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Blog Action Day: ASU is Conserving Water Downtown
October 15 is Blog Action Day, and this year’s topic, climate change, got me thinking of how Downtown Phoenix is trying to make a difference.
New Kids on the Block: Bioscience High School
Rising from the empty lots south of Roosevelt Row, Bioscience High School is an exciting addition to Downtown Phoenix.
End Cafeteria Sludge on Labor Day
If you want healthy, delicious food to grace our public schools’ cafeterias, now you can take a stand. This Labor Day (Monday, September 7) Slow Food Phoenix will be staging an eat-in at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in response to the Child Nutrition Act, and the public is welcome to come and show its support.
Downtown Event Introduces ASU Students to Art, Commerce and Culture
Downtown denizens are mixing business with pleasure at a weekend event that will introduce ASU students to the benefits of an urban lifestyle.
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.
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.
‘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.
Student Embraces Diverse Urban Culture
A village of 75 people, an outside kitchen, a large mango tree overshadowing the house, a pet jaguar — this is where he grew up.
Urban and Metropolitan Studies senior Antonio Molina, 26, was raised in Honduras, two hours from the main city of San Pedro in central America.
Molina says his village wasn’t like what most picture, like little huts. His grandfather worked for a large cement company that provided housing. His grandfather was also a fisherman, carpenter and hunter. “He would come back with exotic animals from the jungle like a jaguar and a monkey,” Molina says.
First “Third Friday Concert Series” at Civic Space this Friday
Come celebrate Phoenix’s first “Third Friday Concert Series” on Friday, April 17 at the new Downtown Civic Space park. The free concert will be from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and will feature Turn Back, O Man and The Matthew Reveles Band.
Contemporary Forum Presents: An Aptitude For Metamorphosis
The Contemporary Forum and Phoenix College present the next installment of the Eric Fischl Lecture Series on Tuesday, April 14 at the Phoenix Art Museum. The evening will also include the presentation of the 2009 Phoenix College Student Art Awards.
David Salle will present “An Aptitude For Metamorphosis,” a highly subjective interpretation of his work and how it has and hasn’t changed and evolved over the last 25 years. Salle’s work helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1986, Salle received a Guggenheim fellowship for theater design, and he is a long time collaborator with choreographer Karole Armitage designing sets and costumes for many of her ballets.
