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MUSIC THURSDAY, FEB. 24 • Don’t miss legendary American singer-songwriter Don McLean with special guest Al Stewart. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $38-$98; foxtucson.com.

FRIDAY, FEB. 25 • Don your dancin’shoes for vintage rock at the All Right Now Dance Party with Rillito River Band. Details: 7 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $20; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Celebrate Tucson Rodeo Days with Cowboy Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Awardee Michael Martin Murphey & The Rio Grande Band and special guests The Zmed Brothers with their re-creation of the original Everly Brothers sibling signature experience.

Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $37-$87; foxtucson.com.

FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, FEB. 25-27 • Explore the threat of inaction and the need for reversal and renewal of the globe’s health in a musical call to shared commitment at From the Edge to Hope with Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra. Details: 7 p.m. Friday; Valley Presbyterian Church, 2800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley; 7:30 p.m.

Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday; Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive; $27-$52; trueconcord.org.

SATURDAY, FEB. 26 • Enjoy music and dance performances at the Alzheimer’s Fundraiser One World Live Music Festival. Details: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd.; $68; oneworldlivemusicfestival.com or brownpapertickets.com.

• Hear “note-for-note”re-creations at a great stage and light show along with background videos at Shine On Floyd with the Pink Floyd tribute band.

Details: 2 and 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $31; 520529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Rock the night away with Jake Owen and Diamond Rio live in concert at the Cologuard Classic Golf Tournament.

Details: immediately following play; Omni Tucson National Resort, 2727 W. Club Drive; $55 and up; cologuardclassic.com.

SUNDAY, FEB. 27 • Celebrate the music, chemistry, camaraderie, and fun of the iconic group The Arizona Highwaymen featuring the music of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.

Details: 2 and 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $31; 520529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Journey to the pinnacle of popular culture with the Kingston Trio whose current members have intrinsic links to and experience with the original group.

Details: 3 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $40-$110; foxtucson.com.

• Revisit the Orbison Years in an unbelievable transformation complete with the looks, voice and feel of Roy Orbison by Mark Barnett. Details: 7:30 p.m.; DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; $30; dvpac.net.

MONDAY, FEB. 28 • Celebrate some awesome country music in three-part harmony at All American Girls, Celebration of Women in Country Music. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.; $27, $15 children; 520-886-9428 or thegaslighttheatre.com.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 • Get your toes tappin’at the Mardi Gras Celebration with Wildcat Jazz Band and their unique blend of impeccable musicianship, traditional music and slapstick humor. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Rock the night away with the legendary band Chicago, recipient of the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades. Details: 7 p.m.; Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave.; $49-$120; ticketmaster.com.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 • Take a multi-media journey through the monster hits of the 70’s and 80’s with the Abba tribute artists and musicians of ABBAFAB. Details: 7:30 p.m.; DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; dvpac.net.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 • Don’t miss Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour celebrating a remarkable career that has lasted the better part of 50 years. Details: 8 p.m.; Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave.; $87 and up; ticketmaster.com.

SATURDAY TO SUNDAY, MARCH 5-6 • Listen to the Tucson Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart and Prokofiev featuring harpist Claire Thai, flautist Alexander Lipay and conductor José Luis Gomez. Details: 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd.; $47-$96; ticketmaster.com.

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GUEST COMMENTARY

Arizona’s overcrowded and underfunded schools face a crisis Rex Scott

Special to Tucson Local Media

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served in our Pima County schools as a teacher and principal for 27 years.

Since retiring in 2019, I have still been able to have some personal insight into what is happening in public education via the experiences of my wife and daughter, both of whom serve as teachers. Many of my friends and former colleagues are also hard at work in our local schools.

We have been immersed in several crises within Arizona public education for too many years. As a growing

state, we are past the point of being able to address each of these challenges proactively.

The reactive work we must confront, however, is still necessary and urgent. The future we want for our children and grandchildren require us to take on this work.

Ask the people who do the hiring in your local school district about the number of current vacancies they have. According to a recent survey conducted by the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association, almost a third of the teaching vacancies in our state are unfilled. Almost half of the vacancies are filled by people who lack standard certifica-

tion requirements. Finding qualified teachers in highneed areas such as math, science and special education is often a daunting task.

Our class sizes at all levels of K-12 education are too big. If your child attends a middle or high school, ask them how many other students are in their math or other core subject classes.

Check in with your elementary school principal about how many kids are in each K-3 classroom. We know that the amount of one-onone time teachers get with each student is critical, so reducing our class sizes at all levels must be a high priority.

The pandemic high-

lighted the mental health challenges facing many of our youth, but Arizona continues to have the highest counselor-to-student ratio in the country, with an average of 905 students per counselor. The national average is 455 to one, according to the Arizona School Counselors Association. It is often said that the problems of society are laid at the doorsteps of schools, but schools can’t do their part to address them if they lack the personnel to do so.

Expect More Arizona, a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group, has laid out seven areas of focus for education in Arizona:

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Raise teacher pay to the national median and make professional development a priority 2.

Increase access to quality child care and preschool 3.

Fund interventions and strategies to ensure reading proficiency by 3rd grade 4.

Provide sufficient funding for K-12 school construction and maintenance 5.

Support key programs such as counseling and special education 6.

Double STEM workforce funding for all community colleges 7.

