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Hanging in the Balance: Competing Needs for Water in the West
April 9, 2024 | The Arts Campus at Willits (TACAW)
Demand for water is increasing while availability is decreasing. How do we balance the needs of the environment, recreation, and agriculture? Presented by Aspen Journalism and Colorado Water Trust in partnership with The Arts Campus At Willits (TACAW) and Aspen Public Radio, the community is invited to this free event featuring an expert panel discussing the challenges and opportunities presented by our collective need to stretch a limited resource.
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A housing-oriented panel discussion
December 6, 2023 | Marble Distilling Co.
The discussion, moderated by Aspen Journalism Editor and Executive Director Curtis Wackerle, will feature panelists Hannah Klausman, the director of economic and community development for the city of Glenwood Springs, and April Long, program director for the West Mountain Regional Housing Coalition.
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High Country Film Screening and Panel Discussion
An examination of Crested Butte, a neighboring ski town, High Country presents a microcosm of the great American debate on community; panel discussion to follow.
March 11, 2023 | Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen
Aspen Journalism partnered with filmmaker Conor Hagen and retired local journalist Paul Andersen, as well as other community partners, to present a free screening of Hagen’s film High Country, about Aspen’s closest neighboring ski town of Crested Butte and its legacy of fostering community amid challenges.
This event is intended to bring the Roaring Fork Valley community together to learn more about how a peer community has evolved over time and how it has grappled with many of the same challenges we face.
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From Whiteout to wind-blown: A tale of two counties across America’s great divide
Cheap Land Colorado author Ted Conover in conversation with Aspen Journalism
January 5, 2023 | Aspen Meadows, Albright Pavilion
READ EDITOR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CURTIS WACKERLE’S WRITEUP ABOUT THE EVENT HERE
Ted Conover’s career in immersive journalism has taken him from a nuanced exploration of local culture for his 1991 title Whiteout: Lost in Aspen to a year-long stint as a prison guard resulting in Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. For his latest critically-acclaimed book released this earlier month, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge, Conover returned to his home state, living off and on for four years in the San Luis Valley in an effort to better understand the divisions that have increasingly riven the American social and political consciousness.
The conversation at the Albright Pavilion with Aspen Journalism Editor and Executive Director Curtis Wackerle will center on a tale of two counties — Pitkin and Costilla in the San Luis Valley — geographically close but at seemingly opposite ends of the great American divide.
The intersection of climate, democracy, and geopolitics: A conversation with Thomas L. Friedman
July 22, 2022
READ EDITOR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CURTIS WACKERLE’S WRITEUP ABOUT THE EVENT HERE
Aspen Journalism and Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) partnered to present a public conversation with Thomas L. Friedman. Together with Curtis Wackerle, Editor and Executive Director of Aspen Journalism and Chris Lane, CEO of ACES, Friedman discuss the intersection of climate, democracy and geopolitics.