Tucson Weekly: Lectures (October 19

LECTURES
Events This Week
ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2000. UA Aerospace Mechanical Engineering building, room 202, Speedway Boulevard between Park and Mountain. Reed Kroloff, editor-in-chief of Architecture magazine, discusses The State of Architecture Today with a focus on the Southwest October 19 at 7 p.m. Artist Robert Slutzky, who is an original member of the Texas Rangers at the University of Texas Austin School of Architecture, speaks October 20 at 4 p.m. For more information call Brent Davis at 323-2191.
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION. 616 N. Country Club Road. The foundation hosts two six-week arthritis self-help courses to make living with arthritis easier, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays now through November 1; and from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays, October 30 through December 4. Topics include exercise, medication, managing depression and pain, among others. Admission is $35 and includes textbook and materials. Call Diane at 917-7070 for registration and information.
CREATE A BETTER WEBSITE. Viscount Suites. 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. The Southern Arizona chapter of the Society for Technical Communication presents Free Resources to Improve Your Website, October 26 at 5:30 p.m. The program offers dozens of free resources that will help you create a better site, including places to find graphics, design tips and web design tools. The program fee is $16 for STC members and $18 for non-members and includes a fajita buffet dinner. Program only (sans dinner) is $5. Call Brenda Huettner to register at 749-0747 or e-mail bphuettner@aol.com.
CREATIVE HISTORY PROJECTS. Sharing Stories is a workshop/panel discussion about successful community history projects. Come hear how other people have uncovered and shared their neighbors' stories October 19 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 320 N. Commerce Park Loop (near Congress Street and I-10). Call 882-5885 to register and for more information.
FAMILY HISTORY LAND. 6061 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 128. The Friends of Family History Land and Los Descendientes del Presidio de Tucson offer classes in October on Fridays and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. Seminars include Methods, Forms and Organization; U.S. Vital Records; U.S. Church Records and British Isles Church Records. Classes are free to members, $10 for non-members. For registration and more information call 790-5444.
FOOD AND LOVE. University Medical Center, room 5403. Patti Harada, instructor of the UA's Psychology of Death and Loss and Love and Spirituality classes, presents Food, Protection and Love: When your motivation isn't sufficient for self care. This series presents a health-promoting, self-reverent model of looking at how food gets confused with other survival mechanisms. The talk begins at 7 p.m. October 18. Tickets are $10 at the door. Call 886-6046 for more information.
PEOPLE'S LAW SCHOOL. UA College of Law. 1201 E. Speedway Blvd. Learn about criminal law and DUI with defense attorney Mike Bloom, October 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuition is $30, $25 for students. Call (602) 235-9356 to register.
RESEARCH AND POLLING. Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. The Public Relations Society of America, Southern Arizona Chapter presents Kris Kanthak of the UA Department of Political Science discussing the use of research and polling in political campaigns October 24 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tickets are $19 for members and $25 for guests. Call Wendy Erica Werden at 884-3767 for reservations.
TUCSON ARTS BRIGADE. Community Arts Lab. 901 N. 13th Ave. Hip-Hop as Popular Education teaches the history of the hip-hop movement with guest artists and teachers October 25. For more information and to register for classes call TAB at 388-9553.
WEATHERIZATION. Kino Veterans Memorial Community Center, room 105. 2805 E. Ajo Way. Learn to combat heating and cooling loss and practice caulking and weather-stripping October 21 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The workshop fee is $15. Call 882-4872 for more information.