More details here:Â https://www.azwhf.org/2018-ceremony/ RSVP through eventbrite:Â https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-arizona-womens-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-tickets-44161253498?aff=eac2 The Arizona Women's Hall of Fame is delighted to honor and celebrate the 2018 Living Legacy and Legacy inductees into the Hall of Fame. The public Induction Ceremony will take place on May 3, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. at the Arizona Heritage Center in Tempe, Arizona. A reception follows.. […]
Liz Warren: Liz Warren, a fourth-generation Arizonan, is the director and one of the founders of the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Her textbook, The Oral Tradition Today: An Introduction to the Art of Storytelling is used at colleges around the nation. Her recorded version of The Story of the Grail […]
REVISITING THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD With Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author The University of Arizona - NORTH BALLROOM, UA MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION Thursday, October 18 - 7:00 p.m. Colson Whitehead has established himself as one of the most versatile and innovative writers in contemporary literature. RSVP through Eventbrite. Share on facebook. From the secret lives of elevators to […]
Join us for the annual Ghostly Stories Festival in downtown Phoenix! Celebrate stories, books, and reading with a spooky twist! Wear a costume and enjoy multicultural story time, arts and crafts, a free book giveaway, chalk art mural, and more. Free and fun for families and kids! New this year! Performances, local poets, community booths, […]
Burton Barr Central Library Second Floor, College Depot Auditorium AZ H20 + Art with Jim Ballinger Hoover Dam is an iconic marvel of American engineering. Created to manage the floodwaters of the Colorado River, the dam continues to affect Arizonans’ lives daily. But the Hoover dam is rarely thought of as a significant work of […]
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Colorado River Basin Project Act, authorizing the construction of what is today known as Central Arizona Project (CAP). CAP is a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines that delivers Colorado River water to central and southern Arizona, serving 80 percent of the state’s […]
Keeonna Harris & Saretta Morgan Literary Landscapes: A public reading and conversation with Keeonna Harris & Saretta Morgan. Join us for the evening as both women share new work at the intersections of incarceration, intimacy and indigenous erasure in the borderlands. Conversation and audience Q&A to follow. Literary Landscapes brings together emerging and renowned writers to […]
Amélie (2001) “Amélie is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes […]
What is a body beside a person, a structure, the hull of a ship? Can there be a body of hope, of sorrow, of dreams, of poetry? And what of writing? How does it move us, help give shape to thought and experience? Join us as we explore The Written Body with poet Eloisa Amezcua, […]