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ROLLER SKATING RETURNS FOR 2023/2024 SEASON
Roller Skating happen at the Civic Center once a month during the Fall and then the scedule changes to 1st & 3rd Fridays of January, February, and March.
Admission:
Residents $5/person
Non-residents $7/person
Skate Rentals are $3
You may bring your own personal skates, but they must be checked at the door, RUBBER stoppers only are allowed. No Rollerblades or other devices with wheels are permitted.
Concessions are available!
Our thanks to The Way Christian School and Mountain Bible Church for being our partners in supporting the roller skate season!
Sheriff Walt Longmire is back! Wyoming author Craig Johnson will read from and discuss the newest book in his award-winning mystery series, The Longmire Defense, on Saturday, Sept. 30 at Elk River Books.
The Longmire Defense, the 19th book in the series, “takes readers deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside where Sheriff Longmire is called to a crime scene like few others that he has witnessed. This crime leads to a much older, unsolved one with ties to a hidden mineral fund that may be worth billions. Walt is pushed to his ethical limits as his discovers that a possible murder weapon, long missing, had belonged to his own grandfather.”
Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The books have won multiple awards: Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/BibliObs, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the SNCF Prix de Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, the Watson Award, Library Journal’s Best Mystery of the Year, the Rocky, and the Will Rogers Award for Fiction. His book Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.
Elk River Books is located at 122 S. 2nd St. in downtown Livingston. For more info, email to info@elkriverbooks.com OR call (406) 333-2330.
“ALICE INVENTS A LITTLE GAME AND ALICE ALWAYS WINS”
By Nick Flynn Directed by Marc Beaudin
Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins, by award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, will kick off the 2023-24 season at Livingston’s Blue Slipper Theatre. The Blue Slipper is located at 113 E. Callender St.
The play features four strangers who meet on a New York City sidewalk during a blackout. Unable to make sense of their predicament, let alone alter it, the four float aimlessly in and out of seeming reality only to find themselves even more lost when the electricity finally comes back on.
The playwright, Nick Flynn, has published twelve books, most recently This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations, which documents 25 years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers and composers. He is also the author of five collections of poetry … awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress…. and written acclaimed memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro. The memoir has been translated into 15 languages.
The director, Marc Beaudin, has worked in theatre for 25 years as a director, scenic designer and educator at venues ranging from unheated warehouses and art galleries to a 1000-seat, state-of-the-art theatre.
All seats are reserved. Season tickets available until October 8. Go to link https://blue-slipper-theatre.ticketleap.com/alice/
For more information, call 222-7720.
FREE ADMISSION: Family Days at the Yellowstone Gateway Museum
Family Days is a program at the museum held on the last Saturday of each month. Families can visit the museum and participate in different activities that encourage exploration of the museum through different themes. The program is made possible in part by a grant from the Community Closet.
Visit https://www.parkcounty.org/Yellowstone-Gateway-Museum/, Facebook or Instagram for updates. Call 406-222-4184 for details.
The public is welcome to attend this free screening the 2023 Walter Cronkite Excellence in
Journalism Award-winning documentary TRUST ME, followed by a panel discussion about
media literacy in our community includes local educators, journalists, and media advocates: Joe Phelps, the producer of TRUST ME and founder of the Getting Better Foundation; Scott McMillion, award-winning journalist and Editor of the Montana Quarterly ; and Kate Lende, Park High School’s librarian and the co-teacher of Multimedia Journalism.
TRUST ME shows how an avalanche of biased news and misinformation is undermining trust
in society. Sensational media take advantage of our survival instincts to earn more clicks
and ad revenue with shocking headlines that we enable each time we share. TRUST ME uses
compelling human stories, facts and expert voices to show empirical realities and the right
way to consume media. Learn more about the film online: trustmedocumentary.com
Elk River is located at 122 South 2nd St. More info, call (406) 220-8630 OR visit elkriverarts.org.
Drop your kids off at the Civic Center and have a night out! Participants will have the opportunity to have a pizza dinner with fruits and veggies thanks to our friends at the Livingston food resource center , watch movies, play games, enjoy sports, and other entertainment, all supervised by our staff! Bring some blankets or your sleeping bag for movie time!
The next Kids Club is September 29th Cost is $30.00, with a discount for siblings.
Registration in advance IS required to participate, and we have 25 spots available!
