Community Calendar

Entrepreneurs, small business owners and startups are encouraged to attend the next IMPACT 307 Startup Lunch & Learn, “Legal Topics for Small Businesses” Wednesday, April 30, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the Wyoming Technology Business Center.
This 90-minute event will feature presentations by UW Business Law Practicum students who will discuss the following essential legal topics:

• Contracts Crash Course
• Agency Law
• Corporations
• LLCs
• LLC Operating Agreements
• DAO LLCs
• Trademarks for Small Businesses
• Taxation of Business

IMPACT 307 is the University of Wyoming’s business incubator that serves to support the growth of startup clients. As part of its mission to provide resources and knowledge to entrepreneurs, IMPACT 307 hosts its periodic Startup Lunch & Learn events to help boost the success of small businesses and startups. The event is free, but event registration is required..

Legal Aid of Wyoming is hosting a free legal aid event where attendees can receive advice on civil legal matters from qualified attorneys. No advice can be given for criminal or traffic matters.

There is an income eligibility requirement to participate in this event. Individuals at or below 300% of the Federal Poverty Level can receive advice.

There is no appointment necessary. Legal advice will be given on a first-come-first-serve basis. Dinner will also be provided for attendees.

🎉Party for Pronghorn🎉

📍 Roadhouse Pub and Eatery, Events Room
🗓 Wednesday, April 30, 6-8 PM
🎟 Free event
🎵🎤 Live music with local musicians Hannah Habermann and Toby Smith

🌟 Join the Wyoming Outdoor Council at Roadhouse Pub and Eatery to learn about the Sublette Pronghorn herd. We'll write postcards in support of the designation process to protect the herd's migration corridor -- one of the longest intact migrations in the lower 48 states. This is the final stage in the process for the public to weigh in on Game and Fish’s recommendation to designate this corridor. It's our opportunity to give greater protections to the pronghorn migration -- don't miss it!

🍻🍕📝📬 It’ll be an evening of information sharing, comment writing, live music, and light refreshments. All members of the public are welcome, so bring a friend who loves wildlife!

✍️ Come and put a pen to paper for this magnificent migration!

You can learn more about the Sublette Pronghorn Migration Corridor Designation AND make comments at the website below:

https://wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org/protect-pronghorn/

Join us for the May Lunchtime Expedition, when Dr. Anna Chalfoun presents Revealing the Depths of Our Sagebrush Seas.

Many describe the sagebrush steppe as “drive-through country,” a “barren wasteland,” or the “sagebrush sea.” These labels flatten the complexity of sagebrush habitats and overlook the remarkable life they support. This talk challenges such misconceptions, guides the audience on an immersive journey through the sagebrush sea, and showcases the fascinating species, behaviors, ecological interactions, and biodiversity found within this unique biome—extending far beyond ungulates and greater sage-grouse. We will also explore the impacts of ongoing human-driven habitat changes across the North American sagebrush steppe and examine a case study demonstrating how rigorous scientific investigation can illuminate practical strategies for addressing species declines amidst modern land use pressures.

While talks in our Lunchtime Expedition series are not live streamed, they will be recorded and posted to the Draper Museum’s YouTube channel within a day of their presentation.

What happened the last time you had a difficult conversation with your loved one? Did their hackles go up and their ears shut down? At this meeting on May 1, Becky Parker will help us figure out how to improve our odds for success.

Rebecca "Becky" Parker, MS, LPC, has both professional and personal qualifications for this talk. She is the Clinical Director at Fremont Counseling Service where she has worked for 25 years. She also served as her father-in-law’s primary caregiver for 10 years.

SCLT invites our community to play a crucial role in preparing the Hidden Hoot Trail for the season. Your invaluable help will allow our community to continue experiencing the hoot in Hidden Hoot!

When: Thursday, May 1, beginning at 5 p.m. We will finish by 8 p.m. Come for what you can or stay for the whole evening. More hands make quicker work! (Rain date: Friday, May 2 @ 5 p.m.)

Where: Please meet us at Black Tooth Park, Sheridan. We will carpool and ride bikes to work sites.

