Our Community Calendar is a volunteer-run resource offered to all qualified nonprofits. Community Calendar events are highlighted live, on-air throughout the day on KCPW. Featured events are chosen at random. You will also find all current Community Calendar events listed here at kcpw.org.
The Community Calendar also has a physical home. Following the criteria listed below, mail or bring professional materials (no handwritten signs please) promoting your event to the KCPW studios at 210 East 400 South, Suite 10, Salt Lake City, UT 84111. We’ll happily hang them in our window for all Library Square traffic to see.
To submit an event to the Community Calendar, the event must meet the following criteria:
- The event must take place in Utah.
- The organization promoting the event must be a qualified 501(c)(3) charity or political subdivision.
- The event cannot promote a religious organization or individual.
If your event meets these criteria, click “Post Your Event” below. Include your contact information in case we have any questions. Otherwise, your event may not get published.
We encourage you to make the most of your post by adding a featured image and links to your organization. Utilize the provided field boxes (i.e. location, ticket information) to display information as accurately and quickly as possible.
Please do not submit duplicate postings for the same event. If you are posting a class or workshop that requires registration, list just the first instance in the date and time, and include the details for subsequent classes in the description.
NOTE: approved events are typically posted to the Community Calendar within seven days of your submission.
Please submit requests at least 14 days before your event – listings read on-air are chosen at random, the week of the event.
Technical issues? Please email comments@kcpw.org.
Sonder, n. – the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Guest curated by Essie Shaw, “Sonder” is a collection of self portraits created by a diverse group of local artists. The exhibit spotlights the challenges we face as individuals, how we’ve survived hardships, and the perspective that our years have given us. “Sonder” features artists of all ages, resulting in a fascinating exploration of different stages of life.
This exhibit will hang from January 4th to January 21st, with a gallery stroll reception on Friday, January 21st from 6-9pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
The Utah Arts Alliance Bizarre Bazaar is our newest gallery located at The Shops at South Town in Sandy!
Support your favorite local emerging artists and explore our boutique of unique gifts, bits, bobs, odds and ends!
We invite all Davis County Residents to our upcoming Pet Vaccine Clinic.
Cats and dogs are invited to this clinic on January 8th from 11AM-3PM. We’ll be at the Backyard Dog Care and Boarding facility in North Salt Lake.
APPOINTMENTS ARE REQUIRED and limited up to 2 pets per household. Cats must be in a carrier and dogs must be on a leash at all times when you arrive. We will not be accepting walks-ins.
All vaccines are $8 each:
-Rabies for dogs and cats
-Microchips for dogs and cats
-FVRCP for cats
-Parvo/Distemper Combo Vaccine for dogs
-Bordetella Vaccine for dogs
Be sure to make an appointment today, as this clinic will fill up fast >> tinyurl.com/acdcclinic22
NO ADDITIONAL services once you submit your appointment form. Only one pet per form. You will pay for the services at the event.
SOS Improv is returning, as a 6-week course starting on January 11. The series is mostly aimed at beginners but open for everyone!
General focus is creativity, adaptability, spontaneity, and character, and how these improv skills can affect other aspects of life and work: Improv for the rest of us. We will be using short and long-form, developing over the course of the 6 weeks.
The course will be co-taught by SLC locals Scix Maddix, Nathan Sears and Karren Shamo
Classes will be Tuesday evenings starting Jan 11 at Alliance Theater in Trolley Square. Registration is $10 per class, or $50 for the full series. Inquire about scholarship opportunities at scix@scixxysgreatershows.com
Ticketing link: https://www.showclix.com/…/sos-improv-at-alliance-theater
Join us to Learn About This Year’s Legislative Session
Begin this year’s virtual event with remarks from Governor Spencer Cox and a preview of United Ways of Utah’s 2022 priorities. Then attend one of the panel discussions featuring legislators, topic experts, and community members.
Learn how to paint a lovely, wintery scene of the Wasatch Mountains surrounded by a spectrum of blue dots in this DIY workshop with local artist Elizabeth Walsh! Create a black-and-white mountain inspired by the snowy Wasatch, then paint a golden moon or sun in the sky and add lots of perfect blue dots. Elizabeth will teach you the techniques you’ll need for painting the mountains as well as getting the ideal, standardized dot in this pointillism style — a truly meditative process! All supplies are provided, and beginners are welcome! Attendees will also receive a bonus $10 gift card to one of the restaurants at Valley Fair for their next visit!
Spaces are limited! Register here: https://form.jotform.com/213534843472154
Come ring in the New Year with live music, burlesque, drag, and more! Back to the stage in over two years, Orphans Cabaret is delighted to play for you once again! Start off 2022 with some of Utah’s most beloved performers!
Event will be in person and live streamed!
Line up and more details to be announced soon!
Link to tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/orphan-s-cabaret-event
Ever wanted to foster an animal but you didn’t know how to get started or what fostering entails? Join us at Animal Care of Davis County for a foster information meeting! You’ll meet with our foster coordinator and other like-minded people to have your questions answered!
The event is at 10 am on Saturday, January 15th.
ANIMAL CARE OF DAVIS COUNTY
1422 E 600 N FRUIT HEIGHTS UT 84037
Ezra Bell was founded in Portland in 2013 around the playfully literate and cheerfully plaintive songwriting of Benjamin Wuamett. Wuamett is backed by a gaggle of six to seven quite fit players who conjure up a festive dusky indie-folk-rock-R&B vibe that doesn’t smother out the melancholy.
