One Drop of Love: Community Dialogue

Arizona Opera 1636 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Click to View Flyer In celebration for National Arts and Humanities Month, join us for a performance excerpt from One Drop of Love and a dialogue to explore family, history, racism, love and a path towards reconciliation. One Drop of Love is a multimedia one woman show that is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon […]

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Día de los Muertos: A Celebration of Life and Death

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

What is Día de los Muertos? From where does it originate? And how is it celebrated? Día de los Muertos or Days of the Dead is a significant and highly celebrated holiday in Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwestern United States. To understand Día de los Muertos one has to set aside preconceived notions. To […]

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Saving the Great American West:  The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Green Valley Recreation Desert Hills Social Center 2980 S. Camino Del Sol, Green Valley, AZ, United States

The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year-old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes.  Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell founded […]

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Día de los Muertos: A Celebration of Life and Death

Red Rock State Park - AZ State Parks 4050 Red Rock Loop Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

What is Día de los Muertos? From where does it originate? And how is it celebrated? Día de los Muertos or Days of the Dead is a significant and highly celebrated holiday in Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwestern United States. To understand Día de los Muertos one has to set aside preconceived notions. To […]

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He Called It a Dream, but It Woke Us Up!

Glendale Community College 6000 W. Olive Avenue, Glendale, AZ, United States

Vicariously experience the environment and atmosphere of a 1960s-era Civil Rights Movement camp.  Through theatrical performance, music, poetry, and participatory activities, audience members will examine the culture of discrimination, racial prejudice, and social injustice in the United States as it was during the 1960s.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s strategy of passive resistance will be […]

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Boarded Up: Social and Historical Interpretations of the American Indian Boarding School Era

Fairway Branch Library 10600 W. Peoria Ave., Sun City, AZ, United States

American Indians are the only ethnic group in the United States who, for generations, were subjected to forced education by the federal government.  In the early years, Indian children were hunted down and taken by force to boarding schools, residing there for three or more years.  These children were stripped of their Native identities, not […]

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Native Roads: A Virtual Guide to the Hopi and Navajo Nations

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

As editor of the third edition of Fran Kosik’s classic travel book, A Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations, Turner retraced her routes in January 2013, updating information on dozens of intriguing Native American trading posts, prehistoric ruins, museums, and natural wonders. Using the pictures taken on that trip, this presentation creates […]

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Saving the Great American West: The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Papago Buttes Church of the Brethren 2450 N 64th St., Scottsdale, AZ, United States

The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year-old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes.  Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell […]

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“Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Historicizing Civil Discourse

Glendale Community College 6000 W. Olive Avenue, Glendale, AZ, United States

Many observers have argued that America’s politics, and public discourse, has become increasingly boorish and coarse. Is this true? If so, is it a reflection of society’s devolution in general? In this address, Whitaker will place the notion of civil public discourse in proper historical context, and reassure listeners that although we are living in an […]

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Sedona Through Time

Sedona Public Library 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

Sedona is known for its colorful rocks, but how did this striking landscape come to be? Join Ranney on a thrilling trip back in time when the red rocks were part of a coastal plain, a Sahara-like desert, and warm, tropical seas. Learn how the area became sculpted into a maze of breathtaking buttes, spires, […]

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