CATALYST Magazine March 2016

MARCH 2016 NUMBER 3

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nzipped” first appeared on CATALYST’s cover in January of 2000, during a typically polluted SLC January. Suzanne Simpson — artist, teacher, hiker, yoga practitioner, independent thinker, idealist, nature fanatic, incessant observer and environmental purist is stunned that her turn-of-the-century art still needs to be used! Current preoccupations include geo-engineering and the use of aerosols and the continuous bomb testing of F-35-A’s and their GBU-13 in the west desert this spring/summer (March-August 2016). (See http://bit.ly/24q4f9g and bit.ly/1R2wd0R.) She would appreciate CATALYST readers considering what this combination will do to our air quality and health, especially during summer inversions; immediate action is required.

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Volume 35 Issue 3 March 2016

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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK GRETA DEJONG

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DON’T GET ME STARTED JOHN DEJONG

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND Noel’s bad plans for public lands; state lawsuits vs. enviro protection; Bidder 19; mapping walkability; Real People, Real Stories.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP Speech Writing 101.

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CATALYSTS PAUL DUANE Current issues with simple actions that can make a difference.

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THEATRE JENIFER NII Bringing The Kingdom of Heaven to earth.

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UNDERSTANDING BRAIN INJURY LORI MERTZ It’s all in your head, and may be for a long time.

LIFE MATTERS MARLA DEE Your relationship with stuff.

BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE DAN SCHMIDT When weird is the new normal.

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LOUD AND IRONIC ALEXANDRA KARL Weller Book Works celebrates Dada’s Centenary.

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SHALL WE DANCE? AMY BRUNVAND Dancing at School: Putting the arts in Utah’s (underfunded) public education.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS JAMES LOOMIS Maxxin’ the spring garden.

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IF YOU WANT TO BE A BEEKEEPER ALICE TOLER Hive and bee selection used to be a one-size-fits-all; now, interesting choices abound.

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTORY

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COMINGS & GOINGS STAFF

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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METAPHORS SUZANNE WAGNER Risk trusting the heart connections.

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The accidental rooster

I have a rooster. He’s a simple-looking little guy, a mostly white Bantam. His cock-a-doodle-doo is not at all the signature rooster call; it’s more the off-key plea of a morose squeaky toy. And loud. Really loud.

I keep waiting for a neighbor to complain.

I bait them: “Don’t you find my rooster annoying?” They are illegal, you know. No one bites. “I never hear him,” says one.

“He’s no worse than the neighbor dogs,” says another. For my own sanity, at least on weekends, I sneak out to the coop in the night and nab him, and he spends the night in a cat carrier in my basement laundry room, which dampens the sound enough so he does not wake the dead.

Cock-ee (as I call him) may irritate me, but Cloud, my large grey Cochin (that’s a breed of ridiculously fluffy chicken) finds him tolerable. At least, he’s disrupted her shyness, which turned to depression when her older sisters died last year. Well, maybe she, too, finds him a bit overwrought. But he gets her out of bed in the morning. She does seem more interested in life. And so, for now at least, I keep him. *

decades back when Brian Barnard, the civil rights attorney and bon vivant, came by to give me martini-making instructions and Polly (now our art director, but at the time an early-20s slip of a girl) had some rather rubbery strawberry Jell-O some of which, after a few

What’s that on the ceiling?

Last year I asked occasional columnist (“Healthy Sexy”) Nicole deVaney to write about making ginger beer (aka ginger ale). In January I made a batch myself. It’s ridiculously easy: HTTP://BIT.LY/1OAHCNB I must have a particularly active ginger “bug”—the starter that catalyzes the probiotic brew. In this coolerthan-average house, instead of the recommended fivesix days, my brew, which I keep in flip-top Groelsh pint bottles, is drinkable in 24 hours.

On this last batch, I waited two days, just to see what difference it made. When I gently opened the first bottle, the contents literally exploded: ginger beer on the ceiling, on the walls, on me—everywhere. Two cups of aerosolized soda can cover a lot of ground.

I don’t think I’ve ever concocted anything that ended up on the ceiling before, except for that time a few

since last July, needed a buddy.

One day recently my car, while heading north on 11th East, careened into the Best Friends boutique. I walked out with a small black-and-brown dog, lithe and intelligent. I named her Malia.

A stray wandering the streets of West Valley City, this girl was unfixed when found and appears to have been previously pregnant. She seemed respectful of Greg, an old and timid Chinese crested powderpuff.

Malia, it turns out, was not housebroken.

We tried “sit” in various languages and nothing worked. At 10.8 lbs., she can almost look me in the eye when she leaps.

She terrorizes the cat, who weighs more than she does, and has weaseled her way into the chicken run. She barks maniacally at any passerby. She’s a climber too, I’ve found her standing in the middle of the dining room table.

Still, she makes me smile. Yes, we will find ourselves a trainer. As it turns out, Greg isn’t all that into her. But I am. Her favorite place is my lap. In the house, she comes when she’s called. She likes my cooking.

She can sit on command, now, too. We will find a way. *

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Malia and McGregor

“lessons,” ended up on the ceiling. It became a conversation piece, and the Jell-O remained in place for a very long time.

Ginger beer on the ceiling looks more like the results of years of chain-smoking. Though it smells a whole lot better.... *

Malia

This winter, I fell prey to the lure of puppy porn: evening hours wasted gazing at misbegotten dogs throughout the valley and beyond, whose mugshots and statistics populate Petfinder.com and similar rescue sites. It wasn’t for me; McGregor, my furry companion

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The Altar of Intention

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he best part of the best party in the universe isn't about partying at all. It's the Temple burn at Burning Man. Each year for the last fifteen years there has been a temple dedicated to those who have passed in the last year. The Temple is the focal point of our/Burners wishes and regrets for those we have lost. By the end of the

The best part of the best party in the universe isn't about partying at all. It's the Temple burn at Burning Man. week the structure is covered with heartfelt inscriptions and makeshift altars to persons and passions we have lost. Reading the inscriptions as you walk through the Temple is a lot like listening in on the gods' bereavement prayer hotline (whichever god is on duty.)* There's not a dry eye in the house.

Then on Sunday night the Temple is burned in a ceremony that makes high mass in St. Peter's basilica for a dead supreme court justice seem festive. Sixty thousand people fixed on their loss. No firework extravaganza like the Man burn, maybe bagpipes or an aria, that's it.

The power of the Temple burn comes from the generally unreligious character of most burners. At least in the sense of any organized religion. Perhaps the central function of religion is to ease our passing and the passing of our friends.

The Temple burn gives a certain finality to our/a pagan's losses.

For years I've been impressed with the power of this phenomenon and have begun to wonder whether it could be channeled toward the future. Would it be possible to build an Altar of Intention to focus this energy into the future?

Four years ago I helped build a 20-foot tall Bee Goddess for Burning Man with a local crew. I

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had resisted getting into burnable art for fear of becoming a pyromaniac. Bwah hah hah hah hah. Since Boy Scouts I've been good at making fires and have loved watching the flames.

I started playing with Legos again at the age of fifty, after a hiatus of 30 years. It's usually a bag of random lego pieces I bought at a yard sale or Desert Industries. I try to use just the pieces in the bag. I usually build altars, temples, towers or stairways to nowhere. Recently, I've been thinking about building a full-scale version of one of them at Burning Man.

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Saturday, March 19 7:30 pm Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah Pre-concert lecture 6:15 in room 270 Pre-concert lecture 6:15 in room 270 tickets tickets$10 $10($5 ($5students/seniors) students/seniors)atatthe thedoor door information: saltlakesymphony.org information: saltlakesymphony.org One of my lego temples suggested itself as The Altar of Intention as soon as I returned from Burning Man last year. Just as soon, the same crew that built the Bee Goddess proposed building the Temple at Burning Man in 2017 (see the January 2016 Catalyst Calendar) and needed a test project to explore the use of lasers to “paint” a labyrinth on the surface of the playa at night.

As of press date I'm waiting to hear about funding from Burning Man Arts for our proposal to build the Altar of Intention. I'll let you know in the Weekly Reader when we find out. *There usually is a “Talk To God” phone booth out on the playa at Burning Man (see the cover of the August 2015 Catalyst), where you can talk on the phone to God. Whichever one is on duty. ◆ John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST. He loves building things to burn and writes his own bios on occasion.

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Representative Mike Noel (R-Kanab), always an outspoken anti-environmentalist, has introduced the Utah Public Land Management Act in the Utah Legislature just in case the State of Utah ever succeeds in grabbing control of 31 million acres of federal public lands.

It’s good to know what an actual plan might look like, but as critics predicted, Noel’s proposed policy maximizes revenue generation over conservation or any other consideration of public good.

Noel says his bill, which requires a specific management priority to be defined for each area, uses the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) as a model, and that’s exactly the problem.

While SITLA lands are owned by the State of Utah they are not public lands in the same sense as federal public lands which are open to various public uses and can be managed in ways that raise little or no money. SITLA lands are managed for the sole purpose of generating revenue and are not subject to multiple use management, environmental reviews or public input on how they are managed or whether they are sold.

Although he often talks about federal “overreach,” Noel’s own plan would create a situation with far less public input than is offered under current federal regulations.

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operation was in trouble because he had degraded the land with his own mismanagement.

Utah lawsuits undermine environmental protections Not only is the State of Utah preparing an expensive (and secret) lawsuit trying to grab control of federal public lands, Utah is also making a habit of suing the federal government in order to avoid complying with other environmental regulations.

• Sage grouse: Last September the U.S. Dept. of the Interior announced a new sage grouse conservation plan; Utah is suing to block the plan because it would stop new hardrock mining in important sage-grouse habitat.

• Clean air: Utah joined other states in a lawsuit to block the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan which requires reduction of CO2 emissions from power plants. The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed states to delay CO2 reduction, which undermines the climate agreements made at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris.

• Toxic mine waste: Utah is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Gold King Mine spill that contaminated the Animas and San Juan rivers. Utah claims that the EPA failed to notify the state about contaminated water, but the lawsuit looks more like a

Bird refuge occupation ends The Armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon by anti-government extremists ended after 41 days with one protestor dead. In the aftermath, ringleaders Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his two sons have been indicted on 16 felony charges.

Bundy, who insisted on a “right” to overgraze public lands, encouraged other ranchers to tear up their BLM grazing permits to protest what he called federal “overreach.”

However, a federal court document recommending that Bundy should stay in jail points out that Bundy is not only “lawless and violent,” he was not a good steward of the land. The document says, “While Bundy claims he is a cattle rancher, his ranching operation – to the extent it can be called that – is unconventional if not bizarre.”

While ranchers like Bundy blame “federal overreach” for putting them out of business, it seems that Bundy’s ranching

tactic to divert attention from the real problem—a need for hardrock mining reform since hardrock mining is exempt from the Clean Water Act.

Terry Tempest Williams is Bidder 19 Utah writer and environmental advocate Terry Tempest Williams is following in the footsteps of “Bidder 70” Tim DeChristopher, who spent two years in prison for monkeywrenching a 2008 BLM oil and gas lease sale in order to call attention to global climate change. The

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soft-spoken Williams, however, broke no laws when she purchased leases on 1,750 acres for the “fire-sale” price of $2 and less per acre at a Utah BLM oil and gas lease sale in February. Williams plans to form a company called Tempest Exploration, LLC in order to explore the natural energy of wildlife and ecology on the leased property.

When a Bureau of Land Management official asked if Williams was making a “legitimate bid for energy development,” she said: "You can’t define what energy is for us. Our energy development is fueling a movement."

Mapping walkability The Wasatch Front Regional Council has created a “story map” showing the walkability of 1,200 blocks throughout the Wasatch Front. Walking is beneficial in countless ways from promoting physical fitness and mindfulness to protecting air quality to creating vibrant pedestrian neighborhoods like the Sugar House business district.

Urban planners have defined specific qualities that make a place “walkable” including imageability, enclosure, human scale, transparency and complexity. By defining the qualities of a walkable street, it is possible to make our city more walkable on purpose.

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Real People, Real Stories: Air quality A group of University of Utah students from a Global Change & Society course are trying to clean the air with the MovingU project to reduce automobile

traffic to the University of Utah campus.

MovingU uses social media, a sustainable transportation map, and orientation materials to promote sustainable transportation options. As part of the project the students gathered personal essays about how air quality affects people personally. One of the essays selected for the project is “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bus” by CATALYST Environews reporter Amy Brunvand. See Real People, Real Stories: ENVIRONMENT.UTAH.EDU/MOVINGU/STORIES.HTML Amy Brunvand is a research librarian at the University of Utah Marriott Library.

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The story of an unknown singer who is thrust into the spotlight masquerading as Elvis back from the grave.

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few times in my life, I’ve been asked to write speeches for important people with writer’s block. It’s a frustrating process because you want the person to sound witty and intelligent but not like you. Wait, what did I just say?

The elections and debates have rekindled my interest in speech writing. Given the state of recent discourse, I think I have the write stuff for the job. Here’s my application sample: Don't put all your eggs in one hand basket because that basket is going to hell on a highway that is not always carefree no matter what Gordon Lightbulb says, but doesn't that light bulb give you other ideas?

Did America give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Pluto said that in that movie Animal Farm.

Pluto isn't really a for-sure planet and why do animals have rights? They don't vote; most of them don't even wear pants so how can one of them even be the head of the household? Ask not what canned foods can do for the country ask what the country has done to you.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink in Flint, Michigan. And why does led, the verb, and lead, the noun, sound the same way? This should give one pause or paws if it causes genetic mutation.

That would be animal cruelty; take that PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) is my kind of people. Why should you eat meat? Septuagenarians may live longer, but is it worth it? All those broccolis and baby tofu will come back to haunt you.

I have seen the future and it is definitely ahead of us. If we don’t look forward how can we ever learn from history? This country is unsinkable unless it hits an iceberg but then it would still rise like a fiery Phoenix from Arizona where John McCain is a prisoner of war.

We all need somebody to lean on; somebody to love and that somebody is us except for the Russians.

Those Soviet unions are killing their job growth and their stockpile of nuclear families is a threat to our freedom. We need to stop Russia from becoming a country right now.

I’ve been to the mountain top and it is cold there and aren’t we all glad that the cold war is over but we still need to address the war on Christmas because Santa and the elves could use some foreign aide. If we can bring back Matt Damon from Mars why can’t we free the prisoners from Guantanamo? That’s not even a different planet; it’s right there where Cuba used to be before Castro ruined it for everyone.

Guns don’t kill people; it’s actually the bullets and the holes that they leave and don’t we all have holes in our lives? Some of us have Darth Vader for a father; tragedy that must be, says Yoda. Where is Captain Kirk when we need him? Start Trek? Who can walk that far?

Star Wars? We can’t even get out of Afghanistan and how can we possibly build enough fences to keep out all those aliens. ◆

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BEAVER TRILOGY PART IV Directed by Brad Bresser 84 min | 2015 | USA | Not Rated

In 1979, KUTV producer Trent Harris discovered “Groovin’ Gary,” which laid the foundation for the Beaver Trilogy.

