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I grew up in a house where we had a crowded table. Around that table was a mixed family. Stepbrothers. My mom. My dad—not theirs. Sometimes we had holiday dinners at my grandparents' house in Staten Island, NY. A black silhouette of a horse and buggy was glued to the porch door and opening that door meant that cigar smoke would soon hit my senses and my grandfather would soon plant a kiss on my head or cheek. This was my mother's side of the family. All of our heights marked with a knife or pen on the kitchen doorway. A crowded table feels like a paradise of sorts. As children or young adults, we are always yearning for more independence. More time away. But in our late twenties or early thirties, this crowded table notion might come back around as a warm memory. We were all home together at some point. And then we weren't. Now we have our own tables and there's this sudden yearning again: How do I make this table full? Is it my great grandmother's fine china? Is it more children? Is it living closer to everyone who we left when we moved away? Life always presents questions that feel like steep mountains, so I settle on rustling up things that feel like yesteryear, investing in heirloom tableware, and watching my mother have a conversation with my toddler—nearly 7 decades between them. It feels like the right remedy for chasing all the things that feel so fleeting. But let's wrap back around to this crowded table. Have you ever heard the song "Crowded Table" by The Highwomen? Highly recommend it. There's such magic in setting a place to share a meal, or even indulging in a single setting for meaningful solitude. I hope page 40 brings some additional inspiration to your upcoming holiday season and gratitude fills your heart. I want a house with a crowded table And a place by the fire for everyone Let us take on the world while we're young and able And bring us back together when the day is done

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CUE THE BALLET NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet returns to Missoula and includes local talent

Leap into the holiday season this year at the "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet" where, for one night only, gifted dancers from around the world will be joined on stage by children from the Missoula community to perform this enchanting holiday classic. Most people are at least somewhat familiar with the story in "The Nutcracker" ballet, beginning with a Christmas Eve party in the Stahlbaum family home when young Clara receives the gift of an exquisite wooden nutcracker. Clara’s dreams that night bring her Nutcracker Prince to life, along with the fearsome Mouse King, the elegant Sugar Plum Fairy, and an array of dancers from exotic lands, all set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless score. Whether you’ve never seen a production of "The Nutcracker," or your holiday season isn’t complete without watching at least one performance, Talmi Entertainment’s production of the Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet guarantees to dazzle with innovative choreography incorporating classical ballet and stunning sets and costumes, plus a few surprises sprinkled in, such as circus acrobatics and puppetry. A highlight of any performance put on by Talmi Entertainment is the opportunity

to see their international cast of principal dancers from countries such as Japan, Italy, Turkey, and Ukraine. The theme will be especially poignant to both dancers and audience members this year as it emphasizes unity and peace through dance, with Act II being set in the Land of Peace and Harmony. One of those international dancers you’ll be eager to watch is Ukrainian Anna Trofimova, a soloist and audition director with Talmi Entertainment. Anna has been dancing for as long as she can remember. “When I was a little girl, I saw the ballet on the TV. I asked my mom to take me to the ballet studio, and here I am,” she says. Anna studied at the Vadim Pisarev School of Choreographic Mastery and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the Ukrainian National University of Culture and Arts. She has danced in a multitude of classic ballet productions such as "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty" throughout Europe and North America. She has also performed in Missoula two times in the past and is looking forward to returning. What Anna enjoys most about ballet is being on stage and sharing her energy with other dancers. She believes she has danced in close to 500 Nutcracker performances

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over her lifetime, filling a variety of positions. In Missoula this year, Anna will dance several roles including Clara’s mother, which is her favorite part, and the first that she danced when she joined this company. “That role is my special love,” she says. In addition to Missoula, Anna and the rest of the touring ballet company will perform the "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet" in close to 80 cities this year. They will perform almost every single day, with some cities offering two performances a day. The company will then travel to the next city, erect the intricate sets, go through one dress rehearsal to check spacing, cues, and entrances, then dance, twirl, and leap to the delight of audiences during the two-hour long ballet. The next morning, the process begins all over again. It sounds like quite the whirlwind but Anna says it’s her routine. She’s used to it, and she still gets something out of each performance. “Every single town is new people, new emotions, and when you see the kids smiling it brings you joy and inspiration,” she says. The “kids” Anna is referring to are not only the children in the audience, but the children that are dancing with her and the rest of the cast on stage through Talmi Entertainment’s Dance With Us Program. The program gives young dancers from the towns at each tour stop a unique chance to rehearse and perform with professional international dancers in classic ballets. Anna says, “Working with the children is so special for us because we can share what we love with them.” Charlene Campbell Carey, artistic director for Missoula’s Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre, is working with Talmi Entertainment to fill the children’s parts in this year’s Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet. An accomplished dancer herself, Charlene founded Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre in 1998 and has nurtured it to international prominence through the theatre’s ballet school, touring company, and the Ballet Beyond Borders Festival. Charlene explains that from the beginning she has tried to pick themes for her company’s many original ballets that weren’t the usual, well-known productions. “Never in 25 years have we presented a large production CONTINUED >

