There are plenty of events — both live and online — going on across Utah. Here are some of the concerts, classes, drive-in movies and more happening this week.
Friday, Oct. 9
Concerts
- 12 p.m. — Piping Up: Organ Concerts at Temple Square. Livestream performance from Tabernacle and Temple Square organists.
- 5 p.m. — BYU Dance Live: Young Ambassadors. Free weekly livestream performance from Brigham Young University’s Department of Dance.
- 6 p.m. — Encore Saxophone Quartet. Concert at The Monarch in Ogden.
- 6 p.m. — Urban Lounge Backyard Shows: 9021YO. Outdoor concert at The Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. For adults 21 and older.
- 7:30 p.m. — Abbamania: The Music and Magic of ABBA. Concert at Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Ivins, Washington County.
- 9 p.m. — Friday’s Live! Concert Series. Weekly online concert series hosted by Farmers Market Ogden.
Getting Out
- 9 a.m. — Creepy Carrots Virtual Storytime with Franklin County Public Library. Online event hosted by Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum.
- 9:30 a.m. — Preschool Story Time. Event for children ages 3-5 at Brigham City Fine Arts Center.
- 7 p.m. — Community Talent Night. Event at Brigham City Fine Arts Center.
Comedy
- 7 & 9:30 p.m. — Paul Virzi. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in Salt Lake City.
- 7 & 9:30 p.m. — Chad Prather. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in West Jordan.
- 7:30 p.m. — “Comediathalon.” Performance at ImprovBroadway in Provo.
- 7:30 p.m. — Arvin Mitchell. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in Ogden.
- 8 p.m. — Live Improv Show. Performance at ComedySportz Utah in Provo.
Special Movie Screenings
- 6 p.m. — “Giving Voice.” Drive-in film screening hosted by the Utah Film Center at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy.
- 6 p.m. — “Neruda.” Free online film screening and Q&A hosted by the Salt Lake City Library.
- 8 p.m. — “Plan 10 From Outer Space.” Drive-in film screening hosted by Salt Lake Film Society at Redman Movies & Stories in Salt Lake City.
Book Events
- 12 p.m. — “Shadows, then Light: Activist Panel.” Online event hosted by the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College.
Art Events
- 10:30 a.m. — Imagine: Invented Creatures. Class for children ages 3-5 at Kimball Art Center in Park City.
- 7 p.m. — Paint the Night. Class at SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem. Virtual option also available.
Saturday, Oct. 10
Concerts
- 6 p.m. — Urban Lounge Backyard Shows: Burnell Washburn. Outdoor concert at The Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. For adults 21 and older.
Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand will perform at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre in Orem on Oct. 10.
Bry Cox
- 7 p.m. — Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand. Outdoor concert at SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre in Orem.
- 8 p.m. — Excellence in the Community: Tom Young Quintet. Free online concert livestreamed from the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City.
Getting Out
- 8 a.m.-1 p.m. — Downtown Farmers Market. Market at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City.
- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. — Hispanic Heritage Celebration. Outdoor event at The Gateway in Salt Lake City.
- 10 a.m. — Women’s Intro to Fly-Fishing Workshop. Class at Stokes Nature Center in Logan.
- 11 a.m. — Bee Fest 2020. Online event hosted by Salt Lake City Bee Fest.
- 7:30 p.m. — Sips Under the Sea: Halloween. Event at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper. For adults 21 and older.
Comedy
- 7 & 9:30 p.m. — Paul Virzi. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in Salt Lake City.
- 7 & 9:30 p.m. — Chad Prather. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in West Jordan.
- 7:30 p.m. — ImprovBroadway Mainstage Show. Performance at ImprovBroadway in Provo.
- 7:30 p.m. — Arvin Mitchell. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in Ogden.
- 8 p.m. — Live Improv Show. Performance at ComedySportz Utah in Provo.
Special Movie Screenings
- 10 a.m. — “The Rogers.” Free online film screening hosted by the Utah Film Center.
- 3 & 7 p.m. — “Total Recall.” Special film screening at select Cinemark Theatres and Megaplex Theatres.
- 6 p.m. — “Save Yourselves!” Drive-in film screening hosted by the Utah Film Center at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy.
- 6:30 p.m. — “Coming Clean.” Drive-in film screening hosted by the Utah Film Center at Belgian Waffle and Omelet Inn in Midvale.
- 7 p.m. — “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Outdoor film screening at The Gateway in Salt Lake City.