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HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX

Directed by Jenny Raskin and Jon Nealon 79 min | 2015 | USA | Not Rated

The story of a radical video collective who used the invention of the portable video camera to create an alternative to mainstream TV news.

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HAVANA MOTOR CLUB Directed by Bent-Jorgen Permute 84 min | 2015 | USA/Cuba | Not Rated

An exploration of Cuba’s drag-racing community and their quest to hold the first official car race in Cuba since the Revolution.

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NEWTOWN

Directed by Kim A Snyder 85 min | 2016 | USA | Not Rated

Through unparalleled access, this film delves into the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

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BE A CHANGE AGENT

Catalysts

Current issues with simple actions that can make a difference

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e are in the thick of the Utah Legislative session. A lot has already happened, yet there is much work to be done still. Two of this month’s catalysts deal with local legislation, while two deal with national issues that affect everyone.

Pro Tip: When corresponding with your elected representatives, keep in mind that courtesy and respect go a long way. Remember, especially when you are representing a counter point of view: Make sure your communications are a positive representation of the cause you are writing about. Nobody has ever changed their mind after receiving a rude, condescending or threatening message. Positivity always wins.

Congress has a well-earned reputation for crafting massive bills that are inflated with off-topic provisions, as a way to sneak special interest initiatives in under the radar.

Congresswoman Mia Love (UT) has introduced the “One Subject At A Time Act,” H.R. 4335. The goals of this bill are to make sure bills are limited to one subject at a time and ensure that bills are clearly labeled. This forces higher accountability upon those who would have otherwise tried to sneak provisions into unrelated bills and makes the lawmaking process easier for citizens to understand.

What to do about it: Contact your congressperson and let her know that increased transparency and simplicity in government is important to you. Ask her to support HR 4335. Go to VoteSmart.org to find the contact info for your representative.

In the course of investigating the San Bernadino shooting, the FBI has ordered Apple Inc. to devise a method to unlock the iPhone of one of the shooters.

They hope to examine the contents of the phone and gain more insight into the attack.

BY PAUL DUANE If Apple Inc. gives in to the FBI’s demands it will set a dangerous precedent legally, compromising safeguards to your privacy regarding technology. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, made a public statement recently to let the public know this was happening and that Apple refuses to comply. Cook said that complying with the FBI’s demand would open the door for countless millions of iPhones being compromised illegally—by the government and nefarious hackers. Facebook and Google CEOS stand with Cook. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates equivocates.

Congressman Ted Lieu of California has crafted a bill, H.R. 4528, the Ensuring National Constitutional Rights for Your Private Telecommunications (ENCRYPT) Act of 2016. This bill specifically prohibits government agencies from mandating that phone makers build “back doors” into their devices. Strong encryption is the backbone of our digital society, and should be covered by the 4th amendment. Any compromises will have detrimental effects.

What to do about it: Contact your representative in Congress to say it’s important to you that H.R. 4528 is supported. Use VOTESMART.ORG to find your representative’s contact info.

Consider boycotting Microsoft products, including phones, software, and any new computer that runs Windows. Apple is obviously a great alternative. If you aren’t going the Apple route, but don’t want to support Microsoft either, consider the LINUX operating system, which can be installed on your Windows compatible hardware, and will give you a secure, efficient computer.

The “Telsa Bill” lives! We weren’t sure if this one was going to see the light of day again. An arcane law on Utah’s books prevents auto manufacturers from selling directly to their customers. This affects not only national companies like Tesla Motors, it also affects two local carmakers.

House Bill 384 is Rep. Coleman’s second attempt at abolishing government protectionism for auto dealerships. This bill seeks to create a legal pathway for carmakers such as Tesla to open their doors in Utah.

What to do about it: Write your representatives in the House and Senate, ask them to give their support to H.B. 384. Opening the doors for innovative car sales is just one step toward a cleaner Utah. This is time sensitive—if this issue matters to you, act on it today, as the Legislative session ends on 10 March.

Starting a home-based business is hard work.

Every extra fee and license just adds to the burden.

Rep. Jake Anderegg has proposed a bill that would make most home-based businesses exempt from needing a business license.

House Bill 132 changes the authority of cities to require business licenses and fees for the purpose of raising revenue. It would create an exemption for home-based businesses. The bill also contains provisions for nonprofit organizations, relieving them of the burden of many fees and licenses they currently pay.

What to do about it: As usual—emails and phone calls! Get in touch with your representative and senator (see VOTESMART.ORG). Every email and phone call matters. Let them know you’re a constituent; they prioritize communication from their own constituents. This is time sensitive—if this issue matters to you, act on it today, as the Legislative session ends on 10 March. ◆ Paul Duane is a comedian, photographer, social activist and host of the nationally syndicated Paul Duane Show (“Putting the party back in politics”). He lives in Salt Lake City. WWW.PAULDUANE.NET

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THEATRE

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Bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth

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wrote Kingdom of Heaven, a play with music about a Mormon woman confronting questions about gender, faith, and relationships, because I had questions.

Over the past several years, our community has faced increasing turmoil about whether we can (or should) accept what feels like a broadening recognition of gender complexity. Our churches are taking positions on the issue, with ramifications that reach far beyond their houses of worship. Lawmakers and courts are scrambling to define (or redefine) a multitude of "rights." And at the ground level, there are families and individuals who want to love one another but might not know how.

In writing Kingdom of Heaven, I wanted to understand, in a way I've not been able to in my own life, whether a Mormon woman in Utah could acknowledge that she is feminine and masculine, and live wholly —from head to toe, inside out— the reality of that. I wanted to explore what might be the ramifications—for her and her family, friends and community.

People I have loved have experienced devastating heartbreak and alienation—torn between the undeniable reality of now and the faith they struggle to maintain in the promises of eternity. With Kingdom of Heaven, I hoped to honor those who strive, even if imperfectly, to find a loving, honest way forward.

For the central character MaryJane, it’s a journey of identity realization, physically and spiritually, and of acceptance—accepting that she is most and best when she is open and truthful. In writing the characters of Joe, MJ's husband, and her friends Brenda and Liz, I hoped to shed light on another very real struggle in our community — granting equal faith to the people they love and the gospel they hold

by Jenifer Nii

For MaryJane, it’s a journey of identity realization and of acceptance—accepting that she is most and best when she is open and truthful. dear. Which, I desperately want to believe, is a gospel rooted in hope, charity, understanding and love.

This was without question the hardest piece I have ever undertaken. From a storytelling standpoint, I don't know what possessed me to think I could bring together any two of those story elements, let alone four. I really don't know what made me think I could do any of that and include original music.

I still don't know. And the process has been painstaking. I still consider myself a novice playwright, and an even more-novice aficionado of musicals. I knew I wouldn't be able to hold up to any kind of Hamiltonesque/Sondheim/Big Big Musical

standard, so right away Jerry Rapier (director of Kingdom and artistic director at PlanB) said we should do it our own way, create our own sound, do away with any preconceived notions we had about what a “play with music” was.

I've written and re-written, and re-written the rewrites. I've wanted to punch myself in the face more often than not. But all the while, I've been so fortunate. Plan-B paired me with composer/lyricist David Evanoff, who took my silly little ideas and created songs that give depth to the story and convey the emotionally fraught subject matter. Actors Jeannette Puhich, Kirt Bateman and Susanna Risser have absolutely elevated the script. I am so grateful for their talent and patience with me.

Neither I nor this play presume to have any answers. I hope only that its questions are meaningful, and that it encourages dialogue that is compassionate, curious, and openhearted. I hope audiences enjoy Dave's wonderful music, and embrace the hope and courage embedded in the very act of drag. ◆ Jenifer Nii (book & lyrics) has previously premiered her plays Wallace (co-written with Debora Threedy), Ruff! The Scarlet Letter and Suffrage at Plan-B Theatre Company. David Evanoff (music & lyrics) is best known to Plan-B audiences as the bandleader for Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the composer of six Radio Hour episodes.

Kingdom of Heaven, Plan-B’s first-ever original musical, receives its world premiere March 31-April 10. Tickets and more information: PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

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YOUR BRAIN IS BEAUTIFUL

Understanding Brain Injury It’s all in your head, and may be for a long time

BY LORI MERTZ WITH KATHERINE PIOLI

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bike accident, in 2001, led to my first traumatic brain injury. Then, in April 2015, a driver made an illegal turn in front of my car and I ran into her side. I may have briefly lost consciousness, just a few seconds, but it was enough to re-ignite all the previous brain injury symptoms, setting me way back in my recovery. Since then, in some ways, I’ve had to start over. It's not as bad, but it's been really hard and scary. I often feel like I'm losing my mind.

TBI vs. concussion The brain is a tender organ suspended in fluid inside the skull. Any blow to the head or sudden violent movement caused by an uncushioned external force can easily cause the brain to bounce around inside the skull, often resulting in a change of mental status. A person can recover fully from this stunned state relatively quickly. This is what we call a concussion. For the more violent concussions, such as the type I

experienced, we reserve the term traumatic brain injury (TBI).

What distinguishes a concussion from a TBI is the difference between shortterm issues that completely resolve themselves vs. a broader spectrum and deeper set of symptoms and challenges that last longer — for weeks, months, years or a lifetime.

March is Brain Injury Awareness month, and there’s been a lot in the news about concussions lately—even a movie, Concussion, starring Will Smith. Understanding TBI is important. People with head injuries do not show clear signals of their injury, as patients with broken arms or legs do, although they may appear moody, depressed, bi-polar, confused,

What distinguishes a concussion from a traumatic brain injury is the difference between short-term issues that completely resolve themselves vs. a broader spectrum and deeper set of symptoms and challenges that last longer — for weeks, months, years or a lifetime.

angry, forgetful or just plain weird. The hidden nature of this injury and the public’s general lack of knowledge about brain injury and its symptoms have led TBI patients to be dismissed, or labeled mentally ill.

In a state where many of us live active lifestyles, we have an greater chance of knowing (or being) someone who has experienced a head injury.

More than 40% of TBIs result from a fall or sports injury. Car accidents cause 14%, 10% domestic violence and assault, and the remainder from unintentional striking or other sources.

Understanding how to deal with the repercussions of such an injury can be life saving.

Symptoms aren’t always easy to recognize. They can be subtle and sometimes may not surface until 48-72 hours after an injury. Since head injuries can be present with other more obvious or emergent injuries, such as broken bones or bleeding gashes, they may be overlooked.

After two weeks in ICU, I was discharged from the hospital and sent home with muscle relaxers, Oxycontin and Dilaudid for pain and no follow-up instructions. I didn't know how underprepared I was to handle my situation.

When I visited the pain management doctor about my crippling pain, I got more pills. When I followed up with the neurosurgeon, he dismissed me and said I should feel better in a few months.

In layman’s terms, if you have a concussion, you rattled your brain; but if you have a TBI, the effects will be more pronounced and longer lasting. Dr. Gregory Hawryluk, Director of Neurosurgical Critical Care at University of Utah Healthcare says a hard impact with significant loss of consciousness (longer than a minute) and accompanied by symptoms that don’t resolve quickly may indicate a more serious brain injury. However, it’s important that both concussions and TBI be taken equally seriously.

Locally, we have excellent centers at the University of Utah Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare and Primary Children’s Medical Center. (See Resources.)

Recovery Rest, for both the brain and the body, is a critical phase for anyone recovering from brain trauma. This means no television, internet, video games, music, reading, texting, phone calls or email. It means staying in a darkened room to reduce sensory stimulation. Only when the brain is completely at rest can it recover. Resting also includes significantly limiting physical activity; an increase in heart rate can worsen symptoms. In the case of a concussion, staying home from work or school for one or two days may be sufficient, but allow for longer if necessary. Some doctors recommend at least a week, believing that

less time than this can slow recovery.

Over-the-counter medications such as aspirin, ibuprofen, Advil, Motrin and Aleve should be avoided as they may increase the risk of bleeding (check with a doctor before taking any pain medication to relieve a headache). In the later stages of recovery other daily considerations become important. Hydration is critical, as the brain is approximately 75% water and water is the brain’s electrical conductor—it connects signals and thoughts and other brain processes.

Alcohol should also be avoided for at least a year after a head injury. It is also important to know that recovery from a head injury (concussion or TBI) is different for every single person.

Recovery, for me, was slow and is still ongoing. After the hospital, I was in bed or the easy chair for months, didn't drive for nearly a year and then only very short distances. I didn't drink alcohol for years and still don't drink that much, and I’m still highly sensitive to light, sound and energy.

As I worked through my own recovery, I found myself experiencing many of the symptoms common to head injuries.

I dealt with fatigue, headaches, lightheadedness and balance issues. The ringing in my ears that started after the accident is very loud, all the time, and makes me crazy. I have poor coordination. I’m forgetful and compulsive. I need sleep, lots of sleep. I’m moody, anxious, depressed, overwhelmed and easily startled. I get confused. I get lost. I feel the slowness in my thinking, the difficulty of making decisions. I’m grateful I don’t suffer from seizures.

It can also be useful to seek assistance in recovery from less traditional sources.

I found Feldenkrais* (see accompanying article by Dan Schmidt) useful. It helped a lot with balance, brought peace and was supportive. Sometimes I would get

emotional during my sessions and the woman I worked with was present and kind. That meant everything. Yoga was much harder for me—it required a lot of balance, which I didn’t have. Plus, classes and people were, and still are, difficult for me — my senses overload quickly.

A physical therapist can help with balance, whereas a cognitive rehabilitation therapist can help with practical strategies for success—teaching patients how to dial down overwhelming stimuli

Hydration is critical, as the brain is about 75% water; water is the brain’s electrical conductor.

(wear a hat, sunglasses and earplugs) and to regain organizational skills.

Working with a neurologist can help determine where exactly in the brain the injury exists, which can help with treatment plans. A pain management neurologist can help if a brain injury patient is experiencing significant pain. There are occupational therapists, psychologists to help manage frustration, isolation and depression, speech pathologists and other specialists.

Behavioral and social changes Perhaps as important as professional help is receiving support from friends

and family. Individuals with head injuries often feel alone and isolated by their symptoms and by the ongoing difficulty of daily life management.

Questions such as “how are you doing?” or “describe how you are feeling” can be hard for people with brain injuries to clearly or concisely answer. It is often extremely difficult to communicate their experiences to others.

One question that comes up a lot: Why does one person become mean and surly after a head injury and another become sweet? I remember the day the doctors told my mother that it’s not uncommon for people with brain injuries to become especially inappropriate, foul-mouthed and cantankerous. Oh, how I wished that wouldn’t happen to me. It didn’t. I used to think it was luck and I was grateful for my personal outcome.

Turns out that these kinds of behavior changes have to do with the location of the brain injury, as well as the severity.

