Please join the board and staff of Utah Cultural Alliance at our Annual Meeting and Luncheon!

Awardees: Linda C. Smith and Cynthia Buckingham

This event is a wonderful opportunity to get together with other lovers of the arts & humanities. Proceeds from this luncheon support our 501(c)3 programs to amplify Utah's humanities and arts, collect economic and other data indicating the benefits of culture, as well as boost the Cultural Asset Map.

Donate an item for the silent auction or opportunity drawing.

Nominate an individual to receive our 2019 Cultural Achievement Award

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Tickets are $45 for members; $55 for non-members (All tickets include one opportunity drawing entry!)

100 and 40 Club members receive TWO free tickets to the lunch. Please contact Crystal at [email protected] to arrange your tickets.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

$5,000 // Cultural Champion sponsorship. Includes:

*For those purchasing a sponsorship, please select 8 tickets to bring your total to the sponsorship total amount ($5,000 or $2,500). You can put your name for all 8 tickets for now, we don't need to know your guests' names until December 1st.

Questions, email: [email protected] | 801.652.0737

If you want to pay via check, please select the check "free" ticket type, and mail your check to UCA // 254 W 400 S #302 SLC UT 84101. Check payments are also $45 for UCA Member and $55 for UCA Non-members

Linda C. Smith, Executive/Artistic Director, Repertory Dance Theatre

Executive/Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Theatre, Linda has been a performer, teacher, choreographer, writer, producer for RDT since 1966.

Her pursuits have led to the development of the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center and the RDT Community School, to providing over 400 commissions for established and emerging choreographers, and to the creation of multi-disciplinary activities that focus on the dance history, the environment, social issues, multi-ethnic history, and sustainability.  She has taught in over 1500 schools bringing the magic of dance to students and teachers with her unique demonstrations, lectures, classes and professional development workshops. As a performer, teacher, director and administrator, Linda has dedicated her life to finding ways to make the arts relevant and to communicating the value of dance in the life of a community.

Linda received her BFA in dance in 1964 from  the University of Utah. She has received numerous honors including "Honors in the Arts" awards from the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, the "Outstanding Achievement Award in Art" from the YWCA, “Community Builders” Award  from Utah Women’s Alliance for Building Community, recognition by Utah Business Magazine as one of 30 Utah Visionaries,” and The College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award from the U of U. 15 Bytes Selected Linda as One of Utah's 15 for 2018: The State's Most Influential Artists Award (2019). 2019 Utah Business Women of the Year; UNA’s 2019 Outstanding Nonprofit Leader of the year. 

She is most at home encouraging audiences of all ages to imagine, create and communicate with the language of movement.

Utah Cultural Alliance is honored to co-host Arts Day on the Hill with our partners: Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Art Works for Kids, and Utah Music Educators Association!

Schedule: We will have events in the Rotuna in the afternoon, but plan on being present at the Capitol 8am-5pm because meetings with legislators will be throughout the day.

Please join us for dinner with legislators after the advocacy day: February 12th at 6pm, Little America. Click here to purchase a ticket.