RSVP today for humanities award event

The Utah Humanities Council's 20th annual Human Ties Awards will be presented on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts, 138 W. Broadway.

A reception in the Rose Room at 6 p.m. will be followed by the awards presentation at 7:30 p.m. in the Jeanne Wagner Theater.

The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are due today, Sept. 12, by phone, 359-9670 or e-mail maruri@utahhumanities.org.

Honorees will be:

• The Right Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish will receive the Governor's Award in the Humanities for her scholarly and community work in religion and philosophy.

• Kent Murdock and the O.C. Tanner Company will receive the Friends of the Humanities Award for their long record of support for the humanities throughout the state and beyond.

• The University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center, also celebrating its 20th anniversary, will receive the Humanities Partnership Award.

• The Ogden Valley Branch Library in Huntsville will receive a Human Ties Award for "Hunger: Exploring a Human Condition."

• The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society will receive a Human Ties Award for "Wisdom of Our Years."

• The Alliance for the Varied Arts in Logan will receive a Human Ties Award for "Weavings of War, Fabric of Memory."

For more information, go to: www.utahhumanities.org.