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Tucson Community Events

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APRIL 2018

 

 

Tuesday, April 10

1. Vigil for Jose Antoni Elena Rodriguez at La Indita (622 N 4th Ave) at 6pm

 

Wednesday, April 11

1. Take Back the Night, 5-9pm, House of Neighborly Services (243 W 33rd St)

Take Back the Night brings Tucson together to strive for communities liberated from sexual violence by creating space where survivors can be centered and empowered, by prioritizing healing, and by inspiring accountable action toward intersectional and collaborative justice.
Take Back the Night is an annual event observed around the world to speak out against sexual violence, raise awareness, and support survivors. The first Take Back the Night in the United States took place in 1973.
Our community takes pride in our efforts to honor this tradition each year and includes a march, candle light vigil, performances, and opportunities for survivors to speak out.

 

Thursday, April 12

1. Barrio Stories at Tucson High, 6-8pm

Join us for a FREE special performance by Borderlands Theater as we explore the history and stories of Barrio Anita.

 

2. The Fight for Worker's Rights at the Global Justice Center (225 E 26th St), 7-9pm

Featuring:
NIDIA QUINTERO, Leader of Colombia's largest Farm Workers Union, FENSUAGRO
DAVID GUADALUPE VALENZUELA, Member of Executive Council of Mexico's National Coordination of Education Workers, CNTE
JAMES JORDAN, AfGJ's Worker to Worker Solidarity Campaign
In Colombia, Fensuagro is the most persecuted union in the world’s most dangerous country to be a unionist. Fensuagro members are especially targeted for assassination and displacement by enemies of the new peace accords. They are currently on strike against palm oil growers who supply some of the world’s most well-known brands.
In Mexico, the CNTE leads a movement against privatization of schools and for free and public education. More than 70% of reported human rights abuses last year were directed against that movement’s supporters.
In the US, we struggle for the rights of farm and educational workers, and for the rights of immigrant laborers, while protecting constant attempts to erode union rights.

 

Friday, April 13

1. OJala Systems Zine Release Party at Raices Taller Gallery (218 E 6th St) from 6-9pm.

Music, Poetry, Art, Tucson Cultura.

 

2. No Bans, No Walls, No Detention Cells Conference at UA Student Union in Kiva Room, 8am-6pm

The Queer Migration Network (QMN), a research initiative of the Institute for LGBT Studies, is hosting a graduate student conference titled “No Bans, No Walls, No Detention Cells: A UA Graduate Student Conference on Migration.” The conference will be held on Friday, April 13th, 2018, and is free and open to the campus and the general public. This conference brings together graduate students from across UA departments and disciplines to share immigration research. Panels and the featured keynote speaker, Sharita Gruberg from American Progress, will center scholarship that explores how sexuality, gender, race, class, religion, geopolitics and other hierarchies comprise sites for struggle and possible transformation of current immigration systems.

 

3. Noam Chomsky will speak at Joel D. Valdez Main Library on Friday, April 13 at 7 pm.
Chomsky will deliver “American Exceptionalism: Reconsidered,” a lecture which is free and open to the public. The lecture will offer a timely and important discussion of some of the ways in which American society has departed from the world, sometimes in extreme and hazardous ways. Included will be a look at gun culture, a topic that has dominated headlines in recent years.

 

Saturday, April 14

1. Healthy South Tucson Presents:  The 7th Annual Health & Resource Fair in partnership with Akanni Oyegbola’s Wellness Festival!
Free family event at the House of Neighborly Services (243 W. 33rd St) 9am-1pm.
Stop by for a day of resources and information, food, fun, physical activity, music and raffles!

 

Thursday, April 19

1. Film screening of The Cleaners at The Loft Cinema at 5:30pm

 

 

Friday, April 20

1. Barrio Stories, 6:45pm @ Barrio Anita between the Oury Center and Davis Elementary school and garden.

After a year of research and community collaboration, artists present an extravaganza for the senses for two nights in Barrio Anita! Staged outdoors in historic Barrio Anita, this community based, immersive experience tells the story of Barrio Anita through large scale video projections, live music, shadow theatre, performed poetry, historical reenactment, heritage foods, and audio tours.

Tips for getting the most out of Barrio Stories:
  • Bring a flash light!
  • Stop by the one of the two headquarter tents to pick up map and program. Volunteers happy to answer questions.
  • Bring head phones for the audio tour.
Featured Attractions:

Oral History Projections – interviews with long time residents and archival photo collages projected on large scale screens and buildings throughout neighborhood. Culminates with a movement performance by Pima Community College students choreographed by Milta Ortiz.

Performed Poetry – Spoken Futures youth poets roam throughout the area performing original poems inspired by Barrio Anita history and heritage.

Mariachi Stage –  An homage to the awe inspiring after-school Mariachi programs throughout Tucson that began at Davis Bilingual Elementary in 1983 with Dr. Alfredo Valenzuela.

