Outdoor Notes
— Tribune: Utah Hike of the Week: The Living Room — Salt Lake City
— Tribune: Memorial Day crowds could be especially bad at Arches National Park
— Tribune: Utah ski resorts shift from winter to summer recreation
— Tribune: Journey to become the youngest person to visit all 417 National Park Service sites hits Utah
Weekend Events
Concerts
— “The Rite of Spring,” Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $18-$79
— IMPULSE Festival, Mundi Project, Saturday, 12 – 4 p.m., The Gallivan Center, 239 South Main Street, Salt Lake City
— National Choreographic Festival, Ballet West, through May 27, Eccles Theater, 131 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, $49.50
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free
Theater
— “Annie Get Your Gun” through May 27, Brigham’s Playhouse
— “Betty Blue Eyes” through May 27, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Much Ado About Nothing” through May 27, Cache Valley Center for the Arts
— “Sister Act” through May 27, Terrace Plaza Playhouse
— “Captain American Fork” through June 3, Desert Star Playhouse
— “Footloose” through June 3, Empress Theatre
— “Hairspray” through June 3, Grand Theatre
— “Beauty and the Beast” through June 4, Egyptian Theatre, Park City
— “Pirates of the Carabeener” through June 10, Off Broadway Theatre
Museum Exhibits
— Wasatch Back Student Art Show: A Closer Look Exhibition through May 28, Kimball Art Center
— Russian Stories, Soviet Ideals; Voices: People, Places and Ideas in Utah Art, Exhibitions through June 1; George Beard: Mormon Pioneer Artist with a Camera Exhibition through June 17; 93rd Annual Spring Salon Exhibition through July 8;The Classical Tradition: Serenity, Simplicity and Harmony Exhibition through August 5; Sanctuaries of Mind Exhibition through September 2018, Springville Museum of Art
— Kelly O’Neill: ren/der; Sideshow: 2017 Gala Art Auction, Exhibitions through June 3; Out Loud: Identities, Symbolism, and the Self Exhibition through July 8; Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying Exhibition through July 15; Céline Downen: Beehive Works Exhibition through August 5; Willow Skye-Biggs: Tastes Like Mandy Exhibition through August 12; Michael Ryan Handley: Sublimation Exhibition through September 9, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Playground Exhibition through July 8; e.g. Annie Poon: Split House Exhibition through summer 2017; Work in Progress Exhibition through September 9; Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition through 2018; Shaping America: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of American Art Exhibition through March 2018; To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion Exhibition on view through summer 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Et cetra
— Last Friday Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Park City
— Holi Festival of Colors, Saturday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., West Stadium Park, 1650 South Jefferson Street, Ogden
— Spring City Heritage Day, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Historic Spring City, 150 East Center, Spring City
— Moab Arts Festival, Saturday and Sunday, Swanny City Park, 100 West 400 North, Moab
— Antelope Islands Cowboy Legends, through Monday, Antelope Island State Park, 4528 West 1700 South, Syracuse
— Assemble This! A Festival About Building and Making, through Monday, The Leonardo Museum, 209 E 500 S, Salt Lake City
