Wednesday, November 7, 2018
The first promotion is on Nov. 9-11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the PetSmart at Oracle and Wetmore, Irvington and at El Con Mall during PetSmart Charities National Adoption Weekend.
PACC will be waiving adoption fees for pets four months and older. From Nov. 9-12, members of the Military can adopt a pet for free with a valid military ID to celebrate Veterans Day weekend. There will be special hours on Veterans Day, noon-5p.m.
PACC will be closed on Thanksgiving, but open on Black Friday, noon-5 p.m. The “Black Fur Day” discount will take place that day with adoption fees waived for any pets with black fur, ages four months and up.
A $19 licensing fee will apply to dogs and all pets adopted will come spayed and neutered, with a microchip, vaccinations and a free vet visit. Look for pets online or in person at 4000 N. Silverbell. Road.
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The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance (SAACA) and Casino Del Sol are partnering for the Arizona Farm & Food Festival on Saturday, Nov. 10. The festival will include live cooking demonstrations, food samplings, a farmer's market, children's activities, cultural entertainment and opportunities to meet with local chefs.
The festival will showcase more than 35 sampling stations. Some of the stations will offer foods like truffle artisan popcorn, gourmet salsa, lavender lemonade, ceviche, smoked brisket and many different variations of tacos. Local restaurants that will be participating include Boca Tacos y Tequila, Grand Canyon Brewery, Brushfire BBQ Co., KingFisher, El Charro, Seis Kitchen, and many more!
While festival goers sample on foods and drinks, live bands will be performing including The Blues, Americana, Alt-Country, Kevin Pakulis and his Band, The Begave Trio and Navajo music.
"The Arizona Farm & Food Festival is an investment in the sustainability of Arizona's cultural food heritage. Connecting chefs and restaurants with local food producers supports preservation of our culture," said Kate Marquez, SAACA Executive Director.
The Arizona Farm & Food Festival will be on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Casino Del Sol's AVA Amphitheater located on 5655 W. Valencia Rd.
Tickets for general admission will be sold at $35 and upgraded tickets to sample alcohol will be $50 per ticket.
For more information about the festival and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.saaca.org/
Monday, November 5, 2018
The General Admission Tickets include 2-day access to the festival, music from 20 plus artists on two stages including Dillon Francis, Phantogram and Big Gigantic. Food, a wide selection of wine, beer and cocktails will be for sale along with fascinating artwork and many pop-up shops.
For Tucson FEASTS the Gastronomic Union of Tucson will be crafting a custom menu of food options from Tucson’s finest chefs and restaurants. There will be a variety of larger-than-life sculptures, video projection, digital art and lighting displays at the festival by the team at Monsoon Collective and the University of Arizona’s School of Art, 3D & Extended Media program.
Tucson PLAYS will hold life-sized lawn games, corn hole, ping pong and ladderball. Tucson SHOPS will have their stores open all day and offer a variety of goods from local, regional and national artisans, makers and retailers. There will be many ATMs available.
Two premium Dusk experiences are available for those who want more than General Admission including the Culinary Dropout VIP Experience and the Iridius Capital Platinum Viewing Platform which is on another level.
There will be no official parking for the festival so ride share, taxis and public transportation are highly encouraged. Tickets are available for purchase online through Eventbrite or you can purchase hard-copy tickets at select locations in Tucson. This is an all-ages event.
Tickets for the festival are $89 plus fees for two days. $49 plus fees for one day. Free for kids 10 and under. Ticketed adults can bring up to two children. Must have a ticket/wristband to enter.
Find more information about the festival here.
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Rides will be going from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and pick up will be at the Sixth Street Garage with drop off at the polling station on Donna R. Liggins Neighborhood Center.
The NextGen Arizona team has been working hard all election season to show youth that their vote matters. They work to ensure that every person they have spoken to has a voting plan and information on the candidates. NextGen Arizona has recruited over 1,000 volunteer shifts to get young voters to vote for midterm elections.
NextGen America is making a change across 11 states on nearly 420 college campuses to help young people resist current government views and policies and take matter into their own hands.