Increase funding for Arizona residents attending a state university There is work for state government, local school districts and higher education embedded in each of these goals. Pima County has begun to take a leadership role in decreasing economic barriers to access to

preschool, which is the area of education where county government can play the biggest role. You can learn more about the Pima Early Education Program scholarships to low-income families by visiting this page on the county’s website: Pima Early Education Program Scholarships (PEEPs) - Pima County During the years I worked in our local schools, the myriad of needs became more and more pressing. Our willingness to address them will define what kind of community we want to be in the future. As Billy Joel said in his classic song, Two Thousand Years, our children are “the vintage,” but “time is relentless.” We need to show that we have the courage and resolve to take on the work our kids rely on us to do.

Rex Scott is the Pima County Supervisor for District 1.

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SPECIAL EVENTS SATURDAY, FEB. 26 • Bring the entire family to the Gladden Farms 1st Annual Car Show with fun for all ages, games, bounce houses, food trucks and more. Details: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Gladden Farms Elementary School, 11745 Gladden Farms Road; $2/family benefits Adopt A Family program.

Saturday to Sunday through Feb. 27 • Join the excitement at Southern Arizona’s oldest and most celebrated heritage event the Tucson Rodeo La Fiesta de los Vaqueros. Details: check website for times and events; 4823 S. 6th Ave.; 520-741-2233 or tucsonro-

deo.com. Come to the Tucson Rodeo Cowboy Church on Sunday, Feb. 27.

Details: 10 a.m.; Coors barn, Tucson Rodeo grounds; free admission; 520991-8511.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS FRIDAY, FEB. 25 • Learn how to create a beautiful outdoor space with tips from AZ Plant Lady Noelle Johnson at the Tucson Botanical Gardens online class Succulents in the Desert Garden. Details: 10 a.m.-noon; Zoom link provided; $30, discount for members; tucsonbotanical.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 • Stop by the Fox’s lobby or hop on Zoom for a mid-week, mid-day treat at Curious Conversations inspired by Mariachi shows at an informal chat and story session with journalist, music

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A RICH PALETTE WHILE THE LAST FEW YEARS have been punishing for many local cultural organizations, there’s no doubt that Tucson remains a community where we celebrate the arts. And with the Omicron wave finally receding, there’s no better time to get out of the house and appreciate what this burg has to offer. In this year’s Spring Arts Preview, you’ll see that there’s plenty for art lovers to do in our town. The Tucson Musuem of Art is celebrating artist Brad Kahlhamer, born to indigeous parents and adopted by a German American family, whose work chronicles his search for his lost roots; the Center for Creative Photography is focusing

its lens on trees; the Arizona State Museum celebrates Mexican sarapes; the Mini Time Machine Museum has an army of tiny Tucsonans on display; Etherton Gallery is featuring the work of Steve McCurry, the photojournalist famous for “Afghan Girl”; PCC’s Bernal Gallery explores Threads of Immigration; Tohono Chul is showing off a new collection of American Indian art; Ballet Tucson will be performing another Balanchine; Arizona Theatre Company is telling the story of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, set to music; Broadway in Tucson is presenting touring shows such as Jersey Boys, Tootsie and Pretty Woman; Invisible Theatre continues

to celebrate its 50th anniversary with A Conversation with Edith Head; Pima Community College’s thespians jump into the deep end with The SpongeBob Musical and bring us the Bard with Romeo and Juliet; Rogue Theatre introduces you to Mrs. Dalloway; and— whew!—that’s just a sampling of what you’ll find in these pages.

Longtime Tucson Local Media arts writer Margaret Regan fills you in on what you’ll see in our museums and galleries. Regan also previews the season’s dance performance, while calendar editor Emily Dieckman shares the upcoming theater bill. Finally, UA School of Journalism intern Allison Fagan looks at some curious conversations that the Fox Tucson Theatre is presenting in the weeks to come.

The arts are most assuredly back.

Get out and enjoy them!

Jim Nintzel Executive Editor

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VIVID DISPLAYS

Tucson museums explore a wide canvas this spring

By Margaret Regan CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY 1031 N. Olive Road.

The Center for Creative Photography opens up the spring with a riveting show about trees. The poetically named exhibition, Trees Stir in Their Leaves, not only displays stunning photos by the likes of Ansel Adams and Lola Alvarez Bravo: it also brings in fragments of real trees in installations created by scientists from the UA’s renowned Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.

The show’s merger of science and art reminds us how much the world needs trees, both for their beauty and for their ability to cool down a world that’s heating up places like Tucson and elsewhere, doing their part to lessen climate change. Visitors can walk across campus to see the Tree-Ring lab and also take a self-guided outdoor tour of the trees in the university’s fabulous campus Arboretum.

Through July 23.

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MUSEUM OF ART 1031 N. Olive Road.

The campus museum’s popular show The Art of Food has been going strong for months. You can see more than 100 artworks by 20th- and 21st-century artists like Andy Warhol (look for his big art banana) and other famous contemporary artists. Show ends March 20.

But now the exhibition has been refreshed by two new mini-shows, running through April 23, that take on local food scarcity and poverty. Voices: Real Stories of Hunger and Hope, put together by the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, document “hardships and triumphs.” A rising local photog, Kathleen Dreier, embarked on her Tucson Stories shortly after the murder of George Floyd. In her photo essays, people tell their own stories of struggle and success.

EXTRA: Shana Klein, an art history professor at Kent State, gives a lecture,

Hard to Swallow: The Racist Messages Behind American Images of Fruit.

