Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report

Outdoors Report

— Salt Lake TribuneLocal leaders shut down popular recreation sites, campgrounds in Grand Staircase, San Rafael Swell, other hiking hot spots

Salt Lake Tribune: Industry seeks to lease 100,000-plus acres near Canyonlands, Arches for drilling 

— Salt Lake Tribune: Utah’s most popular park, Zion, finally closes after state intervenes 

Deseret News: The New York Times called it ‘the most famous work of American art.’ What is Utah’s ‘Spiral Jetty’?

KSL.com: Coronavirus updates: Utah’s ‘Mighty 5’ national parks all closed indefinitely

KSL.com: New out-of-state boating fees and 10 other signed bills related to Utah’s outdoors

KSL.com: Lake Powell closing ramps Monday, shutting down boating due to virus  

KSL.comGov. Herbert changing state parks directive into executive order

KSL.com: Fact vs. fiction: The effect wolves have on Yellowstone’s game animals, ecology

Virtual Events

Worldwide Museums

— Met 360 Project

— Virtual Museum Tours

— Museum Zen Art

— Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

— Tate Britain Museum

— Musee D’Orsay Museum

— Uffizi Gallery

— Van Gogh Museum

— Louvre Egyptian Antiquities Virtual Tour

— Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

— The British Museum

— The White House

— Palace of Versailles

— Doge’s Palace

— Anne Frank House

Local Museums

— The Leonardo At Home

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: Art Everyday 

Utah Museum of Fine Art at Home

Art/Galleries

Clever Octopus Kits

— Kimball Art Center Lesson Plans and ARTS Tours

— Salt Lake Gallery Stroll 

Visual Art Institute Virtual Classes 

Botanical/Zoological

— Hogle Zoo

— Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

Thanksgiving Point 

— Tracy Aviary

Dance/Fitness

— Repertory Dance Theatre Dance Classes

Ririe Woodbury Virtual Movement Dance Classes 

Seek Studio Everywhere 

Theatre

— Live Streaming: “Odd Shaped Balls” through April 12, An Other Theater Company

— “The Velveteen Rabbit” Streaming through April 13, Hale Center Theater Orem

Lesson Plans for Children

— Museum Lesson Plans

— Natural History Museum of Utah: Research Quest Live

Swaner Eco Center

Utah Symphony Education from Home

Utah Opera Education from Home

Films

Salt Lake Film Society

Sundance Collab

Tumbleweeds Film Festival On Demand 

— Utah Film Center has a variety of Film Streaming Options

Humanities

— Kings English Bookshop Story Time 

Utah Humanities #VirtualCampfire

Music

— Handel’s “Messiah” Streaming, Friday, 7 p.m., The Tabernacle on Temple Square 

Locals Lounge Every Night at 7PM

— The Metropolitan Opera

— Orchestra of Southern Utah YouTube

Utah Chamber Artists Virtual Vitruosity

— Utah Symphony YouTube

STEM

Stem Action Center – STEM in the Home

Et cetra

— Food Forest Tour and Earth Day Easter Nature Walk – LIVESTREAM, Saturday, 12 p.m., Utah Valley Permaculture 

— Baby Animal Festival Drive-Thru-Edition, through May 2, Cross E Ranch, 3500 North 2200 West, Salt Lake City