Warm Springs Ketchum

World Famous Party Extraordinaire Kellen Corrigan would like to invite all St. Patty's Day enthusiasts to join him for the 2nd Annual "Kellen's St. Patty's Day Tailgate Party Extravaganza!" In the Upper Parking Lot @ Warm Springs! 

Look for Kellen and his little white truck (If it doesn't over heat on the way out Warm Springs).

Free Beer and Entertainment for anyone that believes in Leprechauns will be provided by our local sponsor Kellen Corrigan is a Silly Leprechaun Foundation, LLC.

Donations are accepted. Checks can be made out to Kellen Corrigan is a Broke Ass International Association.

Happy Freakn St. Patty's Day Sun Valley!

Cheers,

Kellen

Buy tickets early for this summer’s Wine Picnic & Concert and not only will you be guaranteed attendance, but you’ll be eligible to win a 30th anniversary commemorative magnum.

Tickets for the always popular Picnic, to be held on Saturday, July 21, go on sale 12:01am Sunday, March 4. Anyone buying a ticket during the month of March will be entered into the drawing to wine a commemorative magnum. 

Ticket packages and individual tickets for other Wine Auction events won’t be available for until early May, but because the Picnic & Concert attracts a large local crowd, “we want to make sure everyone in the community who wants to attend can get a ticket,” says Christl Holzl, Wine Auction & Special Events Director.

Held at Warm Springs Ranch, the Picnic will feature the MarchFourth Marching Band, a 20+ piece band with circus-like costumes, acrobats, stilt walkers and flag twirlers. The band, a huge hit at last year’s Wine Auction Gala, will entertain guests while they feast on gourmet picnic fare from local restaurants and enjoy an array of fine wines from around the world.

Tickets cost $70 a person (plus tax) and can be purchased at www.sunvalleycenter.org starting March 4 at 12:01am. The commemorative magnum, a coveted 1.5 liters of Silver Oak Cellars 2006 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, was crafted to celebrate last year’s 30th anniversary of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts Wine Auction, and only a few of these collector’s items are still available.

You must be 21 years or older to purchase a ticket or attend any Wine Auction event.

Here's the details for Leif's Race:

There will be two categories of competition, Alpine and Telemark. You may race the Giant Slalom on alpine skis or telemark skis. Leif didn’t snowboard, but snowboarders are welcome to race. They will compete in the Tele category. 

Giant Slalom – There will be a one run Giant Slalom race down Cozy. The course will be open and easy, so if you aren’t a very good alpine skier, don’t worry. After skiing your GS run, you will head to the Nordic Center (Golf Club) for the….

Nordic Race – The Nordic race will be on Leif’s Loop, which is 2.5 km. Kids born after 2001, and adults born before 1942 have the option of racing just one lap (2.5 km). Everyone else will race two laps (5 km)

Age groups: (awards to top three finishers in each age group)
Class 0 – Born 2002 – present
Class 1 – Born 1992 – 2001
Class 2 – Born 1982 – 1991
Class 3 – Born 1972 – 1981
Class 4 – Born 1962 – 1971
Class 5 – Born 1952 – 1961
Class 6 – Born 1942 – 1951
Class 7 – Born before 1942

Scoring – To be fair to both Alpine and Nordic skiers, the following scoring system will be used. It is kind of complicated. After the GS, we’ll average the three fastest times to get the “alpine base time”. After the XC, we average the three fastest XC times to get the “XC base time”. Then, we divide the XC base time by the alpine base time to get a multiplier. We multiply everyone’s alpine time by the multiplier, then add it to their XC time. The fastest combined time wins. 

Schedule:
10:00 am Giant Slalom run on Cozy. 
1:30 pm 5K XC race at the Sun Valley Nordic Center (Sun Valley Club)
Awards 30 min after the XC race is over

Cost
Cost will be $25 if you sign up and pay by Feb 17th. Cost is $30 if you sign up the day of the race. Your race bib serves as your lift ticket on the Greyhawk lift, so you don’t have to buy a lift ticket. Your bib also is your pass at the Nordic center. 

Sign up
Sign up before Friday at either the Warm Springs Race Desk or the Nordic Center.
Sign up the morning of the race at the Warm Springs Lodge.

Questions? Call the Sun Valley Ski Club at 622-3003

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Caritas Chorale and artistic director, Dick Brown, will present Handel's festive "Coronation Anthems" this weekend.  Concerts will be performed at The Big Wood Presbyterian Church on Saturday and Sunday, January 29th and 30th,at 3:30 PM each afternoon. Audiences are in for a very exciting musical experience.

