82nd Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Through Heritage Insights Programming, the Museum of Northern Arizona will integrate humanities content into its 82nd Hopi Festivals of Art and Culture. Within the festival, specific programs led by tribal educators and elders will educate visitors on the language and history of the Hopi people. This year, the public will explore Hopi food traditions. More information […]

Honky Tonks, Brothels and Mining Camps: Entertainment in Old Arizona

Copper Queen Library 6 Main St., Bisbee, AZ, United States

In pioneer Arizona, among the best places to experience the performing arts were in the mining towns. Striking it rich meant having disposable income and miners, like the well-heeled of the Gilded Age, wanted to demonstrate their sophistication with culture. From the early popular music of ragtime and minstrelsy evolved orchestras, operas and glee clubs […]

Free

Two Six Shooters Beat Four Aces: The Lives of Men on the Arizona Frontier

Sedona Winds Retirement Center 405 Jacks Canyon Rd., Sedona, AZ, United States

A saga of incredible action with gun battles, deadly weather, outlaws, and evasive fortunes, this lively presentation shares the stories of the pioneer men who first rode into the Arizona Territory when the law of the land was a gun. Some found success, some found poverty, and some found an early death. Hear the true-life […]

Free

Hop, Skip & Jump into Summer Reading

New City PHX 1300 N. Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Families and children are invited to this free fun-filled event celebrating reading on Saturday, July 18th from 10:00am – 1:00pm at New City Church (1300 N. Central Avenue – Phoenix, AZ 85004). Families can meet local children's book authors, hear exciting stories, participate in singalongs, enjoy tasty snacks, make art and crafts, take home books, […]

Free

Hopi Summer

Sharlot Hall Museum 415 W. Gurley Street, Prescott

During a 1927 road trip to the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, Maud and Carey Melville of Worcester, Massachusetts, befriended Ethel and Wilfred Muchvo at First Mesa. This presentation portrays the lives of the Hopi people during the 1920s and 1930s, prior to the tremendous cultural changes that occurred before World War II. Daily […]

Free

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Experience The Andes at The MIM

Musical Instrument Museum 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Head on over to the Musical Instrument Museum on Saturday, August 1st and Sunday, August 2nd and experience the music and culture from The Andes. This famous South American mountain range extends from north to south through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Enjoy dance and musical performances, try your hand at instrument-making […]

Armed with Our Language, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers

La Posada Hotel 303 E. Second St., Winslow, AZ, United States

During WWII a select group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines with a unique weapon.  Using the Navajo language, they devised a secret code that the enemy never deciphered.  For over 40 years a cloak of secrecy hung over the Code Talker’s service until the code was declassified and they were finally honored […]

Free

G. W. French (1820-1891)

Sedona Winds Retirement Center 405 Jacks Canyon Rd., Sedona, AZ, United States

Charles G. W. French, born 1820 in a small southeastern Massachusetts town, heeded the advice, "Go West, young man." Armed with letters of introduction from Daniel Webster and Benjamin R. Curtis, French arrived in California in 1851. Achieving recognition as a lawyer and legislator in Sacramento, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court […]

Free

The Food of Arizona: Many Cultures, Many Flavors

Sedona Winds Retirement Center 405 Jacks Canyon Rd., Sedona, AZ, United States

Consider the taco, that favorite treat, a staple of Mexican and Mexican American cooking and an old standby on an Arizonan’s plate. The corn in the tortilla comes from Mexico, the cheese from the Sahara, the lettuce from Egypt, the onion from Syria, the tomatoes from South America, the chicken from Indochina, and the beef […]

Free

A Most Colorful Character: The Life and Times of George W.P. Hunt, Arizona’s First Governor

Copper Queen Library 6 Main St., Bisbee, AZ, United States

Arizona has had its share of colorful politicians but none more so than George W. P. Hunt, Arizona’s first governor. From his birth in rural Missouri in 1859 to his death in Phoenix in 1934, Hunt was always the character. He was elected to office seven times, but declared the loser in his 1916 bid […]

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