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Every Friday, Nona Yehia talks with an artist. This week, we spoke with renegade creative and printmaker Aaron Wallis before he picks up and moves to Detroit.

Gregg Treinish confronted a difficult question when endeavoring in nature on his own, with no mission. Was it selfish? Now, he has founded Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, a nonprofit organization connecting outdoor adventurers with scientists in need of data from the field. He visited Jackson Hole for the TEDx conference and JH WILD Festival to talk about his passion for adventure with meaning, overcoming personal demons, and more.

If the jungle was all you had ever known, what would you think of modern society? The Manú Project is a documentary and photography project featuring remote indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon and their increasing relationship with the outside world. We talked with photographer and project manager Lina Collado about what it was like to witness a world very different from the one we know.

There is a talk at the library on Thursday, September 29th at 6pm with the premier of the trailer for the film, a slideshow, and presentation.

Members of the University of Wyoming Summit Chamber Players join pianist and GTMF Executive Director, Andrew Palmer Todd for an evening of chamber music at St. John’s Episcopal Church. The Summit Chamber Players feature UW music faculty members John Fadial and Sherry Sinift on violin, James Przygocki on viola, and Beth Vanderborgh on cello. The evening will feature Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Schumann.

For the last 22 years, the Snake River Brew Pub has celebrated Oktoberfest in style. With traditional German food, stein holding contests, live music, and of course BEER. The spirited celebration returns this Saturday, October 1st starting at 11am.

Kim Schmitz, one of the country’s top climbers, ascended some of the steepest, most remote granite towers in the world during his life. But it appeared to be a car crash that claimed the renowned alpinist's life last week. We talked with his friend, Angus Thuermer of Wyofile, about how Schmitz actually spent the final few hours of his life where he loved to be - the wilderness.

The Teton Chapter of the Wyoming Native Plants Society will host former National Park Service Ranger and naturalist Katy Duffy at the Teton County Library this evening, September 27th, at 6pm. She will talk about "The Wildflowers of Yellowstone" and how different aspects of landscape influence the types of flowers that grow and when. She has spent the last several decades in both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks and describes her appetite for the beauty of wildflowers like a craving for ice cream - insatiable.

Tune in every Friday from 2pm-3pm for Graham and Massey's take on local and national sports!

Tune in every Friday from 2pm-3pm for Graham and Massey's take on local and national sports!

What was it that allowed Doug Coombs to reinvent the limits of adventure skiing and enliven all that knew him? Robert Cocuzzo spent years retracing Coombs' steps in search of answers to this question while writing "Tracking The Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs”. We talked with him about what he learned in the process and if it's really possible to "know" a person you haven't met.

He'll be speaking on Saturday, September 24th at 4pm in the Center for the Arts as part of Contour as well as at Stio on Tuesday, September 27th at 6pm.