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Dear friends and family,
At left is the April CATALYST ~ fatter than it's been in a while, which makes us happy. It's our annual Gardening issue, with the pullout Planting Guide, a long bit about urban permaculture, a chat with the mushroom-growing Biocentric Brothers, and Swami Beyondananda's State of the Universe address ~ worth reading outloud. You'll find print copies on the newsstands starting today. If I can go to one thing this week, it will be the talk by Richard Tarnas on synchronicity at the U student union Thursday night. But also some Easter afternoon dancing with Jesse at the Garage. And Friday at Urban.... Well, just see below. Have a great weekend,
Greta deJong, editor & publisher
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Event picks for
Apr. 2 - Apr. 9
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Thursday, April 2, 6:30p. Sweet Library, 455 F Street. Free.
Growing your own organic produce is a fun and inexpensive way to eat healthy this year. This is gardening 101 ~ a great place to make your foray into organic gardening as easy and successful as possible. Learn how to craft a plan, pick out the right plants for Salt Lake City, get your soil in shape, care for your plants, and manage any insects and diseases that arise using organic methods.
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Friday, Apr. 3, 10p-2a.
Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 E. $5 before 10:30pm $10 after.
James Loomis, CATALYST's new garden writer, is well known in the community as DJ illoom. He's been holding down Dubwise gig at Urban Lounge for 100 monthly shows, now. Join illoom and friends Anthony Motto and Pleasure for Edition #101. He says he has a fat stack of new reggae bits to test out on the system.
April birthdays are FREE when you post to the event wall. 21+ event, $5 before 10:30, $10 after.
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Friday, Apr. 3, 7p.
Urban Arts Gallery 137 South Rio Grande. Free.
Willful Cayetana convinces herself that she will die on the same day that her brother will be born. She leads a privileged existence in a secluded mansion about two hours from Lima. Even so, the national turmoil of the times penetrates her consciousness through bomb threats at school, spray-painted slogans on the walls, and ominous newscasts about terrorists. A life-affirming and humorous journey into both the reality and imagination of a 9-year-old, as seen through the eyes of South American magic realism.
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Saturday. Apr. 4, 8a.
Tracy Aviary 589 E 1300 S. Free.
Learn it, then share it! This three-class series of four-hour workshops will provide you with the skills needed to interpret the incredible lives of Tracy Aviary exhibit birds, and share with guests the splendor of the natural world. Participating in these classes is a prerequisite to becoming a Tracy Aviary certified volunteer educator, and to serve as an interpreter at Tracy Aviary.
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Saturday, April 4, 1p. Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, 332 Bugatti Dr. $25.
How to effectively communicate with self and others using the guide from Don Miguel Ruiz's book, The FIfth Agreement.
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Saturday, Apr. 4, 1p. SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E 400 S, Suite #8
April is National Poetry Month! Join the CWC in celebrating poetry in this four-part workshop series. We'll explore various genres of poetry, learn to compose poems, and practice writing, revising and sharing your work. You can also submit to our annual poetry contest!
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April 4 & 5, 9a-7:30p Sunday: 9a-4:30p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Regular garden admission.
Join the Utah Orchid Society for a dazzling display of both common and exotic orchid varieties. Society members will share methods for keeping plants healthy and happy and provide troubleshooting advice for budding orchid enthusiasts. A talk on basic orchid culture will be offered at 2pm on Saturday, April 4. Interested in starting your own collection? A large selection of both plants and pottery will be on sale.
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Sunday, Apr. 5, 11a.
The Garage on Beck, 1199 Beck St. $10
The Garage on Beck Street will host Jesse Walker's 5th Annual 'Bunny Hop,' with a breakfast buffet, charity raffle and DJ's playing vinyl records from brunch to sunset. To celebrate the 5th anniversary, there will be twice the fun and games, including prize baskets, gift certificates for upcoming SLC based festivals, an all-day egg hunt, a performance by The Bad Kids and a surprise visit from TWO Easter Bunnies!
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Monday, Apr. 6, 7p.
Tower Theatre, 876 E 900 S. Free.
It's the 6th annual Ivory Tower screening series, a program which brings a classic film to the Tower for a free screening on the first Monday of each month, complete with intros and facts about the films from select Westminster film students.
Broken Blossoms is D.W. Griffith's 1919 silent film about a waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, and her friendship with a sensitive Chinese immigrant. Tragedy ensues.
saltlakefilmsociety.org
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Tuesday, Apr. 7, 6:30-8p.
8 wks. Tibetan Buddhist Temple 740 S 300 W. $50.
Eight-week introductory course providing a contemplative and experiential base focusing on the core teachings of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Tuesday, Apr. 7, 7p. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.
There is more interest in food than ever. This film focuses on the people who grow and pick it. Farmworkers are routinely victims of abuse and low wages. In extreme cases they are beaten or enslaved ~ all within the borders of the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the groups that are working for humane treatment of farmworkers. Following the screening will be a Q&A with director Sanjay Rawal.
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April 9-11, 7:30p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 W 300 S. $35.
Fans of minimalist composer Terry Riley won't want to miss 53 Rooms, a collaboration between Daniel Charon and the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble. The dance company will also premier a new commission by New York-based choreographer and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow Netta Yerushalmy. The Village Voice calls Ms. Yerushalmy a "gifted choreographer [who] has smart and provocative ideas and couches them in arresting movement..."
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Thursday, April 9, 7-9p. March 28, 1-3p. U of U Student Union, Saltair Room, 200 S Central Dr. Donations accepted.
Synchronicity is one of the most interesting concepts that one of the greatest thinkers and psychologists of the last century, Carl Jung, introduced.
Synchronicity explores the phenomena of 'meaningful coincidences.' Do we meet people at specific times for a purpose? How to read experiences such as the clock stops ticking on the moment a loved one dies?
At a deeper level Jung poses that there is a meaningful force at work, and this lecture provides some clues on how to read the outside world in terms of a relationship to your own inside world.
Richard Tarnas is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also lectures on archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and is on the Board of Governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view widely used as a text in universities, and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network. jungutah.com
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The lunar eclipse on April 4 is the last major astral event of the season. Some will argue that Jupiter's "course correction"-it goes direct on April 8-is a big deal and Pluto's "course correction-it goes retrograde a week later on April 16-is also a big deal, but I don't think so. Well...maybe Jupiter, but only because it is a big planet that likes to throw its weight around. But truly there are no further teeth-gnashing planetary signatures until Mercury goes retrograde on May 18...( read more).
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