�Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Oct 20�� – Dec 20��

at the center

Jona Frank, James in Aquabat Mask,

2006, chromogenic print, courtesy the artist

2Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Dear Members and

Program Participants, Through our work here at The Center, we get to know many facets of our community in unique and memo-rable ways. Our work with youth and our collaborations with other organizations are especially rewarding and add a richness to our programs that is truly special. Many of the programs described in this brochure demonstrate the power of working in partnership. For example, this fall The Center, Hailey, will host an innovative exhibition created by students at the Sage School as part of our project Awkward Stage, an exploration of adolescence. We’re also excited to be collaborating with our partners at the Company of Fools on an original play they commissioned, Commencement. This fall and winter, author Lois Lowry and three of the performing arts groups we are bringing to the valley will be

going into schools to work directly with local students. All this is in addition to the many school groups that will come see The Center’s exhibitions. We are grateful to all of the schools and their faculties for embracing our programs and understanding how the arts enhance learning across all subjects. We hope you have a chance to enjoy many of these programs. If you have kids or know kids in local schools ask them about the special visiting artists they’ve seen. And, as always, thank you for your continued support and patronage.

Kristin Poole Sally Boettger

Directors’ Letter

Kristin Poole

�Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Awkward Stage: Adolescence and IdentityOctober 7 – December 2, 2011

The teenage years have always been a time for pushing boundaries, rebelling against authority, and defying the status quo. While adults often dismiss teenage trends as mere fads, adolescents are key players in shaping contemporary culture, from fashion to film and music. Transitioning from childhood to adulthood, teenagers struggle to gain independence. This push for freedom means that the teenage years are also a critical time for creative self-expression. This project explores what it means to be a teenager in the 21st century, and how teens define and differentiate themselves through their choices in clothing, hair, music, and technology. How are teenag-ers today different from those who came of age before iPods, texting and unprecedented highs in teen buying power? What remains the same?

Awkward Stage:Adolescenceand Identity

images from left:

Miguel Farias and Allison Reilly, Catalyst (920) from

Gh0st L1fe, 2010, C-print, courtesy the artists

Lauren Greenfield, Joyce, 15, Elysia, 14, and Allison,

then 14, at their friend Jane’s sixteenth birthday

party, Arlington, Virginia, 1999, dye destruction,

courtesy the artist and Robert Koch Gallery,

San Francisco

Lauren Marie Taylor, Survival, 2010, pencil and ink

on paper, courtesy the artist

4Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Awkward Stage:Adolescenceand Identity

ViSuAL ARTS, KeTChuM

Oct 7 – Dec 2, 2011

An exhibition in Ketchum looks at teen culture through the lens of surface and identity. Wood River Valley artist Pamela DeTuncq has created an installation for the exhibition that she calls Flock: body-cast sculptures of teens dressed in wool sweatshirts and felted pants, absorbed in electronic devices. Graffiti artist Percy Fortini-Wright worked with local teens to create a painted environment for DeTuncq’s figures. Acclaimed photographer Jona Frank’s Boys Project traces the physical changes as well the shifts in interests and image that boys undergo dur-ing the teen years. Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Green-field explores the relationship between adolescence, consumer culture and, in particular, what it means to be a teen girl today in her intimate and candid photos. Photographer Matthew Hayes spent a year traveling Highway 93, photographing people of all ages, including many teens, in motels, at rodeos, at rivers and on the Flathead Indian Reservation. His photos document the lives of adolescents in our most rural areas. Artist Miguel Farias and art student Allison Reilly collaborated on Gh0st L1fe, time-lapse photos of teens interacting with electronic media. The photos are ghostly portraits of figures bathed in and absorbed by the cool glowing light of digital screens. Father and daughter Richard Ross and Leela Cyd Ross spent four years collaborating on the Leela Cyd Project, photographs of Leela Cyd each morning before she left for high school (often wearing clothing she designed or altered). Accompanied by fragments from her diary, the photos document her transition from childhood to adulthood. Lauren Marie Taylor spent several years teaching art in a Portland high school where she also painted portraits of her students. Some of these portraits depict students wearing clothing patterned with symbols drawn from cultures that Taylor feels express the way these teens see themselves in terms of their family backgrounds and their roles within the high school hierarchy.

