Many venues throughout Utah have shut down to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Though some venues are beginning to reopen, there are still many events that you can participate in from home. Here are some of the virtual events going on in the community this week.
MUSIC/DANCE
Concerts from the Couch: Princess Fearless & The Dragons, June 19, 6:30 p.m., Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, pay what you can, proceeds will be donated to Discovery Gateway and Project Mundi (facebook.com/events)
Livestream Juneteenth Concert: Joshy Soul & The Cool, June 19, 8 p.m., Excellence in the Community, free (facebook.com/events)
Online Dance Classes, June 19-25, dates and times vary, Repertory Dance Theatre’s Dance Center on Broadway, pay what you are able, registration required (rdtutah.org/danceclasses)
Virtual Movement Classes, June 19-30, dates and times vary, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, free (saltlakecountyarts.org/events)
Virtual Movement Classes, June 19-30, dates and times vary, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, free (saltlakecountyarts.org/events)
Livestream Juneteenth Concert: CJ Drisdom & The Feel Goodz, June 20, 8 p.m., Excellence in the Community, free (facebook.com/events)
Piping Up: Organ Concerts at Temple Square, June 22 and 24, 12 p.m., Tabernacle and Temple Square organists, free (youtube.com, churchofjesuschrist.org/broadcasts or thetabernaclechoir.org)
GETTING OUT
Festival Vibes Friday, June 19, all day, Utah Arts Festival, free (uaf.org)
STEAM Learning Lab, June 19, on demand; June 22, on demand; June 24, on demand, Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, free (discoverygateway.org)
Pop Culture Virtual Trivia: Adult Edition, June 19, 7 p.m., Salt Lake County Library, free, registration required (slcolibrary.org)
Virtual Huntsman SportsFest, June 19, 7 p.m.; June 20, all day, Huntsman Cancer Foundation, $25, registration required (hope.huntsmancancer.org)
Virtual Zoo Trivia Night, June 19, 7 p.m., Utah’s Hogle Zoo, $5, registration required (hoglezoo.org)
“Empower Yourself With Emergency Medical Services,” June 20, 10 a.m., Hearing Loss Association of America — Salt Lake City Chapter, free, registration required (hearinglossutah.com)
Summerfest Conversations in Culture: South Sudan, June 22, 6 p.m., Bountiful Davis Art Center, free (bdac.org/summerfest)
Virtual Little Chicks Class, June 24, 10 a.m., Tracy Aviary, $15, for children ages 2-5 (tracyaviary.org/littlechicks)
Virtual Zoo Brew, June 24, 6:30 p.m., Utah’s Hogle Zoo, free, for adults 21 and older (facebook.com)
THEATER
“The Little Prince,” June 22, 7 p.m.; June 23-Aug. 5, on demand, Utah Opera, free (facebook.com/events or utahopera.org)
SPECIAL MOVIE SCREENINGS
NEW SCREENINGS
“The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch,” June 19-25, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. or on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Miss Juneteenth,” June 19-25, 4:15 p.m. and 7 p.m. or on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“My Darling Vivian,” June 19-25, 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. or on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Pioneers of Queer Cinema,” June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Sometimes Always Never,” June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” June 19-21, on demand, Park City Film, $6.99 (parkcityfilm.org)
“Traveling While Black,” June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, free (slfsathome.org)
“Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing,” June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“No Man’s Land,” June 23, 7 p.m., Utah Film Center, free (utahfilmcenter.org)
“Public Trust,” June 24, 7 p.m., Utah Film Center, free (utahfilmcenter.org)
CONTINUING SCREENINGS
“And Then We Danced,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $12 (utahfilmcenter.org/ondemand)
“Best of CatVideoFest: Creature Comforts Edition,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $0.99 or pay what you want (utahfilmcenter.org)
“Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,” June 19-25, Utah Film Center, $12 (utahfilmcenter.org)
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $12 (utahfilmcenter.org/ondemand)
“Clementine,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $12 (utahfilmcenter.org)
“Driveways,” June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Fourteen,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $12 (utahfilmcenter.org)
“The Grey Fox,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $10 (utahfilmcenter.org)
“Hail Satan?,” June 19-21, on demand, Park City Film, $5 (parkcityfilm.org)
“I Am Not Your Negro,” June 19-21, on demand, Park City Film, $6.99 (parkcityfilm.org)
“The Infiltrators,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $12 (utahfilmcenter.org/ondemand)
“Lucky Grandma,” June 19-July 2, on demand, Park City Film, ticket price not yet available (parkcityfilm.org); June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Marona’s Fantastic Tale,” June 19-25, on demand, Park City Film, $9.99 (parkcityfilm.org)
“The Painter and the Thief,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $3.99 (utahfilmcenter.org)
“Shirley,” June 19-25, on demand, Salt Lake City Film Society, $10 (slfsathome.org)
“Spaceship Earth,” June 19-25, on demand, Utah Film Center, $3.99 (utahfilmcenter.org/ondemand)
“Up From the Streets,” June 19-25, on demand, Park City Film, $12 (parkcityfilm.org)
“Whose Streets?”, June 19-21, on demand, Park City Film, $6.99 (parkcityfilm.org)
