Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report

Outdoor Notes

— TribuneAs days grow short, look to Ensign Peak for a primo sunset hike 

— TribuneWhen hiking with small children turns to tribulation, seek ye the Trail Troll

— TribuneHow Pokémon Go encourages players to get outside and meet other people

Tribune: Utah releasing 10,000 pheasants across state as part of monthlong hunt starting Saturday 

Weekend Events

New Films

— A Bad Moms Christmas: Tribune review 

— Blade of the Immortal: Tribune review 

— Dina: Tribune review 

— The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Tribune review 

— LBJ: Tribune review 

— Thor: Ragnarok: Tribune review 

Concerts  

— Ballet Folklorico Newára, Friday, 1 and 6:30 p.m., Wildcat Theater, Weber State University, 3910 West Campus Drive, Ogden, free

— Cerulean Trio, Davis Arts Council, Friday, 7 p.m., Alpine Church, 254 West 2675 North, Layton, free

— Lara Lambert Allen, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, free

— “Music From the Land Down Under,” BYU Wind Symphony, Friday, 7:30 p.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive and Heritage Drive, Provo, $7-$11

— Fall Concert, Salt Contemporary Dance, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Gateway Grand Hall, 18 North Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, $25

— Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $15-$66

— BYU Ballroom Dance, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts, Weber State University, 1901 University Circle, Ogden, $10-$35

— “Evening of Percussion,” Saturday, 7:30 p.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive and Heritage Drive, Provo, $7-$11

— Faculty Recital Scott Holden, Saturday, 8:30 p.m., Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive and Heritage Drive, Provo, free

— Fall Concert, Murray Concert Band, Saturday, 7 p.m., Hillcrest Junior High School, 178 East 5300 South, Murray, free

— Guest Artist Cerulean Trio, Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive and Heritage Drive, Provo, free

— “Jazz Makes Me Happy,” Saturday, 11 a.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive and Heritage Drive, Provo, free

— “Let Freedom Ring,” Mountain Jubilee Chorus and Beehive Statesmen, Saturday, 4 p.m., Brighton High School, 2220 Bengal Boulevard, Salt Lake City, $5

— “Muses,” Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Caine Performance Hall, Utah State University, 600 North 1150 East, Logan, suggested donation $5

— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free

Theater

— “Captain Louie” through November 3, SCERA Center

— “And Then There Were None” through November 4, On Pitch Performing Arts 

— “A Comedy of Tenors” through November 4, Pioneer Theatre Company

— “Forever Dead” through November 4, Off Broadway Theatre

— “Guys and Dolls” through November 4, Ziegfeld Theater 

— “Jekyll and Hyde” through November 4, Cache Valley Center for the Arts

— “Wicked-er!” through November 4, Desert Star Playhouse

— “Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical Thriller” through November 11, Terrace Plaza Playhouse

— “She Loves Me” through November 11, Brigham’s Playhouse

— “Mercury” through November 12, Salt Lake Acting Company

— “Forever Plaid” through November 15, Hale Centre Theatre

— “Hello Dolly!” through November 18, Hale Center Theater Orem

— “The Mill on the Floss” through November 18, Brigham Young University

— “The Weyward Sisters” through November 18, Pygmalion Productions

— “A Year with Frog and Toad” through November 18, Utah Valley University

— “A Bundle of Trouble” through December 1, Hale Centre Theatre

— “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” through December 2, Utah Presents

Museum Exhibits

 Al Ahad: The Hijab Project Exhibition through November 18; Jaime Salvador Castillo & Michael Anthony García: whereABOUTS Exhibition through December 9; Cities of Conviction Exhibition through January 6; Anna Betbeze: Dark Sun, Carol Sogard: Artifacts for the 23rd Century Exhibitions through January 14, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

 Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography Exhibition through December 2; Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition through 2018; Shaping America: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of American Art Exhibition through March; The Interpretation Thereof: Contemporary LDS Art and Scripture Exhibition through March 31; To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion Exhibition on view through summer 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

— Ilse Bing Exhibition through December 31; Las Hermanas Iglesias: HERE, HERE Exhibition through January 28; salt 13: Katie Paterson Exhibition through May 20; Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity ongoing exhibitions: Arts of AfricaAmerican and Regional Art: Mythmaking and Truth-Telling; Chinese Art: Emulation and Innovation; European Art; Ancient Mediterranean Art: Res Mortis; Ancient Mesoamerica; Modern and Contemporary Art: A Fuller Picture; Arts of the Pacific; Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

— 32nd Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, Sacred Spaces: Archetypes and Symbols Exhibitions through January 10; Wit & Whimsy: off the deep end Exhibition through May 19; Sanctuaries of Mind Exhibition through September 2018; Round Up: Icons of the West Exhibition through June 19, 2021, Springville Museum of Art

Et cetra

First Friday Art Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Historic 25th Street, Ogden

Jewish Arts Festival, Saturday and Sunday, I.J. and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center, Two North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City

Moab Celtic Festival, through Sunday, Old Spanish Trail Arena, 3641 South Highway 191, Moab