EVENTS
Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories is more than a podcast, it’s part of a community-wide movement to deepen our collective relationship with Great Salt Lake and with each other as we advocate for a deeper water level. Join us at upcoming events that aim to identify to heal, restore, and avert the crisis at Great Salt Lake.
Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories Exhibit
Salt Lake City Public Library
April 13-June 1
In this multimedia exhibit, we will showcase lakefacing stories through photos, audio clips and text from people we interviewed for the Stay Salty podcast. The exhibit will invite people to move slowly through the space as people listen to our neighbors’ voices, appreciate photos from the imperiled inland sea and read stories that answer our core questions about our future in the Great Salt Lake Basin: Why stay? How to stay? And who gets to stay (or leave)?
Exhibit Opening Reception
Salt Lake City Public Library
April 13, 3-5PM
Lower Urban Room Gallery
Join us to celebrate the opening of the Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories exhibit and podcast launch! Hear from local creators and storytellers who made the project possible, and share your own Great Salt Lake story at a storytelling booth. More details to come!
Storytelling Workshop(s)
Salt Lake City Public Library and Jordan River Nature Center
Spring 2024, date and time TBD
If you live in the Great Salt Lake Basin, chances are you have a Great Salt Lake story worth sharing — even if you don’t know it yet. With the help of skilled facilitators and storytellers, we’ll help you tap into your connections to this place. We’ll explore our project’s guiding questions: Why stay? How to stay? And who gets to stay (or leave)? And we’ll talk through storytelling tips and tricks so if you want to share your story with a wider audience, whether through a creative outlet or advocacy space, you’ll feel confident doing so. Overall, we’ll create a non-judgemental, welcoming space to explore our relationships, care and future with Great Salt Lake.
Community Dialogue
Salt Lake City Public Library
Spring 2024, date and time TBD
Great Salt Lake can be a contentious topic, but most agree that losing the lake won’t work for the humans and wildlife that live in the region. We will host a community dialogue that explores our guiding questions: Why stay? How to stay? And who gets to stay (or leave)? As a group, we’ll explore these questions at a personal and collective level. We hope participants will walk away with a greater understanding of their own relationship with Great Salt Lake and the current crisis, as well as new ways to think about our connections to the place, solutions to the crisis and disproportionate impacts.
