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Community Classes For Mind Body Awareness

Five Saturday Sampler
Feb. 13 - March 13
Library Hall
10-11:15 a.m.

• 2.13 Patty Zimmer teaches 7 Spiritual Laws of Yoga
• 2.20 Beth Boyd teaches Yoga Nidra Meditation
• 2.27 Carrie Nelson teaches Satyananda Yoga
• 3.6   Steamboat Dance Theatre teaches "Warm Up like a dancer!": Belly Dance with Meg Widmer, Zumba with Renee Fleischer, Hip Hop Yoga with Katie West & West African Dance with Jen Lowe

• 3.13  Christy Borden teaches Strength & Flexibility through Yoga, Pilates and Resistance Stretching

Community classes are designed for all levels of experience. Wear comfortable clothes, and please bring a mat and a blanket if you have one. Classes are by donation, and each teacher has individually chosen a needy charitable cause to receive each week's donations.

Each class is followed by a tea tasting compliments of The Deep Steep Tea Co. Stay to sip tea, chat with local certified instructors, and peruse a selection from the Library’s Mind Body Awareness collection.

THIS WEEK'S FEATURED TEACHER

March 13: Christy Borden teaches Strength & Flexibility through Yoga, Pilates & Resistance Stretching.

About Christy
Christy Borden grew up ski racing in Steamboat. She began studying the Pilates method while living in New York City, and later became a certified instructor through the PhysicalMind Institute at Steamboat Pilates Yoga and Fitness. Also a CorePower yoga instructor, Christy seeks to integrate contemporary and cutting-edge physiological innovations with the time-tested classical theories of Pilates and Yoga.

About Christy’s Mind Body Awareness community class at the Library
Christy's class will be a combination of yoga, Pilates, and resistance stretching. The goal will be to integrate your body's strength and flexibility and become more aware of the relationship between these two aspects of fitness.

Christy’s inspiring book recommendations

• "Clean," by Dr. Alejandro Junger
• "Spent," by Dr. Frank Lipman

Donations for Christy's class go to Cards for Calcutta, which raises money for Pathways to Children and Children Need Love - two dynamic, effective charities with low-overhead, and high output in their aid to impoverished and ailing children in India.

March Is Women's History Month!

Tread of Pioneers Museum & Bud Werner Memorial Library present...
A special evening in celebration of:

The Women of Perry-Mansfield

FREE film, personal stories & more!
Monday, March 15
4:00 - 4:45 p.m. kids’ program
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. all-ages program
Library Hall, 1289 Lincoln Ave.

Enjoy a FREE screening of the 1979 documentary "A Divine Madness," about the history of Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp. Plus! There will be historical displays, personal reminiscences about Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield and their legacy in the performing arts, and a special collection of books about Northwest Colorado’s many legendary ladies.

Bud Werner Book Club - A RELIABLE WIFE

Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets.

Tuesday, March 16th
5:30 pm
Small Meeting Room

Please RSVP: Michelle Dover, mdover@steamboatlibrary.org or 367-4907. Space limited to 12 readers. This meeting is currently FULL.

Third Friday's Free Foreign Film Series at The Depot: WELCOME

Bud Werner Memorial Library and the Steamboat Springs Arts Council present an award-winning 2009 French drama directed by Philippe Lioret.

WELCOME - Best Picture winner at the 2010 Lumiere Awards

Friday, March 19
7 p.m.
The Depot, across the river from the Library on 13th Street.

WELCOME Synopsis:
Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has struggled his way through Europe for the last three months, trying to reunite with his girlfriend, who recently emigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt halt when he is stopped by authorities in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. Left with no other alternatives, he decides to swim across. Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to train, where he meets Simon, a middle-aged swimming instructor in turmoil over his imminent divorce. Simon agrees to help Bilal, hoping to win back the affection of his wife, who does volunteer work helping immigrants. But what begins as a relationship based on self interest, develops into something much bigger than Simon could ever have imagined, as he too will ultimately risk everything to reach happiness.

In French, English & Kurdish with English subtitles/105 min.

The free screening includes an award-wining short, fresh popcorn & a cash bar. Special thanks to KPA Productions.

Community Cinema: DIRT!

Bud Werner Memorial Library and Deep Roots present a FREE screening of the PBS Independent Lens documentary "Dirt"

Thursday, March 25
Library Hall
6:30 p.m. FREE "Dirt!" screening
PLUS...Live composting & vermiculture displays. Dig in and learn how to create healthy dirt for your own home garden!

ABOUT "DIRT!"
It’s under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan’s acclaimed book "Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth," find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a part of everything we eat, drink and breathe. Which is why we should stop treating it like, well…dirt.

ABOUT DEEP ROOTS
Deep Roots is a nonprofit dedicated to cultivating awareness about the benefits of local food, educating the community about how to do it yourself and facilitating connections between local producers and local consumers.

ABOUT COMMUNITY CINEMA
Community Cinema, produced by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), is a free monthly film series featuring documentaries from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Bud Werner Memorial Library has been selected as one of about 50 nationwide partners to screen these award-winning documentary films. The idea behind Community Cinema is to provide community engagement around important social issues raised in this selction of critically acclaimed films. While Independent Lens airs weekly on Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m., these choice documentaries will now be screening in Library Hall prior to their debut on PBS.