These concerts by the Chorale will feature four soloists, as well as a 38-member orchestra.   The soloists are: R. L. Rowsey, bass; Dawson Howard, tenor; Jenette Tomlinson, alto; and Amy Staiger, soprano.  Both R. L. and Dawson are Wood River Valley residents and well known in theater and musical groups.  Jenette and Amy are members of Anam Cara, The Chamber Choir of Idaho, also directed by Dick Brown.

In 1727, King George I signed an act naturalizing George Frideric Handel as a British citizen, and Handel's first commission was to write the music for the coronation later that year of King George II and Queen Caroline on October 11, 1727.  There is an extraordinary feature to the Caritas Chorale performances this weekend.  Original documents from the 1727 coronation, provided by an anonymous donor, will be on display for all guests at the performances to view.  This was arranged by R. L. Rowsey, and will add an incredibly special touch of history to the afternoon performances.

The text for the first anthem, Zadok the Priest, was taken from the First Book of Kings, and is in itself a fascinating story.  It opens with a choral and orchestral 'tour de force' that no degree of familiarity can stale.  The words of Zadok the Priest have been sung at every coronation since that of King Edgar in 973 AD, and Handel's setting has been sung at every coronation since.

The text for the other anthems have been taken from the Psalms.

The music is grand and elaborate, with trumpets delivering a monumental triumphant dimension to the finale.

Please be sure to attend one of these concerts (or Both! . . . . You might like it!) on Saturday and Sunday at 3:30 PM.  As always, Caritas Chorale performances are free.  And, as always, we are so grateful to our loyal friends and supporters for any donations provided at the door.

Sun Valley and Apple’s  brings The Ski Channel Film Tour to Harvest; A Gathering of Film  

Sun Valley, ID, October 21, 2010 – The Sun Valley Premiere of The Ski Channel Film Tour’s THE STORY comes to the Apple’s Bar and Grill in Warm Springs on Friday, October 22. “The Story” features mountain sports’ biggest stars including the marquee athletes of alpine skiing, Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn, and X Games phenom Bobby Brown.  It is the personal narratives and mesmerizing alpine backdrops that tell the tale of those who devote their lives to the mountain. The feature HD film, THE STORY, anchors the slate of films presented by The Ski Channel on the first annual Ski Channel Film Tour.

 Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the show starts at 6:00 p.m. Tickets for the premiere are $10.00 at the door.

  “The Story” was shot on location in Mt. Everest, Nepal, the Antarctic Peninsula, Portillo, Chile and Las Leñas, Argentina.  The film takes viewers on an incredible journey down sky-scraper steep first descents in Haines, Alaska and to iconic ski resorts like Mammoth Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Jackson Hole, Snowbird, Grand Targhee, Deer Valley and Vail.  Through poignant stories and epic skiing, snowboarding, river surfing and unimaginable variations of human flight, the film explores the intangible feeling that drives those who devote their lives to the mountains.

  “The film is a celebration and character study of some of the most interesting, successful, daring and charismatic people on the planet,” said Bellamy who also wrote, produced and directed the film.  “It is a piece of work that will hopefully be unifying to our industry as it speaks to all of those appreciative of ski films and mountain sport cinema.  It is inspirational.  It is an incredible, death-defying journey of human accomplishment that rivals anything we will see in our lifetimes.”

 The teaser for THE STORY can be viewed at www.theskichannel.com/filmtour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                   FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

October 12, 2010                                        Linda Horn, 725-2109 or lhorn@visitsunvalley.com

The Sun Valley Chamber of Commerce invites members and guests to attend the October Business After Hours hosted by Lizzy's Fresh Coffee and Sue Bridgeman Florist on Thursday, October 14, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  The Business After Hours will be held at Lizzy's Fresh Coffee which is located at across from the Knob Hill Inn in Ketchum.

Businesses are encouraged to use this monthly event as an opportunity to network with other members, meet new businesses in town and get better acquainted with the companies hosting the event.

Please mark your calendars for Thursday, August 26th. Big trunk show of shoes & boots & great sale items. Also Amy Nordstrom Jewelry from California. From 5-8. 131 Exhibition/ 720-3974. Hope to see you & bring friends!

By John Pluntze

[Editor Note: Click here for some more examples of James Bourret's photography.]

In a very real sense, FOX's hit musical-comedy series, "Glee," led to my latest "Where ART Thou?" column -- on Ketchum photographer (and architect) James Bourret -- or rather his avid, self-confessed "Gleek" of a wife, Lucy, led me there, anyway!! (Type the word "Glee" into the SVO search engine here to see what I mean).

You see, months ago I was happily and eagerly writing a series of very popular SVO music articles for sunvalleyonline.com about the whole worldwide "Glee" phenomenon -- including how there are sooooo many people right here in the Wood River Valley, like myself, who are now hopelessly and unceasingly smitten with that endlessly inventive and extremely entertaining TV show (it was nominated just the other day for 19 Emmys, btw, the second highest of any TV program this year -- SO THERE!!!).

