Mark Your Calendars for the Final Week of Events!
There is one fabulous week left in the 15th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival! We'll be covering everything from Bach to Jung to Vampires. In addition to one final big weekend in the Salt Lake area, there are many events still taking place throughout the state. Check our website here and click on the map regions to see what else is happening through October 31st.
Here are some of the events coming up:
Reinventing Bach
Date: Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 Time: 6:00 PM Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier-restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning system still in use today. Two centuries later, pioneering musicians began to take advantage of breakthroughs in audio recording to make Bach's music the sound of modern transcendence. This is the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives. Featuring Paul Elie and Gerald Elias, we hope you will join us for a musical and literary exploration of Bach and how technology has changed his work over time.
Jung's Red Book
Date: Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South The Jung Society of Utah and the Utah Humanities Council are pleased to announce a special presentation on Jung's Red Book by Jung Society president, Machiel Klerk. The Jung Society offers monthly lectures on Jung and related issues at several venues around Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: http://www.jungutah.com/
The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the personality. 
The Man Who Quit Money
Date: Saturday, Oct. 2012
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South
Mark Sundeen and Daniel Suelo (aka "The Man Who Quit Money") will discuss Mark's book and Daniel's life.
In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since.
The Man Who Quit Money is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. Suelo doesn't pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild foods and gourmet discards. He no longer even carries an I.D. Yet he manages to amply fulfill not only the basic human needs-for shelter, food, and warmth-but, to an enviable degree, the universal desires for companionship, purpose, and spiritual engagement.
Charlaine Harris and "Deadlocked"
Date: Saturday, Oct. 27th, 2012
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Salt Lake Public Library, 210 East 400 South
Date: Saturday, Oct. 27th, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Viridian Event Center 8030 South 1825 West
West Jordan, UT 8408
Charlaine Harris discusses mysteries, detectives, vampires and, of course, Sookie Stackhouse, the inspiration for HBO's popular series, True Blood.
 Prior to Harris' discussion, join us for a blood drive in her honor from 1:30 to 4:30. We've teamed up with ARUP to suck you dry for a good cause! The first 25 individuals to sign up will received a free signed copy of Harris' new book! Click here to register.
Harris created the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie through her adventures involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which now numbers eleven titles, has been released worldwide. Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the production of a new HBO series based upon the books. He wrote and directed the pilot episode for that series, True Blood, which premiered in September of 2008. It was an instant success and is now filming its fourth season.
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