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Medicine Memories is a meditation writing workshop led by Osage interdisciplinary storyteller 𐓸𐓶𐓟𐓰𐓫͘ Chelsea T. Hicks. Through guided meditation and writing, participants will connect with ancestral plant relatives, grandparents, and ancestral lands while processing complex experiences. Participants are invited to bring a journal and a plant relative or medicine connected to their grandparents’ ancestral lands, […]
Along the 850-mile Arizona Trail, which spans the length of the state from Utah to Mexico, diverse ecosystems showcase how climate change is actively altering life as we know it across the Southwest. During fall 2025, The Arizona Republic newspaper’s climate reporter, who earned a Ph.D. in ecology before becoming an award-winning journalist, spent seven […]
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Many Arizonans call the Sonoran Desert and its striking landscapes home. Long before our urban centers and city lights lit up the dark desert skies, the Tohono O’odham were cultivating and shaping the land with abundant agriculture—from squash and beans to corn and cotton. For generations they passed down their rich knowledge and […]
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Many Arizonans call the Sonoran Desert and its striking landscapes home. Long before our urban centers and city lights lit up the dark desert skies, the Tohono O’odham were cultivating and shaping the land with abundant agriculture—from squash and beans to corn and cotton. For generations they passed down their rich knowledge and […]
We're kicking off the 2026–27 NEA Big Read season with a community celebration centered on the life, poetry, and enduring legacy of one of America's most beloved poets, Emily Dickinson! […]
NEA Big Read programming provides communities with the opportunity to gather, discuss, and create in the spirit of a single book/author, in this case, The Essential Emily Dickinson. No previous experience with poetry or the works of Emily Dickinson is required. Tell it Slant: An Emily Dickinson Discussion & Writing Workshop - Teen Version! In […]
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Why are we drawn to such places as the Grand Canyon? Why are people moved to travel from all around the world to visit and explore them? In this presentation, we will discuss people’s relationship with the natural landscape with a particular focus on some of Arizona’s most iconic locations. What are the […]
Join us as we kick off our NEA Big Read programming featuring The Essential Emily Dickinson. This family-friendly event includes pop-up talks from Dickinson scholar, Rosemarie Dombrowski, poetry-making craft stations, button making stations, snacks, and more!
Chef and Artist Jeffrey Lazos Ferns invites you to explore Arizona’s Indigenous Foodways and the Sonoran Desert as a living archive of cultural knowledge, focusing on how Indigenous foodways and ecological relationships have shaped Arizona communities over generations. Through stories of indigenous plants, including the Sonoran Desert tree pantry, Sonoran Desert cactus pantry, and the […]
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Why are we drawn to such places as the Grand Canyon? Why are people moved to travel from all around the world to visit and explore them? In this presentation, we will discuss people’s relationship with the natural landscape with a particular focus on some of Arizona’s most iconic locations. What are the […]