Teen WoRKShoP

Graffiti Art with Percy Fortini-WrightIn late September, local teens spent two and a half days working with Boston-based graffiti artist Percy Fortini-Wright. Instead of tagging on concrete walls or sides of buildings, students learned the history of graffiti and created graffiti art on large sheets of plywood. These sheets form the background for artist Pamela DeTuncq’s installation Flock, featured in The Center’s Ketchum exhibition.

images from left:

Pamela DeTuncq at work on Flock

in her hailey studio, photo credit: Tim Frazier

Pamela DeTuncq, Flock (detail), 2011,

hydrocal and sheep wool, courtesy the artist,

photo credit: Dev Khalsa

Photos of teen workshop with

Percy Fortini-Wright,

photo credit: Dev Khalsa

�Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Awkward Stage:Adolescenceand Identity

PARTieS!

Celebration and Gallery WalkFri, Nov 25, 5–8pmFree at The Center, KetchumEnjoy a glass of wine as you view the exhibition.

evening exhibition TourThu, Nov 17, 5:30pmFree at The Center, KetchumEnjoy a glass of wine as you tour Awkward Stage with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. We’ll screen Lauren Greenfield’s film kids + money at 5pm.

Awkward Stage is made possible in part through the generous support of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Board Bin and Girl Street

images from left:

Leela Cyd Ross and Richard Ross (collaboration),

details from The Leela Cyd Project, 1997-2001, color

photographs, courtesy the artists

Matthew hayes, Tank, Carey, Idaho, 2005, silver

gelatin print, courtesy the artist

6Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Awkward Stage:Adolescenceand Identity

ViSuAL ARTS, hAiLey

Awkward StageOct 14 – Dec 9, 2011 Students at Hailey’s Sage School have worked with Center staff and local photographer Dev Khalsa to curate an exhibition of portraits of themselves and their peers. The exhibition offers local teens the opportunity to present their ideas about what it means to be an adolescent today and how they perceive themselves. Students have been involved in every step of the curatorial process from creating and choosing the final work to writing wall text and lighting the show.

FiLM

kids + moneyScreenings during Gallery Walkbefore Nov 17 Exhibition Tour at 5pmFree at The Center, KetchumIn this 32 minute documentary award-winning photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has an honest conversation with kids about money. The subjects come from varied income levels, but all feel the pressures of consumerism. Each kid tells about his or her obsessive shopping habits and the feelings behind them. Among those interviewed are Matthew, a successful TV actor who largely supports his family, Cameron, an aspiring teen rapper with a legendary sneaker collection and Emanuel, a label-obsessed teen who saves scrupulously to purchase luxury items his classmates can easily afford.

FAMiLy DAy

Awkward Stage with Danica MattiasSat, Oct 29, 3–5pmThe Center, KetchumFREEJoin us as we discover the exhibition Awkward Stage: Adolescence and Identity. Families will have an opportunity to tour the exhibition and create an art project. Young artists will create a self-portrait using card stock, watercolors, wax resist, and a variety of mixed media materials.

Photo credit: Liam Bynum

7Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

LeCTuReS

Creating Balance, Powerful Communication and higher Self-esteem in the Life of your Teenwith Midge PatzerThu, Oct 27, 6:30pmThe Center, KetchumFREEIn this free workshop, Midge Patzer, local author of Teenagers: Unlocking Personal Power, will give parents the tools they need to help guide their own teens in their search for personal power. She will address the importance of physical, spiritual, emotional and mental balance in teens’ lives. She will share ideas for opening up positive channels for communication with teens. And she will discuss the importance of self-esteem and ways of helping teens build positive self-image.

