| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | SR-71 SymposiumPresented by Pima Air and Space Museum at Pima Air and Space Museum February 17-February 18, 2012 Meet the people who built and flew the fastest and highest flying aircraft on Earth.
On February there will be three panel discussions with pilots and crew from the Top Secret SR-71 program.
| Pima Air and Space Museum | 02/17/12-
02/18/12 | Tucson |
| A Look at the People of the Old Kingdom Through the Written Word | American Research Center in Egypt - Arizona Chapter | 02/18/12 | Tucson |
| Tucson Lecture Series - Imam Didmar Faja: Islam: An Introduction | Foundation for Inter-Cultural Dialogue - Tucson | 02/20/12 | Tucson |
Shakespeare's SongsPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center February 21, 2012 "O, stay and hear" as poet, vocalist, and Poetry Center staff member Sarah Kortemeier leads a discussion of the songs of William Shakespeare. From cowslips and daisies to lovers and fools, Shakespeare's songs continue to delight and have inspired countless contemporary musical interpretations.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 02/21/12 | Tucson |
Writer in Residence: Joan Juliet BuckPresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art February 23, 2012 Check in with writer and social critic Joan Juliet Buck this spring as she develops and shares a series of performative monologues during her residency at MOCA. Imagine a sort of memoir told through fables, with a dose of morality tale and a dash of wicked humor.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 02/23/12 | Tucson |
| Prose Series: Daniyal Mueenuddin | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 02/24/12 | Tucson |
What They Saved Pieces of a Jewish PastPresented by Jewish History Museum at Jewish History Museum February 26, 2012 Although Nancy Miller calls this book a memoir, it is in many ways a family detective story, tracking a set of clues across the globe. You will be amazed at what she discovers and surprised when you hear what she learns about the Tucson branch of her family. Nancy's book will be available for purchase and book autographs the day of the lecture.
| Jewish History Museum | 02/26/12 | Tucson |
National Poetry Out Loud Southern Arizona Regional FinalsPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center March 1, 2012 Don't miss this last chance to watch and listen to great poetry performed in dramatic fashion by high school students throughout Southern Arizona as they compete for the chance to proceed to the State and National Finals competition. The event will be hosted by nationally renowned cartoonist and columnist for the Arizona Daily Star David Fitzsimmons.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/01/12 | Tucson |
Slide - Rule Packin' Mamas: The Curtis - Wright Aeronautical Engineering Cadettes of WWIIPresented by Pima Air and Space Museum at Pima Air and Space Museum March 3, 2012 Jean-Vi Lenthe, author of Flying Into Yesterday a book about the female aeronautical engineers that worked at Curtiss-Wright during WWII, will be talking about her experience researching the book and the amazing Curtiss-Wright Cadettes she met.
| Pima Air and Space Museum | 03/03/12 | Tucson |
Coffee with the CuratorsPresented by Arizona State Museum at Arizona State Museum March 7, 2012 Join them for a cup of coffee and informal conversation with Jannelle Weakly, ASM photo collections curator, who shares some of her favorite highlights from the museum's extensive photographic collections.
| Arizona State Museum | 03/07/12 | Tucson |
Pastoralia by George SaundersPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center March 8, 2012 Of this amazing collection of satiric stories set against an almost-familiar America, Men's Journal wrote, "Dazzling...Saunder's misfits confront their degradations with heroic optimism; rarely have the comic nuances of suffering been tracked with such precision.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/08/12 | Tucson |
Cafe Bohemia - HunkaPresented by Arizona Theatre Company - Tucson at Temple of Music and Art March 10, 2012 After a lifetime of struggling with drugs and alcohol, Laura suddenly reconnects with the baby she gave up for adoption over twenty years ago, Nicole. However, the reunion was not as innocent as it seemed and opened up more questions than answers between Laura, Nicole and Rex, the child Laura kept.
| Arizona Theatre Company - Tucson | 03/10/12 | Tucson |
New Volunteer OrientationPresented by Pima Air and Space Museum at Pima Air and Space Museum March 10, 2012 They hold free orientation sessions at the Pima Air and Space museum every second Saturday of the month. Orientation gives you an overview of the Foundation's volunteer program and how you can participate.
