AZ Speaks: Multilingual Baseball
AZ Speaks: Multilingual Baseball
Surprise, AZ
Transnational baseball is a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting audiences to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday interactions. This presentation shares the voices of players, coaches, front office person…
Wednesday, September 25 2024
6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
AZ Speaks: Beyond the Kitsch - The Pervasive Spirit of Our Indigenous Creative Community
AZ Speaks: Beyond the Kitsch - The Pervasive Spirit of Our Indigenous Creative Community
Surprise, AZ
Throughout the Southwest, tourists and locals encounter a range of Indigenous art, from manufactured and imported cultural appropriations to fine art in galleries and museums. The state’s creative Indigenous communities are sometimes lost in what is popularly featured as Native American Art. In thi…
Wednesday, November 13 2024
11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Outdoor Art Sketching Tour
Outdoor Art Sketching Tour
Surprise, AZ
Art Tours connect community members, artists and cultural organizations, highlighting the integral role art plays in our community fabric. On this tour participants will explore public art outside at City Hall, and will be guided to create their own sketches, taking notice of the art and creativity…
Saturday, April 6 2024
10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
AZ Speaks: Coded Messages and Songs of the Underground Railroad
AZ Speaks: Coded Messages and Songs of the Underground Railroad
Surprise, AZ
Communication and secrecy were key to the successful operation of the Underground Railroad. Safety was more important than quickness. Both fugitive slaves and members of the Underground Railroad learned to code and decode hidden messages, and to disguise signs to avoid capture. There were code name…
Wednesday, February 28 2024
6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
AZ Speaks: Indigenous Signs and Symbols
AZ Speaks: Indigenous Signs and Symbols
Surprise, AZ
Native Americans in the U.S. are diverse, and their contributions have enriched our lives in countless ways. People do not always realize the origins of Native contributions to the language, culture, and traditions of the U.S. What are Native signs and symbols? What do they mean? Where do they appe…
Wednesday, April 24 2024
11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Tour of Joe Tyler's Home Studio
Tour of Joe Tyler's Home Studio
Surprise, AZ
Take a free tour of the home studio of local artist Joe Tyler. Tyler has worked on over one hundred projects, most of them large public art sculptures with strong botanical influences. Several of Tyler’s works live in the Surprise Public Art Collection and can be found through out Surprise. On the …
Saturday, March 16 2024
10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
AZ Speaks: Take A Hike! Explore, Enhance, and Experience Your Understanding of Arizona
AZ Speaks: Take A Hike! Explore, Enhance, and Experience Your Understanding of Arizona
Surprise, AZ
There are only eleven designated national scenic trails in the United States. Our Grand Canyon State has one of them—the Arizona National Scenic Trail! In this discussion, participants will have opportunities to: explore the history of the creation of Arizona’s greatest volunteer project; enhance t…
Wednesday, October 23 2024
11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
AZ Speaks: Dr. Pearl Tang - Pathbreaker in Public Health
AZ Speaks: Dr. Pearl Tang - Pathbreaker in Public Health
Surprise, AZ
In 1960, Dr. Pearl Mao Tang became chief of the Maricopa County Bureau of Maternal and Child Health. A Chinese American, who had fought to obtain a medical license in Arizona, Tang was instrumental in lowering the infant mortality rate in the state’s most populous county. Working in the Phoenix met…
Wednesday, May 22 2024
11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
AZ Speaks: The Vanishing Trading Posts
AZ Speaks: The Vanishing Trading Posts
Surprise, AZ
The stories of trading posts in the Southwest are a unique snapshot of life almost one hundred years ago. In the early 1900’s, trading posts in the Four corners flourished. There were over one hundred trading posts on the plateau, but today only five remain. Why did they vanish? The challenges and …
Wednesday, March 27 2024
11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Gallery Tour
Gallery Tour
Surprise, AZ
Gallery tours connect community members, artists and cultural organizations, highlighting the integral role art plays in our community fabric and the art that can be found all around us. During the tour participants will meet with local artists, take an arts class, and learn how to view and find me…
Thursday, May 9 2024
9:00 AM
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12:00 PM