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.
Try out all the classes we have to offer for just $10 for the entire day! Come for one or stay for all! It’s the same price all day. You must register in advance before arriving
Join Craft Lake City and Kenyan artisan Rispah Otieno of ZZOLARI for this hands-on Beaded Earrings Workshop! Rispah will demonstrate the essential techniques needed to create a custom hoop beaded earring that suits your individual personality and taste. Using wire, beads with a rainbow of color options, and elastic thread, Rispah will walk you through an introduction to this gorgeous jewelry-making technique. Attendees will each take home a pair of eye-catching custom beaded earrings & the skills to continue their jewelry making journey from home. During the instructional session, Rispah will share stories about her cultural ties to this art form & details about her growth experiences as a maker. Beginners welcome and all supplies provided for this workshop.
We’re thrilled to present this class as part of our New Americans Workshop Series in partnership with the International Rescue Committee, with funding from the Salt Lake Arts Council.
About the Instructor
Rispah Otieno was born and raised in Kenya and has always had a passion for Jewelry making learned through her mother. I hope that through ZZOLARI lives will be changed, communities will be empowered and poverty will be eradicated. When you support ZZOLARI, you’re helping create employment and supporting local artisans in Kenya.
Founded in 2002 by the Utah Chinese New Year Celebration Committee (UTCNYCC), with the collective efforts of 20 local organizations and individuals from Mainland China, Taiwan , Hong Kong and other diasporas. Over the past 21 years, the Chinese New Year Celebration has become one of Utah’s largest cultural events and a staple event to the community attended by generations of Utahns. Made possible for dedicated volunteers who come together with the objective to enrich Utah’s culture through sharing the traditional Chinese culture with locals who love Chinese culture, heritage, and customs. Come experience a night filled with cultural dances, songs, acrobatic performances, and the coveted Lion’s Dance.
Join us to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit at Skyline High School Auditorium ( 3251 E 3760 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84109) on Saturday, January 14th to celebrate the and have an unforgettable, family-friendly time in the process. Free admissions and parking. Doors will be open at 6:00PM.
APPLY TODAY to be part of the 15th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival Presented By Harmons! The Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival is Utah’s largest local-centric art, music, science and technology festival. By being part of DIY Fest, you can display and sell your handcrafted wares, connect with an incredibly talented group of other local makers, artisans, vintage vendors, foodies, youth entrepreneurs, performers, & STEM exhibitors — all while building your business & befriending thousands of local dedicated DIY Fest patrons! Applications are open to Utah residents until Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. MST.
Learn more & apply here: https://craftlakecity.com/diy-festival-2023/
Learn more about DIY Fest Scholarships here: https://craftlakecity.com/diy-fest-inclusion/
Join us each month for a fun evening of wine education hosted by Jim Santangelo, owner, and Sommelier of Wine Academy of Utah. Brought to you in partnership with Eat Drink SLC.
January 19th, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
$50 per person
A Battle of Merlot & Cab
Join us for this battle royal of two classic red wines, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Funny thing, they are more friends than anything else, as they love to grow in the same climate, and blend well together. You’ll taste a single varietal Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and a Bordeaux-style blend, and receive a sampling of Beehive Cheese to pair.
This pairing includes three wines, a special arrival pour, and pairings sponsored by Beehive Cheese!
Looking to cap off your evening with dinner out?
Each month, in an effort to support and highlight our restaurant community, we partner with a local restaurant in hopes you will join them for dinner.
These events will be indoors in the Chase Mill building.
*Proof of vaccination card OR proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within 48 hrs of the event required for entry. A digital copy is acceptable.
Space is limited to provide for safe social distancing.
Refunds: Due to the limited capacity and high demand for these events refunds are
available if cancellation is made 48 hours in advance of the event. Please email if you need to cancel.