Author Lois LowryThu, Nov 3, 6:30pmChurch of the Big Wood, Ketchum$15 / $25 nonmembers, $5 studentsLois Lowry has written more than thirty books for children and has twice received the prestigious Newbery Medal. She is known for addressing dif-ficult subject matters ranging from racism to terminal illness, murder and the Holocaust. Thoughtful, challenging and never condescending, her work resonates with children and adults. Lowry’s The Giver is widely read in our school district and is required for students at Wood River Middle

Awkward Stage:Adolescenceand Identity

BoARD Bin Teen PhoTo PRoJeCT

What does adolescence look like? If you are a middle or high school student in the valley, we want to see your answer to this question! Take one or two photos that capture your idea of what adolescence looks like and submit them to The Center’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/sunvalleycenterforthearts). We’ll post them on our website and print them for inclusion in our exhibition at The Center, Ketchum. Submissions are limited to photos by 12–18 year old Blaine County students. Everyone who submits a photo will be entered into a random drawing for a $350 gift certificate to the Board Bin! All submis-sions are also eligible for a $150 gift certificate awarded to the People’s Choice winner, determined by the most votes from gallery visitors.

Upload your photos to The Center’s Facebook page no later than Monday, November 7, to qualify for the gift certificate drawing and People’s Choice award. Visitors are encouraged to come into The Center and vote for their favorite photo by Thursday, December 1. Winners of both the random drawing and the People’s Choice award will be notified on Friday, December 2. (Any photos deemed inappropri-ate for this public site will be removed.)

School. This classic young adult novel addresses the controversial and impor-

tant issue of questioning authority. Adults are invited to read or reread this book and join the discussion with students. Lowry will spend time in the WRMS discussing her book wtih students.

Lecture Sponsors:Britt and Peter Palmedo

TheATeR in CoLLABoRATion WiTh CoMPAny oF FooLS

CommencementWritten and directed by Clay McLeod ChapmanFri, Nov 4, 7pm, Liberty Theater, HaileyFor ticket info: www.companyoffools.orgOriginally commissioned by Company of Fools, Commencement features one actress playing three women drawn together in the aftermath of a high school shooting—the mother of the shooter, one of the shooter’s victims, and the mother of that victim. The play is a deep exploration of the lives of three women that, according to SEE Magazine, “will leave you wringing your hands in helpless empathy.” Commencement will be performed for school mati-nees on November 3 and 4.

Commencement Sponsors:Linda and Bill Potter, and Priscilla Pittaglio

LoCALReSouRCeSFoR PARenTS& TeenSSt. Luke’s Center for Community Health offers education and outreach to assist and enhance the health of individuals and families in our community. Many programs specifically address youth and their parents, including puberty education, Cuidate HIV prevention education program, Super Sitter babysitting classes, and YAK! (Youth Adult Konnections). Weekly Brown Bag health education talks are free, one hour presentations by our physicians and other local experts. Many of the Brown Bag talks offer useful information for parents and educators.For more information, call 208.727.8733, or visit www.stlukesonline.org

8Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Moira Smiley + VoCo Fri, Nov 11, 6:30pmSun Valley Opera House$20 / $30 nonmember / $10 studentwww.moirasmiley.comMoira Smiley + VOCO is a visionary blend of voices—redefining harmony singing with the power & physicality of folksong, the avant-garde fearless-ness of Béla Bartók and the delicious, vaudevillian accompaniment of cello, banjo, accordion and body percussion. Moira Smiley leads an ensemble of extraordinary musicians who share a passion for spreading powerful, emotional music with lush vocal harmonies. Named #1 a cappella group in the U.S. in 2007, VOCO is the energy of street singing and the elegance of a string quartet. Recently featured in Dirty Linen and on more than 100 radio stations nationwide on NPR’s Harmonia, VOCO has released two critically acclaimed CDs: Small Worlds and Circle, Square, Diamond & Flag. VOCO is sweet, hard-driving Americana mixed with crooked eastern European dance and dissonance. It’s all rounded out with body-stompin’ percussive movement and joyous, magnificent, hair-raising harmonies—music that mourns and dances at the same time.Plus, school residency!

