When Salt Lake City entered the pandemic-induced lockdown in March, the Sackerson theater company leadership trio—cofounders Dave Sackerson and Alex Ungerman, and producer Morag Shepherd—managed the way many of us did. “We spent about a month feeling depressed,” Dave said. “But then we picked ourselves up and thought, ‘How do we go on creating art […]
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Along with long hikes, yoga and backyard wine meetups, seeking out new music has become one of my go-to strategies in coping with this ultra-marathon-like pandemic. And to indulge in all three I haven’t had to look very far—even to find new music or at least music that’s new to me. Thanks to the Excellence […]
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THE BLOCKS presents Exhibitions on Main, a new opportunity for our community to exhibit stories, bodies of work and more on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. ABOUT Exhibitions will be on display for three (3) months at a time. The exhibitions will be displayed in the top 6 windows in one of two […]
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From its start 12 years so, Craft Lake City’s DIY Festival has been a beloved regular on Salt Lake City’s busy summer festival schedule. Then, of course, came COVID-19 and an unwelcome pause on much of what makes summer fun in Utah, from the Red Butte Outdoor Concert Series to Snowbird’s Oktoberfest. But thanks to […]
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One of downtown Salt Lake City’s least lauded attributes is its architecture. There, sleek new buildings like the Salt Lake Library Main Branch, the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building and the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building—to name just a few—complement dozens of ornate, century-old edifices including the Kearns Building, Peery Hotel and the Capitol […]
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Just as I was reaching the bottom of my Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu barrel, there it was like a gift from above: not one but TWO sources of brand new cinematic content, from a pair of organizations based right here in THE BLOCKS. The Utah Film Center’s 2020 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival has gone virtual […]
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$12.83. That’s how much Sarah Tamburelli made in tips the first time she broke out her ukulele to strum and sing on the street. Since then she’s adopted the solo performance moniker Sarah Little Drum and her repertoire has expanded from singing and the ukulele to include burlesque and a parrot accordion-accompanied Hula-Hooping routine. Tamburelli’s […]
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This Sunday, June 21 (Father’s Day!), before you’ve had your coffee, read the paper and head out for a hike or a pedal, set a phone alert for 2 p.m. to catch the creatively adaptive return of 12 Minutes Max. “We intend to keep doing the livestream version of 12 Minutes Max until we are […]
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When was the last time you had a night out with your partner that looked like this: a semi-private, interpretive gallery tour, followed by dinner inside said gallery, capped off by a hands-on, art project? Yeah, I never have either. And after more than two months of cancelled fun, an evening like that sounds like […]
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Warm weather is finally upon us and I can’t remember a summer I’ve looked forward to more. While many of my most beloved summer events—i.e. concerts and festivals—have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (sigh), thankfully, art continues to thrive in downtown Salt Lake City. Case in point: the Main Street Kiosk Project. In late April, […]
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