July 20 - July 26, 1995
Thursday 20
PANORAMIC VIEW. David Tineo has been painting the town,
so to speak, since 1976. It was that year that he created "El
Libro de Nuestra Raza," the westside mural on the El Rio
Neighborhood Center that launched his career as a muralist and
teacher of his craft. He has since created more than 44 public
murals in Arizona, combining icons from his Hispanic heritage
with subject matter drawn from social issues and struggles of
peoples both ancient and modern, including works dealing with
Somalia, the status of la chicana in modern society and
a commemorative piece for the 1983 Clifton-Morenci mining strike
here in Arizona. Tineo's vision is embodied in the mural above
the doorway, "La Luz y Lumbre" (Light and Fire), which
the artist created for the gallery last April. Tineo writes, "To
me art is an act of vision, an everyday act which inspires us...(it
is) empowerment and the tapestry which links us."
His one-man exhibition, La Vida y Muerte, continues through
July 29 at José Galvez Gallery, 743 N. Fourth Ave. Also
showing are works by Yolanda Gonzalez, Anita Miranda Holguin,
Artemio Rodriguez, Israel Rodriguez and Tony de Carlo. Regular
gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and
by appointment. Call 624-6878 for information.
Friday 21
JEWELS OF THE NIGHT. Eating out takes on a twist with
tonight's blacklighted, outdoor dining experience in the oak woodland
habitat of the Santa Rita Mountains. Carl A. Olson, Associate
Curator of Entomology at the UA, and the Arizona-Sonora Desert
Museum's Mary Erickson will begin the evening with a guided nature
walk, followed by a sociable sunset dinner. Afterwards, Olson
will identify and discuss the lives of the many "living jewels"
(i.e. insects weird and wonderful) that appear at blacklight stations.
This cool, educational evening under the stars costs $59, and
includes roundtrip transportation from Tucson to Green Valley
and a sit-down dinner. Reservations are required. Call Pima Community
College at 884-6720.
Saturday 22
CLOUD BURST. Obsidian Gallery, that eclectic crossroads
of mixed media artistry located in St. Philip's Plaza, 4340 N.
Campbell Ave., hosts its annual Outdoor Art Show and Monsoon Party
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. Works will spill over from the
gallery onto the patio, featuring works by Kit Carson, Royce Davenport,
Steven Dunn, Geno Foushee, Elizabeth Frank, Susan Gamble &
Rocky Dobosz, Daniel Lehman, Gary Mackender, Daniel Ptasnik, Alfredo
Rivera and Jim Rusk. While most of the works remain a surprise,
associate director for the gallery Lee Small says some pieces
to look for include fanciful, bizarre furniture from Susan Gamble,
totems by Daniel Ptasnik and possibly some grotesque gargoyle
and skeleton found-metal sculptures by Geno Foushee. Hot dogs,
beer and soft drinks will be served from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Regular
gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Call 577-3598 for information.
CAR RACES. Let your lead-footed alter-ego live vicariously
through those madman drivers at Tucson Raceway Park, host of some
of the best NASCAR racing in the Southwest. Gates open at 5 tonight
for 7 p.m. racetime, with Super Late Models, Mighty Compact and
Factory Stock cars in the NASCAR Winston West series. Tickets
are $9, $6 for juniors, seniors and military. Admission is free
for children 11 and under. Fasten your seatbelt and head over
Tucson Raceway Park, next to the Pima County Fairgrounds at Rita
Road and I-10. Call 762-9200 for information.
Sunday 23
GOLDEN CHAMBER. Many great musicians--Heifetz, Menuhin,
Midori--were great young artists. Following in their footsteps
are a quartet of local artists highlighting Catalina Chamber Orchestra's
annual Youth Concert. Featured performances under the baton of
conductor Enrique Lasansky include: the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
by 17-year-old violinist Katherine Baker, a world-class player
who will enter Oberlin Conservatory this fall; pianist Chang Liu,
a sixth grader currently studying with Senior Professor Nicholas
Zumbro at the UA School of Music; 8-year-old pianist Sarah Wu,
who has already won several competitions in her three-year career;
and 20-year-old soprano singer Clara Salaz, 1995 winner of both
the Amelia Rieman Opera Competition and the National Association
of Singers statewide competition. Each boasts a long resume of
achievements it doesn't take a maestro to figure out: These are
musicians of exceptional caliber, for any age.