WinTeR SeRieS TiCKeT PRiCeS

FuLL SERIES (includes all 5 performances) $100 / $150 nonmembers / $45 studentsMINI SERIES (includes the 2012 performances only—January, February and March) $65 / $95 nonmembers / $25 students STuDENT TICKETS are for fulltime students with valid I.D.CRITIC’S CIRCLE SPONSOR TICKET —$500 Includes preferred seating at all concerts; Special Reception prior to the Flamenco Vivo concert; Luncheon for Editor’s and Critic’s Circle Sponsors on March 15; The knowledge that you have helped sustain this exceptional series for the whole community. ($250 tax-deductible donation)

Ben SolleeFri, Dec 9, 6:30pmSun Valley Opera House$20 / $30 nonmember / $10 studentwww.bensollee.comCellist and vocalist Ben Sollee is known for his percussive playing style, genre hopping songwriting incorporating banjo, guitar, percussion and unusual cello techniques to create a unique mix of folk, bluegrass, jazz and R&B. His inviting 2008-debut album, Learning to Bend, caught the ear of NPR’s Morning Edition, which heralded Sollee as one of the “Top Ten Great Unknown Artists of 2007.”

“I never expect to see that cello in one piece after Ben gets done playing it,” says musician Yim Yames. “He bows and beats and works it over with a passionate fury rarely seen. Don’t get me wrong—he can play it and hold his own with the most schooled and delicate scholars out there, but more importantly, Ben makes it live.” Ben Sollee will be playing the Opera House with his band that will include drums, cajon, bass and fiddle.Plus, school residency!

Performing Arts Series

2011-2012 WinTeR PeRFoRMinG ARTS SeRieS

9Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Performing ArtsSeries

2011-2012 WinTeR PeRFoRMinG ARTS SeRieSSponsored in part by

h’SaoSaturday, January 21, 6:30pmSun Valley Opera House$20 / $30 nonmember / $10 studentwww.hsao.ca H’sao’s journey begins in the band members’ native Chad. The group was initially made up of the Rim-tobaye brothers and their sister: Caleb, Mossbass, Taroum, and Israel. They began singing in the church where their father was the pastor. As they began performing publicly in the mid-1990s, they added Charles and Service Ledjebgue, and the group was able to buy instruments with their earnings. Their ini-tial lack of means forced H’Sao to develop an original and unique style of a cappella songs. Now they mix their large repertoire of a cappella songs with num-bers that include keyboards, djembe, drums, guitar, bass . . . and African dance.

H’Sao draws inspiration from gospel and tra-ditional African music, especially that of its Chadian roots, and adds dashes of pop, soul, jazz and R&B. The voices are magnificent, true and powerful; their original compositions, their unmistakable style and the energy on stage are contagious. H’Sao has filled concert halls in Sweden, Ireland, the United States, Colombia, Canada, South Africa, and Australia with vibrant African rhythms and hopeful words. PLuS School Residency!

Flamenco VivoCarlota SantanaSaturday, February 25, 6:30pmCommunity Campus, Hailey$30 / $40 nonmember / $10 studentwww.flamenco-vivo.orgFlamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is known for the purity of its work and the unique and creative way in which it has enriched the art of flamenco.

Driven by the fiery cante jondo (deep or grand song), Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will present their inspiring program La Pasión Flamenca. This fierce and eclectic evening of Spanish dance and music (with live guitar, singing and palmas – clap-ping) features lamenting solos, sizzling duets, and festive group dances. La Pasión Flamenca is pas-sion-in-motion, a journey back to the cultural cross-roads of Andalusia, the southern region of Spain and the birthplace of flamenco. Vibrant influences from Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East can be seen and heard in one of the world’s most dynamic forms of expression.

Flamenco Dance WorkshopSaturday, February 25, 11amCommunity Campus, Hailey $20 / $30 nonmember adults / $10 kidswww.flamenco-vivo.orgThe Company’s mission of bridging cultures using the spirit of flamenco is achieved through extensive community outreach. In addition to their evening performance, the community will have the opportu-nity to take a flamenco workshop—all are welcome! Please see our website for more details and to register.This project received support from

DervishThursday, March 15, 6:30pmLiberty Theatre, Hailey$20 / $30 nonmember / $10 studentwww.dervish.ieBuilt upon two sturdy pillars—the hauntingly charismatic vocals of Cathy Jordan and the dazzling virtuosity of award-winning instrumentalists Tom Morrow on fiddle, Liam Kelly on flute and Shane Mitchell on accordion—Dervish first attracted atten-tion with its legendary pub sessions in their native Ireland. Their current shape is the result of years of international touring.

