This program is made possible in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities.
From the Heard Museum website: "The result of a collaboration between the Heard Museum, the Grand Canyon Music Festival and the Arizona Opera, “The Stories We Tell” will debut at the Heard later this spring. “The Stories We Tell” consists of “micro-operas” composed by five Native students during workshops at Arizona Opera. This is a […]
Explore the Harvey Girls Documentary, New Interviews and Discussion Program at the Heard Museum, April 17, 1:30 PM in the Steele Auditorium Remember the Harvey Girls? They were the more than 100,000 young women who, from the 1880s through the 1960s, left their homes and traveled west to work as waitresses in Harvey House restaurants along the Santa […]
On April 19, 2016, Michelle Hegmon (Arizona State University) will present “Archaeology of the Human Experience.” From Michelle: I will lead a discussion about the Archaeology of the Human Experience (AHE), a new approach that I am developing with a number of colleagues and students (Hegmon 2016). AHE endeavors to understand what it was actually […]
This program is made possible in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities.
Join the Amerind Museum for the opening of the their newest exhibit Fleet of Foot: Indigenous Running and Games from Ancient Times to Today. Amy Juan (Tohono O'odham) will demonstrate how to make the "field hockey" sticks used by O'odham women in the traditional game of toka, 11:00am-1:00pm. Amerind Chief Curator Eric Kaldahl will talk about […]
Join the Vail Preservation Society for the 7th Annual Vail Meet Yourself Celebration at Cienega High School Student Union Saturday, April 30, 2016 3:00-5:00pm Explorations of Home, Homeland and Places That Matter in Vail with teh Tohono O'odham Nation Watch and discuss two short films - "Ours Is The Land" Frances Causey's newsly released film about […]
On May 3, 2016, Lewis Borck (University of Arizona, Archaeology Southwest), will present “Consent and Dissent in Deep Time.” From Lewis: I will examine a complex period of the human experience about 100 years before either Niza or Coronado set foot in the U.S. Southwest. Specifically, I will be discussing the spread of material culture […]
May is Asian Pacific American Month! Join the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center for a celebration of Asian Pacific American art, culture, food, and more. This program is funded in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities. Click here for more information.
During the final months of World War II, His Majesty's Jewish Brigade - the only all-Jewish fighting unit in the war - goes into combat against the hated Nazis...and comes away victorious. However, it is after the war, though, that the real story of the Brigade begins. Amidst the chaos of post-war Europe, and under […]
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