Extended Weekend: Lights out, improv and more

Saturday, March 28, 2009

By PJH Staff

Town kills the lights for Earth Hour

The Town of Jackson will turn offthe Town Square lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.,  Saturday, for Earth Hour, aninternational effort to conserve energy. Major cities and small towns around the worldwill also turn off the lights.

The Four Seasons in Teton Village will offer candlelight dinners at that hour.

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Improv to make J Hole sick with laugher

The Laff Staph Comedy Improv Group will infect Jackson at 8 and 9:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, in Off-Square’s Black Box Theatre.

The free show may very well be standing-room only, as the group’s first, unannounced weekend last month saw 50 people the first night and 70 the second. Black Box holds 120 people.

The Laff Staph, an all-local comedy troupe, meets Sundays topractice and study technique with Todd Hjelt, a familiar face in area theatrefor more than a decade. Improv comedy is Hjelt’s first love, the theatre’s Emy diGrappa.

Hoping to make the performance monthly, the improv group will feature seven or eight performers, unrehearsed, unprepared . . . unwashed? The content will definitely be for adults, diGrappa said.

Courtesy photo of ToddHjelt.

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High-tech nature, Swan Restoration at NMWA

The National Museum of Wildlife Art will screen Nature Tech: Magic in Motion, at 2 p.m., Sunday, as part of its Winter Film Series.

The first in a two-part series, Nature Tech follows a group of scientists studying nature to applyin human technology – for instance, the strength of a spider’s web and the sonic-jet of tuna in Germany.

Look for more on the conclusion of the series, next month,in the next print edition of PlanetJackson Hole Weekly.

At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, the museum’s Art After Hours series features Bringing Back the Trumpeter: Swan Restoration in Wyoming and Beyond with Drew Reed of the Wyoming Wetlands Society.

Drew Reed, the executive director of the Wyoming WetlandsSociety, will discuss the Trumpeter Swan’s future in Jackson Hole, as well as the society’s efforts to ensure it.

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Low-key music

If by any chance Mountain Fest is not your thing, but youstill want some music this week, a number of venues will be considerably more chill, Saturday, even at the Village.

Here’s the short list:

Pam Drews Phillips, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., in the Granary at Spring Creek Ranch.

Judd Grossman , 4 to 8 p.m., in the Four Seasons Lobby Lounge.

Aaron Davis & The Docks, 7:30 to 11 p.m. in the Silver Dollar Bar in the Wort Hotel.

Bradberry-Stevens Band and DJ, 9 p.m., in the Virginian Saloon and Virginian Ballroom.

Whitewater Ramble, 3 p.m., at the Trap Bar in Grand Targhee Resort.

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Prepare for next hunting season

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will hold a public meeting in Jackson from 7 to 9 p.m., March 31 at the Antler Motel.

Game and Fish biologists and wardens will big game population data collected this winter and any proposed changes for the the 2009 season, next fall.

Game and Fish welcomes written comments at the meeting or by 5 p.m. Friday, April 3 through the mail. Send comments to Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Attn: Regulations, 3030 Energy Lane, Casper, WY 82604.

    Get more information from the Jackson Game and Fish Office at 307-733-2321.

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