Culture Bytes

We spoke with Cynthia Fleming the Executive Artistic Director of Salt Lake Acting Company about the importance of Children's Theatre and their current production Pete the Cat. Read more here: https://saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/item/1471-pete-the-cat

We spoke with Diane Stewart - owner of Modern West Fine Arts Gallery - about the importance of art, why you should collect it and staying involved in your community.

This week we spoke with Tiffany Bowles the curator for the new Sisters for Suffrage exhibit at the LDS Church History Museum that celebrates Utah's pioneering role in the woman suffrage movement. The exhibit is open November 21 - January 31 of 2021!

Crystal Young-Otterstrom spoke with Nicole Woodbury, Mary Brickey, and Laura Erekson about the Certain Women Art Show that took place Oct 3rd at Anthony's Fine Art Gallery. Learn more here: https://www.certainwomenartshow.com/

Utah Arts Alliance director and UCA board member Derek Dyer spoke with us about the Utah Arts Alliance and the Illuminate Festival Nov 8-9 at the Gateway. Learn more here: http://utaharts.org/illuminate-salt-lake/

We spoke with Pamela Gee, vicechair for Utahns for Culture (our 501c3), about Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and their Opera by Children Program.

We spoke with Laura Durham from KUED about the Book Club in a Box project. Find out how you can be involved: https://www.kued.org/community-engagement/book-club-in-a-box

Katie Matheson is a board member of nowplayingutah.com and she works as the Communications Director at Alliance for a Better Utah. A trained singer, Katie talks about how she uses her musical training in her work in politics and policy. 

We talked with Willy Palomo about the Utah Humanities Book Arts Festival and enjoyed an impromptu Slam Poetry performance. You can see more about the festival at: https://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/Center-for-the-Book/book-festival.html

SLC is lucky to have two supportive mayoral candidates! Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall and Senator Luz Escamilla participated in a debate moderated by KSL's Amanda Dickson to talk about the arts and humanities. Both candidates ARE endorsed by the Utah Cultural Alliance. See our other endorsements at www.utculture.org/create_vote