Join Dr. Alan Eladio Gómez, Borderlands Scholar/Associate Professor with the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University for a presentation and discussion. More information coming soon. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Small group discussion (Limited to 12 RSVPs) 6:45 - 8:30 p.m. - Presentation and Q&A RSVP through eventbrite at https://authortalkalangomez.eventbrite.com.
THE ENDGAME PROJECT Photo credit: Peter Angelo Simon Dan Moran and John Christopher Jones represent six decades of acting between them. They have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theater, in films, and on TV. They met in 1995 while sharing a dressing room in the Broadway production of A Month in the Country. Now […]
Sacred Journeys: A Mobile Poetry Workshop with Jaclyn Roessel Saturday, April 8th 9:30 a.m. -2:00 p.m. RSVP at sacredjourneyspoetry.eventbrite.com Arizona Humanities (first and last stop) 1242 N. Central Avenue - Phoenix, AZ 85004 (602) 257-0335 Community Workshop and Performance along the Valley Metro Light Rail Enjoy coffee and pastries at Arizona Humanities at 9:30am. Program leaves […]
"Poetry is dead. Long live poetry" at the Wickenburg Literary Festival with Jake Friedman Saturday, April 8th 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. Wickenburg Public Library 164 E Apache St - Wickenburg, AZ 85390 For some reason-probably school-people think that poetry is inaccessible, boring, difficult to understand, and the exclusive province of old white men writing before […]
Phoenix Theatre and The Black Theatre Troupe join forces to present the shocking true story of nine African American youth jailed in Alabama in 1931 for a crime they did not commit. Featuring a mix of gospel, jazz, and vaudeville, this audacious musical explores the series of events that provoked a national outrage. Every performance […]
When America entered the Second World War, Arizona’s sparse population and mild weather made it an ideal location for training facilities and prisoner of war camps. By war’s end, Arizona had trained more pilots than any other state, hosted the country’s largest POW camp, and was part of the largest military training grounds in history. […]
Connecting Students with Veterans Reception and Book Signing Phoenix Edition 1 Sunday, April 9, 2017 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Arizona State University West Campus 4701 W. Thunderbird Rd. Glendale, AZ 85306 Join VHP for the debut of Since You Asked XIII: A Salute to Women Keynote Speaker Lieutenant General Carol A. Mutter, USMC (Ret.), the […]
July 1, 2018, marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, an innovation for its time that addressed a healthcare crisis during World War II and improved nurse education across the United States. Participants will learn about Cadet Nurses in participating hospital schools of nursing in Arizona. Also to be […]
Similar to NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” but with and Arizona twist, this program uses music, storytelling and live radio-style newscasts to present important but often neglected events in Arizona history. The “Hoosiers”-like story of a Miami, AZ High School basketball team comprised of the sons of Mexican-American mine workers who won the state championship […]
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese-American citizens from the west coast, incarcerating them in ten remote internment camps in seven states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Government photographers Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Ansel Adams documented the internment, and artists Toyo Miyatake, […]
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