Wyoming Art and Culture Matters

07/10/2024

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04/01/2024

Following the brush fires that swept across West Texas, Wyoming farmers and ranchers hauled truckloads of hay to support striggling cattle producers. The Wyoming Trout and Wildlife Agency and the Australian Department of Interior and Natural Resources collaborated and after a six month quarantine, released trucked kangaroos to the fire-stricken Harper Valley region, with the hopes that introducing the marsupials will stabilize the area enough to relocate wolves from the Cowboy State. Governors Lewis and Martin were on a Zoom call about constructing a migrant detention camp near the nuclear power plant in Western Wyoming and were unavailable for comment on April Fool’s Day.

03/20/2024

My first screenwriting teacher Alexandre Philippe has a new documentary out … Don Sniffin

William Shatner recounts his personal journey over nine decades on Earth, stripping away all the masks he's worn to embody countless characters.

03/17/2024

Are there really no snakes in ireland?

The Denver Post - Sun, 03/17/24

03/17/2024

What if Wall Drug decided to become a franchise …

More than a gas station, Texas-based Buc-ee's brings barbecue, a devoted following and that adorable beaver mascot to I-25 in north Colorado

03/17/2024

Another high altitude growth industry?

Those blue buckets on box elder trees in Rawlins are part of a feasibility study to see if syrup from the trees can be commercialized. Food critics say the syrup from maples - which are difficult to grow in Wyoming - and box elders is indistinguishable.

02/05/2024

Grammy highlight? Joni Mitchell singing "Both Sides Now."

01/16/2024

Three months late, but Alan O'Hashi’s novel “Libby Flats,” finally dropped this week. It’s a coming of age story that happens during the twilight of life when long lost friends are closer than family. The story culminates at Libby Flats west of Laramie, and includes a love triangle, conflicts around race and gender identity that takes place at the Quiver Mountain Ranch near Lander, Wyoming, at a party house called the Calamity Club in Laramie, an upper social class niche of Cherry Ridge, in northern New Jersey, and the Blue Sky Village cohousing community in Boulder, Colorado.

The hard copy book isn’t available yet on Amazon, but carried at B&N …

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/libby-flats-alan-ohashi/1144603373?ean=9798218177676

Ebook is only available on Amazon for the time being …

https://www.amazon.com/Libby-Flats-longest-journeys-yourself-ebook/dp/B0CS1T8F3L/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?crid=1KBLUX1DM6DDF&keywords=libby+flats+o%27hashi&qid=1705251773&sprefix=%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-5

Libby Flats: The longest journeys lead back to yourself

01/09/2024

I was sorry to hear that one of my Arapaho mentors, Wayne C Hair recently passed. He and the Language and Culture Commission worked to tie the language and ceremonies to the lands through tribal youth near Boulder and Estes Park. You can watch him in action in “Beyond Sand Creek.” Nookhoosei Niibei Eugene RidgeBear Jr. Gary Collins

Arapaho elders want to regain their traditional homeland near Boulder, Colorado, which was lost to westward expansion, and reconnect it with the Arapaho lang...

12/22/2023

Read Sally Ann Shurmur in the Cowboy State Daily ...

She's back! Glenrock's Sally Ann Shurmur spent 43 years writing about the people, places and events in Wyoming. On Friday, she launches her new weekly column on Cowboy State Daily.

10/13/2023

This Day in facebook History 2011: My first documentary, “your Neighbor’s child” aired on Rocky Mountain PBS - Alan Kooi Simpson

10/13/2023

This Day in facebook History 2011: I helped produce and edited my first documentary, “Your Neighbor’s Child” aired on Rocky Mountain PBS - J. Homer Alan Kooi Simpson

Wyoming has no separate juvenile justice system, as most states do, so a juvenile can accumulate a criminal record in adult courts for such minor offenses as...

