A little out of the way from the conference, but a nice relaxing environment, and gay owned is Diva’s Cupcakes and Coffee.  Located at:

1560 East 3300 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84106
gordon@divascupcakes.com
www.divascupcakes.com

If you are looking for Vegan organic food here’s a place you won’t want to miss.  Sages Cafe in downtown Salt Lake City just a block away from the Trax line.  Sages Cafe catered the shooting of the film ‘Voicings’ which will debut at the Affirmation Conference this year.

Sage’s Café has evolved into one of Salt Lake City’s finest destination restaurants. Sage’s Café first served the Salt Lake City community under the name ’The Greens Vegetarian Foods.’ The Greens served fresh local organic foods to the Pioneer Park Farmer’s Market, Gallivan Summer Concert Series, the Zephyr Nightclub, and other exciting local events. Preparing foods at the Farmer’s Market has allowed Sage’s Café to understand the need for local organic cuisine in Salt Lake City. Sage’s activist roots have created a perfect foundation for conscious food preparation.

After preparing foods from the food cart for 2 years, the founders Ian and Kelsey Brandt had found one of Salt Lake’s most unique dining spaces. Ian and Kelsey had been going on family walks with their infant son Sage and stumbled across the restaurant space. The restaurant had been the original location of The Other Place, a Greek/American diner (1969-1995). The space was in need of many updates and would be ransformed in the months following. The name Sage’s Café was given to the restaurant in honor of Ian and Kelsey’s son Sage.

Sages Cafe
473 east 300 s (Broadway)
Salt Lake City, Ut 84102
801.322.3790

Looking for a place to eat?  The Pie Pizzaria is a quaint yet fun environment just of the campus of the University of Utah.

Just a few steps off the University of Utah campus and your nose starts to tingle from the rich aromas of garlic and fresh baking Pie pizza dough.  The mixed aromas pick you up, swirling you past colorful murals and old brick walls dressed in graffiti.  The candle lit room filled with college students and professors seems neither crowded nor uncomfortable as people flow in and out for their Pie fix of the day.  The University dine in location is open until 3:00 am on weekends, The Pie’s full motion internet camera gives the world a peek at late night Pie junkies eating, drinking and sometimes even studying.  The epitome of all college hangouts, you are now in what all Salt Lakers know as simply THE PIE!

You know the legend, now here’s the story

The Pie Pizzeria’s old brick walls, a landmark located in the Salt Lake City historic district, near the University of Utah, could tell many stories and secrets!

The Pie has been affectionately referred to as “the best hidden secret in Salt Lake City”.  This small restaurant, located in the basement underneath the University Pharmacy, is out of sight with only one sign hidden behind a wall on 200 South 1320 East.  But with good food and prices, “word of mouth” keeps THE PIE one of the busiest restaurants in the university area.  Tourists and locals have found it for over 26 years, but few know its history.

The establishment was remembered by long time Salt Lake residents as Bimbos, in the Cellar in 1965.  Bimbos was a pizza and pasta place where a 14 inch pizza was had for only $2.20.  One of only three pizza restaurants at the time, the seats were actually wooden pews and closed on Sunday for use as a church.

In 1982, The Palmer family had a vision to turn the establishment into a great place for college students to relax, enjoy great food, study and listen to music.  An immediate success, students came by the hundreds and The Pie grew from one location to five restaurants spanning Ogden to South Jordan.

The Pie takes no short cuts!  Pizza dough is hand rolled and hand tossed the traditional way.  Vegetables are cut fresh daily and The Pie uses the highest quality meat products and cheeses on all their pies.

For the past 26 years, The Pie Pizzeria has been voted the peoples choice by newspaper and magazine reader polls throughout Utah and was voted 7^th best pizza in the nation by Citysearch.com.   Feel free to come in and become a part of Pie history!  Pizza lovers from all over the world have been scribbling their names on our brick walls for years.  We thank all of you for making us a permanent part of Utah ’s history!

1320 E 200 So.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102
(801) 582-0193

Many Affirmation Members have been excommunicated from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints choose to no longer attend.  For many the hynms of the church may still be an important memory especially if you continue to have a strong faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  If this is the case and you want to have access to the hymns and don’t have a hymn book, no problem,  find them online with the Interactive Church Music Player and find information on the hymns, the children songs and even download a son in mp3 format.  The church music player will even transpose the key and allow you to pring out the music.  Now if you could just still sing with the choir.  Hum…

The movie ‘Voicings’ has been shot and we are now in the last stages of editing, for sound, color correction, and marketing, all of which costs money.  The footage in the rough cut looks great!

We’ve had good reviews from those involved in the review of the rough cut.  There may some minor changes but we are on our way.  If anyone would like to be a part of the team that helps make this project a success we welcome any donations. Small and large donations really help.  We need to raise about $6,000 to complete the project so it will be ready to debut at the Affirmation Conference.