Well ... somewhere along the way, I met and began talking with Lucy Bourret, who is a verrry avid "Gleek" herself (i.e., a verrry avid fan of "Glee"), whom I had every intention of talking with at some point about why she, and their three kids, all love that FOX show so much (James, I guess, maybe not so much -- dunno).

Well, for a variety of reasons, THAT never happened. But what DID happen is that Lucy Bourret somewhere along the way learned that in addition to writing a regular ("Harmonic Convergence") music column for SVO, I also often write a ("Where ART Thou?") art column for them as well, at which point she excitedly told me that her husband, James, was a "really terrific" photographer whom I might wanna meet and talk with one of these days...

... Which is what I did -- just last week, as a matter of fact!!

Now, regular readers of my "WAT?" column (yessss, all three of you!!!) know already that I am AT LEAST as hopelessly enamoured and otherwise smitten with b&w photography as I am with b&W movies (or FOX's "Glee" series, too, for that matter); I could easily spend the rest of this year endlessly raving over those amazingly sumptuous and inspiringly soulful b&w photos of Thia Konig's, another verrry gifted Ketchum photographer whom I eagerly profiled in one of my "Where ART Thou?" columns last year.

Or Kirk Anderson, too, for that matter.

Just incredible what those two do with film!!!

And I have to say now, that photographer James Bourret ( http://jamesbourret.photoshelter.com/http://web.mac.com/jamesbourret ) strikes me as being very much in the same vein. In fact, it's a verrrry radiant testament to just how MUCH I genuinely enjoyed perusing his gallery recently -- it's located right between the Clarion Inn and that new Bluebird Day Cafe (formerly the site of The Rustic Moose) -- that I quickly jettisoned the notion of making up some spur-of-the-moment excuse there for being able to spend less time at his photo studio than I'd originally planned, in order to sneakily grab some breakfast next door at the Bluebird (before I had to head off to my second job that morning).

Bourret grew up in the Bay Area, and both he and Lucy (and their three kids, I guess, also) spent many years happily and eagerly traipsing through the Sierras, and elsewhere, in California, before they decided that maybe the nature-oriented offerings of Idaho were more for them.

Bourret's had his Clarion Inn studio there for some five years now, but he only just recently began emphasizing his photography work there over his architectural-design work -- I guess, 'cuz there isn't exactly a plethora of new houses (or buildings) being built here in the Valley right now.

"I always loved outdoor wilderness and naturescape photographs," Bourret told me last week, as he was proudly showing me around his studio at 8:15 a.m. in the morning, "And my nature photography over the years has led me into other directions -- trying to explore really abstract imagery -- which a lot of times is much more creative and interesting for me, and it often ends up making my landscape photos much richer because of it."

Indeed, walking around Bourret's Ketchum gallery last week, taking those notoriously-"copious notes" of mine, I was immediately struck by the often stark contrasts between his lovely and colorful photos of places I could readily identify (Easley, The Elephant's Perch, Moab, Zion and Arches National Parks, the Salmon River, Baldy, Upper Board Ranch, Pioneer Cabin, Bruneau Sand Dunes, the Shoshone Ice Caves, Corral Creek, etc) with these often verrrrrrrry trippy-looking, abstract b&w photos that Bourret has taken as well (one series is called "Winter's Veil" and deals with ice ... but several of the photos in that particular series instead actually reminded me immediately of Death Valley's Zabriskie Point!).

Bourret also has a bunch of what I sometimes call those "blur-motion" color photographs (Marybeth Flower has a number of them, too; they're currently on display at St Luke's here in the Valley), which basically involves sweeping the camera horizontally back and forth while you're taking a photograph of something (or someone), a process that ultimately gives your finished photographs the look of a PAINTING, instead.

How seriously kick-ass cool is THAT, people?!?!

One of the many, many things I quickly came to love about Bourret's work is that he deliberately doesn't include much in the way of descriptions of his photos -- instead preferring the viewer to come up with their own interpretation (s) of what they're looking at. (Some of the titles he came up with for his "blur-motion" photos include: "Water & Rocks," "Reflections," "Aspen Trunks," "River Bank," and "Last Leaves.")

Likening it to a Grand Priz auto race ("As a photographer, I was always much more interested in the BlUR than in any of the CARS!"), Bourret told me that his underlying goal with these various "Blur-motion" and unabashedly Expressionistic photographs is to create a certain "tension," "emotion," "drama" and "excitement" in things that ordinarily can often seem to be rather static and stationary otherwise. 

