What's Happening - June 11, 2025

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What’s Up Provo! Happy Yarn Bombing Day! 🧶💣

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🏃 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Some of the more highly anticipated events featuring BYU athletes include the women’s 800m (featuring BYU’s Meghan Hunter), the women’s 1500m (featuring BYU’s Carlee Hansen), the men’s 3000m Steeplechase (featuring BYU’s Taylor Lovell and BYU’s James Corrigan (Olympian)), and the men’s decathlon (featuring BYU’s Ben Barton and Jaden Roskelley). See the link for all the details and how to watch it on ESPN+.

⛑ Bridal Veil Falls Rescue
An injured hiker was rescued by a Utah County search and rescue team over the weekend. According to the KUTV article, the crew “set up "a series of rope systems" to safely help the hiker down” from a steep section near Bridal Veil Falls.

🚦 Provo on-ramps getting permanent metering
Not something we want to hear, but apparently the number of cars entering the freeway using the Center Street, and the University Avenue on-ramps is getting to be too much. So the lights controlling how many cars enter the freeway at a time will be turned on.

There has been metering in the past at both of these, but according to this Daily Herald Article, the lights will be turned on “permanently”.

Art City Days: Wednesday Events

The full schedule of Art City Days events can be found in Monday's email (search for this to find it: Art City Days, Fantastically Human, Grassroots Shakespeare) but here's what happening today June 11th:

First day of the 🎡 Carnival, most rides are just $2
🤖 Wild Robot is playing at the park (it got a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes 👀). Movie starts at dusk, which is around 9pm, and they’re watching at Spring Acres Arts Park. (They are also watching Wild Robot in the park later this Friday in Lindon.)
Of course there are the 🎪 vendors and booths, and there will also be Latin food and a Latin party called CelebrARTE as well! ¡Qué bueno

Also, don’t forget to “catch” the Mayor and/or a member of the city council for a prize. Hopefully they’re giving out free wristbands. Or Magleby’s cake.

🌽 Orem Farmers Market
If Art City Days is just a little far south for you, then check out Orem Farmers Market this evening. It’s part of the Sunset Farmers Market group and it will be happening weekly at Orem City Center Park. Don't forget, there will be a free yoga class in front of the amphitheater at 7pm. Om shanti om. 🧘
Orem City Center Park | 5pm-9pm

💦 Outdoor Zumba
No registration, no cost, no pain, no gain.
The Orchard at University Place | 8pm-9pm

🎶 Midway Music on the Square  
With all the parties and markets and crowds, maybe this is a good time to get out of the valley. In Midway tonight, enjoy the peaceful setting, and the free music by Deseret Mirage, (which may or may not be peaceful, we don’t know), and maybe grab a bite from one of the food trucks on-site. Maybe Soup'r Cheesy will be there.
Midway Town Square | 6pm-8pm

Art City Days

The festivities start to ramp up...

🎠 Another discount day at the Carnival. This time it’s buy one wristband, get one half off. (It opens at 1pm closes at 10pm)

🛍 Still lots of great vendors to check out. And you really should check them out. Many only come out for Art City Days — you won't see them at other Farmers Markets.

If competition is more your thing, there's the 3-on-3 basketball tournament 🏀, or you can watch the Battle of the Bands 🎸 at Springville City Park, starting at 7pm. 

🦎 And finally, there's the Fun-A-Rama! This one starts at 10am, so maybe we should have put it first in the list, but anyway there will be a lot happening at Spring Acres Park. Bounding, riding, climbing, a magic show, and Clint's Reptile Room will be there as well. (10am-2pm)

🧸 Stuffed Animal Sleepover
If you can convince your kid to sleep without their favorite "stuffy" for one night, this could be a fun one.

Drop off your stuffed animal at the Provo Library, and when you pick it up the next morning you can watch a slideshow of all the nighttime adventures everyone's stuffed animals had. The pictures will be available online if you want to print yours off.
Provo Library | All day

🎨 Art in the Park
The 8th Annual Art in the Park starts tomorrow! This is the first of a series of events happening throughout the summer.

