Our annual event is back again! The Gold Mine Thrift’s Cashmere Sale will help keep you cozy and warm during our long winter months. This sale is a great way to find some beautiful items for women, men and children. (The prices are so great, you might even want to outfit your pet!)
“Homeopathy – Help Your Body Heal Itself” with Deb Snider
**This presentation was originally scheduled for November 6, 2019, and has now been moved to January 28, 2020.**
Homeopathy is a 200-year-old holistic approach to healing acts to stimulate the body’s own ability to restore health and healing from the inside out. Used extensively worldwide, homeopathy can affect every bodily system. During this presentation, you will learn the origins of homeopathy, what it is, what it is not, and the basic principles. You will also hear actual cases that bring these concepts and homeopathy to life.
Deb Snider, CCH is a Certified Homeopath and Metabolic Balance Coach based in Ketchum. She is one of only two board-certified homeopaths in the state of Idaho, and she is a certified Metabolic Balance coach. She has dedicated her life to helping others who suffer.
“Ulysses Cylinders” Exhibit Tours
Join The Community Library’s Programs and Education Manager, Martha Williams, for afternoon drop-by tours of the Ulysses Cylinders, on display in the Library’s foyer through January 10, 2020.
Inspired by James Joyce’s novel, the Ulysses Cylinders combine the alchemic artistry of Dale Chihuly with painter Seaver Leslie’s pen and ink drawings to create a unique collection of golden glass Cylinders.
Chihuly’s and Leslie’s love of Ireland and Irish literature inspired an earlier series, Irish Cylinders, over forty years ago. In the summer of 2013, Chihuly and Leslie, together with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick decided to revisit this body of work focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses as the sole inspiration. Working with Leslie’s drawings on paper, artists Mace and Kirkpatrick constructed fragile glass drawings, which Chihuly’ s team amalgamated into individual Cylinders of glass wrapped in gold leaf. By applying Leslie’s adapted drawings to simple cylindrical forms, Chihuly uses the Cylinder as a canvas to create a series of visual portals into the novel.
The exhibit at The Community Library includes 23 cylinders from the set of 45. This is the third exhibition of the Cylinders. They first exhibited at Dublin Castle in June 2014, and then at the Vassar College Thompson Library in 2015.
The Community Library would like to thank the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition.
“Ulysses: A Greek Epic in an Irish World” Short Film Screening and “Ulysses Cylinders” Docent Tour
Join The Community Library for a screening of the short film, Ulysses: A Greek Epic in an Irish World. Following the film, our docents will lead a guided tour of the Ulysses Cylinders, on display in the Library’s foyer through January 10, 2020.
Short Film Screening in the Lecture Hall: Ulysses: A Greek Epic in an Irish World (4:00-4:30 pm)
From 1914 to 1921, while Ireland faced revolution at home, James Joyce was abroad, slowly laboring on his great masterpiece, Ulysses. In this lecture about the famous epic and its relation to Irish history, Dr. Marc Conner of Washington and Lee University provides a lucid overview of the story, its characters, its style, and its structure.
“Ulysses Cylinders” Exhibition and Docent Tour (4:30-5:30)
Inspired by James Joyce’s novel, the Ulysses Cylinders combine the alchemic artistry of Dale Chihuly with painter Seaver Leslie’s pen and ink drawings to create a unique collection of golden glass Cylinders.
Chihuly’s and Leslie’s love of Ireland and Irish literature inspired an earlier series, Irish Cylinders, over forty years ago. In the summer of 2013, Chihuly and Leslie, together with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick decided to revisit this body of work focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses as the sole inspiration. Working with Leslie’s drawings on paper, artists Mace and Kirkpatrick constructed fragile glass drawings, which Chihuly’ s team amalgamated into individual Cylinders of glass wrapped in gold leaf. By applying Leslie’s adapted drawings to simple cylindrical forms, Chihuly uses the Cylinder as a canvas to create a series of visual portals into the novel.
The exhibit at The Community Library includes 23 cylinders from the set of 45. This is the third exhibition of the Cylinders. They first exhibited at Dublin Castle in June 2014, and then at the Vassar College Thompson Library in 2015.
The Community Library would like to thank the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition.
“Shaming My Red Lips” with Sharon Poppy Farsijani
What’s better than being yourself? Or getting arrested for wearing red lipstick? What is like to have your identity and authenticity challenged on a day-to-day basis?
Shaming My Red Lips is the true story of Sharon Shaghayegh “Poppy” Farsijani, an American-Iranian rebellious teenager living a care-free life in Brooklyn, on track to go to college and pursue a career in journalism. But when Poppy’s father reevaluates her cultural assimilation at the age of seventeen, he decides she’s becoming too white — and relocates their family to Tehran, Iran. Poppy is wrenched from her life in a liberal American environment and faced with a new and unknown life in a rigid Islamic country. Upon landing, the captain announces that all women aboard must put on their long coats and head scarves before stepping off the plane; but Poppy finds herself frozen. Her new life in Iran strips her of the Western freedoms she had grown up with, including the freedom to choose her religion, choose who she wanted to date, choose what she wanted to wear, and even the freedom to wear red lipstick. She wasn’t allowed to listen to pop music, wear jeans, take dance classes or show any interest in men.
This diary-like account tells the frustrating, eye-opening, and often hilarious true story of how a young woman, during the most formative years of her life, desperately fought to maintain not only her freedom, but her identity. It’s a story of change, fear, hope, and ultimately, triumph. This is the story of how Poppy remained true to herself when the world around her was trying to make her forget who she was.
Books will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Chapter One Bookstore.
Sharon Farsijani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her family returned to Tehran when she was a teenager. During her time in the Middle East, Poppy started her broadcast career at age 19 as a reporter, evening news anchor, producer and talk show host for IRIB Channel 6, Channel 4 and Radio BBC. After returning to the United States, she studied at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and California State Fullerton to receive her degree in Broadcast Journalism and later her MBA from Pepperdine University. After witnessing the harsh treatment towards women in the Middle East she shared her journey, penning her first poetry collection Lacking Lips of Time and her memoir Shaming My Red Lips. Poppy is currently an anchor for KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her on-air name is Sharon, and her Persian name Shaghayegh means wild desert poppy–the origins of her nickname.
“Ulysses Cylinders” Docent Tour
Join The Community Library docents for a late afternoon tour of the Ulysses Cylinders, on display in the Library’s foyer through January 10, 2020.
Inspired by James Joyce’s novel, the Ulysses Cylinders combine the alchemic artistry of Dale Chihuly with painter Seaver Leslie’s pen and ink drawings to create a unique collection of golden glass Cylinders.
Chihuly’s and Leslie’s love of Ireland and Irish literature inspired an earlier series, Irish Cylinders, over forty years ago. In the summer of 2013, Chihuly and Leslie, together with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick decided to revisit this body of work focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses as the sole inspiration. Working with Leslie’s drawings on paper, artists Mace and Kirkpatrick constructed fragile glass drawings, which Chihuly’ s team amalgamated into individual Cylinders of glass wrapped in gold leaf. By applying Leslie’s adapted drawings to simple cylindrical forms, Chihuly uses the Cylinder as a canvas to create a series of visual portals into the novel.
The exhibit at The Community Library includes 23 cylinders from the set of 45. This is the third exhibition of the Cylinders. They first exhibited at Dublin Castle in June 2014, and then at the Vassar College Thompson Library in 2015.
The Community Library would like to thank the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition.
