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VITA Walk-In Tax Preparation Assistance
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $66,000 or less, persons with disabilities and limited English speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns. IRS-certified volunteers who have undergone a background check will provide free basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.
In 2020, the Community Library will offer this free, walk-in tax preparation assistance. Volunteers will be available to provide one-on-one aid in preparing tax returns, supporting low-income residents through the filing process to ensure all eligible credits are claimed.
When: Saturdays from February 1 to April 11*, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: The Community Library Learning Commons
Before coming, visit our FAQ page. Additional resources include Publication 3676-B for services provided and the What to Bring page from the IRS. Please review these resources, as they will help ensure you have all the required documents and information our volunteers will need to help you.
Note: Available services can vary at each site due to the availability of volunteers certified with the tax law expertise required for your return.
*The program will not operate on Saturday, February 15 due to President’s Day.
“War Changes Everything” a reading with Neil Brookshire
January 3, 2020
Join The Community Library for a reading of a play-in-progress with actor and writer Neil Brookshire.
Inspired by research for an acting part, Neil contacted long time friend, Colin, to discuss his military experiences, and the challenges and differences of before and after war. Further conversations led to the development a one-person play based on many of Colin’s stories from his time as a medic in the Army, exploring how a “new normal” takes hold of the lives of those in combat, and by extension, everyone around them.
Neil Brookshire is an actor, visual artist, and filmmaker. Most recently, he played Mr. Darcy in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley with Company of Fools. He is also the founder of Dirt Hills Productions, which produces short films and audio material. He has a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Boise State University and an MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois University. He lives in Wisconsin.
*CANCELLED* VITA Walk-In Tax Preparation Assistance
As of March 13, the IRS has closed down all VITA sites nation wide through the end of tax season. If the filing deadline is extended beyond April 15, The Community Library may be able to reopen this program. Watch our calendar and e-newsletter for details.
For the latest information, please visit: https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus
Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” with The Spot Theater Company
Join The Community Library and The Spot for a discussion and exploration of Fun Home, the 2006 graphic memoir by comic artist Alison Bechdel.
Come explore the graphic memoir’s story, themes and literary tropes with us before you see The Spot’s production of the musical adaptation in January. Director Brett Moellenberg and cast members will join us to discuss the adaptation of a graphic novel to the stage, the significance of this groundbreaking musical, our local production, and the issues of LGBTTQQIAAP representation that the memoir brings up. The cast may even perform a song or scene from the show!
The Library has several copies in our collection available for check out, and people are encouraged to join for the discussion even if they haven’t read the book.
Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale. Meet Alison’s father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family’s Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter’s complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned “fun home,” as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic — and redemptive.
The Fun Home musical was adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori. It was the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. It opened Off-Broadway in 2013, on Broadway in 2015, and was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning five, including Best Musical.
The Spot is a non-profit theater company in Ketchum, as well as an educational venue for young artists to collaborate with professional mentors and produce exhilarating works, contemporary and classical, in an effort to make theatre accessible to the larger community & explore our collective humanity.
Climate Change and the “World War Zero” Initiative with Secretary John Kerry
On Thursday, December 26, our community has the opportunity to attend two exceptional programs, for free, on the relationship between humans and the natural world, each program hosted by a renowned global leader. At 3:30 p.m., former Secretary of State John Kerry will engage in a moderated conversation about climate change. At 6 p.m., British Academy Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Geffen will present a special screening of the new film, Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure. Each program will be held in The Community Library’s Lecture Hall.
Secretary John Kerry’s presentation at 3:30 will be presented through a partnership between the Hailey Climate Action Coalition (HCAC), the Environmental Resource Center (ERC), and the Library. The discussion will be moderated by Scott Runkel, upper school science teacher at the Sun Valley Community School. Secretary Kerry will discuss a new initiative, “World War Zero,” that he has recently launched with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Lecture Hall doors for the event will open at 2:30 and seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis only.
This program will be LIVESTREAMED and available for later viewing through The Community Library’s website at https://livestream.com/comlib.
