“COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS” A Weekend in SpringdaleFebruary 21-22, 2025Please join a remarkable literary and performance weekend of free events on Friday, February 21st, Creative Tensions with renowned authors Amy Irvine, Chris La Tray, and Shelley Read, and February 22nd, with a reprise of the creative duo Craig Childs and Greg Istock, presenting their original Time Traveler’s Notebook in word and music. Both events will be at 7 PM at the Canyon Community Center, 126 Lion Blvd.“...
“COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS” A Weekend in Springdale
February 21-22, 2025
Please join a remarkable literary and performance weekend of free events on Friday, February 21st, Creative Tensions with renowned authors Amy Irvine, Chris La Tray, and Shelley Read, and February 22nd, with a reprise of the creative duo Craig Childs and Greg Istock, presenting their original Time Traveler’s Notebook in word and music. Both events will be at 7 PM at the Canyon Community Center, 126 Lion Blvd.
“Creative Tensions: Wild Words & Wild Places.” Facilitator Will Neville-Rehbehn and this trio of renowned writers will guide the audience through an exploration of place, perspective, and the power of story. “Creative Tensions” is a unique format for collective conversation that encourages openness and inspires empathy as we explore topics that lie at the heart of what it means to be human.
Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and author of the award-winning memoir Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land and Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness.
Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025. His third book, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home, was recently announced as a 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Award winner.
Shelley Read is an internationally bestselling novelist whose debut, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and appears on bestseller lists worldwide.
TIME TRAVELER’S NOTEBOOK
Expanding on their earlier collaborations, “Blood River” and “Chaos Theory,” Greg and Craig report back on what they experienced during their quantum entanglements with time itself.
Craig Childs is simply one of America’s finest writers. He has published over a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Atlas of a Lost World, and Virga & Bone. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly, and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.
Greg Istock, composer, producer, dramatist, and multi-instrumentalist fluent in virtually every genre, recently released a solo album, “Mr. Jones,” where he plays everything. His band 3Hattrio, voted “Best Band of 2018 in the annual AmericanaUK Readers’ Poll, just finished an album “Come Morning.”
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In fact, it was Greg’s freakishly perfect sense of time on the drums, together with Craig’s incantations from a stone tablet he unearthed in the Sahara, that opened the time portal.