Winners will be announced at Hurtig at 3 pm! Protect Your Loved Ones and Support Suicide Prevention. Purchase a raffle ticket from Guffy’s Gun & Pawn or Hurtig Shooting Center for a chance to win a gun safe and support the P.A.L.M. Campaign (Prevent Access to Lethal Means). Every ticket sold helps raise awareness for suicide prevention. Join us in the fight against suicide. In collaboration with: Blaine County Sheriff Guffy’s Gun & Pawn Hurtig Shooting Center All proceeds from this raffle will directly benefit the 5B Suicide Prevention Alliance. These funds will be dedicated to produce informational videos that share local families’ experiences with suicide and demonstrate how lethal means reduction in a time of crisis, especially firearms, is a critical factor in saving a life from suicide!
Advocacy After Hours at the Wylde Beet
In the spirit of Earth Day, join Josh Johnson and Lexi Black from the Idaho Conservation League at the Wylde Beet Cafe for a night of advocacy for your public lands! Come learn about the threats to public lands in the present moment and take tangible action to protect what makes Idaho so special. ICL will bring postcards and pens, but consider bringing a laptop to use our digital advocacy avenues!
OPEN HOUSE Ellsworth Inn –
Join us for an Open House to celebrate the transformation of the historic Ellsworth Inn into sustainable community housing. Come see how history meets community! This is a great opportunity to stop by and see the incredible changes firsthand. Tour six one-bedroom, pet-friendly apartments before tenants move in this May. Each unit includes a washer/dryer and dedicated storage space. We’ll have before-and-after photos, Find out how to apply for housing – We will have details about the services ARCH provides in our community. Get involved! We’ll be sharing information about the next phase of development. ARCH has a $1M “challenge match” through a generous donor Jeanne Herberger for gifts to the next phase of this project. The Ellsworth Inn is a unique collaboration for our Valley, our state – nothing else like this — in partnership with the City of Sun Valley and support from the City of Hailey.
24 Hour Theatre Festival
The Liberty Theatre Company presents The 24 Hour Theatre Festival & 2025/26 Season Announcement! April 6 at the Liberty Theater, Hailey Back by wildly popular demand, TLTC’s 24 Hour Theatre Festival once again invites community members of all ages and levels of experience to join us for a mad, thrilling, delightful opportunity to create and perform a brand new play… all in 24 hours. Get your tickets before they’re gone and enjoy an incredible night of professional artists working alongside community members to bring their own masterpieces to life on the Liberty stage! As if that weren’t enough, the climax of this year’s festival will be the announcement of our 2025/26 season of plays and musicals! Tickets at LibertyTheatreCompany.org!
TERRAIN | Opening Night Friday, 3/7 5:00-7:30pm
This March/April Hemmings Gallery is pleased to also present TERRAIN, a group exhibition that explores the idea of the artist as navigator of both external and internal landscapes. TERRAIN seeks to go beyond the surface-level elements of the artist’s work and delve into what lies beneath, to highlight the journey the artist undertakes to gain new insights into themselves and their process. Featured artists include Frances Ashforth, Jan Freeman Long, Hallie Maxwell and Adam Shaw. Opening night reception on Friday, March 7th 5:00-7:30pm at Hemmings Gallery 340 Walnut Ave. in Ketchum
THOM ROSS | Opening Night Friday, March 7th 5:00-7:30pm
As a preview of his upcoming solo exhibition this summer, Hemmings Gallery will feature a select group of paintings by THOM ROSS this March/April. Best known for his striking depictions of the American West, Ross describes himself as “a storyteller who paints.” Packed with vibrant colors, bold brushstrokes and kinetic imagery, Ross’ paintings restore a liveliness and complexity to often oversimplified, stale depictions of frontier America. For over forty years, Ross has delved into the overlooked corners and footnotes of history for inspiration: “The American West is a canvas, a place where history and myth collide… Using bright colors, abstracted forms and a contemporary style of painting my desire is to pull these historical figures from a dim, often misunderstood past into the present moment.” Opening night reception on Friday, March 7th 5:00-7:30pm at Hemmings Gallery 340 Walnut Ave in Ketchum.
Gold Miners Beacon Hunt
Head to the hill on Sunday afternoon for a St. Paddy’s-themed treasure hunt at the Rotarun beacon park! This is an interactive activity for parents and children to utilize avalanche safety tools to simulate a “treasure hunt”. Each beacon hidden in the snow will have a hidden treat to uncover. The beacon park has explicit instructions on how to utilize the transceivers, though a staff member and volunteer will be on-site to provide guidance on transceiver use. The event is free and family friendly. The breakfast cookout begins at 12pm and the scavenger hunt begins at 1pm. Transceivers will be available to borrow from the Friends of Sawtooth Avalanche center between 1-3pm.
Book around the Block!
Join the summer open house at The Community Library, Gold Mine Thrift, Gold Mine Consign, and the Wood River Museum of History and Culture. We’re going to “book around the block” for literacy, history, shopping, community, food and fun, with activities for all ages! Look for special happenings that celebrate the Library’s 70th ANNIVERSARY. More coming soon…
MEETING GROUND | JAN FREEMAN LONG
Join us for the Opening Night Party with the artist Jan Freeman Long on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14th 5:00-7:30pm Hemmings Gallery is pleased to present MEETING GROUND a solo exhibition by Jan Freeman Long featuring both larger works on canvas from her Cross Section & Vessel series and smaller framed collage pieces from her Signpost series. Throughout her work, Long’s artistic pursuit remains the same: “I am interested in the mysterious nature of what endures, both within an internal landscape and what surrounds us in the natural world. I am interested in visual relationships that express what I don’t have the words for– a territory that is enigmatic, open for exploration– that is my form of visual poetry.” As a student of painting at the California College of the Arts (CCA), Long was quickly attracted to working with abstraction. It offered her an open-ended vocabulary with which to look beyond the obvious and enter a realm of the unknown. During her final semester at CCA in Florence, Italy at Studio Art Centers International, a new fascination for the beauty and longevity of ancient buildings and artifacts emerged. In her studio today, Long is guided by the intuition and wisdom she gleans …
Full Moon Community Gathering
Join us for the first annual Full Moon Community Dinner, Ski, Fat Bike, and Bonfire at The Sage School in Hailey, ID! Hosted in partnership with BCRD, SVSEF, the Mental Well Being Initiative, and Backwoods Mountain Sports, this free event offers a Nordic night of skiing, fat biking, kids’ activities, and a bonfire under the full moon. Warm up with a delicious soup, salad, and bread dinner for just $12 per person. Come for the fun, stay for the community connection! When: Wednesday, Feb 12 | 5:30–9:30 PM Where: The Sage School, Hailey, ID Cost: Free skiing, rental equipment, bonfire, and kids activities