Events
August 2010
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| until Saturday, July 31 |
Chapman Branch Library Summer Art Songs by Kathy Grossman An exhibit of colorful acrylic paintings that come alive with the fertile breath and sensuous melody of summer. |
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| until Friday, August 6 |
Main Library In Your Wildest Dreams A collection of colorful papier-mache creatures ("Albrije") made by Kearns High School students. The project teaches the elements of art and design as well as the importance of folk art as a way of expression. |
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| until Friday, August 6 |
Main Library Expressions A showing of student work from the Visual Art Institute's winter semester classes. With a combination of seven teachers, multiple subjects, and a variety of media, these works are the students' "expressions" of art. |
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| until Saturday, August 7 |
Day Riverside Branch Library Works by Laurie Knowley Laurie Knowley is a mixed media artist living in Salt Lake City. Originally a basket weaver, she has moved forward in her artistic life to weave together ideas, symbols, and artifacts to create mixed media autobiographical canvases. These pieces are sometimes narrative in nature, and speak of long dead pioneer ancestors and family members. |
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| until Saturday, August 7 |
Chapman Branch Library HawkTalks Have you ever seen a bird of prey in the sky and wondered what it was? HawkWatch International wants to help you identify the raptors in your neighborhood! This six-part series will familiarize you with the classification of raptors, so you can tell a sharpie from a coop with confidence. All programs in the series begin at 10:30 a.m. July 31: Harriers, Ospreys, & Vultures August 7: Owls |
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| until Saturday, August 14 |
Anderson-Foothill Branch Library Chess Club Do you want to learn how to play chess? Do you already play and wish you had more people to play with? Join us on Saturdays from 4:00-5:00 p.m.--players of all ages are welcome! Chess club will meet on the following dates: July 31 August 14 |
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| until Friday, August 20 |
Main Library African Vialet by Olivia Pendergast Pendergast writes, "Vialet would sit at the fence that marked the line between my safe world at the lakeside lodge and her rural Malawian village. She would watch me paint and when I would look over at her, she would wave a neatly folded note that her father had transcribed, partially her words, partially his. It was a literal invitation into her home, an opportunity to expand my boundaries from the illusory protection of the angular brick walls of the hotel, into their environment of soft mud huts with roofs of thatch, fields of maize and cassava, and children playing jumprope made from vines found on the sand beach. When I arrived at Vialet's house, she was wearing her best green shirt and a wig...not an uncommon sight. She was fourteen and much like fourteen year olds elsewhere, she was very concerned with her appearance. Her nine or ten siblings were immaculately clean and dressed in their nicest clothes, knowing there would be a camera. They showed me their lives...how they cooked nsima (a type of corn mush a little stiffer than grits), the 6-year-old brother, James, building the fire. They showed me how they pound the maize meal in a giant mortar, and how to catch a giant cricket, roast it, and split it between nine children. I saw the reed mats they sleep on, three or four piled on top one another to keep each other warm during rainy season, and their one remaining chair (Sylvester, Vialet's father, had to sell the couch to pay for two of the children's school fees). Vialet invited me into the Malawi I had been afraid to witness. It had been too far off center for me, too uncomfortable. There was too much guilt about what I have and what they don't. But now I have just come back from my third trip to Malawi. No longer afraid of the villages, I take people to the hospital with wounds, AIDS, and hookworms boring through their feet. I visit the Orphan Care Center and hold the children and hand out dried fruit, play Frisbee with the kids, walk barefoot (maybe not the best idea), swim in the lake, and stay out too late to watch lightning storms roll in even though I know malarial mosquitos are happy to see me (I had malaria three times in 2009). When I drive through the village or walk to the school the children run from the houses, smiling and yelling, "Oleeviyah!!!". The mothers smile and ask "Muli Bwanje?" (How are you?). This trip I became part of the community and weep as I arrive in the village, having been away for a while, and weep as I leave because it has become a home for me. This show of paintings is Vialet's family and her friends from the village and from school. I feel grateful to have befriended Vialet as she gave me an opportunity; when I took it, it changed my life." |
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| until Friday, August 20 |
Main Library Captured by Kenya: Photographs by Rebekah Sosa Rebekah Sosa uses mixed media to raise awareness about global issues and encourage people to get involved in sustainable solutions. Her work is focused on the interrelationships between people across cultures. The work is also wrestling with concepts of globalization, environmental degradation, and local activism. Sosa has worked on media projects that foster collaboration between students in both developed and developing countries. She recently returned from Nepal, where she was documenting simple technologies that improve women's lives. Sosa writes, "I grew up in Bluff, Utah, a small town that borders a Navajo reservation. I always felt a strong sense of community growing up in a small town, a feeling I've often longed for as I've moved from one place to the next. After finishing my university studies I completed an internship at the United States Mission to the United Nations headquarters in New York City. I quickly realized that the 'top-down' approach to international development wasn't the experience I was looking for. I wanted to get involved on a grassroots level and more fully understand development from the bottom-up--that's when I got involved with CHOICE Humanitarian. I love to explore the world through the lens and share experiences with the people I meet. I never formally studied photography, although I worked with a professional photographer for six months. During that time I started teaching photography workshops with elementary school students in Utah and Mexico. I shot my Kenya portfolio over a four-month period while working with CHOICE Humanitarian. I am currently working with CHOICE in Nepal and I have also spent time with their field teams in Guatemala and Mexico. My goal isn't merely to raise awareness about issues facing our world community. Simply raising awareness is no longer enough. I hope to inspire people to step outside of their comfort zones and take action. This exhibit offers a snapshot of my experiences in Kenya and provides opportunities to get involved, both locally and globally." |
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| until Saturday, August 28 |
Corinne and Jack Sweet Branch Library Salt Lake City 1985-86: Photographs by G. Vernon Sears Exhibit. |
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| until Saturday, August 28 |
Anderson-Foothill Branch Library ORANGe UTAhN This summer, the Anderson-Foothill Branch hosts a special exhibit of art created by and with the Bornean orangutans from Utah's Hogle Zoo. The exhibit's paintings were made by three of the zoo's four orangutans, Elijah, Eve, and their child, Acara, as part of the zoo's enrichment program. Enrichment consists of novel items added to an animal's environment that encourage natural behaviors and stimulate the mind. Bubbles, sheets, paper bags, barrels, puzzle feeders, and a variety of scents are just a few of the more than 200 creative items the zoo uses for ape enrichment. The major threat to the orangutans of Sumatra and Borneo is the development of palm oil plantations. Palm oil for our consumption is harvested in the last remaining home of wild orangutans. The severe decline of orangutan populations is a direct result of destruction of habitat, leading to starvation, and the deliberate killing of orangutans who venture onto palm oil plantations. Fifty percent of the Sumatran orangutan population has disappeared in the last eight years; some experts predict that the palm oil industry will drive orangutans to extinction within a decade. The Anderson-Foothill Branch will also host a special program in conjunction with the exhibit: Bornean Orangutans August 3 ● 7:00 p.m. Hogle Zoo's primate zookeeper, Kalyn McKenzie, discusses wild Bornean orangutans and the zoo's training and enrichment program for its four orangutans. Come learn what you can do to help these amazing, endangered animals. |
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