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Red Rock Street Fest features live music, art sale: Street fest ends Arts Festival on Saturday, Oct. 9

Ali Harford4 years ago2 years ago

The Red Rock Street Fest will return this year on Saturday, Oct. 9 with a block party featuring live music, art vendors, food trucks, a kids tent, crafts and beer garden. Street Fest…

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Co-working space plans to expand: MARC hopes to purchase new furniture, security system

Ali Harford4 years ago2 years ago

Last year, the Moab Arts and Recreation Center introduced a co-working space that provided affordable, shared office space. Makeda Barkley, then administrative assistant at the MARC, came up with the idea as a…

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Red Rock Arts Festival offers workshops, street fair: The week-long festival celebrates painting, poetry and expression

Ali Harford4 years ago2 years ago

What originally started as a celebration of “plein air” painting has transformed into the Red Rock Arts Festival, starting Saturday, Oct. 2, a week-long gathering for artists and art-lovers put on by the…

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Q&A with new Parks, Recreation and Trails Director Annie McVay: McVay is two months into her job with the City of Moab

Ali Harford4 years ago2 years ago

Each day is different at Annie McVay’s new job as Moab’s Parks, Recreation and Trails director, which she started on June 14, 2021. Her role oversees the management and development of all city…

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Moab hires new Parks and Rec director

Moab Sun News4 years ago4 years ago

The City of Moab announced hiring Annie McVay as the city’s new Parks, Recreation and Trails director, effective on June 14. The role oversees the management and development of all city parks, as…

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Walk With Dinosaurs!

Moab Sun News4 years ago4 years ago

Twenty-three Helen M. Knight Elementary School students, seven parents and three staff from the Moab Arts and Recreation Center joined art coach Bruce Hucko to create a “Dino-Crossing” at the only crosswalk serving…

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June Art Walk ends the spring season

Moab Sun News4 years ago2 years ago

Paintings and drawings of realistic, anatomically correct body parts – a fitting subject for an artist aspiring to become a physician – will be among the artworks featured during the Moab Art Walk,…

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“Get out and run, go greet the sun”

Moab Sun News5 years ago2 years ago

Their feet hit the ground before sunrise—whatever edge they could get to beat the heat. After being led in prayer by an elder, ten Indigenous runners began a five-day, 360-mile journey from Bears…

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Dancing fever: Annual KZMU radio drama features a historical dancing plague

Rachel Fixsen5 years ago4 years ago

In 1518, a strange form of what some theorists believe to have been mass hysteria gripped hundreds of residents of Strasbourg, France: uncontrollable dancing, to the point of exhaustion and even death for…

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Celebrate reuse with a clothing swap on March 17

Moab Sun News5 years ago2 years ago

“When I first found out about clothing swaps, I was like ‘are you kidding me? This is a thing?!’” said Bitsy Tatera. Tatera has organized seasonal clothing swaps in Moab for years, with…

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