Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Documentary: ‘Hog Town’
SPARK! Places of Innovation series
As part of its “Spark! Places of Innovation” exhibit, the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum has a FREE documentary showing at the Buffalo Theater.
The presentation, “Hog Town,” will explore the history of the annual Bikes, Blues and BBQ motorcycle rally in Northwest Arkansas. The film documents folks grasping too tightly to their local identity and the fears of fading into a new mix of cultures.
The “Spark! Places of Innovation” exhibit is a Smithsonian Institution program that explores the unique combination of places, people, and circumstances sparking innovation and invention in rural communities.
About the exhibit
Inspired by an exhibition by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the exhibition features stories gathered from diverse communities across the nation. Photographs, engaging interactives, objects, videos, and digital stories bring a multilayered experience to reveal the leaders, challenges, successes, and future of innovation in each town. Technical, social, cultural, or artistic– every sort of innovation story is as unique as each community and will be represented in Spark! Places of Innovation.
The story of human history is written in inventions and innovations. People are problem solvers. Sometimes we invent. More often, we innovate, introducing a fresh idea or an invention into use in some way that creates a new way of doing or thinking. Rural Americans are creating new products, processes and experiences that change local life and sometimes reach far beyond. Yet, invention and innovation truly flourishes in some places and not others. Why?
Spark! Places of Innovation will be the springboard for diverse local programming in the humanities, sciences, and arts. Visitors will be inspired to learn about innovation has shaped their own communities and how they may be innovators themselves. This exhibition will be an opportunity for community members to come together in conversation around their community’s history, present, and future with innovation.
The exhibit will be at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum through October 8.
WHEN: 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 24
WHERE: Buffalo Theater, 235 S, Main St., Buffalo WY 82834
