The largest single annual event in Utah featuring live concerts, entertainment, rides, rodeo, art, barnyard friends, little hands on the farm, ice cream festival, and more.
September 7-17, 2023
Multiple Times/Events
Utah State Fair
Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake
Peach Days is an honored tradition that brings approximately 75,000 spectators a fun-filled weekend that the Top of Utah and Southern Idaho residents look forward to every year. This city-wide event is the longest continually celebrated harvest festival in Utah and is reported to be the second oldest in the country.
September 6-9, 2023
Multiple Times/Events
Brigham City Peach Days
Brigham City
One of the most scenic music festivals in the country, the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival takes place every September in Telluride, Colorado, a world-famous resort town in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
The festival is a three day celebration of music and microbrews, held in Telluride Town Park , an outdoor music venue with breathtaking mountain peaks for a backdrop.
By day, experience live blues, rock, funk, gospel, and soul, the best micro brews from over 50 micro breweries during Saturday’s Grand Tasting, a wide variety of food and craft vendors, children’s activities, and more – all on the festival grounds. By night, follow the festival as it flows into the town of Telluride and Mountain Village, with late night juke joints and after-hours jams.
The Utah Water Garden Club presents its annual pond tour. This self-guided tour features the most beautiful ponds in the Salt Lake County valley. Enjoy a weekend of fun: exploring, examining, and learning about Utah’s best water gardens and Utah’s friendliest Pond Club.
August (Week 2) Annually, 9 am–5 pm
Utah Pond Tour
Utah Water Garden & Koi Club
Salt Lake County, Utah
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.
With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras, despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.
Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, which in turn created the Museum of Modern Art’s department of photography. Adams’s timeless and visually stunning photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely recognizable. – All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License – Wikipedia
The Kimball Art Center is the heart of Park City’s historic and vibrant arts community. It is a non-profit center for the arts, committed to engaging individuals of all ages in diverse and inspiring experiences through education, exhibitions and events.
Swaner EcoCenter will offer weekly nature walks on the south side of the Swaner Preserve. Join us for an easy stroll and learn about the history of Swaner, what animals and plants call the Preserve home, and how the Preserve changes through the seasons. Boots or mud shoes recommended. Nature enthusiasts of all ages are welcome.
Reservations for nature walks are required and there is a $5 for non-members. To RSVP, please contact us at 435.649.1767 ext. 113, [email protected], or [email protected].
Introduction to Photography
This class will cover camera handling techniques and controls necessary to produce quality photographs for digital and film. Students will also learn basic black and white darkroom skills needed to understand the link between the photographic process and the final print. Students may take the traditional cost. Class is limited to 18 students; minimum enrollment of 5 students.
Instructor: Grant O. Gardner
Over the past eight years, photographer Justin Guariglia has slowly but surely won the trust of the notoriously secretive warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple, a unique Chinese Buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu referred to as the “vehicle of Zen.” With the blessing of the main abbot, Shi Yong Xin, Guariglia has earned the full collaboration of the monks to create an astonishing, empathetic record of the Shaolin art forms and the individuals who consider themselves the keepers of these traditions. It is the first time the monks have allowed such extensive documentation of these masters and their centuries-old art forms – from Buddhist mudras to classical kung fu – in their original setting, a 1,500-year-old Buddhist temple.
Michaela Giesenkirchen Sawyer’s photos of Bodie California, a large gold-mining town abandoned in 1940, are currently on display on the third floor of the library. Sponsored by the Humanities Program.
