Events

Join to celebrate the life of Great Salt Lake on the last day of the 2023 Vigil!
Saturday, March 4th, 2:00-4:00pm
Antelope Island State Park Visitor Center Amphitheater: Outdoors! please dress warmly and bring a blanket to sit on.
Everyone welcome! Free with registration. (State park fee still applies.)
ASL Interpretation provided.
(Photography by Laurie Bray)

Our Readers!
Nan Seymour
Willy Paloma
Christy Bills
Isabelle Ghabash
Sarah May
Frances Ngo
Amy Brunvand
Joel Long
Patrick Ramsay
Masha Shukovich
Sarah Woodbury: Movement Poem: what can a body be (or, great salt lake dreaming)
Chloe Skidmore
Debbie Fetters
Jasmine Hennigs
Lara Chho
Abdal Aśik
Sophie McCarron

Linda Dalton Walker
Pablo Gonzaga
Jesse Alex Neibaur
Monica Dobbins
Piano music by Taylor Jensen

Saturday, March 4th at 6-7:30 PM
We'll take in the beauty of the lake as we sing her praises!
Come help us celebrate her life on the last day of the 2023 Vigil.
Live at Antelope Island State Park Visitor's Center Amphitheater (outside to the West)
All ages welcome! Outside, please dress warmly. Mittens and hats recommended.
Free with Registration ( $15 State Park fee still applies)

Wednesday, April 5th 6:30- 7:15 pm MST on Zoom.
Support the decision to deny a Polluting Class V Landfill on the shores of Great Salt Lake! We're gathering to generate public comments to make certain that this landfill doesn't happen. Done is better than perfect and we'll help you get it done.

Invite your friends. Registration closes on Wednesday, 4/5 at 5:30 pm. You'll receive a zoom link a half hour before our meeting.

The public comment period closes on Monday, April 10th. Whether or not you can join us, please take a few minutes to protect our irreplaceable ecosystem. Here's everything you need to know in one place.
About Nan / About Erin

Revision need not be lonesome drudgery. Re-vision, the practice of seeing new eyes, can be playful, joyful, and shared. Revising with Pleasure is a 4-part participatory course for generative writers wishing to hone their skills in community. Whether you are new to the art of revision or familiar and feeling the call to practice, welcome! No particular level of writing experience is required.

We'll start with some unpolished work. After we find the bones and the pulse, we'll tune the music. Our workshop will provide a container of support for fostering literary friendships. We'll grow bolder together. Our final gathering will be a celebratory reading of our revised work.

Meeting on Zoom the following dates:
Saturday, April 29th, 11 am -2 pm MST
Friday, May 5th, 5-7 pm MST
Saturday, May 6th 11am - 2pm MST
Friday, May 12th: Our Celebratory Reading! 6-7 pm MST
Everyone welcome! (16+)
Facilitated by Nan Seymour

Saturday, May 6th 7:00- 7:45 am MST
All are welcome! Free with registration.
Register before 6pm on Friday May 5th in order to receive the zoom link that morning. (If you have already registered for daily meditation, no need to register again. We'll be using the same link.)

We will be experiencing a form of guided meditation called Yoga Nidra which will use deep relaxation and layered awareness to help us break down barriers of subject and object and learn how to be with Great Salt Lake in a more expansive and inclusive way. 

Scott Moore is a senior teacher of yoga and mindfulness teaching classes, trainings, and retreats, in the US, Europe, and Asia whose teaching is infused with storytelling, myth, humor, to make the subject come alive and connect to the heart. He is the author Practical Yoga Nidra: A 10-Step Method to Reduce Stress, Improve Sleep, and Restore Your Spirit. Scott loves traveling, hanging with his family, playing and listening to jazz, and currently lives in Southern France.

(español abajo)
Come make fabric sun prints (cyanotypes) with artist Sarah May!
Help us make public art for the lake plus a smaller piece to take home.
Saturday, June 17th 10:30-2pm (schedule details below)
At the Jordan River Nature Center: 1125 West 3300 South Salt Lake 84119
Everyone of any age is welcome! Spanish Interpretation provided.
Registration is FREE but required to help us prepare materials.

Schedule for the day:
10:30 am Welcome and Instructions
11:30 am Cyanotype stations open
1:30 Wrap-up Printing
1:30-2pm  We’ll parade our art along the river to make a joyous offering to the water!

Further Details: 

Bring an instrument if you like to make music. Our parade will need a band!
Gender neutral bathrooms are available at the nature center.
We will provide snacks and water.
You are welcome to bring a sack lunch if you like.

