Today Along The Wasatch – Friday, April 3, 2026
Last Weekend — Olafur Eliasson at Memory Grove
“Wake The Great Salt Lake”
DON'T MISS THIS — TONIGHT MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE
Something remarkable has been happening each night in Memory Grove Park — and most people along the Wasatch Front don't even know it exists. Tonight is the second-to-last night. Tomorrow it's gone.
Internationally acclaimed Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson — one of the most celebrated installation artists in the world — chose Salt Lake City for his first-ever exhibition in the Intermountain West. What he created here is not a gallery show. It's not a concert. It's something you won't find anywhere else on earth right now.
Each evening at dusk, a three-story illuminated sphere rises above Memory Grove Park and comes alive with a 30-minute experience that is equal parts art, music, and environmental awakening. The soundscape — composed by Grammy-winning UK producer Koreless — is built from more than 150 field recordings of the birds, insects, amphibians, and wildlife that depend on the Great Salt Lake for their survival. Migratory birds. Brine flies. Species that have called this lake home for thousands of years. Their voices fill the park. The sphere glows and shifts above you. And for thirty minutes, you feel — really feel — what is at stake.
The mission behind this project is urgent and clear. Wake the Great Salt Lake is a public art initiative supported by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, created specifically to spark a community conversation about the future of one of Utah's most vital and most threatened natural resources. The Great Salt Lake has lost more than half its water over the past century. What Eliasson has done is give that crisis a voice — literally — and invited 1,800 people a night to stand inside it.
It is completely free.
Watch the video above to get a feel for what awaits you tonight — then go experience it for yourself. Entry begins at 8:00 PM. The installation activates at 9:00 PM. Plan to arrive early and bring someone who needs to see this.
📍 Memory Grove Park, 300 N. Canyon Road, Salt Lake City 🎫 Free — details at wakegsl.org
Kevin Nealon at Wiseguys
One of America's most likable comedians is in town this weekend. Kevin Nealon — longtime Saturday Night Live cast member and Weeds star — brings four decades of sharp, conversational standup to Wiseguys' main stage at The Gateway. Two shows tonight at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM, with the same lineup back Saturday night.
📍 Wiseguys Comedy — The Showroom at The Gateway, 190 S. 400 W., Salt Lake City 🎟 wiseguyscomedy.com
NOW IN THEATERS — A Great Awakening (PG-13)
Opening today across the Wasatch Front, A Great Awakening tells the true story of the unlikely friendship between firebrand preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin — and the spiritual movement that helped forge the identity of a nation on the eve of independence. Directed by Joshua Enck and produced by Sight & Sound Films, the film arrives timed to America's 250th anniversary year. Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes. Rated PG-13 for brief violence.
🎟 Showtimes at agreatawakening.com
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