The frontal lobe, for example, regulates the ability to make choices. Patients with frontal lobe trauma commonly experience depression, decreased motivation, personality changes and changes in executive functions such as an inability to plan for the future (even a day ahead), judgment, decision-making skills, attention span and inhibition.

I lost some close friends because of the injury—they didn't understand and I didn't know how to explain it to them. Early on, I would frequently get lost and needed a lot of support. One longtime BFF, whose wedding I was supposed to go to in Napa Valley, didn't understand why I was hoping to share a room. My reasons included cost—brain injuries drain the bank account; and logistical support—I couldn't drive and really couldn't travel unassisted. I tried to explain, but since I

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Caring for TBI caregivers: The life of a patient who sustains a traumatic brain injury changes in an instant. This is also true for those assuming a caregiving role to someone with a TBI. While patients need support, so do caregivers.

Greg Nordfelt is a TBI survivor and a Volunteer Mentor at Intermountain Medical Center who, together with his wife Laura, created a monthly Caregiver Support Group. Because of the myriad changes a TBI patient may go through, it is not uncommon for married TBI patients to get divorced due to the unique and overwhelming challenges thrust upon caregivers. With a lack of understanding and a lack of care, spouses are commonly unable to deal with their newly found roles and responsibilities. It’s not an insurmountable challenge, but for a successful outcome, support of both the patient and the caregiver is critical. For anyone in the position of caregiving for a person recovering from a head injury, there is support out there. To learn more, or to attend a support group meeting at IMC, contact Laura Nordfelt at info@handsonpromotions.com. For additional information check out their survivor support group Facebook page, Caring For The TBI Caregiver.

seemed okay outwardly she didn't understand. Often it's when I talk to other people with brain injuries that I feel really understood.

Cumulative effects Research is finding that multiple concussions can have cumulative effects.

This is especially true when discussing potentially high-impact sports such as football, boxing, rugby, ice hockey, soccer, wrestling, motocross and rodeo riders, where many players sustain multiple traumatic brain injuries that may lead to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). The condition was first discovered in the brain of NFL Hall of Famer Mike Webster by Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2002. It was previously thought to have existed primarily in boxers, and was referred to as dementia pugilistica. Documentation from cases of cumulative concussions indicates that patients frequently experience long-term damage including earlyonset dementia, Parkinson’s and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), ultimately progressing to CTE. Prevention, as with many things, is the best medicine. Treat your body with respect, advises Dr. Hawryluk. When participating in outdoor activities, wear a helmet. Helmets definitely save lives.

Someone who hits his head while wearing a helmet may still sustain a head injury, but the presence of a helmet will reduce the severity of the injury. If you

Local Resources:

University Orthopaedic Center Concussion Clinic for teens and adults 590 Wakara Way Salt Lake City, UT 84108 801.587.7109

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do suspect a brain injury, follow through with correct procedures and treatment.

Untreated, or poorly treated, concussions can cause serious long-term effects that could have been easily avoided with immediate and appropriate attention.

About 10 years after the bike accident I found out that my case had almost certainly been mishandled. Had the hospital life-flighted me to a nearby hospital with a trauma unit, the doctors would have operated to relieve the pressure in my skull and would have kept me for inpatient rehab. Those steps could have dramatically altered my outcome and the symptoms would likely be significantly less severe.

Through the recovery process it has been important to remind myself of my sanity. Yes, I sustained a life-changing injury that altered my brain, its connections and its chemistry, but I’m not crazy.

My greatest pain has been a decrease in my ability to experience unabashed joy. I used to know what fun was— hiking, friends, dancing, traveling—and while I enjoy those things still, they are also huge projects. I go along and try to look like I'm keeping it together while, on the inside, I'm falling apart.

Despite these challenges, my ability to function has dramatically improved over the last 15 years and continues to this day. I’ve found some gifts that I am grateful for. I feel more present. I feel more compassionate with others. I have infinitely more patience because I've

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experienced both sides. I am grateful when people show me kindness. And when someone seems a bit strange, I often see myself in them and know that a little empathy will go a long way. ◆ Lori Mertz is the author of Successful Surgery and Healing: A Practical Guide for Patients, Caregivers and Advocates (2015). She is CATALYST Magazine’s special projects manager.

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If you suspect you’ve sustained a head injury Stop what you are doing immediately. If you’re playing a sport, don’t go back in the game.

Next, apply basic ABCDE medical principals: Check the patient’s Airway (for obstructions), Breathing (determine the respiratory rate), Circulation (pulse rate), Disability (level of consciousness) and Exposure (externals signs of trauma such as bleeding or bruising).

A common misconception is that you must be knocked out to sustain a concussion or a TBI. If there’s any doubt as to the severity of an injury involving the head, it is better to assume the worst and err on the side of caution. Call an ambulance and head to a hospital with trauma and head injury services.

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LIFE MATTERS

STUFF

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THE BEE TRUE STORIES FROM THE HIVE

“Fer Rude!”

Your relationship with stuff—and how the stuff affects your relationships!

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et’s get real right now. I challenge you to be honest with yourself as you read.

Then get ready for a change to happen. I am here to tell the truth – your stuff will either support your personal growth and relationships, or drain you and stress your relationships.

It is that simple. However, dealing with the stuff is never simple. So let’s start with taking a look at where you are now.

What does your stuff say about you?

Let’s begin with a mental tour through your space. Imagine you are at the front door of your home and entering for the first time. As you wander from room to room, what do you see? Notice with a stranger’s eyes. Keep going until you have been all the way through.

Then choose one room to hang out in for a while.

What story would you imagine about the person living here? What are you feeling? Does the space inspire you? Would you want to invite your best friend to come spend time with you here?

Or you may have a feeling of heaviness. Do you see year’s worth of “buildup”? Do you find yourself wondering where it all came from?

Does sadness come up? What would you want to say to the person living here?

What is your stuff saying to you?

If you really want insight or healing, write about what you’re thinking and feeling. Let your space share with you what’s been going on in your life that you may have been too busy or distracted to notice.

Your space and your stuff are simply a reflection of who you are

BY MARLA DEE and what’s going on in your life!

Yes, you are in a relationship with your stuff. It physically holds memories, stories and family history. Your space reflects what’s going on inside of you. Each thing holds a story and a choice.

You can decide this year, this month and today to make a change.

Even setting the intention that you will keep only the stuff that supports you will transform your space over time. You will see things dif-

Physical things represent people, relationships and the longing for connection that we hold on to so tightly. ferently and letting go will become easier. You can also make a simple start with one room or one type of stuff, like your clothes or books or jars or towels. The key question to ask when you are holding the stuff is—Does this support me or drain me? Be willing to let go if it is no longer serving you and celebrate what stays.

Does your stuff support or stress your relationships?

Once again, stuff is seldom neutral. It is either supporting your relationships or creating stress.

As a professional organizer for over 16 years, I’ve witnessed many miracles. I’ve been in hundreds of homes and offices and seen people transform their spaces. I’ve also worked with couples, families, bosses and employees who experience con-

flict over stuff. The amount of energy that goes into these conflicts can be heartbreaking.

Here’s a simple version of a story I hear all the time: I’m worried about what will happen when my mom dies. There’s so much stuff in her house. It will take years to go through it all. I can’t bear the thought of dealing with it myself but she won’t let go of anything.

What can I do?

I often hear the line Choose people over stuff. If only it were that simple.

I believe physical things represent people, relationships and the longing for connection that we hold on to so tightly.

However, I have also seen the power of one person taking ownership over her own stuff, her space.

What you ask of others, do for yourself. The effect of loving your space is contagious for those close to you.

What you can do this month that is simple I would suggest sitting down and having a chat with a good friend or your partner. Ask each other and then share, what is one change you could make today with your stuff so that it better supports you and your relationship? Find one area of your home or office that is ready to shift.

Or share how your space and your stuff really do support you. Trust the answers that come up in you, ask the Universe for support and give yourself this month to let it happen. ◆ Marla Dee is a speaker, author and the creator of Clear & SIMPLE. For further insight and support in letting go of the stuff that is keeping you stuck, she offers the gift of her eBook, The ART of Letting Go (Acceptance, Release & Trust); download at WWW.CLEARSIMPLE.COM.

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n the marvelously simple words of international educator Dr. Paul Linden, “Trauma is overwhelm”— overwhelm of both our capabilities and our defenses.

Addressing any traumatic injury must include re-integrating a sense of wholeness and capability—not the capability to do “everything” (whatever that is) but to live and interact with our environment in an interesting way. Dealing with a trauma without integrating the body is painfully inefficient.

The Israeli physicist Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais created one of the best practices for integrating movement into whole body healing. The Feldenkrais Method focused on improving posture, flexibiliby, coordination and artistic ability in those suffering from chronic pain and tension. Dr. Feldenkrais had a deep appreciation for the strength of human beings and did not define them by their limitations. Always advocating for a cooperative approach, one that created an environment

Gesturing while speaking improves a person’s ability to articulate clearly. conducive to learning, he worked miracles by improving whatever function a person could manage.

Changing the rules When someone has a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the rules of their life change. Weird may be the new normal.

Learning how to function afterward means learning under a new set of rules. Every injury is unique, as is every person and no predetermined technique can be accurate. Instead, an exploratory strategy, and a learning orientation, is needed.

As we now know, the brain never stops changing. Living things grow and change. The whole nervous system changes constantly, adding new connections and deleting old ones.

This is known as neuroplasticity.

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Begin where you are

Learning how to function when weird is the new normal

BY DAN SCHMIDT

These are incorporated into movement-based learning.

Body-centered approaches have long been known to be the most direct and skillful path to building a meditation practice. Working this way offers TBI survivors multiple benefits, restoring physical function, stabilizing emotion and sharpening cognitive skills.

Balance can be a big challenge. Following the chronology of development, the Feldenkrais Method works on balance from lying down, and builds toward walking and standing still. Rather than wobbling about, which can reinforce a sense of struggle and anxiety, we’d want to re-connect with security, and then build on that comforting awareness. Better perception of support then allows a better quality of movement—safer, more consistent and more fun.

Muscle memory Deleting can be a very good thing. During our teenage years, we prune away outdated childhood connections. Our size has changed, our needs have changed. We must lose some of the concepts and habits on which we formerly depended. Without this housecleaning in our nervous system, we could not move on to a more adult way of functioning.

It’s important in looking at brain function to remember that loss is part of health.

Adding connections is also a life-long process. The saying in neuroscience is “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”

Nerves that are used in a sequence or group become linked. If a pattern is helpful, it becomes automatic. Learning never stops. We now know that new brain cells constantly grow, and that there is no clear limit to change in the neural structure of humans.

A whole body approach, like that taught through the Feldenkrais Method, moves the focus off the limitations of the body and on to improving overall function. Organic learning is more pleasant than obsessively confronting inability. The improvement this will bring to a person’s emotional world

should be obvious, yet making room for this exploration can be difficult. Anxious voices must be quieted. These are the voices, both internal and external, that want a quick return to normalcy. Hurrying is not helpful, and the anxiety itself can mask new sensations and hinder learning. There is no separation of mind and body. Slowing down and attending to the body slows down the mind.

Mindful movement develops the capacity to notice and integrate detail. Learning becomes easier, more pleasant, and deeper.

Moving words As social animals, humans crave communication. TBI often interrupts and alters speech.

The social aspect of this is intense. One TBI survivor recalls, “The thing that drove me wild— just wild—was people mimicking my speech patterns back at me. They thought I was ‘pretending.’”

Experiments have shown that gesturing while speaking improves a person’s ability to articulate clearly. Movement supports speech by improving analytical thinking. Parallel investigation shows that the act of tracing will improve under-

standing of math problems.

Speech and analytical thinking can be frustrating after TBI. Working through the body in movement can gain access to improving function while avoiding those frustrations.

Speech therapists are the backbone of recovery for many.

Fortunately, most medical professionals recognize the skill and devotion these practitioners offer. Likewise, there are incredible opportunities in going even farther back to the foundations of survival, and working with functional movement. “Movement, your other native language”—the slogan from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, reminds us that we are all movers first, and speakers later. As we communicate nonverbally, we also support and develop our identity.

Calming the emotions TBI can cause challenging mood swings. Alcohol can modulate them, but that clearly leads to problems. Taking away a coping mechanism without eliminating the stress is cruel (and generally futile), if we don’t offer a replacement.

Mindfulness practices are a drug-free response to the need.

TBIs are disorienting, and often decrease short term memory. More simply, you forget stuff quickly. There are great tricks for coping, like sticky notes, carrying a notepad and using the voice memo function on your phone. But short term memory is not magically constructed. It is related to “muscle memory”—the neural connection of movement and sensation. Recent studies on memory in older adults have shown the dance does more to improve short term memory than traditional exercises such as crossword puzzles or memorization games.

Again, shame and frustration hinder learning and recovery.

Working from whatever level of consistent success a person has, be that as simple as inhaling and exhaling, we can improve a person’s self image—not just the social part, but one’s whole sense of being alive—and so improve the odds of successful recovery. ◆ For over 24 years, Dan Schmidt has worked with people ranging from the severely injured to high level performers who are pursuing extreme capabilities. He maintains a private practice in SLC, and also offers advanced training for massage therapists. He is a frequent CATALYST contributor.

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arking the centenary of Dada’s Cabaret Voltaire, anarchists and avant-gardes gathered Weller Book Works last month in the hopes of making as little sense as possible.

Wearing paper masks, tin-can hats and underwater goggles, audience members were treated to a succession of events and performances that embraced the spirit of Dada. The evening began with a shower of dice, thrown onto the audience by host Tony Weller, with the hopes of conjuring the element of chance. This simple gesture launched a series of acts that were as authentic as they were jarring: Trio ‘Porridge for Goldilocks’ delivered a series of discordant actions, and gesticulated up and down the stairs with appropriate detachment. Christian Asplund layered gasps, gurgles and electronica, all to unsettling effect. Sarah Zarr and Gordon Hultberg sparred excerpts from The Hunger Games with what sounded like Seamus Heaney’s Beowolf – while a third actor poured water from one vessel to another. Hultberg’s reading, delivered in spit-spraying brogue, was so nonsensical it resembled Jabberwocky jargon. While both readings described scenes of warfare, contrasts in tenor and delivery were gloriously mismatched. Beth and Jimmy Miklavic (of

Another Language) projected videos of abstract designs onto themselves, as they spun with increasing momentum around a bolt of fabric. The onomatopoeia of the phrase ‘baked-on-batter-bug-splatter-splat’ echoed throughout the piece, and prompted the audience to contribute spontaneously: the hallmark of a successful performance.

Cloaked in a silk shawl, Cossack hat and gas mask, Caldiero began crying, moaning and eventually wailing – like a large wounded animal.

Many other contributions demonstrated that, despite Utah’s persistent hegemony, there is no shortage of avantgardes in town. Sonosopher Alex Caldiero set a more solemn tone when he entered the stage clanging a long brass pipe. The phrase ‘Do not ask for whom the bell tolls’ came to mind.

