If you're bored in Tucson this weekend ... you need help. Serious help.

In addition to the Luz de Vida launch party going on at the Rialto; all the arts openings happening thanks to the Tucson Rocks! collaboration; and about a bazillion other things, the Childrens Museum Tucson and the Fox Tucson Theatre are hosting a day of Bollywood fun (cliche alert!) for the whole family.

Bollykids presents FAME: The Family Arts and Music Experience kicks off at noon at the Childrens Museum, 200 S. Sixth Ave., with entertainment, arts-and-crafts activities and Bollywood culture. Then, at 2:30, the party moves to the Fox, for a live performance of Childsplay called Tomás and the Library Lady:

In Tomás and the Library Lady, Tomás loves the stories. Grandfather tells them every night during the long summers, when the family leaves Texas to pick crops in Iowa. But soon Tomás knows all the stories by heart, and that’s when Papa Grande tells him there is a place full of stories he’s never heard before: the library. When Tomás meets the library lady, nothing is ever the same again. Based on Pat Mora’s popular book by the same name, the play tells the true story of Tomás Rivera, who began his life as a migrant worker and ended it as a university chancellor, Tomás and the Library Lady celebrates the wonder of reading.

The fun is being presented by Neelam Sethi , creator of "Bollywood at yhe Fox," and her husband, Dr. Gulshan Sethi.

Best of all: The whole event is free. Get more info here.

Something really exceptional has descended upon Tucson. It's a group of exhibits called Tucson Rocks, it aims to "Celebrate the Art of Rock & Roll", and as far as I've seen, it is wildly successful in it's mission.

• Photo Ryn Gargulinski

The sprucing-up festivities, officially known as the Toole Avenue Streetcape Project, is part of Make a Difference Day, scheduled from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22. Activities are geared toward refurbishing the yet-to-be-finished Toole Avenue Artwalk with greenery and all other hues in a planting and art fest.

Oodles of artists, community volunteers, art and civic organizations and businesses will be on location planting trees, installing dozens of other plants, finishing off existing murals and adding new artwork to the scene. Performances, art activities and other festivities will be going on along Toole and throughout the entire Tucson Historic Warehouse Arts District, including three, one-day exclusive exhibits.

Milkins' project, Walking Home: stories from the desert to the Great Lakes, started in May as an artful project to focus on community, networking (both traditionally and with technology), and obviously traveling across the country. Each night she would stay with different people and cook them dinner and breakfast as an offering for their hospitality.

The entire journey was filmed on a 24/7 web cam and streamed online for viewers to experience the exciting endeavor with Milkins.

Milkins's project is currently featured in the Grand Rapids ArtPrize Art Festival which runs until Oct. 9.

Read the Weekly's Q&A with Milkins this July while she was on the road.

• Kevin Peterson, "Keep Houston Ugly", Oil on wood panel

Let's get one thing out of the way, right up front: The Tucson Weekly doesn't need another arts writer. Margaret, & company do a wonderful job of providing coverage of Tucson's art world. Apparently, though, someone at the Weekly thought that readers might like to hear from a guy who has been peripherally involved in the art scene for years, with an over-inflated sense of self-importance, whom also has the proclivity towards using words like proclivity. Hellooooo Nathan! To put to rest any lingering doubts of my credibility as a blogger, I may or may not also live in my mother-in-law's garage and/or basement.

Writer and journalist, and damn fine poet, Jeff Biggers shared this poem welcoming Carlos Santana to Tucson at the CultureStrike event last week. Three Sonorans' David Abie Morales put it on video for all of us to enjoy and spread the word in welcoming Carlos, who plays in Tucson tonight at Casino del Sol's AVA.

• Ta Thank Khue, age 15
• Together Protect Peace

Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children's Paintings, currently on display at the UA Poetry Center, features poems written in response to Vietnamese children's paintings on peace and war.

The traveling exhibit contains 34 paintings collected by the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The museum has held a yearly art contest for the past 10 years. Each painting is displayed with one or more poems written in response to the art. Poems were written by American children, veterans and writers. Sixty poems were chosen out of 1,200 that were submitted.

Tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 17, at 11:30 a.m., members of the Hopi Foundation's Owl and Panther Project will read their poetic responses to the painings. Speak Peace is on display through Friday, Sept. 23.

The exhibit is a collaboration between the War Remnants Museum, Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center and School of Art Galleries, and Soldiers’ Heart, a veterans’ return and healing organization.

The paintings are very expressive with bold colors and graphic images. "Terrible War" by Nguyen Pham Bao Tran, 12, shows planes dropping bombs, fires burning, black clouds of smoke, dead bodies and a distraught man.

These children "are growing up in a society (where) remnants of war, both physically and emotionally are very present. It's part of their everyday life," says David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center.

The public is invited to add their thoughts about war and peace to a large scale installation created by local artist Kim Largey. The installation is in the children's corner of the Poetry Center.

The UA Poetry Center is located at 1508 E. Helen Street. Visit poetry.arizona.edu and speakpeace.net for more information.