Utah Events

The calm of a late-summer morning was shattered when coordinated terrorist attacks killed nearly 3,000 — including 412 first responders — on September 11, 2001. In the ensuing weeks and months, the people of the United States of America came together in a way not often seen.

It is that feeling of togetherness that the City of St. George, American Legion Post 90, the St. George Exchange Club, United We Pledge and many other community organizations hope to evoke during “Patriot Day: Remembering 9/11” at Historic Town Square.

This multi-day event includes:

Patriotic program, Sept. 11 at 6:30 p.m. at Historic Town Square, featuring a bell tribute from the St. George Fire Department, children’s choirs and guest speakers. Kids activities will be available, including patriotic face painting.
Flag retirement ceremony, Sept. 11 at Town Square, conducted by the Sons of the American Revolution and United We Pledge. This will start immediately after the patriotic program.
Field of Heroes, from September.9 to September 11 on the Town Square lawn, a display American flags, representing first responders who perished on 9/11.

A great way to spend a summer night on The Farm with friends and neighbors to enjoy music (sponsored by local community businesses), burgers made with grass-fed and finished beef from Sunnyside Up Pastures and free-range pork on a hand-made brioche bun with lettuce from the field, secret sauce, grilled onions, a farmstead cheese, with delicious seasonal sides, hand-squeezed frosty lemonade, made from scratch pies and good company.

This event is family-friendly and fun for all ages.  10% off your order if you ride your bike out (pedal or motor), we reward you with premium parking –  on the farm, not on the street.

​There is no fee to listen to the band, and you do not have to purchase food. No off-site food. Tipping the band is encouraged. You’re welcome to bring along blankets, lawn chairs, umbrellas, and BYOB.

Cheers! Join us for Oktoberfest with live music and multiple vendors. We will be extending out food and bev services to 8pm.

Live Bands and Times:

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Run Away Fire
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm: Groovonix
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Safety Orange

Join us for an unforgettable week of festivities as we celebrate the rich heritage and vibrant community spirit of St. George with the Dixie Days celebration. We have a fantastic lineup of events and activities for all ages. Come and enjoy a variety of attractions, including a lively festival, engaging film screenings, a thrilling golf tournament, the exciting Dixie Round-Up Rodeo, and much more!

With so much to see and do, Dixie Days is an event you won't want to miss. We look forward to seeing you there this year!

This exciting event is set to become a community favorite, drawing a large crowd eager to participate in the festivities. Dixie Days will feature a variety of attractions and activities for all ages, ensuring a fun-filled day for everyone!

Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, murderous family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves, Elaine Harper, who lives next door and is the daughter of the local minister.

Alejandro Brittes: Bringing Chamamé to Southern Utah

Acclaimed accordionist Alejandro Brittes brings UNESCO-recognized Chamamé to Southern Utah this Fall! Following his successful East Coast tour, Brittes and his trio will go on to perform at prestigious venues like San José Jazz Festival and Stanford Live, offering a unique blend of Indigenous Guaraní and Baroque influences.

This tour bridges the multicultural heritage of the Southwest with southern South America. Brittes will showcase Chamamé's connection to rivers, particularly poignant given recent flooding in his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The tour supports flood relief efforts through collaborations with the Brazil California Chamber of Commerce and Santa Barbara-based Direct Relief.

Experience the vibrant rhythms of Chamamé while supporting cultural exchange and humanitarian efforts. Don't miss this celebration of music, heritage, and solidarity, realized by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and sponsored by Arroz Prato Fino.

Formerly known as Junior Ranger Family Night, Tonaquint Family Night is a cherished tradition for families in St. George, Utah. Join us for an evening of fun and adventure at Tonaquint Nature Center.

The focus of Tonaquint Family Night is to provide families with an engaging and educational experience centered around nature and outdoor activities. Come one, come all to connect with nature, be educated on local wildlife and conservation, learn about outdoor recreation opportunities right in our backyard, and feel inspired by the local organizations in our area.

