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Artistic Bozeman talks with Katie Goodman
In a day in age where iPods and TV’s are the center of entertainment, and reading books and attending theater is decreasing, the Sunflower Center for the Arts in Bozeman is bringing energy back into what defines a vibrant community culture — its local arts.
The Sunflower Center for the Arts fosters the finding and the use of one’s creative voice by hosting writing workshop in fiction, poetry, scripts, and creative nonfiction.
Most recently, the center budded a salon speaker series, focused on creating conversation on the artistic ideas, values and visions that are thriving in the Gallatin Valley.
This month’s guest brought Katie Goodman, local director, producer, writer and actress.
The Evolution of the Downhill Fanatics
The Story of Modern Skiing
Like every story, this one is told from the perspective and with all the strengths and weaknesses, personal experiences and biases and vision of the teller. And this is a story, not a history, though it is rich in detail and layered with stories within the story.
Few people in the past 50 years have been in the position to have such a broad perspective of American skiing and to tell the story of that time as has John Fry. As the former editor-in-chief of SKI and the founding editor of SNOW COUNTRY, Fry was in a unique position to record, report and comment on, influence and to contribute to the evolution of modern skiing.
Fry was right in the middle of the ski industry during the time of its most explosive growth and most extensive and significant changes, and he tells the story at the level of a participant in the plot.
The Jeni Fleming Trio
When Dreams Come True—A Homegrown Concert Tour
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
- Yip Harburg, (The Wizard of Oz)
When Jeni Fleming sang those words last weekend to a packed house at Bozeman’s Emerson Cultural Center theater, I’m sure mine weren’t the only eyes that were a little moist. It wasn’t just the nostalgia of the familiar tune, the conviction in the voice, or the fact that Jeni Fleming is just one of the most adorable songstresses on the planet.
It was the words, and the size of the dream she, her husband guitarist/sax player Jake Fleming, and bass player Chad Langford had dared to dream...
The Long-Awaited Library Opening
Bozeman’s New Celebration of the Human MindThe nastiest response I ever received in almost 20 years of column writing in Bozeman came in response to -- are you ready for this? -- a column about our new library. Yes, folks, there ARE people who really hate libraries! They call talk radio, apparently, and insist that the new library has less space than the old library or that it’s only one story inside although it towers over Lindley Park, or that there’s almost no space where the public will be allowed. Lies, all lies. What's the truth? The new Bozeman Public Library is gorgeous and already well-loved.
Community Art Exhibit
Dear Travel PartnerI attended one of the most inspiring art openings last night in Bozeman. It was titled, “No Place Like Roam: Artifacts and Archives of Modern Nomads.” The Weaver Room at the Emerson Cultural Center was filled with people awing, laughing and daydreaming through artifacts and tales of the community’s far-flung adventures around the world.
How amazing it was to hear stories from my community, reminding me that everyone we know, and don’t know, has travel tales. It may just take the right artifact to spark the legend. The room’s walls are lined with items that
Artist in Residence
Livingston’s Parks Reece Debuts New PaintingsWe love Parks Reece, the Livingston painter who marries a fine artist's touch with an eye for the absurd to create his very own genre of Western art. And this Friday he'll be debuting nine new paintings at his gallery as part of the Livingston Art Walk. We're delighted to have Parks as our "artist in residence," and we're proud to be report that one of his new works will be featured on an upcoming New West t-shirt. The opening is Friday from 5:30 to 8:30 at the Parks Reece Gallery in Livingston, and will feature some of Parks' own vittels as well as wine from Ten Spoons Vineyard. Check out www.parksreece.com for more information.
