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Dear friends & family,
Below are our picks for this week's events. There's a lot to choose from. Enjoy the week!
~ Greta deJong
editor & publisher
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Event picks for
February 27 - March 6
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Thurs. Feb. 27, 7p.
Main City Library Auditorium, 210 E 400 S. Free.
Six members of Utah Physicians for Healthy Environment will address many of the common misconceptions about our air pollution, challenge statistics used by the state, and discuss the implications this should have for public policy.
Broadcasted by KPCW.
www.uphe.org
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Sat. Mar. 1, 10a-10p. Utah State Fair Park, 155 S 10th W. $7.
Live music, vendors, tarot, mendhii tattoos, food and dance, dance, dance.
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Sat. Mar. 1, 7:30p. Mestizo Coffeehouse, 631 W North Temple. Free.
Poetry (open-mic), Art, music, and food celebrating a culture in a language of love with particular emphasis on Afrocentricity. The mic awaits anyone moved to speak.
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Sat. Mar. 1, 9p-2a.
Zest Kitchen & Bar, 275 S 200 W. Free ($5 after 10:30p). 21+
George Felix aka Medesyn and Felix Villar aka F_ghani will be joining forces to bring you some of the best deep, tech and funky house.
Facebook Event Link
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Sat. Mar.1, 6:30p. St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, 231 E 100 S. Free.
Following the death of the great Seamus Heaney in August 2013, this year's Night with the Irish Poets concentrates on the work of some of the Irish Nobel Laureates, with selections from Heaney, as well as Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and more.
irishinutah.org
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Sun. Mar. 2, 3p. The Leonardo, 209 E 500 S. Free.
Dr. Maeera Scheiber, Associate Professor and Chair of the Initiative in Jewish Studies at UofU will lead a discussion of this "haunting and passionate saga," set during the Roman siege of the Jewish stronghold of Masada.
theleonardo.org
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Tues. Mar. 4, 7p.
Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.
A fascinating portrait of Brandon Darby, a radical left-wing activist turned FBI informant. The only film with access to Darby since his public confession,
Informant
meticulously constructs a picture of his life ~ before and after the many death threats he has received ~ through interviews and tense reenactments starring Darby himself.
Director Jami Meltzer will be in attendance for a post Q&A after the screening.
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Tues. Mar. 4, 7p.
Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S 2100 E. Free.
The Rumi Poetry Club hosts their monthly meeting for reciting and discussing Rumi's poems and parables. A celebration of spiritual poetry for our life and community.
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Tues. Mar. 6, 7-8p.
The Leonardo, 209 E 500 S. Free.
Discussion led by Donald W. Parry, a professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. He is internationally recognized as an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and served on the original translation team.
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Thurs. Mar. 6, 7-9p. Ray Opline Union Building, 200 Central Campus Dr. Free.
Selden Edwards, educator and novelist, will speak on his career-long love of the central ideas of Carl Jung and the connection of those ideas with personality types in education and life.
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Mar. 6 & 7, 8a. Weber State Shepherd Union Building, 3850 University Circle. $120.
Topics discussed include energy efficiency and renewable energy, air quality and pollution, recycling and waste reduction, sustainability in higher education, green urbanism and building.
Thursday conference, Friday workshops.
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Fri. Mar. 7, 10a. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.
Charles Landry, author of the Creative City, a Tool Kit for Urban Innovators discusses the art of city making.
Registration required at:
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Odd, polarized rhythms turn the pulse of daily life erratic, and the world wobbles from the stress of extremes. One minute the routines of daily life slow to a crawl, and the next, a rapid, staccato pace jars nervous systems into hyper activity. The lack of a consistent identifiable backbeat makes confusion probable, especially when certain situations, which don't appear to be significant, surge forward, and others, which actually seem to matter, fall apart. This flux is part of a powerful astral turbulence generated by a collision between Mercury Direct on Friday, February 28 and Mars Retrograde on Saturday, March 1. This clash is likely to override all efforts to move almost anything anywhere with ease. Pay attention: The best way through the psychic debris is to wait until at least March 4 before setting anything new in motion...(read more).
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And now for your friendly weekly reminder:
Have you thanked your lungs today?
Try it. Focus on this hard-working organ, and give it some love. It takes just a few seconds.
Breath by breath, let's build a community that requires clean air. Because, after all, we cherish our life transport systems.
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