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Sunrise & Sunset
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | | July 04 | 6:02 AM | 9:02 PM | | July 05 | 6:02 AM | 9:02 PM | | July 06 | 6:03 AM | 9:01 PM | | July 07 | 6:03 AM | 9:01 PM | | July 08 | 6:04 AM | 9:01 PM | | July 09 | 6:05 AM | 9:00 PM | | July 10 | 6:05 AM | 9:00 PM | | July 11 | 6:06 AM | 8:59 PM | | July 12 | 6:07 AM | 8:59 PM |
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Dear Friends & Family,
Here's the July CATALYST.
Thanks for reading,
Greta deJong, editor & publisher
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** You can access the entire online calendar AND our Community Resource Directory from this email now, as well as note sunrise times and moon phases. See left.
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Event picks for
July 4 - July 11
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Sat. July 6.
The Wasatch Cooperative Market will be a full-service, socially and environmentally responsible grocery store selling local, high-quality products at fair trade prices.
Show your pride in cooperative business ~ display WCM's new bumper sticker.
Pick one up at any of their partner locations (Pago, Tin Angel, Sage's, Earth Goods, Brewvies, Squatters, Vertical Diner and more). On Sat., July 6, display it on your car, bike, water bottle, etc. as a visual shout-out to the community.
wasatch.coop
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Food Truck Thursdays
Thursdays, 11a-2p. 239 S Main.
Each Thursday noon, seven food trucks line up to serve you lunch. Who will it be this week? See the "Food Truck Thursdays" Facebook Page. (No trucks July 4.)
Big Band Dance Nights
Tuesdays (excluding July 9th), 7:30-9:30p. Free.
Enjoy big band swing, including free ballroom dancing lessons starting at 7:30p from Ballroom Utah.
Weekday Workouts
Monday-Thursday (except holidays), 5:15-6:15p. In partnership with U of U. Free.
Move, tone & shape those muscles that have been stuck behind a desk all day!
- Mondays: Become familiar with a weight circuit routine in the Circuit Training Class.
- Tuesdays: A traditional yoga course with a mix of Vinyasa/Flow and Hatha yoga postures, followed by a 7-minute relaxation period, or savasana.
- Wednesdays: A fitness interval class designed to shed, shape and challenge.
- Thursdays: Finish off the week with another yoga class that will increase flexibility strength and mental clarity for the weekend.
thegallivancenter.com
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July 4-7, Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa (Tibetan Buddhist Temple). 740 S. 300 West. Free.
The four continuous days of "Drupchad," or prayer festival, will be used to perform the practice of the Buddha of Compassion, or "Chenrezig." Prayer participants will repeat the mantra (Om Mani Padme hung) more than 1.2 million times over the course of the four days for the sake of generating compassion for all sentient beings.
See website for schedule of prayers:
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Friday Afternoons, July 5-Oct 11. 4-8p. Fabian Lakeside Pavilion, 1350 E 2100 S.
Free.
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Tues., July 9, 5-6:30p. Swaner Eco Center, 1258 Center Dr. Park City. Volunteer opportunity.
Dyer's woad threatens native plants and animals by competing for moisture, nutrients, soil and space. Animals depend on native plant species for food and the invasive plants outcompete the native plants for space. Weed pullers are needed to help keep the Swaner Preserve healthy.
(435) 797-8943; peregrine.bosler@usu.edu
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Tues. July 9, 7p.
The City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.
Fires large enough to create their own weather are an everyday summer reality across vast stretches of North America. This documentary raises questions about conventional methods of fighting fire and whether decades of suppressing fire have simply made matters worse. Discussion to follow.
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Tues. July 9, 7p.
The City Library, 210 E 400 S. $30.
The easiest way to make sense of the unknown is with humor. In this two-part workshop, you'll explore ways to write and make light of the best and worst of times. Whether you create a limerick or ironic play, awaken the humor in you.
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July 11-14.
Bonneville Seabase, 9390 W Hwy 138, Grantsville. $150/$90 adv.
The annual festival committed to igniting a sustainable culture of creativity and expression, this year's Element 11 theme is Labyrinth: a metaphor for the journey to the center of your deepest self and back out into the world with a broadened understanding of who you are.
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July 8-Aug 19. Liberty Park, 600 E 900 S. 7 pm. Free. (Come early to tour museum, which closes at 6:45.)
Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnics, family and friends of all ages to concerts on the porch of the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts in Liberty Park. Go early to tour the museum which will be open until 6:45 p.m. See the work of local craft artists invited to demonstrate on concert evenings.
This coming Monday (July 8): Harry Lee and the Back Alley Blues Band.
artsandmuseums.utah.gov
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Red Butte Garden is open today, July 4th
Celebrate the weather forecast ~ finally a day that shouldn't crack 100. Bring a picnic.
9am-9pm.
$10 ($6/kids). Members and U of U students: free.
300 Wakara Way. How to Get Here
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City parking meters down till further notice
Salt Lake City's new parking meters are not doing well in our climate: This past winter's cold downed many of them, and now they are failing again, due, in part, to the heat. Meter-related enforcement is suspended until problems are resolved. Saturday free parking rules (two-hour limit) apply.
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Tim DeChristopher on Obama's climate plan ~ and on prisons
Utah climate activist Tim DeChristopher, recently released from jail after serving 21 months for disrupting an auction for oil and gas drilling rights, appeared on All In with Chris Hayes, along with former Bush EPA administrator Christine Todd Whittman, to discuss President Obama's June 25 climate plan. He was on The Late Show with David Letterman last week to discuss his case and the documentary Bidder 70. As locals who are well acquainted with DeChristopher's story, we found the most interesting part of his talk with Letterman to be his comments on prison: "We have a vastly different justice system today than we did a generation ago, with an order of magnitude more people in prison. One of the consequences of mass incarceration is that prison is filled with normal people. Mass incarceration didn't happen because of some drastic shift in human nature, it happened because the private prison industry was able to change our laws that allow us to lock up a lot more normal people."