ABOUT ITVS
ITVS is a miracle of public policy created by media activists, citizens and politicians seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television. ITVS was established by a historic mandate of Congress to champion independently produced programs that take creative risks, spark public dialogue and serve underserved audiences. Since its inception in 1991, ITVS programs have revitalized the relationship between the public and public television,bringing TV audiences face-to-face with the lives and concerns of their fellow Americans. ITVS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. www.itvs.org

Cooks With Books: Bud Werner Cookbook Club

Tuesday, March 30th
5:30 PM
Library Kitchen

Tapas are the topic of conversation and culinary endeavor at this month's Cooks With Books Cookbook club. Developed by Andalusian tavern owners as a means to cover one's glass of sherry to keep pests away between sips, today tapas have evolved into exotic combinations that are as much fun to share as they are to create. (Recipes can be photocopied after the meeting.)

Please RSVP: Michelle Dover, mdover@steamboatlibrary.org or 367-4907. Space limited to 15 cooks. This meeting is currently FULL.

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

Bud Werner Memorial Library and Epilogue Book Co. present a very special evening with award-winning poet Michael Blumenthal

“Blumenthal is witty, profound, erotic, playful, ironic, elegiac and, in his bleakest moments, closest to praise. His voice is like no other....His music is haunting, and utterly new.” - The Nation

An intimate reading and conversation with poet Michael Blumenthal
Monday, April 12
6:30 p.m.
Library Hall

Michael Blumenthal thinks every month should be National Poetry Month, just as he feels every day should be Thanksgiving. Join this great writer and reader of poetry for an intimate evening of reading and conversation. As one reviewer puts it: “It is as difficult to dislike a Blumenthal poem as to dislike a piece by Mozart." In other words, no poetry expertise required for this author event. Blumenthal plans to read from a variety of his books, including AND, DUSTY ANGEL, AGAINST ROMANCE, DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW, and THE WAGES OF GOODNESS. Following the reading, Michael says he "would be HAPPY to see the conversation go ANYWHERE the audience would like it to, from the sacred to the profane."

A book signing will follow the program. Epilogue Book Co. will offer Blumenthal's books for sale during the event.

ABOUT MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL
Poet Michael Blumenthal is a graduate of Cornell Law School and was formerly director of creative writing at Harvard University. His seventh book of poems, "And," was published last year. Blumenthal is the author of the memoirs "All My Mothers and Fathers" and "Dusty Angel," winner Isabella Steward Gardner Prize. His novel "Weinstock Among The Dying" won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction. His collection of essays from Central Europe, "When History Enters the House," was published in 1998. A frequent translator from German, French and Hungarian, Blumenthal practices psychotherapy with Anglophone expatriates in Budapest and spends summers at his house in a small village near the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. In May 2007, he spent a month in South Africa working with orphaned infant chacma baboons at the C.A.R.E. foundation in Phalaborwa, an experience about which he has written for Natural History and The Washington Post Magazine. He currently holds the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University and the Copenhaver Visiting Chair of Law at The University of West Virginia College of Law. His poem "In a Time of Economic Downturn, I Gaze Up at The Sky" was featured on Garrison Kellior's "Writer's Almanac" in February.

Learn more about Blumenthal at www.michael-blumenthal.com

READING LIST: Michael Blumenthal's published works

• And: Poems
• Weinstock Among the Dying
• Dusty Angel: Poems
• Against Romance: Poems
• Days We Would Rather Know
• When History Enters the House: Essays
• Laps: A Poem
• To Woo and To Wed: Poets on Love and Marriage (editor)
• All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir
• The Wages Of Goodness
• Sympathetic Magic: Poems

Poetry For All Ages

Don’t understand poetry?
Hated poetry in high school?
April is NATIONAL POETRY MONTH and now’s your chance to change your poetry perspective!

Join Susan de Wardt, a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator and President of the National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, for a FREE hour-long journey into the evocative language of poetry.

Poetry For All Ages
Tuesday, April 27
Noon & 6p.m.
Library Hall

Bring your favorite poems – or simply come with an open mind and be prepared to open your heart. Susan is prepared to gently restore your interest and ability to enjoy poetry for comfort, enlightenment, and entertainment.

More about Poetry For All Ages workshop facilitator Susan de Wardt here: www.mindworkscoaching.com

Liquid Assets

Bud Werner Memorial Library, The City of Steamboat Springs, Mt. Werner Water and Sanitation District & Steamboat II Metropolitan District present a free documentary produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting for PBS National Broadcast about the critical role that our water infrastructure plays in protecting public health and promoting economic prosperity.

“We have about 2 million miles of pipe in this nation. If you look at what we’re spending now and the investment requirements over the next twenty years, there’s a $540 billion difference.” — Steve Allbee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

LIQUID ASSETS - The story of our water infrastructure
Thursday, April 29
5:30 p.m. FREE Film
Library Hall

PLUS!
An inside look at the challenges ahead for the Yampa Valley’s own aging water infrastructure — Q&A after the film with a panel of local experts.

About the film:
"Liquid Assets" tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. These complex and aging systems—some in the ground for more than 100 years—are critical for basic sanitation, public safety, economic development, and a host of other necessities of life. The documentary highlights communities from across the United States, providing an understanding of hidden water infrastructure assets, demonstrating watershed protection approaches, and illustrating 21st century solutions.

For more information, please contact Laura Frolich, Public Works Department, City of Steamboat Springs (970) 871-7073.