Tuesday, Feb. 24, 5:30, at the Center for Creative Photography. artmuseum.arizona.edu MOCA: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 265 S. Church Ave. There is less than a month to see MOCA’s Were-:Nenetech Forms, a group show about “migration, transformation and survival in the Sonoran Desert.” Steered by LA artists Rafa Esparza and Timo Fahler, the team of artists has been making traditional adobe bricks and using them to build new architectural structures, framed by earth. The show’s title alludes to the Indigenous peoples of Mexico who built with adobe: the Nahuatl word “nenetech” translates as “close together.”

A treat is work by the late Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), revered for outdoor art of the body; she often placed her own body into sand and dirt, returning herself to the earth.

Closes on March 13. Next up in the Great Hall will be work by painter Grace Rosario Perkins, April 2 to Sept.

1. moca-tucson.org/ exhibitions/ TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART 140 N. Main Ave. The museum has long hoped to mount a show for artist Brad Kahlhamer; it will finally happen this spring. On March 17, the Tucson-born artist—born to indigenous parents and adopted by a German American family—will open his solo show “11:59 to Tucson.”

He doesn’t know the full story of his life. “Longing for his Indigenous roots,” curators write, Kahlhamer makes paintings that are a “blend of dreams and nightmares.” These days he lives in New York and Mesa, and creates urban scenes, southwest fantasies and personal narratives. March 17 through Sept. 25.

Several of TMA’s winter hits are still on the museum’s walls—and floors.

Olivier Mosset’s super-abstract art is up

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Patrick Martinez’s subversive, narrative work will be at the Tucson Museum of Art through April 24.

until Feb. 27. Look What You Created will show Patrick Martinez’s narrative work through April 24. tucsonmuseumofart.org TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road.

The latest exhibition at this far east museum is Sacred Dancers: Ceremonial Navajo Weaving.

The show’s beautiful cloths, picturing images of sacred beings dancing, weave an interesting tale. Navajo people believed it was wrong, if not

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dangerous, to make images of the Yeis, the Navajo Holy People. But tourists arriving in the early 1900s were eager to buy, and, according to the museum, weavers eventually found a solution.

While remaining reverent, they began to weave rugs that were artistic rather than “accurate replicas of religious imagery.” The show features works by a number of weavers who “portrayed ceremonial imagery.”

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EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITS

Local art galleries feature paintings, photography, glasswork and more

By Margaret Regan Tucson is blessed with a wide variety of gallery spaces that are coming back to life as the pandemic recedes.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll find.

DOWNTOWN PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY The beloved Philabaum Glass Gallery is thriving under new ownership. The space, near Five Points, is luminous with beautifully colored glass artworks. The current show, Sense of Place, features glasswork by Erika Par-

kin of Tucson, known for elegant blown glass; Steffen Plistermann of Santa Fe, master of the organic; and Richard Parrish of Boseman, Montana, who hangs his glass pieces on the wall.

Alison Harvey, the new proprietor, was the gallery’s manager under the original owners, renowned glass artist Tom Philabaum and Dabney Philabaum. When they were ready to sell in 2020, Alison jumped to buy. Her husband, Dylan Harvey, is a co-owner, but she is running the enterprise solo.

Business is good, she says, and she’s loving the work.

Through June 4. Philabaumglass. com

On display at Etherton Gallery: Steve McCurry, Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula), Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984 Fuji Crystal Archive print, © Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos, courtesy Etherton Gallery

ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery is sailing along in its new digs in the Barrio Viejo. It’s now on its third exhibition in the Convent Street Gallery since its opening in September. Steve McCurry: Its Own Place and Feeling is a sumptuous look at some 30 brightly colored photos he took all over the world. A member of Magnum Photos and a recipient of many awards, McCurry has shot photos in armed conflicts in the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and he covered 9/11 in the U.S. He’s most famous for Afghan Girl, a searing image of a teen with piercing green eyes. Ironically, given today’s chaos in Afghanistan, that 38 year old image portrays fear and sorrow all over again.

Through April 2. Ethertongallery. com UNTITLED GALLERY, Untitled Gallery, situated in the Steinfeld Warehouse downtown, often

invites many artists to the gallery to show their work. This time, though, the gallery members get their turn in the spotlight. The seven members—painters and sculptors—have a wide rain of interests, and you can see them all in the online gallery. Inna Rohr’s painting “Everglades” caught my eye; it’s a richly colored vision of a storm over the swamp.

Untitledgallerytucson.com CONTRERAS GALLERY The small downtown gallery, soldiering on through the road construction, has mounted a show for four local artists who carry a sense of place. Jane Buckman paints desert plants while Sylvia Garland turns to dainty flowers.

Carolyn Sotelo put together a jaunty vision of a rundown Stone Ave. block, and Mano Sotelo has made fine

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Through June 22.

Tucsondart.org ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM 1013 E. University Blvd.

The museum continues with Wrapped in Color: Legacies of the Mexican Sarape. This must-see show has glorious textiles from days past and present. Part of the story is Porfirio Gutiérrez, a Zapotec textile artist who is teaching a new generation to preserve the art of making Saltillo sarapes. Through July.

Across the hallway is another blockbuster, this one about photography. The titlesays it all: Saving An American Treasure: An Unparalleled Collection of Anthropological Photographs. Ongoing. statemuseum.arizona.edu THE MINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES 4455 E. Camp Lowell Local artists Teresa Estrella and Rudy Flores make Tucsonans small. Literally. In their Army Man Project Vol. 2, the pair

used 3D printing to create tiny figures that look just like their real-life models.

