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What's Happening in Provo | October 21st, 2024

What's Happening in Provo | October 21st, 2024

Whats Up Provo
October 21, 2024

What’s Up Provo! Happy Back to the Future Day! 🛹

Cool fact about October 21st, 2015, (the date Marty McFly travels to in Part II), it’s the day the screenwriter chose for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series. For the Cubs to win “was the most absurd thing we could think of” in 1985. But he ended up being only a year off—the Cubs finally won the series in 2016!

A few highlights of today’s newsletter:

🧙🍺🍗Fantastic Feast and Fest | Boo-A-Palooza | Octubafest | Autumn Harvest | Terror at the Mall
🍐 Citrus Pear’s November Menu
🏛️ Library Corner
⚠️ Reminders and Notices including Sundance Ski Pass notices

Citrus Pear’s November Menu 🍐

If you haven’t heard of Citrus Pear, it’s a great company, and it’s local!

Citrus Pear partners with local grocery stores throughout the intermountain west, providing freezer meal prep classes along with freezer meal delivery services. Each meal can be tailored to your family's specific needs and preferences making sure everyone loves what's for dinner!

They dropped their October menu a while ago, and they also released their November menu as well.

Here’s what we’re most excited to try:
Beef Stroganoff, 🥥 Coconut Chicken Curry, Tuscan Chicken Pasta, 🍠 Sausage and Sweet Potato Sheet Pan Dinner, Thai Coconut Soup, 🌮 Chipotle Chicken Tacos, Chicken Pot Pie Soup, 🍅 Fire Roasted Tomato and Chipotle Chili, Zuppa Toscana.
Check out the entire November Menu here.

Nothing in this section is sponsored. We’ll always let you know if something is sponsored.

Fantastic feasts and where to find them 🧙🍺🍗

Calling all witches/wizards/squibs/mudbloods/muggles—we have an event for you!

Wingardium leviosa yourself over to Wadley Farms (which is an awesome venue in Lindon if you haven’t been there before), for the Fantastic Feast and Festival! (Running from today, Oct. 21st until Oct. 24th)

There’s going to be a catered feast in the Great Hall (the comments rave about the 🍻 butter beer). There’s also wizarding shops to peruse, an owl post, and classes for testing and honing your magical skills! Watch out for magical creatures, and try to win the house cup! (We’re rooting for Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff this time.)

Wadley Farms | Oct 21st - Oct 24th from 7pm - 9pm | Tickets/Info

Monday

🍫 Vineyard's Boo-A-Palooza
Vineyard is holding their Halloween party at Vineyard Grove Park! (It’s a great park—the one with ziplines and a giant-circular-net-thing.) They will have character-themed booth trick-or-treating and activities. Free to the public!
Vineyard Grove Park | 5:30PM | More info

🚂🔪 Free Showing: Strangers on a Train (PG, 1951)
An Alfred Hitchcock film and a personal favorite. Two men meet on a train, one suggests that they “swap murders”. IMBD review: “…a brilliant example of what Hitchcock could do best, continually develop his plot and characters in an atmosphere both creepy and humorous. The film has great dialogue, superb characters, good acting, and naturally superb direction from the master of suspense who is truly at his best…”
Orem Library | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | More info

Also:
👉️ Swim with your pumpkin at the Pumpkin Plunge in Springville
👉️ Snap along at the Social with Rock Canyon Poets Reading
👉️ BYU Women’s Soccer takes on Houston on South Field at 7pm
👉️ And, join policy makers, managers, and scientists as they discuss important issues at the Utah Lake Symposium 2024

Tuesday

🎖️🎺 United States Marine Band "The President's Own" (Free Concert)
The Marine Band is America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization. (It was founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress.) And tomorrow, they will be in Provo performing at the BYU Concert Hall. Tickets were all claimed already, so if you want to get in you need to be in the standby line. Seating starts at 7:15pm.
Concert Hall (BYU Music Building) | 7:30pm | More info

Also:
👉️ BYU Softball’s blue and white game starts at 1pm
👉️ Tween Scene: Hotel Transylvania Kid and Parent Date Night at the Orem Library
👉️ And the Neighborhood Art Center has a class for Printmaking (Adult Session)

