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Events

July 31, 2025

6 results found
  • Jul31
    10:30 am - 11:00 am MDT

    Coalville Branch

    Location

    82 North 50 East, Coalville, UT US 84017

    Join us *every Thursday--May 29 through July 31, at 10:30am for singing, dancing, books, puppets and all kinds of early literacy fun. For our youngest patrons (ages 0-3) and their caregivers. *Please note, the library will be closed on June 19 and July 24

  • Jul31
    10:30 am - 11:00 am MDT

    Join us *every Thursday--June 12 through July 31, 10:30 am-- for singing, dancing, books, puppets and all kinds of early literacy fun. For our youngest patrons (ages 0-3) and their caregivers. *Please note, the library will be closed on July 24 for Pioneer Day.

  • Jul31
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm MDT

    Kamas Valley Branch

    Location

    110 N Main, Kamas, UT US 84036

    Join us outside for some GIANT fun! We'll have all kinds of oversized games for you to try, including Jenga, checkers, Sorry, and Uno.

    This program is part of our Summer "Show Your Colors" Series designed specifically for elementary school age children.

    • Jul31
      12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT

      On the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains with Pria Anand

      Register here

      You’re invited to a fascinating conversation with neurologist and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains (forthcoming June 10, 2025).

      The Mind Electric speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about our brains, and the stories that our brains tell to us.

      A girl believes she has been struck blind for stealing a kiss. A mother watches helplessly as each of her children is replaced by a changeling. A woman is haunted each month by the same four chords of a single song. In neurology, illness is inextricably linked with narrative, the clues to unraveling these mysteries hidden in both the details of a patient's story and the tells of their body.

      Stories are etched into the very structure of our brains, coded so deeply that the impulse for storytelling survives and even surges after the most devastating injuries. But our brains are also porous—the stories they concoct are shaped by cultural narratives about bodies and illness that permeate the minds of doctors and patients alike. In the history of medicine, some stories are heard, while others—the narratives of women, of Black and brown people, of displaced people, of disempowered people—are too often dismissed.

      In The Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand reveals—through case study, history, fable, and memoir—all that the medical establishment has overlooked: the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story.

      Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans. Register now to join this intriguing virtual conversation!

      About the Author: Pria Anand is a neurologist at the Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Medical School, and she trained in neurology, neuro-infectious diseases, and neuroimmunology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

    • Jul31
      1:00 pm - 2:00 pm MDT

      Coalville Branch

      Location

      82 North 50 East, Coalville, UT US 84017

      To wind down our summer programs, we will be making Hindu Rakhi Bracelets to celebrate Raksha Bandhan, a Hindu festival traditionally celebrated on the full moon in late July or early August.

      For Raksha Bandhan, sisters tie sacred red threads, or rakhi, around their brothers' wrists. "Raksha" means "protection" and "Bandhan" means "tying together" or "fastening". The Rakhi itself is a red thread with beads, stones, or other embellishments, that symbolizes the unbreakable bond between siblings. The tradition of tying Rakhis can extend beyond siblings, to friends and neighbors tying Rakhis as an expression of love.

      We'll have red thread, beads, baubles and all things sparkly for you to make a Rakhi bracelet for someone special.

      Registration required and opens on Monday, July 28 at 10am. Call 435-336-3070 to register.

      This program is part of our summer "Show Your Colors" series designed specifically for elementary school age children. Small beads and threading needles will present a choking hazard. 

    • Jul31
      6:00 pm - 7:00 pm MDT
      75 spots available

      Kimball Junction Branch

      Location

      1885 W Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT US 84098

      ACCIDENTAL MADNESS - Park City’s David Wiener on his life and career as an inventor, designer, engineer and serial entrepreneur.


      Everyone has had the dream of inventing something. David Wiener made that dream his reality when he was just a kid, and for the past forty years, he has designed, engineered, manufactured, and sold a vast array of products and worked with global brands including Ferrari, Porsche, Ben & Jerry’s, Nike and the US Ski Team. David’s story is a wild roller coaster of ups and downs, as inspirational as it is hysterical. 

       

      David’s determination to achieve was so powerful it often overruled risk, whether working underwater or under cars, high atop ladders hanging his commercial speakers, or bolting himself onto speeding cars to test ski aerodynamics, but these were just physical dangers. The real dangers were the mental challenges of exhausting stress while constantly creating innovations and being responsible to employees and then a wife and growing family.

       

      David’s story will have you laughing and gasping your way through David’s extraordinary life, which has influenced multiple industries and been transformed by amazing people, from Ayrton Senna to Bill Gates, Peter Gabriel, Billie Jean King, and many others. Creating cars and aircraft, furniture, clothing, audio electronics, and apps, the list goes on and on. And he’s still at it!

       

      So what drives a person to take life-changing risks for the sake of an idea or a dream? Come find out!