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Is this the Sundance Film Festival for you? X-Dance for one insane week each winter hosts the world’s top action sport filmmakers and athletes, along with cutting-edge bands and DJs and key figures from the entertainment industry in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Everyone gathers to celebrate action sports culture at the annual X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001 and coinciding each year with the Sundance Film Festival, X-DANCE showcases the year’s top action sport films, followed by post-screening Q&A’s with filmmakers and athletes. This year’s festival is from Janurary 16-20, 2009.
X-DANCE also features open forum panels with athletes, filmmakers, industry figures and icons from the action sports world, plus special screenings, privately sponsored parties and a legendary Closing Party/Awards Ceremony. With roots in both the core industry as well as the mainstream, no other event on earth harnesses the creative energy of adrenaline culture and brings it together under one roof like the X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival.
Need a job? How about a job with a season pass? The Park City Job Fair is just what you’re looking for. 50 employers, 1000 jobs. Your bound to find somebody to hire you.
Ski Utah’s 2008 Fat Flake Festival will take place Sat., Nov. 15 from 5-9 p.m. at the Gallivan Center in downtown Salt Lake City. This year’s festival will feature music by The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Cavedoll and Junior Giant. Local ski and snowboard athletes including Julian Carr, Jamie Pierre, Rachael Burks, Jenn Berg, Stevie Bell and Ashley Battersby will also be on hand to sign autographs in the Powder Lounge.
New to the event this year, is the first ever Ski Boot Race. Contestants wearing alpine ski boots will tackle a challenging dash around the perimeter of the Gallivan Center in the quest for a new pair of Rossignol alpine ski boots, and the title of Utah’s “Fastest Ski Boot Racer” in both a men’s and women’s division. Pre-registration for the race will open on Nov. 1. More information can be found by visiting the website.
Participants can also take part in the vintage ski outfit contest and win new clothes from Eider, skis from Rossignol or a Burton snowboard. Lift tickets and other swag from Utah ski resorts will also be given away. The event will also offer ice skating, a kids zone, food, beer and much more. The Fat Flake Festival is free and open to the public. Last year’s festival was successful in conjuring an amazing 700 inches of snow for the 2007-08 winter season. Join Ski Utah as they call out to the snow gods and welcome winter back to the Wasatch!
The Fat Flake Festival is powered by Ski Utah, Ride Utah, KSL Radio, X-96, PowerAde, Monster Beverage Co., Salt Lake CVB, Stantec, Powder Magazine, Snowboarder Magazine, Media One, City Weekly, Pictureline, and Young Chevrolet.
A lot of locals whether they ride in bounds or out of bounds rely on the services of the Utah Avalanche Center. Resorts consult closely with this team of experts and share information and forecasts back and forth to ensure safety for anyone who slides on snow in Utah’s mountains.
It only makes sense then that we support the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center gear swap that’s coming up on November 1, 2008. It’s held at the REI on 3300 South.
Click the image below for a large size poster that gives you all the info.
Don’t miss this awesome beginning of the season kickoff party and help support the guys who keep you on top of the snow! If you need anymore motivation to attend this event, let me add, your admission includes basically all the beer you can drink. (Bring a designated driver!)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008, 6:00 P.M.
AT BLACK DIAMOND: 2084 EAST 3900 SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84124
INFORMATION: (801) 365-5522
A DONATION IS REQUESTED
$30 BEFORE SEPTEMBER 13TH INCLUDES A RAFFLE ENTRY
$35 AFTER SEPTEMBER 13TH
EVENT IS OUTDOORS AND WILL BE HELD RAIN, SNOW OR SHINE • GEAR RAFFLE AND AUCTION.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE BLACK DIAMOND STORE • MUST BE 21 YEARS OLD TO ATTEND
Park City Mountain Resort is hosting many of the world’s best skiers and snowboarders, including Shaun White, Torah Bright and Simon Dumont, in the sixth annual World Superpipe Championships on Saturday, March 8. This year, the invited skiers and snowboarders will all compete on the same day for a piece of the $90,000 prize purse in Park City Mountain Resort’s Eagle Superpipe, North America’s largest superpipe and the site for the 2002 Winter Games.
“The 2008 World Superpipe Championships is going to be the biggest single-day snow event of the year with both skiing and riding taking place in one day,” said Jim Mangan, director of action sports marketing for Park City Mountain Resort. “You’ll see the best athletes in the world like Tanner and Shaun going huge in the pipe all on the same day.”
The 2008 World Superpipe Championships is free to the public and will include live music, food, and giveaways. The event is held in Park City Mountain Resort’s Eagle Superpipe, which is located just above the First Time and Three Kings Lifts. Park City Mountain Resort’s World Superpipe Championships is a Swatch TTR FIVE(5)STAR Event. For more information visit www.worldsuperpipe.com
Deer Valley has the honor of annually hosting one of the stops for the professional tour in the skiing world- the World Cup. Having made the trek up to Deer Valley back in my college days I knew what I was getting into- a GREAT time. The actual World Cup activities last most of the week with preliminary events during the week and the Finals taking place on Friday and Saturday. In the past the events have included the Aerials and Dual Moguls. This year spectators were treated with an additional event for the first time ever in North America at World Cup level, a Ski Cross competition.
The events take place mountain side on lower Deer Valley with the Aerials and Dual Moguls Finals at night. After the Finals the crowd is entertained with a free concert and fireworks. Be sure to bundle up because it can get cold.
Don’t miss out next year. The World Cup is a great party.
If you’d like to see highlights from this year’s World Cup check out Versus on February 17th at 4 p.m. EST.
Is this the Sundance Film Festival for you? X-Dance for one insane week each winter hosts the world’s top action sport filmmakers and athletes, along with cutting-edge bands and DJs and key figures from the entertainment industry in Salt Lake City, Utah.
and icons from the action sports world, plus special screenings, privately sponsored parties and a legendary Closing Party/Awards Ceremony. With roots in both the core industry as well as the mainstream, no other event on earth harnesses the creative energy of adrenaline culture and brings it together under one roof like the X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival.
