Mini Time Machine Museum
ONGOING
Explore a unique collection of 11 hand-painted die-cast model cars and miniature vehicles featured in the Arizona State Museum’s “Traditions in Motion” exhibition. Created by Native artists, the pieces showcase how Indigenous communities blend heritage and contemporary culture through customized vehicles and other forms of transportation. The exhibit highlights a dynamic artistic tradition that transforms everyday objects into expressions of identity, creativity and cultural pride.
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, 4455 E Camp Lowell Drive, Tucson, museum admission, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., theminitimemachine.org
Tōrō Nagashi: Floating
Lantern Festival
NOV. 13
The recently reopened Yume Japanese Gardens welcomes all to its traditional floating lantern festival. With lanterns for sale for $7, visitors can immerse themselves in the cultural ritual by placing personal messages, wishes, or prayers in the lanterns and releasing them into the garden’s serene koi pond.
Yume Japanese Gardens, 2130 N. Alvernon Way, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., $30 nonmembers with discounts for members, seniors, military and minors, tucsonbotanical.org
DUSK Music Festival
NOV. 13 through NOV. 14
Tucson’s signature music festival is back with over 40 sets from local favorites, mid-sized supporting acts, and beloved headliners. On day one, rappers BigXthaPlug and Fetty Wap and EDM DJ and producer Knock2 will headline, followed by human-horse hybrid tech house singer, songwriter, DJ and producer HorsegiirL and electronic indie rock duo Phantogram on Day 2. Coupled with local arts, food and drink, vendors, a silent disco, and a retro arcade, DUSK has something for everyone.
Jácome Plaza, 101 N. Stone Avenue, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., 2-day passes from $155, duskmusicfestival.com
Voices United
NOV. 13 through NOV. 15
America is built from a wealth of cultures and voices, each contributing music that impacts and helps to shape our country. From the most humble of places to the most prominent concert halls in our nation, folk music is for and from the people. “Voices United” celebrates these powerful voices with the songs of German, Italian, Baltic, Asian and Central American immigrants, now Americans.
Valley Presbyterian Church (13th), 2800 S. Camino Del Sol, Catalina Foothills High School (14th & 15th), 4300 E. Sunrise Drive, various times, from $23 admission, trueconcord.org
SASO Presents ‘Epic & Lyric’
NOV. 14 and NOV. 15
The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra continues its 2026-27 Symphonic Kaleidoscope season with Epic & Lyric, a program that brings in acclaimed guest conductor Kristian Alexander to lead grandiose, dramatic and beautiful compositions from Franz Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Tucson-based composer Richard White.
The orchestra will feature soloist Mateo Mendez, an oboist who has appeared with Bach in Baltimore and the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra.
DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive (Saturday) and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte (Sunday), 7 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, $35 Saturday and $30 Sunday, sasomusic.org
KXCI presents: Aterciopelados
NOV. 15
Iconic Colombian latin rock band Aterciopelados will visit La Rosa Arts Center Nov. 15 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its landmark album La Pipa de la Paz. The band, which blends rock with traditional Colombian folk rhythms, made history with the album as the first Colombian act ever nominated for a Grammy, and has continued to release latin classics for the last several decades.
La Rosa Arts, 800 N. Country Club Road, 6:30 p.m., from $45, larosatucson.org
An Evening With Band of Horses
NOV. 17
Band of Horses is an American rock band fronted by Ben Bridwell, known locally as a former member of cult-favorite Tucson indie outfit Carrisa’s Wierd. Best known for their raw debut album Everything all the Time (2006) and the spacier follow up Cease to Begin (2007), Band of Horses has established itself as a landmark act in indie, alternative, roots, folk and alt-country circles.
Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., from $48 admission, rialtotheatre.com
Cinema Tucsón: ‘Flies’
NOV. 19
Cinema Tucsón is a joint effort between Cinema Tropical and the UA Center for Latin American Studies to screen Mexican films at the Fox Theatre. November 18, the theatre will be showing ‘Flies’ (2026), acclaimed director Fernando Eimbcke’s most recent feature following a meticulous recluse who, facing financial trouble, finds herself living with a strange man and his 9-year-old son.
Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, 7 p.m., $12 admission, foxtucson.com
