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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15713 ANCESTOR’S MEMOIR INSPIRED NOVEL, C-2 www.parkrecord.com ‘THRILLER’ RETURNS FOR HALLOWEEN FUN, C-4 C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, SEPTEMBER 18-20, 2019 Exhibit examines human ‘Imperfections’ ANNUAL WASATCH BACK LOCAL AUTHOR NIGHT The Annual Wasatch Back Local Author Night will run from 6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave. The event is free and open to the public. The selected authors are: Bonnie Bedford Park (“Brides of 1941”), Bill Humbert (“Employee 5.0: Secrets Of A Successful Job Search In The New World Order”), Carly Bennett Stenmark (“More than a Manicure: The Nail Files”), Liz Yokubison (“They’re Ready. Are You?: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the College Transition”), and Beverly Hurwitz (“A Walker’s Guide to Park City” and “Park City Hiking Guide”). The authors will participate in a panel discussion and meet with the public during a reception after the panel event. For information, visit parkcitylibrary.org. TABLE FOR 12 AT THE MARKET AT PARK CITY The Fox School of Wine will present a Table for 12 wine pairing at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Market at Park City, 1500 Snow Creek Drive. The event, which is for ages 21 and older, will feature sommelier Pamela Wood and cheesemonger Darcy Swedish-McKay. For information and registration, visit foxschoolofwine. com. YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING CONNECT Summit County, a mental wellness nonprofit, will host a free youth mental health first aid training session from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Park City Hospital’s Blair Education Center, 900 Round Valley Drive at Quinn’s Junction. Topics include typical adolescent development along with anxiety, depression, substance use and other psychiatric disorders. For information, visit connectsummitcounty.org. PEACE HOUSECAMPUS RIBBON CUTTING Peace House will host a community campus ribbon-cutting celebration from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Peace House Community Campus, 700 Round Valley Drive at Quinn’s Junction. The event will feature a breakfast and tours. For information, visit peacehouse.org. TANZI PROPSTS/PARK RECORD Jim Jacobs’ exhibit “The Imperfections That Render Us Visible,” which opens Friday at the Kimball Art Center, represents the connection between humans and nature. KAC sets recepton for artist Jim Jacobs SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record When visitors walk into the Kimball Art Center Friday, they will see wooden chairs that have sprouted tree branches. Or tree branches that have sprouted chairs. This is Ogden-based artist Jim Jacobs’ trademark. And the public is invited to ex- Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based 12-step program for adults who have experienced addictions, will run from 6-8 p.m. every Monday; DivorceCare, a support group for those experiencing divorce and separation will run from 6-8 p.m. every Monday; Grief Support, a group that helps people on the road to healing after a loss of a loved one meets at 1 p.m. every Tuesday; enCOURAGEment through Cancer, a group that provides support and encouragement from those who have been diagnosed with cancer meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. All meetings take place at Mountain Life Church, 7375 N. Silver Creek Rd. For information, visit mountainlife.org/care. could really explore the pieces he’s been making over the past three years, and highlight the ones he has made over the past year, in particular.” Jacobs, who has taught art at Weber State University for 30 years, said the intersection between the organic and inorganic is a fascinating theme. “We are embedded and enmeshed in nature, and yet, we pull ourselves away from it,” he said. “Like we might say we’re stewards of nature. So nature becomes the ‘other’ that we are supposed to maintain and protect. And we also will say nature is a resource for us to use, instead of seeing ourselves fully integrated in it. Jim Jacobs ‘The Imperfections That Render Us Visible’ artist reception When: 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20 Where: Kimball Art Center Cost: Free Web: Kimballartcenter.org and jcjacobs.com “In one sense, as evolution has shown, humans and their productions are clearly as much a part of the natural world as any other life form,” he said. “Our skyscrapPlease see Exhibit, C-10 Pulitzer-winning reporter finds ‘The Last Cowboys’ Park City Library will welcome John Branch for a book signing SCOTT IWASAKI SUPPORT GROUPS AT MOUNTAIN LIFE CHURCH perience his sculptures during an opening reception for his new exhibit “The Imperfections That Render Us Visible” from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd. The exhibit, which will show through Nov. 3, features 14 pieces Jacobs created with repurposed tree branches and wood scraps. Kimball Art Center exhibit curator Nancy Stoaks said she had known about Jacobs’ work for a while and wanted to share it with the Park City community. “I love the tension between what is natural and what isn’t natural that you can find in his work,” she said. “I wanted to present a solo exhibition where we The Park Record The Wright family live the cowboy lifestyle. Led by Bill and Evelyn, the family — with13 children and more than 37 grandchildren — runs a ranch near Hurricane while their five older boys compete in the rodeo circuit. This family’s plight and the history of cowboys in southern Utah are told in “The Last Cowboys,” the most recent book penned by John Branch, a Pulitzer-winning reporter for the New York Times. Branch will talk about his book and sign copies of it at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium. The event, which is sponsored by the Park City Library and Rebecca Marriott Cham- pion, is free and open to the public, but RSVPs to Malena Stevens at malena.stevens@parkcity.org are appreciated. Branch’s former Fresno Bee editor, Charlie Waters, first pitched the reporter on the idea for the book over lunch. “Charlie talked about the ‘Wright Brothers’ who were dominating the sport of rodeo,” Branch said. “He talked about them and the rodeo the way a sportswriter would talk about Archie Manning and football.” The more Branch learned about the Wrights, the more he thought was bigger than rodeo. “The story was (also) about a family trying to build a ranching operation, and that struck me as (establishing something from the) late 19th or early 20th century into the 21st century,” Branch said. Branch, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,” which recounted a 2012 COURTESY OF JOHN BRANCH Please see Library, C-4 John Branch, a Pulitzer-winning reporter for the New York Times, will speak about and sign copies of his book “The Last Cowboys” on Friday at the Park City Library. |