- 8 p.m. — “Carnival of Souls.” Drive-in film screening hosted by Salt Lake Film Society at Redman Movies & Stories in Salt Lake City.
- 11 p.m. — “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Drive-in film screening hosted by Salt Lake Film Society at Redman Movies & Stories in Salt Lake City. For adults 18 and older.
Book Events
- 3 p.m. — “Resistencia Feminina: Contemporary Mexican Poetry.” Online event hosted by Red Poppy and Utah Humanities.
- 6 p.m. — April Jones Prince. Author of “Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates.” Online event hosted by the Treehouse Children’s Museum.
Art Events
- 8 a.m. — Ogden Nature Center Paint-Out. Event at Ogden Nature Center.
- 10 a.m. — Distressed Mixed Media Painting Workshop. Class at Kimball Art Center in Park City.
- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. — Art and Craft Market. Outdoor street market at The Gateway in Salt Lake City.
- 1 p.m. — Paint Party. Event at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center.
Sunday, Oct. 11
Getting Out
- 9 a.m.-2 p.m. — Wheeler Sunday Farmers Market. Market at Wheeler Historic Farm in Murray.
- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. — Urban Flea Market. Market at The Gateway in Salt Lake City.
Special Movie Screenings
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) have a chat at the Bates Motel before everything goes sideways in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” which will show at select Cinemark and Megaplex Theatres.
Universal Pictures
- 4 p.m. — “Psycho.” Special screening at select Cinemark Theatres and Megaplex Theatres.
Monday, Oct. 12
Concerts
- 12 p.m. — Piping Up: Organ Concerts at Temple Square. Livestream performance from Tabernacle and Temple Square organists.
Getting Out
- 4 p.m. — Read to a Shelter Pet. Online event hosted by the Salt Lake County Library.
- 7 p.m. — “Little Women” Trivia Night. Online event hosted by the Orem Library.
Special Movie Screenings
- 7 p.m. — “Psycho.” Special screening at select Cinemark Theatres and Megaplex Theatres.
- 7 p.m. — “Hotel Transylvania.” Special screening at the Salt Lake County Library’s Viridian Events Center in West Valley City.
Book Events
- 12 p.m. — “Intercambios: Queer Latinx Poetics Across Fronteras.” Virtual event hosted by Artes de Mexico en Utah and The King’s English Bookshop.
- 7 p.m. — Jennifer Sinor, author of “Sky Songs,” and Patrick Madden, author of “Disparates.” Virtual event hosted by The King’s English Bookshop and Utah Humanities.
Tuesday, Oct. 13
Getting Out
- 9 a.m. — Ada Lovelace Day. Online event hosted by Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum.
- 12 p.m. — “Utah Women in 2020: Challenges, Opportunities, and Next Steps.” Online event hosted by the Utah Women & Leadership Project.
Special Movie Screenings
- 7 p.m. — “Belly of the Beast.” Free online film screening hosted by the Utah Film Center.
- 7 p.m. — “Never Again.” Special screening at select Cinemark Theatres and Megaplex Theatres.
Book Events
Author Terry Tempest Williams will discuss her new book of essays, “Erosion: Essays of Undoing,” in a virtual event with The King’s English Bookshop on Oct. 13.
Marion Ettlinger
- 6 p.m. — Terry Tempest Williams. Author of “Erosion: Essays of Undoing.” Virtual event hosted by The King’s English Bookshop.
- 6 p.m. — Alt Press Fest: Comix Reading and Performance by Madisyn Delporto. Virtual event hosted by the Salt Lake City Library.
Art Events
- 7 p.m. — Learn It: Inking for Inktober. Virtual class hosted by the Provo Library.
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Concerts
- 12 p.m. — Piping Up: Organ Concerts at Temple Square. Livestream performance from Tabernacle and Temple Square organists.
- 8 p.m. — Excellence in the Community: Tad Calcara Classical Trio. Free online concert livestreamed from the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City.
Getting Out
- 10 a.m. — Little Chicks Class: Happy Hoppers. Online class for children ages 2-5 from Tracy Aviary.
- 11 a.m. — Leasing or Buying Commercial Real Estate Workshop. Online workshop hosted by the Zions Bank Business Resource Center.
- 7 p.m. — “How the Planet Works: Plate Tectonics & The Feasibility Of A Hollow Earth.” Part of the Voyager Lecture series at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta in Ivins, Washington County.
Special Movie Screenings
- 7 p.m. — Met Opera Encore: “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Special screening at Megaplex Pineview in St. George.
