(upbeat music) - The Warm Springs Alliance is working to reestablish Warm Springs, the longest continuously used site in the Salt Lake Valley.

And joining us to tell us about the Warm Connections event is founder, Sylvia Nibley.

Hi Sylvia, what a pleasure to have you on.

- Hi, Mary.

- So tell people first about your whole project with Warm Springs.

- Well, there's a hot spring in Salt Lake (laughs) and it, a lot of your viewers probably grew up swimming there at the Wasatch Plunge or playing there at the Children's Museum, but the water's been unused for about 50 years.

So we're working to change that and we're the grassroots movement doing that.

- That's wonderful.

And I love that you're doing Warm Connections, which it's a big community event to build community.

So talk about the event you've got planned.

- It is.

So we've done these before and people really loved it.

It's a way of just getting people together.

We call it Warm Connections at Warm Springs, experiments in creating community with art, music, healing, and food.

So it's a way to bring people together around things that are fun and have meaningful conversations and really create the kind of community that we want to live in.

- Ah, I love that.

And I know you've got so much going on, indigenous drumming, yoga, so talk about some of all these activities happening that day.

- Yeah, you know, that's the music and the art.

So we've got some live music, we've got groups singing together, we've got art workshops.

and a historic walking tour.

Just so many ways to interact with the place and each other because it's not just about bringing back a hot spring, it's about bringing us back to each other, back to nature, back to our kinder selves, right now, even before we have access to the hot spring.

- Wow, it's so great.

And I know you also do food.

(both giggle) - Well sure 'cause people like to eat together, right?

(both laughing) But you know, a lot of the - Exactly.

a lot of the community events we do, Mary, and you know, we've all been to these things.

It's like you tend to kind of interact with the people you're there with.

- [Mary] Yeah.

- Or maybe you have a little light conversation with a few folks, but we're doing more than that.

That's why we call it experimenting, because we're doing some fun ways to engage with each other around the music and the art and the food.

Right, so this will be different than things you may have been to before.

- What a great event, and glad you're doing it.

Thanks for being here.

Thank you.

- Thank you so much.

And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming Warm Connections at Warm Springs, June 7th, 10 to 3, go to warmspringsalliance.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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