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Charlene emphasizes that Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre is an inclusive organization and that the Ballet Beyond Borders Festival was born out of friendships that Charlene and her dancers have made around the world while touring in China, Cuba, and Italy, to name just a few.

like "The Nutcracker" or "Swan Lake" because we are a small school,” says Charlene. “Instead, we have tried to pick topics that were unique and might not be on most people’s radar, like ballets about wheat fields and salmon fly hatches.” Charlene emphasizes that Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre is an inclusive organization and that the Ballet Beyond Borders Festival was born out of friendships that Charlene and her dancers have made around the world while touring in China, Cuba, and Italy, to name just a few. “I wanted to have a diplomatic reason behind international dancers coming here to Missoula,” says Charlene. The children in Charlene’s ballet school have performed with Talmi Entertainment’s dance company a few times in the past when they’ve come to town for other ballets such as "Romeo and Juliet," and Charlene is thrilled to welcome them back. The collaborative performance not only serves to continue Charlene’s goal of fostering international relationships through dance, but it also gives young dancers a chance to be on stage performing a classic ballet with a diverse cast. This year, around 25 local children ranging from 6 years old to high school seniors will perform in the "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet." The kids will fill all the youth roles including mice, snowflakes, and children in the party scene. Charlene explains that the Missoula dance community is a nurturing one as teachers and

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dancers are familiar with one another and work together to fill these youth roles so that any child interested in participating in this professional production can do so. The children in the production are also swept up in the whirlwind that occurs on the day of the performance. They will have just one dress rehearsal with the professional dancers before the curtain rises. “You have to instantly collaborate,” says Charlene. “If a child is in the party scene, they have to instantly collaborate with a parent that doesn’t speak their language. Dance is the perfect glue for that. There’s no dialog, but you still have to trust to take their hand, whether they’re from Japan, or Kazakhstan, or wherever.” Throwing a cast together in one day that speaks a variety of languages may at first sound like a barrier to pulling off a cohesive performance, but Anna and Charlene aren’t worried. “The language of classical ballet is international,” says Charlene. “All over the world, you start with pliés, it doesn’t matter where you are.” “We teach each other,” says Anna. “It’s not really a question of understanding one another if you’re a ballet dancer. Ballet has united us because we speak the international language of dance.” The Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet will be performed at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 16 at the University of Montana’s Dennison Theatre. To purchase tickets and find more information, visit nutcracker.com.

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“If a child is in the party scene, they have to instantly collaborate with a parent that doesn’t speak their language. Dance is the perfect glue for that. There’s no dialog, but you still have to trust to take their hand, whether they’re from Japan, or Kazakhstan, or wherever.” - Charlene Campbell Carey 28

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The outside of Western Sensibility is like so many warehouses north of Missoula’s Riverside neighborhood with its unassuming, functional metal siding. Inside the entry room, however, the wall is draped in rich fabric designs showcasing lush illustrations and patterns as diverse as an artists’ gallery. Kathryn Sanders and her business partner, Leana Becker, founded the textile printing studio two years ago, and Sanders runs the day-today operations with her husband, Conor Ballantyne. The building features a cozy meeting room that also showcases the studio's textiles, including pillows. More expansive rooms house the printing operation. It’s a beautiful, well-curated space in which Kathryn seems at home, though once upon a time, this was not her dream.

“I wasn't planning on doing this at all,” she says. “It's still a delightful surprise for me.” Kathryn comes from a family of textile manufacturers, but she never imagined herself carrying on the tradition. Her grandfather ran Cal-Pacific Dyeing and Finishing in the South Bay of Los Angles County—it’s his textile textbooks that now reside on Western Sensibility’s showroom wall. Kathryn’s father—“a quintessential California surfer”—went on to work in the same industry, helping to launch surf brands in the late 1970s and 1980s, such as Gotcha, OP, and Stüssy. When Kathryn was old enough to pursue a career, she enrolled at the University of Montana to study archeology. She had fallen in love with Missoula and imagined CONTINUED >

