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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Sundance Film Festival will run from Thursday, Jan. 18, to Sunday, Jan. 28, at various venues in Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance Resort. For information, visit www.sundance. org/festivals. DOCUMENTARY IS AN ADVENTURE FILM, C-2 www.parkrecord.com SLAMDANCE TO SCREEN ‘ROLL WITH ME,’ C-10 C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, JANUARY 17-19, 2018 ASCAP celebrates 20 years with Sundance Music Cafe will run from Jan. 19-26 at the Rich Haines Gallery SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Slamdance Film Festival will run from Friday, Jan. 19, to Thursday, Jan. 25, at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main St. For information, visit www.slamdance.com. MEGAMIND PUBQUIZ MegaMind PubQuiz hosts a free apres Power Hour Trivia from 3:30-4:30 p.m. every Thursday at Legends Bar and Grill at Park City Mountain. For information, visit www.facebook.com/ megaMIND.pubQUIZ. TECH SAVVY SENIORS SESSIONS Park City Library librarians will host Tech Savvy Seniors, a free technology workshop, from noon to 1 p.m. at Park City Senior Center, 1361 Woodside Ave. Seniors will learn about smart phones, tablets and other devices in 20-minute sessions. Sign up at senior center or call 435649-7261. For information, visit www. parkcitylibrary.org. The ASCAP Music Cafe will hit a milestone during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. “I can’t believe it will be 20 years,” said Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP assistant vice president and Sundance ASCAP Music Café producer. “It has just zoomed by.” The concert series is run by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a nonprofit organization that works on licensing and promotion rights of its 640,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, will run from Friday, Jan. 19, to Friday, Jan. 26, at the Rich Haines Gallery, 751 Main St. The concerts are free to Sundance Film Festival credential holders and the public as space allows. Hosting performances in the gallery is much different than the cafe’s early days at the Elks Lodge, Muñoz said. “Our lavish stage was a carpet, but we had a Starbucks Cafe there,” she said. “They would brew coffees, cappuccinos and espressos between the sets while battling power outages and floods. It was a new frontier and it was fantastic.” The ASCAP Music Cafe moved to the Please see Musicians, C-3 LEGO BUILDERS CLUB AT SUMMIT COUNTY LIBRARY A Lego Builder’s Club hosts free building sessions from 1-3 p.m. every Friday at the Summit County Library Kimball Junction Branch, 1885 W. Ute Blvd. Kids of all ages and their families may drop in anytime to build and play with Legos. The library also offers Duplos for younger children. For information, visit www.thesummitcountylibrary.org. AVALANCHE DOG MEET AND GREET COURTESY OF ASCAP This year’s ASCAP Music Cafe at the Sundance Film Festival will feature renowned singers and songwriters including Michael Franti. Franti -- a singer, songwriter, poet and spoken-word artist -- is also known for his band Spearhead. Slamdance continues its mission to support true independent films and their filmmakers Festival returns to Treasure Mountain Inn from Jan. 19-25 SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The public can meet the Park City Mountain Avalanche Rescue Dogs at 4:30 p.m. every Friday and Saturday at Canyons Ski Beach. The event is free and open to the public. For information, visit www.parkcitymountain.com. AUTHOR EVENTS A DOLLY’S BOOKSTORE A series of authors will be at Dolly’s Bookstore, 510 Main St. during film festival week. The schedule for Saturday, Jan. 20, is: Photographer Victoria Will, 2 p.m.; cartoonist and author Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish, 6:30 p.m. The events are free and open to the public. For information, visit dollysbookstore.com. Peter Baxter, cofounder and president of Slamdance, stopped and reflected about how the film festival has evolved and accommodated new filmmakers during the past 23 years. “When we first started Slamdance we were born out of a determination to show direct, unfiltered voices of independent artists to audiences,” Baxter said. “What we see in independent film these days is that projects may, in many cases, have gone through a filtering Please see Slamdance, C-4 PHOTO BY BRIAN BOWEN SMITH Filmmakers Anthony and Joe Russo, who are Slamdance alumi, will present the inaugural Russo Brothers Fellowship to a Slamdance filmmaker this year. The fellowship will include a $25,000 prize consisting of filmmaker support, an office at the Russos’ new Los Angeles-based studio, mentoring, and a cash stipend for one year. |