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Weekly Program Bulletin

April 24, 2023

In the Spotlight

The Community Library is hosting special events to celebrate libraries, library workers, patrons, the love of books, and the freedom to read!

Fireside Chats: Monday-Saturday, Noon-1:00p.m.

The library staff invite you to join us by our fireplace to share stories and talk about next reads. Tea and sweets will be served.

Dia de los Niños: Wednesday, April 26, 3:30-5:30p.m.

Come to the Children’s Library for face painting, nachos, tres leches cake, music, and free books for all children. Come celebrate with us! Presented in partnership with The Community Table.

You Are Part of the Story Videos: Monday-Saturday, 3:30-5:30p.m.

Come record a short video snippet of YOUR library story: Tell us your favorite book, the best book you read recently, or why you love coming to the Library. Various locations in the Library.

eBooks & More: Open Office Hours with Buffy: Friday, April 28, 11:30a.m.–1:30p.m. at the Senior Connection.

No registration is required for any of the following activities.

Drop-in during the posted times.

More on the special events for National Library Week here.

Housing Lessons

from Park City, Utah

Jason Glidden, Park City’s Housing Development Manager, will share this peer community’s struggles and successes, and what solutions

and tools work well there.

Thursday, April 27

6:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

More/register here

This Week at The Library

Story Time: Libraries

Monday, April 24

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Tree House

Let's Build! for Kids

Monday, April 24

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Spanish Lunchtime Language

Tuesday, April 25

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

English Language Learning

Tuesday, April 25

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Inglés Idioma Aprender

Martes 25 de abril

18:00 - 20:00 h.

Learning Commons

Virtual Creative Writing Workshop

Wednesday, April 26

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Día de los Niños: A Celebration of Children & Books

Join us face painting, nachos, tres leches cake, music, and free books for all children (in English & Spanish).

Wednesday, April 26

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Presented in partnership with

The Community Table.

"How To Change Your Mind"

Discussion Group

Wednesday, April 26

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Wood River Valley Writer's Roost

Wednesday, April 26

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Idaho Room

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, April 27

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Later Language: Spanish

Thursday, April 27

5:15 - 6:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

In Case You Missed It

Navigating Longevity Panel

The Senior Connection’s Aging Friendly Committee presents the Navigating Longevity Speaker Series. Speakers included Dr. Carol Stephens, who discussed issues with memory and thinking related to dementia, delirium, and depression; Ashley Scates provided insights on advanced planning.

Watch the Replay Here.

Upcoming Library Highlights

May 1: Idaho Gives Kicks Off

May 3: Ten Warning Signs of Alzheimer's

May 4: Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition Film Screening

May 9: Housing Lessons and Opportunities with Summit County, Colorado's Housing Director

May 11: Wonder Travels with Writer-In-Residence Josh Barkan

May 18-20: "To Taste Life Twice" Seminar: Reading, Writing & Connecting Over Words – Free writing workshops, author panels, and an open mic event!

May 26: One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art with Writer-In-Residence Jennifer Haigh

June 1: "My Pioneer Cabin Story" with Todd Schwarz

June 5: México en el Corazón at Sun Valley Pavilion

June 14-16: Sun Valley Early Literacy Summit

Book Review: Library Staff

The True Cost traces just how this fast fashion trend has fueled clothing consumption and exacerbated labor and

environmental issues abroad, all while corporations

fattened their bottom lines.

Craig Barry, Managing Director of the Gold Mine Stores, recommends The True Cost, a documentary film by Michael Ross.

A cornerstone of the Gold Mine’s success is the clothing it sells. And while we sell plenty of housewares, sporting goods and books, it would appear that our patrons’ main shopping motivation is fashion.

I wanted to find out more about a phenomenon I’ve been hearing about called “fast fashion”. In the past, fashion houses and leading clothing stores would unveil their fashion lines on more of a seasonal basis. Problem is you can only sell so much in a “season” before what’s fashionable fades into being unfashionable.

To address this, businesses worked to shorten the fashion cycle – instead of a seasonal cycle, why not a monthly or even weekly cycle? Shortened fashion cycles prime the pump and profits.

The problem with this is how do you increasingly make more clothing at a quicker pace and at a price that people could afford on, say, a weekly basis – enter “fast fashion”...

Read Craig's book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hello! My name is 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 Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds.

Ain’t Burned All the Bright is absolute proof that you don’t need thousands of words to write a good story, and that you don’t need a thesis and supporting paragraphs to connect viscerally and beautifully to people.

With an extended poem by Jason Reynolds—three long sentences, to be exact—and three hundred pages of poignant illustrations by Jason Griffith, Ain’t Burned All the Bright brings light to what it feels like to be stuck in “the every-hour rerun/about how we won’t/change the world/or the way we treat the world/or the way we treat each other.”

This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read...

Read Sarah's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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