More than 20 years since its inception and with four of the original members still at the helm, Dervish has visited every corner of the globe and shared cen-ter stage with the likes of James Brown, the Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, Beck and many more. Dervish has been instrumental in bringing Irish music to a worldwide audience—so come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Dervish!Sponsored in part by

�0Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Thin Ice:Journeys inPolar Regions

Thin Ice: Journeys in Polar RegionsDec 9, 2011 – Feb 4, 2012

The earth’s Polar Regions have long exerted a strong pull on the human imagination. The names of early twentieth-century explorers like Robert Peary, Robert Scott, Roald

Amundsen and Ernest Shackleton evoke heroic tales of men willing to sacrifice everything to be among the first to reach the North and South Poles and to expand our scientific understanding of the Arctic and Antarctica. The conditions they encountered were extreme; after reaching the South Pole in 1912, only to discover that Amundsen had beaten them there several weeks earlier, Scott and four of his men perished. Shackleton’s entire crew miraculously survived after their ship, the Endurance, was literally crushed by pack ice shortly after their arrival in Antarctica.

One hundred years later, scientists, explorers and tourists continue to explore the Polar Regions. They face similar extremes in weather and isolation, but travel with an urgency that is quite different from the competition that drove their predecessors. Many contemporary travelers hope to visit these parts of the planet in order to see firsthand landscapes and wildlife that are increasingly threatened. In 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that climate change has caused the retreat of ice shelves along the Antarctic coastline, threatening the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent’s surface. The population of emperor penguins in Antarctica has shrunk by 50% over the last 50 years, and polar bears face a rapid loss of the sea ice on which they hunt, breed and sometimes den, leading to declining populations.

The fragility of polar ecosystems seems to mirror their beauty. Those who have visited speak of the quality of the light, of the striking variations of color in the ice, of watching the aurora borealis and of the magic of seeing animals like seals, penguins, whales and polar bears in their natural habitats.

Thin Ice considers the role the Polar Regions play in our understanding of our world through the lens of travels and expeditions.

images from left:

Donald B. MacMillan (1913-1917), Inahloo, with Peary—North Pole

Expedition, Northwest Greenland, from a hand-tinted glass lantern

slide, AM3000.37.62, courtesy of The Peary-MacMillan Arctic

Museum, Bowdoin College

Anna McKee, Combatant Col Camp, acrylic ink on paper on panel,

pencil, 2010, courtesy the artist

Mark Thompson, Black Love, 2008, oil on canvas, courtesy the artist

and G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle

��Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

ViSuAL ARTS, KeTChuM

Dec 9, 2011 – Feb 4, 2012

A visual arts exhibition will feature photos by early explorers of the Arctic and Antarctica alongside work by modern and contemporary artists who have visited these parts of our world.

Subhankar Banerjee’s internationally acclaimed photos of the Arctic docu-ment the intersection between landscape, wildlife, native cultures and industry. Whether aerial photos of caribou migrations in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or images of Inupiat whale hunts, his photos provide an unsentimental view of the contemporary Arctic.

New York artist Kim Baranowski spent a summer at Palmer Station in Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writ-ers Program. On her return, she created Frozen Field, an installation of pseudo-historical maps and artifacts that uses the romance and mystery surrounding the continent to comment on the fragility of its environment and climate.

After spending time in Antarctica, Seattle-based artist Anna McKee began making drawings that are part of her larger interest in land and how it changes through time. Some of her drawings are almost abstract, exploring layers of ice in glaciers as they flow and collapse. Others capture the human presence in the Antarctic landscape, depicting bunkers or planes and landing strips in fields of varying shades of white.

In 2002, Toronto-based artist Iris Häussler participated in the 9th Art & Science expedition to the Arctic on the ship Cape Farewell. Throughout the trip, she filled three sketchbooks with her observations, drawings and notes. She col-lected melting glacier water to create the washes over her ink drawings, literally incorporating the landscape into her work.

