Opera Idaho General Director Mark Junkert will follow Tennessee Williams’ 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play as it becomes a movie in 1951 and then in 1995 an opera by Andre Previn, which Opera Idaho will perform in Boise on April 6 and 8 at the Egyptian Theater.
Main Library
“The Way We Live Now Remix: The Metaphors of Extinction” by John Rember
Local writer John Rember reads from his recently completed work, 100 Little Pieces on the End of the World. The book is a series of meditations on late capitalist culture that add up to a forgiving—if dark—assessment of the human future.
John Rember is a fourth-generation Idahoan. Recurring themes in his writing include the meaning of place, the impact of tourism on the West, and the weirdness of everyday life.
His latest short story collection is Sudden Death, Over Time. John’s memoir Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley was named the 2003 Idaho Book of the Year by the Idaho Library Association. He has two other collections of short stories, Cheerleaders from Gomorrah: Tales from the Lycra Archipelago and Coyote in the Mountains, as well as numerous articles and columns in magazines and newspapers, including Travel and Leisure, Wildlife Conservation, High Desert Journal, The Huffington Post, and Skiing Magazine.
He was a professor of writing for many years, and a core faculty member at the Pacific University MFA program (Forest Grove, Oregon). From 2004 to 2014, he was Writer-at-Large at the College of Idaho in Caldwell.
John lives in the Sawtooth Valley of Central Idaho.
“Never-Ending Korean War: Inching Closer to Conflict with North Korea” by Jean Lee
In partnership with the Boise Committee on Foreign Relations.
Jean H. Lee, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, is a veteran foreign correspondent and expert on North Korea. Lee led the Associated Press news agency’s coverage of the Korean Peninsula as bureau chief from 2008 to 2013. In 2011, she became the first American reporter granted extensive access on the ground in North Korea, and in January 2012 opened AP’s Pyongyang bureau, the only Western text/photo news bureau based in the North Korean capital. She has made dozens of extended reporting trips to North Korea, visiting farms, factories, schools, military academies and homes in the course of her exclusive reporting across the country.
During Lee’s tenure, AP’s coverage of Kim Jong Il’s 2011 death earned an honorable mention in the deadline reporting category of the 2012 Associated Press Media Editors awards for journalism in the United States and Canada. Lee also won an Online Journalism Award in 2013 for her role in using photography, video and social media in North Korea, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in feature reporting in 2013.
Lee is a native of Minneapolis. She has a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies and English from Columbia University, and a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as a reporter for the Korea Herald in Seoul, South Korea, before being posted with AP to the news agency’s bureaus in Baltimore; Fresno, Calif.; San Francisco; New York; London; Seoul and Pyongyang.
Lee was a fellow with the Alicia Patterson Foundation in 2014, and serves frequently as a guest speaker and commentator on North Korea-related topics.
“Discovering Winter Birds of Ketchum” with Poo Wright-Pulliam
The Environmental Resource Center (ERC) hosts a presentation by local birding extraordinaire Poo Wright-Pulliam on Ketchum’s winter bird residents. Following the talk, participants will head outside for a walk around town, lead by Poo, to view these species.
Space is limited, so pre-registration is strongly suggested. To register, contact the ERC: (208) 726-4333 or hadley@ercsv.org.
Holiday Film Series: A Screening of “Casablanca”
The holidays can at times feel overwhelming, overstimulating, a bit much. Sometimes one needs to escape. During the holidays the library is offering a series of films in the evenings that can help you do just that. We are showing classics, cult classics, and documentaries.
In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications in this classic film released 75 years ago last month.
BYOS (Bring your own snacks)
Holiday Film Series: A Screening of ” Mission Galapagos”
A special screening of Mission Galapagos with producer Anthony Geffen.
Science, wildlife, and nature presenter Liz Bonnin and a team of scientists embark on a mission to an active volcano in search of the elusive pink iguana. A submersible then takes them on the deepest dive ever carried out in the Galapagos Islands in search of new species and finally they see how new science is helping to unlock the mystery of how the marine iguanas are adapting to survive.
An audience Q&A with Geffen will follow the screening.
