This institution is the festival highlight of summer in Salt Lake City. While 85 percent of the artists featured are based in Utah, the remaining lot exemplify various artistic and creative disciplines from other states and countries. As you tour the grounds, fuel up with some of the culinary arts from the food alley. Munch on delicious barbecue, grab a sack of roasted mixed nuts, or pick up some pizza on the go — there are myriad options to choose from to rejuvenate.
As you eat, discuss the flicks from the Fear No Film movie fest you watched earlier in the day. Spy Hop, a family-friendly youth art education and empowerment non-profit, hosts a fun-filled booth for little ones and big kids alike.
The Makers Faire lets would-be scientists and tinkerers tackle fun inventions and build gadgets. For grown-ups, there are Art Engagement Workshops, where professional artists conduct two-hour visual arts workshops each afternoon; the workshops are open to all adults, regardless of artistic knowledge or experience. The art stroll is inspiring by itself, yet the value of admission really soars with every opportunity you give yourself to witness Utah's best performance artists: think ballet and modern dance, jazz orchestras and symphonies, b-boy dance-offs and street theater, fiction and nonfiction readings, slam poetry competitions and storytelling, and so much more.
To celebrate this hallmark year anniversary, though, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, led by the heralded Musical Director Thierry Fischer, will return for the first time in 15 years.
You truly do not want to miss the annual Utah Arts Festival. Multiple generations of Utahns and tourists have grown up partaking in the festivities, soaking up Utah history and heritage in the process. Your eyes are happy, your belly is satisfied, and your ears are ringing with delight. The art extravaganza hosts 90, guests annually. The Literary Arts venue, in its 24th year, continues to showcase new voices on The Big Mouth Stage, located on the east side of the festival campus adjacent to The Leonardo.
Among the highlights is bassam June 24, 3 p. Other notable performers who have appeared previously will return, including Bill Moran June 23, 6 p. Poetry slams promise to pack the audience space at the Big Mouth Stage.
This year 20 will compete in the individual category while the team competition is a major event, with representatives from Salt Lake City and other major metropolitan areas in the West, all looking toward the national poetry slam competition in Chicago this August. Along with its team and individual poetry slam competitions and the Wasatch IronPen competition, which marks its 12th anniversary this year, literary arts organizers will present numerous workshops in the Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center.
Topics include food writing, hand lettering, matchbook shrines, creative journaling and interactive fiction. There also are workshops for kids, including sessions on pop-up books, amulets of hope and blackout poetry.
The workshops are geared toward anyone, regardless of any experience, who is interested in creating comic books or graphic novels, and learning the art of visual storytelling.
The workshops June 21, 22, 23 and 24, 2 p. As with a movie script, a comic book script describes the action and dialogue occurring inside a panel. The Urban Arts Yard will be the scene of collaborative graffiti art presentations by local artists as well as two graffiti artists Rumble and Chew who will be turning a customized classic Volkswagen Beetle, donated by Pidge Winburn into a mobile installation piece. At FatCap Hats, visitors can select lids which then will be turned into custom hats by local artists, for a nominal price.
The completed work will become eventually a part of the art collection for the Volunteers of America Homeless Resource Center for youth. An expert jury, led by coordinators Matt Jacobson and his assistant Sarah Baker Taylor, recommended artists not only on the basis of technical considerations such as details and quality of composition or on aspects of color and texture but also on meaning and themes that evoke or echo stories, history, emotions and unique appeal to audiences and potential buyers.
The eight-minute work will be performed Saturday, June 23, at 4 p. Art Yard: The venue, which will be open every day for children during the festival until 9 p. The service has grown steadily over the last few years and organizers expect as many as 4, festival patrons will use the bike lot. For more information on tickets and full schedules, see the Utah Arts Festival website.
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