Cloaked in a silk shawl, Cossack hat and

gas mask, Caldiero began crying, moaning and eventually wailing – like a large wounded animal. This preposterous apparition came about as close to Max Ernst’s ‘The Elephant Celebes’ as I have ever seen. Here as elsewhere, we were reminded of Dada’s connection with the Great War and the profound despair that ensued. Mattson McFarland channeled Tristan Tzara’s ‘Bruit,’ repeating the French word (for noise) like a barking dog. Standing proudly in full tuxedo, McFarland adopted the decorum of a dining-room waiter, while suggesting anti-establishment sentiments. Jessie Parent delivered one of the most astonishing poems, blending Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a Dream’ speech with Sarah Palin’s endorsement of the Donald. The result wove elements of profundity, spiritualism, cliché and stereotype into one of the most unreservedly American, politically brazen poems I have encountered since coming to this country.

Toward the end, the music adopted more conventional modes of rock and jazz, and Aerial Artists of Utah dangled from bolts of fabric, more Cirque-de-Soleil than cabaret. Events became increasingly inaudible due to a nearby disco.

Otherwise it was a delightfully mindbending and truly authentic homage. ◆ Alexandra Karl is an art historian, professor and freelance writer living in Salt Lake City.

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SHALL WE DANCE?

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Dancing at school Putting the arts in Utah’s (underfunded) public education

BY AMY BRUNVAND

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ne of the rites of parenthood is sitting through your children’s dance recitals, although The Music Man musical essentially gets it right that proud parents are willing to overlook most deficiencies of quality. Nonetheless, when I braved the snow earlier this winter to see my daughter in the Hawthorne

Elementary School dance program, it was with low expectations.

Then the kids came out and started their performance and, wow! Clearly someone had been teaching those kids musicality, rhythm, interpretation and expressive movement. They were not just going through the motions; they were really dancing. How on earth did that happen?

After the show I mentioned to the principal how much I enjoyed the performance.

She told me that the school had been able to hire a dance t e a c h e r through a

grant from the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program. Again, my reaction was, wow!

Utah currently has the lowest per-pupil spending on public education in the entire United States. Other parents have told me in all seriousness that they would never betray their kids by sending them to Utah public schools. And yet right here in one of those very same underfunded Utah public schools, the kids were getting the kind of arts education that can be life-changing. I could imagine one of those kids growing up and someday saying, “I started dancing because when I was in the fifth grade we had this really great teacher… ” The great dance teacher turned out to be Corinne Penka whom I felt certain I had seen before dancing on stage.

Sure enough, besides being a dance teacher, she is currently a member of Natosha Washington’s Penguin Lady Dance Collective.

“Natosha and I studied at the University of Utah Modern Dance program together,” Penka says, and although she has danced in pickup companies such as SB Dance she says, “My people are the Penguin

Lady.” (“Actually,” she points out, “Natosha Washington is the Penguin Lady.”)

Penka’s dance family also includes the Tanner Dance studio where she is an Arts in Education dance specialist, and this coming summer the two groups will collaborate to offer a two-week dance intensive for high school students.

Penka, who is also now the Beverley Taylor Sorenson dance specialist, says she discovered her love of teaching when she

Those kids were not just going through the motions; they were really dancing. was required to take a teaching methods class in college.

“It really opened my eyes to a world that I have become passionate about,” she says. “I love being in schools, collaborating with teachers. I love getting such a big range of students. It’s my joy.”

The arts are equally important for kids who are struggling in school and for those in accelerated programs, she says.

“You take a Title I class [Title I is the federal program to help disadvantaged students], and English is their second language, and the kids for whom English is challenging feel successful in a classroom that doesn’t require them to talk since movement is a universal language.

For kids in E L P [Extended Learning P r o grams], they tend to be pushed to do well, stressed out and anxious, so it’s

The great dance teacher turned out to be Corinne Penk shown here and flying in at left.

about being creative and relaxing and not being afraid to fail. It’s okay to try movement because it’s not about being right.”

Penka says part her job is to “demystify” dance because kids often have preconceived ideas about what dance is, and often think it’s just ballet. Boys especially start out as skeptics, “‘Like, you want me to dance?

That’s a girl thing.’ But really it’s a human thing, and the boys end up being the most energetic movers.”

Penka believes arts education is really about integrating artistic practice with other subjects like science, math or language arts in order to make them more interesting and to foster self-directed, creative thinking. “Science is just a springboard for ideas,” she says. “I want kids dancing and feeling confident, and comfortable in their bodies, collaborating and solving problems creatively.”

So we have Beverley Taylor Sorenson (1924-2013) to thank for helping to keep the arts vibrant in Utah’s chronically underfunded public schools. Sorenson not only had a passion for arts in the schools, she had the money and connections to do something about it. When her husband James LaVoy Sorenson died in 2008, the Salt Lake Tribune headline read, “Utah’s Richest Man Dies.” It’s easy to dream about what I would do if I were rich, but Sorenson did something particularly inspirational: She persuaded the Utah Legislature to fund the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program to hire teachers like Corinne Penka and bring an integrated model of arts education to elementary schools throughout the state. The program also covers teacher training programs, materials and equipment and ongoing research.

Ever since the Utah Legislature first funded the program in 2002, there has been a constant tug-of-war for money.

Some years the program is fully funded; other years, it receives a bare minimum.

One year, Sorenson covered the budget shortfall out of her own pocket to keep the program alive). In lean years parents and students have had to pressure lawmakers to keep funding for arts education.

Governor Herbert’s budget recommends $3.5 million to fund the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning program,.

After watching those kids dance, I, for one, consider that to be money well spent and an essential part of Utah’s education budget. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a dance enthusiast and a librarian at the University of Utah Marriott Library.

GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

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Maxxin’ the spring garden

Get going now for a full 10 weeks of additional growing time

BY JAMES LOOMIS

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oodbye ice, goodbye snow. Goodbye frozen fingers, see you later frozen toes. Hello, wee bit of daylight after dinnertime. Nice to have you back sunshine.

Although February frequently teased us with glimpses of spring, March is the real deal. When the Equinox arrives on the 20th, it will officially be spring.

But let’s not wait around, season knows no calendar, and we wouldn’t be gardening like a true boss if we weren’t ahead of the game. So, as soon as can see your soil, then it’s time to play.

Too often, spring gets overlooked in anticipation of summer. Garden planting often revolves around tomatoes.

Don’t get me wrong, I love those luscious fruits, and I have a salsa habit that has most people who know me quite concerned. However, what often happens is the gardener waits with patience and lust, eyes on the calendar for that magic “last frost date,” then, in early May, POW!!! The garden is planted in a furious weekend, the entire plot covered in tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, as mulch and manure and seedlings fly through the air. Then, in all its glory, the garden…doesn’t do much at all. Sure, if done right, the plants grow vigorously, but it is often months before they yield any food and once they do, the abundance is often overwhelming! I call this the boom and bust cycle, and I’m here to show you there’s a better way.

If we observe how nature does it, we can see that multiple successions of plants grow throughout the year, each player keyed into the subtleties of season. In an elaborate dance, one plant often creates the conditions for the next contestant to thrive, and wave after wave of plants follow. Ecosystems want to evolve and flourish and if we harness that natural tendency inherent in plant communities then we soon find ourselves harvesting greater volumes of food, of a higher quality, out of the same-sized space.

As soon as the snow melts from soil (and often before

it’s even completely gone), our first wave of cool weather plants begin to emerge. As soon as you can see your garden soil, you can begin to plant peas. If you can poke them into the soil, then the soil is ready! All manner of leafy greens thrive in spring, in fact you can have multiple harvests of lettuce, arugula and spinach long before you even think about plugging in your tomato starts. Getting going now gets you a full 10 weeks of additional growing time.

Bonus: When the time comes, you can interplant all of your existing cool weather crops with your tomatoes, peppers and other warm weather crops and enjoy steady harvests as you wait for the heat loving veggies to grow.

Learning to harness the cool weather of spring will have you well positioned to master fall, in which case you will have another full eight-plus weeks of harvest after your tomatoes have succumbed to frost.

The secret to harvesting a tremendous amount of food from a small urban garden is as simple as utilizing space, and time, wisely. A summerfocused garden only grows from last frost date to first frost date, roughly five months long. A garden that harnesses the shoulder seasons can easily run nine months, doubling yields from the same amount of space (and with season extension techniques it’s quite realistic to harvest right through the winter. Take that, imported food trucked in from far-off farms).

We don’t want to eat all of our food from the garden at once, so why should we plant it all at once? With

One can easily double the amount of garden space available by using starts.

whole harvest crops, like head lettuces, radishes or beets, the goal is to have a steady supply. My family will eat two to three heads of lettuce a week. So, ta-da! I plant two to three heads a week, every week. Better yet, plant six so you have some to share. I know from experience my neighbors let me play music louder and later if I keep them well fed. Just saying…

Now, for those of you looking to maximize your space even further, let’s take it up yet another notch. One can easily double the amount of garden space available by using starts. It’s common for a gardener to start tomatoes and peppers in plugs and trays, but how many of you are starting lettuce, chard, kale, or bok choi indoors?

Let me explain using the example of a butterhead lettuce. On average, our plant will reach a succulent mature size in roughly 60 days. If I start my seed indoors, it can spend 30 days in my soil block (my preferred planting method, although plugs or tiny pots work just fine). Then, when I transplant it outside at 30 days old, it only needs 30 days in the garden before it’s ready to harvest. You can run the math, or you can trust me, but a plant that spends half as much time occupying space in the garden in essence doubles the amount of space you have available! As a plant start, it occupies less than two square inches, whereas in the garden it requires 64 square inches. This is one of the most effective secrets of intensive vegetable production in small spaces. At Salacia Farm in Lehi, we start hundreds of plants a week, every week, almost every week of the year.

Once you are in the habit of starting plants indoors, next season you can get going on your spring garden in late January or early February, and this time next year you’ll have a full complement of cool weather crops that are already four weeks old by the first of March, ready to thrive in that cool spring air.

Speaking of starts, early March is the prime time to get your warm weather plants started. For tips and tricks on seed starting, visit my column on the subject from last spring. BIT.LY/1HXC7AP ◆ James Loomis is a professional grower and consultant, specializing in Regenerative Agriculture. He teaches monthly classes in Salt Lake City, and is also available for private consultations. For class schedules and info, visit fACEBOOK/BEYOND.ORGANICJL.

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If you want to be a beekeeper Hive and bee selection used to be one-size-fits-all; now, interesting choices abound

BY ALICE TOLER

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s this your year to become a beekeeper? March is your month to consider the types of bees and hives available, and place your order. You want to be all set up for the bees, which will arrive in April. Then the fun begins!

What kind of hive?

• Langstroth Times were, every beekeeper (or “beek”) ran Langstroth hives. These are the familiar white boxes you so often see; actually stacks of wooden boxes of different depths, allowing the beek to assemble a hive according to the needs of the bees. If they need more room for honey, a new “super” box full of empty frames goes on top, and the hive can expand.

Those supers, when full of honey, can individually weigh 50-70 pounds!

Being a beek has traditionally required a strong back. Nowadays there’s an array of new hive styles available on the market, all of them with different features that may make them more attractive than the traditional Langstroth.

Top-bar The top-bar is a horizontal hive that mimics a hollow fallen log.

The bees create comb from removable bars, and there are no heavy boxes to lift. The top-bar hive is a simple design and is easily constructed from a variety of salvage materials.

• Warre The Warre (pronounced “warray”) hive is basically a vertical top-bar hive, simple to build and easy to use.

These hives are “under-supered”—that is, the beekeeper adds boxes of empty frames to the bottom of the hive rather than the top, which agrees with the bees’ natural instinct to build down rather than up.

• Slovenian New on the American beekeeping scene, the Slovenian AZ beehive is getting attention from new and old beeks alike. The Slovenians have been keeping bees in these cabinetstyle hives for 100 years now, and adopted this design (by hive builder Anton Znidersic) because it allowed them to continue their tradition of using decorative “bee-house” sheds to shelter multiple hives in one location.

Slovenian hives are more complex than top-bar or Warre hives, but because you open the back of the hive into a dark shed rather than disassembling the hive as you do for a Langstroth or opening the top to the sky as you do with a top-bar, working the hive is much less invasive to the bees. To inspect frames, the beek opens the back of the hive and slides the frames out one at a time on rollers.

• Eco Bee Box Made and sold by a local Utah experimental beekeeper, Albert Chubak (5033 Commerce Drive, Murray (801.263.6666), these “mini urban hives” are like tiny decorative Langstroths, with boxes that each contain five small frames. These hives are much easier for a “newbee” beek to maintain and inspect, and can house even weak colonies through the winter if they’re brought into a sheltered area such as a garage.

Bees and beekeeping tools These Utah businesses carry all the tools you’ll need to build and maintain Langstroth hives. They supply package bees in either Italian or mixed Carniolan-Italian breeds.

Hives are around $220; bees run $105-140 for 2.5-4-lb. packages.

The Russian bees’ hygienic housekeeping behaviors resist the terrible varroa and tracheal mites.

• Jones Bee 2586 West 500 South, Salt Lake City. (801) 973-8281. JONESBEE.COM • Deseret Hive Supply 1512 Washington Blvd., Ogden. (801) 866-3245.

DESERETHIVESUPPLY.COM • Cache Valley Bee Supply Located in Hyrum, they likewise supply either Carniolan or Italian package bees. 7011 South 650 West, Hyrum. (435) 7642111. CACHEVALLEYBEESUPPLY.COM Bees are typically ordered in March, for April delivery. Order your bees soon; supplies may be limited.

Bee breeds The two most popular breeds of bee, and the ones available locally, are Italians and Carniolans. Italian bees, light golden in color, are great at rearing brood and are good honey producers. They are less defensive than other breeds, though they do have a tendency to rob other hives.

Carniolan bees are native to Slovenia, and do well early in spring building up both brood and honey stores. They are docile and good wax builders, but they have a tendency to swarm.

If you are interested in a different kind of bee, you may purchase a specifically bred queen through the mail and “re-queen” one or all of your colonies— the new queen comes already mated, and will lay workers of the same breed that she is.

Two other commonly available breeds are the Buckfast bee and the Russian bee.

Buckfasts were bred in England to resist tracheal mite, a common disease of bees, and they also do well in cold, wet conditions. They are moderately defensive, but hives have a tendency to become “hot” if they aren’t managed. (A “hot” hive is a chronically angry one that's likely to attack the beek.) Russians were imported because they have evolved resistance to the terrible varroa mite: Their hygienic housekeeping behaviors resist both varroa and tracheal mite. They rear brood only during good nectar and pollen flow, so populations may fluctuate.

Also available are hybrid “survivor” queens from a number of different breeders. For example, Zia Queenbees (505.929.8080) has two breeding locations, one on Lake Superior and one in the mountains of New Mexico. Their queens are cross-stocks bred from Carniolan base mothers, but integrating Russian, Italian, and “Suppressed Mite Reproduction/Varroa-Sensitive Hygiene” genetic lines. All their breeder queens are certified tough survivors, having successfully overwintered a minimum of two winters.