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Online canning course
If you have a garden that's bigger than your stomach and you don't already know, you should probably learn how to properly freeze and can.
Ann Henderson from the Utah State University Extension, Family & Consumer Sciences Faculty, recommends a free, self-paced, online course from the University of Georgia: "Preserving Food at Home: A Self Study" as well as the National Center for Home Food Preservation website.
https://www.fcs.uga.edu/ext/food/nchfp_elc
http://setp.uga.edu
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Aaron Moulton departs Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA)
Senior Curator Aaron Moulton, who has been prolific in his brief tenure (less than two years), is leaving the museum this month, reportedly "to pursue further opportunities in the field." His edgy exhibitions covered topics such as LGBT politics, sexuality and new media art. The inaugural Utah Biennial titled "Mondo Utah" is currently in the Main Gallery. "Gianni Pettana: Forgiven by Nature," about an icon of Italy's Radical Architecture movement who taught at the U of U in 1972, opens Friday, July 5, at 6pm (Q/A at 7). Until a new senior curator is chosen, Assistant Curator Rebecca Maksym will carry out programming set in motion by Moulton. This interview with Moulton in the current Spike Art Quarterly makes us especially sad to see him go, for it shows how much we are losing: http://www.spikeart.at/en/a/magazin/current/Talk_7
UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple; Tues.-Thurs.: 11am-6pm.; Fri.: 11am-9pm; Sat.: 11am-6pm; closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is free. www.utahmoca.org.
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Jung Society lectures available
The Jung Society recently concluded its fourth year and became a nonprofit. It brought to Utah some of the best speakers in depth psychology on the topics of dreams, mythology, psychospirituality and more, reaching 3,500 people.
All eight lectures plus the Coleman Barks/David Darling Evening of Rumi's Poetry performance are available this week only for $79 (a $58 discount). Available individually, also.
www.JungPlatform.com
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"Turn spare change into real change"
Downtown, you will notice 13 red meters, collection devices for the Homeless Outreach Service Team (HOST). Police Chief Chris Burbank urges us to put our spare change in those meters instead of into the hands of panhandlers. "That money goes to support the Fourth Street Clinic, The Road Home, Volunteers of America ~ professional organizations that provide food, housing, health care, job counseling, detox and rehab services and so much more," says Sgt. Michelle Ross, HOST grant coordinator.
Here's a map of the HOST meters: slchost.com
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Solar 101
The Sierra Club partnered with Creative Energies Solar last month to bring their "Solar 101: Rooftop Solar Installation Explained" talk to Salt Lake City Park City and Ogden. They're now offering rooftop solar power generation "tailored to your roof and your budget." Check out their new rooftop solar webpage and get a free quote.
http://sierraclubsolar.org
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Download Marla Dee's new book for free
Marla Dee, onetime CATALYST staffer and columnist ~ and perhaps the original premier clutter-clearing expert in Utah with her business Clear and Simple ~ has published a new book: "The ART (Acceptance, Release and Trust) of Letting Go." She aims to help us gain independence from our stuff and fears ~ no small task. If you're a would-be member of www.clutterersanonymous.org, this book will do you good.
Fetch the book here:
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101145339857-356/The+Art+of+Letting+Go.pdf
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Volunteers needed for arts fest
Park City's Kimball Arts Festival happens next month (August 2-4) and volunteers are needed.
volunteers@kimballartcenter.org, 435.649.8882, ext. 107.
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RDT welcomes new dancers
Salt Lake's nationally revered Repertory Dance Theatre ~ dancers who hold in their bodies a living library of modern dance choreography ~ have four new company members. We look forward to seeing Efren Corado, Justin Bass, Ursula Perry and Alyssa Thompson this season ~ the company's 48th.
rdtutah.org
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Free sprinkler checks
If you're a water customer within the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake and Sandy, and you have an in-ground pressurized lawn sprinkler system, you're eligible for a sprinkler check. Are the hads tilted, racked or mismatched? Is the height efficient? You'll get a customized watering schedule and a list of improvements.
SlowTheFlow.org
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Call for authors: People's Market Book Day
The People's Market, happening each Sunday at the International Peace Gardens on the west side, invites local authors to sell and read from their work on Book Day, August 4. Writers of all disciplines are welcome.
www.slcpeoplesmarket.org
Stephanie Glaittli, 801.638.2893, stephanie.anne@yahoo.com |
It's a week of contradictions here on planet Earth, and handling the contrast between opposing positions and perspectives is certain to require deep reservoirs of patience. On one hand, Mercury Retrograde, in effect from June 26 through July 20, has downshifted the pace of daily life; the normal retrograde interference that tends to snarl traffic and scramble communication is doing just that, which means most of us are repeating ourselves or finding others repetitious. On the other hand, a trine between Venus, in Leo, and Uranus, in Aries, quickens the pace as well as the pulse, particularly when it comes to the rhythms of love...(read more). 
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We're giving away tickets to The Stone Foxes at the State Room. Show is Friday, July 12. Doors at 8p, music at 9. 21+.
Email pax@catalystmagazine.net by Monday, July 8 for a chance to win a pair! Make sure to include 'reader rewards' in the subject line. Tickets will be available at our office.
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