Wake the Great Salt Lake Billboard Bash
Friday, May 9, 6–8pm
870 South 900 West, Salt Lake City
A one-night-only pop-up event transforming a Poplar Grove billboard lot into a celebration of art, community, and the future of Great Salt Lake. The Billboard Bash is the opening reception for Nick Pedersen’s powerful new work, “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow“ — a dual billboard installation that imagines a future with — and without — Great Salt Lake. Free and open to the public!
Plus more art, performances, and lake-facing stories from artists across the WakeGSL program, including:
- An opening ceremony with Rios Pacheco, Cultural and Spiritual Representative of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
- A preview of Mitsu Salmon‘s upcoming dance performance, “Feathered Tides”
- An excerpt reading from Plan-B Theatre Company‘s forthcoming production,” Just Add Water”
- The Great Salt Lake Hopeline
- Kellie Bornhoft from “By a Thread”
- Trevor Dahl live drawing
- Remarks from Salt Lake City Councilmember Alejandro Puy; Dr. Bonnie Baxter, Director of Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute; Felicia Baca, Director of the Salt Lake City Arts Council
- Art activities and takeaways from the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Grow the Flow, Great Salt Lake Audubon, Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake, Friends of Great Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake Collaborative …
- and more!