A final note: Whether you choose to raise bees or not, please help support the bee population. First, avoid using herbicides and pesticides. Next, plant flowers they like. Some common choices: yarrow, hyssop, hollyhock, columbine, asters, coreopsis, cosmos, sweetpea, flax, bee balm, zinnia, cleome and many more.

Utah State’s Cooperative Extension publishes a helpful (and beautiful) guide for bee gardening. HTTP://BIT.LY/1TZGXXM Alice Toler is a small-scale experimental beekeeper.

Currently she’s keeping a tiny colony of ItalianCarniolan honeybees and a hybrid hygienic queen in an observation hive in her attic, where they have been doing surprisingly well over the winter. This spring she’ll be installing a full-sized Slovenian hive in a converted coal room in her basement, and a smaller colony in a Mini Urban Hive in her back yard. In addition, for years she and her husband Trent have provided homes for native bees on their front porch. See “Gardening With Native Bees,” AliceToler, CATALYST: April 2012. BIT.LY/1TZGXXM

Learn more about bees: • www.utahbeekeepers.com: free online beekeeping books, videos, podcasts • Ask your local bee supplier for classes happening in March.

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HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE East West Health, Regan Archibald, LAc, Dipl OM 801.582.2011. SLC, WVC & Ogden. Our purpose: Provide high-level care by creating lifestyle programs that enhance health through mentor training. To correct underlying causes of health conditions we "test, not guess" using saliva, hormonal, nutritional and food testing. Our goal is to help you get healthy and pain free naturally. WWW.ACUEASTWEST.COM 5/16 Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/16 801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S. 120 E. in old Sandy. Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-

operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment.

National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/16 801.521.3337, 177 E. 900 S., Ste. 101, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($15-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism and more.

WWW.SLCQI.COM CHIROPRACTIC Salt Lake Chiropractic 03/16 801.907.1894, Dr. Suzanne Cronin, 1088 S. 1100 E., SLC. Have you heard, Salt Lake Chiropractic is the least invasive way to increase your quality of life. Our gentle, efficient, affordable care can reduce pain & improve your body’s functionality. Call to schedule an appointment.

WWW.CHIROSALTLAKE.COM The Forbidden Doctor, Dr. Jack Stockwell, DC, CGP & Mary H. Stockwell, MSAS, CGPDA 07/16 801.523.1890, 10714 S. Jordan Gateway, Ste. 120, S. Jordan. NUCCA Chiropractic uses gentle touch, no cracking, popping or twisting. Demolishing migraines everyday! Certified GAPS Clinic. "Heartburn, gas, bloating, celiac, IBS, gall bladder pain still there?" Unique medical testing of all major organs & systems.

Nutritionists create personalized whole food and herbal protocols. OFFICE@JACKSTOCKWELL.COM, WWW.JACKSTOCKWELL.COM, WWW.FORBIDDENDOCTOR.COM ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/16 801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life.

WWW .T URIYAS . COM FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP 8/16 801.580.9484, 1390 S. 1100 E., SLC. “Movement is Life, without Movement, Life is unthinkable,” Moshe Feldenkrais. Carol trained personally with Dr. Feldenkrais and has over 30 years experience. When you work with her, you can expect your movement to be more comfortable, less painful and definitely more aware. Offering private sessions & classes.

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FLOATATION THERAPY I-Float Sensations 12/16 801.888.6777, 1490 E. 5600 S., Suite 2, So. Ogden. New Zenned-Out Sensory Deprivation Float Center with two of the latest hi-tech float pods. A remarkable experience that words fall short to describe. Experience a deep meditative state, receive creative and intuitive inspiration. Come In, Zone Out and Just Let Go...

WWW . I F LOAT O GDEN . COM , INFO @ IFLOATOGDEN . COM HERBAL MEDICINE Millcreek Herbs, LLC 11/16 801.466.1632, 3191 S. Valley Street, SLC. Merry Lycett Harrison, RH, (AHG) is a clinical western herbalist, teacher, author & creator of Thrive Tonic®, practicing in SLC for 18 years, helping people manage stress, low energy, lung, sinus, digestive, hormonal and sleep issues plus chronic disease and conditions, with custom formulations from her extensive herbal pharmacy. By appointment. WWW.MILLCREEKHERBS.COM MASSAGE

Healing Mountain Massage School DA 11/16 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.). All people seek balance in their lives…balance and meaningful expression. Massage is a compassionate art. It helps find healing & peace for both the giver and receiver. Whether you seek a new vocation or balm for your wounded soul, you can find it here. www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM Amazing Massage by Jennifer Rouse, LMT 9/16 801.808.1283, SLC. Your body needs this! Jennifer offers a massage personalized just for you. Her firm, focused approach will help you detox, release tension and maintain great health. 60, 90 or 120 minute sessions, $80/hour. Call or text to discuss time and location.

Graham Phillips Davis, LMT, The Posture Consultant 801.889.3944, 1111 Brickyard Rd. #109, SLC. Structural Integration, The Original Ida Rolf Method! Relieve chronic pain, increase ROM, improve posture & overall quality of movement. A graduate from The Guild for S.I., Graham is passionate about the work & dedicated to the process of change. LMT. FSMTB Certified in Utah.

WWW.THEPOSTURECONSULTANT.COM, POSTURECONSULTANT@GMAIL.COM 10/30/16 M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 508 E. South Temple, #102, SLC. Integrative Medicine Family Practitioner who utilizes functional medicine. He specializes in the treatment of chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders, adrenalfatigue, menopause, hormone imbalances for men & women, weight loss, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, immune dysfunctions, thyroid disorders, insomnia, depression, anxiety and other health problems. Dr. Mangum designs personalized treatment plans using diet, vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, bioidentical hormones, Western and Chinese herbal therapies, acupuncture and conventional Western medicines.

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MEDICAL COACHING Successful Surgery and HealingFOG 949.648.4436. Successful Surgery and Healing: A Practical Guide for Patients, Caregivers and Advocates by Lori Mertz is the “how to” for anyone preparing for or recovering from surgery! Full of insights, organization tips & tools, checklists and more. Available at University Pharmacy (1320 E. 200 S., SLC), WWW .L ORI M ERTZ . COM and WWW.AMAZON.COM. Lori is also available for one-onone coaching. We all need support! Start here.

LORI @ JUSTBEEINC . COM NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 4/16 801.486.4226. Dr. Todd Cameron & Dr. Michael Hummell, Naturopathic Physicians. 1945 S. 1100 E. #100. When you visit the Cameron Wellness Center, you’ll have new allies in your health care efforts. You’ll know you’ve been heard. You’ll have a clear, individual plan for gaining health and wellness. Our practitioners will be with you through your journey to feeling good again—& staying well. WWW.CAMERONWELLNESSCENTER.NET Eastside Natural Health Clinic 3/16 801.474.3684. Uli Knorr, ND, 3350 S. Highland Dr., SLC. Dr. Knorr will create a Natural Medicine plan for you to optimize your health and live more vibrantly. He likes to educate his patients and offers comprehensive medical testing options. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation, gastrointestinal disorders & food allergies. WWW.EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 3/16 801.557.6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT, 3098 S. Highland Dr., Ste. 350F, SLC. (Also in Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction, identifing sources of pain and assist the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider.

WWW .P RECISION P HYSICAL T HERAPY UT. COM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 5/16 1.800.230.PLAN, 801.532.1586. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/ morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. WWW.PPAU.ORG Destiny S. Olsen, DONA trained Birth & Postpartum Doula 6/16 801.361.9785. Offering prenatal, birth & postpartum education, support and companionship for all styles of families, including adoption, through prenatal comfort and guidance to prepare for birth, birth labor assistance including physical and emotional support and postpar-

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MISCELLANEOUS CEREMONIALISTS Universal Heart Ministry 4/16 801.577.0542. We are a full service non-denominational ministry providing customized services honoring your uniquely spiritual, religious/non-religious beliefs: weddings, funerals, baby & pet blessings, pet funerals, end of life celebrations, funeral planning, home/business blessings, Super Hero Series, Wonderful Woman Workshops, whole life coaching & more. Welcoming all, with-out exception. WWW.UNIVERSALHEARTMINISTRY.COM, UNIVERSALHEARTMINISTRY@GMAIL.COM EDUCATION Elaine Bell, Master Sculpter 12/16 801.201.2496, SLC. Elaine Bell teaches students of all levels at her studio conveniently located in the U of U area. Ms. Bell believes sculpting to be a creative process of meditation and expression bringing harmony to relationship and space. For more information, please visit: WWW.BELLSCULPTINGSTUDIO.COM, ELAINEBELL 07@ MSN . COM ENTERTAINMENT The State Room DA 1/17 801.878.0530, 638 S. State Street, SLC. A 21 and over, 300 capacity live music venue, presenting nationally acclaimed musicians and the finest local acts.

WWW .T HE S TATE R OOM . COM Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center DA 11/16 801.746.7000, 122 Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striveing to bring community together through film. UFC curates and organizes three film festivals a year: Tumbleweeds for children & youth, the only festival of its kind in the Intermountain West; Damn These Heels, a forum exploring LGBT issues, ideas, hopes, dreams and art; and TiltShift, organized by and for teens just beginning to discover their artistic potential. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE The Law Office of Jonathan G. Jemming DA 5/16 801.755.3903. Integrity. Experience. Compassion.

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J.JEMMING@GMAIL.COM Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals.

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MEDIA Catalyst Magazine 801.363.1505, 140 S. McClelland St., SLC. Catalyst: Someone or something that causes an important event to happen. WE ARE CATALYST. JOIN US. CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET FACEBOOK.COM/CATALYSTMAGAZINE INSTAGRAM.COM/CATALYST_MAGAZINE TWITTER.COM/CATALYSTMAG KRCL 90.9FM FOG 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC. Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. WWW.KRCL.ORG MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/16 801.268.4789. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to sixpiece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments. Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM, IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM NON-PROFIT Local First 12/16 801.456.1456. We are a not-for-profit organization that seeks to strengthen communities and local economies by promoting, preserving and protecting local, independently owned businesses throughout Utah.

Organized in 2005 by volunteer business owners and community-minded residents, Local First Utah has over 2,700 locally owned and independent business partners. WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG Red Butte Garden DA 12/16 801.585.0556, 300 Wakara Way, SLC. Red Butte Botanical Garden, located on the University of Utah, is the largest botanical garden in the Intermountain West, renowned for plant collections, display gardens, 450,000 springtime blooming bulbs, a world-class outdoor summer concert series, and award-winning horticulturebased educational programs. WWW.REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Tracy Aviary — NEW! DA 2/17 801.596.8500, 589 E. 1300 S. (SW corner of Liberty Park), SLC. Tracy Aviary – Where curiosity takes flight!

Come explore our new Treasures of the Rainforest exhibit, with boisterous birds from the tropics. Our 9 acres of gardens are home to 400+ birds from as close as the Great Salt Lake and as far as the Andes Mountains. WWW.TRACYAVIARY.ORG PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs. Four start

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dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting.

Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU DA 11/16 SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 1/16 801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use.

Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft.

WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM Vitalize Community Healing & Arts Studio— NEW! DA 2/17 801.661.1200, 3474 S. 2300 E., Studio #12 (behind Roots Café), Millcreek. Vitalize Community Studio supports a number of independent practitioners and community organizations offering a wide variety of classes, gatherings, and workshops with an emphasis on connection, movement, and transformation. Join one of our ongoing classes or facilitate your own. Be Creative – It’s Your Space. For more information: WWW.VITALIZESUGARHOUSE.COM, VITALIZEMILLCREEK@GMAIL.COM TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/16 801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available. Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 1/17 801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. Client-centered retirement planning, wealth management, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans, investing & life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW.HARRINGTONWEALTHSERVICES.COM

MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School FOG 801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends.

Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG RemedyWave: Dance your own dance, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.202.6477, 300 W. 403 N., SLC. Tuesdays 79p. Grounding, pulsing, wild, uplifting, rejuvenating journey through music and dance. Unlock your expression, passion & joy. Love to dance?

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WWW.REMEDYWAVE.ORG MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/16 801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple.

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MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 6/16 Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/17 801.355.2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified.

Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage students to discover their own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986.

WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga DA 4/16 801.521.YOGA (9642), 926 E. 900 S., SLC and 955 W. Promontory Road at Station Park, Farmington, 801.451.5443. City Centered Yoga offers more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hour-teacher trainings, monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED & SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Full Circle Yoga and Therapy 8/16 385.528.2950. 1719 S. Main St., SLC. A unique therapy and yoga center providing treatment using the latest research-based interventions for dealing with a broad spectrum of mental health issues. Our mission is to create an inclusive and empowering community that fosters healing, restoration, and rejuvenation for the mind, body, and soul.

WWW.FULLCIRCLEUT.COM Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/16 801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 12 years. We now also offer Hot Vinyasa, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative yoga (classic and yin), Barre-Pilates, Hot Pilates, Qigong & Kids Yoga. Whether you like it hot and intense, calm and restorative, or somewhere inbetween, Mountain Yoga Sandy has a class for you. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM Mudita—Be Joy Yoga 3/16 801.699.3627, 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Our studio is warm and spacious – a place for you to come home and experience yourself! Varied classes will have you move and sweat, open and lengthen, or chill and relax. Come just as you are, ease into your body and reconnect to your true essence. WWW.BEJOYYOGA.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG 212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 20 years! Visit her website, WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM, RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM Christopher Renstrom 11/16 Astrology Lovers: Looking for a class? Christopher Renstrom, professional astrologer, teaches class three times a month. Perfect for beginners or advanced students. $30 each or 8 classes for $200 prepaid. Come to an Astrology Slam and get a minireading, $15. Details: RULINGPLANETS1@GMAIL.COM, WWW.RULINGPLANETS.COM/PRIMETIME-ASTROLOGY

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Angels of Light Card Readings

by Janene 7/16 801.566.0000, SLC. I am a wife, mother and grandmother. I'm also a certified teacher, life coach, intuitive and spiritual healer, Reiki practitioner and Angel reader for over 30 years. The Angels have messages of Light and are waiting for you to "ask." Call or email today: ANGELSOFLIGHTSITE@GMAIL.COM, WWW.ANGELSOFLIGHT.SITE Crone’s Hollow 11/16 801.906.0470, 2470 S. Main Street, SLC. Have life questions? We offer intuitive and personal psychic consultations: Tarot, Pendulum, Palmistry, Stones, Shamanic Balancing and more. $25 for 20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments - Walk-ins welcome. We also make custom conjur/spell candles!

WWW.CRONESHOLLOW.COM Vickie Parker, Intuitive Psychic Reader 6/16 801.560.3761. I offer in person and long distance readings. My readings are in depth and to the point. Get the answers you are seeking.

