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Join us for a community-led workshop by Arizona Humanities and Palabras Bookstore, in partnership with the NEA Big Read, where we will experience the mournful poetry of Emily Dickinson. Using Dickinson's work as inspiration, participants can expect to engage in a collaborative poetry-building exercise, exploring topics of grief, growth, and all that lies beneath. In […]
How do we explore the desert as a living archive where past, present, and future converge? Artist Joe Ray’s work is rooted in perspectives shaped by Arizona and the US/Mexico border. His art is a blend of symbolism and storytelling combined with bold, colorful visuals. He brings to life his ancestral figures, cosmic storytellers rooted […]
Chef and Cultural Anthropologist Amber Sampson brings you on a journey of taste around Arizona's heritage food history. Sampson will expand on Arizona's Ark of Taste, a living catalog of foods facing extinction, including the local, heritage, and native foods that are unique to Arizona's food history. Come learn about favorites, like White Sonora Wheat, […]
Join Dr. Kate Rose and Armand Ramirez for a fun, all-ages, interactive performance that uncovers Arizona’s rich blended heritage through traditional folk music and dance. Featuring live fiddle and guitar music and storytelling, this experience reveals how pioneer musicians, whose roots spanned old worlds and new terrains, integrated their traditions with those of neighboring communities. […]
Join Dr. Kate Rose and Armand Ramirez for a fun, all-ages, interactive performance that uncovers Arizona’s rich blended heritage through traditional folk music and dance. Featuring live fiddle and guitar music and storytelling, this experience reveals how pioneer musicians, whose roots spanned old worlds and new terrains, integrated their traditions with those of neighboring communities. […]
Join Dr. Kate Rose and Armand Ramirez for a fun, all-ages, interactive performance that uncovers Arizona’s rich blended heritage through traditional folk music and dance. Featuring live fiddle and guitar music and storytelling, this experience reveals how pioneer musicians, whose roots spanned old worlds and new terrains, integrated their traditions with those of neighboring communities. […]
NEA Big Read programming provides communities with the opportunity to gather, discuss, and create in the spirit of a single book/author, in this case, The Essential Emily Dickinson. No previous experience with poetry or the works of Emily Dickinson is required. Victory comes late: Emily Dickinson's Quiet Patriotism In this talk, participants will learn about […]
Stories of Diné food traditions, both before and after first contact, reveal deep connections between sustenance, survival, and spirit. These include the story of the Nayee' (monster) hunger and how Turkey saved the precious agricultural seeds. Today, emerging Diné foodways seek to revive these enduring traditions—resurging what has faded, while striving to elevate and innovate […]
From birth to death, the mesquite tree, here in southwest, is an integral part of life for many who call the desert home. The mesquite tree is just one of many holistic materials, elements of our natural environment, that are vital to sustaining Indigenous culture and practices. We will explore how we are related to […]
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Many Arizonans call the Sonoran Desert and its striking landscapes home. Long before our urban centers and city lights lit up the dark desert skies, the Tohono O’odham were cultivating and shaping the land with abundant agriculture—from squash and beans to corn and cotton. For generations they passed down their rich knowledge and […]