Diane Tuft: Entropy

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Entropy is “a measure of disorder within a system,” which can increase if left unchecked. In the case of climate change, greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, creating increasingly unpredictable patterns and extreme weather events within the Earth’s climate system. Diane Tuft’s photographs explore the destructive impact these forces have had on our region: specifically, the demise of the Great Salt Lake and the ecosystem it supports. The saturated colors, visible cracks, and crystalline textures found in this body of work are born from the lack of moisture making its way to the lake. Although the lake’s level fluctuates from year to year, it reached an all-time low in 2022 with overuse of water resources and climate change serving as critical factors in its disappearance. Tuft states, “Entropy illustrates the ecological changes that I witnessed in the Great Salt Lake. Many areas of the lake are rapidly drying, caused by evaporation and lack of water replenishment. Underground petroleum is emerging to mix with the lake’s waters, and microbialites are calcifying and ceasing to provide nourishment for the lake’s ecosystem. It is apparent that climate change and global warming are wreaking havoc on the Great Salt Lake, which translates visually to a wonderland of beauty born of tragic consequences.”

Diane Tuft: Entropy

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Entropy is “a measure of disorder within a system,” which can increase if left unchecked. In the case of climate change, greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, creating increasingly unpredictable patterns and extreme weather events within the Earth’s climate system. Diane Tuft’s photographs explore the destructive impact these forces have had on our region: specifically, the demise of the Great Salt Lake and the ecosystem it supports. The saturated colors, visible cracks, and crystalline textures found in this body of work are born from the lack of moisture making its way to the lake. Although the lake’s level fluctuates from year to year, it reached an all-time low in 2022 with overuse of water resources and climate change serving as critical factors in its disappearance. Tuft states, “Entropy illustrates the ecological changes that I witnessed in the Great Salt Lake. Many areas of the lake are rapidly drying, caused by evaporation and lack of water replenishment. Underground petroleum is emerging to mix with the lake’s waters, and microbialites are calcifying and ceasing to provide nourishment for the lake’s ecosystem. It is apparent that climate change and global warming are wreaking havoc on the Great Salt Lake, which translates visually to a wonderland of beauty born of tragic consequences.”

Everything Is Collective: Expected Image

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Over the past five years, Everything Is Collective has made experimental works in response to how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) uses visuality, photography, and images as a crucial part of its land management policies. These policies dictate the ways the nation’s public lands and natural resources are understood, apportioned, conserved, and exploited. Specifically, this project investigates a little known, but highly significant, land management policy called the Visual Resource Management System (VRM). The Visual Resource Management System is used by the BLM to determine the “scenic or visual” values of America’s public lands. This modular project includes works in photography, appropriation, and video that subvert the guidance, protocols, and imagery presented by the VRM system. The title of the exhibition is an appropriation of the natural resource management term, expected image. An expected image is a mental picture of what a person expects to see in a natural landscape; it implies a feedback loop between art and nature. The collective’s goal is to make new visual works that challenge accepted conceptions of nature, conventional landscape epistemologies, anthropocentric viewpoints, land use interpretation, and capitalist values as they relate to the western landscape.

Everything Is Collective: Expected Image

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Over the past five years, Everything Is Collective has made experimental works in response to how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) uses visuality, photography, and images as a crucial part of its land management policies. These policies dictate the ways the nation’s public lands and natural resources are understood, apportioned, conserved, and exploited. Specifically, this project investigates a little known, but highly significant, land management policy called the Visual Resource Management System (VRM). The Visual Resource Management System is used by the BLM to determine the “scenic or visual” values of America’s public lands. This modular project includes works in photography, appropriation, and video that subvert the guidance, protocols, and imagery presented by the VRM system. The title of the exhibition is an appropriation of the natural resource management term, expected image. An expected image is a mental picture of what a person expects to see in a natural landscape; it implies a feedback loop between art and nature. The collective’s goal is to make new visual works that challenge accepted conceptions of nature, conventional landscape epistemologies, anthropocentric viewpoints, land use interpretation, and capitalist values as they relate to the western landscape.

Tuacahn's Saturday Market 2024

Ivins, UT - Tuacahn Amphitheatre and Center for the Arts

The Tuacahn Saturday Market is one more way to experience the magic of Tuacahn. Come enjoy its wonderful surroundings at our outdoor market in our beautiful red rock canyon featuring local artwork, crafts, food and free entertainment. You'll find something new and different every Saturday morning at The Tuacahn Saturday Market. The market is every Saturday, year round (weather permitting). Admission and live entertainment is free. Patrons stroll along a tree-lined walkway next to a beautiful running water feature while browsing displays created by local painters, artists, crafters and more. The Tuacahn Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch. A pancake breakfast with bacon and juice is served until 12pm. There are an abundance of tables nearby or bring a blanket and relax on the cool grass in the canyon. We have vendors who offer a variety of food for purchase all during the market hours to accommodate hungry shoppers. The Tuacahn Saturday Market is a great place to find souvenirs created by local artists and crafters, and gifts for you or the special people in your life. Come see why The Tuacahn Saturday Market is a fun St. George tradition for locals and visitors alike. Always FREE Always FUN and Each Week is UNIQUE!

