Wallowa County Reads - River Song
Traveling Photo Exhibit
The traveling photo exhibit features 40 contemporary photos by acclaimed photographer Dave Jensen of scenes along the Columbia and Snake rivers, petroglyphs, and other images based on River Song. Also included are 10 black and white photos from "Wanapum: The River People" by Jacquie Moreau.
Friday Jan. 4 - Friday Jan. 11:
Wallowa Senior Center, Wallowa (MWF, 9am-3pm)
Friday Jan. 11 - Tuesday Jan. 15:
Crow Store, Lostine (M-F 8am-6pm, Sat 8:30am-5:30pm)
Tuesday night, Jan. 15:
At the Kickoff Event, IOOF Hall, Enterprise (7pm)
Wednesday Jan. 16 - Thursday Jan. 24:
Community Bank, Joseph (M-Th 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-6pm)
Wednesday Jan. 23 - Friday Feb. 1:
Wallowa Memorial Hospital, Enterprise (daily 8am-9pm)
Thursday night, Jan. 24:
At the Greg Nokes / Bill Rautenstrauch lecture, Stage One, Enterprise (7pm)
Wednesday night, Jan. 30:
At the Bobbi Ulrich lecture, Stage One, Enterprise (7pm)
Monday Feb. 4 - Thursday Feb. 7:
Imnaha School, Imnaha (M-Th 8am-3pm)
Friday Feb. 8 - Sunday Feb. 10:
At Craig Lesley events, Enterprise
Film Series
Join Fishtrap for Monday Night at the Movies, presenting a selection of films that share the themes explored in Craig Lesley’s River Song. All films start at 7:00 PM. and will be shown at the following venues simultaneously (except for the Feb. 4 showing of Smoke Signals at the OK Theatre):
Wallowa—Cougars’ Den, 214 East 1st, Wallowa—886-8000
Joseph—The Outlaw Restaurant, 108 N. Main Street, Joseph—432-4321
Enterprise—Fishtrap’s Coffin House, 400 E. Grant Street, Enterprise—426-3623
Mon., January 21—Thousand Pieces of Gold —(1991, directed by Nancy Kelly, based on the novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn). In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up as property of a saloon owner in an Idaho gold-mining town. Rated PG-13.
Mon., January 28—American Cowboys —(1998, directed by Umatilla tribal members Cedric &Tania Wildbill. Winner 1997 Great Plains Film Festival Best Documentary Made for TV ). Jackson Sundown, a Nez Perce Indian, and George Fletcher, an African American, were two legendary cowboys who broke the color barriers in the rodeo arena at the turn of the 20th Century. This film documents how they met as saddle bronc riders at the Pendleton Round-Up. Rated G.
Mon., February 4—Smoke Signals—Special showing at the OK Theatre, Enterprise (1998, directed by Chris Eyre, based on short stories Sherman Alexie) two young men from an Idaho reservation have radically different memories of one Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), a former resident of the reservation who left years before and has just died. Circumstances bring Victor (Adam Beach) and Thomas (Evan Adams) together in a bus ride to Phoenix to retrieve Arnold's ashes. Rated PG-13.
Mon., February 11—Powwow Highway—(1989, directed by Jonathan Wrecks, based on the novel by David Seals) Buddy (A Martinez) and Filbert (Gary Farmer) leave the Reservation to take a road trip across the badlands of the American Midwest to save Buddy's sister from unjust imprisonment. Rated R.