Readings are by appointment only. To schedule, please call or email WINDSWEPT@XMISSION.COM. For more information, please visit: WWW.WINDSWEPTCENTER.NET Jeannette Smith, Psychic & Evidential Medium 435.513.7862. Bringing Heaven to Earth. Reconnect with your loved ones in Spirit. Psychic Readings. 30-minute, 60-minute, in-person, phone & small group readings available. Psychic & Evidential Mediumship classes. Located in Park City. For more info. please visit: WWW.PARKCITYPSYCHICMEDIUM.COM 2/16 Nick Stark 6/16 801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience.

NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET Suzanne Wagner DA 1/16 707.354.1019. In a world of paradox and possibility, an intelligent psychic with a sense of humor might as well be listed with the family dentist in one's day planner. Suzanne's readings are sensitive, compassionate, humorous and insightful. An inspirational speaker and healer she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM

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COACHING Christine Gentry, Transformation Coach 3/1 801.380.5459. Intuitive transformation coach would love to team up/partner with like-minded individual(s) to add value to existing services.

My focus and strengths are in areas of intuitive spiritual belief work, accessing the brainwave state to clear negative subconsicous programs.

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Donna Dinsdale, Integrative Health Coach 801.979.0111, 336 E. 900 S., SLC. Donna is committed to and passionate about helping you optimize your health and empowering you to live a life that is filled with joy, ease, vitality and boundless possibilities. Offering integrative health & wellness classes, workshops & coaching programs.

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Life Mediator 9/16 801.438.4688, S. Salt Lake. Between you and your dreams lie the hurdles you struggle with. Let’s work together to find a peaceful resolution to a path forward.

Specializing in relationships and dating. Call now to schedule your one-one-one private session with a Life Mediator. WWW.LIFEMEDIATOR.COM, INFO @ LIFEMEIATOR . COM Linda Radford, Clarity Catalyst 3/16 801.369.5406. Do you know and trust your inner guidance? Can you feel your purpose and personal power?

Linda’s unique approach is the catalyst that guides you back to center, where clarity, truth & peace of mind are found. WWW.LINDARADFORD.COM, LINDA@LINDARADFORD.COM HYPNOSIS Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer 6/16 801.810.9406, 1111 E. Brickyard Rd., Ste. 109, SLC. Do you struggle with mental blocks, weight, cravings, fears, lack of motivation, unhappiness or self sabotage? Find your motivation, confidence and focus for living with purpose and passion. First time clients $45. Call now.

Get Instant Motivation Free when you sign up at: WWW.THEBRAINTRAINERLLC.COM, HOLLY@THEBRAINTRAINERLLC.COM THERAPY/COUNSELING Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/16 801.231.5916, 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Seventeen years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 3/16 435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S.), Ste. 8, Sugarhouse.

Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues.

Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope.

Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families.

WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.202.6477, Holladay. An integrative non-pathologizing approach, serving adolescents & adults using Art Therapy, embodied awareness/movement, brain based shifting, imagination, symbol & dialog for well-being, practical skill building and healing. Begin to feel better & live at your full potential. Holladay office or videoconference; free 20 min. consult. WWW .N EURO I MAGINAL I NSTITUTE . COM , WWW.INTEGRATIVEARTTHERAPY.ORG Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/16 801.582.2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision.

Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/16 801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therpist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling.

Transpersonal psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind and spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts and relationships that challenge & inspire our lives.

WWW.M OUNTAIN L OTUS C OUNSELING . COM Mountain Lotus Counseling 4/16 801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, Mike Sheffield, Ph.D., & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relation-

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Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, Integrative Psychiatry 12/16 801.268.0333, f 801.268.3777, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302, SLC. Group outpatient private practice of multidisciplinary mental health professionals led by Carmela Javellana, MD, DABPN, providing comprehensive mental health and neuroscience-based services for children, adolescents and adults. Standard services plus psychospiritual coaching and pharmacogenetic and nutrigenetic testing for personalized health care. Most insurance accepted. WWW.SHININTEGRATION. COM Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/16 801.631.8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in treatimg identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. Blog: WWW .K ARMA S HRINK . COM , STEVE @ KARMASHRINK . COM Sunny Strasburg, LMFT— NEW! 2/17 1399 S. 700 E., SLC. Sunny is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian Psychology, Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy and EMDR. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City.

For questions, or to schedule an appointment, please email Sunny at: SUNNYS@JPS.NET. WWW.SUNNYSTRASBURGTHERAPY.COM SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 801.531.8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman.

Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans. 3/16 Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG 801.209.1095, 508 E. So. Temple, #102, SLC. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition.

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RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Black Mountain Gemstone Jewelry: A time for gathering stones 9/16 801.359.6262, ArtSpace City Center, 230 S. 500 W., SLC. Bringing you timeless, unique jewelry with the spirit, positive energies and natural health qualities of the Earth. Handmade gemstone jewelry, quartz fountains, tumbled stones, gemstone malas, stone pottery, original landscape artwork and more. Choose from our designs or create your own custom design. Visit us online & learn more: BLACKMTN@XMISSION.COM www.B LACK M OUNTAIN B EAD . COM Blue Boutique 10/16 DA 801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy. Since 1987, Blue Boutique has expanded to four locations, offering the finest in a variety of sexy lingerie, sexy shoes and sexy adult merchandise to discriminating shoppers. We’ve created comfortable, inviting environments with salespeople ready to offer friendly and creative advice. WWW.BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM

Dancing Cranes Imports DA 7/16 801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too.

WWW .D ANCING C RANES I MPORTS . COM Golden Braid Books DA 11/16 801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.G OLDEN B RAID B OOKS . COM Healing Mountain Crystals DA 11/16 801.808.6442, 363 S. 500 E., #210 (east entrance), SLC. A welcoming crystal shop located one block from the “Trolley” Trax station. Offering: crystals, jewelry, essential oils, $2 sage, ¢.50 tumbled stones, Tibetan singing bowls, spa products, books, chakra healing supplies, gifts and more. We are known for our low prices. WWW .H EALING M OUNTAIN C RYSTALS . COM iconoCLAD—We Sell Your 2/17 Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p.

Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it! WWW . ICONO CLAD. COM Lotus DA 11/16

801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express Rd., #200, Draper.

For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM Turiya’s Gifts 2/16 DA 801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. M-F 11a-7p, Sat 11a-6p, Sun 12-5p. Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools.

Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary.

WWW .T URIYAS . COM FARMERS MARKETS Winter Market at Rio Grande Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., SLC, 84101.

Every other Saturday, 10a-2p, Nov 7- Apr 23. The Winter Market at Rio Grande supports sustainable, regional agriculture; builds community; increases access to nutritious, local foods in urban areas; and educates consumers about shopping locally all year.

Local produce, meats, cheeses, pastries and more.

WWW.SLC F ARMERS M ARKET .ORG DA 5/16 HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/16 SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and high-quality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products, we provide you with the options you need to reach your optimum health. Certified professionals also offer private consultations. WWW.DAVESHEALTH.COM

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS The Church of the Sacred Circle 9/16 801.330.6666, 3464 W. 3800 S., WVC. We are a local independent church of non-denominational earth based spirituality. We welcome all those who follow Paganism, Wicca, Witchcraft, Asatru, Druid, Shamanic, Eclectic and other traditions. We hold public full moon and new moon circles, monthly events,

psychic faires and are family friendly. www.S ACRED C IRCLE C HURCH . COM , INFO @ SACREDCIR CLECHURCH . COM Inner Light Center Spiritual Community DA 2/16 801.462.1800, 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community. Events & classes. Sunday Celebration: 10a; WWW .I NNER L IGHT C ENTER . NET Salt Lake Buddhist Temple 12/16 801.363.4742. 100 S. 211 W., SLC. Everyone is welcome to Shin Buddhism (Pure Land). Sunday Services: 9a Meditation, 10a Dharma Family, 11a Dharma classes all ages, Asian Arts classes 12p.

Meditation Class Wed. 6:30-7:30p, all levels.

Lumbini’s Garden Buddhist Books and Gifts open Sundays. “Come as you are.” WWW.SLBUDDHIST.ORG, WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SALTLAKEBUDDHIST, WWW.MEETUP.COM/SALT-LAKE-BUDDHIST-TEMPLE Unity Spiritual Community 7/16 801.281.2400. Garden Center in Sugarhouse Park, 2100 S. 1602 E., SLC. 11:00a Sunday celebration, message, music and meditation. We teach love, peace, acceptance, and practical, everyday application of spiritual principles to help people live more abundant, joyful and meaningful lives.

WWW .U NITYOF S ALT L AKE . ORG Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 9/16 DA 801.328.4629, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The community is welcome to our Sunday service (puja), group practices, meditation classes and introductory courses. WWW .U RGYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG Utah Eckankar 12/16 801.542.8070, 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy. Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want to learn more about them. You will meet people with similar experiences who also wish to share how these improve our daily lives.

WWW .E CKANKAR -U TAH . ORG INSTRUCTION Two Arrows Zen Center 3/16 DA 801.532.4975, ArtSpace, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey. The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular day-long intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses. WWW .T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG

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COMINGS & GOINGS Original Oil Shop specializes in the essentials Jill Franklyn opened the Original Oil Shop in downtown Salt Lake last fall.

The 300 sq. ft, tranquilly decorated shop in the front space of Impact Hub on State Street (the former site of Zim’s Crafts, has a display of over 250 essential oils, gift baskets, skin care products, and two small treatment session rooms, as well as two treatment rooms on the floor below.

Franklyn became interested in essential oils five years ago when her son, then 12 years old, had unexplainable health problems.

Franklyn treated him with essential oils and he became better. Now, she uses a combination of multiple essential oils on herself and her family daily.

The shop carries the essential oil brand Butterfly Express, a therapeuticgrade oil, which Franklyn says compares to the more expensive multi-level brand doTERRA. She has been teaching classes about essential oils for over two years and uses them in her capacity as a certified foot zoner (similar to reflexology). Foot zoning sessions are available at the shop by Cydny Wright ($40 for a treatment, or $105 for three treatments) The Original Oil Shop also offers Migun massage table sessions ($15 for 35 minutes, $10 for 15 minutes). The table combines jade rollers with farinfrared technology to aid relaxation

and detoxification.

Franklyn’s go-to essential oil is Deliverance, a combination of cinnamon bark, clove, eucalyptus, lemon, oregano, rosemary and thyme. She puts a drop of it on her toothbrush each morning.

Franklyn says the combination supports the immune system and is antiviral, antifungal and antibacterial. Franklyn also recommends putting a drop on the bottoms of the feet, on the ball and right below the balls of your feet.

Franklyn is in the process of producing and importing her own line of essential oils. She also expects to have a table at the Downtown SLC Farmers Market this summer.

Franklyn hopes she can help bring essential oils more into the mainstream.

She’s off to a great start, by creating an unintimidating place to learn about them.—SS THEORIGINALOILSHOP.COM. 150 S. State St. 801.205.8163

Suzanne Wagner in SLC Just a reminder that CATALYST’s “Metaphors” columnist, Suzanne Wagner, will be in Utah March 21-April 11. In addition to her Wild Women Symposium, April 1-3, at the Leonardo and “Elemental Feminine—Radical Spirituality and Magikal Storytelling” workshop April 8-10 in Midway, she is available for appointments. One-hour readings cost $120 ($60/half-hour). We at CATALYST have been benefitting from readings with Suzanne for several decades. She has a special gift and has devoted her life to cultivating it.

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Publik Coffee Roasters opens in the Aves.

Publik Coffee Roasters’ “coming soon” sign hung on the door of the former Two Creeks building for several years, due to construction and City Planning setbacks. Last month, Publik’s Avenues location (502 E. 3rd Avenue) finally opened its doors.

The Avenues location, much like its Central Ninth (975 S. West Temple) sister store, serves interesting variations of toast and oatmeal, as well as a wide variety of teas and in-house roasted coffees.

If you’re looking for more than coffee and oatmeal, and still want to be a part of Publik’s vibrant atmosphere, head over to Publik Kitchen in the 9th & 9th area, which boasts a full breakfast and lunch menu.

The Central Ninth location features large meeting spaces for social and professional gatherings. Publik implies “public”; the name was chosen to convey a sense of community.

Publik has grown exponentially since it opened in 2014. One contributing factor to this growth is their thoughtfully crafted roasting process. “It’s an art and a science,” says owner Missy Greis, an art and science that Publik remains committed to testing and improving.—ZS Central Ninth: 975 S. W. Temple. Mon-Fri: 7am-6pm, Sat & Sun: 8am-6pm.

Avenues: 502 E. 3rd Avenue. Mon-Fri: 7am-6pm. Sat & Sun: 8am-6pm 9th & 9th: 931 East 900 South (Publik Kitchen). Mon-Fri: 7am-3:30pm. Sat & Sun: 8am-4:30pm

David Littlefield (1949-2016) If you’ve attended arts events in Salt Lake City and beyond—Ballet West, Sundance Film Festival, Utah Opera and, back in the day, Grateful Dead shows, to name a few—you’ve probably encountered David Littlefield. A passionate fan of all kinds of music, art and film, David relished the opportunity to explore new sights and sounds, both here and abroad.

Born in Salt Lake City and educated at the University of Utah and Cornell Law School, Littlefield was well known as a generous and com-

passionate advocate for abused children, and a nationally recognized immigration lawyer whose firm, Littlefield & Peterson, thrived for 37 years.

His vast and varied circle of friends and family knew him as a wise mentor, a deep-soul being with a huge, inclusive heart—a heart his daughter says was “so bursting with love that it came to a stop” on a sunny Sunday afternoon in February.

David was a force in the Salt Lake community. While we may not see him again at the opera or at the next Dark Star Orchestra show, his passion for life’s gifts lives on in countless souls in this valley and beyond. —CB

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Mar. 1-3: Community Nursing Services Annual Art and Soup @ Salt Palace Convention Center. 11a. Supporting charitable home health, hospice and immunization services throughout Utah. Soups and desserts from 25 restaurants, purchase original artwork by 43 outstanding Utah artists. $20. 100 West Temple. CNS-CARES.ORG Mar. 2: Yoshua Okon, artist talk @ UMOCA. 4:30p. Okón’s current multichannel video installation, Oracle (produced in conjunction with the Arizona State University Art Museum). Free. 200 S. West Temple. UTAHMOCA.ORG Mar. 2: Hot Yoga for Beginners @ Bikram Yoga. 5p. $150. A series of 5 yoga workshop classes. 1924 S. 1100 E. Contact Chris at YOGACHRIS@ME.COM

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Mar. 2: CSA Open House @ Wheeler Farm. 6p. Know your farmer, know your food. Learn about farmers and each farm’s unique 2016 harvest share offerings. Free. 6351 S. 900 E. CSAUTAH.ORG

4449 S. Commerce Dr. Murray 385-222-3799 • WWW.WELLSPRINGMASSAGEUT.COM

Mar. 3: Our Country’s Good, theatre @ Dumke Student Black Box, Westminster College. 7:30p. Convicts from England are sent to Australia where they find solace in producing a play. Written by Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed by Michael Vought. $10. 1840 1300 E. WESTMINSTERCOLLEGE.EDU Mar. 3: Alexander Ortega Album Support Show @ The Urban Lounge.