Crossroads: Change in Rural America-Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition

Leeds, UT - Silver Reef Museum

Smithsonian Exhibition, Crossroads: Change in Rural America Explores Future and Sustainability of Rural Communities As part of Crossroads, a statewide exploration of life and change in rural Utah presented by Utah Humanities and its partners, the Silver Reef Museum announces it will bring Crossroads, a Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution to Washington County. Utah Humanities is touring the Crossroads: Change in Rural America exhibition to eight Utah communities from September 2023 to December 2024. Community organizations will partner with Utah Humanities to host the exhibition and connect their local stories through companion exhibits and programming. The Smithsonian’s Crossroads is a traveling exhibition that provokes fresh thinking and sparks conversations about the future and sustainability of rural communities. Crossroads offer small towns a chance to look at their own paths over the past century – to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes, explore how they have adapted, and think about what’s next. This exhibit will be hosted at the Silver Reef Museum | Ghost Town in Leeds, UT from March 9 to April 28, 2024. For more information about the exhibit hours and additional details, please visit the Silver Reef Museum website. Crossroads is brought to the Silver Reef Museum by Utah Humanities. As part of the Washington County tour stop, the Silver Reef Museum is partnering with Arts to Zion | Southern Utah and Washington County Historical Society to create "Crossroads: Change in Washington County!" This local project includes lectures, museum collaborative exhibits, and events throughout Washington County, UT. You can find more information about these events on the Arts to Zion website. There, you will also find a Google Map for all of the collaborative events and exhibits, so that you can easily find them by placing the directions on your phone. The Smithsonian Crossroads: Change in Rural America exhibition in Leeds opens on: Date: Saturday, March 9, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Silver Reef Museum | Silver Reef Ghost Town, 1903 Wells Fargo Rd. Leeds, UT Phone: 435.879.2254 Email: museum@silverreef.org For more information about the museum exhibits, lectures and activities, as well as a Google map of the locations, visit the Arts to Zion website. Bobbi Wan-kier, Director of Projects/Manager of the Silver Reef Museum and Executive Director of Arts to Zion, shares that  “We are very excited to host the Crossroads: Change in Rural America Smithsonian exhibit at the Silver Reef Museum in Leeds, UT. It offers an outstanding opportunity for us to participate in high caliber exhibition programming and it has provided the opportunity to partner with our local Arts to Zion and Washington County Historical Society organizations, strengthening our community outreach efforts and relationships. We are proud to collaborate with our community partners in telling our local stories of growth, and resilience in a rather harsh rural environment up until the tourism that supports us today. As our area grows, our new residents can take part and have pride in knowing what went on before with this county-wide project. Hundreds of individuals are participating in our museum exhibit, activities, and events to help us collectively reach everyone with “Crossroads: Change in Washington County.” Our map of museums and activities is located here: Arts to Zion and a deeper dive into how we have changed up until today can be found here: Washington County Historical Society . Megan van Frank, Director of the Center for Community Heritage at Utah Humanities, is coordinating the exhibition tour in Utah. In explaining the role Utah Humanities plays in bringing the Smithsonian to Utah, she says, “We are proud to bring the Crossroads exhibition to eight communities around the state in 2023-2024. This collaboration among national, state, and local organizations strengthens Utah’s cultural community and helps preserve and share Utah history. We work closely with host sites to leverage the national exhibition to bring focus to their own experiences and bring context to an understanding of rural identity, land, and community.” Van Frank hopes that “visitors to the Crossroads exhibition will come away with an appreciation for the tension between cherished ideals and challenging realities of life in rural Utah. The exhibition and each local project is an opportunity for Utahns to explore change and adaptation in rural America and Utah as part of local, state, and national conversations.” Professor Greg Smoak of the University of Utah is the consulting scholar for the Utah tour of the Crossroads exhibition. He says, "Utah is an urban place with a rural heart. The vast majority of our state’s population lives in the densely populated cities of the Wasatch Front. Yet, if pressed, many of those urban dwellers might hesitate to think of themselves as city folk. That is because rural life holds deep and resilient meanings for many Americans, especially here in Utah. Contemporary pressures that drive change may seem daunting, yet adaptation has always been core to rural life in Utah. The changes and challenges facing small communities today are not unprecedented, and considering the ways Utahns have navigated decision points in the past might help us think about the future of rural Utah." Terri Cobb, Registrar at Museum on Main Street, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service / Smithsonian Affiliations remarks that “Crossroads: Change in Rural America is part of the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils, and local host institutions. We are proud to be partnering with Utah Humanities to bring Crossroads to eight communities across Utah throughout the next year. Crossroads takes a broad look at the characteristics of rural America. It explores how an attraction to and interaction with the land formed the basis of rural America and how rural communities and small towns evolve. It also highlights how change has transformed rural America and how rural Americans are evolving for the future.” To learn more about the statewide tour, contact Utah Humanities at 801.359.9670 or visit the Utah Humanities website. Crossroads: Change in Rural America is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, Utah Humanities, and the Sliver Reef Museum.

