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May 09 Thursday
SUPPRESSED AND SABOTAGED: THE FIGHT TO VOTE (2024)With the upcoming American presidential election, democracy as we know it is at stake as politicians are working to suppress the right to vote for everyday citizens. Brave New Films' newest documentary, SUPPRESSED AND SABOTAGED: The Fight to Vote, highlights the swelling wave of efforts to subvert voting laws across the U.S., with the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp providing a case study for understanding today's restrictive measures. In 2023 alone, 150 bills were introduced to restrict voter access.
Our 30-minute documentary includes personal stories from Americans in battleground states, each representing those disproportionately affected by voter suppression: the elderly, college-aged students, Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latin, and disabled Americans. SUPPRESSED AND SABOTAGED is a rallying call against the calculated, unconstitutional attacks intended to destroy democracy in the United States. Your vote matters. If it didn't have power, then they wouldn't try to suppress it.
A discussion with the film's director follows the screening.
May 10 Friday
The exhibit “Stan Lee: Beyond the Book” opens this Wednesday, May 1, 2024 and runs to the end of October, 2024 at the American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming. This highly anticipated exhibition honors the legendary comics creator, author, editor and Marvel visionary, Stan Lee.
The exhibition itself is drawn from the AHC’s “Stan Lee Papers” collection. Researched and curated by three University of Wyoming students—Rhiannon McLean, Hazel Homer-Wambeam and Liam Leslie—it provides the first deep-dive into the collection. It displays drawings, documents, photographs and artifacts that have not been preserved elsewhere
The “Stan Lee, Beyond the Book” exhibition invites visitors to explore the life, work and enduring legacy of a true visionary. For more information about the exhibition and related events, visit the AHC website at www.uwyo.edu/ahc/exhibits.html , or email the Center at ahcref@uwyo.edu.
Join us from 5-7 p.m. to celebrate the opening of this year’s community art show, "Full Circle: An Exhibition of Community Creation, Curation + Collaboration". Enjoy a piano performance Charles DiMagno. There will be appetizers provided from Streetfood and complimentary drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Come support our local community artists!
ALL are welcome! Join us for a night of line & swing dancing! Bring a friend/partner or come solo! Refreshments available! Donate to the Jae Foundation to support them while you are here!
It’s Boot-Check Time! With every pair of boots comes a conversation that would have never happened.
May 11 Saturday
May 11 will start with two free local field trips (need not be registered for the dinner). The first will be to look for grassland birds in eastern Laramie County. Participants will leave at 8 a.m. from the Pilot parking lot, 8020 Campstool Road. The second begins at noon at the Wyoming Hereford Ranch’s office, 1114 Hereford Ranch Road. For field trip questions, contact Grant Frost, 307-343-2024.
For more information about Cheyenne Audubon and the 50th Anniversary Dinner (May 5 - last day to buy tickets), see https://cheyenneaudubon.org/.
It's the 3rd Annual Sheepherder's Event in Gillette, WY! This free event (along with FREE museum admission) will feature several sheep wagons, dog trials and demonstrations, lamb petting area for children, sheep and wool vendors, presentations from the Basque Dancers, the Billings Caledonian Pipers and Drummers, and David Romtvedt, American poet, historian and musician. Come out and enjoy the day learning about the rich culture of sheepherding and sheepwagons in Wyoming. Everyone is welcome! For more information, please contact Heather Rodriguez at (307) 682-5723 or heather.rodriguez@campbellcountywy.gov
Elegant Mom and Me Mother's Day Tea with punch, tea and cookies. Saturday, May 11, 9am-10:30am at Frontier United Methodist Church, 1888 East Four Mile Road, corner of Four Mile and Powderhouse, in Cheyenne. Free and everyone is welcom.
The classic opera, Madama Butterfly by Puccini, will be seen at the Lander Public Library. This is a live HD transmission in real-time of the Metropolitan Opera performance.
The Jackson EcoFair has celebrated simple and sustainable living in the Tetons every spring for over 20 years. EcoFair provides a platform from which local and regional organizations, businesses, and government entities showcase their environmental stewardship and action in sustainability efforts. Featuring sustainability-focused participant exhibits, green power, local food and beverage, engaging demonstrations, the EcoKids discovery zone, recycling education, and much more, EcoFair is a fun space for everyone to learn and become inspired, all operating within a zero waste model.