Date: Thursday, February 25-27, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contact: Reece Summers (435)865-8500
Braithwaite Art Gallery Faculty Exhibit
The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 7:00 p.m., and is located on the ground floor in the Braithwaite Liberal Arts Center building on the east end of the beautiful SUU campus. For more information contact the Gallery at 435-586-5432 or visit our website at www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery.
Admission is free.
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
Contact: 435.865.8800 or visit www.suu.edu/arts
Art Insights is a weekly program hosted during the Fall and Spring semesters by the Art and Design faculty. In Art Insights students and community members meet weekly to attend gallery openings and experience presentations and discussions by visiting artists and art educators from around the nation who share their work and insights.
Admission is free.
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM
Contact: Donna McIntyre (435)586-7890
Thorley Recital Hall: Various students performing in all aspects of music. There will be vocalists, pianists, instrumentalists, etc.
Admission is free.
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM
Contact: call 435.586.2286 or visit http://www.orchestraofsouthernutah.org/
Braithwaite Art Gallery Faculty Exhibit
Heritage Center Theater, located at 105 North 100 East, Cedar City, UT Individual concert tickets are available at the Heritage Center Box Office, one week prior to performances: Adults $10, Students $5, Groups of six $30. No Children under age six are allowed at evening concerts, as these are recorded for international broadcast, via podcasts. For more information, please visit.
We are trying to arrange for free/discounted tickets for UCUR participants. Stay tuned.
Utah's First National Park: Massive canyon walls ascend toward a brilliant blue sky. To experience Zion, you need to walk among the towering cliffs, or challenge your courage in a small narrow canyon. These unique sandstone cliffs range in color from cream, to pink, to red. The north entrance of Zion, Kolob Canyon, is a mere 20 minutes south of Cedar City, just off highway 15.
http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm
Entrance Fee: $25 day pass for a vehicle of up to 7 passengers
Red Cliffs offers several marked hiking trails that will lead you through beautiful red rock formations and narrow canyons filled with pools of water. The Silver Reef lookout trail is approx 0.5 miles long and leads to red rock lookout, which overlooks the Sliver Reef Valley. Sliver Reef is the only known place in the United States where commercial deposits of silver ore are found in a sandstone formation. To the west of the parking lot is a trail head that offers a beautiful hike through a narrow canyon with towering red rock walls and will lead you to several pools of water.
Facilities: There are 10 overnight camping sites, and a picnic area next to the creek. Water, picnic tables, and vault toilets are available. Overnight camping is $8.00/day, day-use $2.00/vehicle.
How to Get There: Take southbound Exit 23 off I-15 to the town of Leeds. Drive south through the town until you get to a sign that says Harrisburg and Red Cliffs Recreation Site.
2180 E Riverside Dr
Saint George, UT 84790-2483
(435) 574-3466
www.dinotrax.com
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, show evidence that this site was produced along the western edge of a large, Early Jurassic (age between 195-198 million years ago) freshwater lake named Lake Dixie. The site can provide research opportunities to undergraduate students in earth sciences. Contact Andrew Milner, the city paleontologist and site curator, for more information: amilner@sgcity.org
Admission: $6 for adults
421 E Highway 91
Enoch, Utah (a few miles north of Cedar City)
(435) 586-1383
Located approximately 45 minutes from Cedar City, Brian Head is Utah's highest-elevation resort, receiving over 400 annual inches of light, Utah powder. The resort has 50+ runs for all ability levels. Brian Head Resort is one of the best kept skiing and snowboarding secrets around!
http://www.utah.com/ski/resorts/brian_head.htm
900 N. 200 E.
(435) 586-2970
Cedar Ridge Golf Course is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Cedar City, Utah. This medium-length layout has 3 sets of tee boxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience. A driving range is also available.
Hours of operation for the Golf Course are during daylight hours. This is approximately 7:00 am - 6:00 pm in the Winter.
1040 Sage Way in Cedar City
(435)-867-6261
www.westatestheatres.com
170 East Fiddler Canyon Rd. in Cedar City
(435)-867-6261
www.westatestheatres.com