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.
1-part workshop
Thursday March 24, 6-7:30 pm
Human-induced climate change continues to worsen, producing catastrophic natural disasters around our ever-warming globe. Join us in imagining our earth’s post-apocalyptic future as we explore this up-and-coming genre of Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, which allows us to respond to environmental issues through writing.
Cost: $15. Registration is required.
Location: Zoom. Access details will be sent before workshop starting date.
https://epay.slcc.edu/C20011_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2211
Children’s Dance Theatre presents an original tale of the desert, magic, water and drought. Among the shifting sands of the Sahara, a malevolent djinn is released after a thousand years of imprisonment and is determined to rid the land of human life. As water grows ever scarcer, a young nomad must bring the communities of the Sahara together to contain the expanding desert. Don’t miss this compelling stage production featuring original choreography, costumes and music by the artists of CDT.
Run time: 95 minutes including 10 minute intermission.
Recommended for ages 8 and up. No babes-in-arms. All patrons must have a ticket regardless of age.
Have you heard about cover crops but are not sure which ones to plant when or how to incorporate them into your soil for maximum benefit? If you’re curious to know which types to sow in the spring, summer, or fall, or you want to learn how they contribute to your garden’s health and your vegetable plants’ productivity, then join us at this hands-on, in-person class in our teaching gardens and help us incorporate our overwintered green manure into our teaching beds.
Each student in this hands-on workshop will have an opportunity to use shears, a spading fork, and a broadfork after watching a demonstration.
An in-person and online event to support local artists, educate about domestic violence, and raise money for resources for the victims and their families. Artists will be selling a variety of pieces and donating a portion to the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition.
Start your Easter egg hunt early and enter to win top prizes provided by The Gateway
Find Easter eggs hidden in photos throughout our Facebook and Instagram accounts!
The more eggs you collect, the more chances to win. Get extra points if you find the Easter eggs hidden in person at The Gateway.
Email your “virtual basket” of collected eggs on April 15th to jbreslin@vestar.com with the post platform, date and color of each egg.
Example: Facebook, April 1st, Blue Egg.
Pssst! Head over to our TikTok account to find eggs there for bonus points!
Prizes
1st Place: Dinner for 4 + Handpicked Gateway gift
2nd Place: Dinner for 2 + Handpicked Gateway gift
3rd Place: Lunch for 1 + Handpicked Gateway gift
Do you know any first-time-expecting moms? If so, there’s a free Talk With A Doc event happening Thu, Mar 31 at 7p at UVU’s Health Professions Bldg (Room HP 117). A local pediatrician will share tips and answer questions about keeping newborns healthy. Plus, there will be free refreshments and giveaways. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3ilaj0i.
“The Heart Sings” is sure to be an evening of inspiration through music.
Tickets available through the link or at the door the evening of the event.
This April Fools’ Day learn why you don’t have to pity the fool with S.T.E.A.M.punk Academy. From deranged pranksters to your friend that runs way too much, discover the euphoric world of masochism in our everyday lives with science journalist Leigh Cowart in a NSFW event around their book, Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose.
We’ll start with a burlesque performance by the talented Madazon Can Can. Then, we’ll commence with the learning. We’ll chat with Leigh about their book, hear some passages, and ask some questions. For those who think they can take the heat, you can compete in a good old fashioned Carolina Reaper eating contest. Stay for the cocktail hour to chat with Leigh and, if you choose to purchase a book after all this, get it signed by the author.
We are asking for a $20 donation to help with the cost of putting this event on. You can donate at the door or purchase a ticket now.
This event is 21+ and vaccine required.
3-part workshop
Tuesdays April 5, 12, & 19, 6-8 pm
April is National Poetry Month! Join the CWC for a workshop series that celebrates poetry in all its glory! We’ll explore various genres of poetry, learn to compose poems, and practice revising and sharing our work. We also encourage you to submit to our 30 Poems in 30 Days contest – winners will have a chapbook of their original work published by the CWC.
