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From balloon rides provided by Balloon Affaire or Balloon the Rockies, to the less adventuresome gourmet dining at Glitretind Restaurant at Stein Ericksen's Lodge, or Ichiban Sushi and Japanese Cuisine, you'll find a myriad of fun activities in Park City. The Egyptian Theatre, home of "Park City Performances" is presenting pre-senting "Baby," a play about "the most important nine months of life" through Aug. 6. This weekend is the 19th annual Park City Arts- Festival featuring over 200 artists selling and displaying display-ing their original works in ceramics, cera-mics, drawing, fiber, glass, jewelry, jewel-ry, leather, metal, painting, paper, photography, sculpture and wood. Local Utah performing artists will be featured throughout the two day festival on the patio stage, and The Utah Symphony will be performing per-forming the "1812 Overture and More Tchaikovsky" on the Deer Valley stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. Tickets purchased at the Art Festival will be discounted by the amount of the Art Festival admission. The festival is produced pro-duced by the Kimball Art Center where more information can be obtained. - Park City is filled with galleries featuring .local acclaimed artists' works. Images of Nature, Kimball s Art Center, Lido Gallery, Valline Gallery, and Gary Lee Price Meyer Gallery are just a few places you'll find paintings and sculpture capturing cap-turing the spirit of Park City and the West. Some other events to watch for this summer include the Grand Prix Competition with miniature race cars to ride or watch zoom through Park City. The event is scheduled Aug. 12-14 at the Resort Center. The Shakespeare Festival will be performing "A Midsummer's Night Dream," and "Twelfth Night" Aug. 18-21. Deer Valley is hosting an array of concerts including includ-ing the Utah Symphony Aug. 6, the Deer" Valleys Bluegrass Festival Aug. -21, and the Deer Valley ' Chamber Music Festival all to be presented at Snow Park Lodge stage. Of course there is always terrific golfing in Park City provided by Park City Golf Course (a private course), Park Meadows Country Club,(a semi-private course), and Jeremy Ranch Country Club, (a private course). If golf is a bit tame, perhaps the "v I iit. - . . J - -v Ft I ITIT"t i I Tv x . - n Si- -'P'.'C J' 1 w ' . -t'A.C PitM irVsg mv 6 xSs i , K i IS? v n J l; i Park City Alpine slide is more up your alley. The 3,000 foot long Alpine Slide uses the Payday Chair lift and Park City's night ski lights to stay open daily from noon to 10 p.m. Some events fast becoming old favorites are still coming up this summer. The ParkWest Concert Series is presenting Belinda Carlisle Car-lisle in concert outdoors at Park West on Aug. 10 and "Chicago" on Aug. 19. "The Moody Blues" can be seen in concert Sept. 3, at Park West as well. Also in September is "Taste of Park City," the day Park City's restaurants serve their best entrees on a table stretching the length of historic Main Street. The sixth annual Autumn Aloft will be Sept. 16-18. The event is a hot-air balloon festival not to be missed. Twenty-five of the world's top pilots will be flying in this three-day event. This will be followed fol-lowed by the 18th annual Rugby Challenge Cup on Sept. 17 arid 18. For those whose motto is "shop until you drop" Park City can happily hap-pily oblige. There are shops and galleries of all kinds from designer clothes at the Mountain Rose to La Niche Gourmet and Gifts French cooking store. Tee shirts at Dugins West, custom cus-tom jewelry at the Family Jewels to Cabin Fever, a transplanted Salt Lake card and novelty shop specializing spe-cializing in "camp," are waiting to serve you. All manner of ski and sport shops can be found up and down Main Street and at the Park Plaza in the center of town. If you need more than just an afternoon out of the blistering valley val-ley heat, a weekend at one of the many resort hotels or condos may be the answer. Stein Ericksen Lodge offers the essence of Norwegian style set in mountain serenity. It is truly a world class operation. There are many other condos, resorts, hotels and bed and breakfast break-fast houses to accommodate a runaway run-away weekend in Park City, most of which can offer lower prices in the summer months. So take advantage of the savings and enjoy life in a mountain paradise, para-dise, just minutes away. Park City Arts Festival is scheduled for this weekend, Aug. 5-7th. l,9il!l1llh,slii(al?gj) The Arts Festival offers works from over 200 artists in every kind of medium. A |