BOOK READINGS AND EVENTS
Facebook Live Storytime, June 19 and 22-25, 10:30 a.m., Salt Lake County Library, free (facebook.com/TheCountyLibrary)
Nature Tales: “Moose Tracks,” June 19, 11 a.m., Stokes Nature Center, free (facebook.com/events)
Virtual Story Time, June 19-25, 11 a.m., The King’s English Bookshop, free (facebook.com/KingsEnglishBookshop or instagram.com/kingsenglishbookshop)
Virtual Bilingual Storytime, June 23, 11 a.m., Park City Library, free (facebook.com/events)
ART CLASSES AND EVENTS
Flower Crayon Resist Painting class, June 19, 1 p.m. or 7 p.m.; June 22, 6 p.m., SCERA Center for the Arts, $7, for ages 15 and older, registration closes 2 hours before start of class (scera.org)
Virtual Paint Night: Elephants, June 19, 5 p.m., Utah’s Hogle Zoo, $20, registration required (hoglezoo.org)
Portrait in Color class, June 22, 1 p.m., Kimball Art Center, $50, registration closes two hours before start of class (kimballartcenter.org)
Flamingo Watercolor Painting class, June 24, 5 p.m.; June 25, 6 p.m., SCERA Center for the Arts, $7, for ages 15 and older, registration closes 2 hours before start of class (scera.org)
ART GALLERIES
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
Finch Lane Gallery, “Everyone Sucios,” by Andrew Alba, June 19-July 31; “SIX MONTH SUMMER,” by Laura Hendricks, June 19-July 31 (saltlakearts.org)
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
Anthony’s Fine Art, “The First Vision,” by various artists; “New Works,” by Walter Rane (anthonysfineart.com)
Art at the Main, “Abstracting Utah,” by Barbara Kidd, through June 30 (artatthemain.com)
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in the Collection,” by various artists, through Sept. 12; “John Henri Moser: Painting Utah Modern,” by John Henri Moser, through Oct. 10 (moa.byu.edu/virtual-exhibitions-at-the-moa)
Chase Home Museum of Folk Arts, “The Grand Beehive: Utah’s Iconic Symbol,” by various artists; “Traditional Textiles: Ties That Bind,” by various artists; “Work, Refined,” by various artists (utahfolkarts.omeka.net/exhibits)
David Dee Fine Arts, “The Exquisite Art of the Woodblock Print,” by various artists (daviddeefinearts.com/exhibitions)
Julie Nester Gallery, “New Arrivals Group Show,” by various artists (julienestergallery.com)
Modern West Fine Arts, “Roots: A tribute to the original artists of Modern West,” by various artists, through July 10 (modernwestfineart.com)
Southern Utah Museum of Art, “Our Natural World,” by various artists; “2020 Senior BFA Show,” by various artists, through June 27 (suu.edu/pva/suma/at-home)
Springville Museum of Art, “Up Close and Far Away,” by various artists, through April 1, 2021; “SELF: Explorations of Identity,” by various artists (smofa.org/current-exhibitions)
University of Utah College of Fine Arts, “2020 Juried Student Exhibition,” by various artists (art.utah.edu/2020-juried-student-exhibition)
Utah Division of Arts & Museums, “Scribbling Outside the Margins,” Kylie Millward; “Women to the Front: Perspectives on Equality, Gender, and Activism,” by various artists (artsandmuseums.utah.gov)
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, “Boundaries,” by Devin Harclerode; “Guerrilla Girls,” by various artists; “Mapping It Out,” by Jane Christensen; “Utah Collects: Contemporary Collecting Practices,” by various artists (utahmoca.org/exhibitions)
Utah Museum of Fine Art, “Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints,” by various artists (umfa.utah.edu/seven-masters or vimeo.com)
Woodbury Art Museum, “UVU Student Art Show,” by various artists (2020uvustudentshow.myportfolio.com/photo-gallery)
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
The Bluffdale community is hosting a fundraising yard sale event at Summit Academy Bluffdale on June 20 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Money raised will go to help Summit Academy special education teacher, Ravien Parsons, who was diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome in March, to purchase a wheelchair-accessible van. The yard sale will be held outside with social distancing measures in place, and masks and gloves are highly recommended. Those who cannot attend the yard sale but still wish to donate can do so at helphopelive.org/campaign/17402.
The Park City Summit County Arts Council has announced a call for artists for the 2020 Summit Arts Showcase, which will be located at the Red Barn in Oakley on July 18 from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Artists working in any visual art medium are encouraged to apply. Space is limited and preference is given to artists from Summit County. The deadline to apply is June 26. Artist applications are available here and more information can be found at pcscarts.org.
The Gateway in Salt Lake City has announced a new “Dine to Donate” punch card which will help contribute to the restaurant community. Diners can collect punches on the card by eating at one of The Gateway’s participating restaurants before July 31. Once the card has been filled up with four lunches and four dinners, The Gateway will make a $5 donation to the Tip Your Server program, where every donation will go directly to hospitality workers in Salt Lake City. Everyone who turns in a punch card will also receive a #SaltLakeStrong tote bag. Diners can print their own “Dine to Donate” punch card here or pick one up from a participating restaurant at The Gateway.
Note: This list is not all-inclusive, and events and prices are subject to change. To submit an event listing, email features@deseretnews.com.