Author: Christina O'Haver
Go Back in Time at the Willo Home Tour
The motto for this year’s Willo Home Tour, ‘This Valentine’s Day, fall in love with Willo,’ is fitting, as attendees continue to flock to the tour every year.
The Main Ingredient: One Couple’s Dream in Coronado
The Diamond family wants to make The Main Ingredient Ale House and Café into Coronado’s neighborhood bar and hangout spot.
Get Your Boutique On: Bunky, Phoenicia and Red Dog
Bunky Boutique, Red Dog Gallery and Phoenicia Association each bring something different to Downtown Phoenix, and they are all located at 3rd and Garfield streets.
Heard Museum to Host ‘Movie Mondays’ Again This Week
On Monday, August 17 at 1:30pm, head over to the Heard Museum for another great film, part of the museum’s weekly Movie Mondays program.
The museum will show Our Nationhood. Canadian First Nation filmmaker and artist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the determination and tenacity of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq people to use and manage the natural resources of their traditional lands.
Lunchtime Speaker Series At Carnegie Center
The Lunchtime Speaker Series at the Carnegie Center, 1101 W. Washington St., features a different speaker every month for free to the public.
On Thursday, August 20, Dr. Jay Craváth will present “The Instrument as a Time Capsule.” Craváth is a composer, writer and scholar in the field of music and American Indian studies. He crafts programs from these interests into discussions that include stories, musical performance and dance.
Get Smart Breakfast Series
Arizona State University and the University of Arizona invite you to a monthly breakfast series called Get Smart.
Learn about stress and the health risks associated with it, and more importantly learn what you can do about it. Get Smart will help you understand stress management and how you can increase your resilience to stress.
The first event will be on Wednesday, August 19 from 7:30-8:30am at Tom’s Restaurant and Tavern, 2 N. Central Ave.
Heard Museum Brings Fun Indoors With ‘Movie Mondays’
If you haven’t yet, it’s time to check out Movie Mondays at the Heard Museum.
On Monday, August 10 at 1:30pm, the museum will be showing Waterbuster, a 2006 documentary chronicling the dislocation and relocation of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation of North Dakota due to a dam that inundated their homeland along the banks of the Missouri River. The 79-minute film is also the personal story of the director’s family, whose life choices were influenced by this powerful reshaping of the landscape.
First Friday At After Hours Gallery
After Hours Gallery is hosting an opening reception this Friday, August 7 for their new African art exhibit, Masks. The reception will be from 6 to 10pm and a portion of all Mask proceeds benefits Community Outreach and Advocacy for Refugees, a local non-profit that helps resettle refugees.
First Friday At Practical Art
Meet artist Layla Luna on Friday, August 7 at a free reception beginning at 7pm at Practical Art, 5070 N. Central Ave. Viewing nine original paintings and more than 30 sketches, all capturing a wild variety of wonderful birds, while you enjoy wine and cheese.
‘Movie Mondays’ Continue Through August
Movie Mondays are continuing at the Heard Museum this month, beginning with a showing of Raindance in a Storm on Monday, August 3 at 1:30pm.
In 1990, the Hopi Tribe staged an unprecedented and uncharacteristic public protest against what had been Arizona’s number-one “Indian” attraction for 70 years, yet didn’t include a single Indian. Critically examined for the first time, the culture of the Smoki People organization is seen from the perspectives of those who lived it, those who witnessed it and those offended by it.