*Guests must be at least 21 years or older to attend this event
**In the case that this event is sold out, feel free to email us to be put on the event’s waitlist.
Body, Land
On View: January 17 – May 24, 2023
Location: Location: Plaza Level Gallery, Utah Cultural Celebration Center
Free Admission, Monday-Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Extended hours during Community First Fridays
Curated by Rocio Vasquez Cisneros and Alejandra Ramos, Body/Land assembles a spectrum of women artists exploring the metaphorical and physical connections between body and land.
APPLY TODAY to be part of the 15th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival Presented By Harmons! The Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival is Utah’s largest local-centric art, music, science and technology festival. By being part of DIY Fest, you can display and sell your handcrafted wares, connect with an incredibly talented group of other local makers, artisans, vintage vendors, foodies, youth entrepreneurs, performers, & STEM exhibitors — all while building your business & befriending thousands of local dedicated DIY Fest patrons! Applications are open to Utah residents until Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. MST.
Learn more & apply here: https://craftlakecity.com/diy-festival-2023/
Learn more about DIY Fest Scholarships here: https://craftlakecity.com/diy-fest-inclusion/
Free in-person film screening and Q&A led by the Black, Bold and Brilliant team featuring film director John Alexander and film subject Sharon Preston Folta via Zoom.
Little Satchmo is an intimate exploration of the iconic Louis Armstrong’s life and legacy through his relationship with the daughter that the public never knew existed. Based on a revealing memoir written by Armstrong’s silent daughter, the film seeks to correct a historical narrative relying on caricature for too long.
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed “Satchmo”, had an illustrious career that spanned five decades. Due to his unique music styling, charisma, and gritty vocals, he is credited with changing the focus of jazz music from “collective improvisation” to solo performance. With an eye for the ladies, Armstrong had several failed marriages but remained with his fourth wife Lucille Wilson until his death in 1971. During his marriage to Wilson, Armstrong had a long time affair with Lucille Preston. Together they had a daughter, Sharon, who Louis lovingly called “Little Satchmo”. To protect them and his career, Lucille and Sharon lived in the shadows of his limelight.
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Free virtual screening — available from February 2nd through February 7th.
Little Satchmo is an intimate exploration of the iconic Louis Armstrong’s life and legacy through his relationship with the daughter that the public never knew existed. Based on a revealing memoir written by Armstrong’s silent daughter, the film seeks to correct a historical narrative relying on caricature for too long.
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed “Satchmo”, had an illustrious career that spanned five decades. Due to his unique music styling, charisma, and gritty vocals, he is credited with changing the focus of jazz music from “collective improvisation” to solo performance. With an eye for the ladies, Armstrong had several failed marriages but remained with his fourth wife Lucille Wilson until his death in 1971. During his marriage to Wilson, Armstrong had a long time affair with Lucille Preston. Together they had a daughter, Sharon, who Louis lovingly called “Little Satchmo”. To protect them and his career, Lucille and Sharon lived in the shadows of his limelight.
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**Limited screenings are available so register while you can.
Whether you’re new to screenwriting or have several completed scripts under your belt, the Utah Film Center Screenwriting Workshop is the perfect place to hone the foundational skills and processes necessary to seamlessly craft your next feature or television screenplay.
This three-day workshop is led by ISA Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch and Sundance award-winning screenwriter Skye Emerson. The educational screenwriting series consists of presentations, scene analysis, writing assignments, lectures, discussions and script workshopping, all designed to advance your story and skillsets to the next level.
This workshop series takes place from February through May on the first Monday of the month.
Monday, Feb 6 | 6-8pm
Monday, March 6 | 6-8pm
Monday, April 3 | 6-8pm
About the instructor:
Skye Emerson is an award-winning screenwriter who was most recently named to the International Screenwriter’s Association Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch list. She received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and is the grand prize winner of ISA’s Emerging Screenwriters Competition. Skye holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television.
MASTER OF LEGAL STUDIES INFORMATION SESSION WEBINAR SERIES
The Master of Legal Studies (MLS) degree is a one-year program which provides a foundation for working with and understanding the law and regulation. Students learn how to think and communicate broadly about legal issues affecting various careers and industries, understand contemporary legal issues, and know the practical implications of the law.
