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COOL, CULTURAL FUN WITH FREE ADMISSION AT THE HEARD MUSEUM
Free Summer Sundays are every 4th Sunday in June, July, August, September
WHAT: Free Summer Sundays – free admission to all on the 4th Sundays of summer!
Contributing sponsor: APS, with additional support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
WHEN: June 26, July 24, Aug. 28, Sept. 25; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona
COST: Free!
Each Summer Sunday will involve music-and-dance performances in the Steele Auditorium and artist demonstrations inside the museum, as well as make-and-take crafts in the Sandra Day O’Connor Gallery, location of the exhibition, It’s Your Turn: a HOME Studio. For more information, please call 602.252.8848 or visit heard.org.
EVENTS:
June 26
Performance: musician and former world champion hoop dancer Tony Duncan (Apache/Hidatsa/Arikara/Mandan) 12:30 and 2 p.m.
Demonstration: muralist and painter Jeff Slim (Diné), 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
July 24
Performance: Yellowhouse Indian Dancers, led by Lane Jensen (Navajo/Pima-Maricopa), 12:30 and 2 p.m.
Demonstration: beadwork artist LaDawn Kaye, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
August 28
Performance: former world champion hoop dancer Derrick Suwaima Davis (Hopi/Choctaw), 12:30 and 2 p.m.
Demonstration: basketry artist Lakota Scott (Navajo), 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
September 25
Performance: Storyteller Michael Heralda (Hispanic), 12:30 and 2 p.m.
Demonstration: Quechan beadwork artist Yolanda Hart Stevens, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Images courtesy of Heard Museum.