Date: September 20th, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Tonaquint Nature Center (1851 S. Dixie Dr.)

Join us in beautiful Southern Utah this autumn for the Red Rocks Improv Festival! In addition to world class improv from around the world, set your sights on the incredible majesty of the Cedar Breaks mountains, hike one of the 40+ scenic trails in the Cedar City area, or journey an extra 45 minutes south to visit Zion National Park! Local shops, delicious restaurants, and a historic monument or two can be found while exploring the more urban areas of our little city!

At night the real fun begins as improvisers from every corner step onto the OTC Comedy Theatre stage to help you forget your worries for a little while with a heavy dose of engaging and/or hilarious improvised entertainment!

Stories From Home is a series of dances embodying the oral traditions of Nuevomexicano, Chicano, and Mexican American communities in the American Southwest. Choreographer Yvonne Montoya, a 23rd-generation Nuevomexicana, and an all-Mexican American cast of dancers draw upon personal histories and ancestral knowledge, including stories from Montoya’s great-grandmother, grandmother, great-aunts, and father. With palpable theatricality, moving spoken word, a movement aesthetic informed by vibrant ancestral and contemporary sources, and universal themes of love, family, and home, Stories from Home brings largely underrepresented Southwest Latino American experiences and histories to the stage.

While Stories from Home is a vessel for personal and specific tales, the performance also offers a broader look at a variety of Southwest cultural traditions and accounts not often found in American history books. The work addresses historical themes such as the Mexican farm labor Bracero Program, the creation of the Atomic Bomb in Northern New Mexico and illness related to these US Government projects, loss of language due to 1940s Americanization programs, and the experience of the Sephardim people during and after the Spanish Inquisition.

Yvonne Montoya

Artistic Director & Choreographer

Yvonne Montoya is a mother, dancemaker, bi-national artist, thought leader, writer, speaker, and the founding director of Safos Dance Theatre. Based in Tucson, Arizona and originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, her work is grounded in and inspired by the landscapes, languages, cultures, and aesthetics of the U.S. Southwest.

Montoya is a process-based dancemaker who creates low-tech, site-specific and site-adaptive pieces for nontraditional dance spaces. Though most well-known in the U.S. Southwest, her choreography has been staged across the United States and in Guatemala, and her dance films screened, at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina and the University of Exeter (U.K.) Under her direction, Safos Dance Theatre won the Tucson Pima Arts Council’s Lumie Award for Emerging Organization in 2015. She is currently working on Stories from Home, a series of dances based on her family’s oral histories.

From 2017-2018 Montoya was a Post-Graduate Fellow in Dance at Arizona State University, where she founded and organized the five year dance advocacy project Dance in the Desert: A Gathering of Latinx Dancemakers from 2017-2022. From 2019-2020, Montoya was a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, and a member of the 2019-2020 Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists pilot program. She was also a 2021-2022 Southwest Folk Alliance Plain View Fellow. Montoya was a recipient of the 2019 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) POD grant, the 2020 MAP Fund Award, and the first Arizona-based artist to receive the 2020 New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project Production Grant.  Montoya won the Arizona Creative Excellence Award at the 2021 Arizona Drive-In Dance Film Festival. In 2022, her company Safos Dance Theatre received the National Performance Network Creation Fund Grant and the National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Project Grant for her piece “Stories from Home.” Yvonne was also recently featured in KQED’s If Cities Could Dance.

Those of us who live here now either moved to escape the snow, or grew up in the area.   Although 3 of the 4 seasons are very pleasant, summer can be a scorcher.  But, as I’ve heard said, “You don’t have to shovel heat” and summer seems to fly by.

If you have ever wondered about Washington County’s history, or pondered (probably in August) why pioneers—without air conditioning—would stay, you need to attend the DUP McQuarrie Memorial Museum’s Third Weekend presentation.

