Books and Cooks with Lewis Williams and Exotic Ice Cream


We all scream for ice cream! Lewis Williams from La Cocina will be demonstrating how to make ice cream with some exotic ingredients at noon on the terrace at the Wilkinson Public Library. Lewis is the current reigning mushroom cook-off champion who won with a dish made of mushroom candy cap ice cream. He will be defending his crown in this year's mushroom cook-off on August 17. Come learn from his expertise and wisdom for this summer edition of Books and Cooks with Chef Bud.

This program will be available online at www.telluridelibrary.org/wpltv

Talking Gourds with David Feela

Talking Gourds is a free open-mic and poetry performance that occurs on the first Tuesday of every month at the library. At 6:00 p.m., hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Art Goodtimes sit down with David for an interview that explores his background, his poetry and his essays. Then at 6:30 p.m., David reads before a captivated audience. After the performance, Art will lead the group in a “gourd” circle where patrons can reflect on David’s work or share a poem or performance of their own. To read some work by David you can visit Telluride Inside and Out.

TFF Cinematheque: Screwball Comedies


Join the Telluride Film Festival for the last night of our Screwball Comedies Cinematheque series on Monday, August 6 at 5:00 p.m. as we screen BALL OF FIRE and THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK

BALL OF FIRE (1941, 111 min): Directed by Howard Hawks with screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, this four-time Oscar nominated film features Barbara Stanwyk as Sugarpuss OShea, a burlesque dancer on the run from the law, and Gary Cooper as Professor Bertram Potts. A professor of language, Potts meets the beautiful OShea because he wants to hear how real people talk, but finds himself falling for her. As he attempts to help her avoid police and escape from the mob, he realizes that before meeting her "the only thing I could care for deeply...was a well-constructed sentence."

THE MIRACLE OF MORGANS CREEK (1944, 98 min): Director Preston Sturges Oscar nominated film tells the tale of small-town girl, Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), who wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husbands identity, after an all-night party with a group of soldiers headed overseas. In regard to his film challenging the Hays Production Code of the era (at which he takes many jabs in the film), Sturges says in his memoir, I wanted to show what happens to young girls who disregard their parents advice and who confuse patriotism with promiscuity. As I do not work in a church, I tried to adorn my sermon with laughter so that people would go to see the picture instead of staying away from it.”  To learn more about these films visit Telluride Inside for an article about the evening or watch a few scenes from the films below. 


 

Victor Wooten at the Library - Saturday at 12:30 PM


Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards.  On Saturday, August 4 at 12:30 p.m., the Jazz Celebration will feature the music stylings of Victor Wooten at the Wilkinson Public LIbrary.  To honor the kids and families that frequent the library, 50 tickets have been made available for those who want to show their kids the magic of Wooten's fingers.  Parents can pick up tickets in the Children's Area at the Wilkinson Public Library.  Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the best bass players alive as he performs for free at the library.  

Free Jazz Film - Icons Among Us


Kick off the Jazz Celebration with a free film at the Wilkinson Public Library on Thursday at 6:00 p.m.  Todd Altschuler from the Jazz Celebration will host Icons Among Us as it captures the metamorphosis of jazz by showcasing the words, music, and spirit of the artists that are paving the way for an unprecedented musical revolution.

Through interviews and live performance footage, the film explores the thoughts and lives of the musicians spearheading today's jazz front lines. Directed by Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson and Peter J. Vogt, Icons Among Us examines the jazz music scene today by focusing the spotlight on many current jazz icons including Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen, Esperanza Spalding, and Medeski Martin and Wood. The film also features the legendary predecessors and influences of today's contemporary jazz stars, including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis.

Hazel Thomas at the Market on the Plaza


Daughter of Chef Bud, Hazel Thomas is known to prepare some amazing kid-friendly food.  From peanut butter and jelly pancakes to ham and avocado pancake sandwiches, Hazel knows how to create food that pleases a kid's palette.  On Wednesday at 1:00 p.m., Hazel will lead a kid-friendly cooking demonstration that will pick a few key ingredients from vendors at the market, and transform these ingredients into a dish that any age can enjoy.  Bring your family to this special one time event at the Market on the Plaza from the Wilkinson Public Library.  

Unmasked: Judeophobia with Director Gloria Greenfield



When the Wilkinson Library hosted a screening of a film last April that examined Israeli peace activists protesting against the State of Israel, a global issue became a lively local discussion.  That discussion continues with the upcoming screening of the award-winning documentary UNMASKED: JUDEOPHOBIA-The Threat to Civilization.  Wilkinson Library will once again host the film followed by a Q&A and discussion with acclaimed Director and Producer, Gloria Greenfield.



In this film, director Gloria Greenfield travels throughout Israel, Europe and North America covering the contemporary rise of anti-Jewish ideology.  Using interviews with 70 Jewish and non-Jewish experts in the fields of history, law, literature, media, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology, Greenfield seeks to understand the forces that view the existence of a Jewish state and the Jewish community as the source of the world’s problems.  Those interviewed include author and lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Senator Joe Lieberman, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, author and anti-Semitism expert Robert Wistrich, Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Wall Street Journal writer and former Jerusalem Post editor Bret Stephens, British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, British attorney Anthony Julius, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick and many others.

Greenfield developed the premise of this film after she premiered her documentary, The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost.  Speaking in front of Christian, Jewish and secular audiences in North America and Israel, she learned that Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, was widely questioned.  “It became clear to me that there was confusion about why the Jewish state was being singled out, and many people thought that attacks on Israel had something to do with policies or territories,” Greenfield explains.  Instead, Greenfield suggests that this hatred towards the Jewish state is about a refusal to accept the Jewish people’s right to self-determination and Israel, the Jewish homeland, as one of world’s legitimate nation-states. 

To unmask the issue of Judeophobia, this film provides a basic understanding of the history of conflict in the Middle East and documents how hatred towards the State of Israel and the Jewish community is rapidly accelerating in the world.  The film then suggests that as this hatred continues and others groups are demeaned by similar intolerance, western civilization will suffer as a result.  “I believe that good and decent people do not tolerate hatred once they are aware of it,” says Greenfield. She said the purpose of the film is to “awaken all the good and decent people to stand up and speak against it.”

Gloria Greenfield brings over 30 years of experience with Jewish issues.  Her previous film credits include The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost (Doc Emet Productions, 2008) and Chazak, Chazak, v’Nitchazek: Bold Ideas from Three Leaders (PEJE, 2010). Among the positions that Greenfield held prior to founding Doc Emet Productions, where she serves as President, are strategy manager for the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, director of the Adult Learning Collaborative for Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and executive director of The David Project, where she broadened the organization’s mission to focus on Jewish leadership development and launched groundbreaking Israel advocacy programs for American students in Israel. In May 2005, the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Boston awarded Greenfield their Keter Torah Award for her contribution to Jewish education. 

A reception with Gloria Greenfield and sponsors Ziva and Andrew Dahl and Marlene and Martin Silver will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the program room at the Wilkinson Public Library.  After the reception, the film will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m.  Following the screening, Gloria will be available to discuss the issues raised in the film and the polemic surrounding the existence of a Jewish state.