SPECIAL EVENTS

Events This Week

Listings VIDEO TENSIONS. The UA Media Arts Department presents VideoTENSIONS, the seventh annual alternative and experimental video series. The free series screens at
7:30 p.m. every other Thursday from June 4 through August 13, at the UA Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building Auditorium, Room 202, at Speedway and Mountain Avenue. Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak introduce VideoCANADA at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. Steele and Tomczak present a screening of their feature-length narrative film Legal Memory at 8 p.m. Friday, June 5, at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St. Tickets are $4. Call 621-7352 for more information about the series.

TRAIN SWAP. Rodeway Inn Event Center. 1365 W. Grant Road. The Gadsen-Pacific Toy Train Operating Museum is conducting its 13th annual Roadrunner Toy Train Swap Meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 6. Toy trains of all gauges, related accessories and train memorabilia are the featured items for sale and swap. Admission is free. Selling is allowed with prior arrangements. Contact Bud Stewart, Meet Chairman, at 749-0228 for information.

D-DAY REVIVAL SHOW. Mat Bevel Institute.
530 Stone Ave. Witness the theatrical mechanical spectacle of the Mat Bevel Institute and the exotic vaudevillian circus staged by performance artist Mat Bevel and company. Ethno-percussionist Swami Robbi Robbi, Catacoustic Groove, Jimmy Carr and friends, LouAnn Lucas and Mat Bevel perform at 8 p.m. Friday, June 5. Admission is $5. Call 622-0192 for information.

DOWNTOWN SATURDAY. Downtown Tucson is alive in the cool of the evening and into the wee hours on Saturday, June 6. Events this week feature a pre-Juneteenth celebration with performances by Harhare, commissioned work by Barbea Williams, and dance by Denise Hawthorne-Bey. Most events will be at the Ronstadt Transit Center from 7 to 10 p.m. For information on other events, stop by the booth on Sixth Avenue and Congress Street, or call the Arts District Partnership at 624-9977

MOON STROLL. The Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road, north of Prince Road, east of Tucson Boulevard. Wander at your leisure through the gardens, pools, caverns and pathways from 7 to 9 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays in June, July and August. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted for the restoration of this Arizona Historic Registry site. Call 323-1331 for information.

SUMMER FIESTA. Ochoa School, East Playground. 101 W. 25th St. The West Ochoa Neighborhood Association is staging its inaugural Summer Fiesta from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 6. This community event features free raffles, food, games, information booths and live entertainment. Call 624-6207 for information.

SUMMER FILM SERIES. Unitarian Universalist Church, Servetus Room. 4831 E. 22nd St. The Tucson Balkan Peace Support Group presents a summer film series featuring classic and modern films of the Balkans beginning with a screening of The Mask of Dimitrios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 9. The screenings are free. Call 748-1551 for information.

TEEN DANCE. Tucson Association for the Blind. 3767 E. Grant Road. Teens are invited to come out and dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 5 . This fun-for-all dance is sponsored by Third Street Kids, Direct and the Spaulding Foundation. Refreshments will be served. Call Kris at 624-6452 for information. TW


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