The Community Library Lecture Room

It’s shocking how little most of us know about the fundamental rules for workplace survival. Few people truly understand how to hang onto their jobs, effectively respond to threats to their jobs or what to do if their main source of income is abruptly terminated.

Author Spencer Cohn is a National Employee Representative, and has helped more than 18,000 clients deal with work-related issues.

Join Spencer as he discusses his book “Beat the Boss,” and know your rights as an employee.

Cohn has appeared as an unemployment law expert on national media outlets including NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” CNN, FOX News and Sirius Satellite Radio. Cohn has also written for The Miami Herald, is a regular contributor to Credit.com and has also been nominated as person “Making a Difference” on “NBC News with Brian Williams.”

Open reading for local writers: The “Hunters and Gatherers” YMCA Creative Writing Workshop presents works in progress by local writers Cate Cox, Kelley Weston, Mark Spencer and surprise guests. Call to sign up if you have something to share, any genre, 5-10 minutes in length. Tony Evans (208) 720-4821.

Wood River Valley Studio Tour event on March 17th will feature Karen Bubb, Public Arts Manager for the City of Boise. Artist Education Series programs support our creative community of more than 220 professional artists in their professional development.
Here is the link to Boise’s comprehensive 8-week program for Idaho artists: http://www.boiseartsandhistory.org/cultural-programs/workshops-programs/public-art-academy/. Free and open to the public.

Classical Music in a Swedish Romantic Comedy (132 min.)

A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden. It doesn’t take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He can’t say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y765gdd3rEc

Come to The Community Library for a conversation on the feature film Sold. Meet film producer Jane Charles and director Jeffrey Brown — They will discuss the making of Sold and the campaign to end Child Trafficking.

Join the Wood River Alliance for a talk entitled, “What’s Happening at WIPP?” in The Community Library Lecture Hall.

Description: A panel of nuclear watchdog activists will be touring southern Idaho to talk about current issues surrounding plutonium waster, also called transuranic (TRU) waste. The Snake River Alliance is hosting the panel of Don Hancock, Southwest Research and Information Center, New Mexico; Beatrice Brailsford, Snake River Alliance, Idaho; Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, South Carolina.