Mr. Loren Webb is the presenter and will discuss the history of Washington County, its geography, early explorers, native American inhabitants, water resources, isolation, population growth and possible future.

Loren Webb is a St. George native, attending Dixie College then BYU to earn a Bachelors then a Masters Degree.  He is an active member of the Washington County Historical Society, and has worked as a journalist for several newspapers.  He has also taught high school and junior high students.  His presentation may answer some questions and will, no doubt, be interesting and informative.

The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers McQuarrie Memorial Museum always has exceptional presentations and this will start their season on September 21 at 10:00 a.m.  The Museum is located at 145 North 100 East in St. George.  It is always free, the public is welcome,  and there is handicap access.  You can log on to or call 435-628-7274 for any additional information.

Yin on Fire is a gathering for consciousness expansion and personal healing and growth.

Three nights of main stage concerts with conscious music, dance, and fire performances.
Including Gone Gone Beyond, Deya Dova, Ruby Chase, Ashana, Dirtwire and The Human Experience.

Over 80 experiential healing workshops to choose from led by gifted practitioners ranging from functional holistic medicine to shamans.

Meet the authors - a line up of  authors/teachers who write in the genre of consciousness and spirituality.

SPARK Talks, short, inspirational talks given by thought leaders in the field of personal growth.

Lake for swimming and 200ft waterslide.

Camping onsite included.

Marketplace of vendors.

Food trucks

Hot off its Off-Broadway premiere, ‘A Taste of Ireland―The Irish Music & Dance Sensation’ hits stages across the USA this fall, performing the show that has entertained thousands around the globe. Laugh, cry and jig into the night with a production that is Celtic, for this generation.

Performed by former World Irish dance champions, and featuring dancers from the West End’s Lord of the Dance and Riverdance, ‘A Taste of Ireland’ transports the audience through the story of Ireland’s tumultuous history delivered with a pint of Irish wit. Watch world-class performers blend melodic folk mash-ups, live jaw-dropping acapella tap battles and heartwarming story telling.

Featuring revamped classics of Danny Boy, Tell Me Ma, Wild Rover, and many more well known songs, the show’s reimagined contemporary score blossoms alongside the brash Irish charm of the live dance cast. ‘A Taste of Ireland’ merges cultural traditions, modern flair, and craic galore, to deliver a performance that has been leaving audiences across the globe jigging on their feet for the last decade.

With over one hundred and fifty 5-star Facebook reviews, ‘A Taste of Ireland’ is exactly what it promises: a taste of everything you love about Ireland with a generous helping of more! ’A Taste of Ireland’ is a show with 100% live singing and dancing that bridges the gap between storytelling, modern Irish dance, tap and contemporary dance to tell a historic story, live on stage.

With a strictly limited USA run, see ‘A Taste of Ireland’ this fall for limited performances before it takes off around the globe once again.

Concerts in the Park are on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays
May through September
8pm at Pioneer Park

From ancient Sahara-like dunes to vanished seaways, discover how our iconic red rocks formed over millions of years. Dr. Cari Johnson will guide you through the fascinating story of Southern Utah’s dramatic landscapes.

Dr. Cari Johnson is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah, and the 2021 recipient of the Dickinson Medal from the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Dr. Johnson’s research is broadly based in sedimentary basin analysis. More recent work has centered on anthropogenic sedimentary systems such as Lake Powell reservoir sediment and deltas, as well as energy transitions including carbon management and sedimentary geothermal resources.

There will be a 6:30 social hour with drinks, snacks, and the opportunity to mingle with like-minded patrons.

The Cedar City Arts Council is pleased to invite you to the Final Friday Art Walk featuring live music, art exhibits, and art demonstrations. It is designed as a family-friendly free evening at  5 to 8 p.m. from Artisans to the Southern Utah Music of Art and down to the Johnson Art Center. Three more dates: July 26, August 30, and September 27.

