Join us for a free evening of PBS arts programming. First, we’ll screen Idaho Public Television’s Emmy award-winning documentary about the late Idaho artist Sara Joyce, “SARA: A Life in Dreams and Symbols.” Producer Marcia Franklin and director Andy Lawless will be joined by some of Sara’s family members to answer questions after the film. Then we’ll also get a sneak peek of the newest Ken Burns series, “Leonardo da Vinci,” premiering Monday, November 18th on PBS. It’s the first film by Burns’ company about a subject outside of the United States, and approaches the work and mind of da Vinci in a novel way. Image: Cloud Gazing by Sara Joyce (1923-2011).
“The 23rd Hero” with Rebecca Anne Nguyen
Author Rebecca Anne Nguyen joins us to discuss her new novel, “The 23rd Hero”: On the verge of being forced to live in an underground bunker due to climate crisis, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory is recruited for a time travel program to stop environmental disasters before they happen. But when she falls in love with the program’s mysterious founder, she must learn to believe in herself and her abilities before she’s sent to sixteenth century France with no way to save the world or return to the man she loves. Nguyen will share an excerpt from the book, talk about her writing, and take your questions. A book signing will follow. Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her) is the winner of the 2024 Reader’s Choice Award for Best Adult Book (Bronze) for her debut novel, “The 23rd Hero,” and the recipient of the 2019 Foreword Indies Award (Silver) for the memoir “Where War Ends.” Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Insider, and Slackjaw, among others. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Ernest Hemingway’s Best Friend: Introducing General Buck Lanham
Writers-in-Residence at the Hemingway House, Greer Rising and Eileen Martin will discuss private letters from U.S. Army General Buck Lanham to Greer’s family, and what they tell us about Ernest Hemingway and his art. Lanham and Hemingway sealed their friendship on World War II battlefields and remained friends until Hemingway’s death in 1961. The personal collection illuminates Lanham’s life and helps decipher coded references that he and Hemingway shared. The Lanhams and the Risings corresponded for much of the 20th century, and Hemingway and Lanham wrote each other at least twice a month for 17 years – hundreds of letters. The presentation will focus on Hemingway and Lanham as intellectual equals, with themes of love, war and literature underpinning their friendship. Lanham’s influence on Hemingway’s writing is stronger than previously known: the writer modeled the protagonist in his novel Across the River and Into the Trees after Lanham’s life, and borrowed from Lanham’s volatile marriage for his novel The Garden of Eden, published in 1986. Two of Hemingway’s posthumously-published short stories mention Buck Lanham and relate battlefield anecdotes from time with Lanham’s unit. Greer and Eileen also discovered an unpublished Hemingway war poem, written when the two men were together, …
Dance Dialogues with Garrett Anderson
A discussion exploring how we define and understand the dance landscape from contemporary dance to classical ballet, with Garrett Anderson, Executive Director and Artistic Director of Ballet Idaho. Garrett received training from some of the country’s premier academies and danced with The San Francisco Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Trey McIntyre Project, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Over the course of a 20-year professional career in both classical ballet and contemporary dance companies, he worked with some of the world’s most celebrated choreographers and directors. After his full-time performing career, Garrett became Chair of the Dance Dept. at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, then moved to Boise, where he has served as Artistic Director of Ballet Idaho since 2018.
Young Latino Leaders Panel
As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and in partnership with ProjecToolSuccess and the Crisis Hotline, The Community Library will host the 4th annual panel discussion celebrating and hearing from young Latino leaders in our community. The conversation will highlight the incredible work of local high school students, inviting them to share with us their visions for the Wood River Valley.
Growing Culinary Mushrooms in Southern Idaho
The Hailey Public Library has invited Zack Wood, owner of Ironwood Mycology and a local mushroom expert, to discuss the wide variety of culinary mushrooms the average person can cultivate right here in Southern Idaho. Learn about the different tastes and textures of culinary mushrooms and both indoor and outdoor cultivation methods. The free talk will be held from 5:30-7:00 PM on Thursday, October 3, at Town Center West, 116 S River. Visit www.haileypubliclibrary.org for more information.
An Evening with Adam Johnson
Join us for an evening with Adam Johnson, author of National Book Award-winning “Fortune Smiles,” and Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Orphan Master’s Son,” among other titles. Johnson is a Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. He is the winner of a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin. His stories have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and have been recognized with the Story Prize, The Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has been translated into more than three-dozen languages. He was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. His teaching and research interests include the development of the novel, indigeneity, the oral tradition, counter narrative, trauma theory and speculative fiction. In partnership with Boise State University.
Kenneth Lewis Lecture on Democracy: Echoes of Integrity
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.
“G-Dog” Film Screening
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.
Power & Energy Systems and Support to Communities
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.