When:
June 20, 2023 – June 23, 2023 all-day
Where:
TBD
The Multiplier Effect: Partnering to Accelerate Climate Solutions.
Community Library Livestream
Nov 16 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
10:30 am
The entire community is welcome and encouraged to attend this virtual forum to discuss major issues facing our valley. Agenda: Tues Nov 16 10:30 – 10:45 Killing Myths & Encouraging Truths: Blaine Co.’s Resilient Economy Scott Fortner – Executive Director, Visit Sun Valley Harry Griffith – Executive Director, Sun Valley Economic Development 10:45 – 11:15 The Great Resignation & Talent Crisis Harry Griffith 11:15 – 11:45 What Just Happened in Our Real Estate Markets James Taukus – Keller Williams 11:45 – 12:15 Housing, Lodging & Accommodation Post-Covid Tom Foley – DestiMetrics REGISTER HERE Wed Nov 17 12:30 – 12:45 The New Norm: Recovery & Growth Trajectories Harry Griffith 12:45 – 1:15 Evolving Behaviors & Expectations Zartico Team 1:15 – 2:00 Structural Limitations & Gaps Panel Discussion 2:00 – 2:30 Opportunities to Improve Resilience & Stay Sunny Panel Discussion 2:30 – 3:00 Wrap up & Actions Scott Fortner & Harry Griffith REGISTER HERE We look forward to connecting!
Community Library Livestream
Nov 17 @ 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
12:30 pm
The entire community is welcome and encouraged to attend this virtual forum to discuss major issues facing our valley. Agenda: 12:30 – 12:45pm Recovery & Growth: The New Norm Harry Griffith – Sun Valley Economic Development 12:45 – 1:15pm Evolving Behaviors & Expectations Katie Stadius – Zartico Team 1:15 – 2:15 pm Structural Limitations & Gaps Panel Discussion: Lexi Praggastis – Sun Valley Institute Mike Higgs – Blaine County Recovery Krista Paulsen – Boise State University 2:15 – 3:15pm Future opportunities to Stay Resilient Panel Discussion: Jim Keating – Liquid Space Coo Brad Cleveland – Author & Consultant Ray Gadd – Visit Sun Valley 3:15 – 3:30pm Wrap up & Actions Scott Fortner – Visit Sun Valley & Harry Griffith – Sun Valley Economic Development WATCH HERE We look forward to connecting!
The Community Library
Dec 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
It’s after hours in the library on Christmas Eve, with only the cheerful Miss Trilling and the grumpy Mr. Heaps left to shelve the final books and turn out the lights. The two librarians find themselves immersed in retelling Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Aided only by the usual trappings of a library, Miss Trilling and Mr. Heaps take on more than thirty characters and bring the classic tale of miserliness and redemptive generosity to life inside our very own Community Library. Join The Community Library for this staged reading, which celebrates the power and wonder of imaginative reading together. Directed by David Janeski and read by Aly Wepplo and Matthew Gorby. Appropriate for ages 5 and up. The staged reading runs for approximately 60 minutes. Two performances: Friday, December 10 at 6:00 p.m., and Saturday, December 11 at 3:00 p.m. Space is limited, so register at www.comlib.org to join us. Proof of vaccination is required to attend in person at the Library, and both performances will also be live streamed on the Library’s Vimeo.
7:00 pm
In The Liberty Theatre Company’s first fully produced live reading, Andy Gorski brings his Jewish atheist fiancé to meet the folks on Christmas Eve, and his worst fears about family blow-ups are realized. But when his intellectually disabled younger brother Mickey, who’s entire vocabulary has been limited to “oh boy” and “wow”, suddenly spouts the word “Greetings!” the entire family’s belief system is turned upside down. Written by Tom Dudzick and Directed by Tess Makena, this in-person performance mixes large-scale production elements with the intimate style of a professional reading – resulting in a spectacular, thought-provoking, and hilarious holiday experience made to enchant anyone from anywhere.
The Community Library
Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Blaine County Amnesty International invites you to a community-wide book read of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race. Join us for this kickoff event where we’ll be handing out 100 copies of Oluo’s book, providing snacks, and sharing details for upcoming community discussions. Discussions will be held every other week, from early February through May, and will alternate between The Community Library in Ketchum and the Hailey Public Library. Each discussion will focus on a different chapter of the book, and Wood River High School students will lead each discussion. All members of the community interested in BUILDING BRIDGES and forming stronger relationships within our community and across ages and experience are invited to join. The first discussion date will be announced during this kickoff event on January 21. *Proof of Vaccination and a Mask are required to attend this event.* This kickoff event will also be live streamed on the Library’s Vimeo. The Building Bridges community read has been generously sponsored by the Youth Generosity Project.