No Depression proclaims, “Ezra Bell is a West Coast poet of disappearing into appetites. The virtues and vices described on this self-titled release are backed by a tantalizing singalong, early 20th century jazz ensemble vibe, sounding like the musical journaling of a swing musician crawling out of rehab. Wuamett’s lyrics describe a soul dissolved, but the feeling isn’t completely unpleasant.”
Paste Magazine says that “… the music is more like an action then something you should just sit idly by and describe. This album is running up hills of grass at age 9. It’s the feeling of jumping in the pool without testing it with your toes. It’s those late-night drunken stool-swaying sessions with a group of irreplaceable people in your life.”
Ezra Bell has released three EP’s: ‘Don’t All Look Up at Once,’ 2013; ‘We Came by Canoe,’ 2014; and ‘Farewell Griffin,’ 2016. A self-titled album came later in 2018. Then ‘This Way to Oblivion’ dropped like a prediction of a global pandemic in April of 2020. As such, the band’s national tour was halted, and members spread out around the country to be with their families; but only after recording the full-length album, Jorji, to be released on vinyl and streaming services in January 2022. Rather than wait for the pandemic end, Ezra Bell settled within the crown of mountains called Salt Lake City and is at the music making again with limited touring.
Join us at Thanksgiving Point on January 17th as we participate in a community service project in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With local partners Granite Education Foundation, the Museum of Natural Curiosity’s cafe guests will help assemble food kits for students and families in need in our community.
Granite Education Foundation is a non-profit organization run by Granite School District, which provides education and services to 95% of the refugee community in the state of Utah.
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/486469292592731/
For more than fifty years, a woman by the name of Alberta Henry – devoted civil rights activist, educator, and community leader in Salt Lake City – carried the torch for hope, compassion, and change. She embedded herself in the public school system, served as longtime President of the NAACP, and led the charge for equality through her religious community.
Moderated by librarian Allyson Mower
Panelists:
France Davis, Pastor Emeritus of Calvary Baptist Church, civil rights and community leader.
Frances Battle, Principal of Nibley Park Elementary School
Shauna Graves-Robertson, Judge on the Salt Lake County Justice Court
Kathleen Christy, Retired Assistant Superintendent for Equity and Advocacy in the Salt Lake City School District
Jeanetta Williams, President of the NAACP Salt Lake Branch
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This event is part of MLK Week (January 15 – 21, 2022).
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week (MLK Week) is a platform to engage students, faculty, staff, trainees, and community members in critical conversations around contemporary Civil Rights issues and race in America. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of the “beloved community” as a nonviolent, just society where love and trust triumph over fear and hatred. In a year that has been filled with division, the 2022 MLK Week planning committee chose “Becoming the Beloved Community” as this year’s theme so we may explore ways to bridge the divide and work together to become the beloved community. Events and conversations throughout the week will honor Dr. King’s vision, offer direction, and challenge us to determine a better way forward.
diversity.utah.edu
It may be cold, but hope is not lost—some of the most exciting Utah-based psych-rock artists are playing at January’s Localized Showcase. The show features co-headliners Musor and The Painted Roses with opener The Psychsomatics. SLUG Local-ized is $5 at Urban Lounge on Jan. 20 (doors at 7 p.m., music at 8 p.m.) and is sponsored by Uinta Brewing and Huge Brands. 21+ only.
RSVP on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/4wnHXk3St
RSVP on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/slugmaglocalized-musor-thepaint6882022078044868608/
Illustration by Andrew Beck.
This timeless tale of a love affair between a poor poet and seamstress contains some of the most famous and recognizable opera arias in the world and was the inspiration of the musical RENT. The Noorda is proud to collaborate with the Department of Music to produce this moving story with Puccini’s soaring score.
West Valley Arts kicks off its 2022 season with their production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from Jan. 20 to Feb. 12 at the West Valley Performing Arts Center.
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
This fun family-friendly musical brings the classic French fairytale to life in a “tale as old as time.” The original Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast earned nine Tony Award® nominations, including Best Musical. Featuring the timeless songs of Alan Menkin, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is an enchanting theatrical experience. Brimming with all the iconic characters, soaring melodies, and infectious dance numbers audiences adore, seats will sell fast for this dose of fantasy. Get your tickets now for this timeless tale of hope, forgiveness, and ultimately- love.
West Valley Arts Production of Disney’s Beauty & the Beast is rated appropriate for audiences 5 & up.
Tickets: Adults $25, Youth (5-12) $18
Dates & Times: Thurs – Sat at 7:30 p.m.; Additional Matinee on Saturdays at 3:00 p.m.
Tickets available at www.wvcarts.org or (801) 965-5140
Box Office Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
JOIN US FOR ROYAL FAMILY DAYS
Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday February 5, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
Bring the littles, dress up in your favorite royal attire and join us at our matinee show on Saturday 01/29/22 or 02/05/22 for Royal Family Day at the West Valley Performing Arts Center. All youth tickets will have the opportunity to take home one (1) cloth flower and one (1) rose cookie at the end of the show with purchase of royal family day package. We encourage all attendees to dress up for Royal Family Day!
The Youth Royal Family Day Package is only valid for youth (ages 5-12) tickets during the following Beauty and The Beast productions: 3:00 p.m. on Sat., Jan 29, 2022 OR 3:00 p.m. Sat. Feb. 5, 2022 for an additional charge.
Known for their soul-stirring arrangements of gospel, musical theater, and original compositions, Trey McLaughlin and The Sounds of Zamar have received international accolades. Hailing from Georgia, Zamar is known for their rich harmonies and expressive gospel style.