8p. Free, donations encouraged. 21+.

241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Mar. 4-12: As You Like It @ Studio 115.

7:30p. Unable to act on their feelings and forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, lovers Rosalind and Orlando become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity. $18.

Mar. 5: Novel Writing Next Steps @ SLCC Writing Center. 1p. Work with other novelists to share feedback on drafts and get information about query letters and self-publishing. A 4-part workshop. $40. 210 E. 400 S. SLCC.EDU/CWC/WORKSHOPS.ASPX Mar. 5: Bill T Jones @ The Eccles Center.

5:30p. The MacArthur “Genius” choreographer and his nine-member company tell the story of holocaust survivor, Dora Amelan. Dance and spoken word. $25-$75. 1750 Kearns Blvd.

PARKCITY.INSTITUTE Mar. 6: John Németh @ The State Room. 8p. Two-time Blues Music Award winner playing scorching harmonica driven blues and soul. 21+. $15. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 7: Divorce Education for Children @ Matheson Courthouse. 6p. As children often feel the divorce is their fault, this course helps minimize the adverse effects that divorce has on them. Free, with required registration. Provided by Utah State Courts. 450 State.

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Mar. 2: Citizens' Hearing on Rep. Bishop's Public Lands Initiative @ Orson Spencer Hall, U of U. 6:30p. Join Utah Wilderness Coalition in their own “Citizens’ Hearing” in Salt Lake City. Stand up for vigorous protection of Utah’s wild lands. We need to pack the room with wilderness advocates. 260 Campus Dr. Central.

SUWA.ORG/ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK Mar. 2: Animal Collective @ The Depot, 8p. S&S presents live at the Depot with guests. $26. 400 W. South Temple.

DEPOTSLC.COM

Relieve the stress, aches and tension of everyday life.

We offer quality service in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

Bring your body back to balance.

series explores the issues of climate change. Panel discussion with Dr. Tariq Banuri and Dr. Christine Clay. SLC Green, Utah Film Center, SLPL. Free. 210 400 S. SLCGOV.COM/SLCGREEN

Mar. 5: Open House @ Healing Mountain Massage School. 11a.-3p.

Free intro classes, free chair massages, raffle prizes and refreshments. 363 S. 500 E. HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU

Mar. 3-6: Importance of Being Earnest @ Babcock Theatre, U of U. 7:30p.

Matinees Sat & Sun, 2p. Jack is in love with Gwendolen. Gwendolen is in love with Earnest. Algernon, who is up for a bit fun, falls for Cecily, but Cecily is also in love with Earnest… if only someone were Earnest! $18. 332 S. 1400 E. THEATRE.UTAH.EDU/EVENT/THE-IMPORTANCEOF-BEING-EARNEST Mar. 3: Years of Living Dangerously, documentary @ Salt Lake Public Library.

7p. Emmy Award-winning Showtime

332 S. 1400 E. THEATRE.UTAH.EDU Mar. 4: Utah Symphony: Saint-Saens Piano Concerto @ Abravanel Hall.

7:30p. Matthias Pitscher conducting and Jan Lisiecki on piano. $18-79. 123 W. South Temple. UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG Mar. 4: Selma ’65, theatre @ Leona Wagner Black Box. 7:30p. In remembrance of the Selma Voting March, award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux brings to life the interconnected stories of Viola Liuzzo, white civil rights activist, and Tommy Rowe, FBI informant, undercover with the Ku Klux Klan.

One woman plays both roles. $20.

ARTSALTLAKE.ORG Mar. 4: John Moreland @ The State Room. 8p. w/ special guest Lilly Hiatt.

21+. $13. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM

Mar. 6: Second Annual Utah Gay & Lesbian Wedding Expo @ Eventos Reception Center. 12p4p. $5 adv. $7 day of. 3485 Main St. UTAHGAYWEDDINGEXPO.COM

Mar. 7: From Nature to Medicine, lecture @ Viridian Center. 7p. Meet toxicologist Dr. Zoltan Takacs who risks his life collecting animal venoms to create life-saving medicines. Free. 8030 S. 1825 W. , West Jordan. NHMU.UTAH.EDU/LECTURESERIES Mar. 7: Bronze Radio Return @ The State Room. 8p. w/ Howard Door. $13.

21+. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 8: Launch Party of T+SG Benefit Social @ U of U. 6p. Travel and Social Good (T + SG) is the SLC chapter of a global community of changemakers who are passionate about transforming the travel industry into a force for good.

Food, drinks, discussion on ethical travel, and a mini fashion show. Panel members include Ian Shelledy, Co-Founder of Sustainable Startups; Sean Crotty, Peace

Mar. 4: Djunya @ The Urban Lounge.

9p. w/ Wolf Bitch, Adrack and illoom.

21+. $5. 241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Mar. 5: Volunteer Fair @ Red Butte Gardens. 11a-6p. Meet the staff and learn about a variety of volunteer opportunities. Free. 300 Wakara Way. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG/VOLUNTEER Mar. 5: Race to Reduce Bullying @ Wheeler Farm. 9a. Playworks Utah's 5th annual Race to Reduce Bullying.

Runners, walkers, crawlers and strollers are invited to participate in 5k/Fun Run. Individual registration $25. 6352 S. 900 E. PLAYWORKS.ORG

Corps Volunteer; Deb Bilbao, Women’s Business Center; Kaitlin Eskelson, Utah Office of Tourism; Clark Cahoon, World Trade Center Utah,and Suzy Gustafson, SG Travel Consultants. Benefit supports a nonprofit which gives back to the employment and education of women

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 27 and children in Utah and partners in Vietnam for ethical fashion imports and travel. Presented by Liz Galloway, Miao & Co. Ethical Imports, and SLC Hub of TRAVELPLUSSOCIALGOOD.ORG. $20/$15 adv.

21+. 200 Central Campus Dr. BIT.LY/21ALG8M Mar. 8: Utah Rare Plant Meeting @ Natural History Museum, 8a-4p. Annual meeting hosted by the Utah Native Plant Society. Forum for professionals and plant enthusiasts. $25. 301 Wakara Way. UNPS.ORG/URPM2016 Mar. 9: Museums: What Are They Good For? @ Salt Lake Public Library. 7 p.

Museum directors share candid insights about their institution’s goals, challenges and efforts to be more inclusive. With Gretchen Dietrich, UMFA; Sarah B. George, NHMU; Alex Hesse, The Leonardo; Kristian Anderson, UMOCA. Free. 210 400 S. BIT.LY/1XIU6QQ Mar. 10: Beyond Organic: Seed Starting and Planting, workshop @ Sugagreen Hub w/ CATALYST’s own James Loomis.

7p. Loomis will guide you through all of the steps necessary to get all of your

Mar. 11: Sustainability Group Book Discussion: The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert @ Marriot Library, U of U. Hosted by CATALYST’s own Amy Brunvand. Free.

12p. 295 S. 1500 E. LIB.UTAH.EDU/INFO/EVENTS Mar. 11-13: Joyful Path, Joyful Result @ The Yoga Center. 7p. A Buddhist teaching with Venerable Acharya Jigme Lama Sean D. Young. Learn simple and practical methods for bringing joyful happiness into your daily activities surrounding work, family and community. Free on Friday. $50 for Saturday and Sunday. $35 for Saturday only. 4689 S. Holladay Blvd.

Email: SALTLAKEBUDDHAPATH@GMAIL.COM Mar. 11: Zepparella the All-Female Zeppelin Powerhouse @ The State Room. 8p. $20. 21+. 638 S. State.

THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 12: Winter Market @ Rio Grande.

10a-2p. Free. 300 S. Rio Grande St. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Mar. 12: Kestrel Project Orientation @ HawkWatch International. 11a-12p.

Watch colorful falcons as they raise young from eggs, to downy nestlings, to raucous fledglings. Free. 2240 S. 900 E. HAWKWATCH.ORG Mar. 12: Advanced Seed Starting Indoors, workshop @ Grateful Tomato Garden. 2p-4p. Learn new techniques like soil blocking and potting-up and problem solve with an expert. $10. 800 S. 600 E. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

own plants started for your summer garden. $40. 1967 S. 800 E. Email: BEYOND.ORGANIC.LOOMIS@GMAIL.COM Mar. 10: Salt Lake Film Society’s New Volunteer Orientation @ Salt Lake Film Society. 6p. 111 E. 300 S. 801-503-9434 or ERINEMERSON@SALTLAKEFILMSOCIETY.ORG; .

Mar. 10: Hey Marseilles @ The State Room, 8p. w/ special guest Hibou. $15.

21+. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 10: Mali Travelogue: A Look at Life in Rural West African Villages @ Salt Lake Public Library. 6p. See what it is like to live in a small, rural village in West Africa using stories and visuals from Mali Rising's February trip to Mali. Presented by Merritt Frey, Executive Director of the Mali Rising Foundation. Free. 210 E. 400 S. SLCPL.ORG Mar. 10: Seeking Refuge: At Home and Around the World, lecture @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall, U of U 5p-8:30p.

Explores patterns of human migration, Utah’s role in aiding and resettling refugees, and the specific concerns of education and healthcare for people of refugee background. Lecture and panel discussion. Free. 1375 President’s Circle.

BIT.LY/1ODOU4P Mar. 11: Swagger @ OP Rockwell.

Shamrocks on the Rocks Tour 2016. 268 Main St., PC. 8:30p (doors @ 5).

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Mar. 12: 3rd Annual Organic Growing Workshop @ Wheeler Farm. 9a.

Intermediate to technical level information on organic growing topics and techniques for community garden managers, aspiring growers/producers and organic gardening enthusiasts. $8. 6351 S. 900 E. 2016-ORGANIC-WORKSHOP.EVENTBRITE.COM Mar. 12: Aida, opera @ Capitol Theatre.

7p. In Ancient Egypt, a captive Ethiopian princess, Aida, is torn between her love for the Egyptian commander Radames and her loyalty to her own father and country. $18-$95. 50 W 200 S. ARTTIX.ARTSALTLAKE.ORG Mar. 12: Ty Segall & The Muggers @ The Urban Lounge. 8p. Presented by KRCL. w/ Max Pain & The Groovies, ZHOD and JAWWZZ. 21+. $15 adv. $17 at door. 241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Mar. 12: Tinsley Ellis @ The State Room.

9p. Southern blues-rocker Tinsley Ellis may speak no evil, but he sings and plays with the conviction of, as Billboard wrote, “...a man possessed.” 21+. $16.

638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 13: Sacred Realism and Evidential Mysticism: The Simple Truth of Good and Evil. Lecture by Rev. Michael Dowd @ First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake.

8:30a. “Rev. Reality” speaks prophetically in secular and religious settings alike about our sacred responsibility to future generations. Free. 569 S. 1300 E.

Art, Health, Spirit, Natural World, Music, Events/Festivals, Meetings, Exhibits, Education/Workshops.

See the full list of events and the ongoing calendar at www.catalystmagazine.net/events

Mar. 14-15: Integrative Health and Resiliency Conference @ Marriott Library, U of U. 8:15a. 2-day conference will disseminate the latest evidencebased research and support for integrative health practices to healthcare professionals--conventional and integrative, educators, students and anyone interested in learning about an integrative approach to healthcare and treatment. $130. 295 S. 1500 E. BIT.LY/1URXWTH Mar. 14: Forgiveness Workshop @ Marriott Library, U of U. 6:30p. Dr. Fred Luskin, Founder and Director of the Forgiveness Project at Stanford University, will facilitate. Free. 295 S. 1500 E. BIT.LY/1URXWTH Mar. 15: Be a Bird Docent @ HawkWatch Headquarters. 5:30p. Bird docent volunteers assist in providing community outreach programs with HawkWatch International's education birds. 2240 S. 900 E. HAWKWATCH.ORG Mar. 15: Unmasking Bitcoin and What it Means for Global Development.

UCCD World Affairs Lecture Series @ Westminster College. 7p. Free. Vieve Gore Concert Hall. 1840 S. 1300 E. WESTMINSTERCOLLEGE.EDU

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Mar. 15: Dance Off @ The Urban Lounge.

8p. 21+. Free. 241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Mar. 15: An Acoustic Evening With John Hiatt @ The State Room. 8p. Presented

by KRCL w/ special guest Rick Brantley.

21+. $65. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM

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March 23 5:30 PM 242 S. Main Street | (21 or older)

Mar 15: The Future Is Calling Us To Greatness: Why Science Honoring Religion Matters on a Rapidly Overheating Planet @ First Unitarian Church w/ Rev. Michael Dowd. 7p-8:30p.

The economy, climate, governance, global conflicts: troubles abound. It is our generation's one brief moment in the immense and unbroken journey of life. Free. 569 S. 1300 E. Mar. 16: Darlingside @ The State Room, 8p. “A former teacher of ours used to say ‘kill your darlings,’ which is to say, if you fall in love with something you’ve written you should cross it out. We like that idea and we thought a good name for it might be ‘darlingcide’, but we changed the ‘c’ to an ‘s’ because we’re not super into death.” 21+. $13. 638 S. State.

THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 16: Grammarphobia: Writing Tips, workshop @ SLCC. 6p-8p. Address some of the most common grammar questions and understand the “rules” behind them. $10. 210 E. 400S. SLCC.EDU

URGYEN SAMTEN LING GONPA Tibetan Buddhist Temple

801.328.4629

UrgyenSamtenLing.org info@urgyensamtenling.org

Intro to Tibetan Buddhism Course — Beginning Practice Course — Meditation Class — Sunday & Morning Pujas

Check our websites or Facebook for details on classes offered.

740 SOUTH 300 WEST . SALT LAKE CITY

Mar. 16: Psychic Fair @ The Golden Braid, 6p-9p. Join The Golden Braid Bookstore for its annual psychic fair. Free. 151 500 E. GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM Mar. 17-18: An Irish Evening @ Rose Wagner. 7p. An original production by Acadamh Rince Irish Dance School of Murray, Utah. Irish dance, music, stories and culture. $8-$13. 138 W. Broadway.

ARTSALTLAKE.ORG Mar. 18: Dave Malone & Bonnie Sucec Opening Reception @ Phillips Gallery.

6p. Free. 444 E. 200 S. PHILLIPS-GALLERY.COM

Integration of Body and Mind

T’ai Chi and Qigong — Wing Chung Kung-Fu — Iaido and Kendo

801.355.6375

RedLotusSchool.com redlotus@redlotus.cnc.net

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Mar. 18: Thriftworks @ The Urban Lounge. w/ guests Syn Aesthetic, Christ Wright, Feral Williams, Swick James, and Late Night Radio. 9p. $29/$15 adv. 21+.

