Paws to Read with Cricket
Cricket is a sweet, adorable dog who loves stories and loves to be read to. Cricket will be at the Children’s Library on Wednesdays at 2:30 pm throughout the month of June.
Can’t read? Show Cricket the pictures and tell your own story!
A Free Screening of “Amadeus”
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.
A Free Screening of “West Side Story”
In partnership with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. The screening coincides with the Symphony’s performance of Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.”
West Side Story: “Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.”
The film runs 2 hours and 30 minutes. Please note the 5 p.m. start time.
“Confluence” by Kerrin McCall
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.
Drop-In: Paint by Sticker for Kids
Drop-In anytime in the Children’s Library to create a piece of art using only stickers. Available while supplies last.
Part of our summer of Libraries Rock!