Wednesday

📘 Sharon McMahon - The Small and The Mighty Book Tour
“The only Utah stop on Sharon McMahon's The Small and Mighty Book Tour…is now at the UCCU Center. The Small and the Mighty is already a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks.”
UCCU Center | 7pm | Tickets

Also:
👉️ The 10th Annual Scary Storytelling Contest starts at 7pm (not for children)
👉️ And another free music event at BYU, Faculty Recital: Jaren Hinckley

Thursday

🎺 Octubafest
More free music for you! The Octubafest is a popular annual event with performances from students and faculty playing classical, pop, film scores, and more!
BYU Recital Hall | Thursday and Saturday starting at 7:30 pm | More info

Also:
👉️ The 2024 FilmQuest Festival starts on Thursday

Friday

👽️👻 Halloween Events
Maybe one of the more event filled days of the year. Here’s a quick list of what’s happening (more details coming Wednesday):

🍎 Autumn Harvest at Pioneer Village in Provo
🧒 Kid's Halloween Swamp Hop at Classic Fun Center
💀 Pleasant Grove Dia de los Meurtos Family Festival
😱🕺 Provo Towne Centre’s Terror in the Mall (18+)
🏴‍☠️ The Pirate Yard in Spanish Fork
👻 Night of Fright at The Orchard at University Mall
🎃 Halloween Spooktacular in Lindon

Saturday

🛸 Intergalactic Halloween Carnival
Area 51 Haunted House, “Trick-or-Treat Street”, reptile shows, and more! “Two possibilities exist, either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clark.
Provo Rec Center | 3pm - 5:40pm (Session 1); 6:20pm - 9pm (Session 2) | More info

🏃‍♀️ Provo Haunted Half
Half marathon, 5k, Kid’s Run. Still time to register! At the Half Marathon Start there will be a pumpkin starting arch, music, a costume contest, fire pits, hot chocolate and coffee, and more!
333 W River Park Drive | Half: 8:00am, 5K: 8:30am, Kid's Run: 11:00am | Register

🏛️ Library Corner

The penultimate week of October is looking great at the Library. Teens are taking over the library (after hours 🥳 ), Dr. Isaac King is coming to discuss the history presidential portraiture 🧐, and the Utah County Flute Choir is putting on a Halloween concert 👻. Check out the full event list below and find all the registration/info links 👉️here👈️ .

Kids

💮 Library Kids - Tissue Paper Marigolds
“Come learn about Día de Muertos with a fun marigold craft.”
Ages 5-8 | Thursday @ 4:15pm-5pm | Registration required (opens today)

Tweens & Teens

🎧️ 🎮️ Teen Takeover — Media Mashup
“Join this after-hours event where the Library is open ONLY to teens, and see if you can make it through a mixed-up media landscape.”
Saturday @ 6:30pm-8:30pm

Adults

🏛️🦅 Presidential Portraiture - Attic Lecture Series
“Join art historian Dr. Isaac King as he delves into the intriguing history of presidential portraiture.…Featuring examples that are familiar, fantastical, and occasionally unconventional.” (Washington will be the focus for this lecture.)
The Nelson Attic | Thursday @ 7pm-8pm | Registration required

⚠️ Reminders and Notices

🎿 Sundance ski passes
Season Passes Early Bird Pricing Ends Oct 31st. Also there’s a Book Early + Save promotion, 20% off the Private Mountain Cottage if you book before Oct 31st.

🗑️ Fall Cleanup
The free dumpsters are Seven Peaks (100 N Seven Peaks Blvd), and then next week they go to Footprinter Park.
More info

🏫 Utah Single Mother Scholarship Opportunity
For the winter/spring semester
Application Deadline is November 1st | More info

Also:
🚨 Orem Library Quilt Show Deadline is 10/25
🚨 Utah Lake Photo Contest
🚨 Jr Jazz registration & Adult League Basketball registration closes Oct 31st

📣 Also, here’s a reminder from us…if you want us to highlight any local businesses, preferably ones that opened somewhat recently, let us know.

Thanks!

Thanks for reading and have a great start to your week! 😉

-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie

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