Take a look at the volunteer opportunities listed on their Volunteer page. If you think you might enjoy serving on one of our teams, then join us at the next orientation.
| Pima Air and Space Museum | 03/10/12 | Tucson |
| Volunteer Presentation Series | Pima Air and Space Museum | 03/17/12 | Tucson |
| Prose Series: John T. Price | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/19/12 | Tucson |
The Poetry of Paul GuestPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center March 20, 2012 Matthew Conley, poet and Executive Director of the Tucson Poetry Festival, leads a discussion of the work of Paul Guest, who reads for the Poetry Center on March 22. Guest's three books of poems and recently published memoir, One More Theory about Happiness, are wry, bold, on-target meditations.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/20/12 | Tucson |
| Paul Guest | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/22/12 | Tucson |
Newton and Helen Mayer HarrisonPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 27, 2012 Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison has worked for almost forty years with interdisciplinary teams to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. Acting as historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists, their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and... | Center for Creative Photography | 03/27/12 | Tucson |
| Prose Series: Monica Drake | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/29/12 | Tucson |
POG Poetry Reading: David ShapiroPresented by POG - Poetry in Action at The Drawing Studio Gallery March 31, 2012 Shapiro grew up in a musical and artistic family, was a young violin prodigy, and published his first poems as a teenager. Sometimes identified with the New York School of poetry, he has also written studies of notable artists including Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, and Piet Mondrian. Shapiro has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Princeton, and the Cooper Union School of Architecture. He is a professor of art history at William Paterson University.
| POG - Poetry in Action | 03/31/12 | Tucson |
FOMC Lecture Series: Dr. Susan WethingtonPresented by Community Performing Arts Center Foundation at Community Performing Arts Center April 3, 2012 Dr. Wethington, Executive Director of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network, will give insight on this fascinating project which conducted at several sites around the US including Madera Canyon. A list of specific dates when visitors can observe this project will be provided.
| Community Performing Arts Center Foundation | 04/03/12 | Green Valley |
| Jack Lasseter Speaks: South Africa | Community Performing Arts Center Foundation | 04/03/12 | Green Valley |
Cafe Bohemia - The Color of StarsPresented by Arizona Theatre Company - Tucson at Temple of Music and Art April 7, 2012 Travel back in time with Allie on her quest to learn more about her grandfather. It's the 1940s and young Eddie is living in rural Maine while his father is fighting overseas. As the townspeople struggle with the issues of patriotism, suspicion of foreigners and doing the right thing, families are split and allegiances challenged. Eddie soon finds himself in the middle of a crisis and the decisions he makes shape the rest of his life. A touching story about life in America during World War II... | Arizona Theatre Company - Tucson | 04/07/12 | Tucson |
Lucy R. Lippard: Weather ReportPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography April 9, 2012 Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, curator, editor, lecturer, activist, author of twenty-one books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, most recently Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782 , The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place.
| Center for Creative Photography | 04/09/12 | Tucson |
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center April 12, 2012 Published in 1977, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/12/12 | Tucson |
Kenneth D. Allan: Radio-Mastery of the Ether: Wallace Berman and Materiality in 1960s Los AngelesPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography April 12, 2012 Kenneth D. Allan's research focuses on the rise of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and has included the work and influence of Wallace Berman. A central figure in development of the postwar Los Angeles art world as the editor of the journal Semina, Berman's work spanned the media of photography, collage, assemblage sculpture, and film. This talk will consider how his interest in the history of radio technology, Jewish mysticism and ideas of transmission and reception come together... | Center for Creative Photography | 04/12/12 | Tucson |
Yuri's NightPresented by Pima Air and Space Museum at Pima Air and Space Museum April 13, 2012 Yuri's Night is an International Celebration of Manned Space Exploration. This year's theme is Make an Impact.
At the Pima Air and Space Museum they bring community Space Science educators to the museum for an evening of hands on learning and in | Pima Air and Space Museum | 04/13/12 | Tucson |
A Poetic Inventory of Saguaro National Park Presented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center April 16, 2012 Leading up to the Fall 2011 Bioblitz at Saguaro National Park, Tucson poet and naturalist Eric Magrane created A Poetic Inventory of Saguaro National Park, in which he gathered close to one hundred poets and prose writers to contribute pieces based on species in the park.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/16/12 | Tucson |
| Persona Reading | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/19/12 | Tucson |
Curators' Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam MellonPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography April 19, 2012 Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon will discuss their current CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Munich, Germany.
