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
AZ Speaks: Authoring Home - Arizona's Indigenous and Chicano Literary History
AZ Speaks: Authoring Home - Arizona's Indigenous and Chicano Literary History
Surprise, AZ
Arizona is often thought of in the context of “The West,” that is, as a frontier that needed to be tamed and populated by settlers coming from the eastern and midwestern parts of the U.S. Literarily, this has meant that many stories from and about Arizona center settlers and their relationships not…
Monday, March 10 2025
6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
AZ Speaks: Learning to Live Together: Martin Luther King Jr. and His Philosophy of the Beloved Community
AZ Speaks: Learning to Live Together: Martin Luther King Jr. and His Philosophy of the Beloved Community
Surprise, AZ
One of the most important concepts in Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings is the idea of “the beloved community,” the possibility of a society in which people from diverse backgrounds and economic circumstances learn to live together. Conflict in any society, he taught, is inevitable, but it can be …
Wednesday, January 15 2025
6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
Outdoor Sketching Tour: Community Park
Outdoor Sketching Tour: Community Park
Surprise, AZ
On this tour participants will explore public art outside at the Surprise Community Park. Teaching artist, Rae Wilson will guide participants to create their own sketches, taking notice of the art and creativity all around us in a fun, low-stress, outdoor, judgement-free zone. This event is for all…
Sat, Nov 2 2024
10:00 AM
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Wed, Jan 22 2025
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: By the Time They Came - African American Men of AZ
AZ Speaks: By the Time They Came - African American Men of AZ
Surprise, AZ
In this presentation, Dr. Anokye, explores the untold stories and accomplishments of African American men in Arizona. Dr. Anokye focuses on identifying the common threads of the African American community that have enriched and given meaning to their lives–striving for education/schooling, work liv…
Wednesday, February 12 2025
11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Tour of Artist Joe Tyler's Home Studio
Tour of Artist 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 …
Wed, Oct 2 2024
10:00 AM
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Wed, Feb 26 2025
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
Outdoor Sketching Tour: City Hall
Outdoor Sketching Tour: City Hall
Surprise, AZ
On this tour participants will explore public art outside at City Hall. Teaching artist, Rae Wilson will guide participants to create their own sketches, taking notice of the art and creativity all around us in a fun, low-stress, outdoor, judgement-free zone. This event is for all ages and skill le…
Wed, Oct 16 2024
10:00 AM
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Sat, Feb 22 2025
12:00 PM