These 3.25 inch creatures are army green, the same color as the miniatures army soldiers my older brother used to play with.

Go on in and see portrait figures of 187 of your fellow Tucsonans. Or arrange to get a teeny statue of yourself.

Through June 5. theminitimemachine.org

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ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM 949 E. 2nd St. Migrants keep on dying horrible deaths in the Sonoran Desert. Many bodies are never identified and some are never found. Los Desconocidos (The Strangers): The Migrant Project aims to remember these dead. At the museum, the wall is filled with hand-sewn quilts made by project volunteers, and embroidered with the names of the lost and illustrating their story. One quilt honors all the migrants known to have died in 2019-2020 in the Tucson sector. Their names border PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY the frame; inside is an image of a family eyeing the dangerous mountains and Barbara Bosworth, National Champion Emory Oak, Arizona, 2001, gelatin silver print, 9 desert ahead.

5/8 x 23 1/8 in., Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Gift of the artist, Through Feb. 28, 2023. © Barbara Bosworth Arizonahistoricalsocity.org

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full-size portraits of Tucson’s magnificent mountains and national parks.

Contreashousefineart.com GALLERY 2SUN The gallery specializes in local artists and vintage modern art but right now it’s open only by appointment. 520-360-8074. Fans can see the artworks at www.artsy.net/gallery-2-sun gallery2sun.com RAICES TALLER 222 After staging a sea of online shows over two years of the pandemic, Raices is on temporary hiatus. The gallery’s John Salgado says the team is considering new projects and hopes to get going April. “We’re looking at some really exciting ideas,” he says.

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EVERYBODY The Everybody gallery has returned to Tucson!

The cool contemporary gallery slid out of town in 2018. There were sightings in Chicago. And now the mysterious group is back in the Old Pueblo, at 437 Grant Road. The Everybody gallery “primarily works with emerging and perpetually-emerging artists,” according to a press release. Its new show, Sara Subbs: Soft shoulder, is a “series of sculptural situations.”

One of Subbs’s pieces has molded glass in lovely pale colors.

Through March 26 Everybody.gallery

“In Their Shoes” by Perla Segovia at Bernal Gallery.

LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY AT PIMA COLLEGE WEST CAMPUS The excellent Bernal Gallery is presenting work by two artists who live in Tucson.

Perla Segovia immigrated to the U.S. from her native Peru when she was 10 years old. Now a textiles artist, she created Threads of Immigration, a series of four installation that use thread and fabric to remember those try to cross the border for a better life. In one work, she embroidered a ream of canvas shoes, representing immigrant children who died in custody. A second installation, crafted with kiln glass, aluminum and poplar, honors migrant mothers.

Wayne Gudmundson is an internationally known photographer with work in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Center for Creative Photography and elsewhere. His new book of images is What Place Is This, with text by Dieter Berninge. Gudmundson sought out locations outside Tucson where historic events took place, and photographed what is left and what has changed.

UP IN THE FOOTHILLS Multiple galleries have for years plied their wares high about the city, at Campbell, Skyline and Sunrise.

Here’s a brief list.

MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY offers native American work and early and contemporary western art. The gallery also has a fine collection of paintings by the revered Maynard Dixon. On view in the gallery now is a suite of really interesting works picturing Navajo life, painted by Navajo artist Shonto Begay. medicinemangallery.com SANDERS GALLERY Sanders Gallery has been run by the same owner in the same building for more than 45 years. Like most of its art neighbors, Sanders specializes in “American western, wildlife and realism.” An array of Hopi Kachinas, symbols of spirit beings, are now on display on the Sanders webpage. sandersgalleries@sandersgalleries.

SETTLERS WEST Settlers West is a reliable gallery for paintings of cowboys, horses, native people and stunning views of the southwest landscape. A roundup of American miniatures, created by dozens of artists, are on view in the gallery now. settlerswest.com

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JANE HAMILTON FINE ART This 29-year-old gallery is more contemporary than most of the Foothills places. Fans can see that for themselves at an opening this Friday, Feb. 18, with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. The show, Blossoms & Bells, features two artists.

Ernst Gruler pounds out glamorous sound sculptures, and Greg Heil paints the desert, blending “traditional landscape with brilliant color and impressionist flare,” says proprietor Jane Hamilton.

Through Feb. 28.

Janehamiltonfineart.com WILDE MEYER GALLERY This gallery has a sister place in Scottsdale. Both outlets hit all the bases, from paintings to sculptures, and from

figuration to abstractions. Samples are James Koskinas’s handsome brown and white horse and J.D. Berard’s abstracted desert in green and fiery orange.

Wildemeyer.com FOR FINE ART The new gallery in the district, FoR Art, has another place up in Montana.

As a result, the works on view go from “sweeping vistas of Glacier National Park” to sunburst paintings of the Sonoran Desert. The new enterprise wisely added Tucson painter Howard Post to the roster. The talented Post paints cowboys and ranchers in a fresh, spare style.

Forfineart.com TOHONO CHUL Tohono Chul, the gallery in a desert garden is rejoicing in the recent acquisition of a permanent collection of American Indian art. Donated by Roy

J. Kurtz, the collection is vast. A new exhibition will give visitors first looks at baskets and art.

Through April 27.

