Past Z-Arts! Events

Conservation Activism in Africa

Posted by jeankrause on Jan 14, 2013 in Past Humanities Events | Comments Off

Michael McBride has a happy meeting with Jane Goodall at the 9th World Wilderness Congress in the Yucatan Mexico Nov 6-13, 2006.

Conservation Activism in Africa: The Bateleurs, “Volunteer pilots flying for Conservation in South Africa” and The Conservation Tragedy in the Congo.

Please join us at 7:00 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center on Saturday, February 16, 2013 for a presentation by Rockville’s own Michael McBride on the subject of conservation activism in Africa.

A member of the Explorer’s Club and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he has more than 40 years experience as a wilderness guide and bush pilot flying the wilds of Alaska. He’s a master guide, licensed Coast Guard captain, and has strong expertise in marine biology. Michael is a Nationally Certified Yoga Teacher. He has served as a Smithsonian National Board Member, a Trustee for The Nature Conservancy and Wild Foundation board member. He was awarded a Legislative Citation for Practical Activism. He was an Advisory Board member and pilot for Lighthawk, “Volunteer pilots flying for conservation in America” and a founding patron of Bateleurs, “Volunteer pilots flying for conservation in Africa” and is an elected member of the Africa Game Rangers Association. He is a poet and author and his Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge has won a score of international awards and is listed in the NY Times Best Seller “1000 Places To See Before You Die.” Web site: alaskawildernesslodge.com.

The Frankfort Zoological Society (FZS) in Germany was awarded a $5million grant from the European Union in 2011 to create a Master Plan for the reconstruction of two war torn National Parks in the Congo. The Upemba Park was created in the 1930’s during the Belgian colonial era and the Kundelungu Park before independence and the renaming of the country to Zaire. Both once teemed with animals that represented the best of Africa.  The tourism infrastructure as been burned and looted and the animals killed. Michael McBride was invited to participate as a member of the FZS team and came with some African and international experience in the protection of large animal migration corridors and trans boundary parks creation. Michael is currently working in the Congo towards the restoration of these two war-torn National Parks,Upemba and Kundelungu, especially to create a protected elephant migration corridor between them.  One way is which Michael McBride has contributed to conservation in Africa is through the creation of the Bateleurs, “Volunteer Pilots Flying for Conservation in Africa.”

In this lecture Mr. McBride will detail his work with the national park rangers in Congo and present a slideshow of these Upemba and Kundelungu National Parks of Congo.

Please join us for this informative presentation by one of our “locals.”

What Are We Doing to Pigs?

Posted by jeankrause on Jan 13, 2013 in Past Events, Past Humanities Events | Comments Off

On March 2, 2013, 7:00 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center, Brett Mizelle, Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach presents a lecture on his new book, Pig.  

Pig is the latest publication in a series of books, the Animal series, that calls itself “a new kind of animal history.”  The Animal series from Reaktion Books uniquely explores the natural history of an animal alongside its historical and cultural impact on humankind. Now in its 10th year of publication, and with 50 titles available, this acclaimed and groundbreaking series continues to lead the way in natural history publishing.  Professor Brett Mizelle is one of several academics who have written books in the Animal series.

Join us on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center for this interesting and inventive look at pigs.

This event has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council. The Utah Humanities Council promotes history and heritage, literature and literacy, and public discussion of issues important to our communities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website or the lectures do not necessarily represent those of the Utah Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Inside the Experience of a Virtuoso

Posted by jeankrause on Jan 5, 2013 in Past Events, Past Humanities Events | Comments Off

March 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center

Professor Russell Hurlburt (Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas) directs an on-going project on the nature of artistic creativity.  Representing the culmination of 30 years of research—this project is driven by a central research question: What is the experience of creativity like? Is it possible to discover the artist’s inner experience during the creative act? If so, how?

To generate such data, Prof. Hurlburt devised an innovative methodology, in which he randomly beeped the participating artist, who was then asked to stop and jot down notes on what he had been thinking and/or feeling at the moment just before the beep.  One particular subject, virtuoso guitarist Ricardo Cobo, participated in these protocols over an extended period of time, at all times of the day and night.  Ricardo Cobo, also a professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, will join Professor Hurlburtt at the Canyon Community Center at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2013 to lecture on their experiences in this joint endeavor.

The audience will be invited to participate in the process through the use of a one page handout that asks audience members to jot down notes on the content of their thoughts/feelings while listening to Ricardo Cobo’s guitar performance, whenever a beep is sounded. This provides an active demonstration of Professor Hurlburt’s research methodology, as opposed to a mere description of it.

Professor Cobo then performs his selected piece.

Following the guitar performance and the scribbling of notes by the audience, Professor Hurlburt will randomly select a member of the audience to share his/her notes.  This in turn launches a three-way discussion between the two presenters and the audience member.

The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes followed by a question/answer period.

This event has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council. The Utah Humanities Council promotes history and heritage, literature and literacy, and public discussion of issues important to our communities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website or the lectures do not necessarily represent those of the Utah Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Carol Bold – “Southwest Adventure”

Posted by NancyGoodell on Nov 9, 2012 in Past Visual Arts Events | Comments Off

Since moving to Southern Utah two years ago, Carol Bold has not only embodied the spirit of the Southwest, she has lived it. She has traveled its winding trails, explored its rough terrain, traversed vast plateaus and broad basins, gazed up towering canyon walls, climbed through deserts of painted rocks, and looked down on the world from the clouds above. In her newest exhibition, Carol brings this personal voyage to the public. Through her vivid use of color, her iconic imagery and her eye for the dramatic, she captures the Southwest Adventure in a way words cannot convey.

Zion Joy to the World

Posted by admin on Oct 1, 2012 in Past Events, Past Performing Arts | Comments Off

 Music on the Mart at

Sol Foods Market, 955 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale

November 24 5:30 to 7:30 Sunset Corner Bluegrass Band

December 8, 5:30 to 7:00 Soul What Rhythm and Blues

For more information go to: http://www.zionjoy.com/index.html