Several years ago, bookbinder Rachel Hazell visited Antarctica as part of the Polar Arts Programme and later spent five months as Assistant Post Mistress and Penguin Monitor at Port Lockroy in the British Antarctic Territory. As she writes, she has “been trying to bind icebergs out of paper ever since.” Her Antarctic Bookworks are delicate, sculptural interpretations of Antarctic ice made from paper.

British painter Mark Thompson has spent time traveling through Alaska, Iceland and northern Scandinavia, later making paintings based on his memories of the places he has been. Working primarily with black and white, his stark im-ages convey the harsh quality of the environments he depicts.

Photographer Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) is best known for his photos

Thin Ice: Journeys in Polar Regions

documenting Robert Scott’s ill-fated 1910-1913 expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole. The exhibition features a vintage print from the expedition.

Donald MacMillan (1874-1970) was an explorer and amateur photographer who made more than thirty trips to the Arctic during his career, and was part of Robert Peary’s 1908 expedition to the North Pole. The exhibition includes repro-ductions of a number of the photos MacMillan took over the decades, document-ing the peoples, customs and architecture of the Arctic.

evening exhibition Tour and Film Screening of The Greely ExpeditionThu, Dec 15, tour at 5:30pm, film screening at 6:15pmFree at The Center, KetchumSee film description on page 14.

evening exhibition TourThu, Jan 26, 5:30pmFree at The Center, KetchumEnjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides.

exhibition TourTue, Jan 3, 2pm and by appointmentFree at The Center, KetchumTrained Gallery Guides offer insights in the artwork on display in free tours of our exhibitionsFavor de llamar al Centro de las Artes para arreglar visitas guiadas en español.

iris häussler, Svalbard Sketch, 2010, ink and melting glacier water on paper, courtesy the artist

�2Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Thin Ice: Journeys in Polar Regions

ViSuAL ARTS, hAiLey

Due north: images of Baffin island and inuit ArtDec 16 – Feb 10

An exhibition in Hailey features photographs taken by Wood River Valley resident Ann Puchner while living on Baffin Island from 1960 to 1961. With a crate full of darkroom equipment and a semester of photographic printing classes at Hunter College, Ann Puchner and her small family, including a Siamese cat, left New York City to spend a year with the Inuits at Cape Dorset. Freelancing for the Canadian Government, these images recorded daily life 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The photos were developed in a small closet intended for food storage; an enlarger and trays for chemicals, papers, etc., were lodged on barrels of dried onions, green beans, carrots, flour, sugar, and more! Without running water available, the 60 degree temperature water necessary for the chemicals was obtained by melt-ing from a large ice block stored in the house. The photos document the island’s landscapes, people and activities, from dances to seal hunts.

Alongside these images are a number of works from local resident Page Klune’s exceptional collection of small soapstone objects created by Inuit artists. These artworks offer visitors a glimpse into the way Native artists from the Arctic have interpreted the world around them.

opening CelebrationFri, Dec 16, 5:30-7pmJoin us as we celebrate the opening of Due North ! Ann Puchner will be present to discuss her photographs and Page Klune will speak about her collection.

images from top:

Ann Puchner, Children Sliding,

Cape Dorset, Valentine’s Day, 1961,

courtesy the artist

Ann Puchner, Houston Family,

Cape Dorset, Spring 1961,

courtesy the artist

Ann Puchner, After Welcoming Aircraft,

1960-1961, courtesy the artist

��Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Thin Ice: Journeys in PolarRegions

LeCTuReS

Gretel ehrlichThu, Jan 5, 6:30pmChurch of the Big Wood, Ketchum$15 / $25 nonmembers / $10 studentEhrlich’s newest book In The Empire of Ice: Encounters In a Changing Landscape builds on the nearly two decades she has spent in the Arctic and invites readers to understand this threatened environment and its indigenous people at the top of the world. According to The Seattle Times, “Ehrlich has accomplished an extraordinary feat: she has taken a forbiddingly beautiful, haunting and alien landscape and depicted it in equally beautiful and haunting prose.” She is an award-winning and widely published author of 13 books including three books of narrative essays, a novel, a memoir, three books of poetry, a biography, a book of ethnology/travel and a children’s book.