Another sort of "tension" and "emotion," etc, that Bourret adroitly instills in some of his many works (btw, a number of his very beautiful "Winter Veil" b&w photographs were published in the March-April, 2009 "LensWork" magazine: www.lenswork.com ) involves using a PAPER SHREDDER, of all things!!! He has a number of photos there at his studio of various books, magazines, etc, that he dutifully shredded, and then photographed; one is comprised of the Sunday "New York Times" (never exactly my favorite newspaper, anyway, so good on ya, James!!! (LOL), another is of the "Physician's Desk Reference" (Bourret's canny way of questioning the importance and legitimacy of Western medicine).

Ostensibly, that particular photo series is more or less "recycling"-oriented in nature (although personally, if I was Lucy and I came home to find my husband happily and eagerly -- and, let's face it, also sort a weeee bit bizarrely, too -- shredding the "Physicians Desk Reference," I'd probaby take the kids and go to my mother's house, but hey that's just me!!), but Bourret was emphatic that he NOT get pigeon-holed into a particular type of photography, and/or a series of photographs, even though some art galleries clearly want that sort of thing.

"There's never been a strongly commercial aspect to my photography ... but especially where the flora and fauna photos are concerned, if I can capture some of the fear and mystery of early-childhood nature experiences, I'm doing something very right, I think" Bourret said, adding that, "It's very easy to sometimes find yourself falling into a rut as an artist -- doing the same thing over and over again -- which is why I keep forcing myself to try new types of photography, and hopefully see things in an entirely new way in the process."

Bourret acquired his first digital camera in 2004, but he's been practicing his photography on a regular basis since 1983, and those many years of devotion to it are very much in evidence in many of the photos he has on display there at his well-organized Ketchum studio/office (he's had a couple of very successful shows in years past at The Open Room in Ketchum, btw).

Whether it's tire tracks (Santa Cruz, California) or a corrugated tin roof (Mackay) or gorgeous, fall-foliaged trees (Hulen Meadows) or early-morning snowmaking (Dollar Mountain) or lenticulars (Lake Tahoe), Bourret repeatedly demonstrates a genuine knack for vividly capturing the quiet beauty of nature in all its many forms -- both in his classic, naturescape works, and also, more subtlety, in his often boldly-original and -challenging Expressionistic works as well.

Well, I for one, certainly saw things in an "entirely new way" after I visited James Bourret's Ketchum studio last week, and I sincerely hope that you do, also. He has everything from very affordable and eye-catching photo notecards there to much larger (and pricier) wall hangings, and pretty much everything in between as well. (Just be sure NOT to bring any books or magazines that you value with you, 'cuz you just KNOW that James there will want to shred 'em the second your back is turned!!! (LOL)

Contact Bourret at 725-5801/ 2jbourret@cox-internet.com to arrange a showing at his Ketchum art gallery/architectural firm.

The ongoing goal of this "Where ART Thou?" column is to make Art more accessible to people here in this Valley of ours who, for whatever reason (s), tend to SHY AWAY from it, and James Bourret seems to genuinely and proudly embrace that ongoing goal, which makes me very happy that I was able to feature his work here today (Bourret's verrrrry obvious and disturbing paper-shredding fetish, notwithstanding, that is!!!)
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Questions or comments regarding this 'Where ART Thou?" column can be sent to John at: WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com .And to read any of John's previous "WAT?" columns -- which include writeups on local artists such as Narda Pitkethly, Tessa Bradley, Thia Konig, Kirk Anderson, Gay Odmark, Brent Haleen and 11-year-old Ashley Dreyfus, and on local art galleries such as the David M. Norton, the Kneeland, the Gail Severn, the Gilman Contemporary, Tribes Interiors, and The Loft (in Hailey) -- simply type "Music Rules" (and also "John Pluntze") into the SVO search engine here. 

Camp Big Wood at the Big Wood School provides action-packed Summer days for your little ones…Sun Valley style!  Our program is designed for children ranging from 18 months through six years of age.  We offer a different exciting and dynamic theme every week.  Whether you have a Hummingbird (children 3 and younger that nap in the afternoon) or a Woodpecker (children no longer requiring a nap, that are ready for a full day of awesome activities), your child will get a taste of all Sun Valley has to offer this Summer!  We will hike the many kid-friendly trails of the Valley, bike along the Bike Path, go wildflower picking during “Flower Power” week, fish down at Penny Lake, dabble with a wide variety of arts and crafts, cook up some tasty treats during “Let’s Get Cookin”, splish and splash on Water Play days, put on a show and create our own puppets for “Big Wood Goes Broadway” and venture out on numerous field trips, hitting all the Valley hotspots along the way! 

For more information or to register your child, please call 208-726-9053 or email us at bigwoodschool@pcbw.org.  Full-day and half-day options available and sign up for a week at a time or join us for the entire Summer from June 13