Join The Community Library and Men's Second Chance Living for a program with Doug and Neely Lyons of Clere Consulting, who will present an engaging and interactive discussion for families interested in recovery, with an emphasis on education for long-term success.
Join The Community Library, The Alliance of Idaho, and The Hunger Coalition for a presentation and panel discussion that confronts the myths and facts about immigrants in the United States and in Blaine County. Luis Campos, legal director of The Alliance will provide a small presentation, debunking immigration misconceptions, followed by a panel discussion including: Steve England, Hailey Chief of Police, Rick Naerebout, Chief Executive Officer of the Idaho Dairyman's Association, Becky Lopez, Executive Director of The Alliance of Idaho, and Naomi Spence, Co-Executive Director of The Hunger Coalition.
Join us for a conversation with Max Posner, the 2024-25 Sun Valley Playwright's Residency Resident and Aly Wepplo, The Community Library's Collection Manager, discuss his process of writing for stage and screen before taking questions from the audience. In partnership with the Sun Valley Playwrights' Residency.
Saturdays, October 12-26 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Join the Wood River Writers' focused writing group for a three-week WRITING CHALLENGE! What do you want to accomplish in your writing journey? We'll set reasonable, individual goals to attain for three weeks of focused writing, and we'll challenge each other to meet them! Come and WRITE with us! Join us in The Community Library’s Idaho Room, or online via Zoom.
In partnership with the Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency, a monologue writing workshop led by 2024/2025 Resident Playwright Max Posner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Sarah DeLappe. Space is limited. Registration is required
Bring your own needles and yarn, and come learn beginning knitting from master knitter and Sun Valley Needle Arts owner Patricia Lirk. Come learn to knit, ask questions and solve knitting mysteries, and meet others. Second and fourth mondays of the month. All skill levels welcome. Registration requested.
Dr. Ning Kang, Department Manager for Power and Energy Systems (PES) in the Integrated Energy and Storage Systems Division at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), will present an overview of INL and an introduction to her department's work in the last decade to support various communities in their clean energy transition while boosting the resiliency of community energy systems.
Join Leslie Rego’s nature journaling workshop series, Thursdays from 4:00-5:00 pm, from Oct. 17 – Nov. 21, focusing on drawing nature to find peace. All levels welcome. Registration is required.
G-DOG tells the entertaining, hilarious and unlikely story of how a white Jesuit priest became an expert in gang lives. Called G-Dog by his homies, Father Greg Boyle works by a powerful idea: “Nothing Stops a Bullet like a Job.” A film about second chances – about a charismatic visionary who launched the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the country and transformed the lives of thousands of gang members in Los Angeles. The 93-minute film will be introduced by its Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock.
Saturdays, October 12-26 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Join the Wood River Writers' focused writing group for a three-week WRITING CHALLENGE! What do you want to accomplish in your writing journey? We'll set reasonable, individual goals to attain for three weeks of focused writing, and we'll challenge each other to meet them! Come and WRITE with us! Join us in The Community Library’s Idaho Room, or online via Zoom.
The Kenneth Lewis Lecture on Democracy welcomes Monica Carol Church, the granddaughter of Frank and Bethine Church and Cecil and Carol Andrus, and a lifelong Idaho educator and advocate for youth voices in places where decisions are made. Monica recently served as the Executive Director of the Frank Church Institute at Boise State University. She sits on the boards of the Andrus Center at BSU and the Sawtooth Society in Hailey. She also serves on the Idaho Delegation of the United States Global Leadership Coalition, and she is an Ethics Commissioner for the City of Boise.
Join Leslie Rego’s nature journaling workshop series, Thursdays from 4:00-5:00 pm, from Oct. 17 – Nov. 21, focusing on drawing nature to find peace. All levels welcome. Registration is required.