10/03/2023

If you run out of things to do during Indigenous People’s Week on October 14th, check out the Boulder Symphony & Music Academy and the Northern Arapaho Eagle Drum performing a new soundtrack for “The Arapaho Covered Wagon Redux”

09/11/2023

Cheyenne Peeps: Alan O'Hashi will be reading from “Beyond Heart Mountain” on Sunday, September 17, 2pm at St. Mark's Episcopal Church

Cultural Blind Spots on September 17

Join Wyoming filmmaker and writer, Alan O’Hashi, in St. Mark’s Parish Hall, Sunday, September 17 at 2:00 p.m. O’Hashi is the author of the memoir entitled Beyond Heart Mountain. Like many Japanese who lived in the Rocky Mountain West, his family avoided the relocation camp experience by being interned in place. His family found support in the once vibrant Japanese community on the 400 and 500 blocks of West 17th Street in downtown Cheyenne.

The presentation will be followed by a facilitated discussion. This series is designed to hear our neighbor’s stories, engage in thoughtful conversation, and help us to be a “We” rather than an “Us and Them.” For more information, please contact us at 307-634-7709 or [email protected] .

05/16/2023

My latest book that includes my childhood medical care experienced in Wyoming is for sale on Barnes & Noble …

"Views from Beyond My Bedpan" is a story about my life spanning seven decades, but imagined if I lived it in reverse. Rather than being born as an elderly infant, this story follows my life as if I died old, am reborn, and then transfigured to age in reverse.& #65279...

03/23/2023

An agressive headline by Wyoming Public Radio & Media “Open Spaces” segment about “Beyond Sand Creek” and Fort Chambers where 100 militiamen were trained to kill at the Sand Creek Massacre. The fort is located on city of Boulder open space.

On November 29, 1864, Colorado’s third cavalry descended on a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, mostly women, children and elders. The massacre that ensued is often considered one of the worst in U.S. history. Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper has apologized for the massacre, but the Northern Arapaho trib...

02/25/2023

ICYMI - Bypass PBS Passport and watch “Beyond Sand Creek” direct on Wyoming PBS …

Arapaho elders want to regain their traditional homeland near Boulder, Colorado, which was lost to westward expansion, and reconnect it with the Arapaho lang...

02/23/2023

A year ago my memoir and documentary “Beyond Heart Mountain” released. You can buy both now! It was 81 years ago this week that President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that established the Japanese relocation camps that included 11,000 internees at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. Check out the book and DVD!

A Japanese-American's memoir about life in Wyoming after World War II

02/15/2023

Watch “Beyond Sand Creek” on Wyoming PBS Wednesday February 22nd at 10pm MST or stream on the website!

01/13/2023

Beyond Sand Creek is finally finished after four years.

07/04/2022

“Beyond Heart Mountain screens Sunday at Wyoming International Film Festival on Sunday 2pm!

Wyoming peeps - “Beyond Heart Mountain” was selected to screen at my hometown Wyoming International Film Festival in Cheyenne on Sunday July 10th at 2pm … https://www.wyoiff.com/2022schedule

06/16/2022

Check out “Beyond Heart Mountain” on Sunday July 10 at 2pm!

Wyoming peeps - “Beyond Heart Mountain” was selected to screen at my hometown Wyoming International Film Festival in Cheyenne on Sunday July 10th at 2pm … https://www.wyoiff.com/2022schedule

06/05/2022

Mark your calendars for the Wyoming Writers Inc. conference June 2-4,2023 in Cheyenne Downtown! Here are images of the WWI event that just wrapped in Sheridan. Our special guest was Craig “Walt Longmire” Johnson!

06/05/2022

The Wyoming Writers Inc. conference wrapped in Sheridan today. Here’s a taste of the action. Mark your calendars for June 2-4, 2023 in Cheyenne!

05/03/2022

Through May 4, we're giving away free eCopies of Alan O'Hashi's self-help book "The Zen of Writing with Imperfection and Confidence." It's about how luck and his unorthodox writing process resulted in the release of the book he's been hyping "Beyond Heart Mountain." It's for anyone who is an uber perfectionist or procrastinator. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MMMZ9KH

The Zen of Writing with Imperfection & Confidence: Own your life, overcome self-doubt, and finish your creative projects