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Weekly Program Bulletin

February 28, 2022

Thursday, March 3

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall/Vimeo

Heather Hansman, author of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West and Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow, will join us for a conversation about the future of water in the West.

Part of the 2022 Winter Read. In partnership with the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

Space is limited. Registration, proof of vaccination, and masks required

for in-person event.

June 8-10, we invite Kindergarten through Grade 3 educators – who open the world of words to children – from around southern Idaho to come to Ketchum/Sun Valley for three days of lively discussion and learning with preeminent literacy scholars and colleagues.

Monday, February 28

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Lecture Hall

Tuesday, March 1

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Tuesday, March 1

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Programs Studio

Tuesday, March 1

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom

This momentous 400-year-old Spanish novel is hailed as the world’s first modern novel and one of the most influential stories in the history of western literature.

Email Jenny Emery Davidson here for

the reading schedule and Zoom link. 

Learn More/Register Here

Watch on Vimeo

Tuesday, March 1

6:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall/Vimeo

 Henry Whiting will be in conversation with Shoko Aono, Director of the Ippodo Gallery in New York, who represents Shiro Tsujimura and is an expert in Japanese art, culture and ceramics. Presented in collaboration with the Sun Valley Museum of Arts.

Space is limited. Registration, vaccination, and masks required for in-person event.

Tuesday, March 1

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Idaho Room

Thursday, March 3

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Hailey Public Library

Blaine County Amnesty International invites you to a community-wide book read. Join us for a discussion of Chapters 9 and 12: "Why can't I say the 'N' word?" and "What are microaggressions?"

Learn More/Register Here

Wednesday, March 9

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall/Vimeo

The 45-minutes film follows U.S. Highway 20 through magnificent settings and fly fishing waters, threading stories from the Yellowstone to the Henry's Fork and Silver Creek. A panel discussion with "Reel Legends" and local fly-fisherwomen Amanda Bauman, Susanne Connor, Morgan Buckert, and Juliette Gutierrez will follow.

Winter Read Contests

   Win great prizes. Open to all ages!

Deadline: March 6

Put your writing and/or art skills in the spotlight and enter our Winter Read contest. The winners will be announced at the Winter Read closing event and will win gift cards to local businesses.

Read more here.

More Winter Read Events

Join our partner libraries for other great Winter Read events this week. Hailey Public Library hosts a Zoom book discussion tonight, Monday, February 28, and the Stanley Community Library hosts rafter Bob Beckwith on Wednesday, March 2, for a Zoom presentation on his Source to Sea river travels. Learn More here.

"Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”



~Margaret Atwood

Community Library Assistant and English Language Instructor Janet Ross-Heiner recommends Powder Days, by Heather Hansman, and other related reads.

Covid and the good life have attributed to the floodgates of rapid growth in our mountain villages. We are all facing new realities. . .

There is a common thread in the following books that I read recently:

• Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
• Aspen and the American Dream
• Powder Days

The latter is a beautifully written story of sensation seeking, wildness & obsession by Heather Hansman. She will be a guest at The Community Library March 3. Her book Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West is part of the Winter Read and she will share this story then.

Read Janet's entire Book Review here.

Hi, I am Sarah. I am fourteen years old and an avid reader; it is one of my favorite things to do. Inspired by authors’ creations of magnificent places and surprising havens built by simple letters, I aspire to be an author and, meanwhile, nurture the love to write.

For my Book Beat review, I read Brave Enough by Jessie Diggins.

“I can do it myself,” said twelve-year-old Jessie Diggins, tromping through the Boundary wilderness, vehemently resolved to carry her own canoe. She was fiercely determined and had long since fallen in love with the wilderness. 

This was the same sentiment that pushed her across the brightly-lit, fan-clogged finish line in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, her left ski thrust in front of her, her arms thrown up in celebration as she crossed the finish line to win the first-ever US cross-country gold medal in the Winter Olympic Games. . .

Read Sarah's Book Beat Review Here.

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