The MLS degree is available in three convenient formats: In-Person MLS Program, MLS Distance Program at the St. George Graduate Center, and Online MLS Program. All programs last one year (three semesters) and students need 30 credits to graduate.
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law invites you to join us at one of our four virtual information sessions. Please click below to register for any of the dates to learn more about the MLS program.
We hope to see you there!
Utah Film Center is excited to announce our upcoming free film screening of Hidden Letters Wednesday, February 8 at 7 pm at the Salt Lake Downtown Public Library.
Presented as part of the Utah Film Center’s Through the Lens Series and in partnership with KUER’s Radiowest, Hidden Letters is a story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.
For thousands of years women who were often forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write, shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written with delicate strokes made from sharpened bamboo sticks dipped in ink, Nushu bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival.
Join us afterward as KUER’s Radiowest host, Doug Fabrizio, hosts a lively discussion with film director, Violet Du Feng via zoom cinematically exploring China’s gender issues as portrayed by this sensitive and stirring documentary.
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Join us for a fascinating exploration of the many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books!
We are excited to bring Becca Tarnas to Salt Lake City for this timely talk, so well paired with the new Tolkien series!
Featured musician: To be announced!
Featured artist: Lizzie Wenger
Featured poet: To be announced!
Schedule:
6:30-7:00 pm Live Music & Mingle
7:00-8:30 pm Immersive Talk with Becca
8:30-9:00 pm Community Social
1.5 CEUs available (Additional $5 / Free for Professional Members)
Companion Depth Workshop on Saturday, February 11th
Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. Jung recorded these fantasies in a large red manuscript that he named Liber Novus, referred to simply as The Red Book. For Tolkien, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-earth, whose stories and myths eventually led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings, a book he named within its own imaginal history The Red Book of Westmarch. This lecture explores the many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books: the style and content of their works of art, the narrative descriptions and scenes in their texts, the nature of their visions and dreams, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences. The two men seem to have been simultaneously treading parallel paths through the imaginal realm.
About Becca Tarnas, Ph.D.:
Becca is a scholar, artist, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. She teaches at both Pacifica Graduate Institute and CIIS, and is the author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Join us in this new workshop to learn how to clean, sharpen and care for all your snips, pruners, shears, loppers, saws, and soil knives.
This class will cover a wide selection of sharpening and cleaning materials available to home gardeners, how and when to use different products and where to source them. We’ll demonstrate techniques and tips specific to different types of gardening tools and offer hands-on practice during class so students can get a feel for cleaning their tools and honing a sharp edge.
Expect to walk away with a working knowledge of different files, whetstones, various oils, lubricants and other tool cleaning and maintenance supplies. In addition to learning how to extend the life of your existing hand tools, you’ll learn what to look for when you need to purchase new tools that can stand the test of time.
At STEM labs, we use scientific principles in creative new ways, and our special guest scientist Beth Drees will explain not just HOW to make slime, but WHY the whole thing works! Using this new chemical knowledge, kids are encouraged to create test batches of slime to explore their favorite textures by experimenting with different combinations of ingredients until they find the perfect recipe. Once their slime is just right, we’ll use ratios to create a mega-batch, add their favorite custom mix-ins, and package individual portions to hand out as special DIY valentine gifts for the whole class. Even grown ups will have fun engineering fascinating new goops with their kids, and at the end, everyone will walk away feeling like a chemical engineer.
This workshop will be held at the STEM Action Center’s Innovation Hub in Millcreek, where you can have all the fun of slime and leave the mess behind!
Please note: a parent or guardian must be in attendance with their child/children. The $29 ticket allows entry for one child and one parent. An additional $10 for entry of another child with that ticket.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/craft-lake-city-stem-labs-workshop-valenslime-with-chemist-beth-drees-tickets-515269082697
