Outdoor Notes
— Tribune: Get up close and personal with owls at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge event
— Tribune: Utah declares victory over quagga mussels at popular boating spot
Weekend Events
New Films
— Call Me by Your Name: Tribune review
— Paddington 2: Tribune review
— The Post: Tribune review
Concerts
— Fischer conducts Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $23-$66
— “Lark & Spur: An Evening in Paris,” Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Grand Theatre, 1575 South State Street, Salt Lake City, $20,
— Magic Shows, Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 1 and 4:30 p.m., Utah Children’s Theatre, 3601 South State Street, South Salt Lake, $12
— Family Fun Concert: “Read, Listen and Play!” Salt Lake Symphony, Saturday, 2 p.m., Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 East Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, $5-$10
— “Perspective,” Myriad Dance Company, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, $15-$25
— Pink Martini, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Boulevard, Park City, $50
— Ring Around the Rose, Repertory Dance Theatre, Saturday, 11 a.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $5.50
— Salt Lake City 7, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Saturday, 7 p.m., Viridian Event Center, 8030 South 1825 West, West Jordan, free
— Silver Anniversary Celebration, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 South Main, Logan, $25-$100
— Vocal Point, Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $11-$13
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free
Theater
— “Disney’s Aladdin Jr.” through January 13, On Pitch Performing Arts
— “The Sound of Music G2K” through January 13, American Fork Youth Theatre
— “Wasatch Improv Festival” through January 13, Quick Wits Comedy
— “Something Rotten!” through January 14, Eccles Theater
— “Aida” through January 20, Hale Centre Theatre
— “SALT: A Russian Folk Tale” through January 20, Treehouse Museum, Ogden
— “Bright Star” through January 27, Pioneer Theatre Company
— “Dear Ruth” through February 3, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Don’t Drink the Water” through February 3, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “To Kill A Mockingbird” through February 3, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “Pirates of the Scaribbean” through March 17, Desert Star Playhouse
Museum Exhibits
— Anna Betbeze: Dark Sun, Carol Sogard: Artifacts for the 23rd Century Exhibitions through January 14; Al Ahad: The Hijab Project Exhibition through January 27; Dream: Egyptian Theatre Youtheatre Exhibition through May 19, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— 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 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
— 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; Aundrea Frahm: We Revolve Ceaseless Exhibition through April 14; M.C. Escher: Other Worlds Exhibition through May 19; 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
— 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, Favorite Ladies: Patterns, People, and Play, SMA: Milestones and Memories Exhibitions ongoing, Springville Museum of Art
Et cetra
— Family Art Saturday: Beehive Bonanza, Saturday, 2 – 4 p.m., Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
