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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 28-March 2, 2018 The Park Record C-7 SLUG Magazine celebrates 29th anniversary March 16 One-night event will be held in two Salt Lake venues Submitted by SLUG Magazine SLUG Magazine is thrilled to present SLUG’s Saturn Return: 29th Anniversary Party, in Salt Lake City on March 16. The event will feature local DJs, free tarot card readings, virtual reality experiences, local artists and more. Since 1989, SLUG has been a free, local-centric magazine dedicated to building our community through music, arts, lifestyle and events. By providing monthly issues throughout the state of Utah and additional weekly content on SLUGMag.com, SLUG has greatly contributed to the underground community. For SLUG Magazine’s 29th anniversary, we are honoring the phenomenon that is Saturn’s Return. Saturn’s Return is an astrological event wherein Saturn completes its orbit around the sun to where it was at one’s birth. Happening about every 29 years, Saturn’s Return signifies a rite of passage into self-awareness and the next step in one’s life. To celebrate, SLUG is taking over two venues to provide two out-of-this-world experiences. Urban Lounge , 241 S. 500 East, will feature three local electronic music acts: UTA Trax, Nate Holland and Thoroughbred. There will also be stage visuals from a local projection artist, an exclusive drink menu and a Saturn-themed photo booth courtesy of SmileBooth. Next door to the Urban Lounge at RYE, 239 S. 500 East, SLUG Mag will host an all-ages Tarot Card Lounge and virtual reality experiences. Come enjoy free tarot card read- ings by Brooke South, Crystal Cooper of Salt City Tarot, Renee Sarasvati, Sydnee Peronnet or Ali Shimkus. Doors to Urban Lounge open at 8:30 p.m. Doors to RYE open at 9:30 p.m. The party ends at 1 a.m. “Everyday, SLUG Magazine strives to be as accessible to our community as possible,” says Angela Brown, SLUG Mag’s executive editor. “With that in mind, we created our Tarot Card Lounge so folks of all-ages can celebrate SLUG’s Saturn’s Return.” Featured in the Tarot Lounge, local artists will sell their space-themed work and an intergalactic virtual reality experience will be provided by 3-D Morph. Like the magazine, both parties are free. For information, visit www. slugmag.com/event/saturns-return-slugs-29th-anniversary-party. Continued from C-4 Short film screenings scheduled believably beautiful and heartbreaking, has kept her alive and allowed her to tell her stories.” “Heroin(e)” is another hard-hitting documentary about a community in West Virginia whose heorin-overdose ratio is 10 times that of the whole country, Wang said. “On one hand, the film is about the devastation of the community by the opioid epidemic,” she said. “On the other hand it’s about how the cycle is being broken by three women.” Those women are Jan Rader, deputy chief of the Huntington Fire Department, Patricia Keller, judge of the Cabell County Drug Court and Necia Freeman, a social worker for Brown Bag Ministry. “They are changing the trajectory of the community and inserting hope into it through their work,” Wang said. The documentary shorts are also a good way to build community in Park City, she said. “The reason is because these films are usually about hard-hitting topics that are both beautiful and devastating,” Wang said. “When people sit through these intense films, they will talk with each other about the films and issues.” In addition to the documentary-short screenings, Saturday will also feature the Park City Film Series’ annual pre-film Oscar Party, an event that celebrates the art of cinema and raises money for the Park City Film Series, according to Wang. “The night will feature a silent auction and other Oscar trivia events,” she said. “The theme is Old Hollywood glamor, and we hope people will come dressed up in fedoras and feather boas to get some photos taken.” Silent auction items have been donated by Farasha, Flight Boutique, Knead A Massage, Montane, Mountain Town Olive Oil, Olive and Tweed, Park City Institute, Natural History Museum, Trio, Utah Symphony and Opera, Vail Resorts, Zoe’s Day Spa and Butcher’s Chop House/ Boneyard Saloon & Wine Dive. The food will be catered by Done to Your Taste, and the drinks curated by Vine Lore and Beehive Gin. A special tickets price of $50 will include the film screening, three drink tickets, heavy appetizers and reception, Wang said. “Regular-priced tickets will also available for just the film screening,” she said. Sunday’s screening features five live-action shorts. Reed Van Dyk’s “DeKalb Elementary” (U.S.A.), Derin Seale’s “The Eleven O’Clock” (Australia), Kevin Wilson Jr.’s “My Nephew Emmett” (U.S.A.), Chris Overton’s “The Silent Child” (U.K.) and Katja Benrath’s “Watu Wote/All of Us” (Germany, Kenya). “DeKalb Elementary” is based on a true story about a 911 call when a gunman, Michael Brandon Hill, who was DINNER & A MOVIE? Look who's under the Redstone arch... All About Socks Inwest Title Service Redstone 8 Theatres Alpine Apothecary J.W. 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He was bent on committing mass murder, Wang said. “The man was talked down and disarmed thanks to a compassionate office worker,” Wang said. “This film is so timely and shows how one person can help avoid catastrophe through compassion.” “The Eleven O’Clock” is the comedy of the bunch. “It’s about a psychiatrist and a patient who thinks he’s the psychiatrist,” Wang said. “The film goes back and forth and you’re never quite sure who is the patient and who is the doctor.” “My Nephew Emmett” is another issue-based work. The film is about Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till, an African-American boy who was 14 years old when he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for looking at a white girl. “The story of how Emmett was taken by the [lynch] mob is told by his uncle, Mose Wright.” “The Silent Child” is also another timely piece, because films about the hearing-impaired community are gaining prominence, Wang said. “This film is about a deaf girl whose parents tried to treat her like everyone else, but to her detriment because they never taught her sign language, and they didn’t accommodate her needs,” Wang said. “The world opens up to the girl through the compassion of a tutor that the parents hired to help her get ready for school.” The last film of the weekend is “Watu Wote.” ‘The film takes places on the border of Kenya and Somalia and is based on the true story of a group of Muslims who protected their fellow Christian passengers on a bus that was hijacked by extremists,” Wang said. Wang enjoys Oscar-nominated shorts and is grateful the Park City Film Series will continue to screen them. “We couldn’t do that without our sponsors One Body Personal Training and Wagging Tails on the Trails who underwrites the program,” she said. “They have done that every year and we have appreciated what we do.” The Park City Film Series will present screenings of Academy Award-nominated short films from Friday, March 2, to Sunday, March 4, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. Friday and Saturday screenings will start at 8 p.m. and Sunday’s screening will start at 6 p.m. Friday’s screenings will be animated shorts. The screenings are appropriate for teens and older. Saturday films, which are documentary shorts, will also include a pre-film Oscar party at 6 p.m. Tickets for the party and screening are $50. Tickets for only the screening are also available. Sunday’s screenings are live-action shorts. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $7 for students and senior citizens. For information, visit www.parkcityfilmseries.com. |