The Community Library
Jan 27 @ 6:00 pm
6:00 pm
Elaine will discuss how the communities of the Wood River Valley can start to find common ground based on shared values. She will describe how identifying widespread values across the valley can build a shared foundation for all communities to come to the table over. As Idaho continues to experience unprecedented growth, now is the time to give voice to what makes the Wood River Valley so special, and how we can accommodate growth without undermining the fundamental elements that create the home we all love. This presentation will be a robust conversation between Elaine Clegg, Scott Boettger, Executive Director for the Wood River Land Trust, and the community. This evening is presented in partnership wit The Community Library and the Wood River Land Trust. Register HERE to attend this event IN PERSON. *Proof of Vaccination and a Mask are required for all attendees.* Virtual attendees do not need to register. Click here to watch on Vimeo..
Argyros Performing Arts Center
Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
7:00 pm
New Year, new works! Kick off 2022 with three original plays by Sun Valley playwright Deb Laufer. Starting with the romantic comedy Fortune on 2/3, followed by the heartwarming tale of Be Here Now on 2/7, and ending with the madcap farce Out of Sterno on 2/8. Join us for this reading series and celebrate the talents of the valley’s very own incredible artists! This is a free event taking place at The Argyros Performing Arts Center on 2/3, 2/7, and 2/8 at 7pm. Visit LibertyTheatreCompany.org to discover more events coming in 2022!
Argyros Performing Arts Center
Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
7:00 pm
New Year, new works! Kick off 2022 with three original plays by Sun Valley playwright Deb Laufer. Starting with the romantic comedy Fortune on 2/3, followed by the heartwarming tale of Be Here Now on 2/7, and ending with the madcap farce Out of Sterno on 2/8. Join us for this reading series and celebrate the talents of the valley’s very own incredible artists! This is a free event taking place at The Argyros Performing Arts Center on 2/3, 2/7, and 2/8 at 7pm. Visit LibertyTheatreCompany.org to discover more events coming in 2022!
Argyros Performing Arts Center
Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
7:00 pm
New Year, new works! Kick off 2022 with three original plays by Sun Valley playwright Deb Laufer. Starting with the romantic comedy Fortune on 2/3, followed by the heartwarming tale of Be Here Now on 2/7, and ending with the madcap farce Out of Sterno on 2/8. Join us for this reading series and celebrate the talents of the valley’s very own incredible artists! This is a free event taking place at The Argyros Performing Arts Center on 2/3, 2/7, and 2/8 at 7pm. Visit LibertyTheatreCompany.org to discover more events coming in 2022!
3:00 pm
Friesen+Lantz Fine Art announces its Grand Opening and inaugural exhibitions – two dynamic and theatrical solo shows from acclaimed artists David Hytone and Anna Skibska. Both exhibitions have been in the works for over a year and open Saturday, 12 February with the artists in attendance. David Hytone and Anna Skibska each exemplify unique world-views through their craft, and the Gallery invites seasoned and budding art enthusiasts to experience their newest bodies of work. The schedule is as follows for the Grand Opening of Friesen+Lantz on Saturday, 12 February at the Gallery (320 1st Ave N, Ketchum): 3PM David Hytone Artist Talk 3:30PM Anna Skibska Artist Talk 4-6PM Grand Opening Celebration INAUGURAL EXHIBITIONS: DAVID HYTONE – If not for the Pantomime Ventriloquist A finalist for the 2018 Neddy Award in Painting, David Hytone is a Seattle based artist with a theatrical background. The artist’s dimensional mixed media works examine human frailty and the mechanisms that we employ to compensate for our limitations – imagined and otherwise. Using themes of theatre and still-life, Hytone explores the space between the veneers of projection, facade and the actuality of things. ANNA SKIBSKA – Labyrinth of Light Anna Skibska is an innovator in the ...
The Community Library
May 3 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
Hemingway Writer-In-Residence Ariel Delgado Dixon joins us to discuss her debut novel, “Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You.” Dixon will be joined by Mary Pauline Lowry, a 2020 resident with The Community Library and the Boise-based author of “The Roxy Letters.” Two sisters unite to survive a traumatic upbringing—from absentee parents to a wilderness camp for troubled teens—in this “relentless and spooky” (Joy Williams) debut from an essential new voice. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Good Housekeeping, Autostraddle, The Millions “When the Juvenile Transportation Services come for you in the night in a preordained kidnapping, complete with an unmarked van and husky guardsmen you can’t outmatch, you have been sold for a promise.” A young woman thinks she has escaped her past only to discover that she’s been hovering on its edges all along: She and her younger sister bide their time in a dilapidated warehouse in a desolate town north of New York City; their parents settled there with dreams of starting an art commune. But after the girls’ father vanishes, all traces of stability disappear for the family, and the girls retreat into strange worlds of their own mythmaking and isolation. As the sisters both try ...
5:30 pm
The Hailey Public Library will host popular local writer Julie Weston reading from Miners’ Moon, the fourth book in her Nellie Burns and Moonshine mystery series, on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 5:30 PM. Weston’s stories are straight out of 1920s Idaho and feature Burns, a crime photographer, and Moonshine, her black Lab. In person at Hailey Town Center West.
Stanley Museum
Jul 8 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year. Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
Stanley Museum
Jul 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
Stanley Museum
Jul 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
Stanley Museum
Jul 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
Stanley Museum
Aug 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
Stanley Museum
Aug 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
The Community Library
Aug 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
6:00 pm
In partnership with the Flourish Foundation, The Community Library presents a free screening of MISSION: JOY – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times. About the film: Academy Award®-winning director Louie Psihoyos teams up with co-director Peggy Callahan on this documentary with unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international icons who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission, these self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them. They offer neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy, despite circumstances. Inspired by New York Times bestseller The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, the film showcases the exchange between these two Nobel Peace Prize winners that led to that book. Consisting largely of never-before-seen footage shot over 5 days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these luminaries behind the scenes as they recount stories from their lives, each having lived through periods of incredible difficulty and strife. With genuine affection, mutual respect and a healthy dose of teasing, these unlikely friends impart lessons gleaned from lived experience, ...
5:00 pm
Diane Raptosh’s “Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt” explores civic unease in a series of 22 American sonnets—unrhymed 14-lined poems. Characterized by a sense of informed resistance and revolutionary compassion, the poems seek a “conscious recoupling of feeling / with thought” in the hopes that empathy might birth a new strain of democracy. Join us as Raptosh discusses the joys of reading and writing poetry and the role of the imagination in an imperiled democracy. She will discuss poetry as one of our most underused resources for reimagining self and society. She’ll share some of her most recent work with us and will invite your questions. A book signing will follow. This event will be held outdoors on the Library’s Donaldson Robb Family Lawn on 4th Street. No registration is required. Bring your chair or blanket! (In case of inclement weather, the event will move indoors to the Lecture Hall.) Diane Raptosh’s :American Amnesiac” (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award in poetry. A native Idahoan and the recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). In 2018 ...
Stanley Museum
Aug 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
6:00 pm
The Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series: an 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
Limelight Hotel
Aug 23 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
11:30 am
Come experience and celebrate human flourishing with students, teachers, philanthropists, and changemakers in the Wood River Valley and beyond. This lunchtime fundraising event will feature an interactive presentation, reflective practices, discussions for deepening human connection, a locally sourced meal, a silent auction, and plenty of kind mischief.
Stanley Museum
Aug 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
The last program in our Sawtooth Forum and Lecture Series! An 8-week series expanding our understanding and appreciation of the Sawtooth country. This is the 15th year of hosting the summer speaker series, and we have a great lineup this year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and the 50th anniversary of the Association! Join us at 6pm every Friday, July 8 – August 26 at the Stanley Museum Lawn, right off Highway 75 between Stanley and Lower Stanley. You can find a full list of program descriptions and speaker biographies on our website.
7:00 pm
Experience the rebirth of an epic African wildlife park through the eyes of Emmy Award-winning natural history cinematographer, and longtime Ketchum resident, Bob Poole.
3:00 pm
Join National Geographic Live speakers Bob Poole and Ronan Donovan in this lively roundtable discussion including an audience Q & A. Free Admission • Tickets required.
7:30 pm
Join biologist-turned-photographer Ronan Donovan as he talks about the incredible similarities we humans share with other social mammals in the animal kingdom, and what we can learn from them.
The Community Library: John A. and Carol O. Moran Lecture Hall
Sep 29 all-day
12:00 am
Join us on Thursday, September 29th at 6:00 at the John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall at The Community Library as we host a thoughtful discussion with an incredible group of experienced panelists on intentional aging, end of life planning, life coaching, spirituality, and more. Interpreter will be present for the discussion. Moderator: Erin Buell, St. Luke’s Center for Community Health Panelists: Dr. Carol Stephens PsyD, Licensed Psychologist Jini Wilson LCSW: Hospice & Palliative Care Sherri Ditch: Life Coaching for Adults with Aging Parents Jessica Harris: Assistant Administrator/Business Office Manager, Cove of Cascadia Rev. John Moreland, Light on the Mountains Center for Spiritual Living
The Community Library
Oct 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6:00 pm
Martyna Majok, the 2022 Sun Valley Playwrights’ Resident, will read the opening monologue from her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Cost of Living,” and discuss her work and writing process. The play, on Broadway this fall, deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. A light reception will follow. Registration recommended. Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency (SVPR) is a non-profit artist retreat, commissioning program, and new play development lab based in Idaho. The mission of SVPR is to galvanize positive change within Wood River Valley’s community and beyond by giving visionary theatre artists of all backgrounds substantive time and space to focus on creating new work for the stage that produces conversations and learning opportunities locally, regionally, and nationally. Annually, SVPR provides one playwright a $10,000 commission, 13 months of individually-tailored development resources, and two months of retreat time in Ketchum, in partnership with The Community Library and The Argyros.
New York Times bestselling author Jann Wenner visits The Argyros for an afternoon of conversation about his newest book, Like A Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Wenner offers a “touchingly honest” and “wonderfully deep memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll “(Bruce Springsteen). Like a Rolling Stone is a beautifully written portrait of one man’s life, and the life of his generation. General Admission Tickets $25.00 includes a signed copy of Like A Rolling Stone.
7:30 pm
Curated events featuring five tellers who develop and shape their stories with The Moth directors. Moth stories are true, as remembered by the storyteller and always told live. Beyond theater, The Moth Mainstage is a community where entertainment and enlightenment merge.
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