James BalogThu, Jan 19, 6:30pmChurch of the Big Wood, Ketchum $15 / $25 nonmember / $10 studentVeteran photographer James Balog is known for decades of work featuring the relationship be-tween humans and the natural environment. His most recent project began as a traditional National Geographic shoot of arctic icebreaks but has turned into the Extreme Ice Survey, the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. Using 27 cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and the Rocky Moun-tains, Balog illustrates ice loss and climate change in arresting, beautiful and shocking imagery. A new Nova/PBS special and book, Extreme Ice Now, feature his work and his latest initiative, Earth Vision Trust, is using powerful images to improve human understanding of the environment.

FiLMS

The Greely ExpeditionThu, Dec 15Exhibition tour at 5:30pm Film screening at 6:15pmFree at The Center, KetchumOn August 1, 1884, a rescue vessel pulled into the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire carrying First Lieuten-ant Adolphus Greely and the five other remaining survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Three years earlier, 25 men had set sail for the far North, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data about the Arctic – a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a “sheer blank.” Greely and his men completed that task, only to be abandoned in one of the harshest environments on Earth. The Greely Expedition reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.

Werner herzog’s Encounters at the End of the WorldWed, Jan 11, 6:30pmFree at the Liberty Theater, HaileyFilmmaker Werner Herzog takes you on a journey to the South Pole in this Oscar contender—from the National Science Foundation’s headquarters on Ross Island to some of Antarctica’s most remote and dangerous terrain. With a keen eye for the wonders and sometimes hilarious peculiarities of this icy land’s animal and human inhabitants, Herzog offers an astounding look at the world’s most inhospitable landscape.

�4Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

Lectures

Reza AslanThu, Feb 23, 6:30Church of the Big Wood$25 / $25 nonmembers / $15 studentReza Aslan addresses the topic of Islam, the Middle East, and Muslim Americans with authority, wit, and an infectious optimism. He is the author of the international bestseller No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been named by Blackwell Publishers as one of the 100 most important books of the last decade.

2011-2012 LeCTuRe SeRieSSponsored in part by Gail & Jack Thornton, The Castellano-Wood Family and

Lois LowryPlus, School Residency!Thu, Nov 3, 6:30pmChurch of the Big Wood, KetchumSee description in the Awkward Stage section page 8.Sponsored in part by Paul G. Allen Foundation and Britt & Peter Palmedo

Gretel ehrlichThu, Jan 5, 6:30pmChurch of the Big Wood, Ketchum$15 / $25 nonmembers / $10 studentSee description in the Thin Ice section page 14.

James BalogPlus, School Residency!Thu, Jan 19, 6:30pmChurch of the Big Wood$15 / $25 nonmembers / $10 studentSee description in the Thin Ice section page 14.Sponsored in part by Jeanne Meyers & Richard Carr and Richard & Judith Smooke

Garrison Keillor Mon, Mar 5, 6:30Community Campus, Hailey$30 / $40 nonmembers / $20 studentThe charming, witty, entertaining writer, humorist Garrison Keillor is known for his widely popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion, that attracts more than two million weekly listeners.Sponsored in part by Dan and Martine Drackett, Wodecroft Foundation

��Sun Valley Center for the Arts • www.sunvalleycenter.org • 208.726.949�

at the centerAbout UsCoMMuniTyA community cannot be a “real” community without the arts. The Center was started in 1971 with this fundamental belief of Bill and Glenn Janss. Our commitment since that time has been to build community through the arts.

VoLunTeeRSpend quality time with a fun group of people! Let us help you find a good fit for your skills. Over 500 people strong, Center volunteers provide the backbone of our operations. Your help is valuable to us. To volunteer call 208.726.9491 ext 10.

MiSSion The mission of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts is to stimulate and provoke the imagination while opening hearts and minds through diverse arts programs.

Sun Valley Center programs are supported by the Engl Trust, the Idaho Commis-sion on the Arts, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, private foundations, proceeds from the Sun Valley Center for the Arts Wine Auction, grants, donations, and your membership dues.

Hours • LocationsM–F, 9–� • �9� Fifth Street East, Ketchum Sats in Feb & Mar, ��–�W–F, 2–6 • ��4 S. Second Ave, Hailey Museum exhibitions are always free!