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This year's festival sponsors are:
Utah Humanities Council
Utah Arts Council
VSA/Art Acess of Utah
San Juan County Economic Development
San Juan County School District
Rocky Mountain Power
Business Owners of Bluff
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1:00-5pm |
Meet
at the top of the Bluff Cemetery Hill
"In
Search of Twin Symbolism" - Lecture
and hike with artist and archaeoastronomy expert, Joe Pachak.
Space is limited to 15 people. Reservations are required.
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7-9pm |
Bluff
Community Center
"The Eleventh
Cosmic Direction" - With retired Hansen
Planetarium and Albert Einstein Planetarium Director (Smithsonian
Institution), Von Del Chamberlain
“Bluff's
Sense of Place - Repetition of Twins”- With
Joe Pachak, a Utah artist who specializes in life-sized representations
of rock art as well as Anasazi-like solstice observatories. Joe
will share his lifelong passion for the preservation
and interpretation of ruins and ancient artwork while speaking
about humanity’s interaction with the Four Corners
land and sky scapes. |
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9am-12pm |
Locations
Throughout Bluff
Trail of the Artists Exhibits and Receptions |
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10am-4pm |
Bluff
Community Center
Arts Fair - Regional
artists will exhibit and sell their works
Leonardo
on Wheels - The
Leonardo Science (formerly Utah
Science Center) traveling exhibit will present a variety of
interactive exhibits based on the notebooks of Leonardo
Da Vinci. This
family friendly presentation will include the following:
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FlightSim - An interactive flight simulation experience provided
by Rockwell Collins in Salt
Lake City. Fly to and from Salt
Lake City and 29 other airports around the
world (and safely crash!) using high resolution digital
geographic images coupled with GoogleEarth for perspective
and awareness. One of our demonstrators will be a
young woman from Bluff, now with Rockwell Collins
in Salt Lake City! |
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DuffArt -
Sit down on a pressure sensor mat and discover the
artistic image of your own "duff" or your partner's.
Now that's science and art! |
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Seeing
YOUR Insides -
View your own carotid artery and jugular vein using
a unique ultrasound system provided by Bard Access
in Salt Lake City. Participants can save the
file for their future artistic use (bring a flash
or thumb drive to record the file). |
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1:00-3pm |
Desert Rose Inn Conference Center
"Writing What You Don't Know" -
Writing workshop with Katharine Coles, Utah Poet Laureate.
Space is limited and reservations are required. |
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6:00-9pm |
The
Nada Bar
Poetry and Potluck - Following
the traditionally fabulous Bluff Potluck supper, Utah
Poet Laureate, Katharine Coles and local poet and professional
entomologist, Lorraine Nakai will perform poetry with
a scientific flavor. Local poets will be invited
to share their works.
Music for the evening will be provided by Randy Bouchard
and Anna Hart. |
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9-10am |
San
Juan River Kitchen
Tree of Life and Skeleton Coast - Outsider
artist, JR Lancaster will discuss his Skeleton
Coast collage (the festival’s featured artwork)
and his outdoor stone and living tree installation,
Tree of Life. Following the presentation at the
San Juan River Kitchen, JR will move to the Tree
of Life for more detailed examination of this unique
work.
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11am |
Twin
Rocks Trading Post
"Artful Expressions of Mathematical
Beauty: Native American Cultural
Connections" - Ethnomathematics Discussion - Professors Becky Monhardt
and Jim Barta will discuss the cultural interface between
the arts and science.
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