Sunday, November 8, 2009

12th Annual Vegan Thanksgiving

Eating to Feed the Animals of Ching Farm Rescue – 4pm

The Garden Center in Sugarhouse Park

Everyone is welcome to this family event. The doors open at 4pm, dinner is served at 5 pm. There will be a silent auction with lots of great items. All of the money from the silent auction and the dinner will go directly to the animals of Ching Farm Rescue.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

PitchNic World Premiere — 7th Annual

7pm, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center,  138 West Broadway (300 South)SLC

$5 tickets are now available online at www.arttix.org, at all ArtTix Ticket Office locations or by calling (801) 355-ARTS.

@ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
$5 Reserved Seating
No dress code

Join us for the the world premiere of four new student films from Spy Hop’s critically acclaimed and most intensive film program:

1. Destination: SLC (Non-fiction)
A refugee’s journey to make a new home from Africa to Salt Lake City
Collin Griffith (Director), Chris Carpenter (Dir. of Photography)

2. Brains (Fiction)
Use ‘em or lose ‘em
Loren Ruiz (Director), Rachel Fairclough (Writer/Producer), Britt Decker (Dir. of Photography)

3. Brother Of Mine (Non-fiction)
The personal story of Ethan Pullan’s brother, who died tragically from leukemia, and his family’s challenge to cope
Alek Sabin (Director), Ethan Pullan (Producer), Pat Thompson (Dir. of Photography)

4. The Antagonist (Fiction)
A character’s struggle against his writer to change his murderous fate
May Bartlett (Director/Producer), Kevin LeStarge (Director/Producer), Daniel Pimentel (Writer/Cinemotography)

Friday, November 13, 2009

Creativity in Focus Film: Con Artist – 7pm

Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City

A superstar during the frantic glory of the 1980s New York art world, Mark Kostabi has unapologetically signed and sold thousands of paintings made by painters/laborers who attest to not having seen Kostabi paint for years.

This energetic, punk-fueled docu-comedy traces the meteoric rise and fall of a bizarre visionary and the art market that birthed him.

http://www.slartcenter.org

Friday, November 13, 2009

FREE FILM SCREENING:  “Yes Men Fix the World,” with real live Yes Man himself Andy Bichlbaum

7:30 p.m., Broadway Theatre, 111 East 300 South

Followed by Q&A panel with Tim de Christopher, Pat Shea, Andy Bichelbaum and Terry Tempest Williams.
ALSO:
Civil Disobedience and Activism workshop with attorney Pat Shea and RadioActive producer Troy Williams
Nov. 13, 9:30pm (immediately following film and Q/A)
Toasters, 3rd South @ State (30 East). No charge, but bring cash for coffee/wine/beer.
More info: http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings.htm

Saturday, November 14, 2009

2009 Annual GOODS AND SERVICES AUCTION

Come plan your 2010 Social Calendar!

When the Going Gets Tough…the Tough Get Creative!

Like the rest of the country South Valley has seen its share of Hard Times during the recent economic recession. Which is all the more reason why we should HAVE A PARTY!

South Valley’s Annual
GOODS AND SERVICES AUCTION
will be held on
Saturday, November 14th at 6:00pm

Tickets go on sale Sunday October 11
IF PURCHASED IN ADVANCE
$14 Adults
$5 Kids

IF PURCHASED AT THE DOOR
$18 Adults
$5 Kids

It will be a chance to show off your best Recession-Proof Fashions, donate (and BUY) Fabulous items, and Plan your Social Calendar for the upcoming year — all for a worthy cause:funding South Valley’s Operating Budget!

So put the date on your calendar, contact a member of the Auction Team to DONATE items or VOLUNTEER to help out, and let’s all get Creative!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Utah Environmental Congress 11th Annual Conference

7:00 p
The Mill at Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park
589 East 1300 South
Salt Lake City

The UEC Annual Conference this year will feature forest ecologist George
Wuerthner speaking on forest fire ecology, including the effects of
outbreaks of bark beetles. A renowned photographer and critic of public
lands livestock grazing, Wuerthner has degrees in botany, wildlife biology,
and range science. A resident of Eugene, Oregon, Wuerthner is the author
with Mollie Matteson of the book Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized
Destruction of the West.

