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Free Casting Clinics with Silver Creek Outfitters
Sun Valley InnLearn to fly cast, or brush up on your double haul technique with one of our fun and experienced guides. These casting clinics are for anyone who is curious or just a little rusty. Clinics will run Tuesday through Saturday at the Sun Valley Resort from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm throughout the summer. Equipment will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. Cost: Free Where: Sun Valley, east of the Sun Valley Inn - See map below 2023 Dates: Tuesday – Saturday | June 14 - September 3rd Time: 5:00 – 6:00pm
Together We Read: “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman
The Community LibraryThe Community Library's Together We Read book club is typically hosted every other month and led by a diverse range of library staff. Books cover all genres from new fiction to classics to nonfiction, young adult, graphic novels, and everything in between. Join us for one discussion or many! August's pick is "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman. The discussion will be led by Information Systems manager Will Duke. Registration is recommended to join us. The Library will have multiple copies of The Graveyard circulating in our collection. Please come in or talk to our librarians about reserving a copy.
Free
Post Symphony Gala Dinner
Sun Valley Culinary InstituteJoin us for a spectacular evening of culinary delights after the Sun Valley Summer Symphony Gala. The Menu includes a starter of Chilled Roasted Tomato Soup, and entrée of Surf and Turf Idaho Style, Roasted Local Rack of Lamb with Riverence Trout, Whipped Garlic, and Parsley Potatoes and Asparagus, and a dessert of Crème Brulée with Fresh Local Berries.
$110
Yoga on the Lawn at Redfish Lake Lodge
Redfish Lake LodgeJoin us for yoga classes during the summer months on the lawn of Redfish Lake Lodge, 10 miles south of Stanley, Idaho. June 16 - September 2, 2023 Classes offered Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8am. All ages and abilities are welcome. Mats and blocks provided. $20 per class $120 for 10 classes
$20
Children’s Summer Meals: Volunteer to prepare!
The Hunger CoalitionThe Hunger Coalition and The Community Library provide free meals, books and enrichment activities to children throughout the Wood River Valley during summer. Join us in meal preparation; we're serving anywhere from 100 to 200 meals a day! We chef it up Mondays and Wednesday mornings, through August 24. Visit our website to reserve your volunteer time today! Time slots are 8:30am - 11am and 10am to 12:30pm, on both Mondays and Wednesdays.
Free
Volunteer For Veggies
Hope GardenJoin in community gardening sessions at The Hope Garden (corner of Walnut and 1st in Hailey) and the Bloom Community Food Center (110 Honeysuckle St., Bellevue). Tasks include harvesting, planting, weeding, and flower bouquet making! Fresh vegetables shared with everyone each session. JUNE 5 – SEPT 28 Hope Garden (Hailey) Monday evenings 5:30pm-7:00pm Wednesday mornings 9-10:30am Bloom Community Food Center (Bellevue) Thursday mornings 10-11:30am
WORKSHOP: Beginning Drawing Intensive
SVMoA Hailey ClassroomTHIS 8-SESSION WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE MON–THU, AUG 7–10 AND AUG 14–17, FROM 9AM–12PM DAILY. Get out your sketch book! With emphasis on observational skills and hand-eye coordination, this 8-day workshop will explore graded tones, line, negative space, perspective, and shadows. Each day, examine a different still life as you develop fundamental drawing skills and increased confidence to draw. The classes are cumulative and open to beginning students as well as those who want to refresh their skills. Age & ability: 17 and older, beginners welcome! SVMoA and Jim will provide all the materials necessary for the class (included in the enrollment cost). ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR Born in New York, Jim Caldwell has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Williams College in 1964 as an Art Major and spent the next year in Paris studying printing and etching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1969 he received his Master of Architecture Degree from the Yale School of Architecture. Jim has had over 45 solo shows and his paintings are represented in more than 450 collections worldwide. $500 member / $550 nonmember
$500 – $550
Mountain Humane Hikin’ Buddies
At Hikin’ Buddies, you can take a shelter dog for a hike or hang out and socialize some of the smaller dogs. It is a great opportunity to meet some of Mountain Humane’s adoptable dogs as well as to learn more about the organization. All are welcome to join in throughout the summer, weather permitting. Meet at Adam’s Gulch trailhead, north of Ketchum, from 9:30am - 1:00pm on Wednesdays. No appointment is necessary; just bring your family and friends to have a good time with some dogs that would love to meet you!
Free
Discovery Club
Sawtooth Botanical GardenJoin us Wednesdays—June 21 through August 16—for a fun filled hour of engaging stories, fun activities and garden exploration. Discovery Club is a free program for children ages 2-5 (and their adult helper).
Weekly Meditation and Yoga
Flourish FoundationJoin the Flourish Foundation for this weekly meditation and yoga lead by Ryan Redman.
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
Musical Landscapes of the Intermountain West with Jared Farmer
The Community LibraryJared Farmer is the Walter H. Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His temporal expertise is the long nineteenth century; his regional expertise is the North American West. His recent work has turned to global environmental history across the modern period. In August, he returns as The Community Library's Writer-In-Residence at the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House. In October 2023, Farmer will be delivering the 28th annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture in Logan, Utah; his presentation will be called “Music & the Unspoken Truth.” This presentation for The Community Library is an adaptation of that lecture for the Wood River Valley community. Originally from Provo, Utah, Farmer earned his degrees from Utah State University, the University of Montana, and Stanford. His book "On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape" (Harvard, 2008) won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians for the best-written non-fiction book on an American theme, a literary award that honors the “union of the historian and the artist.” His subsequent book, "Trees in Paradise: A California History" (Norton, 2013), won the Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book on the ...
Free