What's Happening in Provo and Orem | Mar. 12, 2025

What’s Up Provo!

Happy National Girl Scout Day! 👧🍪 

If What’s Up Provo was a girl scout cookie we’d be a Thin Mint. A sweet and refreshing treat (especially compared to the rest of your inbox).

A few highlights of today’s newsletter:

• 🥕 Do Good. Better. Conference 2025, Night at the Museums 2025, The Naghash Ensemble Performance, Leprechaun Hunt, ​Legend of Zelda Party

• 🥫 Feed Utah Food Drive

• 🧑‍🌾 Wilkerson Farms preparing to shut down

In Partnership with Melissa Kamar @ Stringham West Realty
Housing Market in Utah County Report 📈 

Here’s a Utah County housing market update from Melissa Kamar at Stringham West Realty:

Slight growth in prices
In February of 2024, 653 homes were sold in Utah County, and the median price was $486,500. Last month, 668 homes were sold and the median price was $497,900 (about an $11,000 increase).

Slightly longer selling times
In February of 2024, the median days on the market was 32 days, but last month it was 50 days. So in general, most properties are staying listed longer before selling.

So what does it mean? It means if you’re selling your home you can still expect strong offers (the list-to-sold ratio is near 99%) but just be prepared for it to be on the market for longer.

If you have any more questions about buying or selling a home, talk to Melissa! 

📱Cell: (801) 960-3515
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Today
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Author Event: Paper Daughters of Chinatown 🏮 

The book, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is based on a true story Tai Choi, who was sold into slavery and brought to San Francisco (“Gold Mountain”), and Dolly Cameron, who helps Tai Choi mentor and win the freedom of enslaved immigrant women and girls around San Francisco in the late 1800s.

The award winning co-authors of the Young Reader’s Edition of the book will be at the Provo Library tonight! Games, prizes, and book signings!

Provo Library | 7pm - 9pm | More info

🥪 Lunch and Learn: Aligning Your Team for Growth 
Learn from Carrie Williams from The Culture Hive, Kyle Spencer from Culture Builders and the Utah Business Community, and Jacob Crockett and Matt Herrington from HireAligned about how create cultural alignment within your company. (Free event, includes a 7-minute demo of the software product HireAligned.)
Lehi Kiln | 11:45am | More info

Also:
👉️ Check It Out! Book Club: Circus Mirandus for children in grades 4-6 at the Orem Library
👉️ Alterations Lab: Bringing in and Shortening class at Sew Vintage
👉️ Leprechaun Hunt at the Springville Library
👉️ BYU Singers: Musica Eclectica at 7:30pm

Thursday
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Do Good. Better. Conference 2025 🥕 

This two-day conference is kicking off tomorrow! Mostly students and BYU faculty will be attending, but community members are invited as well!

Listen to renowned speakers (including Keynote Speaker, Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III, who founded the Black Church Food Security Network and was awarded 2025 Social Innovator of the Year), ask questions of experts during interactive panels, join breakout workshops. Plus there will be food and you’ll get to connect with students, faculty, experts in the field of social work!

BYU | More info

🎮 ​Legend of Zelda Party
Maybe you Zelda fans out there already knew this, but the series celebrated its 39th anniversary just a few weeks ago. Come and enjoy game-inspired crafts and activities (if you’re a kid 9 to 12 years old) at this Legend of Zelda-themed party!
Provo Library | 4:15pm-5pm | More info

🎭 March Library Book Club: Hamnet
Bring a snack to share and engage in a lively discussion about Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. (Hamnet is a historical fiction novel that explores the Shakespeare family’s experience with family, marriage, faith, love, loss, and more.)
Orem Library | 7pm-8:30pm | More info

Also:
👉 End of the Rainbow Whirligigs at Provo Library
👉 BYU Jazz Ensemble at 7:30pm at the BYU Music Building
👉 BYU’s Mountain Strings at 7:30pm at the BYU Music Building
👉 Sketch Night at the BYU Museum of Art
👉️ BYU men’s basketball (#4 seed) first game of the Big 12 tournament at 10:30am MST on ESPN/ESPN2

Friday
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Night at the Museums 2025 🦖 

BYU's five museums unite for Night at the Museums 2025. 🦖🎨🏹🗿 

On Friday, see if you can hit up the Bean Life Science Museum, Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Education in Zion Gallery, Museum of Paleontology, and Museum of Art — in just three hours. At each you will be able to solve challenges and earn special prize, plus there will be treats! (Including cookies, mocktails, maple bars (Cougar Tails?), Blue-and-White Treat Fest (?))

