UtahPresents’ Upcoming March Events

(upbeat music) - Utah Presents is a multidisciplinary presenter at the University of Utah and they bring diverse artistic and cultural experiences to the community.

Campaign manager Dennis Busch is here to tell us more about two exciting events coming up.

- Hi Mary.

- Hi there, Dennis.

Nice to have you.

- Thank you so much for having me on.

- Yeah, okay, so the one coming up March 23rd is very interesting approach to a new subject.

- Yeah, it's called "Ocean Filibuster" and it's this very unique theater experience where it's set in a futuristic senate and an anthropomorphic ocean comes to the senate to filibuster a bill that is aimed at reducing the ocean.

So it has this great sustainability and environmentalist ARC, but set in this in really unique way.

- I know.

No kidding.

To make a character the ocean.

- Yeah.

So I think it'll be really a unique experience and interesting and funny and witty and it'll be great.

- All right.

And it's a theater piece?

- It is a theater piece, yeah.

- Okay, so I can't wait to see the costume for the ocean.

- Yeah, it's, (Mary laughs) it'll be a really cool show.

- All right.

And then "Red Baraat" that comes up the 27th.

- Yeah, so just that next week we've got "Red Baraat," which is a group that comes out of a North Indian Bhangra tradition.

But it's a very fun and unique look at the Hindu Festival of Holi, which is called The Festival of Colors.

And it's really just a joyous and fun concert experience.

And people will be dancing, I'm sure, in place, at Kingsbury Hall.

So it's really gonna be a fun and exciting show and a way to experience new cultures and learn something.

- Yeah, that's great 'cause Festival of Colors is a big deal.

- Absolutely.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

So, and you just do so many diverse productions there at Utah Presents.

- We really do.

These two shows are just kind of a sample of we've still got several other shows coming up and people can learn more about all of those at our website.

- That's great.

Well thank you so much for coming on.

- Yeah, thank you.

- Thank you.

And if you'd like to know more about Utah Presents and upcoming performances, March 23rd, it will be "Ocean Filibuster" and March 27th, "Red Baraat" at Kingsbury Hall, and there's a lot more.

Go to utahpresents.org.

That's utahpresents.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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