July 7, 2025 - Family Arts Festival (Part II), Lantern-Lit Dinos

What’s Up Provo! Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend. But no reason to stop celebrating because today’s World Chocolate Day! 🍫

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Plus they have 13 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms!

📆 Look for open days (and discounted days) on their reservation calendar
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📷 Check out the Freedom Festival photo gallery (Deseret News)

🎆 Also, the Stadium of Fire photo gallery (Desert News)

🏈 Kaue Akana to BYU
Congrats to Kaue Akana, 4-star football player from Orem High School, on his recent commitment to BYU. Kaue played safety, wide receiver, and tight end. YardBarker reported that Kaue chose BYU over “Alabama, Auburn, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oregon, SMU, Utah, Tennessee, and others.”

🎨 Family Arts Festival Part II - Panorama Bonanza
BYU’s Family Art Festival (a 3 month festival made up of three “parts” that is all free and open to the public) continues! Part 2 kicks off today and it’s all about panoramas.

If you aren’t familiar, panoramas are essentially a wide, unbroken view of a scene. Sometimes they are massive pieces of art that show a 360 degree view of a location.

For this part of the festival, families with children 12 and under can craft their own "crankie" — which is a mini moving panorama kind of like having your own personal 19th century movie theater. (It’s all the rave these days). This is a drop-in activity/festival, so no stress about reservations. You can come any time and participate (as long as supplies last).
BYU Museum of Art | July 7-26 | Drop-in activity

🌳 Shakespeare In The Orchard
A Shakespeare double-header. The evening starts with one of Shakespeare's shortest and funniest plays "The Comedy of Errors", and it ends with his most well known "Romeo & Juliet." Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and if you need some midsummer night’s food they'll have shaved ice for sale.
The Orchard at University Place | July 7 | 5pm

🦕 Dinos After Dark
Considering this is from 6pm to 8pm, you could call it “Dinos While It Is Starting To Get Dark” but we get why they didn’t want to call it that. It’s going to be dark somewhere. Anyway, every Monday in July at Thanksgiving Point, you’ll get the chance to wander the lantern-lit halls of the museum, do scavenger hunts, join some dig pit challenges, get some prizes, and more!
Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life | July 7 (and every Monday in July) | 6pm-8pm

🎸 Riff Raff Band
Free live music to cap off your busy day of family adventures! The Riff Raff and Nathan Asay will rock Heber City Park with family-friendly tunes. As Pete Townshend once said, "Rock and roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them."
Heber City Park | July 7 | 6:30pm-8pm

🌻 Mapleton Farmers Market
Just a heads up—renovations may change the location after July 19, so stay tuned!
Mapleton City Park | Every Monday July 7-Sept 29 | 9am-1pm

🧘‍♂️ Double Dose of Zen
"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self" And this time, with your family as well. Join the Family Yoga class and/or the Adult All-Abilities Yoga, all skill levels and abilities are welcome. Mats provided if you need 'em! (Free event but you do need to register)
Provo Library | July 8 | 6pm-6:30pm (Family Yoga), 7pm-8pm (Adult All-Abilities Yoga)

🎓 BYU Devotional with Professor Brennan Platt
"Economics is everywhere, and understanding it can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life."
Marriott Center | July 8 | 11:05am

📚 Senior Book Club
This time the book is a NY Times Bestseller by Amor Towles called "The Lincoln Highway". It’s a story “told over ten days, The Lincoln Highway follows four boys – Emmett, Billy, Duchess and Woolly – on the title road from Nebraska to New York.
Provo Rec Center | July 8 | 1pm-1:45pm

🗳️ Meet the School Board Candidates
This is for those of you in the Lindon/PG area. Meet the candidates running for new Timpanogos School District seats. (Specifically for seats 1 and 2, seat 1 covers most of PG and seat 2 covers all of Lindon and parts of south PG.)
Lindon Community Center | July 8 | 6:15pm

🎨 Rocky Mountain Scrapbooking Spectacular
This spectacular brings together hands-on classes, exclusive products, swag bags, and meet-and-greets with industry icons.
Utah Valley Convention Center | June 10-12 | Thu-Fri: 9am-11pm, Sat: 9am-6pm

🌞 The Basics of Solar Observing
Join eclipse-chaser John Chapman-Smith for an evening of solar adventures and cosmic stories.
UVU Planetarium | June 10 | 7pm-8pm

🏹 Native Market Days
Native Hoop Dancers and Artists, and Indigenous Fashion Designers from across the U.S.
Utah Valley University | July 11-12 | July 11: 4pm-9pm, July 12: 10am-8pm

⚔ European Cultural Festival
Bagpipes, flamenco dancing, battling knights, authentic pizza, Belgian waffles, crafts, a pirate ship…
The Orchard at University Place | July 12 | 5pm-9pm

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If you don’t know Mosida:

They farm their own cows on the other side of Utah Lake. The cows are processed locally as well—so the burgers and cuts of beef from Mosida are 100% local, American Wagyu!

🍔 The burgers are great, classic and high quality, and the Beef-n-All sandwich is also amazing. We suggest getting both. (Also, really great fries) Check out their farmhouse menu
📦 You can buy a box and bring home some premium, local beef
🐮 Or, you can pickup an entire beef or pork “share”
🥩 And, of course, if you’re not ready to commit to buying a whole cow, they sell premium individual cuts (min of 10lbs per purchase).

And they deliver!

Last week’s poll results: Which do you enjoy more?

Thanks for reading and please refer this to all your friends who might enjoy a chocolate covered porkroll. 😉

-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie

A little context about the quote: At the end of the Revolutionary War, many expected Washington to assume a position of power, possibly even becoming king.

So when King George III asked his American painter, Benjamin West, what Washington would do after winning independence. West replied, “They say he will return to his farm.”

“If he does that,” the incredulous monarch said, “he will be the greatest man in the world.”