Haciendo Olas Para Great Salt Lake

¡Ven a hacer estampados de sol de tela con la artista Sarah May!
Ayúdanos a hacer arte público para el lago, más una pieza más pequeña para llevarte  a casa.
Sábado, 17 de Junio de 10:30am-2:00pm (detalles del horario a continuación)
En el Jordan River Nature Center: 1125 West 3300 South Salt Lake 84119
¡Abierto a todas las edades!  Tendremos interpretación disponible en español
La inscripción es GRATUITA, pero es indispensable para ayudarnos a preparar los materiales necesarios. 

Horario del día:
10:30 am Bienvenida e instrucciones
11:30 am Se abren las estaciones de Cianotipia
1:30 pm Cierre de impresiones
1:30-2 pm ¡Haremos desfilar nuestro arte a lo largo del río para hacer una alegre ofrenda al agua!

Más detalles:
Trae un instrumento si te gusta hacer música. ¡Nuestro desfile necesitará una banda!
Los baños de género neutral están disponibles en el centro Jordan River Nature.
Nosotros proporcionaremos aperitivos y agua.
Le invitamos a traer su propio almuerzo si lo desea.

Join us for a discussion of BLOODTIDE- A New Holiday in Homage To Horseshoe Crabs
with author and illustrator Eli Nixon
Wednesday, June 28th. From 6-7:30 pm MST/ 8-9:30 ET
Free Registration, open until 4pm on 6/28/23. 
Everyone is welcome, whether or not you've had a chance to read the book.
For maximum delight, read the book beforehand!
Meeting on Zoom. (You will receive the link via email one hour before on 6/28/23)

About Eli Nixon: 
Eli Nixon builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of drawings, puppets, pageants, parades, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with activists, schools, mental health and recovery centers, libraries and the more-than-human world to expand imaginative capacity and build muscles for collective liberation. They're a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett land.

Eli is a parent of a teen, an organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice-RI, and a member of Direct Action for Rights and Equality, The Public's Devised Theater Working Group, The New Georges Jam, and brotherdykes unlimited. Eli and 300 Modern Humans (ages 0.3-83) recently "finished" a 450-million-year timeline of flora and fauna (mostly out of recyclables) in 9 months of asynchronous but collaborative organism building workshops. Now Eli is basking in intertidal naturedrag, flotilla scheming and amatuer flag dancing/ engaging in the legislative season... 

About the book:
"Bloodtide gifts us a river to wander down where we can drift away from the bullshit... a holiday that rewilds us towards a life-affirming way of being in the world. And more than a holiday, Bloodtide extends us a glitch to enter that predates the trauma of all that clouds our imaginations."  - brontë velez, Creative Director, Lead to Life

"It's hard to write about Eli Nixon's book because it's a book about fumbling into embodied relation and words are just a jump-off to living. It's about what you can do in a weekend with geologic time. It's a tender score for beautifully imperfect -- and transformative -- work... in the form of a series of proposals, invitations, and field notes... There is a crinkly poetry to Bloodtide, repurposed poetry, the poetry of wild rebirth snatched from the recycling bin. Words I thought I knew cast shadows that turn them into other beings entirely. Humble is an important word in this book, and so is impossible, and so is cardboard. ..It's a box full of wild objects, and the wild space between them. It's might-y -- might like "could be" not like brute force. It expands, has expanded me. I gasped a few times and my nose twitches with the smell -- the "rutty musk of the freer beasts within us." It is radical, it is wise, it is alive."  -Agnes Borinsky, writer & theater-maker, author of Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 and Sasha Masha

Photo credit: epli photography

Making Waves for Great Salt Lake: Family Art Hour
(español abajo)

Friday, September 8th 3:30-5:30 pm (schedule details below)
At the Day-Riverside Library Branch: 1575 W 1000 N, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Everyone of any age is welcome!
Event is free with registration.
Spanish Interpretation provided.

Join us in creating flocks, flags, and parades for Great Salt Lake!
We will be gathering to create hand puppets of some of our favorite Great Salt Lake creatures, the Brine Fly, Brine Shrimp, and Eared Grebes. There will also be an opportunity to help make large-scale blue and white sun prints (cyanotypes) as part of public art for the Lake.

Schedule for the day:
3:30 pm  Welcome and Instructions
3:45 pm  Puppet stations open
4:30 pm  Group cyanotype activity
5:00 pm  Puppet stations wrap up
5:15 pm  We’ll parade our art along the river to make a joyous offering to the water!
Further Details:

Bring an instrument if you like to make music. Our parade will need a band!
Bathrooms are available in the Library.
Sodas will be provided and there is a water fountain inside the library.

Hacer olas para el Gran Lago Salado: Hora del Arte Familiar¡

Viernes, 8 de Septiembre 3:30-5:30pm (detalles del horario a continuación)
En la sucursal de la Biblioteca Day-Riverside: 1575 W 1000 N, Salt Lake City, UT 84116¡
Todas las edades son bienvenidas!
Habra Interpretación en español
FREE Puede anotarse en el siguiente enlace para tener un conteo de materiales que necesitemos.

