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Arts & Culture
Garden of Infinite Compassion Tours
Sawtooth Botanical GardenFree guided tours of the Garden of Infinite Compassion Saturdays starting July 8, 2023 through August 26, 2023 Tours start at 10:30am For more information call (208) 726-9358
Free
Sawtooth Salmon Festival
Stanley MuseumJoin SIHA and IRU for this FREE, family friendly event that is all about celebrating Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead! We will have bus tours out to the river to see wild salmon spawning with educational interpretive talks. Various vendors with salmon education related activities will be going on all day. Hang out and enjoy music, entertainment and a BBQ lunch for purchase mid-day. 10am – Drive yourself to the Pettit Lake weir to learn about the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ sockeye recovery efforts 11am-5pm: Information booths and activities on the Stanley Museum Lawn available all day! 11:30am – Salmon Redd Tour Noon-4pm – Burgers and brats available for purchase 12:30pm – Salmon Conservation Update 1:00pm – Salmon Redd Tour 1:30pm – Live Music: Richard Blair 2:00pm – Native American Song/Dance Exhibition 3:00-5:00pm – Live Music: Turtle Poppers 3:30pm – Final Salmon Redd Tour
Sun Valley On Ice – Ice Show
Sun Valley Resort Outdoor RinkThis summer we are excited to welcome back Sun Valley on Ice. The shows will feature medal-winning headline skaters and our talented Sun Valley on Ice cast. To learn more about each seating experience, see the ticket information below. This year, Sun Valley Resort is excited to bring back the Terrace seated food & beverage experience. For more information please call the Guest Center at (208) 622-2135 2023 Schedule July 6: Mariah Bell with fireworks following the show 2022 United States Gold Medalist United States Silver Medalist Olympic Team Member July 22: Isabeau Levito 2023 United States Gold Medalist 2x Grand Prix Silver Medalist United States Bronze Medalist July 29: Alexa Knierim & Brandon Frazier 2023 World Silver Medalists World Gold Medalists 2X United States Gold Medalists August 5: Ryan Bradley United States Gold Medalist Collegiate Champion August 12: Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean Luc Baker World Team Silver Medalists United States Bronze Medalists Olympians August 26: Nathan Chen Olympic Gold Medalist 3X World Gold Medalist 6X United States Gold Medalist September 2: Jason Brown 2023 United States Silver Medalist United States Gold Medalist Olympic Bronze Medalist Seating and Tickets Grandstand Seating – Close to the action, the grandstand seating offers an exciting experience for guests. ...
Short Form Hemingway: A Generative Study & Writing Workshop
The Community LibraryIn this three-hour workshop we will take a close look and deep dive into a handful of Ernest Hemingway's short stories and personal essays both as readers and as writers. We will examine Hemingway's literary techniques in these short form pieces in terms of style, mood, voice, character development, scene setting, use of dialogue, and the works' overall artful impact. We will also use these Hemingway pieces as inspirational models for creating the beginnings of our own new works of fiction and nonfiction during the workshop. Registration required. Limited to 15 attendees. This workshop will be held outdoors, weather permitting. Christian Winn is The Community Library's Writer-In-Residence at the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House. He was Idaho’s 2016-2019 Writer in Residence. Winn is the Boise-based founder of the Writers Write fiction workshop series, co-founder and former director of Storyfort, and producer of the Campfire Stories reading series and the Couch Surfer Artist Series. He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and the Boise State University MFA program.
Free
Frances McCormack: Above and Below
Gilman Contemporary"I am almost never satisfied with a painting until it has surprised me in some way, and probably after working on it for long while, weeks or months sometimes...This happens when the image I am chasing on the canvas suddenly suggests another direction—color, orientation even—and it is so compelling I am willing to undo weeks of work to try to integrate this upstart outlier, this strange event." - Frances McCormack Frances McCormack is a Professor Emerita of Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute who's work as an abstract painter draws on the history of gardens and landscape design. Her paintings are invented spaces or interior theaters that are essentially images of the process of growth and transformation within a contained space. She has sought out these spaces or walled gardens in Rome at the Villa d'Este and Villa Lante, at the Alhambra in Spain, the Topkai Palace in Istanbul, in Mexico at the houses of the architect Luis Barragan, or Santa Barbara at Ganna Walska's LotusLand. These places provide a container where the urgency and noise of everyday obligations fall away and the visitor has access to other dimensions of thought and feeling. Combining architectural elements and loosely interpreted ...