Rick DeMont: Elemental Monuments: Rick DeMont, a masterful watercolor painter, has filled one of the gallery rooms with his large-scale paintings, many of them pure desert landscapes. Visitors can look close to understand his methods of color, scale and space. Even better, they can get the info directly from him at a talk at noon, Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the Garden Pavilion. Through Feb. 27 Tom Baumgartner | Codex Sonora “Codex Sonora is a fittingly mysterious book, made up of extraordinary portraits accompanied by eldritch,” according to the gallery notes, “nearly indecipherable text, along with elusive graphs and symbols and strange diagrams that point outward to the stars.”

Through April 27

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ACTING OUT

Tucson theatres stage a comeback

By Emily Dieckman

ARIZONA ROSE THEATRE Arizona Rose Theatre shows take place at the Tucson Mall, 4500 N. Oracle Road, suite 329 Magically Ever-Laughter. For two nights only, enjoy this magic show for the whole family over at the Arizona Rose Theatre. Illusionist Michael Howell is the founder of Rose Ranch Animal Rescue, and often uses these animals in his performances (then puts the proceeds toward their care). He’s been a

performer since he was a kid, and loves singing, dancing, acting and juggling in addition to making magic. March 5-6.

Passage. In this show, Mae and Max are crewmembers on the first human-crewed mission to Mars. Their main job: stay alive. (Hard enough on Earth, am I right?) But before they even get to Mars, they run into a wildly unexpected cosmic body between Earth and Mars and realize, as they float in an endless flow of space and energy, that they better come to terms with their mortality immediately.

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If this sounds extremely stressful, don’t worry. This show is a rollercoaster, but it’s also humorous and has lots of cool effects. March 19, 20, 26 and 27.

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ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY ATC shows take place at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. Nina Simone: Four Women. In this beautiful show, playwright Christina Ham looks at the 1963 KKK bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, through the lens of Nina Simone’s “Four Women.”

The song is a tribute to the four girls lost in the tragedy, and the show brings to life four Black women (including the character Nina Simone) from various backgrounds and their fights against racism, sexism, classism and more. Feb. 26 to March 19.

Justice. The girl power theme continues at ATC with this musical about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s arrival to the

United States Supreme Court, and Sandra Day O’Connor’s readiness to show her the ropes. This three-person musical, which also features a third character named Vera who is rising through the ranks of the law world, is full of sweeping songs, important conversations and real-life heroines. April 9 to April 30.

How to Make an American Son. From Honduran-born Mando’s perspective, it’s inconvenient that the downturn of his cleaning empire is coinciding exactly with the need to rein in his spoiled, American-born son Orlando.

From Orlando’s perspective, he’s suddenly being asked to handle way too much at once, including the future of his father’s entire enterprise. This show asks what happens with the promise of the American Dream collides with the realities of immigration. June 4 to 25.

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The Band’s Visit. This new musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards, placing it among the winningest in history. It’s the offbeat story of a band of musicians who arrive in a town way off the beaten path. They’re lost and have come out of the blue, but they bring music, and it does what music does: It livens up the town, brings the people together and has the audience rejoicing. Feb. 23 to 27.

Jersey Boys. You’ve almost certainly heard of this show by now, about the flawless harmonies and not-so-flawless personal lives of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. And even if you haven’t, you’ve heard songs like “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” This Grammy Award-winning musical has been called “too good to be true” by the New York Post, but it is truly coming to Tucson, so good for us. March 18 to 20.

Tootsie. This show is about an actor

whose primary special skill is being unable to hold down a job. Desperate for work, he does what anyone would do: He disguises himself as a woman with the fake name Dorothy Michaels, and promptly makes a meteoric rise to Broadway stardom. When he starts falling for his costar, Julie, he realizes keeping the lie going isn’t going to be easy. March 22 to 27.

HadesTown. Go to hell! And we’ll come with you! This show weaves together the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice with the story of King Hades and Persephone, taking audience members to the underworld and back. Winner of eight Tony Awards, this show is haunting and hopeful and poetic and unforgettable. Anaïs Mitchell did the music, lyrics and books, and was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020. April 12 to 27.

Come From Away. Set in the week following 9/11, this show is about the 38 planes ordered to land unexpectedly at Gander International Airport. It’s probably gonna make you cry. It’s based on true stories about how residents of the

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Pretty Woman. I once had a professor who was a fiercely outspoken feminist, who hated the way women are often portrayed in pop culture as helpless damsels in distress in need of men to save them. And even she liked Pretty Woman for its value as an iconic contemporary fairy tale. The musical version, of course, features Roy Orbison and Bill Dee’s international smash hit “Oh, Pretty Woman.” July 29 to 24.

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre is located at 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.

Arizona Smith and the Relic of Doom. Everyone’s favorite archeologist is, as usual, racing against time through exotic landscapes while the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. Talk about good theater! In this show, Arizona makes his way through dangerous deserts and faraway temples to try to secure the very mysterious and very

important Relic of Doom. The only way to find out if he makes it, and if world ends, is to see this show. Through March 27.

The Three Musketeers. So, are you the whipped mousse center, the milk chocolate coating, or whatever the third musketeer is? Just kidding—obviously this show is based on the Alexandre Dumas book about the trio of inseparable, chivalrous swordsmen on a crusade of justice. Get ready to do some serious swashbuckling over at the Gaslight.

March 31 to June 5.

INVISIBLE THEATRE The Invisible Theatre is located at 1400 N. First Ave. Emergency. There are still a few days left to see this show by Daniel Beaty, in which a slave ship suddenly emerges out of the Hudson River in front of the statue of liberty. It’s an exploration of shared humanity, the meaning of freedom and the nature of

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Secrets of a Soccer Mom. It’s no secret that the world of motherhood can be competitive about their kids.

