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.
Utah Film Center is excited to announce our upcoming screening of Grey Gardens on Wednesday, December 7th at 7 pm at the City Library downtown location. This illuminating documentary follows two women who lived together at the Grey Gardens estate for decades in increasing squalor and isolation and their recollection of their past experiences. Please join us for the film and stick around afterward for a post-film discussion about the film and its resonance today with a University of Utah professor and KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.
Presented as part of our Through the Lens series, which for 2022 features a collaboration with the University of Utah’s Department of Film and Media Arts to present an extended exploration of what many Film Lovers regard as the “Classic Films” in cinematic history. The post-film discussion will ask, “Why is this film a classic, and who is it a classic for?”
SYNOPSIS
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”) and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (“Little Edie”) were the aunt and the first cousin, respectively, of former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Throughout the fall of 1971 and into 1972, their living conditions—their house was infested by fleas, inhabited by numerous cats and raccoons, deprived of running water, and filled with garbage and decay—were exposed as the result of an article in the National Enquirer and a cover story in New York Magazine after a series of inspections (which the Beales called “raids”) by the Suffolk County Health Department. With the Beale women facing eviction and the razing of their house, in the summer of 1972 Jacqueline Onassis and her sister Lee Radziwill provided the necessary funds to stabilize and repair the dilapidated house so that it would meet village codes.
FREE Admission
Registration Link:
https://utahfilmcenter.org/event/grey-gardens/
Your Grandmother did it; your Aunties and Mothers did it. Now you’re continuing the tradition. The artistry and influence of culturally Black foods is unmistakable in the United States. The Black, Bold & Brilliant team is loosening our belt to discuss all things good in the hood this holiday season! The Salt Lake area has seen a delicious increase of Black food establishments across the valley, from brick and mortar restaurants to food trucks, and everything else in between. Kick back with us and feed your soul with this rousing roundtable discussion.
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Your Grandmother did it; your Aunties and Mothers did it. Now you’re continuing the tradition. The artistry and influence of culturally Black foods is unmistakable in the United States. The Black, Bold & Brilliant team is loosening our belt to discuss all things good in the hood this holiday season! The Salt Lake area has seen a delicious increase of Black food establishments across the valley, from brick and mortar restaurants to food trucks, and everything else in between. Kick back with us and feed your soul with this rousing roundtable discussion.
Registration link:
https://utahfilmcenter.org/event/black-bold-brilliant-black-food-edition/
Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist, former Minister of Antiquities and discoverer of pyramids, mummies and lost cities will speak at the University of Utah’s Kingsbury Hall on Monday, December 19, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. His presentation is titled “Secrets of the Pharaohs: Pyramids, Tut, Mummies and the Golden City.”
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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As part of our Black, Bold & Brilliant series, Utah Film Center, in partnership with KRCL is excited to announce our upcoming film screening and post-discussion of BEBA. Join us Wednesday, March 1st from 7-9 pm at The City Library in Downtown Salt Lake City in watching first-time feature filmmaker Rebecca “Beba” Huntt undertake an unflinching exploration of her own identity in the remarkable coming-of-age documentary/cinematic memoir BEBA.
Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she’s inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths that connect us all as humans. Throughout BEBA, Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest. Poetic, powerful and profound, BEBA is a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection.
We invite you to stay after the screening for a Black, Bold & Brilliant team post-film Q&A featuring film director Rebecca Huntt via zoom.
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Watch the trailer here:
Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of climate change on young people and frontline community members. Dr. Wray has a PhD in Science Communication from the University of Copenhagen and is a journalist, speaker, and author of two books: Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in the Climate Crisis and Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics and Risks of De-Extinction.
Launched in Fall 2020, the Author Meets Readers series connects humanities scholars or writers and their research with lifelong readers and learners. Individual sessions run for one hour, are facilitated by the Tanner Humanities Center Director or campus and community experts, and feature insights into the research and writing process, the impact of humanities scholarship on culture and society, and an audience discussion.
League of Women Voters Salt Lake April General Meeting will host Dr. Angela Dunn, Executive Director of Salt Lake County Health Department and Prof. Phillip Singer of U of Utah Department of Public Science. They will discuss Is Public Health Broken? What did we learn from COVID? Has politics destroyed our public health system? Will we be ready for the next pandemic? or earthquake?
The Salt Lake City Corp Program and amazing partner organizations are thrilled to invite you to join the Jordan River Cleanup on April 22nd, launching at 8AM from Jordan park. The city will provide breakfast for volunteers. The Mayor and other guest speakers will share remarks before the projects start at 9AM.
The volunteer sign up page is live and open to individuals, local businesses, and community organizations that are interested in volunteering. Everyone is welcome to join our projects, which include trail maintenance and trash removal, canoe in-river trash cleanup, art projects, and more. We have opportunities to volunteer for both English and Spanish speaking projects. Everyone is welcome, and we encourage you to bring friends and family too.
Rain, snow, or shine we will be there, and we hope to see you there too! Registration is required. For more information and to sign up follow the link here. https://www.slc.gov/events/2023/02/08/earthday/
Join us at the Rocky Mountain Parkinson’s Symposium for the educational program Parkinson’s, Sleep, and Me. Getting adequate rest and sleep is an important component of overall health and quality of life. Parkinson’s disease (PD) creates many challenges to getting a good night’s sleep, both for the person with Parkinson’s and the caregiver. This program provides information on how Parkinson’s disease affects sleep, and ways you can get a better night’s sleep while living with PD.
Speakers
Kathleen McKee, MD, MPH, Intermountain Neuroscience Institute
Melissa Mauchley, LCSW, MSW, University of Utah
Create beautiful, head-turning jewelry with us at our beginner-friendly workshop with New American instructor Rosette Bahadi of African Roots! Working with a variety of fun, colorful African fabrics, you will learn how to create eye-catching bangle bracelets to take your wardrobe to the next level. Rosette will demonstrate her tried & true methods for wrapping & stitching your bracelets by hand as you create a pair (one thick, one thin) of custom pieces to take home with you. As part of our New Americans Workshop Series, you will also learn about our instructor’s cultural background & her evolution as a maker through the lens of her experiences in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beginners are welcome and all supplies are provided.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/craft-lake-city-workshop-african-roots-bracelets-tickets-619165830667