Book Events
- 6 p.m. — Scott Graham, author of “The Mesa Verde Victim,” in conversation with Margaret Mizushima, author of “Hanging Falls: A Timbercreek K-9 Mystery.” Virtual event hosted by The King’s English Bookshop.
- 7 p.m. — Hood Criaturas: An Evening of Poesia with féi hernandez and Janel Pineda. Virtual event hosted by The Divine Intervention Collective and The King’s English Bookshop.
- 7 p.m. — Alt Press Fest: “Everybody Writes! Open Mic Night Zine Reading.” Virtual event hosted by the SLCC Community Writing Center.
- 7 p.m. — Nick Bagley. Author of “Abandoned Utah.” Virtual event hosted by the Salt Lake County Library.
Art Events
- 2 p.m. — Artists Elevated: Theatre Panel. Virtual panel discussion hosted by UtahPresents and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.
Thursday, Oct. 15
Getting Out
- 1 p.m. — Memoir Writing Workshop. Online workshop hosted by the Weber County Library.
Comedy
- 7 p.m. — Trevor Wallace. Performance at Wiseguys Live Comedy in Salt Lake City.
Special Movie Screenings
- 7 p.m. — “The Ring.” Special screening at the Salt Lake County Library’s Viridian Events Center in West Valley City.
- 7 p.m. — “Never Again.” Special screening at select Cinemark Theatres and Megaplex Theatres.
Book Events
- 12 p.m. — Ruha Benjamin. Author of “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.” Virtual event hosted by the University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center.
- 7 p.m. — Laura Stott, author of “Blue Nude Migration,” and Rob Carney, author of “Facts and Figures.” Virtual event hosted by The King’s English Bookshop.
Art Events
- 4:30 p.m. — Move: Kinetic Art. Class for kids ages 6-16 at Kimball Art Center in Park City.
Ongoing Events
Getting Out
- “Fiery Romance.” Concert from the Orchestra of Southern Utah will be available to stream Oct. 10-17.
- Scarecrow Festival. Festival runs Oct. 12-17 at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi.
- Pumpkin Train. Family-friendly train rides taking place on select dates through Oct. 30 at Heber Valley Railroad in Heber City.
- BOOtanical at Red Butte Garden. Halloween activities and entertainment runs through Oct. 31 at Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City.
Theater
Opening Productions
- “Broadway Villains in Concert.” Runs Oct. 9-24 at CenterPoint Legacy Theatre in Centerville.
- “The Human Voice” and “Gentleman’s Island.” Runs Oct. 9-18 at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, performed by the Utah Opera.
- “How I Became a Pirate.” Runs Oct. 12-30 at SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre in Orem.
- “Sleepy Hollow.” Runs Oct. 15-31 at the Covey Center in Provo.
Continuing Productions
- “Blink: A New Musical.” Runs through Oct. 10 at Hale Center Theater Orem.
- “Teacher Truths.” Runs through Oct. 11 at The Box in Salt Lake City, performed by Wasatch Theatre Company.
- “Nunsense.” Runs through Oct. 17 at The Theater at Mount Jordan in Sandy.
- “Red.” Runs through Oct. 17 at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta in Ivins, Washington County.
- “The Addams Family.” Runs through Oct. 24 at Pickleville Playhouse in Garden City, Rich County.
- “Million Dollar Quartet.” Runs through Oct. 24 at Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy.
- “Arsenic and Old Lace.” Runs through Oct. 26 at Harman Theatre in West Valley City.
- “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Runs through Oct. 31 at Parker Theatre in Salt Lake City.
- “Man With the Pointed Toes.” Runs through Oct. 31. Performed by St. George Musical Theatre at the Historic Opera House in St. George.
- “Dracula vs. the Adamns Family.” Runs through Nov. 7 at Draper Historic Theatre in Draper, performed by Off-Broadway Theatre.
- “CSI: Provo.” Runs through Nov. 7 at Desert Star Playhouse in Murray.
- “Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.” Runs through Nov. 14 at Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy.
Art Galleries
Opening Exhibitions
- Red Cliff Gallery. Solo Art Show by Ken Church will be on display Oct. 12-31.
Live Exhibitions
“Beyond the Divide: Merchant, Artist, Samurai in Edo, Japan” runs through Nov. 8 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
- Anthony’s Fine Art and Antiques. “Only in Utah: A Celebration in Art” by various artists is currently on display.
