Local artists perform or present short works in a variety of media, including music, dance, film, and spoken word. Held the third Sunday of each month.
Nic Rose is a free improvisation pianist based in Salt Lake City. While also able to perform more traditional jazz styles, Nic is more interested in bringing free improvisation into new contexts and finding a unique voice personal to himself. This performance will utilize mostly piano and keyboard as well as several percussive instruments to create a more full range of sound. As this is a solo piece, and there are no other musicians to respond to, Nic will be responding to himself making choices based on what came before.
Virginia Broyles will be presenting her film, from what I remember, an exploration of tenderness through the lens of memory. What is the texture of intimate moments as we look back? Some things are softened, some embellished, and some fabricated. Featuring performances by Masio Sangster, Nick Weaver and cinematography by Syd Ostendorf.
Virginia is a director, editor, producer, and educator in film and dance. Her creative work lives in the space between familiar and unfamiliar, collaging images and events together that surprise and delight. Virginia’s performance work has been presented at Aux Experimental Arts Festival, The Garage (SF), Dance Mission Theater, the Atlanta Fringe Festival, Playground Dance in SLC. Her screendance work has shown internationally at festivals. Virginia holds an MFA from the University of Utah and currently resides in Salt Lake City.
Follow The Chords So Sweetly is a collaborative ode to queer dreaming shared through the vehicles of movement, theatre, and live music. The work yearns for the queer domestic life through living room vignettes of mundane and euphoric love. A world of fabric clouds, whispered thoughts, flowing nightgowns, and a lamp-tied-clothesline invites us to reflect on the privilege and necessity of dreaming. Making queer domesticity — a reality continuously denied and destroyed — tangible through multi-disciplinary, celebratory performance is an act of collective resistance. Through our dreams, we can access absurdity, simplicity, our deepest desires, and shared humanity: we can live the possibility of the future peace and safety for which we all yearn.
Maeve Friedman is a freelance artist originally from Maryland and Maine. She grew up in a Quaker school environment before studying dance at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ BFA program. Maeve danced with SALT2 Contemporary Dance Company in 2023 upon her move to Utah, and is a maker of screen dances represented at LadyFest Charlotte’s Film Festival, Noori Screendance Festival, and American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers. She recently spent her summer exploring festival marketing, videography, and editing while working at Bates Dance Festival. Maeve is a collaborative member of SLC dance collective Fleet Co-Operative. She is currently fascinated with improvisation, humor and character, and the multidisciplinary possibilities of voice and props.
Mads Ward is a multi-disciplinary freelance storyteller. They use a variety of mediums - movement, writing, acting, visuals, & theatrical world-building - as vehicles to make abstract narratives tangible & accessible. They enjoy breaking the traditional “stage-audience” relationship in performance. As a third year student at the University of Utah pursuing honors degrees in Sociology and Urban Ecology, Mads channels these artistic interests into creative design interventions for improved cities and communities. They are appreciative of the continuous, immersive dance “education” they receive from community collaboration. Mads is a member of Fleet Co-Operative, a big fan of brie, and an avid outfit-layerer.
Bly Wallentine started humming and never stopped — and now here we are, atwixt the aftermath. A genre-fluid composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, she’s Pandoraed open a whole box of albums and songbooks, producing records with Choir Boy, Little Moon, Mindy Gledhill, and plenty of other beloved artists, local and afar. Her music tickles the boundaries between us, erupting all felt spirits in laughter and tears. For Bly, sound is a playground where joy walks the long road home. There’s no time to lose! Let’s find each other in timeless echoes.
12 Minutes Max is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Paul Reynolds: artist, librarian, and patron of the arts. The 12 Minutes Max program is a curated monthly performance series featuring experimental short works by local artists in many different disciplines, including dance, music, film, and more. Each piece is followed by a Q&A with the artist. 12MM is modeled after the program originated by On the Boards in Seattle.
AGE GROUP: | Teens | All Ages | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Performances & Presentations | Music | Arts & Creativity |
NOTE: The Main Library's Rooftop Terrace is closed for renovations.
Salt Lake City's Main Library, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with VCBO Architecture, opened in February 2003 and remains one of the most architecturally unique structures in Utah. This striking 240,000 square-foot structure houses more than 500,000 books and other materials, yet serves as more than just a repository of books and computers. It reflects and engages the city's imagination and aspirations. The structure embraces a public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium.
A multi-level reading area along the Glass Lens at the southern facade of the building looks out onto the plaza with stunning views of the city and Wasatch Mountains beyond. Spiraling fireplaces on four floors resemble a column of flame from the vantage of 200 East and 400 South. The Urban Room between the Library and the Crescent Wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views.
