Independent Film Series
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
Munyurangabo – Kinyarwanta with English subtitles (Rwanda)
After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa’s home for just a few hours, the boys stay for several days. From two separate tribes, their friendship is tested when Sangwa’s wary parents disapprove of Munyurangabo, warning that “Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies.”
Natrona County Public Library, Casper
Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30- 8:30 pm
Book discussion group
Uinta County Library, Evanston
Reading Wyoming: Canine Companions, Laramie
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod, by Gary Paulsen
Albany County Library, Laramie
Reading Wyoming: Minority Experience in America, Sheridan
Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 p.m.
Katie Curtiss leads the discussions.
Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, Sheridan
Reading Wyoming: Rural in America, Cheyenne
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
All of the books in this discussion series offer both romantic and realistic views of rural life. Rose Wagner leads the discussions.
Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne
Reading Wyoming: Living Between Fences, Basin
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
The books in this reaading and discussion series consider fences and divisions both in their visible form on the landscape and as metaphors for the barriers that separate us. Claire Dunne leads the discussions.
Big Horn County Library, Basin
Reading Wyoming: Community and the Western Landscape, Casper
Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.
A reading and discussion series that explores the West’s diverse areas and history, facilitated by Nicole Bryant.
Fort Caspar Museum, Casper
What’s News: Jackson
Thursday, February 18, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Bring a lunch and join us from noon to 1:30 at the Teton County Library, tracking print and online news with local editors and occasional visiting editors, journalists, and scholars.
Teton County Library, Jackson
Humanities Forum: Pronghorn Passage
Thursday, February 18, noon
Emilene Ostlind tells the story of walking the 150-mile migration corridor of the pronghorn antelope to document one of hte world’s greatest long-distance animal migrations.
Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Grand Teton National Park
Edward P. Jones Reading
Thursday, February 18, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones. The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing sponsored by the University of Wyoming Bookstore. A variety of his books are now available at the UW Bookstore for 25% off. Don’t delay, get your copy today!
Wyoming Union, Yellowstone Ballroom, Laramie
Yak!
Thursday, February 18, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Featured film will be Weird Science.
Albany County Library, Laramie
Frankenstein Film Series
Thursday, February 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The featured film will be Young Frankenstein.
Albany County Library, Laramie
Popular Fantasy Author Talks ‘Imagination’
Thursday, February 18, 6:30-8 p.m.
Teton County Library presents award-winning young adult and children’s author Brandon Mull, writer of the best-selling Fablehaven series, for a talk and book-signing. Mull will talk about the writing process and how he engages his imagination to create fantastical characters in his stories. He encourages students to strengthen their imagination through reading and writing during his “Imagination Can Take You Places” tour, which has reached more than 215,000 elementary school students to date.
Colter School Cafeteria, 1855 High School Road
Humanities Forum: Aama’s Journey, Big Piney
Friday, February 19, 7:00 p.m.
In 1992, an 84-year-old village woman from the Himalayas with no exposure to a Western civilization made a pilgrimage to the United States. Broughton Coburn tells her story, based upon his books.
Big Piney Branch Library, Big Piney
Saturday University: Jackson
Saturday, February 20, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
One-day seminar with UW faculty members. Free and open to the public.
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson
Author Book Signings- Alyson Hagy
Sunday, February 21, Ghosts of Wyoming- Short stories
Albany County Library, Laramie
Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century – and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody
Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramie
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