Park City Film: ‘The Boy and the Heron’
Park City Film is back after taking a film-festival break and will screen Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-nominated animated film “The Boy and the Heron,” rated PG-13, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 2, through Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. The film will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles on Friday and Sunday nights and the English-dubbed version, featuring the voices of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh, will be screened on Saturday. For information and tickets, visit parkcityfilm.org.
‘Lee-Mingwei: The Gifts of Connection’
The Kimball Art Center, 1251 Kearns Blvd., is currently showing “Lee-Mingwei: The Gifts of Connection” through Feb. 25. The exhibit showcases the Taiwan-born Mingwei’s projects that he has created over the last 30 years. Each project, including the interactive “The Mending Project,” which features local seamsters who mend items of clothing, centers on connection and bringing people together. For information, visit kimballartcenter.org.
‘Snow: Tiny Crystals, Global Impact’ Free Day
The Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter, 1258 Center St., is currently showing an interactive, bilingual exhibit, “Snow: Tiny Crystals, Global Impact,” through May 5. It’s about the wonder of snow, and the impact climate change has on Earth. Guests can explore how snow shapes and sustains life, snow’s vital role in sustaining the water supply and cooling the planet, and the cultural and personal value of snow. For information, visit swanerecocenter.org.
‘Flame of Ambition’ by Steve Leatham
Historian Steve Leatham will present a free lecture, “Flame of Ambition,” at 5 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at the Park City Museum Education and Collections Center, 2079 Sidewinder Drive. The presentation, sponsored by by the Friends of Ski Mining Mountain History, is, in part, about Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, the daughter of Michael Shaughnessy, Utah’s 11th United States Marshal, and her mother Winifred Kimball, granddaughter of Heber C. Kimball, first counselor to Brigham Young, who was the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The lecture digs up the connection between a mining murder in Park City and a priceless Egyptian artifact collection at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. For registration and information, visit parkcityhistory.org/history-speaks-lectures.