BYU Museums | 7pm-10pm | More info

🎶 The Naghash Ensemble Performance

This concert will feature the duduk, the oud, the dhol, and the piano! If you don’t know what a duduk is, you may know it by it’s other name, the tsiranapogh…

We’re kidding of course. We don’t even know how to pronounce that. But anyway, here’s more about The Naghash Ensemble: “The Naghash Ensemble combines the earthy spirituality of Armenian folk song, new classical music, contemporary post-minimalism, and the energy of jazz and rock.” Tickets are $12 each. Lav zhamanak geçir!
BYU Music Building | 7:30pm | More info

Mat Kearney Live at Rehearsal Hall 🎸

“Over his career, Kearney has released five studio LPs, claimed the #1 spot on iTunes, topped multiple Billboard charts, made four entries into the Hot 100, and amassed over 2.5 BILLION global streams.”

And he’s playing on Friday at the Sundance Rehearsal Hall! Tickets aren’t the easiest to come by. Go to Sundance’s event page (below) to learn how to get them.

Sundance Rehearsal Hall | 7pm | More info

🎨 Art in Action with Cortney Lunt
March's Stroke of Genius at Frame Works Gallery will feature the talented Cortney Lunt. Watch as she brings her art to life before your eyes.
Frame Works Gallery near RC Willey | March 14th, 2pm-5pm & March 15th, 11am-5pm | More info

Also:
👉 Cheese Tasting at 6:00pm at Heber Valley Artisan Milk & Cheese
👉 Fleetwood Visions (SOLD OUT) at 7:30pm at Covey Center for the Arts
👉 LES MISERABLES SCHOOL EDITION from 7:30 PM to 11:59pm at SCERA Center for the Arts
👉️ Big 12 Semifinals, if BYU men’s basketball wins Thursday’s game they will play at 5pm on ESPN/ESPN2

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The Bulletin 📌 

Kalani Sitake’s Tuesday Devotional 🏈 

Deseret News “Football coach talks about the pain of his parents’ divorce and the loss of his dream to play professional football, and for the first time names the hero who changed his life.” Article

Wilkerson Farms preparing to shut down 🧑‍🌾 

Wilkerson Farm is preparing to be uprooted as the owner of the land is looking to sell. From their website: “We are uncertain if the business will be able to relocate. We have been and are still working tirelessly to find a way to continue serving our local people. We are not going to give up hope!” For ways you can help please go to their homepage.

👉️ Also, sorry if we scared anyone when we said that Chuck Norris died (but death is too afraid to tell him). We took it from one of those lists of Chuck Norris jokes, and we didn’t include a link. Sorry. He’s alive and well and still dividing by zero and seasoning his meat with pepper spray.

Live Music 🎸

@ The Velour
TODAY - Open Mic
Thursday - The Third Wheel, Ivy Avenue, Long Division, Cold Weather Venture
Friday - CAYSN, Lovingly Clad, Bryson Shxne

@ The Boardwalk
Friday - KTHKNG, BLR, Berry, Honorary, SHXLUVSJ, River the Kid, Keelan
Saturday - OUT IN FRONT, The Drought, Twin Systems

Wellness Wednesday: Service Opportunities 💝 

🥫 Feed Utah Food Drive - March 15th
“Community Action Services & Food Bank is working with Utah Food Bank to collect food donations from people's homes in Utah County…”
They need 5-7 volunteers per shift at the Provo warehouse and the Orem Senior Friendship Center. Feed Utah Food Drive PROVO | Feed Utah Food Drive OREM

🌳 Planting our Future - Mapleton Canyon Road
“March 29th 9:30- Noon, bring your family and friends for a unique opportunity to help the Forest Service reforest the hiking trail above Whiting Campground, Maple canyon by planting 2,000 - 1ft. trees.
Due to water line construction vegetation was taken out; we are returning it to its native state. Come join us in the fun!” More info

🖥️ Help Refugees with Job Readiness
“Volunteer 2-4 hours a week at the Utah Valley Refugees office. You will be working one-on-one with clients and case managers to help the refugees obtain viable employment within 2 months of arrival to the U.S.” More info

🥚 Easter Egg Filling
“Vineyard City will be hosting our annual Bunny Hop Egg Drop on April 19th. We have a lot of children in our community so we will be filling over 20,000 Easter Eggs in preparation for this event. We would love your help! All the items and eggs will be provided we just need your help putting each item into the eggs. Please come to the Vineyard Town Hall (125 South Main, Vineyard, Utah) to help.” More info

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