"We have been in the community for months now working on removing roadblocks to young people voting this November 6th. This is just another effort in ensuring we have the highest youth vote turn out possible,” says Belen Sisa AZ State Media Manager of NextGen America.
NextGen hopes to be a leading example for future campaigns and the future of the Democratic Party.
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Thursday, November 1, 2018
Learn how to create healthy meals using ingredients such as cholla buds, tepary beans, mesquite flour, nopales and prickly pear fruit. There will be a variety of activities and information on native foods and community resources from community partners.
Enjoy the physical activity station, salsa with Ritmos Latinos dance club, dance with the Arizona Swing Cats, create sugar garden skulls with the Pima County Public Library’s Seed Library and participate in other fun and informative garden activities, such as plant-a-seed with a chance to win gardening prizes. All are welcome. Free admission.
5 Facts About The Garden Kitchen:
1. They serve over 50,000 community members every year.
2. They encourage Pima County to make healthy choices and build community wellness through food, fitness and gardening education.
3. They host Fit First Saturdays monthly and offer a physical activity class, a food demonstration and a gardening class.
4. They work to implement Policy, Systems and Environmental changes throughout Pima County to tackle health issues like obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic diseases.
5. They partner with a variety of organizations throughout Pima County to make healthy choices more available and practical in the community by providing guidance, resources and technical assistance.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Every walker is provided with sample emails, a personal fundraising page and staff to provide guidance and fundraising (online or through mail) support.
Walkers who raise $100 or more will receive the National Walk Shirt. Walkers who raise $250 or more will receive additional fundraising prizes. The National Silver Sponsor is Salix Pharmaceuticals and the National Partner is CVS Specialty who help by offering product discounts to participants, providing product donations to the event and financial support.
The event features activities for kids, food, entertainment and information about the American Liver Foundation.
More than 10,000 people from across the country come together and raise almost $2 million annually. The event is free, but registration is required either before the event or at the event and there is no fundraising requirement, but walkers are strongly encouraged to raise a minimum of $100.
Form a team of family members, friends or colleagues and walk and fundraise together to make a difference in the fight against liver disease!
Liver Life Walk will take place on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
5 Facts about the American Liver Foundation:
1. Their education programs reached approximately 46,000 people in 2016.
2. They are the leading source of information on liver health and liver disease.
3. Their toll-free National Helpline and 16 divisions across the country provide support to patients, families, caregivers and the public by phone, email and community outreach.
4. Their National Helpline volume doubled in 2016 with nearly 12,000 inquiries.
5. They have provided almost $26 million in research funding to over 840 early career investigators.
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The motel is plain vanilla. Motorists streak past it on Interstate 10 without notice or memory. But inside the gates of the complex, over several days in October, 112 migrants, many from Guatemala, turned the motel into a temporary neighborhood.
Children chased their friends underneath the stairs. Parents leaned against walls and chatted with neighbors on a common path of pursuing asylum in the United States. The low hum of Spanish wafted through the rooms and grounds of the motel, mixed with English and peppered with phrases in indigenous languages, such as K’iche’ and Mam.
Inside, a first-floor office was packed with volunteers. On the walls, whiteboards and sticky notes that form a tracking system to help provide the migrants with food and shelter.
Upstairs, Elias sat on a polyester bedspread. He spoke of fear and relief.
Of bringing his child thousands of miles from home.
Of eluding police and gangs traveling through Mexico.
Of immigration authorities dropping him and his son and dozens of other migrants at the motel.
The migrants, who were fleeing poverty and crime in Central America, were allowed conditional entry into the U.S. after crossing the southern border and requesting asylum. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, with a spokesperson later saying there were too many migrants to handle, brought them to volunteers in Tucson who put them up at the motel on I-10.
Within a few days, the migrants scattered throughout the country.
But their stop in Tucson lingered in the continuing debate over immigration, both legal and illegal, in the U.S. and the rest of the world, among politicians, advocates and people across the ideological spectrum.
The migrants’ journey turned on the decisions of outside forces: Whether ICE would detain them or release them sooner to their destinations. Whether supporters would house and feed them or the migrants would be left to fend for themselves on the streets of Tucson. And, finally whether federal officials will ultimately allow them to stay in the U.S. or return them to the countries they fled.
