2024 marks the 11th year our community has been gathering to drink delicious beer, eat tasty local food, socialize, and to support Crossroads' work to support those in need. Crossroads Urban Center is a 501(c)(3) that has been feeding and clothing Utahns in need since 1966. Each year, Crossroads provides services to over 58,000 people. We would not be able to do this work without you. This year, the BBB Benefit Party will be at The Bayou! We'll have live music, exciting silent auction items, and of course, some great libations. For more information or with questions, call Erika Gee, Community Involvement Director at (801) 364-7765 x.102. Tickets: $45 in advance; $50 at the door, $300 for a reserved table (includes 6 admissions). Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/crossroadsurbancenter/1173902#

Let's gather together and make our planet a better place this Earth Day! Come volunteer with USU Extension, Davis County 4-H, the USU Botanical Center, and USU Kaysville on April 22nd at a community clean-up event at the Kaysville Ponds. Parking: You can park in the parking lot located just north of the Utah House (920 S. 50 W. Kaysville, UT 84037). Overflow parking will be across the street at the Varga Arboretum. Check-in: Meet up at the Garden View Pavilion on 50 West in Kaysville to grab a garbage bag and supplies. Remember to dress for the weather! Wear appropriate footwear, sunscreen, and hats. And if you're able, bring some gloves and a water bottle too! Children must have adult supervision. We will be removing litter from the shoreline only. No kayaks, paddleboards, or canoes. Questions? Reach out to Davis County Extension at 801-499-5370.

Bomba Marilé invites you to join us for a free bomba dance workshop followed by free bomba live music and dance where you are invited to sing, drum, and dance with us. Have fun learning and practicing this traditional art form from Puerto Rico. Join us on Saturday May 25th from 1-5pm at the South Salt Lake Community Center Auditorium on 2531 S 400 E South Salt Lake. This fun experience is brought to you by the South Salt Lake Arts Council and Rocky Mountain Power. 1-2:30pm Bomba Dance Workshop 3-5pm: Live Bomba Music and Dance

Bomba Marilé los invita a un taller gratuito de baile de bomba, después del taller tendremos musica de bomba en vivo en donde pueden cantar, tocar tambor y bailar con nosotros. Disfruten de aprender y practicar de esta tradición tan linda de Puerto Rico. El evento será realizado el Sábado 25 de Mayo de 1-5pm en el Auditorio del South Salt Lake Community Center 2531 S 400 E South Salt Lake. El evento es gratuito, gracias al apoyo del South Salt Lake Arts Council y Rocky Mountain Power. 1-2:30pm Taller de baile de bomba 3-5pm Música y baile de bomba en vivo

It’s Spy Hop’s Silver Anniversary! Salt Lake’s quirkiest annual fundraiser returns, convening Utah’s philanthropic, business, and community leaders and members to raise unrestricted and program funds for Spy Hop’s mission. Immerse yourself in a night of youth performances, presentations, and transmissions to the future! Get your tickets here! https://spyhopab2024.afrogs.org/#/tickets/event

Join Swaner with Park City Film at the Jim Santy Auditorium for a free screening of the film "In the Dirt" and a discussion to follow. This story about cycling on the Navajo Nation will inspire you to think about your connection to the land. Panel discussion to follow. April 25 at 7pm. Free admission - tickets at https://parkcityfilm.org/film/in-the-dirt/

This April, the Golden Braid Books Community Book Club is reading Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. We have lots of copies in stock, so come on by and get yours today! Keep in touch with us throughout the month on our Instagram and Facebook pages, and then we’ll convene here at the Braid for our book club meeting to talk about the book, meet some new folks, and share some insights and mutual love of reading. About the Book: Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future. Come and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. https://www.goldenbraidslc.com/events/april-book-club-dandelion-wine

Guadalupe School’s Annual Gala, Fiesta for the Future is back and bigger than ever! Mark your calendars for the party of the year on Friday, April 26 💃 Join us for an evening of delicious Latin-inspired cuisine, live Mariachi music, auctions, folklórico dancing, student success stories, and more! For more information, visit: https://guadschool.org/fiesta/ This is a 21+ event. #nonprofit #VolunteerUtah #SLC #Utah #SaltLakeCity #UtahNonProfit #NonProfit #Community #giveback #gala #utahevents #SLCevent

David Pace’s exhilarating new collect-ion, American Trinity, fashions a new set of mythologies from the material of Mormon America—tales of doubters and believers, angels and heretics, the sacred and the profane. With wisdom and humor, these ambitious stories use the particularities of LDS culture and history as a lens to examine the most profound, universal elements of human life—producing a collection that speaks powerfully to Mormons and non-Mormons alike. –Shawn Vestal, author of Daredevils and God-forsaken Idaho Twelve stories that span the Mormon Corridor—a geographical as well as, now, globally psychic space inhabited by America's most "successful" indigenous religion. At times rendered through life's daily grind (politics, marriage, acquiring an STD... and too many parking tickets), other times through the supernatural and fabulist (angels and personified names of the dead ripped from the real-life Utah mountain vault filled with genealogical records), these are Latter-day Saints who see things “Mormonly” (with apologies to “New Englandly” Emily Dickinson) both driven and riven by their frenetic and sacralized sense of community, their orthodoxy, their doubts and their awkward (often futile) rebellions to comical, poignant, sometimes harrowing ends. Please join us in welcoming author David Pace to The Printed Garden on Friday night, April 26th to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of his new book, American Trinity. This event is free and open to the public, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Get ready for the GPUT Nominating Convention! The Green Party of Utah will hold its nominating convention on Saturday, April 27, 2-5pm, Meeting Room B, at the Salt Lake City Library Main, 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111. The convention is open to the public. Voting in the Presidential Preference Primary will be held in the days following the convention for registered Greens.
The GPUT website has detailed information on how to participate https://www.greenpartyofutah.org/2024-elections .

Bomba Marilé invites you to join us in honoring how our stories are told through song and oral tradition at this event entitled "Storytelling Through Song". Thanks to the WESTAF, SLC ACE, Salt Lake County Zoo Arts and Parks, Walmart, and to the Sorenson Unity Center, we are able to bring you a full day of workshops, discussions, and live music free all day long and open to all in the community. Join us on Saturday April 27th from 10am-7pm at the Sorenson Unity Center.

We will be highlighting bomba from Loiza. We are honored to have visiting bomba educator and historian Marcos Peñaloza Pica all the way from Loiza Puerto Rico. Schedule: 10-11:30am Percussion workshop of bomba rhythms from Loiza 12-1:30 pm Workshop on Bomba Songs from Loiza 3pm-5pm Panel discussion on Storytelling Through Song Panelists include: Marcos Peñaloza Pica (Puerto Rico) Leah Gishie (Diné) Carl Moore (Hopi) Chitra Kaayva (India) Moderator Noemi Hernandez (Mexico) 5:30- 7pm Live Bomba Music and Dance