Weekend Event
Outdoors Report
— KSL.com: Annual Elk Festival brings family activities to Hardware Ranch
— KSL.com: Don’t cut down trees for Christmas at Timpanogos Cave National Monument, park officials plead
Concerts
— Browning String Trio, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts, Weber State University, 1901 University Circle, Ogden, $4.50-$7
— “Reindeer Sendoff,” Cache Children’s Choir, Friday, 7 p.m., Animal Science Farm, Logan
— “Sacred and Profane,” UVU Chamber Choir, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Orem Public Library, 58 North State Street, Orem, free
— “A Soulful Christmas Celebration,” Unity Gospel Choir, Friday, 7 p.m., UCCU Events Center, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, $15-$50
— “A Broadway Christmas,” Utah Philharmonic Orchestra, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Midvalley Bible Church, 13985 South 2700 West, Bluffdale also, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Olympus Junior High School, 2217 East 4800 South, Salt Lake City, $5-$10
— “Carols of Christmas,” Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Timberline Middle School, 500 West Canyon Crest Road, Alpine, $8-$12
— “Christmas Around the World,” Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., also Saturday, 2 p.m., Marriott Center, Brigham Young University, 500 East University Parkway, Provo, $11-$22
— “Dan Waldis and Friends: A Little Jazz With Your Mistletoe,” Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $17.50
— “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert,” Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $49-$100
— “Light Up Christmas,” Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also, Saturday, 2 p.m., Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, $12-$18
— “The Nutcracker Ballet,” Friday and Saturday, 6:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 12 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theatre, 2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden, $10-$14
— “Synergy Presents: Accelerate,” Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Ragan Theater, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem
— “Celebration of Christmas,” Saturday, 3 p.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $12-417
— “The Nutshell!” Saturday, 1 and 4 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $15-$25
— Soiree Musicale! Featuring Mozart and Faure Piano Quartet, Kayenta Arts Foundation, Saturday, 7 p.m., Center for the Arts at Kayenta, 881 Coyote Gulch Ct, Ivins, $10-$30
— “Sounds of the Season,” Sojo Choral Arts, Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m., Bingham High School, 2160 West 10400 South, South Jordan, free, suggested donation of $5 per person/$15 per family to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation and local woman’s shelters
— “Vivaldi by Candlelight,” Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy, Saturday, 8 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City, 12 C Street, Salt Lake City, $50-$125
— Christmas Concert, Salt Lake Children’s Choir, Friday and Sunday, 8 p.m., The Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, free
— Holiday Concert, Weber State University, Sunday, 5:30 and 8 p.m., Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church, 514 24th Street, Ogden, $4.50-$7
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, free
Theater
— “Amahl and the Night Visitors” & “A Christmas Carol” through December 1, Grand Theatre
— “Bat Out of Hell” through December 1, Eccles Theater
— “Mama Tomcat’s Flying School: The Musical!” through December 1, Utah Valley University
— “Winter Wonderettes” through December 1, Taylorsville Arts Council
— “Light Up the Sky” through December 8, Utah State University
— “Radium Girls” through December 8, Brigham Young University
— “White Christmas the Musical” through December 10, Four Seasons Theatre Company
— “Beauty and the Beast” through December 15, St. George Musical Theater
— “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” through December 15, Pioneer Theatre Company
— “5 Carols for Christmas” through December 22, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 22, Draper Historic Theatre
— “The Distance of the Moon” through December 22, Wasatch Theatre Company
— “Elf, the Musical” through December 22, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol” through December 22, Ziegfeld Theater
— “Fairy Tale Christmas” through December 22, Tuacahn Amphitheatre
— “Muffet’s Christmas Carol” through December 22, Off Broadway Theatre
— “Perfect Arrangement” through December 22, An Other Theater Company
— “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol” through December 22, Terrace Plaza Playhouse
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 24, Hale Centre Theatre
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 30, Brigham’s Playhouse
— “Pinkalicious the Musical” through December 30, Salt Lake Acting Company
— “How the Grouch Stole Christmas” through January 5, Desert Star Playhouse
Museum Exhibits
— Roots and Branches Exhibition through November 30; 33rd Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, Journeys: Monomyth and Transformation Exhibitions through January 16; Beginnings: The Mormon Art & Belief Movement Exhibition through February 16; Sanctuaries of Mind Exhibition through summer 2019; Round Up: Icons of the West Exhibition through June 19, 2021, Favorite Ladies: Patterns, People, and Play, SMA: Milestones and Memories Exhibitions ongoing, Springville Museum of Art
— Marisa Morán Jahn: MIRROR | MASK Exhibition through December 9; salt 14: Yang Yongliang Exhibition through June 2, 2019; Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity; ongoing exhibitions: Arts of Africa; American 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
— Working Hard to be Useless Exhibition through December 29; Daniel Everett: Security Questions, Molly Morin: Information Density Exhibitions through January 12; Whoop Dee Doo: Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren Exhibition through March 3, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Lasting Impressions: Etchings and Drawings by Carl Bloch Exhibition through January 5; For Home and Country: Posters and Propaganda from the Great War Exhibition through January 12; Pulitzer Prize Photographs Exhibition through March 3; Electronic Gallery: 4.1 Miles Exhibition through March 23; Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition through 2018; To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion Exhibition on view through summer 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
— Dreamscapes, Park City Collects III Exhibitions through January 6, Kimball Art Center
Et cetra
— Last Friday Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Park City
— Christkindlmarkt, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m., This is the Place Heritage Park, 2601 East Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake City
— Dicken’s Christmas Festival, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Dixie Center, 1835 Convention Center Drive, Saint George
— Utah Winter Faire, through Sunday, Davis County Legacy Events Center, 151 South 1100 West, Farmington