The University Centers of the San Miguel resumes their series "Finding Solutions" on Tuesday, January 31st from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Colleges such as Mesa University, Colorado Northwestern Community College and Prescott College will be on hand to answer all of your questions about higher education until 6:00 p.m.. From 6:00 to 7:00 each college will make a presentation and at 7:00 p.m. Mary Morris Director of Community Education at CNCC will give a presentation on financial aid. It's never too early to start financial aid and begin learning about your options for college. Parents and students are encouraged to attend!
UCSM FINDING SOLUTIONS - TUESDAY, JAN 31
The University Centers of the San Miguel resumes their series "Finding Solutions" on Tuesday, January 31st from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Colleges such as Mesa University, Colorado Northwestern Community College and Prescott College will be on hand to answer all of your questions about higher education until 6:00 p.m.. From 6:00 to 7:00 each college will make a presentation and at 7:00 p.m. Mary Morris Director of Community Education at CNCC will give a presentation on financial aid. It's never too early to start financial aid and begin learning about your options for college. Parents and students are encouraged to attend!
Wilkinson Cafe: Jerry Barlow "Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar"
Acclaimed Celtic fingerstyle guitarist Jerry Barlow will be presenting a free concert at the Wilkinson Public Library on Thursday, January 26th at 6:00 p.m. A warm accessible performer and storyteller, Jerry's repertoire is a synthesis of his own Celtic inspired compositions and the traditional music of the British Isles. His music has the power to transport the listener across time and space on an imaginary journey to a rustic Irish fishing village, the misty Scottish Highlands, or an ancient English forest. In concert, Jerry brings traditional Celtic tunes alive by sharing the history, humor and legends behind the music.Listen to an interview with Jerry on Tellurideinside.com where he explains what he will present on Thursday evening and discusses the origins of bluegrass music.
Cine De Montanas: Nostalgia for the Light
On Monday, January 23 the MountainFilm Festival will bring another Spanish documentary to the Wilkinson Public Library. This month, we will be screening Nostalgia for the Light. This film takes places in Chile's Atacama Desert, where astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
ITVS Free Film: Daisy Bates - First Lady of Little Rock - Wednesday, Jan. 18 @ 6:00
Come to the Wilkinson Public Library on Wednesday to honor the work of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Daisy Bates. We will be showing a free film that focuses on Daisy Bates in Little Rock, Arkansas. This film tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself. Unconventional, revolutionary, and egotistical, Daisy Bates reaped the rewards of instant fame, but paid dearly for it.
The Arab Spring - Tuesday, Jan. 17 @ 6:00
Have all the Arab Springs sprung? It is sometimes easier and more glorious to get rid of a ruthless dictator than it is to build a new society. Especially when the society, now dictatorless, still retains the structures, language, and habits of the dictator’s era, and the sometimes still-festering scars of the country’s even earlier colonial history. The countries of the Arab Spring now face daunting policy issues. How to take the best of Islam and of “modern ideas” and meld them into a productive, moral, and just society? How to find a balance between individual economic initiative and collective social goals? How to position themselves between a deteriorating West and a still lagging East? And, the meta-question of them all: what processes and institutions will the Arab Springs pursue to tackle these issues?
Why did the Arab Spring begin in North Africa, the Maghrib – and why Tunisia? Why are efforts to build a new society so different country to country? Why have two of the five Maghrib countries not (yet?) had their own Springs?
And – a last riddle question – why are Maîssa Bey and Gene Sharp so vital to our understanding of these questions?
These will be the key themes of the presentation and discussion at the Wilkinson Public Library, Telluride, on January 17, 2012, at 6:00 pm. Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating look into what lies behind what may be the most important headlines of 2011.
Lawrence de Bivort, PhD, is a specialist in Arab and Muslim affairs. He has recently returned from North Africa sans Libya, where he carried out dozens of interviews on emerging political, economic, and social conditions, and considered the deep revisions that are needed if US policies and actions in the area are to be successful.
Meet the Author: Margot Talbot on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 6
World-renowned ice climber Margo Talbot shares her compelling story of healing and self-discovery amid the frozen landscapes of the planet. Rescued from the depths of drug addiction and crime by the lure of climbing frozen waterfalls, Margo rises from the brink of suicidal depression in a jail cell to being envied by a client in Antarctica for having a “dream life”. This presentation is free and open to the public. Between the Covers will also be available for a book signing.
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