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ZOOM – “Hero’s Journey” Creative Writing Workshop with Tony Tekaroniake Evans
This workshop is a 6-week series for memoir and autobiography writing, led by Tony Tekaroniake Evans.
The workshops will be fashioned around the mythologist Joseph Campbell’s idea of the “Hero’s Journey.” We will also identify Jungian archetypes in our life stories.
Wednesdays, April 7 – May 12 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (MST) on Zoom.
The class size will be limited to 12 students.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to register.
The Creative Writing Workshop provides a supportive atmosphere where local writers can share their work. Please bring your favorite books, stories and poems, and samples of your works-in-progress. Writing topics, styles and techniques will be explored weekly.
Tony Tekaroniake Evans is an award-winning journalist and columnist at the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper in Ketchum who has led writing workshops in the Wood River Valley since 2004. He is also a memoir editor and the author of two books of nonfiction: Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond (WSU Press 2020) and A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area (Blaine County Historical Museum 2016). His forthcoming book, Memory and Destiny, the Life of Glenn Janss, releases in 2021.
ZOOM – Drop-In Poetry Discussion and Writing Workshop
In celebration of National Poetry Month, our two drop-in writing workshops in April will transform into a poetry discussion and opportunity for creative writing.
During each workshop on April 13 and 27, from 12:00-1:00 (MST), we’ll read a poem together, discuss its themes and relation to our lives, then there will be an optional poetry prompt and opportunity to share your writing and hear from others.
The workshops are led by Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager.
ZOOM: Audacious Read Book Group: “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
2021 AUDACIOUS READ
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Fourth Tuesday of Each Month | 3:00-4:00 p.m. | Zoom
Of Gabriel García Márquez, the writer Salman Rushdie said, “No writer in the world has had a comparable impact in the last half-century.” In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1982, García Márquez stated, “In spite of [. . .] oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life [. . . . W]e the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of [. . . . a] new and sweeping utopia of life [. . .] where love will prove true and happiness be possible.” His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude invites an extended reading to be immersed in the world of a mythical village in Colombia and multiple generations of the Buendía family.
We will read and discuss the novel at a pace of about 50 pages per month so that we can read deeply, find connections, and be absorbed by the world that he creates.
Reading Schedule
January 26 Introduction. Read through ~ page 18
February 23 ~ page 58
March 23 ~ page 101
April 27 ~ page 140
May 25 ~ page 180
June 22 ~ page 222
July 27 ~ page 267
August 24 ~ page 313
September 28 ~ page 354
October 26 ~ page 397
November 23 ~ page 417
December 28 Conclusion. Discuss all of it!
The Community Library Contact:
Jenny Emery Davidson | jdavidson@comlib.org | (208) 806-2620
LIVESTREAM: “Hailing Cesar” Screening and Q&A (3:00 p.m.)
The Community Library in partnership with the Hispanic/LatinUS Task Force presents Hailing Cesar, a documentary film about Eduardo Chavez’s journey to understand the legacy and struggle of his grandfather, the late civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.
The film will screen virtually on the Library’s Livestream.
Following the film, Eduardo Chavez will be in conversation with Stephanie Garibay, multimedia journalist with Idaho News 6.
A second showing of the film, also followed by a live Q&A will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Hailing Cesar – Trailer from Eduardo Chavez on Vimeo.
LIVESTREAM: “Hailing Cesar” Screening and Q&A (6:30 p.m.)
The Community Library in partnership with the Hispanic/LatinUS Task Force presents Hailing Cesar, a documentary film about Eduardo Chavez’s journey to understand the legacy and struggle of his grandfather, the late civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. The film will be presented in English.
The film will screen virtually on the Library’s Livestream.
Following the film, Eduardo Chavez will be in conversation with Stephanie Garibay, multimedia journalist with Idaho News 6. The conversation will be in English and Spanish.
La Biblioteca Comunitaria en asociación con el Grupo de Trabajo Hispano/LatinUS presenta Hailing Cesar, un documental sobre el viaje de Eduardo Chávez para comprender el legado y la lucha de su abuelo, el difunto activista de derechos civiles César Chávez. La película se presentará en inglés.
La película se proyectará virtualmente en Livestream de la biblioteca.
Después de la película, Eduardo Chavez conversará con Stephanie Garibay, periodista multimedia de Idaho News 6. La conversación será en inglés y español.
Hailing Cesar – Trailer from Eduardo Chavez on Vimeo.
