Swing into History: Popular Music of the Big Band Era

Ed Robson Branch Library 9330 E. Riggs Rd., Sun Lakes, AZ, United States

With the exception of the most ardent collectors and the older generations, the influence and legacy of the big bands is largely forgotten despite their overwhelming popularity and significant role […]

Free

Project Grants Intent to Apply Deadline

Maricopa Public Library 41600 W. Smith-Enke Road Building #10, Maricopa, AZ, United States

Intent to Apply forms will be submitted through a new online grants software. Contact Dr. Nicole Blalock, Grants Manager, for more information. 602-257-0335 x23 or nblalock@azhumanities.org.

Swing Into History

Northwest Regional Library 16089 North Bullard Avenue, Surprise, AZ, United States

With the exception of the most ardent collectors and older generation, the influence and legacy of the big bands is largely forgotten despite their overwhelming popularity and significant role in […]

Free

Legend City Exhibition Opening

Tempe History Museum 809 E. Southern Avenue, Tempe, AZ, United States

This project is funded in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities.

Free

Walking the Corn Pollen Path

Estrella Mountain Community College Student Union 3000 N. Dysart Rd., Avondale, AZ, United States

Knowing one’s culture implies being educated about who you are, what social order expects of you, and it provides the primary steps to individual identity.  Stories of the Emergence, Trotting […]

Free

Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870-1943)

ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City, Santiago 109 100 University Way, Lake Havasu City, AZ, United States

Known as the Little Lady of the Governor’s Mansion, Hall was a poet, activist, politician, and Arizona’s first territorial historian. One of the West’s most remarkable women, she was in […]

Free

The Elusive Self in Life and Death with speaker Shaun Nichols

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St., Tucson, AZ, United States

Dr. Shaun Nichols spent months in India exploring attitudes toward death among Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists. Because Buddhists believe there is no enduring self throughout biological life, they should be […]

Free

Arizona’s Territorial Historian, Poet, and Activist Sharlot Hall

Clark Memorial Library 39 S 9th St, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Sharlot Mabridth Hall was an unusual woman for her time: a largely self-educated but highly literate child of the frontier. Born October 27,1870, she traveled with her family from Kansas […]

Free

2015 Arizona Humanities Awards

North Mountain Visitor Center 12950 N. 7th St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

$40 per person Friday, November 13, 2015 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. North Mountain Visitor Center - 12950 N. 7th St Phoenix, AZ 85022 Enjoy appetizers, drinks, silent auction & live […]

$40

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

The Museum of Casa Grande/Casa Grande Historical Society 110 West Florence Boulevard , Casa Grande, 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 […]

Free

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