The UEC Annual Conference is our opportunity to gather with friends of the
forest to learn more about ecology, support the Utah Environmental Congress, and have some fun!
Join us for education, socializing, and a silent auction to
support UEC. A minimum $10 donation is requested at the door.

The Utah Environmental Congress is the only environmental organization
monitoring all of the National Forests in Utah.

For more information, call UEC at 801-466-4055,  uec-utah.org or email bob@uec-utah.org.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Remembering Joe Hil -7pm,Post Theater, 245 S Fort Douglas Blvd.

Anke Summerhill
Kate MacLeod
Gigi Love
Duncan Phillips
Kyle Wulle
Mark Ross

Join these musicians in celebrating the memory of a true American hero with stories and songs. These are some of the best song writers and performers in the west. The west is where the great labor movement of the Industrial Workers of the World started and we can’t forget who it was that gave us the 8 hour day, ended child labor and brought dignity and democracy to the work place.

Joe Hill was murdered right here in Salt Lake defending the rights of workers, organizing the masses with poetry and song. Well, the bosses who killed him are back at their dirty business again taking away all the workers’ rights Joe and others fought and died for. So bring a comrade and be inspired to fight again.

“Don’t Mourn Organize!”

Tickets for this special event are $15.00 and tax deductible. A donated guitar will be raffled at the end of the show.

More info:  http://utahjwj.org

Friday, November 27, 2009

Annual Community Coat Exchange

If you need a coat, please come get one. If you have a coat, we know people who can use them.

Website: http://www.coatexchange.org
Every year people all over the United States spend the day after Thanksgiving getting ready for the holiday season by patronizing retail businesses for gift buying. We perceived a need for a project for the same day that would be useful and meaningful, as well as educational, and that focuses on concerns about the ecological and psychological consequences of our consumer culture and the impact of our consumerism on society.

To that end, a new community-oriented project was born: The Community Coat Exchange. Patterned after a similar event in Rhode Island, the Coat Exchange is a collection and distribution of winter coats and other clothing items. The event is held between 10 AM and 2PM the day after Thanksgiving.

The idea is for folks to bring donations to any of the drop off centers (see right sidebar for partners and drop off centers) before Thanksgiving or to the event itself. At the event, no questions are asked: If you need a coat, come get one. If you want to exchange a coat, bring the coat you want to donate and take one in exchange. If you have a donation of coats, we know people who can use them.

Left over coats are donated to the Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store, a project of the Crossroads Urban Center which advocates for low income and homeless people. The Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store gives clothes away to poor people and also sells clothes and other goods in its retail shop to the general public to help fund the Crossroads Urban Center programs.

Please contact us if your organization is willing to support this annual event as a partner (obligations of co-sponsors are to publicize the event to your network).

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2009 Community Coat Exchange Partners
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DROP OFF/COLLECTION SITES:
City Academy – http://www.cityacademy.org
555 East 200 South, SLC, 801.596-8489
Free Speech Zone http://www.freespeech-zone.com
411 South 800 East, SLC, 801.487-2295
Highland High School – http://highland.slc.k12.ut.us
2166 South 1700 East, SLC, 801.484.4343
I.J.Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center- http://www.slcjcc.org
2 North Medical Drive, SLC, 801.581.0098
The Oakley School -drop off center – http://www.oakley-school.com
251 West Weber Canyon Road – Oakley, Ut, 435.783.5001
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Blue Sky Institute- http://www.blueskyinstitute.org
Crossroads Urban Center – http://www.crossroads-u-c.org
Misty Fowler – http://saintless.com
People for Peace and Justice of Utah – http://www.utahpeace.org
Utah Amnesty International – http://www.amnesty.org
Westminster Roots and Shoots – http://www.westminstercollege.edu/biology/index.cfm?parent=4012&detail=4781
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To donate, volunteer, or obtain further information, please contact us at:

801-631-2998

info@coatexchange.org

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There are multiple ways you can donate coats – and it’s easy!

1. Bring Coats to one of the drop off centers (see right sidebar)

2. Contact us for a pick up

801-631-2998; info@coatexchange.org

3. Bring your coats to the event itself!
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Media:
SLUG Magazine:
http://www.slugmag.com/articles/1940/Fighting-Back-at-Black-Friday.html
CATALYST:
http://www.catalystmagazine.net/pdfs/2009-11/calendar_0911.pdf