Free
Benefit Screening of Oscar-Winner “The Whale”
The Argyros Performing Arts CenterCatch a very special screening of A24's Academy Award-Winning film "The Whale" on August 29, 2023 at 5:30 PM at The Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum, ID to benefit Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency. The evening includes a pre-screening reception and a post-screening conversation with playwright, screenwriter, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, and Idaho-native Samuel D. Hunter. The Q&A will be moderated by Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency Artistic Director John Baker. Hunter and Baker worked closely together on Hunter’s acclaimed play "The Whale," which Hunter later adapted for the screen. Following its premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, the Darren Aronofsky film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won two. Brendan Fraser won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Film running time: 117 minutes; Rating: R TICKETS: www.sunvalleyplaywrights.org General Admission tickets are $25, and VIP Tickets are $150. VIP Admission also includes a pre-screening reception with hors d'oeuvres with Samuel D. Hunter plus prime seating for the screening. All ticket sales benefit Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency. Sponsors for the evening include The Argyros Performing Arts Center, Atkinsons’ Market, The Salty Sisters, and Wall ...
$25 – $150
Sun Valley Opera presents A Diva Party & Concert “Keep it Local” starring Andrew Garratt accompanied by R. L. Rowsey
On August 29 Sun Valley Opera will present a “home-grown” vocal artist, Andrew Garratt at our Diva Party & Concert “Keep it local. Raised in the Wood River Valley, Mr. Garratt will be well-known to our guests from his appearances with the Sun Valley Music Festival over the years. He is a recent graduate of Western Washington University and will be headed to Northwestern University for their graduate program. He will be accompanied by one of his musical mentors, R. L. Rowsey, and together they have put together an entertaining program featuring opera, musical theater and jazz. At the Diva Party, we will be honoring retiring board members Dennis Dunn and Anita Weissberg for their contributions to the program committee and Co-Founder & President Emerita Marsha Ingham for her guidance and support over the past 20 years. We wouldn’t be Sun Valley Opera without our volunteers, concert goers, donors and sponsors and the amazing board members. Private Garden, Valet Parking Diva Party - 6:30pm, Concert 7:30pm
$175
2023 Ketchum Farmers Market
Forest Service ParkWe are excited to announce that starting summer of 2023, the Ketchum Farmers Market will be moving to the Forest Service Park at 131 River St. East! Come join the fun, shop, taste the freshness of local produce, get to know your farmers, buy in-season produce and plant starts, listen to free music with family and friends and enjoy the atmosphere of the Wood River Farmers’ Markets. Support local-made and grown products and help strengthen and build our local economy! Your health will thank you. Wednesdays from 12-4 pm June 14th-October 11th, 2023
Walk, Wine & Art
Sawtooth Botanical GardenStroll the gorgeous late-summer gardens while visiting wine stations that include paired appetizers and raffle prizes while listening to live music and learning about SBG's displays of fine art. Regional vintners will share fine wines and you will have an opportunity to win wine and other great prizes!
$100
Sun Valley Culinary Institute Tours
Sun Valley Culinary InstituteThe Sun Valley Culinary Institute is pleased to offer tours open to the general public. Come see why we have become one of the most important and entertaining sites to visit in the Wood River Valley. As a full time location for both student culinary classes year round and personalized classes for the general public, SVCI is proud to open our doors and welcome visitors with coffee and donuts. Come see for yourself…free tours are offered every Thursday at 10AM
Lunch & Lit
The Community LibraryTake out lunches from the Senior Connection including a short reading selection presented by the Community Library. Thursdays, beginning June 8th, lunch served 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pick up your lunch or stay awhile at the Library's Cimino Plaza, outside the Children’s Library Entrance at 4th and Walnut (the program will move indoors to the Learning Commons during inclement weather). Come enjoy a nutritious and convenient lunch while engaging with other community members over interesting literature. Lunch registration is required.
Free
ART BREAK: Hidden Gems
Sun Valley Museum of ArtJoin SVMoA staff and docents for fifteen minutes of conversation about a single artwork in the summer exhibition Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects. Drop by, get your art fix and check out our newly renovated galleries!
Free