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herself in academia. Even if she had wanted to get into the textile business, there was plenty of reason not to: In the early 2000s, the industry took a nosedive because companies could no longer compete with overseas manufacturing. Many of them moved offshore. “It was completely devastating,” Kathryn says. “Really sad.” And that would have been the end of it for textiles in her family if not for a few key events. For one, Kathryn’s dad was an early adapter to new technologies. He saw the changes happening in the industry and started developing textiles for digital printing along with Kathryn’s uncle. The other event was Kathryn’s decision to move back to LA for a while. She had met Conor at UM. And though she was in love with Montana, a job opportunity for him to work as a journalist for the NFL network in California led them back to Kathryn’s old stomping grounds. “And so I was kind of looking for my next thing,” Kathryn says. When her uncle passed unexpectedly, Kathryn jumped in to help her dad. In her mind, it was temporary. But it turned into her calling. She worked for another company to develop textiles for digital printing and then spent time at an LA studio prototyping for fashion houses and learning the art of printing. By the time Kathryn and Conor moved back to Missoula–during the pandemic–Sanders was all in on the textiles world and ready to push it into the future. “For me, it wasn't necessarily the textiles that hooked me,” she says. “It was learning about digital textile printing technology. And I just kind of became obsessed. I saw the potential for what it could be. And I started to really learn that it was being underutilized.” Kathryn says the conventional analog way of printing textiles is still how about 95% of textiles are still printed worldwide. Those machines can take up whole city blocks, requiring enormous infrastructure and lots of equipment. They have also historically—and still—create pollution and waste in terms of water-use, water contamination, and the waste of leftover textile materials. Western Sensibility currently has the only digital textile printer of its kind in Montana, —a wide-format dye-sublimation printer. Even across the world, it’s a cutting-edge technology. CONTINUED >

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“Digital printing really democratizes the industry, which is really incredible. That's definitely a core value for us.” “In our process, there's zero water in the process,” Kathryn says. “Our inks are water based, but we use non toxic disperse dyes and far less electricity than the traditional methods.” Western Sensibility offers a variety of services, including creating designs or helping clients design their own prints. The printing technology is flexible. WS created textile interiors for Missoula’s Brasserie Porte Rouge, for instance, where they were able to echo a single pattern on different scales across the interior—something that, in traditional manufacturing, would have required a costly, time-consuming process of switching out different sized screens. One of the most exciting offerings is their collection of designs from artists, many of them well-known Missoula artists. And what the digital printing technology allows artists and designers to do creatively is different than the analog process. Analog printers can only get so detailed. The digital printer, on the other hand, can create images that look like a medium—prints created by local painters like Mickey Haldi look like they have literally been splattered with paint. Textiles created from artist

Stella Nall, look like beadwork because the printer can recreate the shadowing of 3D mediums. And because the digital printer has a low minimum order requirement, Western Sensibility doesn’t have to do bulk orders, allowing customers to request oneof-a-kind pieces. For Kathryn and Conor, being able to support local and independent artists in the town they love is the sweetest thing. It's also kind of a big deal. “The fact that we can have a textile company here—rather than LA or New York—is really revolutionary,” Kathryn says. “Digital printing really democratizes the industry, which is really incredible. That's definitely a core value for us.” Textiles have always been seen as more of a commodity, she says, and print studios have always been very transactional. The digital printing technology has opened up the door to textiles as an art. Textiles are so tactile. It really does take on a life of its own,” she says. “We really look at printing as an artistic medium, which we want to make more accessible to artists and designers.”

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Five things that make you happy instantly: Did you get any pleasant surprises today? Did you do any acts of kindness today? What's something big or small you can do for those less fortunate than yourself? Five personality traits you're grateful for: Favorite song and how does it make you feel? One small step you can take toward overcoming a challenge you currently face: List something good that caught your attention today. What nice thing did another person do for you this week? What's something you did for another person this week? Three things you own that make your life easier: How can you turn something that makes you angry into something more pleasant? Think of five people who irritate you or you have trouble getting along with. Name three positive qualities about them. What are you most thankful for in your life? Name three of your significant accomplishments. Most stunning place you’ve ever visited: Think about the personalities and unique qualities of someone you admire. Which qualities of them do you want to see in yourself, too? What's your favorite holiday and why? What friends are you most grateful for having in your life? What basic daily necessities are you thankful for today? What are you grateful for in your career? Focus on your five senses and write down how you can make them more active. Three elements of nature you're most grateful for: Three things you love about your town: List three struggles you experienced and overcame in your life. What did you do to overcome them, and who helped you through them? What meals do you enjoy most? Something you saw this week that melted your heart: A time when someone went out of their way to support you: A happy memory from childhood: Make a list of five places you'd like to visit and consider visiting at least one very soon.

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Whether you’re hosting Thanksgiving or an autumn dinner party, setting a festive table creates the perfect cozy atmosphere. Improvise and use what you have around the house for adding elements to the table. Candlesticks, vases, little pumpkins and gourds, or fall decor you have on hand can make a great centerpiece. Add fresh flowers or dried foliage for that extra layer of texture and color.

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