The Community Library is excited to welcome the participants of the Boulder Mountain Tour and Sun Valley Nordic Festival.
Come to the library on Friday, February 6th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm to view the photographic history of the festival, mingle with the dynamic local and out of town skiers and wish them luck in the next days’ race. Local photographer Nils Ribi will show the images that he amassed since the start of the festival in 2009. Drinks and snacks served.
The Community Library Lecture Room
8th Annual Family of Woman Film Festival: Screening of “Shame” (Pakistan)
Presented by filmmaker Mohammed Naqvi This stunning Special Emmy winning documentary tells the true story of international human rights icon Mukhtaran Mai, a Pakistani peasant who was gang-raped and publicly shamed in her village, but used her trauma to spark a legal revolution that exposed centuries of brutal tribal conflict and government mismanagement.
Library CLOSED: President’s Day
Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Community Library and the Sun Valley Museum of History will be presenting the annual induction ceremony for the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame on Friday, February 13th at the Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho. The ceremony will begin at 5:00 pm, but doors will open at 4:30 with beer and wine provided. This event is free of charge and members of the local ski community of all ages and ski disciplines are encouraged to come celebrate the accomplishments of these local legends.
Inductees this year are as follows:
Jack Simpson
Sigi Engl
Muffy Davis
EVENT TITLE: 2014 Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame
EVENT DATE: Friday, February 13th, 2015
EVENT START TIME: 4:30 pm
EVENT END TIME: 6:00 pm
EVENT LOCATION: The Community Library Lecture Hall
EVENT ADDRESS: 415 Spruce Avenue North – Ketchum, Idaho 83340
EVENT COST: Free of Charge
ORGANIZER CONTACT NAME: Sun Valley Museum of History / Taylor Paslay
ORGANIZER PHONE: 726-8118
ORGANIZER EMAIL: tpaslay@comlib.org
ORGANIZER URL: www.comlib.org
Family of Woman Film Festival: Screening of “Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter”
The theme of the 2015 Family of Woman Film Festival is “Women and Their Dreams” The films that the Community Library will show from its collection of the past seven years of the festival, will feature girls and women who have held their own dreams.
Join us for a free screening of Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter, the true story of a woman seeking political asylum in the United States. If she is sent back to her native Mali, her three-year-old daughter will be genitally mutlilated as she herself was as a child. Filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, divided their time between covering Mrs. Goundo’s trial in Philadelphia and Mali, where they followed a group of young girls as they were prepared for their initiation into “womanhood”.
Family of Woman Film Festival: Screening of “Saving Face”
The theme of the 2015 Family of Woman Film Festival is “Women and Their Dreams” The films that the Community Library will show from its collection of the past seven years of the festival, will feature girls and women who have held their own dreams.
Join us for a free screening of Saving Face. This documentary from Pakistan won the Academy Award. It follows Dr. Mohammad Jawad from his successful practice in London to Pakistan, where he is introduced to women who have been victims of acid attacks. The film then focuses on some of these women as they grapple with what has happened to them. As well as following their reconstructive surgery, the film shows Pakistani women helping each other cope and to seek justice for the victims.
