and integral pieces of the natural world slip away, McCall invites the reader to engage an elemental empathy—a sacred alliance—with nature and to protect Earth’s rhythms, balance and instinct for survival. 

An audience Q&A will follow the reading.