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Weekly Program Bulletin

February 14, 2022

Notice: The Gold Mine will be CLOSED on Monday, February 14

for an internal staff meeting. . .Re-opening on February 15.

Applications Open

Tuesday, February 15

We invite Kindergarten through Grade 3 educators – who open the world of words to children – from around southern Idaho for three days of lively discussion and learning with preeminent literacy scholars and colleagues. 

Honorariums included.

Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided.

Monday, February 14

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Lecture Hall

Monday, February 14

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Special Valentine's snacks and

beverages will be provided.

Panel discussion on maintaining community values while balancing growth, featuring speakers from BCRD, ICL, ARCH, and BCSD.

Tuesday, February 15

3:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

More info/Register Here

Watch on Vimeo Here

Tuesday, February 15

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Tuesday, February 15

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Programs Studio

Tuesday, February 15

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

Wednesday, February 16

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom

Wednesday, February 16

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Messy Space

Judy Zimmer leads Paint Club for tweens and teens. Join us in The Children's Library where we'll all make a creation on canvas.

Wednesday, February 16

4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Clarissa Connelly, Ketchum's new Housing Strategist, will be here providing information and taking questions.

Thursday, February 17

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Nation Building

Activities and Visions

Sammy Matsaw (Shoshone-Bannock/Oglala Lakota) and Jessica Matsaw (Shoshone-Bannock) discuss learning, community, and their non-profit organization River Newe. Part of the 2022 Winter Read.

More Info/Register Here

Watch on Vimeo Here

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

Film Screening

and Panel Discussion

Saturday, February 19

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall

This documentary feature film reveals the false information and political influences which led to

the World War II incarceration

of Japanese Americans.

More Info/Register Here

Watch on Vimeo Here

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

Watch in Spanish on Vimeo

English subtitles coming soon.

Due to technical difficulties, last week’s Winter Read conversation did not live stream. Salama's conversation in Spanish with Melissa Gonzalez is now available to watch; English subtitles will be available soon.

In observance of Valentine's Day, Communications Manager Kyla Merwin recommends How to Love by Thich Nhất Hạnh.

If love makes the world go ’round, and all you need is love…then why is that wonderful, beautiful, four-letter word completely blind, deaf, and dumb?

Beyond romantic love, our capacity to love our friends, family, colleagues, strangers, and enemies, we are told, is endless. . .and challenged on a regular basis.

One of my favorite, go-to volumes on this crazy, mindless subject comes from Thich Nhất Hạnh, beloved teacher, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, and peace activist.

Nhất Hạnh distills the unruly beast of love into four essential concepts. . .

Read Kyla's entire Book Review here.

Hello! My name is Ella: dreamer, ski racer, writer, and rock climber. I live in Sun Valley with my mom, dad, cat, dog, gecko, and fish.

For my Book Beat review, I read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

In Catching Fire, Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen are the new victors of The Hunger Games after defying the Capitol with a simple handful of berries. They are about to be married as part of the fake love strategy they started in the past games. 

The ruthless President Snow is not happy with their act of defiance so he decides to make sure they will never do anything of the sort again. . .

Read Ella's Book Beat Review Here.

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