241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGE.COM Mar. 19: Contra Dance @ First Unitarian Church. 7:30-11p. $5. 569 S. 1300 E. UTAHCONTRA.ORG Mar. 19: Salt Lake Symphony @ The Libby Gardner Hall. Pre-concert lecture 6:15p, concert 7:30p. Conductor Robert Baldwin. Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, Jett Hitt’sYellowstone and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. $10. 1375 Presidents Cir. SALTLAKESYMPHONY.ORG Mar. 19-20: Citizens Climate Lobby Regional Conference @ Wasatch Retreat Center. 8a. An introduction to CCL and workshop on how to create political will and means to address climate change. $75. 75 S. 200 E. BIT.LY/1URXWTH Mar. 19: Flower Seed Starting @ Grateful Tomato Garden Greenhouse. 2p. Learn the best tips and tricks for starting your own beautiful flowers for your gardens from seed. $10. 800 S. 600 E. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

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Mar. 19: Celtic Harps @ Summerhays Music. 7:30p. Performing: Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter, a multi-instrumentalist duo with Celtic Harps, Swedish Nyckelharpa, Ukrainian Bandura, Bouzouki, Cittern and more. $15. 5420 S Green St, Murray. SUMMERHAYSMUSIC.COM Mar. 19: Armen Babakhanian @ Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner. 7:30p.

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Mar. 21: The Strayhorn Project @ Urban Lounge. 7:30p. 21+. New York’s best jazz quintet presents the music of the great Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. $18 adv. $20 day of. 241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Mar. 22: Book Collector’s Evening: The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World @ Alta Club.

6p. w/ Paul Collins, English professor from Portland State University. $70. 100 E. S Temple. ALTACLUB.ORG

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Wed March 16 DARLINGSIDE with King Cardinal

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Mar. 24-26: Willow Harvest @ Swaner EcoCenter. 1p-4p. Help harvest native willows from the Swaner Preserve for later planting along East Canyon Creek.

These annual restoration projects help increase water quality and wildlife habitat. Free. 1258 Center Dr, Park City. BRITTANY.INGALLS@USU.EDU Mar. 25-27: Gem Faire @ South Towne Expo Center. 5p. Fine jewelry, precious & semi-precious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, gold & silver, minerals & much more at manufacturer’s prices.

Nearly 150 exhibitors from around the world. Jewelry repair & cleaning while you shop. Classes & demonstrations. $7 all weekend. Exhibit Hall #5, 9575 S. State St, Sandy. GEMFAIRE.COM Mar. 25: Ana Vidovic: Classical Guitar Concert @ Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College. 8p. Worldrenowned classical guitarist. Free. 1840 S. 1300 E. WESTMINSTERCOLLEGE.EDU/MUSIC

Mar. 22: Young Fathers @ The Urban Lounge. 8p. The three men are each named after their fathers—a unifying bond for a band that pushes against the binds of definition. Rock, pop, hip hop and punk. $14/12 adv. 21+. 241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Mar. 23: Do Reptiles Breathe Like Birds?

Science Night Live @ Keys on Main. 5.30p.

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Mar. 24: ARTLandish Exhibit @ Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium, U of U. 7p.

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Mar. 26: Sarah Kay with Phil Kaye @ Eccles Center. 5p. $25-$75. 750 Kearns Boulevard, Park City. ECCLESCENTER.ORG Mar. 28: Little Green Cars @ The State Room. w/ guest John Mark Nelson. 8p. $12.50. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar. 29: Unraveling the Unknown lecture series @ Natural History Museum of Utah. 7p. Learn how robots and submarines assist with deep sea exploration from oceanographer Dr. David Gallo.

Free. 301 Wakara Way, U of U. NHMU.UTAH.EDU/LECTURESERIES Mar. 31: Food & Garden Short Film Festival @ Brewvies. 7p. A Love Utah Given Utah Day of Giving event.

Featured films: Man In The Maze, Isabella's Garden and Truck Farm. Free, donations encouraged. 677 S. 200 W. BREWVIES.COM Mar. 31- Apr. 9: Gypsy (theatre) @ Vieve Gore concert Hall, Westminster College.

Stephen Sondheim’s 1959 musical about the famous striptease artist. 7:30p. $10.

Directed by Jared Larkin. 1840 S. 1300 E. WESTMINSTERCOLLEGE.EDU/MUSIC Mar. 31: globalFest on the Road: Creole Carnival @ Kingsbury Hall. 7:30p. Enjoy a fun, high-energy evening of world music featuring singer/songwriter Emeline Michelle from Haiti. $20. 1395 E. Presidents Circle. GLOBALFEST.ORG

Mar. 22-23: moves | counter moves @ Rose Wagner. 7.30p. Expansion Dance Company. $20. 138 W. 300 S. ARTSALTLAKE.ORG/ PRODUCTION/MOVES-COUNTER-MOVES

Mar. 24: La Luz @ The Urban Lounge. w/guests Stonefield, The Awful Truth, Sarah Bethe Nelson. 8p. $12. 21+. 241 S. 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM

Sat March 19 AN EVENING WITH PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT

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Mar. 25: White Denim @ The State Room. w/ guest Sam Cohen. 9p. $18. 21+. 638 S. State. THESTATEROOM.COM Mar 26: National Theatre Live: As You Like It @ Broadway Centre Cinemas. $15$20. 111 E. 300 S. BIT.LY/20IQLFR Mar. 26: Contra Dance @ First Unitarian Church. 7:30-11p. $5. 569 S. 1300 E. UTAHCONTRA.ORG Mar. 26: Winter Market @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p. Free. 300 S. Rio Grande St. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Mar. 26-27: Holi Festival of Colors @ Krishna Temple. 10a-5p. A two-day festival of celebration w/ colors, mantra music, yoga and food. $5 entrance fee.

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Mar. 31: Difret, film @ Sorenson Unity Center. 7p. Executive producer, Angelina Jolie Pitt. An Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer are embroiled in a life-or-death clash. In celebration of International Women’s Day. Screening hosted by The Children of Ethiopia Education Fund. $10/7 students. 1383 S. 900 W. COEEF.ORG Mar. 31: Love UT Give UT @ LOVEUTGIVEUT.ORG. All day. 24-hour, online day of giving to over 500 Utah nonprofits and causes. Parties for participating nonprofits all over town, including our very own at the CATALYST office (5-10p. 140 S. McClelland St.) Details: CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

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Risk trusting the heart connections

BY SUZANNE WAGNER Osho Zen Tarot: Ordinariness, Friendliness, Patience Medicine Cards: Dolphin, Antelope Mayan Oracle: Resolution of Duality, Ix, Dissonance Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Six of Disks, High Priestess, Princess of Disks Aleister Crowley Deck: The Trickster Magus, Luxury, The Universe Healing Earth Tarot: The Moon, Emperor Words of Truth: Brilliance, Self Image, Competition

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n eclipse on March 8 in the deeply feeling sign of Pisces sets the tone, especially for those people in the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces). Expect to have your imagination activated. Your creative spirit will shift, grow, expand, or compell you to choose situations that allow your creativity to emerge further.

Eclipses are the â&#x20AC;&#x153;wildâ&#x20AC;? cards of the zodiac. They uproot and surprise you into making changes. Creatively and artistically, some of you will experience a strong new beginning. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; this could be very fun!

If you find yourself affected by the Lunar Eclipse on March 23 in Libra, you will be reflecting on unresolved past issues, particularly regarding legal matters.

Handle taxes now. Mars (the energy planet) will slow down before it goes retrograde on April 17 and as it grinds to a stop, you will feel as if you are trying to move through mud to get things done.

But at the beginning of March, you still have some forward movement of Mars, so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait.

This month you are still trying to broaden your horizons but may be difficult. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take challenges personally.

Saturn is teaching us some tough lessons. Learning new things and implementing new skills is always somewhat complicated and frustrating. The easiest ways to handle Saturn is to stay as openminded as possible and consider all new options. Assume you do not have the answers but that those answers are available. You just have to recognize them when they surface.

Something more powerful than your

mind is in play in your life. Take a breath and let that wave of change take you somewhere unique. By the end of this year you will find yourself in a new, unexpected place, a place much better than you imagined. Trust the process.

When magic shows up, the old order of reality becomes skewed. That is a sure sign that something beyond the controlled patterns of the mind is messing with reality. Practice aligning your heart-knowing with your integrity. You do not need others to approve of your choices or actions. You only need to align with your open and innocent self and allow that energy to mold your world into a new pattern.

This is a month of initiations.

Do you know where you belong?

Have you found your spiritual family?

Through perseverance, you discover that what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeking is close at hand.

This can be easyâ&#x20AC;Ś All you have to do is to follow the joy. Those people in your life whom you want approval from are probably not going to give it to you. So do what feels right for you. Risk trusting the heart connections.

Beyond the surface appearance of your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drama and beneath the chaos of the waves, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find simplicity and balance. The frequency and tone of your life may shift and you will see beyond what others told you and into the core truth of who you are.

Dolphin is teaching you a new rhythm and pattern for your life. As to the present puzzle in which you may find yourself: The answer may be easier than you want to believe. It asks you to let the old pattern dissolve and allow a more fluid and trusting pattern to emerge.

Listen closely. Some things are all about timing and being in alignment with the synchronicity of life. When you are in perfect flow with life, previously blocked situations open, even if just long enough for you to do what you need.

Your inner brilliance is redefining your self image. You do not need to compete with others to find yourself. You only need to do what is opening you in the moment and be at one with the grounded potential that is always present. â&#x2014;&#x2020; Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She now lives in California, but visits Utah for classes and readings frequently. SUZWAGNER.COM

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March 2016

A monthly compendium of wisdom for the home, garden and natural world

BY DIANE OLSON

MARCH 1 LAST QUARTER MOON This month was named for Mars, the Roman god of war and agriculture.

MARCH 2 March has two birthstones. Aquamarines, long believed to come from the jewel caskets of sirens, and bloodstone, said to draw out snake venom.

MARCH 3 Asteroid 2013 TX68 will pass by Earth this week.

Hopefully not too closely, as it’s twice the size of one that exploded over Russia in 2013, injuring 1,500 people. In February, an unfortunate Indian man became the first in recorded history to be killed by a meteorite.

MARCH 4 If you can safely reach your rain gutters, this would be a good time to clean out the moldering leaves and gunk deposited over winter.

MARCH 5 Tradition has it that you can plant early crops when daffodils start to bloom and lilac leaves open.

MARCH 6 Corn mache is a hardy, fastgrowing, nutty-tasting green that can be planted in early spring and again in fall.

Tatsoi, a member of the mustard family, is also cold hardy and quick to grow.

MARCH 7 There may come a time when your mind and soul are still willing to get down and dirty in the garden, but your body is not.

Raised beds and large planters help cut down on digging, weeding and amending the soil.

MARCH 8 Hope it’s clear tonight! Jupiter is both at opposition and its closest approach to Earth, and will be fully illumi-

nated by the Sun. The view will be truly mind blowing through a telescope, but also cool through a good pair of binoculars.

MARCH 9 It’s time to feed the lawn with slow-release organic fertilizer, and to add grass and clover seed.

MARCH 10 A new constellation, in the shape of a lightning bolt, has been named for David Bowie. It includes Spica, one of the brightest stars in the sky.

MARCH 11 This is a good time to plant and fertilize trees and shrubs.

MARCH 12 Pyracantha, or firethorn shrubs, are beloved by birds and other small wildlife. Dense and thorny, they provide perfect cover for roosting and nesting, are a valuable source of nectar, and bear abundant berries in fall. They also make a great impenetrable fence.

MARCH 13 DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS. Physiologically, the spring shift to DST is equivalent to flying east one time zone, with the resultant jetlag. Staying up late and sleeping until noon is equivalent to flying east through two time zones.

MARCH 14 Owls are establishing territories and singing for mates. I’m fortunate to have a family of Western Screech Owls living in the boxelder trees in my backyard. Their quiet evening serenades are delightfully strange—and not screechy at all. Put up a nest box and you might attract a pair.

MARCH 15 FIRST QUARTER MOON. If the ground is clear and you’re a fan of planting by Moon phase, the next two days are optimal for planning aboveground crops, including broccoli, chard, collards, leeks, lettuce, pars-

ley, peas and spinach.

MARCH 16 Cool word: Aeromancy, from the Greek words for “air” and “divination.” It’s predicting the future using atmospheric conditions like cloud formations and wind currents.

MARCH 17 St. Patrick’s Day. Since there never were any snakes in Ireland, the whole driving the snakes out story is purely allegorical: Serpent symbols were common in pagan religions.

MARCH 18 According to Webster’s, “Utahans” is the grammatically correct way to refer to residents of Utah; however, most of us refer to ourselves as “Utahns.”

MARCH 19 This would be a great time to clean out the garage or shed, and inspect yard furniture and gardening tools. Or clean out a closet and do some spring cleaning.

MARCH 20 VERNAL EQUINOX. The Sun shines directly on the equator today, and night and day are equal around the globe. Happy spring!

MARCH 21 The Mayans were obviously celebrators of the equinoxes: On both March 20 and September 20, the shadow cast by the late afternoon sun on the El Castillo pyramid resembles a snake crawling down the wall.

MARCH 22 Ohh, that heavenly smell. You know, the one when the ground is thawing and it starts to rain and you can smell the ozone, petrichor and geosmin. Yeah, that smell.

MARCH 23 FULL WORM MOON/PENUMBRAL ECLIPSE. Starting at around 3:30 a.m. and continuing through dawn, the

Moon will pass through the outer region of the Earth's shadow, or penumbra.

MARCH 24 Those yellow bulges you see on both ends of a worm are cocoons, and they contain eggs. The worm wriggles them off into the soil, post coitus. The baby worms hatch a couple weeks later, tiny, but fully formed.

MARCH 25 It’s time to start fertilizing house plants again. Sprinkle a pinch of Epsom salts in each pot and water it in.

MARCH 26 “Mad as March hare” is a thing. Hares and rabbits get a little freaky at mating time, leaping and dashing about, and boxing with suitors and challengers alike. The buck often jumps over the doe and pees on her as he passes overhead. Kinky.

MARCH 27 Easter. A movable holiday, Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox. Ostera or Eostre was the AngloSaxon goddess of spring. Her symbol was a hare.

MARCH 28 Rainbow and cutthroat trout are spawning. You can feed the trout at City Creek Mall every Saturday at 10 a.m.

MARCH 29 The Bonneville cutthroat, our official state fish, is descended from the cutthroat trout that inhabited Lake Bonneville. They now populate tributaries of the Great Salt Lake.

MARCH 30 Wild carrots originated in the Middle East and were yellow or purple. Try growing a lovely mix of colored carrots this year.

MARCH 31 LAST QUARTER MOON. Per Moon phase, this would be an excellent day to plant carrots, onions, parsnips, potatoes radishes and turnips. ◆ Diane Olson is an author, content strategist at MRM\McCann and long-time CATALYST writer.

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