| Center for Creative Photography | 04/19/12 | Tucson |
POG Poetry Reading: Farid Matuk, Susan Briante and Wendy BurkPresented by POG - Poetry in Action at The Drawing Studio Gallery April 21, 2012 Dallas poet Farid Matuk, born in Peru, won honorable mention from 2011 Arab American Book Awards. Poet Susan Briante teaches creative writing and literature, University of Texas at Dallas. Tucson poet and translator Wendy Burk works at the UA Poetry Center library.
| POG - Poetry in Action | 04/21/12 | Tucson |
The Poetry of Fanny HowePresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center April 24, 2012 Poet and teacher Michael Rerick leads a discussion of the work of Fanny Howe, who reads for the Poetry Center on April 26. The author of many works of poetry and prose, Howe received the Poetry Foundation's 2009 Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement. Her work is contemplative and experimental.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/24/12 | Tucson |
Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object MatterPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography April 24, 2012 Luke Batten, Director of the Robert Heinecken Trust, will discuss the editing of a new monograph published by Riding House detailing Heinecken's artistic output from 1957-1997. The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950's and reassembled magazines created in the 1990's. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Heinecken's penchant for experimenting with photographic processes and materials.... | Center for Creative Photography | 04/24/12 | Tucson |
| Question and Answer with Fanny Howe | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/25/12 | Tucson |
| Fanny Howe | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/26/12 | Tucson |
| Family Day, featuring Corrido Contest/Tucson Youth Poetry Slam Championship | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/28/12 | Tucson |
Coffee with the CuratorsPresented by Arizona State Museum at Arizona State Museum May 1, 2012 Join them for a cup of coffee and informal conversation with Gayle Castaneda, of the Castaneda Museum of Ethnic Costume, who shares examples of Mexican indigenous women's garments while discussing materials used, designs, and European influences among the | Arizona State Museum | 05/01/12 | Tucson |
Poetry Off the Page: A UA Poetry Center SymposiumPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center May 18-May 20, 2012 The University of Arizona Poetry Center presents its third international symposium on poetics, entitled "Poetry Off the Page." Presenters and performers include Julie Carr and K.J. Holmes, Black Took Collective, Brent Cunningham, Christine Hume, Douglas Kearney, Ander Monson, Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine and John Lucas, Cecilia Vicuña, Dan Waber, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and others. Art exhibits, art installations, and library exhibits will be in display concurrently with the symposium.... | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 05/18/12-
05/20/12 | Tucson |
Poetry Off the Page: Symposium ExhibitsPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center April 9-May 31, 2012 More visceral than conceptual, this year's symposium will gather poets for whom the stage and all of its demands, such as voice, projection, sound effects, lighting, body movement, acting, props, and image, all help create a new syntactic breadth for the poetic voice. These poets will be pressing into new territories in theater and song and film, performing, in many cases, original never-seen-before work for the Poetry Center.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/09/12-
05/31/12 | Tucson |
Artistexts: Curated by Johanna DruckerPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center April 2-June 29, 2012 Internationally renowned author, book artist, and visual theorist Johanna Drucker has selected more than 20 artist books created in a deliberate dialogue between design and writing. These artistexts explore how poetics and production change across the spaces of a distributed textual system, emerging as palimpsests, recombinations, excisions, swarms, unfoldings, and turnings.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 04/02/12-
06/29/12 | Tucson |
| Family Read Aloud Nights | Pima County Public Library | 05/21/09-
Ongoing | Tucson |
Tohono Chul Park Goes to the Library!Presented by Tohono Chul Park at Pima County Public Library - Quincie Douglas Branch Library June 15, 2010 - Ongoing Each summer for the past nine years, TCP has traveled to the Pima County Libraries with activities that weave the story of the Sonoran Desert with the theme of the libraries' summer reading program, linking valuable natural history lessons for children of all ages with the message to read more about it.
| Tohono Chul Park | 06/15/10-
Ongoing | Tucson |
| Space Exploration: Past, Present and Future | Pima Air and Space Museum | 04/09/11-
Ongoing | Tucson |
SkyNightsPresented by Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter Observatory at Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter Observatory April 10, 2011 - Ongoing Discover the Universe through an awe-inspiring opportunity to explore the night skies from the 9,157 feet summit of Mt. Lemmon located just north of Tucson, Arizona. Visitors observe interesting astronomical objects and phenomena through the Schulman 32-inch research quality telescope and the guidance of a professional astronomer/astro-photographer.
Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter's telescope is the largest telescope dedicated for public viewing in the Southwest. This five hour program starts... | Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter Observatory | 04/10/11-
Ongoing | Mount Lemmon |
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