CATALYST Weekly ReaderOctober 3 - October 10

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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 LLC
  • 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
Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver exhibit BabyLit
EVENT PICKS THIS WEEK:
Performance Art Festival
Scientist in the Spotlight: Wildfires with Phillip Dennison
Eat Local Week
Bike Maintenence Basics
Jaws
Randall Lake Studio Show
Writer Mary Ruefle reads at Art Barn
Monster Used Book Sale
BLOG UPDATES
The Aquarium Age
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~Greta Belanger deJong
Event picks for
October 3 - October 10

Fri. Oct. 4, :30p (opening reception). 

Gallery Stroll: Oct. 18 & Nov. 15, 6-9p. 

Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane. Free. 

 
BabyLit collaborators Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver created a board book series that brings classic literature with engaging graphics to young learners. This exhibition, Classics Meet Modern: Combining Art and Text for BabyLit, illustrates how the text and images are combined to bring a modern twist to a familiar subject.

Oct. 4-5, 9:30a-5p. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.


Experience live performance art suitable for all ages and interests. Curator Kristina Lenzi brings together eight local and out of state artists for a weekend of performed art.

 

Natural History Museum, 301 Wakara Way. Free. 


 

Wildfire is a persistent threat during Utah's summer and early fall. Fire expert Philip Dennison will explain how we can monitor fuels and fires from space. 

 

 

nhmu.utah.edu 

 

Oct. 5-12, 12a-11:45p. Statewide. Free. 

 

How local can you go? The standard Challenge is described as eating food that comes from within a 250-mile radius for one week. The Challenge can be... well, challenging! It's also educational and fun. 
 
Click link below for a list of events taking place and pledge to be a part of the challenge.

  

Local Week is a partnership among the Downtown Alliance, Wasatch Community Gardens, Edible Wasatch and Slow Food Utah that aims to increase awareness of our local food system.

 

http://wasatchgardens.org/events/eat-local-challenge/pledge-page 

Tues. Oct. 8, 7p. REI, 3285 E 3300 S. Free.

  

 Routine maintenance on your bike can keep you riding smooth and prolong the life of your bike. This class is an informative presentation that will teach you how to lube a chain, fix a flat tire in record time and make other minor adjustments to your bicycle. 

 

No experience necessary. Participants do not need to bring their bikes for this class.

   

 

 


Tues. Oct. 8, 7p.
Main Library, 210 E 400 S.  Free. 
 
See this legendary blockbuster about an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the townspeople of fictional Amity Island, directed by Steven Spielberg.
 

Talk via Skype afterward with John McCosker, Senior Scientist and Chair of the Department of Aquatic Biology at the California Academy of Sciences, for a discussion of the actual behavior of sharks and their precarious plight. 

 

Thus. Oct. 10, 6p.    

Randall Lake Art, 158 E 200 S. Free.  

  

After a decade, Randall Lake brings back his annual studio show with over 60 paintings, new and old. 

Thurs. Oct. 10, 7p.

Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane. Free   

  

Mary Ruefle's latest book is Trances Of The Blast.  Her collection of essays on poetry, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; her Selected Poems won the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published a book of prose, The Most Of It, and a book of erasure, A Little White Shadow.  Other erasure books have been exhibited in museums and galleries.
   
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Oct. 10-15.

Fri-Sat 9a-6p, Sun 1-5p,  

 

Mon-Tues, 9a-9p.  

Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. 

 

You won't find any goblins, but you will find monster deals at The Friends of The City Library Fall Used Book Sale. Movies, mysteries, cookbooks, and more will be available at bargain prices. 

 

Blog Updates 

A tantrum shut down the United States government on October 1, and as we move through the next several days and weeks, the standoff is sure to worsen. From an astrological perspective, the source of this political nervous breakdown is the ongoing, ever-escalating intensity of the Uranus/Pluto squares. We're in the thrall of the next exact contact, which occurs on November 1, and the mounting fervor and rising fever of this fractious interaction feels like a massive tractor beam of unrelenting intensity pulling us inexorably toward crisis, individual as well as collective...(read more). 
Blog Updates 

We're giving away a pair of tickets to Repertory Dance Theatre's "Legacy." The performance is October 3-5, 7:30 p.m. at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S.
Email greta@catalystmagazine.net to win!