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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki Arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 UTAH SYMPHONY CHAMBER CONCERT Utah Symphony will perform “Sereanade for Strings,” a chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 1505 White Pine Canyon Road. The performance will feature works by Mozart, Biber, Holst and Tchaikovsky. Advanced tickets are $25 for general admission and $15 for students. Tickets the day of the concert will be $30 and $20. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.utahsymphony.org or by calling 801-533-6683. SIMPLIFYING DETOXIFYING A simplifying detoxifying class will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Alpine Apothecary, 1675 W. Redstone Center Drive No.125 at Kimball Junction. The class will learn about potential sources of environmental toxins, how to prevent exposure, how to evaluate toxic burdens,and the safest methods for removing accumulated burden. Lab testing options will be available at completion of class. Registration required as class size is limited. Email info@alpineapothecary.com or call 435-615-0070. CHEFDANCE 2017 Public events for ChefDance 2017 will run from Friday, Jan. 20, to Monday, Jan. 23, at the Memorial Building, 427 Main St. ChefDance invites guests, companies and chefs to celebrate food, culture and people in an exclusive setting that promises great experiences, great connections and unforgettably great moments. The festival will culminate with a benefit for Operations Smile with Chef Cat Cora from Los Angeles. For information, visit www. chefdance.com. ‘THE RHINO PROJEKT: A COLLABORATION OF ART AND DESIGN’ The Rhino Projeck: A Collaboration of Art and Design, a benefit for African wildlife, will be on display from Jan. 20-30, at the Kuhl Store, 333 Main St. The exhibit, featuring art and clothing design, will feature works from artists Aaron Blaise, Manny Carrasco, Thierry Diozon and David Levy, to name a few. For information, visit www.kuhl.com. SNOWSHOE TOURS AT THE SWANER PRESERVE The Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive at Kimball Junction, offers snowshoe tours on the Swaner Preserve every Saturday from 8:30-10 a.m. Cost is $5 per person, or free for members. Sign-ups are available through email at swanerecocenter@usu.edu or by calling 435-649-1767. For information, visit www.swanerecocenter.org. FILMMAKER SHIFTED FOCUS SHOOTING ‘STRAD STYLE,’ C-3 www.parkrecord.com EXPLOITATION FLOWS BOTH WAYS IN ‘TOKYO IDOLS,’ C-4 C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, JANUARY 18-20, 2017 The ASCAP Music Cafe continues Sundance Film Festival partnership Bluebird Cafe Series performances will also return to the lineup By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Rooney, Michael Franti and Josh Kelley will be among the artists who will perform at the 19th ASCAP Music Cafe that will run during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The performances, which start at 2 p.m., will take place at the Rich Haines Galleries, 751 Main St., from Friday, Jan. 20, through Friday, Jan. 27, and will feature an array of artists that also include SadGirl, Josh Kelly and Jack Savoretti (See accompanying story for full schedule). There are many moving pieces that help select the artists who perform at the cafe, said Loretta Munoz, ASCAP assistant vice president and Sundance ASCAP Music Café producer. “We have our wish list of artists who we want to perform, and we work with our record labels and artist managers to try and see who we can get,” Munoz told The Park Record. “We also have a great staff who keep their ears open and are so keen in watching artists who are emerging that they feel could contribute to the ASCAP Music Cafe stage and live up to the reputation.” ASCAP also works with music pub- COURTESY OF ASCAP Fantastic Negrito will be one of the many artists who is scheduled to perform at the 19th ASCAP Music Cafe during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. lishers and the artists themselves. “We pull everything together and look at what we can do,” Munoz said. “This is such a high-profile endeavor. We hold Sundance in our highest regard and respect and work hard to maintain that level.” The goal for the ASCAP Music Cafe hasn’t changed in the past 19 years. “By working hand in hand with the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, we share this idea to spotlight new discoveries and bringing in established and legacy artists to the festival’s audiences, which is multi-generational,” Munoz said. “We also want to bring filmmakers and film composers to the stage who have collaborated on their projects, and we want to bring that eclectic writer/artist roster to the festival and we want to expose artists to young festival goers or first-time festival goers.” Last year, the ASCAP Music Cafe featured rapper Sonita, the subject of Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami’s documentary, “Sonita.” “She’s a great young rapper and the film went on to win the Sundance Grand Jury prize,” Munoz said. “That is a great Sundance moment.” Another Music Cafe appearance from last year included Sting, who collaborated with composer J. Ralph on a song called “The Empty Chair” that is heard in the documentary “Jim: The James Foley Story.” “I remember hearing that hauntingly beautiful song for the first time during soundcheck,” Munoz said. “The entire room was brought to tears at a very early moment in the morning.” This year, we have Fantastic Negrito. “His real name is Xavier and I’ve been following him for a while,” Munoz said. “As it turns out, he’s Grammynominated this year for Best Contemporary Blues album for this record called ‘The Last Days of Oakland.’“ Munoz first heard of Fantastic Negrito on NPR a few years ago. “He had signed with a record label and suffered a horrific car accident, and rebuilt his life from that to what he’s doing today,” she said. “He’s a wise human Please see Music, C-2 Slamdance proud to support and promote ‘outliers’ Film festival will run from Jan. 20-26 at Treasure Mountain Inn By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The Slamdance Film Festival hasn’t flinched in its mission to support independent maverick filmmakers since 1995. The proof lies in the films and programs for this year’s festival that will run from Friday, Jan. 20, through Thursday, Jan. 26, at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main St., Festival Manager Clementine Leger said. “We don’t invite filmmakers in advance to submit their films,” Leger said during an interview with The Park Record. “Submissions are all blind, because we don’t want one filmmaker to have an upper hand on the others,” COURTESY OF SLAMDANCE Slamdance Film Festival has expanded on its Digital Interactive and Gaming (DIG) program this year. “Natural History,” by Lilian Mehrel and Serena Parr, with music by Eric Beem, allows viewers to see the natural word in a 360-degree video The festival doesn’t offer fee waivers either, Leger said. “Once you stick to those simple rules, it’s not hard to keep it up,” she said. “Because if you break a rule or make and exception even just once, you start a slippery slope that‘s hard to stop.” Leger said Slamdance is proud festival programmers are all Slamdance filmmaker alumni. “They are who I call outliers,” she said. “They remember what it was like to make films in their basements with jump cables and bobby pins.” The word outlier is a running theme in Slamdance and that even extends into Please see Slamdance, C-3 |