CATALYST Weekly ReaderSeptember 19 - September 26

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Featured Vendor:

Raul with Tequenos Factory

Calling on his Venezuelan roots, Raul is famous for his award-winning green salsa made with a base of avocados, green bell peppers and yellow onions. He also crafts traditional Tequenos to sell at the Markets. Come by for a sample.



This Tuesday's vendors:
  • Adam's Heirlooms
  • Asian & Heirlooms
  • Chad's Produce
  • Cooks Family Farm
  • Earth First Eco-Farms
  • Frazier Family Farm
  • Laziz Foods 
  • Little Denmark Farm 
  • Love Muffins Bakery
  • Mololo Gardens
  • Parker Farms Produce
  • Paul's Vegetable Farm
  • Pyne Farms - Apples
  • Red Bicycle Breadworks
  • Tagge's Famous Fruit and Veggie Farms
  • Tequenos Factory
  • Urban Pioneer Foods
  • Weeks Berries
  • White Lake Farms LLC.
  • Wilkerson Farm

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In This Issue
EVENT PICKS THIS WEEK:
Call Me Katchu
Urban Gallery VI: Drawn Together
Classical Greek Theatre Festival: Oedipus the King
Visual Artist Writing Workshop
SoulWorks Psychic and Holistic Fair
Collage Portraits
Co-op Member Ownership Drive
Silly Fest
Wolves in the West
Rising from the Ashes
Sena Jeter Naslund
Melon Nights 2013
BLOG UPDATES
The Aquarium Age
There's a lot going on this week, so I'll let you scroll down to the events.

 

Dear friends & family,

Friendly reminder: Have you filled out and returned your SLC opinion poll regarding Salt Lake's stance on Citizens United? This is an unusual opportunity. Let's put it to good use.

Weekly Reader below: highlighted events of the eight-day week at hand.

As September nears, the September CATALYST issue nears its end. If you haven't read it yet, please do. Much timeless information in there!

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 ~ Greta

 

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Event picks for
September 19 - September 26   

Thurs. Sept. 19, 7p. Brewvies CInema Pub. Free. (21+)


In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato ~ Uganda's first openly gay man ~ and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives.

 

Fri. Sept. 20, 6p. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). 

 

In this artistic walk-and-talk, artist Adam Bateman, curator and director at CUAC, will address how artists appropriate landscape as a stage for spiritual narrative and as a symbol at the heart of a Mormon manifest destiny in the exhibition Faithful Abstraction.
 

 umoca.org

Sat. & Sun., Sept. 21, 22, 28, 29, 8:30a-11a. Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 300 Wakara Way. $10 members $15 public. 

  

Bring breakfast and a blanket, and enjoy your morning in the garden for Sophocles' tragic masterpiece Oedipus the King. Traditionally, Greek Theatre is performed at dawn. This performance begins at 9:00 am, with a pre-show discussion at 8:30 am.

  

Sat. Sept. 21, 10a-3p.  Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane. $20 morning session $50 full day. 

  

The morning presentation will include a discussion on working with galleries, both commercial and non-profit. For the afternoon, artists will break into small groups and work with writing professionals to review, edit, and polish  their artist statement, resume or bio. 

 

Sat, Sept. 21, 5:30p. 

Dancing Crane Imports, 673 Simpson Ave. Free; $20-$30 for readings.    

 
Join some of Utah's best psychics, holistic practitioners and artisans to gather and shine inner light and share gifts through inspiration, guidance, love and wellness. Complete with a shopping experience that Dancing Cranes offers and the wonderful beverages and cuisine of Café Solstice.

 

Sat. Sept. 21, 1-4p.  

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Center Campus Dr. Free. 

 

Be your own cutting edge contemporary artist. Get inspiration from the Martha Wilson exhibition on display and make a statement with your art through contemporary collage portraits. 
   
umfa.utah.edu
Wasatch Cooperative Market member ownership drive

Sun. Sept. 22, 3-5p.  

Avenues Bistro on Third, 564 E 3rd Ave. Free.

 
Interested in healthy, local food all year 'round? You're a candidate for the Wasatch Cooperative Market. Attend this tasty gathering to learn more about the Co-op and how to become a co-owner to bring the market to life.  
 
Space is limited so register early at:   
founderfeedback@wasatch.coop

Sun. Sept. 22, 10a-8p.  

Park City's Historic Main St.

 
Park Silly's weekly farmers market ends in a grand finale. We're wowed by the entertainment, which includes many of CATALYST's most beloved acts:
Bullet & Belles, Juana Ghani, Samba Fogo, and Aerial Arts, as well as fire dancers, belly dancers and Sketch Cabaret. See website for even more.
 

Tues. Sept. 24, 6p.  

Swaner Eco Center, 1258 Center Dr. $5, members free. 

 

Reviewing 18 years of research on wolf-elk interactions in Yellowstone National Park, Dan MacNulty highlights how the biology of wolves fundamentally limits the wolf's predatory power.
   
swanerecocenter.org

Tues. Sept. 24.  

City Library, 210 E 400 S.

Free. 

 

A story of perseverance, redemption, and the love of cycling. Rising From Ashes follows the outstanding story of Rwanda's first national cycling team. 
 
utahfilmcenter.org

Thurs. Sept. 26.  

Utah Museum of Fine Arts,  

410 Campus Center Dr.

Free. 

 

New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund's new novel, The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman (William Morrow, 2013), explores the transformative power of art, history, and love in the lives of creative women
 
After the talk, visitors can tour  the museum galleries, including a stop at the Vigée-Le Brun painting on view 
 
umfa.utah.edu

Thurs. Sept. 26-29.  

Green River, Utah.

$50. 

 

The Fifth annual Melon Nights includes coyote camp for the kiddos, Saturday night masquerade ball, Sunday night movie night, and beach time interactive art of all types. This is an extreme environment; come prepared. However, environmental hardships will be softened by 2,000 lbs of watermelon onsite to eat, enjoy, drink and otherwise interact with.
 
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Blog Updates 

For the last couple of weeks lots of people have been asking if Mercury is retrograde-there have been far too many technology disturbances, missed appointments, and frazzled nerves to blame it on anything else. But Mercury is neither the culprit nor the cause of our current frustration-the final Mercury Retrograde phase of 2013 begins on October 21 and ends on November 10, which means there is still plenty of time to back up every little bit of information. It also isn't possible to attribute the disruption to Uranus, although the planet of sudden plot twists has been extremely busy instigating, provoking, and stimulating upheaval and upset, as well as unusual new perspectives-Uranus went retrograde on July 17, too far back in recent history to be feeling its effect in September. Then it hit me...the source of strife is Pluto...(read more).