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- BY SARA VENTIERA and LARRY McSHANE

THEY SKIPPED the slopes to take a stand.

A crowd of celebritie­s and citizens mingled Saturday at an anti-Trump march in Park City, Utah, led by comedian/talk show host Chelsea Handler on the first Saturday of the Sundance Film Festival.

“Chelsea! Chelsea!” chanted women in the crowd that trekked along Main St., where snow fell and temperatur­es dipped into the low 20s.

Handler addressed the crowd, which police estimated at 8,000.

“This is not 1917, this is 2017,” she said. “We shouldn’t have to fight for progress we’ve already made, but we’re ready to. It’s our responsibi­lity to take care of the next generation.”

The march was organized by a group of movie industry profession­als who didn’t want their festival trip to preclude them from joining the worldwide marches against President Trump.

“No one wanted to miss out on the movement,” said Lisa Zambri, 37, an executive producer from Los Angeles. “We wanted to be a presence here . . . . This came first.”

Actress Connie Britton, in Park City for her new movie, “Beatriz at Dinner,” was joined by fellow A-listers John Legend, Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron and Benjamin Bratt.

“I was a little sad not to be in D..C.,” said Britton, referring to the Washington march that drew a half-million protesters. “But I could really feel the energy of everyone at all of the rallies across the U.S.”

Britton, joined by comedian Aisha Tyler, urged the women in the crowd to “fight like a girl.” Others in the crowd wore stickers reading “I’m With Meryl” on their jackets — a reference to Oscarwinne­r Meryl Streep’s criticism of Trump at the Golden Globes.

A half-dozen women wearing pink knitted “p---yhats” rode in the back of a pickup truck among the marchers.

“It feels like we shouldn’t have to be doing this,” said Park City resident Patricia Kempton.

Marcher Sharon Mardula agreed: “It feels like we’re going backwards.”

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