The team and volunteers from the Neighborhood Art Center will be traveling around to different parks all summer putting on fun art activities. It’s different every time, for example, there might be sculpting, or there may be a giant canvas and kids will paint on it using those big balls you sit on and bounce with, (really should be a name for those), sometimes they will have obstacle courses... It’s all free, just wear clothes you can get messy in!
Lions Park | 10am-12pm

Like we said on Monday, we’re going to start previewing NEXT week in our Wednesday emails. So here are some of the biggest events happening next week:

🌴🌞 Summer Beach Party 13th anniversary
Family fun, animal meet and greets, live entertainment, food galore.
Shops at Riverwoods | Friday, June 20th from 4:30pm-8:30pm

🍓 Strawberry Days
The century‑old berry bash is back. Here’s the list of main events:

🎸 Concerts - Multiple concerts outdoor concerts:
Saturday, June 14 | Main Street Concert @ 6pm food trucks, 7:30pm concert with Groove Merchants (yes this one is this week, but we’re including it anyway)
Sunday, June 15 | Downtown Park @ 7:30pm
Tuesday, June 17 | Veteran Memorial Park @ 7pm (one free Strawberries N’ Cream per person!)
Sunday, June 22 | Downtown Park @ 7:30pm
🤠 Rodeo - Pleasant Grove Rodeo Grounds | June 18-21 | “There’s a reason this is the longest continually running rodeo in Utah…”
🎡 Carnival - Downtown Park | June 18-21
🥁 Parade - Main to Center Street | June 21 at 10am | Apparently this one is a “mammoth parade”

🖌️ Special Needs Art Class
“This popular activity, is open for all ages and their caregivers. Class includes an ice-breaker activity (sensory play, books, fine motor skills, etc.), a tour of the museum and short lesson about a specific piece of art, and then time in the art studio where we make a craft to take home!
All ages and all abilities, siblings always welcome to join!”
BYU Museum of Art | June 18th at 10am

🔔 Carillon Concert
Don Cook and Josh Fenwick are two of the men who play the bell tower bells at BYU, and they are putting on a free bell tower concert! So come to the BYU’s Centennial Carillon Tower and enjoy! Also, 100 points if you knew that was its name.

The performers will be up in the tower obviously, but the audience will be able to see them because they’ll have a large monitor set up.

BYU Centennial Carillon Tower | June 19th at 7pm

"Volunteers are not paid… because they are priceless.”

🧒 My Hometown Summer Tutoring
“Summer tutoring for children, grades 1st- 6th, who attend Timpanogos Elementary. Tutoring sessions will be T, W, Th mornings from 9-11 am beginning June 10th and running through July 10. Help will be provided in reading, math and computers.

Tutoring will be held at a church building near Timpanogos Elementary. The address is 376 N. 700 W. Provo, UT.”

🧇 Serve Breakfast
“We are in need of a group that would be willing to make and serve breakfast to our clients at the Food and Care Coalition on the 2nd Saturday every other month. (August, October, December, etc)
Service Date: Every other month on the 2nd Saturday
What You’ll Do: Prepare and serve breakfast for approx 80-100 clients”

🌍 Literacy material for Uganda
“You can help by simply printing (color or B/W) some resources already available and assembling them (will need folders, sheet protectors, rings, thin binders, etc.), printing and assembling games (i.e. Tic Tac Toe with sight words, Sight Word Guess Who), card games. Our budget is limited, so any printing/paper/supplies that can be donated is great. Some of it might best be printed on A4 paper to facilitate photocopying in Uganda. If you are available to help but unable to provide supplies, please still reach out. These all need to be created by the end of June.”

@ The Velour
Wednesday - Open mic
Thursday - Wilde+Reckless, Seth Bonnell
Friday - IZAK, Jamis Reed, Coastal City
Saturday - The What-Nots, English Budgies, Nicole Canaan, Lucy Chris

@ The Boardwalk
Saturday - Valhalla, Inversion, Second Hand Smoke

@ The Rise
Friday - There will be a silent disco
Saturday - Branson Merchant, Heeva, Coastal City

@ Classic Fun Skating in Orem
Friday - Bleacher Babe, Sagelane, Driveway Days, Chickmagnet
(more details about this one coming in Friday’s email)

Thanks for reading. Tons more details about the events this weekend coming on Friday. Also, please forward this to someone who still has their childhood stuffed animal. 😉

-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie