Soirée Musicale: Mozart & Mendelssohn
2025-04-19 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
MUSIC
Soirée Musicale: Mozart, Beethoven, and Phillip Glass
Saturday, April 19th, 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
Don’t miss the grand finale of this season’s Soirées Musicales: “Mozart & Mendelssohn”
Join us for an unforgettable evening as we close our musical journey with a spectacular chamber concert. Six talented string musicians will bring Mozart’s “Grand Sextet,” Phillip Glass’s String Quartet “Mishima,” and Beethoven’s “Eyeglass Duo” to life.
Experience the pinnacle of classical music in an exhilarating performance that promises to be the perfect crescendo to our season. Book your tickets now for this unmissable conclusion to our Soirée Musicale program!
Tickets $30

Soiree Musicale is generously sponsored by:

Sunday Night… All Right! with Riverhouse Band
2025-04-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
COMMUNITY EVENT
Sunday Night… All Right! with Riverhouse Band
Sunday, April 20, 2025
6:30pm-8:30pm
Kayenta Art Village Outdoor Theater
Join us at the Kayenta Village Outdoor Theatre. Presenting River House Band playing their exhilarating mix of Blues, Southern Rock, Classic Rock, and Country. Join your friends as we celebrate the new season’s warmer weather with music and dancing.
Doors open at 6:30PM and River House Band performs from 6:30-8:30. Feel free to bring your own snacks and beverages. Sit back and prepare for a great toe-tapping time!
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SALT Contemporary Dance
2025-04-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
DANCE
SALT Contemporary Dance
Friday, April 25, 7:30pm
Saturday, April 26, 3:00pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

“SALT prides itself on being “current,” we love to bring in new choreographic voices from around the world that are truly making waves in the dance community. We have had incredible success bringing thought provoking contemporary dance to the Utah community of artists and are so pleased to be touring some of these incredible works.”

SALT Contemporary Dance was founded in 2013 in an effort to bring new voices of dance to Utah. In its 10 seasons, SALT has grown exponentially into a well-respected company, working with some of the most sought-after choreographers to create innovative new productions.
This performance will feature choreography from Rena Butler, Ching Ching Wong, Brandon Lee Alley and Racheal Prince.
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This performance is generously sponsored by Desert Dweller Real Estate.

VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES: Stories from the Atomic Age
2025-04-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES
Stories from the Atomic Age
With Matthew Malinowski, The Atomic Museum
Tuesday, April 29, 7:30pm
Social Hour begins at 6:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
This year’s Voyager Lecture Series follows “The History of This Land,” from the deep time studied in geology, through modern concerns related to our changing environment.
April’s program is presented by the Atomic Museum, a national science, history and educational institution that tells the story of America’s nuclear weapons testing program at the Nevada Test Site. The Museum uses lessons of the past and present to better understand the extent and effect of nuclear testing on worldwide nuclear deterrence and geo-political history.
The Atomic Museum team will visit Kayenta to discuss the history, challenges and consequences of atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site, including the Downwinders living in Arizona, Nevada, and our area in Utah who were exposed to radiation from atmospheric nuclear testing.
Learn more about the Atomic Museum at atomicmuseum.vegas
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Voyage Lecture Series is generously sponsored by Voyager Wealth Advisors and Cache Valley Bank.

FIRST FRIDAY
2025-05-02 17:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
COMMUNITY
First Fridays at Kayenta
every First Friday / 5:00pm-8:00pm
FREE to attend!
Kayenta Art Village
We’re thrilled to introduce First Fridays at Kayenta, happening on the first Friday of every month, September through June! Enjoy live music, food trucks, and a pop-up boutique market in the Kayenta Art Village beginning at 5:00pm, with film screenings in the theater presented by DOCUTAH, and good vibes all around.
Photo courtesy of Donna Conversano / www.conversanophoto.com

DOCUTAH PRESENTS: On Sacred Ground
2025-05-02 19:30 - 20:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
FILM
On Sacred Ground
Friday, May 2, 7:30pm
part of DOCUTAH
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
The peace and serenity that envelops Bear Butte Mountain in South Dakota seems an unlikely venue for activism. It is here, amid the bucolic grasses and flowers, the grazing Buffalo and wildlife that the stage has been set for battle. While not Wounded Knee or Custer’s Last Stand it is still the stuff of history – and just as important to Native Americans.

Tickets $10

Kayenta Native Arts Market
2025-05-03 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-04 10:00 - 17:00 | Kayenta Art Village, 881 Coyote Gulch Court, Ivins, UT, 84738, United States
ART FESTIVAL
Kayenta Native Arts Market
Friday, May 2, 2025 | 5:00pm-8:00pm during FIRST FRIDAYS at Kayenta
Saturday & Sunday, May 3-4, 2025 | 10:00am-5:00pm
FREE to attend!
Kayenta Art Village
Kayenta Arts Foundation is thrilled to host the 2025 Kayenta Native Arts Market, formerly known as Festival of the Americas. This exciting event will feature a wide range of traditional and contemporary Native American art, including jewelry, pottery, textiles, paintings, and sculptures from dozens of artists located throughout the Southwest.
Enjoy spectacular art, stunning desert vistas, food trucks, and an exciting lineup of indigenous performers throughout the weekend. This event is fun for the whole family, and offers an incredible opportunity to learn more about native cultures.
During the Native Arts Market, Kayenta Arts Foundation hosts fundraising events for the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Tribe of Southern Utah. By shopping at our silent auction, you are supporting their impactful scholarship fund.

Coyote Tales: Surrender
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
STORYTELLING
COYOTE TALES True Stories Told Live
The Night’s Theme: Surrender
Friday, May 9th
Pre-show party 6:30 pm (event ticket required for admission)
Storytelling: 7:30 pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
Coyote Tales are live, open-mic style storytelling events with amateur and experienced storytellers. Each event has a theme on which stories are to be based. The theme for this event is: “Surrender.” Potential storytellers may address that theme in any way they choose. Prior to the event, storytellers craft their true, on-theme story, practice the telling (5-7 minutes or less), and work on eliminating excess detail to nail the perfect ending.
When the doors open, potential storytellers put their name in the hat in hopes of being chosen to share their tale. If chosen, the storyteller takes the stage to delight the audience.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO GET ON STAGE TO SHARE YOUR TALE, PLEASE CONTACT VICTORIA THROUGH THE COYOTE TALES WEBSITE:
https://coyotetalesstories.com/

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Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ
2025-05-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ
Saturday, May 10, 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ is an ongoing project where visual artist and composer Elisa Harkins sings in a combination of Cherokee, English, and Muscogee (Creek) to electronic dance music, some of which is inspired by sheet music of Indigenous music notated by Daniel Chazanoff during the 20th century.
As an act of Indigenous Futurism, it combines disco and Indigenous language in an effort to alter the fate of these endangered languages through active use, preservation on pressed vinyl, and radio play.
The performance of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ is referring to Wampum belts and Indigenous peacekeeping as well as the Cherokee use of wampum beads as currency.
ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, pronounced a-de-la di-ga-gu-di can be translated to “money on a string”.
The intention of the Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ performance is to create a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement that is between the people watching the piece, regardless of tribe or race.
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The Bowerbird Collective
2025-05-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
MUSIC
A Season on the Wind | Music for Migratory Birds
The Bowerbird Collective
Saturday, May 17, 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
The Bowerbird Collective proudly presents ‘A Season on the Wind’, a cinematic concert based on author, ornithologist and conservationist Kenn Kaufman’s book of the same name. This event is an inspiring ode to migratory birds, and an unforgettable night of musical storytelling. A musical and visual journey from the shores of Lake Erie across the Americas, this performance stars three internationally acclaimed musicians, and features spectacular visuals and soundscapes. Created by the Bowerbird Collective, an award-winning Australian-based organization making art for nature, at the invitation of the Biggest Week in American Birding festival and Kenn Kaufman himself, the work features a newly commissioned score by The Brothers Balliett (NYC), whose music is praised as “vivid, emotive, with contemporary twists”.
Also featured on the program is ‘Rivers are our Brothers’, a song cycle by Majel Connery on ecological responsibility told from the point of view of the land. Commissioned by Musica Sierra and created in partnership with Learning Landscapes, an educational program of the Feather River Land Trust, the songs in the cycle take a first-person view of nature, ascribing human qualities and feelings to elements of the landscape: water, trees, mountains, rivers, etc. You can stream the cycle on Apple Music, Spotify or Bandcamp.
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Sunday Night… Alright! with Soul What!?
2025-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
Sunday Night… Alright! with Soul What!?
Sunday, May 18, 2025
7:00pm-9:00pm
Kayenta Art Village Outdoor Theater
Join us at the Kayenta Village Outdoor Theatre. Presenting Soul What!?, Southern Utah’s favorite classic line-up, playing a high-energy show filled with classic hits and loads of fun. Join your friends as we celebrate the new season’s warmer weather with music and dancing.
Doors open at 6:30PM and Soul What!? performs from 7:00pm-9:00pm. Feel free to bring your own snacks and beverages. Sit back and prepare for a great toe-tapping time!
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VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES: Valley Fever and Our Rapidly Changing Environment
2025-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES
Valley Fever and Our Rapidly Changing Environment
With Dr. Katharine S. Walter and Dr. Ginamarie Foglia
Tuesday, May 20, 7:30pm
Social Hour begins at 6:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
This year’s Voyager Lecture Series follows “The History of This Land,” from the deep time studied in geology, through modern concerns related to our changing environment.
Our final lecture of this series comes from Dr. Katharine S. Walter, an infectious disease epidemiologist based in Salt Lake City. Landscape development and climate change are elevating the risk of a new fungal infection in Southern Utah: Valley Fever. Join Dr. Walter, along with Dr. Ginamarie Foglia, as they discuss dangerous emerging fungal pathogens, Valley Fever, and the implications of very local projects including the proposed Dry Wash reservoir.
Learn more at Evo-Epi Laboratory

DOCUTAH Presents: The Golden Age: A Passion to Last a Lifetime
2025-06-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
FILM
The Golden Age: A Passion to Last a Lifetime
Friday, June 6, 7:30pm
part of DOCUTAH
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
This film takes the viewer on an enthralling, and very engaging, look at the topsy-turvey season of the Golden Age League played in Corona Park, Queens.