Today's program features the music of Haydn, Mendelssohn and
Mozart, and begins at 3 p.m. at the Berger Performing Arts Center,
1200 W. Speedway. Tickets are $8, $5 for seniors and students,
and are available at Jeff's Classical Records and Hear's Music.
Call 327-4721 or 327-4809 for information.
Monday 24
CHALK TALK. Even a cursory look at the state of public
education shows today's teachers need all the help they can get.
Jack Warner and Clyde Bryan, authors of The Unauthorized Teacher's
Survival Guide, discuss the real world of teaching, from
how to handle your first day on the job to dealing with teacher
burnout, in this free open forum/workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. at
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5480 E. Broadway. Written for teachers
by teachers, this guide covers all the things never mentioned
in formal education classes. Call 745-9822 for information.
GROWING UP GREEN. While our demographics don't show Weekly
readers in the under-13 category, that seems a shameful reason
to exclude them from our summer calendar of events. We trust that
this information will duly reach them. The time has come to throw
off the virtual reality gloves, spring out from behind the Nintendo
joystick and turn over a new leaf. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150
N. Alvernon Way, offers a week-long gardening school from 9 a.m.
to noon Monday, July 24, through Friday, July 28, for budding
botanists entering grades 1 through 3. Children will get aquainted
with the gardens, create plant art and learn "Botany 101."
Cost is $55, $50 members. Call 326-9686 for registration and information.
For cultivators grades 4 through 8, the Master Gardeners of Tucson
launch a similar hoe-down from 8 to 11:30 a.m. this week, at the
UA Extension Garden Center, 4210 N. Campbell Ave. The hands-on
essentials of gardening, plant propagation and hydroponics, and
working in a team atmosphere, will be emphasized. Parents are
encouraged to participate with their children. Cost is $25 and
pre-registration is required. Call 628-5628 for information.
Tuesday 25
NEW AGE DAWN. Jose Arguelles and partner Lloydine, of
Harmonic Convergence fame, have taken great pains to draft the
Thirteen-Moon Calendar Change Peace Plan. We're sure the plan
explains in illuminating detail why the time has come to shuck
the archaic Gregorian calendar in favor of a New and Improved
Age version. The exact year the Gregorian calendar was adopted
is unclear, but it most definitely evolved from the Roman (Julian)
calendar reformed circa 46 B.C. by the great Caesar himself (though
it turns out calendars weren't really his strong suit). Point
being, if The Autonomous People's Planetary Moral Emergency Committee
feels A Day Out Of Time is long overdue, who are we to
complain? Join them from dawn to 10 p.m. at Fort Lowell Park,
Glenn Street and Craycroft Road, for this event celebrating "the
world-wide adoption of a 13-month, 365-day sacred calendar."
Highlights include a sunrise ceremony followed by music, games,
calendar-making workshops, speakers and a showing of several videos
by Jose and Lloydine Arguelles. Call 321-1398 for information.
GO WITH THE FLOW. It sounds oxymoronic, but The Desert
Paddling Association is a very real, very active non-profit organization
dedicated to boating safety and paddling instruction. The group
sponsors a kayak school from 6:30 to 9 p.m. today, and 6 to 9
p.m. Wednesday, July 26, at 620 E. 19th St., No. 110, with classroom
and practical demonstrations on Silverbell Lake. Focus will be
on inflatable, sit-on-top and user-friendly large cockpit kayaks
(none of that hard shell whitewater stuff will be covered in this
go-round). Sign-ups will also be taken for an optional Salt River
trip Saturday, July 29, which includes round-trip transportation,
instruction and a big vegetarian lunch at the river. No experience
is necessary and kayak rentals are available. The class is $45
and the river trip is $60. With registration limited to 12 people,
this is a prime opportunity to try out a variety of kayaks with
lots of individual attention.
This is the last trip until September, so call by July 22 to
reserve a space. There's potential for a second class before the
river trip if there's sufficient demand. Call 884-7080 for registration
and information.
Wednesday 26
POETRY READING. Kimberly Taylor, recipient of the summer
residency program for poets, will read from her works at 7 tonight
at the Shane House, 218 S. Fourth Ave. The summer residency program
provides the selected writer with one summer month at the Poetry
Center's guest house, where she can live and write without distraction.
Taylor has worked as an editor, journalist and comedian in Washington,
D.C., and is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University.
She has poems forthcoming in The Hawaii Review and Inky
Blue. Call 321-7760 for information.
July 20 - July 26, 1995
