Tucson Weekly: Events (March 1

SPECIAL EVENTS
Events This Week
ARCHAEOLOGY OPEN HOUSE. Catalina State Park hosts an open house to celebrate Arizona Archaeology Awareness Month. Free walking tours through the Romero Ruin site will take place continuously March 3 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. (reservations are required). The ruin, a prehistoric village occupied by the Hohokam people between about 550 and 1450, includes the remains of pioneer Francisco Romero's ranch structures, built in the 1860s. Tucson artisans will also be on hand to demonstrate various prehistoric Native American skills including rock art and primitive pottery firing. For information and tour reservations call 628-5798.
ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM. 949 E. Second St. 628-5775. Laura Tohe presents A Thread in the Design: A Navajo Story of Emergence March 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. Tohe, who was raised on the Navajo Reservation among storytellers, weavers and ranchers, discusses Navajo myths and legends and their importance to the tribal culture. Admission is $6 per lecture.
ART 2 ART MARKET. Southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Broadway Boulevard. Maurice J. Sevigny, dean of the UA college of fine arts, is the featured guest artist at the market March 3 from 6 to 10 p.m. Sevigny's current body of work has grown out of experimentation with computers as creative painting, design, drawing and distortion tools.
BLACK HISTORY FILM SERIES. UA Martin Luther King building. 1322 E. First St., Room 100. A screening of I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marion Riggs, an artist and filmmaker whose creative persistence though affliction by AIDS moved the nation, takes place March 6 at 5 p.m.
BOTANICAL OBSERVATION. Join herbalist Pam Hyde-Nakai and artist Catherine Nash for Botanical Observation of Healing Herbs: Investigating Plants from the Inside Out, Saturday, March 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Explore the medicinal qualities of desert plants while creating your own observational notebook in this unique collaboration between the healing and visual arts. No previous drawing experience necessary. Sketchbooks will be provided. The workshop is $40 and reservations are required. Send registration payment by March 12 to Pam Hyde-Nakai, Sonoran Herbal Institute, P.O. Box 86477, Tucson, AZ 85754. Call 743-3980 for more information.
BOWL FOR KIDS 2001. Kids can enjoy two hours of free bowling, food, drinks and the opportunity to win prizes at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tucson bowling benefit. To participate, each bowler must raise at least $75 in pledges. Individuals may also work together as a team of five or six people. The event takes place March 2-11 at various bowling alleys around Tucson. Money raised will support quality one-to-one mentoring for at-risk youth throughout Southern Arizona. Call 624-2447 to sign up and for more information.
FEMALE ICONS. Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5775. Join curator Julia Benites Arriola in the museum's atrium and Main Gallery West for a discussion of female icons of the 20th century, including Joan Crawford, Jane Fonda and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy March 1 at 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Admission is free.
FOR THE LOVE OF VIOLETS. JC Penney. El Con Mall. 733-8100, ext. 5715. The Tucson African Violet Society's juried show and sale takes place March 3-4 during regular mall hours. Additionally, the group provides plants and supplies to schools for classroom projects.
FORT LOWELL CRAFT FAIR. Fort Lowell Park. Glenn Avenue and Craycroft Road. More than 200 artisans display and sell handcrafted items March 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Food and refreshments are also available. There is free parking and a shuttle from the Tucson Medical Çenter parking lot until 5:15 p.m. For more information call Jeanne McAninch at 791-4063.
ONE FALSE MOVE. UA Modern Languages auditorium. A screening of One False Move, directed by Carl Franklin, takes place March 2 at 7:30 p.m. The film is a thriller with an edge in which the real crime is not found in the cops-and-robbers world of L.A. but rather in a small town in the Deep South. Admission is free.
ORO VALLEY ART FESTIVAL. Target Shopping Center. Oracle Road south of First Avenue, Oro Valley. 749-6619. Fine artists and crafters from the Southwest display and sell paintings, photography, jewelry, metal, glass, pottery and more March 3-4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
THE SCREENING ROOM. 127 E. Congress St. The Decalogue is a 10-part film series inspired by the Ten Commandments, shown in two-segment couplings through March 4. The entire series is set in a Warsaw housing project and each individual film incorporates the larger ethical quandaries behind the commandments themselves. Decalogue 5 and 6 are screened March 4 at 3 p.m.; Decalogue 7 and 8 are March 2 at 8 p.m. and March 3 at 6 p.m.; Decalogue 9 and 10 are March 3 at 8:30 p.m. and March 4 at 6 p.m. Admission is $5 for a single viewing. Call 623-4567 for more information.
Out of Town
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HOHOKAM. La Posta Quemada Ranch Museum, Colossal Cave Mountain Park. Al Dart of the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center presents this talk March 4 at 2 p.m. Parking costs $3, but the presentation is free. Call 647-7121 for more information.
ORACLE FINE ART WEEKEND. Fourteen Oracle artists, including photographers, painters, potters and more, open their studios to the public to share techniques and give demonstrations March 2 from noon to 5 p.m. and March 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maps are provided for the self-guided driving tour that travels through the oak-covered hills and winding roads of Oracle. For more information call Sue at (520) 896-9200 or Barbara at (520) 896-2100.
Upcoming
WOMEN AND GERMAN CINEMA. UA campus. Modern Language auditorium. Tiefland. March 8, 7:30 p.m.
LESBIAN LOOKS FILM SERIES. University of Arizona Modern Languages auditorium. Out at Work. March 9, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
LISA KRON. International Arts Center. 516 N. Fifth Ave. 621-3341. Sponsored by UApresents. March 23-24, 8 p.m.