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Salt Lake Community College is hosting the exhibit "Faces of Change: the college students who confronted rape culture in Utah,” currently on display in the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Gallery at the Center for Arts and Media on SLCC’s South City Campus. The exhibit contains a series of portraits of students and former students who say they were sexually assaulted while attending Utah colleges. The Salt Lake Tribune gathered stories from more than 60 women and men in 2016, and their accounts shaped the newspaper's coverage of how colleges across Utah are responding to assault allegations and working to prevent sexual violence. The Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2017 for its coverage of these issues. Tribune staff will offer a panel discussion about this series for students and faculty on January 31, 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the TV Studio (1-053), at the Center for Arts and Media. A public reception will follow in the East Foyer near the galler

The SLCC Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships is looking for employee volunteers to review and rate scholarship applications. With the implementation of AwardSpring as the college's online scholarship application software, the office is gathering more applications than ever before and need your help to find the best candidates. Reviewers will be required to attend a training during the month of February to learn how to use our online system. Following the training, reviewers will be given assignments that correlate with application deadlines. The biggest time commitment is February-March, but reviewers may be asked to help with some of the smaller reviews in April and November as well. On average, reviewers are given between 40-75 applications to review each application cycle, and between 2-3 weeks to complete the assignment. Reviewers are welcome to complete assignments as their work schedule allows, with supervisor approval. The Office of Financial Aid & Scholars

Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theatre will be holding auditions for Monty Python’s Spamalot on March 3, 2018. Dance auditions will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and vocal auditions will take place from 12:30-3. Those wishing to audition will need to sign up for a dance audition session and vocal time slot. The show will run May 17 through June 9. Jamie Rocha Allan will direct, with choreography by Frida Moses and music direction by Michael Leavitt. Call backs will be held on March 13, 2018 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Rehearsals will begin on April 7, 2018 and will be held (apart from tech week) Monday – Friday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please record a one- to two-minute monologue from the show and upload to YouTube as an Unlisted (NOT PRIVATE) video and send the link to SpamalotGrandTheatre@gmail.com no later than March 3, 2018. For the vocal audition, please prepare 16 bars of music, no longer than 30 seconds

Students of the SLCC Framing Assistant Program are building two 8’x 12’ storage sheds as a final project of their training; the sheds are available to purchase for $1,900, which covers materials. Students will perform the labor under the supervision of their SLCC faculty member. The program is a partnership of the Salt Lake City government, Catholic Community Services, SLCC Workforce & Economic Development and others. Anyone interested in purchasing a shed should note the following: The first two SLCC employees to pay for a shed will receive one. Payment can be made by cash, check or credit/debit card. The shed is 96 square feet, and has a 36-inch wide fiberglass door and one window. The sheds are built in sections in a classroom and will be assembled on site. Onsite assembly dates: Jan. 26, 29-30 (Shed 1) or Jan. 31-Feb. 2 (Shed 2). Someone over the age of 18 must be present on either Jan. 26 (for Shed 1) or Jan. 31 (Shed 2) to sign for delivery and indicate where the s

Salt Lake Community College and Westminster College were honored to host Nikki Giovanni as the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Keynote at the Grand Theatre on Jan. 18. The poet, author and activist addressed a full crowd as she read excerpts from her writing, spoke about the current world climate and told stories from her own life. The keynote was followed by a Q&A session hosted by SLCC Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore.

Salt Lake Community College Business Incubator Manager Tim Cooley is one of 22 people selected to speak in April at the 2018 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) Berlin Closing Conference and at the YTILI Transatlantic Dialogue in Vienna. Timothy Cooley Funded by The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Cooley will take part in a conference intended to “strengthen the bi-lateral, transatlantic exchange of the YTILI program by offering Americans the opportunity to visit a fellow’s home ecosystem and learn more about their business.” Goals include the opportunity to deepen professional relationships and pursue follow-up projects while offering Americans insights into European and Eurasian markets. Cooley will also take part in a two-week tour of Vienna, meeting with local incubators, accelerators and angel investor and venture capitalist firms. Cooley became manager of SLCC’s Business Incubator, located at the College’s Miller Campus, in 2017. The

The2018 Sundance Film Festival will screen 19 films at Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theatre, Jan. 19-28, during the opening and closing weekends. This is the fourth year the Grand will host moviegoers from around the world during the annual festival, which last year brought former Vice President Al Gore to the Grand Theatre stage. Al Gore on Grand Theatre's stage during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival The schedule of movies at the Grand kicks off Jan. 19 with the Spotlight film The Death of Stalin. The final films at the Grand Jan. 28 are the premieres Hearts Beat Loud, The Happy Prince and The Catcher Was A Spy. For more information on tickets, visit www.sundance.org . The Grand Theatre is located at SLCC’s South City Campus, 1575 South State Street in Salt Lake City.