Santa Clara’s Annual Swiss Days Celebration is truly a home-town celebration full of history and fun! Santa Clara celebrated its first Swiss Days in 1990 in tribute to the town’s heritage in which Swiss Pioneers settled in Santa Clara in 1861.

Swiss Days includes our famous 5k run/walk and pancake breakfast, followed by the always popular Swiss Days Parade heading east on Santa Clara Drive from the Jacob Hamblin home to the City Hall. The parade will showcase the Santa Clara Princess Royalty, antique cars, the Grand Marshal, local businesses and schools, live animals, homemade floats, and everything in between.

The three day festival at Town Hall will also include food and merchandise vendors, continuous entertainment including a free Friday night concert, town and family heritage displays, pioneer craft demonstrations (at Heritage Square), tournaments, bingo, children’s games and more. In addition, a red rock Car Show will be at Canyon View Park.

Through the years, Washington County’s rugged and colorful scenery has been a natural attraction for many Hollywood filmmakers.  Scenes from two particular movies - “Gunpoint”  (1964 starring Audrey  Murphy), and The Appaloosa (1965) starring Marlon Brando - were filmed at Silver Reef and are thus a little-known part of The Reef’s unique and interesting history.
About The Presenter: Ken Howell

Ken Howell, along with his father Jack and brother Breck, lived at Silver Reef (population 3) during the decade of the 1960s, long before its residential development.
Following a church mission and education at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and court reporting school in Denver, Ken enjoyed a 40-year career as a circuit court reporter for the South Dakota Unified Judicial System, based in Sturgis, South Dakota. Upon retiring in 2013, they left the beautiful Black Hills and moved to northern Utah to be closer to their family. Ken and his wife Celia are the proud parents of six children, fourteen grandchildren, and one great-grandson.

Reservations suggested:

https://tinyurl.com/HollywoodcametoSilverReef

or 435.879.2254  Donations  appreciated!

http://silverreef.org

The annual Red Rock Film Festival has a mission to show both “film that portrays the human race in a positive light and to applaud original works that redefine media through innovation, creativity and sensitivity that both enlightens and educates audiences from around the world.”

It is an artist’s retreat for film, cuisine, parties, workshops and panels with approachable professional people. The Red Rock Film Festival (mostly competition films) is held traditionally in the fall in Southern Utah. Attend several films and events with filmmakers and up-coming actors. In addition to the live in-person events, some films and events will also be held virtually via a computer portal for special pass holders. From westerns and adventure sports docs and international dramatic features, the location is just a 100 min. to 2 1/2 hour drive North of Las Vegas, and offers a breathtaking location to see film. All Ages welcome.

Utah’s Lantern Festival is a homegrown Utah Event & Festival that planted its roots in southern Utah in 2018. We pride ourselves in driving local participation by inviting local vendors, food trucks, and shops to participate in our events. With the help of wonderful volunteers and our talented community, we will continue to grow to be Utah’s premier lantern festival!

THE STORY: One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

This brilliant comedic play premiered and ran on Broadway in 2022.

Rating: VERY MATURE   —  Extreme language, adult situations, discussions of sexual topics, various states of undress (no nudity) – please research the play if you are unsure if you will find it offensive. This show won’t be for everybody – but for those of you who would enjoy it, you will LOVE it. Patrons under the age of 18 should be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

This is a non-partisan play. It does not make fun of Republicans or Democrats. It makes fun of politics, politicians, and the situations they create.

Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece
September 28
7 PM
Southern Utah University - Bristlecone Hall, Room 105
Join PBS Utah and Southern Utah University for a special advance screening of the newest Masterpiece Mystery: The Marlow Murder Club. Murder visits the quiet riverside town of Marlow and, as the crime involves her neighbor, retired archaeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond) is compelled to solve the whodunnit.

RSVP is encouraged to secure your seat. RSVP to Jessica Rasekhi at  jrasekhi@pbsutah.org by September 25.