You can find the registration link through our link tree at linktr.ee/LivingstonRecreation
Livingston Recreation will be offering three Safe Sitter
sessions till the end of the year!
Sessions will be held AFTER SCHOOL from 4 to 6pm
in the Civic Center Conference Room on these dates:
Sessions are $35.00 & are for ages 11 to 14
You can find the registration link here:
Constructing a Composting Dry Toilet using cordwood.
ParadisePermaculture.org presents this class.
Cost $95/person
HEAD ON OVER THE HILL THIS SATURDAY NIGHT
Live Show & CD Release Party at the EAGLES FOE Upstairs Ballroom
Live Music 7-9pm Cover $15 includes copy of CD
Kathleen McLaughlin is an award-winning journalist who reports and writes about the
consequences of economic inequality around the world. A frequent contributor to The
Washington Post and The Guardian , McLaughlin’s reporting has also appeared in The
New York Times, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Economist, NPR , and more. She is a
former Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and has won multiple awards for her
reporting on labor issues around the globe.
McLaughlin’s first book, Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside
America’s Blood Industry, is a “haunting” (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even )
and deeply personal investigation of an underground for-profit medical industry and the
American underclass it drains for blood and profit. Kirkus called Blood Money “a
disturbing, painful story that smoothly combines the personal and the universal.”
Join us at Elk River at 122 S 2nd St. For more info about this event, call (406) 220-8630 or visit elkriverarts.org.
SING & CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY SEASON. Starting on Monday, SEPT 18, Choir rehearsals take place on Mondays from 7pm to 8:30pm in the Park High School Choir Room. All welcome.
Acclaimed Montana author David James Duncan visits Elk River Books on Wednesday, Sept. 6 to read from and discuss his new novel, Sun House, which has been described as his magnum opus by editor and Hachette CEO Michael Pietsh.
In a letter to readers, Pietsh notes, “Sun House takes on some of the biggest topics fiction can engage with: faith, love, death, connecting with other people and the natural world, right living in a corrupted world. Its dramatis personae include restaurateurs, tech workers, nature guides, ranchers, musicians, scholars, actors, bankers, a Jesuit, and a heartbroken farmer, to name only a few. It’s funny, learned, sweet, wide open, and unapologetically hopeful.”
Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as Told by Water, and the best-selling collection of “churchless sermons,” God Laughs & Plays. His work has won numerous awards and honors. David lives on a charming little trout stream in Missoula, Montana, in accord with his late friend Jim Harrison’s advice to finish his life disguised as a creek.
Elk River Books is located at 122 S. 2nd St. in downtown Livingston. The free event begins at 7 p.m., and a book signing and reception will follow. For more information, send an email to info@elkriverbooks.com or call (406) 333-2330.
Trimble’s mother, Isabelle, graduated from Park County High School in 1939. She was working in the family store in downtown Livingston when she met the man she would marry a few months later on a frigid January day in Butte in 1942. She escaped from that mistake of a first marriage a year later with a newborn son—Trimble’s brother, Mike. The book is a memoir of Trimble’s family’s story, is his 25th book and was published in September 2021 as a “Little Bound Book” from Homebound Publications. The book won the 2022 Human Relations Mental Health Awareness Book of the Year Award.
In writing The Mike File, Trimble set out to reach beyond his family mantra: “I had an older brother—a half-brother—who left home when I was six. He was diagnosed sequentially as retarded, schizophrenic, and epileptic. He died years ago.” The book is his quest to claim empathy, his memorial to a forgotten life, his journey toward self-knowledge.
Trimble began his research for the book by trying to understand who his mother was at 20, when Mike was born. Isabelle was born in Butte and grew up in Livingston—deeply enmeshed in the circles of Jewish immigrants to Montana. Her brief disaster of a first marriage took her to Denver, where she met Trimble’s father and where Trimble grew up.
Mike, eight years older than Trimble, was diagnosed as “mildly retarded.” But in 1957, rage and psychosis overwhelmed him and threatened the family. His new diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia, capable of violence. The parents had no choice but to commit Mike at 14 to the Colorado State Hospital.
Mike’s life mirrored the history of the treatment of mental illness in Colorado—and America. He spent nine years in overcrowded Colorado mental institutions.
Wheatgrass Books is located at 120 N. Main St. in downtown Livingston. For more info, send an email to wheatgrassbooks@gmail.com OR call 406. 224. 4510.