- Bountiful Davis Art Center. “Breast Cancer Quilts” by Dr. Judy Elsley; “In Pursuit of Desire” by Tommy Costello; “In the Next Studio Over” by David Raleigh and Tyler Alexander; “These Clothes Are Not Mine” by Katie Benson; and “Untold Aftermath” by Elizabeth Matthews will be on display through Nov. 7.
- Brigham City Museum of Art and History. 2020 Photography Competition: “Changes” by various artists runs through Nov. 14.
- Brigham Young University Museum of Art. “John Henri Moser: Painting Utah Modern” by John Henri Moser runs through Oct. 10; “Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine” by various artists runs through December 2021; “Becoming America” by various artists runs through May 2022.
- Finch Lane Gallery. “Botanical Concrete” by Heidi Almosara; “Mother: Landscape” by Kasey Lindley; and “Tributaries” by Nathan Mulford will be on display through Nov. 13.
- Modern West Fine Art. “American Soup” by Andrew Alba will be on display through Oct. 30.
- Red Cliff Gallery. Solo Art Show by Wil Adams and Lynda Sentker runs through Oct. 10.
- Southern Utah Museum of Art. “Right Here Right Now: Featuring the ‘Work in Progress’ Mural” by various artists runs through Dec. 23; “From Dust” by Cara Despain runs through Feb. 27, 2021.
- Springville Museum of Art. “Curating Community: Art City Influencers” by various artists runs through Oct. 31; “Contemplations: Highlights from the Spiritual and Religious Permanent Collection” by various artists runs through Dec. 12; “Grand Ambitions” by various artists runs through summer 2023.
- Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. “Guerrilla Girls” by various artists runs through Oct. 17; “Bandera Negra” by Regina Jose Galindo; and “Growing Rocks” by Brad Evan Taylor are also currently on display.
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts. “Beyond the Divide: Merchant, Artist, Samurai in Edo, Japan” by various artists runs through Nov. 8; ACME Lab: “Utah Women Working for Better Days” by various artists runs through Dec. 6.
Virtual Exhibitions
- Art at the Main. “The Local Scene” by Adrian Bangerter runs through Oct. 31.
- Brigham Young University Museum of Art. “John Henri Moser: Painting Utah Modern” by John Henri Moser runs through Oct. 10.
- Chase Home Museum of Folk Arts. “The Grand Beehive: Utah’s Iconic Symbol” by various artists, “Traditional Textiles: Ties That Bind” by various artists, and “Work, Refined” by various artists are available to view online.
- David Dee Fine Arts. “The Exquisite Art of the Woodblock Print” by various artists is available to view online.
- Modern West Fine Arts. “Roots: A tribute to the original artists of Modern West” by various artists is available to view online.
- Springville Museum of Art. “Up Close and Far Away” by various artists runs through April 1, 2021.
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts. “Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints” by various artists is available to view online, or as a virtual tour at Vimeo.com.
Community Briefs
- Craft Lake City is accepting applications for artisans to participate in this year’s Holiday Market. The market will take place both in-person and online, and Utah-based artisans are invited to apply for one or both. Applications for the in-person market (which will take place Dec. 4-5 at The Monarch in Ogden) are due Oct. 13, and applications for the online market (which will run Nov. 1-30) are due Oct. 20. Separate $20 application fees for the in-person and online markets apply. For more information and to apply, go to craftlakecity.com/holiday-market/holiday-market-exhibitor-prospectus.
- Downtown Salt Lake City will host “Open Street” events each Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening from 6-10 p.m. through Oct. 10. This will include expanded patio service areas for restaurants, as well as buskers and artist activations in various locations from Exchange Place to City Creek Center. Parts of Main Street will be closed to automobile traffic and open to pedestrians. Physical distancing, face coverings and frequent disinfecting are requested, and face masks are required upon entry to restaurants and shops. For more information, go to downtownslc.org
- Utah Valley University’s Writers Academy Conference is moving online this year. The virtual conference will begin Oct. 9, with events taking place through Nov. 6. Presentations will be given live every Thursday evening, and all the presentations will be recorded and made available to attendees to watch at any time. Admission to the conference is $65, or $30 for students. For more information, go to uvu.edu/conferences/writers-academy.
- Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum is moving this year’s Witches and Wizards Tea Magic School online. Classes will be held virtually, and participants will have a magical school supply kit delivered to their house. The event will take place on Oct. 24 at 11 a.m. (must register by Oct. 12). The cost is $15 for members of the museum and $13 for nonmembers. For more information, go to discoverygateway.org.
Note: This list is not all-inclusive, and events are subject to change. To submit an event listing, email features@deseretnews.com.