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Dear friends & family,
At left: See the August edition of CATALYST! From reflections on this year's E-11 festival to green roofs to an update on bees to an ode to a former porn star-turned-Mormon, it's a quirky, well-written issue that's bound to bring you some pleasure.
And below, of course, the week at hand. Enjoy!
Greta Belanger deJong
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Event picks for
Aug. 7 - Aug. 14
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Aug. 8-9, Fri. 5-10p, Sat. noon-10p. The Gallivan Center, 239 S Main. Free (but bring cash/CCs--you are going to want to buy stuff.)
More than 200 artisans. Live music, craft foodies, science & tech exhibits. Vintage vendors. Bike valet. Activities for kids.
craftlakecity.com
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Sat. Aug. 9, 10a-12p. Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E. $25.
Learn the variety of colors that can be generated from flowers, nuts and herbs. You will have the opportunity to create a naturally dyed textile all you own.
wasatchgardens.org
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Sun. Aug. 10, 9a-3p. 600 S Main St.
You may find (and sell) eclectic, vintage used and unused items, including clothing, records, original artwork, furniture, tools, oddball knick-knacks and more.
fleamarketslc.com
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Mon. Aug. 11, 6p.
Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Included in Garden admission $6-$10 (members/children under 3 free).
The Salt Lake Scots Pipe Band has emerged as the premier pipe band in the state of Utah, attracting some of the top pipers and drummers from Utah. The band competes and performs throughout the Western US, Canada and the United Kingdom.
redbuttegarden.org
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Mon. Aug. 11, 6-8p. Harmons City Creek, 135 E 100 S. $25.
Local cook Brooke Cordray will teach you how to take the bounty from your garden and create healthy, delicious, seasonal meals that the whole family can enjoy. Part of a four-series workshop.
wasatchgardens.org
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Mon. Aug. 11, 6:45p. Liberty Park, on the front porch of the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 600 E 900 S. Free.
Established by Anastacio and Elisa Castillo, the band's second generation - daughters Crystal and Sonya, and grandson Vinnie - play music from Texas, Mexico and other Latin American countries.
heritage.utah.gov
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Tues. Aug. 12, 7p. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk. Can the monster be destroyed before it is too late, and what role will the mysterious Serizawa play in the battle?
After the film, Nicola Barber, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learn Center, will discuss mutation and the genetic implications of radiation exposure. She will also highlight some interesting organisms that, like Godzilla, are remarkably resistant to radiation or have adapted to use radiation as a source of energy.
nhmu.utah.edu
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Wed. Aug. 13, 9p. Red Butte Garden Ampitheatre, 300 Wakara Way. Free.
Chapman and Maclain Way's energetic telling of one of baseball's great, unheralded stories is as much about independent spirit as it is about the game. Arrive early for a pre-guided screening discussion with Maclain Way.
sundance.org
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Thurs. Aug. 14, 5p. 350 S 300 W (Pioneer Park). $5.
Beck is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s with his lo-fi, sonically experimental style, and he became well known for creating musical collages of a wide range of styles.
twilightconcertseries.com
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Aug. 16-17, 9a-5p. Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way. $250.
Two days of hands-on instruction with 12th-generation tai chi master and former Chinese gold medalist Jesse Tsao. It's the perfect opportunity to elevate your art, whether you are a beginner, advanced or anywhere in-between.
risingpathways.com
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Aug. 16-19, 9a-9p. Telluride, Colorado. $275 for full festival-see website for other prices.
The 33rd Telluride Mushroom Festival celebrates the many uses of fungi (all things mycological). This year's theme: "Mushroom Science." Fungi serve many purposes--from breaking down plant cellulose in nature to creating nutrients for plants, to serving as food and medicine for people, to acting as bio-remediators to reclaim land damaged by oil spills and agricultural runoff.
telluridemushroomfest.org
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The planets provide a perfect creative playing field this week, and as they generate this dynamic imaginative landscape, we experience the potential for prolonged contact with a passionate muse, a muse whose presence has the power to inspire all sorts of innovative endeavors-physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Whether you are an artist, a writer, a musician, a gardener, a house-healer, or someone who sees daily life as the most important canvas, this is the moment to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary and the mundane into the mythological...( read more).
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LAST WEEK: FREE TIX!!
Enter for a FREE pair of tickets to psychic medium John Edward's "Crossing Over: Messages from the Other Side" tour, 8/17, Provo Marriott, noon-2pm -- a $300 value.
Show us your CATALYST to enter! Post a selfie of you and your CATALYST on CATALYST's Facebook page (link: https://www.facebook.com/catalystmagazine) or its Instagram page (follow @catalyst_magazine) by 8/1. The winner will be chosen randomly. Email jane@catalystmagazine.net if you have any questions on how to enter.
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