Outdoors Report
— Salt Lake Tribune: Feds propose oil and gas leasing on Moab’s famed Slickrock bike trail
— Salt Lake Tribune: Feds overrule nomination of Moab-area rock art sites to National Register
— KSL.com: Desolation Canyon float trips: What they might cost and why that matters
— KSL.com: Utah cougar harvest quotas increased as wildlife officials seek to combat deer decline
Concerts
— 20th Annual WSU Gospel Music Festival, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Val A. Browning Center, 3850 University Circle, Weber State University, Ogden, free, non-perishable food item donation greatly appreciated
— Brassworks, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Madsen Recital Hall, Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive and Heritage Drive, Provo, free
— “Off The Map: Kuné – Canada’s Global Orchestra,” Friday, 7:30 p.m., Pardoe Drama Theatre, Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $20-$35
— “In Accord: An Evening of Dance and Music,” Tanner Dance, Friday and Saturday, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., University of Utah, Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts & Education Complex, 1720 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $8-$10
— “Swan Lake,” Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., also Saturday, 2 p.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $9-$16
— “A Celtic Celebration,” Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Timberline Middle School, 500 West Canyon Crest Road, Alpine, $24
— Aspen Winds, Sunday, 7 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 261 South 900 East, Salt Lake City, $5-$10
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, free
Theater
— “Mary Stuart” through January 25, Pioneer Theatre Company
— “Matilda” through January 25, Cedar Valley Community Theatre
— “La Traviata” through January 25, Utah Valley University
— “The Odd Couple” through January 25, Vernal Theatre
— “Fiddler on the Roof” through January 26, Eccles Theater
— “Silent Night” through January 26, Utah Opera
— “Lucky Stiff” through January 27, Draper Historic Theatre
— “Legally Blonde: The Musical” through February 1, Southern Utah University
— “The Winter’s Tale” through February 1, Logan Youth Shakespeare
— “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” through February 1, Midvale Main Street Theatre
— “Man With the Pointed Toes” through February 8, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Nunsense!” through February 8, Terrace Plaza Playhouse
— “The Drowsy Chaperone” through February 15, On Pitch Performing Arts
— “Peter and the Starcatcher” through February 15, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “SAFE” through February 15, An Other Theater Company
— “Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat” through February 22, Parker Theatre
— “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” through February 22, St. George Musical Theater
— “James Blonde: Agent 7-11 in License to Thrill” through March 21, Desert Star Playhouse
— “Bright Star” through May 2, Hale Centre Theatre
Museum Exhibits
— Kelsey Harrison: Never an hour for thought Exhibition through January 28; Trishelle Jeffery: Best Breasts in the West Exhibition through March 21; Adrian Stimson: Buffalo Boy Exhibition through May 16; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine Exhibition through January; Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America Exhibition through March 28; A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists from the MOA Collection Exhibition through September 12; Becoming America Exhibition through summer 2021, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
— Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibition through October 4, 2020; 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
— Sketchy: Drawings and Studies from the Permanent Collection Exhibition through April 25; SELF: Explorations of Identity Exhibition through May 16; Round Up: Icons of the West Exhibition through June 19, 2021, Favorite Ladies: Patterns, People, and Play, SMA: Milestones and Memories, Soviet Stories: Layers of Reality Exhibitions ongoing, Springville Museum of Art
Et cetra
— Brighton Festival, Friday, 4 – 9 p.m., Brighton Ski Resort, 8302 South Brighton Loop Road
— Chinese New Year Celebration, Saturday, 2 – 5 p.m., Salt Lake City Public Library, Anderson-Foothill Branch, 1135 South 2100 East, Salt Lake City
— Chinese New Year Celebration, Saturday, 6 p.m., Skyline High School, 3261 East 3760 South, Salt Lake City
— Bear Lake Monster WinterFest, through Sunday, Bear Lake State Park Marina
— Superhero Saturday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Thanksgiving Point, 3003 North Thanksgiving Way, Lehi
— UTS Tamilar Thirunaal Kondattam 2020, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., India Cultural Center of Utah, 1142 West South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan
— Midway Multicultural Music Film Festival, through February 1, Zermatt Resort, 784 West Resort Drive, Midway
— Sundance Film Festival, through February 2, Park City
— Ice Castles, through February 29, Midway