This show starts out with three soccer moms cheering on their soccer player sons. When they’re reluctantly dragged into participating in a mothers vs. son soccer game, they intend to let the kids win. But instead, they find themselves feeling young and alive and good humored again—and become dead-set on scoring. April 20 to May 5.

A Conversation With Edith Head.

Who wouldn’t want to have a conversation with the most awarded woman in the Academy of Motion Picture’s history? The legendary costume designer worked on more than 110 films, and her story is full of humor, frustration and lots of glamour. Edith Head, also, of course, was the aesthetic inspiration for the character Edna Mode in The Incredibles. March 9 to 13.

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop Shows are at 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road.

The Kreutzer Sonata. What’s more dramatic than moody classical music? How about Leo Tolstoy? How about MURDER? Thank goodness for Live Theatre Workshop, which brings us this play with all three. Playwright Nany Harris has brought this story by Leo Tolstoy to life, honoring his wish that it someday be set to music. It’s about a man who finds out his wife is having an affair with her music partner and is murderously angry. Feb. 17 to March 19.

Sylvia. Like most media about dogs, this is a show that you’ll probably expect to be cute and funny, but has surprising emotional impact. This modern comedy by A.R. Gurney follows Greg and Kate, who have just moved to Manhattan from the suburbs after becoming empty nesters. When Greg finds a Lab-poodle mix in the park named Sylvia, he’s delighted, Kate is a little annoyed and Sylvia is adorable.

And they figure it out, because dogs are usually the answer to problems. March 24 to April 30.

Take a Hike. Part of LTW’s children’s theater series, this show is for all the Sonoran Desert lovers out there.

When Jamie comes home from college, she can’t wait to take a desert hike with her little brother Dylan, so they set off on a fantastical journey, making friends with a packrat, a rattlesnake and a roadrunner. As they try to find their way back to their house, they grow closer as siblings and reflect on the true meaning of home. March 13 and 20.

Fremont Junior High Is Not Doing Oklahoma. Yeah, that’s the title of this play, which is hilarious—and a total relief, if you’ve ever seen or—worse (as I have, sorry Mom)—been in a high school production of Oklahoma. Part of the LTW Etcetera series, this show is about 14-year-old Chrysanthemum, the queer, know-it-all president of the drama club, and his BFF Phylicia, a coloratura soprano. When the school’s spring musical is announced, it threatens to ruin their friendship.

April 8 to 23.

ORO VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Oro Valley Theatre Company performances take place at the Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road, #165.

Same Time, Next Year. There’s something romantic about being able to sustain a long-term connection with someone that you don’t see very often, right? Not seeing them too much means you don’t have the time to learn about their flaws. That’s the basis of this show, which follows a love affair between Doris and George, two people—who are both married to others and have children—who meet one day a year for more than two decades. Feb. 20 to 23.

Barefoot in the Park. This Neil Simon show is one of the longest running non-musical plays in Broadway history, and you may have seen the 1967 feature film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It also had a pre-Broadway CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

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production under the name Nobody Loves Me. The show follows the story of a newlywed couple, Paul and Corie.

While Paul worries about everything, Corie tries to convince him to chill out, stop stressing, and, well, go barefoot in the park. April 24 to May 1.

PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE PCC shows take place at the PCC West Campus – Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam Road.

The SpongeBob Musical. Spongebob is such a great candidate for a show to be made into a musical: An ensemble cast, a lovable protagonist, fun sets, and the ability to get really fantastical and silly with the storytelling.

It features Spongebob trying to save Bikini Bottom from a volcanic eruption, a jetpack and even good ol’ Patchy the Pirate. It received 12 Tony nominations in 2018. Feb. 24 to March 6.

The Piano Lesson. This August Wilson play received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the fourth play in Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. When Boy Willie arrives in town, he asks his sister if they can finally sell the old family piano in her living room. She refuses, because it’s covered in carvings from their ancestors which tell a story of the family’s rise from slavery. Ultimately, it’s a show about the legacies you honor, and the legacy you choose to leave.

March 24 to April 3.

Romeo & Juliet. We all know this one, so I’m not going to tell you about the plot. But here are some fun facts!

The famous balcony scene didn’t originally have a balcony in it—Shakespeare only specified that Juliet appeared at a window. Romeo and Juliet get married within 24 hours of meeting. And two of Uranus’ moons are named for the play: Juliet and Mab. April 23 to 24.

THE ROGUE THEATRE Shows are at the Rogue Theatre at The Historic Y, 300 E. University Blvd., unless otherwise stated.

Passage. Inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, this is a play of letters: It’s set in Country X, a colonial client of country Y. And all of the characters have only letters for names as well.

The story follows a local doctor and an expat teacher, and examines how power imbalances can seep into interpersonal relationships. Interestingly, the original gives the director freedom in casting with regards to aspects like race and gender. So each production of the play has the chance to highlight different social structures and injustices. Feb. 24 to March 13.

Mrs. Dalloway. Director Cynthia Meier herself adapted this Virginia Woolf story (which entered the public domain just last year) for the stage.

The story is simple enough: It’s about a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party, and Septimus Smith as he, um, has a rough time. It’s known for examining the mundane and making it meaningful—something all of us, as we invent new pasta recipes and wait excitedly for new sweatpants to arrive in the mail, all had to try at one

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April 28 to May 15, with video available May 19 to June 5.

SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre is in the Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Ave., Ste. 131.

Ada and the Engine. This historical play is about Ada Byron Lovelace, the first programmer, brilliant mathematician, and daughter of poet Lord Byron.

The plot is based on her partnership with polymath and inventor Charles Babbage, and their creation of an early version of a computer. The production features an original sound design, new lighting techniques and a set built with the help of University of Arizona students. Runs Feb. 17 to Feb. 27.

You and Me and the Space Between. Finegan Kruckemeyer is Australia’s most accomplished children’s playwright, and he doesn’t disappoint with this tale of wonder and invention.

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springs a link, its citizens must band together to prevent their home from disappearing all together. To do it, they need the creativity and imagination of a child. This show blends storytelling, choreographed projections and live-drawn animation to explore the plight of refugees fleeing environmental change. March 31 to April 17.

Citizen: An American Lyric.

Scoundrel and Scamp brings its season to a close with this stage adaptation of the award-winning book of poetry and prose by Claudia Rankine. Adapted by Stephen Sachs, the show uses theater, music, movement and video imagery to build a meditation on acts of everyday racism. From microaggressions and slips of the tongue to nationally spotlighted firestorms, the powerful and fast-moving show depicts it all.

May 12 to May 29.

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SCHOOL OF THEATRE, FILM & TELEVISION Living Dead in Denmark. Sometimes you don’t know how much you need something to exist until you hear about it for the first time. For example, this show by Qui Nguyen is an action-adventure/horror sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the undead are trying to take over the world.

We’re talking Lady Macbeth, Juliet and Ophelia, but ZOMBIES. Obviously this show, complete with martial arts, pop songs, puppetry and comic books, is not to be missed. Feb. 27 to March 20 at the Tornabene Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road.

High Fidelity. If you love musicals, indie record stores and sad guys, you’ll love this show, based on the popular novel by Nick Hornby. Its rock and roll score tells the story of Rob, a Brooklyn record store owner who’s trying to figure out where his relationship went wrong and how to win back the lovely Laura. It’s a must-see for music geeks

everywhere. April 10 to 24. Tornabene Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road.

New Directions Festival. An evening of new voices! This is a presentation of six short pieces devised, directed designed and performed entirely by students which is seriously way cool. It’s the first in an annual festival of student-created content. And in five or 10 years, when all of these students are famous, you’ll be able to say you saw them before they made it big. April 29 to May 1. Harold Dixon Directing Studio, 1025 N. Olive Road.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre at the Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Ave., Ste. 131.

A Minister’s Wife. Like many pieces of theater, this play is about a seemingly happy couple whose lives turn out to be not what they seem. But, unlike most pieces of theater, this one has been called “the most important new musical to come to New York since The Light in the Piazza” by the

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The Band’s Visit plays at Broadway in Tucson from Feb. 23 to 27.

Wall Street Journal. A pretty raving endorsement! Based on a 1898 version of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida, this one is a hidden gem. March 5 to 13. https://www.sapactucson.org/

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Dancers of all styles step across stages this spring

By Margaret Regan No dance is like a dance performed in person! Fingers crossed that the pandemic keeps receding and dance lovers can find high quality work this spring Here are the options.

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No dance is like dance in person!

Fingers crossed that the pandemic keeps receding and that dance lovers can see the high quality work this spring promises to bring.

At the UA, the School of Dance has scheduled three dance concerts this spring, all with live young dancers. All shows will be in Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

The first concert, Dance Is In the Air, is coming right up, Feb. 23-27.

The lively first piece, Pasadena, is choreographed by prof Tamara Dyke-Compton. A welcome celebration of friendship and togetherness, it features the music of the Beach Boys. Sam Watson, another teacher, brings back his popular Punctuations .!?, a hilarious dance about grammar set to Bach. Also on the boards are The Phoenix, choreographed by Hayley Meier, and works

by Christopher Compton and Marquez Johnson, formerly a star dancer with Artifact Dance.

The second and third concerts interlap, between a show featuring professors’ choreography (Spring Collection) and a show giving the limelight budding student choreographers (Emerge: Student Spotlight).

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The pieces for Emerge are not yet confirmed, but the profs’ works are planned out. A highlight of the Spring Collection, Habaneras, the Music of Cuba, is a full company dance created

by Frank Chaves, a native of Cuba.

Michael Williams’s &theVerdictIZ, is a boisterous but fun ride through 1930s Chicago, a place of mobsters, murder and malice. Other faculty members creating works are Barbea Williams, Elizabeth George-Fesch and more.

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and staged three shows, including a sold-out Nutcracker.

Late in January, the troupe performed a lovey Swan Lake, Part 11; aced a challenging contemporary piece by Amanda Morgan; and sashed to the live love music of Ann Callaway.

Now the dancers are looking to another major show, at Leo Rich, April 1-3. The biggest news about the concert, called ReInvigorate Spring Concert, is that the company has added still another Balanchine to its repertoire.

“Who Cares,” a jazzy 1970 work, was created for the New York City Ballet.

With the permission of the Balanchine Trust—not easy to get—Ballet Tucson will dance it for the first time.

Next up, guest choreographer Kiyon C. Ross will bring out his No Holds Barre’d, an “electrifying” work to be danced by the company for the first time. Daniel Precup, the company ballet master, presents his Divertimento in D, an innovative work “that brings new life to classical period music.”

Speaking of music, the Bill Ganz Western Band will once again singing

classic cowboy tunes for Saddle Up. Mark Schneider created the fun dance that turns ballerinas and gentleman dancers into rootin’ tootin’ rompers and prancers.

