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Multilingual Baseball: Language and Identity across Borders with Brendan H. O’Connor

Surprise Regional Library 16089 N Bullard Ave, Surprise, AZ

Transnational baseball is a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting audiences to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday interactions. This presentation shares the voices of players, coaches, front office personnel, international scouts, language teachers, and interpreters, with experience in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, South […]

FREE

Representation Matters – The Native Vote in Arizona

Virtual AZ, United States

Join us for a conversation about the Native vote in Arizona with Brian Garcia, voting advocate and attorney, and Angela Willeford, community outreach, voter engagement, and youth leadership advocate. This event will explore modern obstacles to voting and resources within Arizona tribal communities. This program is part of the Representation Matters series hosted by Arizona […]

Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero

San Tan Valley Library - Bronze Room (Building A) 31505 N Schnepft Road, San Tan Valley, United States

Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings of food and the building of altars to those who have gone before us. Join Guerrero and his unique masked characters as they celebrate Día […]

Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero

Tohono Chul Park 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, AZ, United States

Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings of food and the building of altars to those who have gone before us. Join Guerrero and his unique masked characters as they celebrate Día […]

Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces with Allen Dart

Sedona Public Library in the Village 25 W. Saddlehorn Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

Native Americans in the US Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indigenous peoples entered the region. In this presentation, archaeologist Allen Dart discusses archaeological and ethnographic evidence of ancient astronomical and calendrical reckoning practices seen in petroglyphs, architecture, and settlement layouts in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, and […]

Rivers of Dreams: Songs and Stories of Arizona’s Waterways with Jay Cravath

Oro Valley Public Library 1305 W. Naranja Drive, Oro Valley, AZ, United States

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the Verde, the Hassayampa, the Santa Cruz: Arizona’s rivers were lush green ribbons of life flowing through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths for indigenous traders and immigrants leaving wagon tracks and settlements. The Hohokam built vast canals from the Salt to direct irrigation water for […]

FREE

He Stands in the Sun: The Life, Legacy & Art of Kiowa Artist T.C. Cannon with Carrie Cannon

Queen Creek Library 21802 South Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek, United States

T.C. Cannon is considered one of the most talented Native American artists of the 20th century whose paintings continue to influence new generations of Native artists. As a natural born innovator and visionary Kiowa and Caddo tribal artist T.C. Cannon was a tour de force. His talents as a poet, musician, and artist ended abruptly […]

Arizona Snake Oil Salesmen, Scams, and Hoaxes with Christine Reid

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

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Entrepreneurs offering assorted “get rich quick” schemes and “cure-alls” have visited Arizona since the early days. Benefitting from tales of abundant resources in the territory, limited law enforcement and communication, a scoundrel could create enticing promises of wealth and health without much external oversight. Newspapers often fanned the hysteria only to later denounce […]

FREE

Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars with Gregory McNamee

Flagstaff City - Coconino County Public Library - East Flagstaff Community Library 3000 North Fourth Street Suite 5, Flagstaff, United States

Their names resound in Arizona history and pepper the of the state map, but few people know well the tangled history that surrounds the so-called “Apache Wars”, when fully half of the active U.S. Army descended on the territory to combat a relative handful of Indigenous warriors. Ironically, the Apache peoples of the Southwest had […]

Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero

Prescott Public Library - Founder's Suite 215 East Goodwin Street, Prescott, United States

Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings of food and the building of altars to those who have gone before us. Join Guerrero and his unique masked characters as they celebrate Día […]

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