How you will help: Volunteers will assist the SCLT team in smoothing the trail tread after the two-wheel tractor has repaired damage from hoofprints and ruts, as well as repair damage to bridges, sides, and other needed maintenance following winter.

What to bring: Bring gloves, sunglasses or eye protection, sturdy shoes or boots, water, snacks, and your bike, running shoes, or hiking boots to enjoy the trail afterward. Please bring square shovels, hard-tooth rakes, pick mattocks, and McLeods if possible.

What SCLT will provide: SCLT will provide tools, instruction, plenty of pizza, extra beverages, and fun!

Sign up for this SCLT Volunteer Event using the link.

Western invites the community to attend the reading of the 2025 Boars Tusk literary and fine arts journal on Thursday, May 1, at 5:00 p.m. The event will be held in room 1302, by Western’s pendulum. The journal is an annual publication created by Western students.

The University of Wyoming Symphonic Band, conducted by Dr. Joseph Carver, and Community Band, conducted by Dr. Robert Belser, present “Settling the West,” a concert of music inspired by the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and The Oil Fields of the 1900s, and the conflict of people and progress moving west.

The concert will be held Thursday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.

The Community Band opens the concert with “The Boys of the Old Brigade” by William Paris Chambers (ed. by Claude T. Smith), one of over 90 marches by the composer, noted for dramatic changes in dynamics as well as a famous euphonium obligato. Following is “Masque” by W. Francis McBeth, a nod to both the fashionable entertainments of 16th and 17th century English nobility as well as the literal masks they wore during concurrent times of plague. “Dusk” by Steven Bryant musically expresses his perceptions of sunset to sunrise; the piece is conducted by Conductor Malori Barnhart, one of UW Bands McMurry Graduate Assistants, assisting with the Western Thunder Marching Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Symphony. “Fandango” (1954) by Frank Perkins (arr. by Floyd E. Werle), inspired by the lively dance of its title, contains falling harmonies and incessant castanets and tambourine, and was one of the most popular encores by the U.S. Air Force Band in the later 20th Century. The Community Band closes its set with “1900: Corn, Cows, and Music” — subtitled “Haying the Horses and Slopping the Pigs – and Playing Sonatas and Rags and Jigs” — is a musical autobiography by Robert Russell Bennett charting the stages of his life in seven vignettes.

The Symphonic Band opens with “Light Cavalry Overture” by Franz von Suppé (arr. Henry Fillmore), which originally introduced an operetta, with its spirited themes, driven rhythms, and sweeping melodies, has long been a favorite on concert programs and in popular culture alike. Next up is “Call of the Prairie,” by Lisa Galvin, a musical journey through the American West that uses folk-inspired melodies, rich harmonies, and flowing rhythms to paint a vivid picture of the wide-open plains, the quiet beauty of the land, and the enduring strength of the Ioway Sioux people. “Transcontinental Union for Wind Ensemble” by Thomas P. Rohrer, celebrates the completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869, capturing both the spirit of adventure and the human effort that made it all possible. The concert closes with “March of the Roughnecks,” by Ed Huckeby, a piece commissioned by the Glenpool, Oklahoma High School Band to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Glenpool, founded the famous “Ida Glenn” well was discovered and helped kick off the oil boom that started in Oklahoma.

Also serving as conductor for the Symphonic Band is graduate student Logan Dominguez.

Cheyenne First Friday Artwalk is the community’s monthly celebration of artists and their work. During Artwalk, Cheyenne galleries, businesses, restaurants, and other places showcase a local or regional visual artist or musician, accompanied by light food and beverages. Artwalk patrons visit the venues on an unstructured schedule, walking, driving or biking.

Cheyenne First Friday Artwalk takes place the first Friday of each month from 5:00 – 8:00 pm. 2024 marks the 14th year of Cheyenne First Friday Artwalk.

Free Opening Gala at the Washakie Museum for our newest exhibit, "DINOSAURS AMONG US"

Learn about the connection between birds and dinosaurs with a presentation from the Draper Raptor Center at 5:30pm, then be one of the first people to check out the exhibit, which features fossils from around the Bighorn Basin, at 6:30pm!

Event is free with live music, light hors d'oeuves, and a cash bar