  • Las Aguilitas  de Davis 
  • Mariachi Corazon
  • Mariachi Estrellas de Tucson
  • Roskruge Mariachi
  • Mariachi Milagro

Shadow Theater – University of Arizona Mexican American Studies students in Dr. Michelle Tellez’ class, bring to life stories of Barrio Anita through the magic of shadow theater.

1950’s Style Backyard Barrio Fiesta – Bario Anita resident Bobby Benton and musicians play music of the Barrio in the Davis Garden. Heritage food sampling.

Audio Walking Tour – Using your smart phone and head phones hear a GPS guided tour of Barrio Anita heroes.

Davis Bilingual student Ballet Florklorico and Poetry Performances  

Family Interactive Activities:

  • Audio recording stations to share audience member’s own stories and reflections.
  • Barrio Haiku writing station.
  • Giant map for families to mark where they lived.

 

 

Saturday, April 21

1. Barrio Stories, 6:45pm @ Barrio Anita between the Oury Center and Davis Elementary school and garden.

After a year of research and community collaboration, artists present an extravaganza for the senses for two nights in Barrio Anita! Staged outdoors in historic Barrio Anita, this community based, immersive experience tells the story of Barrio Anita through large scale video projections, live music, shadow theatre, performed poetry, historical reenactment, heritage foods, and audio tours.

Tips for getting the most out of Barrio Stories:
  • Bring a flash light!
  • Stop by the one of the two headquarter tents to pick up map and program. Volunteers happy to answer questions.
  • Bring head phones for the audio tour.
Featured Attractions:

Oral History Projections – interviews with long time residents and archival photo collages projected on large scale screens and buildings throughout neighborhood. Culminates with a movement performance by Pima Community College students choreographed by Milta Ortiz.

Performed Poetry – Spoken Futures youth poets roam throughout the area performing original poems inspired by Barrio Anita history and heritage.

Mariachi Stage –  An homage to the awe inspiring after-school Mariachi programs throughout Tucson that began at Davis Bilingual Elementary in 1983 with Dr. Alfredo Valenzuela.

  • Las Aguilitas  de Davis 
  • Mariachi Corazon
  • Mariachi Estrellas de Tucson
  • Roskruge Mariachi
  • Mariachi Milagro

Shadow Theater – University of Arizona Mexican American Studies students in Dr. Michelle Tellez’ class, bring to life stories of Barrio Anita through the magic of shadow theater.

1950’s Style Backyard Barrio Fiesta – Bario Anita resident Bobby Benton and musicians play music of the Barrio in the Davis Garden. Heritage food sampling.

Audio Walking Tour – Using your smart phone and head phones hear a GPS guided tour of Barrio Anita heroes.

Davis Bilingual student Ballet Florklorico and Poetry Performances  

Family Interactive Activities:

  • Audio recording stations to share audience member’s own stories and reflections.
  • Barrio Haiku writing station.
  • Giant map for families to mark where they lived.

 

Thursday, April 26

1. The Disappeared Art Opening and screening of After/Life, 6-8 pm at the House of Neighborly Services (243 W. 33rd St)

Join us for food, music, and artist presentations at the House of Neighborly Services!
Presentation of public art series, The Disappeared by Guadalupe Serrano Quiñonez.
www.youcaring.com/talleryonke-1031091
Screening of After/Life followed by talk by director Puck Lo and Aguilas del Desierto member Vicente Rodriguez.
www.pucklo.com/afterlife/
About the Art Project:
The Disappeared Art Project is an effort to bring attention to the crisis of death and disappearance in the borderlands.
La Coalición de Derechos Humanos partnered with No More Deaths to document the ways that border enforcement agencies disappear border crossers on a daily basis in the series of reports: The Disappeared: How U.S. Enforcement Agencies are Fueling a Missing Persons Crisis. This art project is in conjunction with the Disappeared reports as a public mode of communication and connection between the crisis and the public.
Nogales-based artist Guadalupe Serrano Quiñonez of Taller Yonke has partnered with La Coalición de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths to create ten life-size figures that depict migration and disappearance. Each free-standing figure will be placed across Tucson in public locations including Antigone Books, YWCA, Fortín de las Flores, the Historic Y, House of Neighborly Services, and La Pilita.
About the film:
In the Arizona desert by the Mexican border, the US simulates war and bombs fake Middle Eastern villages. Meanwhile, Border Patrol checkpoints push migrants walking across the border into these and other dangerous areas — and a group of volunteers from San Diego comb the desert monthly, seeking missing family members, friends, and strangers.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/216867840

 

Saturday, April 28

1.Spoken Futures' Queer Youth Art Showcase (QYAS)
Art! Poetry! Drag!
Thornhill Lopez Center on 7th
525 N 4th Ave @ 5pm

 

Sunday, April 29

1. 8th Annual Tucson Youth Poetry Slam Championships & Liberation Lyrics Showcase
Gallagher Theater (in UA Student Union)
1303 E University Blvd @ 1:00 PM-4PM

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