Ballettucson.org ZUZI! DANCE 650 N. 6th Ave. The long-time ZUZI group has changed over the years, but the popular No Frills Dance Happenin’ is still happenin’. Dancers and choreographers of all levels, from beginners to pros, are welcome to perform. It’s not too late to join in. And everyone else, dancer or not, is invited is to come to the show.

The show goes on at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, at the Valley of the Moon, 2544 E. Allen Road. ZUZI also is inviting those who missed the Winter Solstice Celebration 2021 to watch it virtually. For more information on both events, call 520-629-0237, send an email to zuzisphere@gmail.com, or consult zuzimoveit.org.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Spending too much time with someone who undervalues you can lead you to believe that your gifts are not worth much. It is only after you get into social circles worthy of you that you’ll realize the utter absurdity of what you once were willing to settle for. It’s as if you were using a gold brick as a doorstop.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). The first touch between two people is a significant moment. For this reason, you wait to offer your touch, however casual, until the time is right. Other firsts are similarly sacred and observing them as such lends meaning to your experiences this week. You’ll want to keep track of what happens. Write about it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Giving will deepen your relationship, but it won’t be the usual contribution. You’re investing a deeper level of attention; patient, grounded and devoted. People are not used to feeling this seen and might experience an emotional reaction to your attention, or even a healing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may bristle at the idea that your problems are self-imposed. Although it doesn’t seem to be the case, it’s better if this is true since only then can you take action. You will overcome your defensiveness and unravel the puzzle, solving the problem.

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You probably won’t change your stance, but you might change your tactics. You will be respected for your sophistication.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There seems to be a lot riding on your decision.

Though it would be much easier for you to base your answer on the factors most relevant to you, you will take a more responsible route. You will step back and ask how others will fare. You will find a way to benefit more people. This is the way of a leader.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). What you do speaks louder than what you say. Even so, sometimes it feels like you’re playing to crickets. This is because people need a minute to realize all that you’ve done for them, what it took for you to do it and what it means. Be patient. In the meantime, it helps that enacting love is its own reward.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). There are many relationships in your life, but what do they have in common? Why do you tend to choose one situation over another? Why this person, this partnership, this company? Your answers to these questions will enlighten you and shape your week.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). It is your hope that any interaction people have with you will be pleasant at the very least. You are compelled to give and do more than is typical. You strive to exceed or defy expectations. Just remember, sometimes less is more. Also, it’s essential to be kind and compassionate to, first and foremost, yourself.

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rom February to April, downtown’s Fox Theatre will be offering “Curious Conversations,” educational seminars hosted by local and global presenters. Discussions will include “The Influence of Mariachi,” “Tucson and the Blues” and “Science in Everyday Life.”

“The idea here is to create these opportunities for people to really deepen their level of understanding and appreciation,” said Jordan Wiley-Hill, the Fox’s outreach and education manager and organizer for this initiative.

Wiley-Hill and the Fox executive director Bonnie Schock started working on this project prior to the start of the pandemic.

All of the conversations have been purposefully scheduled on Sundays or Tuesdays at 1 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to ensure they do not conflict with the Fox’s other ongoing concerts and events.

“Our education and outreach programs historically have focused on youth and this is an opportunity for an extension of lifelong learning,” Schock said.

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and get to know the artist and the work in ways that make it still more resonant.”

Each of the conversations will feature a presentation and Q&A session with the presenter and then a facilitated dialogue between all participants.

Featured speakers include Tucson locals, as well as several National Geographic scientists.

Tucson journalist, historian and documentary filmmaker Dan Buckley will be presenting “The Influence of Mariachi,” on March 1 in person and virtually.

“When you start hearing about how Tucson’s helped spur the mariachi movement and the impact that has had, you’ll realize how much this means to the fabric of our community,” Wiley-Hill said.

In addition, Buckley will highlight the success of Flor de Toloache, the Grammy award-winning, all-female mariachi group.

This conversation will be the start of an ongoing project continuing with Flor De Toloache performing at the Fox on March 19 and concluding with another performance from a female mariachi group in the fall.

“I’m excited because it’s multipronged but also al-

ways thrilled to be able to lift up the voices of women in places and spaces where they may not have historically been able to get that recognition,” Schock said.

Tucson musician George Howard, founder of the Tucson Musicians Museum, will be leading “Tucson and the Blues” on April 5. The conversation coincides with the Fox’s ongoing 2021-2022 blues concert season and will dive deep into the genre on a local and national scale.

Howard has been playing music for over 50 years. He has been affiliated with blues artists John Lee Hooker and The Rolling Stones’ Bobby Keys, and booked several other artists over the years in Tucson, including Taj Mahal and Robert Cray.

“He has a big picture experience not only because of his long personal history with [the blues], but also because of his involvement with music in Tucson. So he has the capacity to be a great storyteller and connect others with it,” Wiley-Hill said.

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covering “On the Trail of Big Cats.”

“Being able to expand that palette right away in the first year that we’re offering the National Geographic Live program itself with the ‘Curious Conversations’ feels connected in a way to let people in and hopefully resonantes,” Schock said. “We hope to continue [National Geographic Live] in the future and be an ongoing experience at the Fox.” An hour prior to each show, these conversations will be able to expand and connect locally with information stations from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Reid Park

Zoo and others in the Fox lobby.

For more information, visit foxtucson.com

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