In conjunction with the Nikki Giovanni Martin Luther King Jr. keynote , the SLCC community is invited to join in on an erasure exhibit, interacting with text from the Declaration of Independence by writing, drawing, “blacking out” or adding text, or sharing narratives directly onto the surface of the paper. Erasure is a strategy for excavating a new text out of another text by erasing, blacking out or redacting parts of the original. Blacking out or redacting words from a text can reveal new connections between words, create new sentences and meanings that both did and didn’t exist in the original. Erasure can be used to re-examine institutional or monumental texts, from popular or iconic media texts to texts that have provided the foundation to political societies like the one here. By erasing parts of a text, one can assert new meanings and new ideas into documents that had previously marginalized individuals and groups. In this way, erasure can be corrective—even if only te

Salt Lake Community College is hosting four meetings that include representatives from Human Resources and the Equal Employment Opportunity & Civil Rights Investigation Office to discuss several important topics. Workplace policies and procedures can sometimes look confusing, but they do not have to be. During the month of February, the Human Resource department is going to be holding info sessions to help you better understand what services and resources are available to employees and supervisors. 2. The Equal Employment Opportunity & Civil Rights Investigation Office investigates claims of discrimination and sexual harassment and works with supervisors to help prevent discrimination and sexual harassment. Employee relations works with employees and supervisors to provide advising and resolutions to issues that may arise in the workplace. Common questions can revolve around what actions do or do not qualify as

Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theatre is thrilled to present, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, February 8-24. Written by playwright legend, John Bishop, audiences are in for some good laughs with this hilarious spoof of the great murder mystery movies of the 1940s. With secret passageways, mistaken identities, and one plot twist after another, audiences of all ages will enjoy the humor and mystery while wondering: whodunit? As the creative team of a recent Broadway flop, in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher,” assemble for a backer’s audition on a suburban estate, things turn deadly when the “slasher” returns and strikes again. While it appears no one is innocent, it’s not until after a performance of dizzying conversations, forays through secret doorways, a power outage and multiple crimes, that the Stage Door Slasher is finally revealed. As part of the Backstage Series at the Grand Theatre, The Musical Comedy

Get swept off to Paris with the acoustic group, Lark & Spur, in their concert An Evening in Paris . The 6-piece acoustic group began as street musicians in Paris and are bringing that flare to the Grand’s stage. This year they are joined by award-winning ballroom dancers, Stephen and Brodie Rallison, where they will evoke the sound, look and atmosphere of mid-20th century Paris cabarets and dance halls. Running for 2 nights only, Lark & Spur offer a night of music unlike any other in Utah. Performances are January 12-13 at 7:30 p.m., with tickets priced at $20 each. As always, junior high and high school students and educators receive free admission with their school ID. 2-for-1 ticket discount is available at www.GrandTheatreCompany.com with promo code: Lark50.

Salt Lake Community College's International Student Affairs department held its spring orientation for about 50 new students from many different countries. Below are some of the newest faces at SLCC from around the world. Welcome. Velkommen. Benvenuta. Welkom. Ahlan wa sahlan. Yokoso. Hoan nghenh. Witam. Huanying guanglin. Baruch haba. Bienvenue. Dobro pozalovat. Spring 2018 International Students

Keynote speech kicks off a month of Martin Luther King Jr. events Nikki Giovanni. Salt Lake Community College and Westminster College welcome celebrated poet, writer, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni to SLCC’s Grand Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7 p.m., as the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Keynote speaker. The ticketed event is free and open to the public. Seats may be reserved online at grandtheatrecompany.com . Giovanni will read from her latest works, then be joined by SLCC Poet Laureate, Lisa Bickmore for a follow-up conversation. This special event is part of each institution’s 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration and the Bastian Foundation Diversity Lecture Series hosted by Westminster College. Westminster and SLCC partnered to bring Giovanni, one of the most prominent American poets, to Utah – making her inspiring words and presence available to the community. Giovanni has been dubbed the “princess of b