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Author Reading – Hemingway’s Retreat

Hailey Public Library via Zoom

Apr 29 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

5:30 pm

The Hailey Public Library will host a reading by local author J. Michael Moriarty from his recent book “Hemingway’s Retreat” via Zoom on Thursday, April 29 at 5:30 PM. Moriarty will share an imaginative account of what would have happened had the famous writer had faked his own death. RSVP to [email protected]

“Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours” with Sarah Sentilles

The Community Library Livestream

May 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

6:00 pm

Join The Community Library for a virtual conversation with Hailey-based author, Sarah Sentilles, about her new book, “Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours,” the moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn—about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin. The book releases May 4, 2021, from Random House. Sentilles will share readings from the new book during this conversation with the Library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson. Watch at www.livestream.com/comlib Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Ms., Religion Dispatches, Oregon ArtsWatch, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She’s had residencies at Hedgebrook and Yaddo. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale and master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She is the co-founder of the Alliance of Idaho, which works to protect the basic human rights of immigrants by engaging in education, outreach, and advocacy at local, state, and national levels.

“Brood” with Jackie Polzin

The Community Library

May 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

6:00 pm

Join us for a conversation with Jackie Polzin, author of the new novel, “Brood.” Polzin is being hailed as an exquisite new literary voice–wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout. Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel is filled with wisdom, sorrow and joy. A stunning and brilliantly insightful meditation on life and longing. Polzin will be in conversation with Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager. Jackie Polzin lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and children. She is a graduate of the Boise State MFA program. Brood is her first novel.

“The Inferno Lessons” Poetry Reading with Andy Kerstetter

The Community Library

May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

6:00 pm

Join The Community Library for a virtual reading and conversation with local poet Andy Kerstetter about his new collection, “The Inferno Lessons,” published in 2020 by Kattywompus Press. The collection explores aging, illness, and our relationship with nature and our own bodies, among other themes. Watch the program and join the conversation at: https://livestream.com/comlib/inferno-lessons Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Andy Kerstetter moved to the Mountain West shortly after earning a degree in writing from Geneva College in 2010. He spent nearly a decade working as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, while always pursuing his love of poetry. His poems have appeared in several journals, and The Inferno Lessons is his first published collection. He has lived in Ketchum since 2015.

Aug

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Children’s Faire

Field Daze, REINHEIMER RANCH East

Aug 7 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

12:00 pm

Wood River Valley Studio Tour – Cancelled

A fun-filled afternoon, for children and adults of all ages, with live entertainment, food trucks, mini farmer’s market, fiddlers, face painting, hula hooping, lassoing & so much more!!

Aug

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Artists' Studios

Aug 21 @ 10:00 am – Aug 22 @ 5:00 pm

10:00 am

“A Christmas Carol in the Library” – A Staged Reading

WOOD RIVER VALLEY STUDIO TOUR, INC. regrettably announces the cancelation of the annual Tour of professional artists’ studios previously scheduled for August 21 – 22, 2021. The nonprofit’s leadership and the hundreds of professional artists who work and live in the greater Sun Valley, Idaho community will look ahead to welcoming visitors to their creative spaces in August of 2022. The annual weekend-long event typically draws thousands of people to participate in self-guided tours of artists’ working studios. Since 2013, the event has become a celebration of the Valley’s creatives. They welcome visitors and neighbors who cross the thresholds of their art studios located in Bellevue, Hailey, Ketchum, and Sun Valley. Each year visitors mark their calendars to return to the Wood River Valley to participate in this unique cultural learning experience. Next year, the Wood River Valley Studio Tour will resume its annual event scheduled for August 20 – 21, 2022. The uncertainty caused by the pandemic continued through Fall 2020 to the present. This uncertainty hampered the necessary preparations to produce a successful event this summer. The organization’s volunteer leadership is redirecting its efforts toward creating a safe, healthy, and joyful event in 2022. Planning for next year’s ...

Dec

Fri

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.

Dec

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GREETINGS! – a Live Holiday Reading

Community Campus Theater

Dec 20 @ 7:00 pm – Dec 23 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb

The Liberty Theatre Company presents – The New Year Play Reading Series

Argyros Performing Arts Center

Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

7:00 pm

The Liberty Theatre Company presents – The New Year Play Reading Series

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!

Feb

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Argyros Performing Arts Center

Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

7:00 pm

The Liberty Theatre Company presents – The New Year Play Reading Series

Feb

Tue

Argyros Performing Arts Center

Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

7:00 pm

“Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You” with Writer-In-Residence Ariel Delgado Dixon

Tue

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 ...

Jun

Julie Weston Reads from New Book

Hailey Public Library/Town Center West

Jun 9 @ 5:30 pm

5:30 pm

Hailey Days of the Old West

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.

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Various Locations

Jul 2 – Jul 4 all-day

12:00 am

Poetry Reading with Diane Raptosh

4th of July Parade at Noon and fireworks at dusk (9-9:30pm) in Hailey. Celebrate “Red, White & Blue 2022” Join us for the Days of the Old West Independence Day celebration in Hailey The Parade starts at 12 noon. Enjoy the celebration of a classic American parade on Main Street. Local restaurants serve up their specialties, visit the Blue Cow Antique Fair, and three days of Sawtooth Rangers Rodeo ending with a big fireworks show, it’s no wonder Hailey has been called one of the best places to celebrate the Fourth of July in the West! Hailey Antique Fair: July 2-4th, 2022 Nothing is more fun than browsing for unique treasures at a well-curated antique show, and the Hailey Antique Fairs have some of the best antique vendors and wares in the region. You will be sure to find that perfect one-of-a-kind something! This year the Fair will also feature a beer garden and mechanical bull riding. 4th of July Antique Market (Roberta McKercher Park) Dates/Times: July 2, 3, 4. 9 am to 6 pm Friday/Saturday, 9 am-4 pm Sunday Hosted by Dana Cameron and Blue Cow Antiques Sawtooth Rangers Days of the Old West Rodeo: July 2-4th, 2022 7:30 PM nightly Rodeo is a proud ...

Aug

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The Community Library

Aug 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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 ...

Various Locations

Sep 2 – Sep 4 all-day

12:00 am

Since 1958, the City of Ketchum has celebrated its mining history with one of the largest non-motorized parades in the west. Come spend the weekend with the whole family and watch the Big Hitch Parade on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Big Hitch Parade, featuring quality buggies, carriages, carts and stagecoaches, is one of the largest non-motorized parades in the Pacific Northwest. The grand finale, as always, is the “Big Hitch,” the historic Lewis Ore Wagons pulled by a 20-mule jerkline. August 15 – September 4 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily – Wagon Days Headquarters, Ore Wagon Museum and Bonning Cabin Enter the Ore Wagon Museum to explore an historical collection from Ketchum’s mining era, the town’s founding and the historic Wagon Days Big Hitch Parade. Souvenirs and commemorative memorabilia will be on sale. Take a tour of the City of Ketchum’s iconic Ore Wagons – on display on East Avenue in front of the Ore Wagon Museum on the corner of East Ave. and 5th St. Horace Lewis began the “Ketchum Fast Freight Line” soon after the town was founded on August 2, 1880. The first load of ore was carried from the Elkhorn mine to the railroad ...

Festival Meadows

Sep 16 – Sep 17 all-day

12:00 am

A Conversation with Martyna Majok, 2022 Sun Valley Playwrights’ Resident

Get Your German on, Idaho Style at Sawtooth Brewery’s 10th Annual Ketchum Oktoberfest! Join us at Sun Valley’s Festival Meadows Sept. 16 & 17 for Beer, Food, Music, and Games! Visit www.KetchumOktoberfest.com for all of the details about this year’s events, including an expanded menu from the Outpost by Sawtooth Brewery! Friday September 16 Corn Hole Tournament 4:30/5pm start time $25 for team of 2 (10 teams total). Sign up here or at Oktoberfest! Live Music: Doghaus 5-7:30pm Stein Hoisting Competition: 5pm, 6pm, 7pm Saturday September 17 Live Music: Allegedly 12-2:30pm Corn Mash 2:45-4:45pm David Henry Band 5-7:30pm Stein Hoisting Competition: 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 6pm, 7pm BEER OLYMPICS Gather your team of 4 to compete for DAS BOOT! Teams may compete in: Cornhole Stein Hoisting Volume Chug Flip Cup $45/team of 4 includes beer! Sign up here or at the beer tent, limit of 12 teams!

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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.

Nov

Bald Mountain Winter Opening Day

River Run Lodge

Nov 24 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

9:00 am

Join us at River Run as we kick off the 2022-2023 winter season with Sunny the Bear, a DJ spinning the tunes, hot cocoa, ceremonial toasts, and more. Get there early- we have surprises in store for guests and for the first chair on the River Run chairlift and the gondola. Dollar Mountain opening date is TBD. CLICK HERE to view season pass options for the upcoming season. For the latest conditions, weather, hours of operation, and lift statuses, check out the Mountain Report or call (800) 635-4150.

Mar

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The Moth Mainstage

The Argyros

Mar 1 @ 7:30 pm

7:30 pm

Sun Valley Music Festival Winter Season

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.

Mar

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Argyros Performing Arts Center

Mar 15 – Mar 17 all-day

12:00 am