Cost: $45. Registration is required.
Location: Zoom. Access details will be sent before workshop starting date.
https://epay.slcc.edu/C20011_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2212
Utah Film Center is excited to kick off our line-up of films celebrating the Earth and our unique connection to it, starting April 5th.
Our selections not only focus on our planetary environment for Earth Day, but also the social environment of family and community. These awe-inspiring films include stories of Indigenous land reclamation, the Black food justice movement, humans caught up in the powerful forces of nature, and more. Join us every Tuesday in April for a new perspective of our planet on screen.
Below is an overview of our monthly offerings with links to find out more information on each.
We appreciate your support!
THE RESCUE
Tuesday, April 5th, 7pm, Free
In person at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Using a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (directors of Meru, Free Solo) keep viewers on the edge of their seats as they bring alive one of the most perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times, shining a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys.
Registration Link:
DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD
Tuesday, April 12, 7pm, Free
Online
Daughter of a Lost Bird explores the ethics surrounding Native American adoption, via a singular story as an entry point into a more complicated national issue. The film documents Kendra on her journey to reconnect with her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee and returns to her Native homelands. April’s childhood was marked by physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her adopted father, causing her to leave home at 15. After years spent lost in addiction, on and off the streets of Portland, OR, and three years trapped in sex trafficking, she found the strength to escape and seek a better life. We watch both women navigate what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in.
Registration Link:
Daughter of a Lost Bird
FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD
Tuesday, April 19th, 7pm, Free
Online
Follow the Drinking Gourd is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film connects the legacy of slavery, capitalism, and climate change to our fight for food security. The film is followed by a roundtable discussion with local farmers of color.
Registration Link:
MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST
Tuesday, April 26th, 7pm, Free
Online
A poetic story that travels from the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadü (“the land of flowing water”), weaving together memories of an intergenerational group of women from three communities who hold in common an ancestral connection to the water that trickles through deep fissures in the land. Native Americans, former Japanese-American WWII prisoners and environmentalists form an unexpected alliance to defend their water, their history, and their culture, from Los Angeles.
Registration Link:
MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST
Good Film Makes Better Humans
Join us at beautiful Crosby Family Confluence Park to celebrate Eye, Organ, Tissue and Living Donors as well as Donor Families and supporters. We will have a 5K fun run and 1 mile walk. Individuals, teams and strollers are all welcome.
NOVA artists engage with song traditions ranging from 19th-century New England to 21st-century Peru and Brazil.
Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs
Claude Halter violin | Anne Lee cello| Mitchell Giambalvo piano
Charles Ives: Selected Songs
Aubrey Adams-McMillan mezzo| Kimi Kawashima piano|
Anthony R. Green: Gettysburg Address
Jin-Xiang Yu soprano | Katie Porter clarinet/bass clarinet | Nori Kishi cello | Kimi Kawashima piano | Devin Maxwell conductor | Keith Carrick percussion
Jessie Montgomery: Loisaida, My Love
Aubrey Adams-McMillan mezzo| Nori Kishi cello
Clarice Assad: Canções da America (Songs of America)
Fry Street Quartet
Robert Waters violin | Rebecca McFaul violin | Bradley Ottesen viola | Anne Francis Bayless cello
For ticket information visit https://www.novaslc.org/tickets
Currently based in New Orleans, Mahmoud “Mood” Chouki has traveled the world learning new regional instruments and collaborating with international musicians.
Join the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy in learning about how these musical collaborations lead to better understanding and cooperation across cultures and borders, and enjoy some international music while you’re at it!
This is a free event, but with limited seats available, so RSVP today!
Open house tours and information about STEM, music, art, and other educational programs at City Academy.
In this live webinar, we go beyond the basics to address soils, planting dates, pruning, fertilizing, and proper staking/caging/trellising, and we learn to identify and troubleshoot some common tomato pests and diseases.
The presentation will last about 2 to 2.25 hours and will be followed by a live chat Q&A (i.e., students can type in their questions).
