Get a grant for your community food project

  • January 17, 2025
  • Share Facebook
Blog

Punk Rock Farmer Friday with Slow Food Utah microgrants, Zions park ranger, Making Waves for the GSL, State Pinball Championships, Skywatcher Leo T, and homegrown music with SLUG Mag's Angela H. Brown.

Tonight's Punk Rock Farmer Friday edition of RadioACTive features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community:

Red Acre Center's Symbria and Sara Patterson recap the 2025 Utah Farm & Food Conference and preview the Utah Legislative session that starts Tuesday.

  • Jan. 21-Mar.7: Pastries & Politics every Thursday with Red Acre Center, Rm #105 of the Utah State Capitol Building, 350 N. State St., SLC

  • Feb. 19: Day on the Hill with Red Acre Center

Homegrown music picks with Angela H. Brown of SLUG Mag, which will celebrate 36 years of covering the Utah scene next month. Listen for cuts from Manañero, Bonestorm and Orange Soda.

Sarah May of Making Waves Artist Collaborative (along with visiting artivist Zoe Wagner). The nonprofit will be holding a daily vigil for Great Salt Lake at the Utah State Capitol throughout the entirety of the 2025 legislative session. Everyone is invited to honor the lake and celebrate all of the species she sustains. The vigil will take place Monday through Friday from January 21st through March 7th. There are daily opportunities for the public to join in.

  • Walk the Waves, Monday-Thursday 8-9AM. "Meet on the southeast sidewalk in front of the Capitol at 8AM. We will acknowledge the land and the lake and then silently carry giant blue and white sun-printed waves around the perimeter, walking counter-clockwise to turn hearts and faces back toward the lake. When we reach the west-facing patio, we will pause there to sing to the sea."

  • Celebrate the Species, Tuesday (1/21) and each Friday: 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/28, 3/7 5-6PM. "During the Utah State Legislative session, we will gather each Friday evening (1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, & 3/7) on the sidewalk just east of the Capitol at 5PM. We will also be Celebrating the Species on Tuesday, January 21st, at 5PM. 

    • "With the help of community-built puppets, you can become human-sized brine shrimp, phalaropes, pelicans, plovers, and many other lake species. If you prefer, you can help fly a flock of hand-held seagulls or red-wing blackbirds. We sing and dance together to celebrate the lake. It's participatory, joyful, and imperfect. Not a performance. You are welcome to bring your own costume if you like. We do have plenty, including kid's sizes!"

    • "Please don't bring signs. This is a demonstration of love offered to and for the lake, not a protest. We are letting the species speak for themselves, centering our non-human kin. Please dress for the weather. Our route is ADA Accessible."

  • Jan. 25: Rally To Save Our Great Salt Lake, 3:00 p.m. at The Utah State Capitol, 350 S. State Street, Salt Lake. "Our legislature has taken important steps to protect the lake in recent years, but we need to see bolder action in 2024 to match the urgency and severity of this crisis. It will take a groundswell of continuous community pressure to hold our decision-makers accountable, and we need your voice!"

#ManyCulturesOneSky with SkyWatcher Leo T, a RadioACTive volunteer and veteran broadcaster-turned-podcaster who shares his love of the night sky, cultural tales of the constellations, and more on #PunkRockFarmerFridays. Tonight, the full wolf moon, night skyscape and other celestial shenanigans; BepiColombo, the European-Japanese space probe, does a fly-by of Mercury; NASA's Parker Solar Probe; and Comet G3 Atlas.

Utahns will compete in the Open and Women’s State Championships in pinball this weekend, and 2024 marks Utah’s first year achieving “Super State” status with the International Flipper Pinball Association. RadioACTive spoke with competitor couple Crystal Cory and James Hadden.

  • Jan. 18: IFPA Utah State Pinball Championship at The LAB, 2432 Washington Blvd., Ogden. "Warm-up starts at 11:00 a.m. Tournament at noon. This state championship will be a head-to-head, single-elimination bracket with best-of-7 matches among the top 16 players in Utah as of December 31, 2024." 

    Aldine's Urban Farm Report with Slow Food Utah, a volunteer-run chapter (convivium) of Slow Food USA. The nonprofit works to strengthen the food systems around us to achieve good, clean and fair food for all. Guests: Current board member and chef Adam Kreisel and former chair Gwen Crist. 

    • Jan. 31: Deadline to apply for Slow Food Utah microgrant program. This program was created to fill gaps identified in traditional funding sources for local food-related projects, especially for small-scale food growers and producers, community innovators, and educators. Grants are open to any individual, small business, or non-profit committed to Slow Food International principles of good, clean, fair food for all, cultural diversity, and conviviality. To apply, click here. To view a microgrant workshop, click here.  

    In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the National Parks Service will waive entrance fees to all national parks across the United States, including Utah’s Mighty 5® on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. RadioACTive checks in with Ranger Matthew Fink at Zions National Park. Other official free days this year:

    How'd you like the show? Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889‬. Or, send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org. Tell us your name and neighborhood, the subject or guest you want to talk about and leave a short message. 

    Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of  Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

    ###

    CATEGORIES

    BROWSE BY TAG

    ARCHIVES