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 […]
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 […]
Immerse yourself in traditional, historical, and contemporary Navajo shepherding and weaving culture at the 20th Annual Sheep is Life Celebration June 17-19. Visitors can experience sheep and wool production, fiber arts, textiles and culinary arts at workshops and presentations throughout the weekend. The celebration is presented by Diné be' iiná Inc.(DBI), a grassroots organization thtat […]
The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) Heritage Insights programs will take place during the 26th Zuni, 83rd Hopi, and the 67th Navajo Festivals of Art and Culture. MNA’s goal for each festival is to illuminate, explore, and share humanities-based topics tribal members have determined are important to their community, in order to promote cross-cultural understanding […]
This event encourages residents of the White Mountain region to bring family collections of ancient artifacts to Casa Malpais Museum in Springerville, where professional archaeologists will provide in-depth information on these objects. Participants will learn what these objects tell us about the lives and arts of the White Mountains’ ancient residents (monetary values will not […]
Hot Topics Café Title: Revenge of the Lawn Time: 6 - 7:30 p.m. Date: Tuesday, September 20 Facilitated by: Jeffrey Downard Where: Murdoch Community Center, 203 East Brannen Ave., Flagstaff, AZ 86001 More info at: nau.edu/ppi / 928-523-8339 / nau.ppi@nau.edu Join the upcoming Hot Topics Cafés on Revenge of the Lawn: Water Use and Conservation in the High Desert. In this Hot Topics discussion, we […]
Title: Revenge of the Lawn Time: 5:30 - 7 p.m. Date: Wednesday, September 21 Facilitated by: Jeffrey Downard Where: Sedona Community Center, 2615 Melody Ln., Sedona, AZ 86336 More info at: nau.edu/ppi / 928-523-8339 / nau.ppi@nau.edu Join the upcoming Hot Topics Cafés on Revenge of the Lawn: Water Use and Conservation in the High Desert. In this Hot Topics discussion, we will consider a number […]
Join Us for the Harvey Girls Documentary, New Interviews and Discussion Program at the Mohave Museum of History and Arts, September 24, 1:30 PM. 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 […]
If Your Body Could Talk, What Would It Say? Save the dates! Oct 1-7th, 2016 UnSilencing Anatomies kick-off events the first week of October are followed by a two-month-long city-wide, community engagement & body-based story-telling project along Tucson's Street Car route from Banner Health to El Rio & beyond Kore Press, Tucson publisher of innovative women's writings since 1993, […]
Join the upcoming Hot Topics Cafés discussion Why Should Politicians Trust Us? : and other questions of trust in politics. Discussions about trust and politics often focus on our trust in politicians. For this event, we’ll flip the focus and ask: why should politicians trust us? Americans have historically low trust in their government, but they have even less […]
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