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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 NEWCOMERS CLUB OF GREATER PARK CITY Newcomers Club of Greater Park City will host its monthly coffee from 10-11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at Park City Community Church, 4501 N. S.R. 224. The speakers will be Leslie and Russell Harlow, founders of the Park City Beethoven Festival. A light brunch will be served. The event is free and open to the public. For information, visit www.parkcitynewcomers.org. ‘ANDRÉ: THE VOICE OF WINE’ FUNDRAISER The Park City Film Series, in partnership with the National Ability Center, will present an exclusive private screening of Mark Tchelistcheff’s “André: The Voice of Wine,” not rated, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. A pre-screening wine tasting will start at 6 p.m. Tickets for the tasting and screening are $35. Tasting attendees must be 21 or older. Tickets for only the screening, which is open to all ages, are $8 for general admission and $7 for students and senior citizens. For information, visit www.parkcityfilmseries.com. CHUBBY CHECKER AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE Chubby Checker and The Wildcats will perform at 8 p.m. from Thursday, Feb. 15, to Saturday, Feb. 17, and at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. Thursday tickets range from $39 to $65. Tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday range from $43 to $70. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.parkcityshows.com. For information about Chubby Checker, visit www.chubbychecker.com. BOOK TO FILM CLUB SCREENING A Book to Film Club screening and discussion of Hany Abu-Assad’s “The Mountain Between Us,” based on the novel by Charles Martin, will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Summit County Library Kimball Junction Branch, 1885 W. Ute Blvd. The film, which is rated PG-13, stars Idris Elba and Kate Winslet as a surgeon and a journalist who survive a plane crash in the High Uintas Wilderness. For information, visit www.thesummitcountylibrary.org. PARK CITY MUSEUM NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION The Park City Museum’s new volunteer orientation will be held from 3-5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the museum, 528 Main St. Anyone interested in attending the new volunteer orientation can email or call Knispel at education@ parkcityhistory.org or 435-649-7457 ext. 102 up to a half-hour before the orientation starts. For information, visit www.parkcityhistory.org. LEGO CLUB AT THE PARK CITY LIBRARY Lego lovers can build to their hearts’ content during the free Lego Club from 2-3 p.m. every Friday at the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave. The sessions are free and open to the public. Duplos will be provided for younger kids. For information, visit www.parkcitylibrary.org. DANCERS WILL PERFORM GARFIELD FINDS HE IS FOR PEACE HOUSE, C-2 ‘RUGGEDLY JEWISH,’ C-3 www.parkrecord.com C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, FEBRUARY 14-16, 2018 Photographer finds the wild side in her art ‘Animalia II’ exhibit will open with a Saturday reception at the Julie Nester Gallery SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Fine art photography has its dangers, especially when the subject happens to be wild animals, said Nine Francois. “I was in Durango, Colorado, two summers ago to photograph a yak,” Francois said. “I was laying in the grass in the pasture photographing a yak and her calf. I must have been about 15 feet away from them.” Suddenly, the mother yak, called a dri dri, stood up and began to charge. “I stood up, and the weirdest thing happened,” Francois said. “I didn’t run away. The first thing I did was run toward her. It was instinctual. I didn’t even think about it.” At that point both woman and yak stopped and backed off. “We came to the point where we scared each other,” Francois said. The photo of the yak is part of Francois’ new exhibit, “Animalia II,” which will open with an artist reception from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Julie Nester Gallery, 1280 Iron Horse Drive. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature a short presentation by Francois, and an opportunity drawing for one of her photographs. The ticket proceeds will be donated to Nuzzles and Co., a Park City-based pet rescue. It pulls out a primordial, instinctual non-verbal communication connection with these animals...” Nine Francois, fine art photographer In addition, a portion of the money from any sales during the reception will also be donated to the nonprofit. Francois, who opened her first “Animalia” exhibit at the gallery four years ago, said the new exhibit is composed of 14 works that were primarily shot in Alaska and Montana. One of the Alaskan animals is a moose, which Francois has wanted to photograph since 2014, when her daughter gave the book, “Odd Couples” to her brother. F“It featured photographs of disparate animals that have become friends, like a bunny and a tiger, and things like that.” One of the pairings was of a moose and a young woman who had befriended him when he was an abandoned calf. “It registered that I needed to find that moose, but I couldn’t find it, until I heard through the grapevine that there was a moose called Nelson at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center who had been nursed by a young college student,” Francois said. The photographer called the center and was able to connect the dots that Nelson was the same moose in the book. “I said, ‘Oh, my God. I need to come up and photograph your moose,” Francois said. “I’ve been waiting to do this for years.” In addition to Nelson, Francois photographed reindeer, elk, bison, porcupines, owls and a brown bear during her Alaska trip, she said. The animals from Montana include a fox and bobcat. “I had to photograph those animals in the snow, which was pretty amazing,” Francois said. “I had my equipment out there and I had to keep the snowflakes from getting on the lens. I mean, everything was getting drenched.” The photographer and her assistants searched for a clear place where she could photograph the animals Please see Photos, C-2 PHOTOS BY NINE FRANCOIS Fine art photogtrapher Nine Francois’s “Animalia II” exhibit, which will open Saturday at the Julie Nester Gallery, will feature 14 new images of wildlife. Francois uses a wild-angle lens to take close-up portraits of the animals on preserves and sanctuaries around the world. |