The competitive league is made up of Latin American players (all over 40) — some of which played professionally back in their homelands — duking it out each Saturday on a patch of grass. Despite their former glory (not to mention the addition of a few hanging guts and some aching muscles), it doesn’t stop the players from competing among a flurry of passion and, very often, red cards.

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Dynamic Wit Comedy Night
2025-06-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
COMEDY
Dynamic Wit Comedy Night
Saturday, June 7, 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
The days are longer, the nights are warmer, and it’s time to shake off the spring and dive headfirst into the season of fun. What better way to let loose than with a night of gut-busting comedy from Dynamic Wit?
Featuring three top-tier local comedians, this show delivers the perfect blend of clever, outrageous, and downright ridiculous. Whether you’re a seasoned comedy fan or just looking for a fresh way to celebrate summer’s arrival, you’re in for a night of pure hilarity under the desert sky.
Featuring:
Eva Fry
Dustin Anderson
Chase McPhie
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Las Guaracheras
2025-06-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
MUSIC
Las Guaracheras
Saturday, June 14, 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
Las Guaracheras is a powerful Latin Music sextet from Cali, Colombia that performs Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as salsa, as well as music from the Pacific region of Colombia. Their compositions and lyrics revolve around the revindication and recognition of the role of women in the music industry – especially in the Latin Music scene in Colombia – and seek to express the power and strength of women as sources of love, hope, resilience and creativity.

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This engagement of Las Guaracheras is made possible in part through the Performing Arts Global Exchange program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sunday Night... Alright! with The Relics
2025-06-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Kayenta Outdoor Theater, 881 Coyote Gulch Court, Ivins, UT, 84738, United States
Sunday Night… Alright! with The Relics
Sunday, June 15, 2025
7:30pm-9:30pm
Kayenta Art Village Outdoor Theater
Join us at the Kayenta Village Outdoor Theatre with The Relics! This favorite local band has been seen performing in breweries, lounges, festivals and corporate and private events— where they’ve learned a great deal about supporting their community while remaining old, fragile and highly desired. Like fine wine, they get better with age. Join your friends as we celebrate the new season’s warmer weather with music and dancing.
Doors open at 7:00PM and The Relics perform from 7:30pm-9:30pm. Feel free to bring your own snacks and beverages. Sit back and prepare for a great toe-tapping time!
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LIGHTHOUSE: a new musical
2025-06-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-06-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-06-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-06-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-06-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-06-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
MUSICAL THEATER
LIGHTHOUSE: a new musical
music & story by Veronica Mansour
book & lyrics & story by abs wilson
workshop directed by Lisa Quoresimo
June 19-28, 2025
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
With graduation in the rearview mirror, Buss is desperate to run away from her Minnesota hometown and everyone in it. The only problem? She can’t outrun herself. LIGHTHOUSE is a sweeping pop-country musical that celebrates the idea that maybe, just maybe every version of yourself is worth being.
The Center for the Arts at Kayenta is proud to be part of the development journey for this new promising musical.
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FIRST FRIDAY: July 4th!
2025-07-04 17:00 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
Enjoy live music, food , and a pop-up boutique market in the Kayenta Art Village beginning at 5:00pm, with film screenings in the theater, and good vibes all around.
July’s FIRST FRIDAY features live music from Runaway Fire, and an exceptionally fun screening of 1776 the musical!
MORE INFO
Photo courtesy of Donna Conversano / www.conversanophoto.com

Film Screening: 1776
2025-07-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
FILM
1776
Friday, July 4th, 7:30pm
part of First Fridays at Kayenta
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
A lively and witty musical that brings to life the dramatic debates of the Second Continental Congress as America’s founding fathers struggle to declare independence. With humor, heart, and history, 1776 captures the spirit and tension of a nation on the brink of revolution.
Runtime: 2hr 21m
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CineSizzle: CLUE
2025-07-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Center for the Arts at Kayenta
CINESIZZLE
CLUE
Friday, July 11, 7:30pm
The Lorraine Boccardo Theater
The whodunit board game comes to life as guests are invited to a swanky mansion to learn who is blackmailing them.
Run Time: 94 minutes

CINESIZZLE: Hot Days. Cool Films.
This July, escape the brutal heat and dive into a different kind of desert experience with CineSizzle!—a film series where the only thing sizzling is the lineup. From air-conditioned afternoon escapes to breezy sunset screenings, we’re bringing you a handpicked mix of fun, quirky, and unforgettable films, curated by our staff and board.
Expect the unexpected—from cult classics to indie gems and everything in between. Whether you’re looking to cool off or just enjoy something different, CineSizzle! delivers cinematic joy in the heart of the desert.
$10 TICKETS $50 Cinesizzle Package
