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Utah Arts Festival visitors eagerly line up to become amateur artists at Prairie Dog Glass mobile studio

0 Comments Published by les June 25th, 2011 in Art, Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Contributors, Current Events, Education, Fine Art, Salt Lake City, SLC, Tourism, Youth Organizations.

By Max Dahl, Assistant Editor, The Selective Echo Adjacent to the City Library, on the north end of 200 East on the Utah Arts Festival grounds is a pavilion housing at any point during the day between 20 and 40 individuals. They are festival visitors waiting eagerly in line (like Utahns love to do) learning [...]

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Summerhays ‘Instrument Petting Zoo’ at Utah Arts Festival provides a potential lifelong spark for budding musicians

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By Max Dahl, Assistant Editor, The Selective Echo Inside the Art Yard at the Utah Arts Festival can become quite noisy with kids involved in creating art, screaming kids, crying kids, and antsy parents. One few safe haven for quiet is the half-hour Fear No Film Kids’ comedy program of seven short films playing in [...]

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Ballet West returns to The Utah Arts Festival in grand form

0 Comments Published by les June 23rd, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, SLC, Tourism, Youth Organizations.

For 45 minutes each evening at the 35th Utah Arts Festival, visitors will have the opportunity to see the most graceful, athletic, profoundly emotional, romantic nonverbal form of communication we have as humans. After a decade-long absence from the festival, Utah’s nationally known Ballet West returns to perform daily at 6:30 p.m. in a 45-minute [...]

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Utah short film ‘Boomtown’ by Torben Bernhard, Travis Low to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ---
At its peak in the early 1880s, the Horn Silver Mine in Frisco, Utah was cited in the U.S. Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger as ‘unquestionably the richest silver mine in the world now being worked.’ Miriam B. Murphy, who has written frequently about Utah’s early history, described the town’s story as the perfect [...]
Pipilotti Rist documentary is good-mood entry for Creativity in Focus Series ---
Pipilotti Rist is a refreshingly gregarious artist as comfortable in her own eccentricities as she is in dealing with museum curators and security personnel who anxiously wonder about the logistical challenges her video art installations impose. However, the Swiss-born artist should not be underestimated because of her easy propensity for whimsy touches and occasional silliness. [...]
A New Year’s treat with Creminelli’s cotechino and lentils ---
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) There’s a wholesome earthiness about the New Year’s food traditions in virtually every culture. A particular personal favorite is lentils, of which [...]
Caputo’s chocolate collection celebrates the artisan maker’s capacity for disruptive innovation ---
‘The cacao you start the process with is the single most important factor in great quality, artisan chocolate, after that you rely on the skill of the chocolate maker to do the rest.’ – Martin Christy Look no further than the impressively diverse chocolate collection at Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli for the definitive example [...]
University of Utah’s Book Arts Program energizes a culture celebrating the printed word’s lasting value ---
‘Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.’ – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student projects at the Book Arts Studio at [...]