Kelsey Cook

Salt Lake City, UT - Wiseguys Comedy Club - Downtown SLC

Kelsey Cook is the daughter of an International Yo-Yo Champion and a Professional Foosball player, which made for a humor-filled life at a young age. Kelsey’s stand-up special was recently released on EPIX’s Unprotected Sets. She made her late night debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, followed by A Little Late with Lilly Singh on NBC. Her other television appearances include Comedy Central’s This is Not Happening, AXS TV Presents Gotham Comedy Live, Punchline on FOX, Uproarious on FUSE and Greatest Party Story Ever on MTV.

Andy Gold

Ogden, UT - Wiseguys Comedy Club - Ogden

Andy has appeared in festivals and competitions all over the country, including the Boston Comedy Festival, San Diego Comedy Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off and Comcast’s Trial by Laughter Comedy Festival. Andy’s comedy has also been featured on Hulu and he can be heard regularly on Kevin Hart’s Laugh out Loud network on Sirius XM and Audible’s Punchlines. He also recorded a full length special for Dry Bar Comedy called Dreamcatcher.Andy draws humor from all parts of his life, especially the nearly 10 years he spent in active heroin addiction which has made him a favorite at treatment centers and recovery events across the country. Andy began his comedy career just six months after a (temporally) fatal overdose prompted his family to intervene and convince him to go to treatment. A prolific writer, Gold’s material runs the gamut from sharing colorful jokes about life, dating, jail, rehab, family and recovery and it’s all tied together by one thing and one thing only: really big laughs.

RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTO IN G

Salt Lake City, UT - Abravanel Hall

One of Ravel’s final completed works, the Piano Concerto in G is a fitting testament to his unique genius—and pianist Ingrid Fliter’s profound musicianship and charisma is a perfect match for this breathtaking and colorful tour-de-force. The symphonic poem Winter Bells by Polina Nazaykinskaya is an ode to the whispers of nature and divine harmony, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet acts as a masterclass for storytelling through music. This performance is part of our Masterworks Magnified series, designed to invite audiences to experience our music in new ways—with added elements like video projections and special lighting in the concert hall, conversations with the performers, and fun lobby activities on theme with the concert.

Lights, Camera, Action

Orem, UT - Noorda Center for the Performing Arts

The UVU Ballroom Dance Company is a premier ballroom dance company which won two more titles last June in the Open British Formation Championships at Blackpool, England, bringing UVU’s total wins to six. In addition, The UVU Ballroom Dance Company has won two USADance National Formation Championships as well as Dancing With the Stars Collegiate Championships to win the Mirrorball Trophy in the show’s first ever collegiate championship. The company wows audiences and judges around the world with their fresh choreography, attention to technique, and enthusiasm for the art of ballroom styles in International and American, including Latin, Standard Ballroom, Smooth and Rhythm.

"Requiem" by Johannes Brahms

Salt Lake City, UT - Libby Gardner Hall - University of Utah

To close their 20th Anniversary season of concerts, the Salt Lake Choral Artists invite you to join them for two performances of Dr. Lara Hoggard’s English edition of the celebrated Requiem by Johannes Brahms on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Utah’s Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Soprano Clara Hurtado Lee, Baritone Tyler Oliphant and the SLCA Symphony Orchestra will join the performances conducted by Dr. Brady Allred. The Salt Lake Choral Artists Concert Choir and Chamber Choir will be joined by the Salt Lake Vocal Artists. The Brahms Requiem spans a full spectrum of human emotion with statements of celebration and hope, sadness and triumph, and provides a blessing of consolation, comfort, and peace for those who have departed from our lives.

Imagine Ballet Theatre Presents: Cinderella

Ogden, UT - Peery's Egyptian Theater

Imagine Ballet Theatre is thrilled to announce the world premiere of its breathtaking ballet production, Cinderella. This timeless fairy tale comes to life on stage in an enchanting display of grace, talent, and creativity. Prepare to be transported into the magical world of Cinderella as Imagine Ballet Theatre brings this beloved story to the stage. With mesmerizing choreography by Raymond Van Mason, stunning costumes, live orchestra, and a talented cast of dancers, audiences of all ages are sure to be spellbound by this extraordinary production.

Memory Grove Park Meditation Chapel Tour

Salt Lake City, UT - Meditation Chapel in Memory Grove Park

At the base of City Creek Canyon, lies Memory Grove Park, and in it, Meditation Chapel. Memory Grove Park was purchased by Salt Lake City in 1902. Formerly, it was an industrial mill area, on property originally part of the Brigham Young estate. In 1920, it became Memory Grove, dedicated to soldiers of World War I. Come learn more about the park's history and its many monuments and markers, including Meditation Chapel.

West Valley Symphony of Utah Spring Concert - Two 2nd's

West Valley City, UT - Utah Cultural Celebration Center

The West Valley Symphony of Utah under the direction from Maestro Donny Gilbert, conductor, will play the 2nd Symphonies of composers Hovhaness and Sibelius.

Chris Renzema - Manna Tour

Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot

Chris Renzema - Manna Tour