The 112 Central Americans were among thousands seeking asylum in the U.S. According to TRAC Immigration, a nonpartisan immigration research program, from 2011 to 2016, 8,540 migrants applied for asylum to the federal government. Few, however, succeeded.
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The Equality Tour is coming to Tucson. The event is organized by Equal Means Equal, a charitable organization of the Heroica Foundation. The Equality Tour will feature speakers and comedic and musical performances all in support of passing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the U.S Constitution that would guarantee equal rights to both men and women, which would work to eliminate gender pay gaps.
So far, 37 of the 38 states needed to amend the U.S Constitution to include women have voted to ratify, with Nevada and Illinois voting yes in just the past year and a half. Arizona has the potential to be a history-making state because the amendment will only be passed if one more state ratifies.
Speakers at the event will include Kamala Lopez, the executive director of Equal Means Equal, Pamela Powers, Arizona State Representative of District 9, Victoria Steele, candidate for Arizona State Representative District 9, Athena Salman, Arizona State Senator of District 26 and Natalie White, Co-Director of Equal Means Equal and Feminist Artist.
The musical performance is Voices for Change (VFC), a community organization that brings awareness to important social and political issues through music. Soloists will include Ali Handal, Jason Chu and Anthony Fedorov.
Also at the event will be Nobody's Funny, a team of stand-up comics. Performing comics include Samantha Baxley, Buffy Metler, Eugenia Kuzmin, Joel Marshall, Or Mash and Jessica Winther.
The free event will be on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m. and will be located at the MSA Annex Festival Grounds near the Mercado at 267 S. Avenida Del Convento.
To purchase free tickets for admission or for more information about Equal Means Equal, visit: http://equalmeansequal.org/
Ladies Night Out & Halloween Party at Cobra Arcade Bar. If you have every dreamed about playing your favorite arcade game dressed as your favorite arcade character, this is the event for you! Dress up in your best costumes for a night of game-filled fun. Doors open at 4 p.m. and it's happy our until 8 p.m. 63 E. Congress Street. Details here.
If you a are looking for something a little more kid-friendly and don't want to take the kids good old-fashioned trick-or-treating, there are a bunch of Trunk-Or-Treat events happening around town on Halloween evening. Check out the one at University City Church, the one at Urban City Tabernacle, the Halloween Bash at Pump it Up, or Spooky Toddler Storytime at the Eckstrom-Columbus Library.
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Events compiled by Brianna Lewis, Emily Dieckman, B.S. Eliot, Ava Garcia and Jeff Gardner.
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Monday, October 29, 2018
Tucson Comic-Con will take place on Friday, Nov. 2 at 3 p.m., Saturday Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. and Sunday Nov. 4. at 10 a.m. at the Tucson Convention Center. The mission is “Pop Culture for All”.
The 11th annual Tucson Comic-Con is presented by Zia Records. It is dedicated to bringing a community-based pop culture experience. They will have TV and movie celebrities, comic book creators, artists, costume groups, photo ops, games, panels, a scavenger hunt and a Kid Zone.
Tucson Comic-Con was founded by Mike Olivares and began as a single-day event with 500 fans. Over the years the event has now grown into the three day festival it is today, complete with all your favorite comic-related activities and over 10,000 attendees each year.
The celebrity guests include Jake “The Snake” Roberts who is known for his work with the World Wrestling Federation, Tim Rose who is most famous for his character Admiral Ackbar in Star Wars, Rachel Lillis who is best known for her work in Pokémon and Kirk R. Thatcher who is an Emmy award winning writer/producer for Dinosaurs, Muppet Treasure Island and numerous Muppet films.
Comic industry guests include Dennis O’Neil, an acclaimed comic book writer and editor, Budd Root, whose first comic book Cavewoman has been continually published for well over 20 years making it one of the longest running independent titles in recent memory, Sina Grace, writer and artist who drew several series, Dan Mendoza, creator of Zombie Tramp in 2009, Dawn Mcteigue, a comic book artist and Eric M. Esquivel, a comic book author.
The annual costume contest will take place at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. with the youth costume contest a little earlier in the day at 2 p.m.
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