Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report

Outdoors Report 

Salt Lake Tribune: Feds release final management plans for Utah’s Bears Ears, Grand Staircase to outcry from environmentalists

Salt Lake Tribune: Utah bill puts more lions and bears in the crosshairs to protect deer. Critics say it runs contrary to science. 

— KSL.com‘Do It Like A Local’ campaign aims to educate tourists before they visit Moab

— KSL.comWasatch Mountain Club celebrates 100 years of camaraderie and climbing

KSL.com: Groups seek $2.5 million from Utah Legislature for Jordan River rehab

Concerts

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

— Women of Notes: a concert by Utah Opera’s Resident Artists, Utah Opera, Friday, 7 p.m., The Electric Theater Center, 68 East Tabernacle, Saint George, $5

— Contemporary Dance in Concert, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 2 p.m., Pardoe Drama Theatre, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $9-$13

— Fischer conducts Gershwin & Dvořák, Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $10-$92 

— “African Sanctus: A Mass for Love & Peace,” Saturday, 8 p.m., Newel and Jean Daines Concert Hall, American Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Utah State University, 1400 Old Main Hill, Logan, $15-$30

— Anais Chantal, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Saturday, 7 p.m., Viridian Event Center, 8030 South 1825 West, West Jordan, free

— BYU Winterfest 2020: Swan Lake, Saturday, 7 p.m., LDS Conference Center, Temple Square, 60 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, $12

— Family Concert Series: Mountain Strings, Saturday, 11 a.m., Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, free

— John Rutter’s Requiem, Park City Singers, Saturday, 7 p.m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4595 North Silver Springs Drive, Park City, $10-$15

— MozART Group, Covey Center for the Arts, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., 425 West Center Street, Provo, $25-$30

— “Red Dress Concert,” Chamber Orchestra Ogden, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden, $8

— Soirée Musicale Celebrates Beethoven, Kayenta Arts, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Center for the Arts at Kayenta, 881 Coyote Gulch Ct, Ivins, $30

— Vienna Ball, Salt Lake Symphony, Saturday, 8 p.m., University of Utah, Olpin Union Ballroom, 200 South Central Campus, Salt Lake City, $65-$90

— Daniel Brondel, Eccles Organ Festival, Sunday, 8 p.m., The Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, free

— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, free

Theater  

— “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” through February 8, Heritage Theatre 

— “Mamma Mia” through February 8, South Valley Youth Theater 

— “Man With the Pointed Toes” through February 8, Hale Center Theater Orem

— “Nunsense!” through February 8, Terrace Plaza Playhouse

— “Play-by-Play Reading: The Anatomy of Love” through February 8, Pioneer Theatre Company

— “She Kills Monsters” through February 8, Utah State University

— Edward Lewis Theatre Festival, February 9, Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Branch

— “The Last Five Years” through February 14, Panoramic Theatre Company 

— “Arsenic and Old Lace” through February 15, Sandy Arts Guild

— “The Drowsy Chaperone” through February 15, On Pitch Performing Arts

— “Hamlet” through February 15, Brigham Young University

— “Peter and the Starcatcher” through February 15, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre

— “SAFE” through February 15, An Other Theater Company

— “Yellow – a play about kisses” through February 15, Timpanogos Valley Theatre 

— “Steel Magnolias” through February 17, Cache Theatre Company

— “Star Ward” through February 21, Off Broadway Theatre

— “Three Little Pigs: The Musical” through February 21, SCERA Center

— “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

— “Alice in Wonderland” through February 27, Draper Historic Theatre

— “A Doll’s House, Part 2” through March 8, Salt Lake Acting Company

— “James Blonde: Agent 7-11 in License to Thrill” through March 21, Desert Star Playhouse

— “Strictly Ballroom” through April 11, Hale Centre Theatre

— “Bright Star” through May 2, Hale Centre Theatre

Museum Exhibits

 48th Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show Exhibition through March 20; 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

Trishelle Jeffery: Best Breasts in the West, Ya’el Paderoza: Humanocene Exhibitions through March 21; UTAH COLLECTS: Contemporary Collecting Practices Exhibition through May 9; Adrian Stimson: Buffalo Boy Exhibition through May 16; Guerilla Girls Exhibition through May 20, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

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

 Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Exhibition through April 26; 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 AsiaUtah Museum of Fine Arts

Et cetra

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

— Chinese New Year Celebration 2020, Saturday, 12:45 p.m., Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Branch, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City

Sky Fest Balloon Festival, through Sunday, Sand Hollow Resort Golf Course, 5662 West Clubhouse Drive, Hurricane

 Ice Castles, through February 29, Midway