Únete a nosotros en la creación de rebaños, banderas de aves y desfiles del Gran Lago Salado! Nos reuniremos para crear marionetas de mano de algunas de nuestras criaturas favoritas del Gran Lago Salado, la mosca salmuera, camarones salmuera y somormujos orejudos.  También habrá oportunidad para ayudar a hacer cianotipos grandes como parte de la creación del arte público comunitario para el lago.

Horario del día:
3:30 pm Bienvenida e Instrucciones
3:45 pm Estaciones de marionetas abiertas
4:30 pm Actividad grupal de cianotipos (impresiones solares)
5:00 pm Estaciones de marionetas se cierran.
5:15 pm ¡Desfilaremos nuestra arte a lo largo del río para hacerle una alegre ofrenda al agua!
Más detalles:
Trae un instrumento si te gusta tocar música.
¡Nuestro desfile necesitará una banda musical!
Los baños están disponibles en la biblioteca.
Se proporcionarán refrescos y hay una fuente de agua dentro de la biblioteca.

Join us for a discussion with author Terry Tempest Williams and Eli Nixon, author and illustrator of  BLOODTIDE- A New Holiday in Homage To Horseshoe Crabs
Wednesday, September 27th. From 6-7:30 pm MST/ 8-9:30 EST
Free Registration, open until 4 pm MST/ 6 pm EST on 9/27/23, the day of our conversation. 
Everyone is welcome!
Meeting on Zoom. (You will receive the link via email one hour before.)

About Terry Tempest Williams:

Terry Tempest Williams is a writer who speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are matters of justice. Her environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, has introduced untold numbers of readers to the vibrant bird life and ecology of Great Salt Lake. She is currently the writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School. In her recent opinion piece for the New York Times, I'm Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake, Terry proclaims the lake's personhood and expresses her faith in our "collective capacity to mobilize our love" on her behalf.

About Eli Nixon: 
Eli Nixon builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of drawings, puppets, pageants, parades, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with activists, schools, mental health and recovery centers, libraries and the more-than-human world to expand imaginative capacity and build muscles for collective liberation. They're a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett land.

Eli is a parent of a teen, an organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice-RI, and a member of Direct Action for Rights and Equality, The Public's Devised Theater Working Group, The New Georges Jam, and brotherdykes unlimited. Eli and 300 Modern Humans (ages 0.3-83) recently "finished" a 450-million-year timeline of flora and fauna (mostly out of recyclables) in 9 months of asynchronous but collaborative organism building workshops. Now Eli is basking in intertidal naturedrag, flotilla scheming and amatuer flag dancing/ engaging in the legislative season... 

About the book:
"Bloodtide gifts us a river to wander down where we can drift away from the bullshit... a holiday that rewilds us towards a life-affirming way of being in the world. And more than a holiday, Bloodtide extends us a glitch to enter that predates the trauma of all that clouds our imaginations."  - brontë velez, Creative Director, Lead to Life

"It's hard to write about Eli Nixon's book because it's a book about fumbling into embodied relation and words are just a jump-off to living. It's about what you can do in a weekend with geologic time. It's a tender score for beautifully imperfect -- and transformative -- work... in the form of a series of proposals, invitations, and field notes... There is a crinkly poetry to Bloodtide, repurposed poetry, the poetry of wild rebirth snatched from the recycling bin. Words I thought I knew cast shadows that turn them into other beings entirely. Humble is an important word in this book, and so is impossible, and so is cardboard. ..It's a box full of wild objects, and the wild space between them. It's might-y -- might like "could be" not like brute force. It expands, has expanded me. I gasped a few times and my nose twitches with the smell -- the "rutty musk of the freer beasts within us." It is radical, it is wise, it is alive."  -Agnes Borinsky, writer & theater-maker, author of Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 and Sasha Masha

Making Waves for Great Salt Lake with Artist & BLOODTIDE author Eli Nixon & Artist Sarah May
Let's make our love for the lake visible with cardbooard transformation, bird puppets, & cyanotypes.
Saturday, October 14th & Sunday, October 15th noon-4pm each day!
Join us for one of both days.
At the Jordan River Nature Center: 1125 West 3300 South Salt Lake 84119
Everyone of any age is welcome! Spanish Interpretation provided.
Registration is FREE but required to help us prepare materials.
This event is made possible in partnership with Utah Humanities as part of the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Schedule for the day:
Noon: Welcome and Instructions
12:30-2 pm: Cyanotypes with Sarah May
Noon-3:30 pm: Cardboard transformation with Eli Nixon
3:30-4 pm:  We’ll parade our art along the river to make a joyous offering to the water!

Further Details: 

Bring an instrument if you like to make music. Our parade will need a band!
Gender neutral bathrooms are available at the nature center.
We will provide snacks and water. You are welcome to bring a sack lunch if you like.