Author: Christina O'Haver
Here’s The Scoop
Arizona Citizens for the Arts is cooling things down on Tuesday, July 14 with an ice cream party at their office, 514 W. Roosevelt St.
From 3 to 5pm, meet with the AzCA staff and board members, mingle with other advocates, and enter the raffle for a chance to win four orchestra seat tickets to see Broadway’s WICKED at ASU Gammage.
Coffee With The Mayor
Skip Starbucks this Wednesday and head over to the Downtown Civic Space Park at Central Avenue and Van Buren Street for Mayor Phil Gordon’s Monthly Business Coffee Meeting. Join Mayor Gordon from 8:30 to 9:30am as he discusses the city’s 17-point plan in becoming America’s Greenest City, and be the first to tour the new building in the park.
‘Movie Mondays’ At Heard Museum In Full Swing
On Monday, July 13, the Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Ave., is showing the 2002 film, Lady Warriors.
This film follows the Tuba City High School girl’s cross-country running team, the Lady Warriors, during their pursuit of an unprecedented fourth consecutive Arizona State Cross-Country Championship in 2000.
Win A Trip To LEGOLAND
The Arizona Science Center and LEGOLAND California are hosting a special contest on Wednesday, July 15 in honor of LEGOLAND California’s 10th birthday.
Participants can enter a birthday-themed LEGO model in the Junior Master Model Builder Competition and win a trip to LEGOLAND for a family of four and a LEGOLAND merchandise prize pack.
Sizzlin’ Summer Saturdays At Heard Museum
From exciting music and dance performances to an extravaganza of hands-on activities, artist demonstrations and free souvenirs, Target Free Sizzlin’ Summer Saturdays gives kids and families a cool and creative way to spend July Saturdays at the Heard Museum. Even mom, dad, grandpa and grandma can explore the museum and enjoy the activities for free as well, thanks to support from Target.
The Sizzlin’ Summer Saturdays will begin on Saturday, July 11 and run through Saturday, August 1. The fun starts at 10:30am and ends at 4pm.
‘Movie Mondays’ Continue Through July
‘Movie Monday’ is continuing at the Heard museum this month, beginning with a showing of Chiefs on July 6 at 1:30pm.
This 87-minute documentary follows a team of American Indian teens from Wyoming Indian High School in the town of Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation as they strive to recapture the state basketball championship while battling against poverty, alcoholism, drugs and racism.
Chicano Art Exhibit At Phoenix Art Museum
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, the first comprehensive consideration of Chicano art in two decades, will open at the Phoenix Art Museum on July 12. It explores the work of a young generation of artists working today after the initial social struggles of the Chicano movement, a larger political and cultural movement that in the late 1960s and early 1970s began campaigning for justice and equality for Americans of Mexican and Latin American heritage.
Fifth ‘Movie Monday’ At Heard Museum This Monday
On Monday, June 29, the Heard Museum will be holding another Movie Mondays event.
They will be showing a 28-minute film called If Weather Permits at 1:30pm. Elisapie Isaac, a young, city-based Inuit filmmaker returns to her roots, the village of Kangirsujuaq in Nunavik. Here, she ponders the relationship between the Inuit past and the future in today’s world. In interviews with her extraordinary grandfather and with young people of the community, she finds more questions than answers. To bridge the growing gap between the young and the old, she lets Naalak, an elder, and Danny, a young policeman from Kangirsujuaq, tell us what they think. Isaac also speaks to her grandfather, now dead, and confides in him her hopes and fears.
SuTRA Midtown Yoga Introduces Yoga Fusion
Bob Marley and yoga? What about throwing in a little Jackie Chan? Or maybe a dose of Barishnicoff? There’s a whole new way to practice yoga in Downtown Phoenix – or make that a host of new ways – and they’re all under one funky roof at SuTRA Midtown Yoga, 2317 N. 7th St. Think: Ballet Yoga, Kung Fu Yoga, Rhythmic Funk, Reggae Fridays, the Nooner, and the Community Jukebox.
‘Malls R Us’ At Modified Arts
Downtown Voices Coalition, Modified Arts and No Festival Required present “Malls R Us,” a documentary film by Helene Klodawsky. “Malls R Us” examines North American’s most popular and profitable suburban destination – the enclosed shopping center – and how for consumers they function as a communal, even ceremonial experience and, for retailers, sites where their idealism, passion and greed merge. The film will be shown on Tuesday, June 30 at 8pm at Modified Arts, 407 E. Roosevelt St.