In the wake of Proposition 8, we believe this is a very timely project.  Douglas, a man in his mid to late fifties, living a double live, is searching for the strength to be honest with himself and the people closest to him.  He is entrenched in the machine of society and Mormonia. These are the same struggles all gay men and lesbian women feel that  live repressed lives because of the difficulties of having honest discussions of diversity and human rights and that make the coming out process so difficult.  Keep the discussion going.

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Carl, a gay representative in the 34th Middlesex District in Massachusetts, is also slated to speak at the Affirmation Conference this fall.  Read more about Carl Sciortino on the Conference website. Keeping the tradition of Harvey Milk alive.

Carl Sciortino – Massachusetts State Representative – 34th Middlesex District

Chad Hardy the creator of the Men on a Mission Calendar who was recently excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is slated to be one of the speakers at the Affirmation Conference 2009.  See the Conference Website for more information on Chad Hardy.

Chad Hardy and his Men on a Mission Calendar

“This Is The Place Heritage State Park” is a place to see and experience what pioneer life was all about.  Some of the historic buildings have been moved to the park and are open to the public.

The Brigham Young  Adademy

The Brigham Young Farm House at This Is The Place Heritage Park is the original structure that was built in 1863 on the Mormon leader’s 823-acre farm in what is now the Sugarhouse area of the Salt Lake Valley (about 700 East and 2300 South). Brigham Young used the farm for experimental agriculture to determine which crops and livestock would survive and thrive in the unfamiliar climate conditions of Utah.Crops ranged from the familiar, such as alfalfa, strawberries and cauliflower to the exotic, like Chinese sugar cane and chufa nut (an edible root from Africa). About 25 acres of mulberry trees were imported to feed imported silkworms in what eventually was a futile attempt to produce silk domestically in Deseret. The farm also produced most of the dairy products, vegetables and grains used by the Young families.</p> <p>The farming operation was managed by Hamilton Gray Park, but the home and dairy were run by several of Brigham’s wives. They managed the household and supervised the daily activities there, from cooking to laundry to spinning wool and other aspects of pioneer life. In addition to the wives and their children, the household included girls hired to help and, at least for meals, the large number of farmhands needed to produce crops on such a large acreage.</p> <p class=”>

Though he never lived in the house, Brigham visited often. He entertained visiting dignitaries and held dances and other social events there. His daughter, Clarissa, recalled that her father especially enjoyed showing off the farm to visitors from the East.

The house had a couple of unusual features for its time. A three-sided wooden trough carried cool water from a spring near the house into a basement tank so fresh water did not have to be carried in buckets from a well each day as was necessary in most pioneer homes. And while the second floor was primarily bedroom space, one large room was kept as a dance hall.

Directly across the street from “This Is The Place Monument” is Utah’s Hogel Zoo.

Hogle Zoo has something for everyone! With hundreds of animals from hundreds of species to visit, the splendor of the animal kingdom is yours to behold. Be sure to visit Asian Highlands, a re-creation of a Himalayan village featuring five endangered Asian cat species, and Elephant Encounter — where the Serengeti meets Salt Lake City — and spotlights African elephants and white rhinoceros.

As part of a redesigned central plaza, the new Conservation Carousel takes kids of all ages for a whimsical spin on some of world’s most endangered or threatened animals. Each is a unique work of art, hand carved and painted by skilled craftsmen. A portion of all ride revenue is directed to Hogle Zoo conservation causes.

Hogle Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. For perspective, of the more than 2,000 USDA-licensed wildlife exhibitors in the country, fewer than 10% have achieved accreditation. By being AZA accredited, Hogle Zoo is recognized as one of the top zoos in the world.

Explore

Begin your Zoo visit by exploring our site! Learn about What to See and Do, and What’s New! Check out our Events Calendar for cool events your whole family can enjoy, including ZooLights! in December! Need a place to hold your company party? Think Hogle Zoo!

Learn

Want to learn more? Meet Our Animals and discover who lives at our Zoo. We also offer Education Programs for schools and organizations, and Zoo Classes to enrich your knowledge of our wild world.

This Is The Place Monument marks the spot where the Mormon Pioneers first entered the Salt Lake Valley and marks the end of the 1,300-mile Mormon trail.It was here that Brigham Young stopped his carriage in July 1847 and, after surveying the desert valley near the shores of the Great Salt Lake, declared, “This is the right place.” On July 24, 1947, exactly 100 years after his declaration, a heroic-sized bronze sculpture of Young and two of his colleagues was placed atop a 60-foot pedestal overlooking the Valley.

This Is The Place Monument – Emmigration Canyon

This Is The Place Monument was conceived, promoted and erected by a State-appointed commission composed of representatives of various faiths in Utah, including members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholics, Protestants and Jews.

This commission selected Mahonri M. Young, the celebrated sculptor and grandson of Brigham Young, to design the monument. The monument stands 60 feet tall and 86 feet long; the figure of Brigham Young on the top stands 12 feet 4 inches tall, along with Heber C. Kimball and Wilford Woodruff.

The Monument recognizes the early Spanish explorers and missionaries, the trappers, the Donner-Reed party, and the Mormon pioneers, including Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Wilford Woodruff whose figures stand atop the This Is The Place Monument.

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