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A Northern Cardinal, courtesy John and Karen Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
For Birds’ Sake
The Tucson Audubon Society’s Conservation Efforts by Jeff Gardner BIRDS TAKE four major “flyways” through North America during their annual migrations, two of which converge around Tucson. Making use of a series of temperate mountaintops in the desert, or sky islands, the migrating birds make the Sonoran Desert one of the best bird watching destinations in the world. It makes sense then, that a passionate group formed in Tucson both for the enjoyment and protection of birds. “Conservation is definitely central to our whole mission,” said Nicole Gillett, Conservation Advocate for the Tucson Audubon Society. “But we also pair that with things like recreation and habitat restoration.” Since 1949, when 25 people held the first meeting of what would become the Tucson Audubon Society at Tucson High School, the society has worked independently -- and with other environmentally-minded groups around Tucson – to promote water conservation, habitat restoration and advocacy. “As far as restoration goes, we’ve always have projects going on,” Gillette said. Two of the Tucson Audubon Society’s largest conservation programs bring environmental science to the community: their Habitat at Home and Habitat at School programs. The Habitat at Home program encourages locals to use their yards to create a water-saving landscape that helps birds and other wildlife. By learning and planning the best ways to make a landscape bird-friendly, Habitat at Home members even help themselves, as native plant species make for a cooler home and conserve water. Members of the “Tucson Audubon Restoration Team” will also help by assisting in the creation of a bird habitat at someone’s home. “It’s essentially a yard certification program,” Gillette said. “It lets people have bird habitats in their yards. It’s been very popular, and we’re actually looking to scale it up for larger spaces.” The Habitat at Schools program allows for students to both learn about birds and about habitat restoration at the same time. With this partnership, schoolyards are transformed into wildlife habitats, both for animals, students and faculty to enjoy. The Tucson Audubon Society has worked with multiple local schools, including: Sam Hughes Elementary, Changemaker High School, Manzo Elementary, and The Gregory School. “The creation of the habitat will provide a living classroom to all students. 6 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | March 2019
Its location is in the center of campus, will offer an opportunity for all students to see the evolution of our habitat.” said Gregory School teacher Mickey Jacobs. “Also, this one project has prompted other ideas as well, such as creating a butterfly habitat.” Aside from changing homes and schools into more bird-friendly environments, the Tucson Audubon Society engages in multiple ecosystem restoration projects. Currently, they are working to restore the Atturbury Wash, landscaping around Barrio Kroeger Lane, Esperanza Ranch on the Santa Cruz River, and drainage in Esperero Canyon. Often, these locations suffer from vegetation decline, and the society focuses on restoring “hydroriparian vegetation,” removing invasive plants, and fixing drainage. These practices in turn provide improved shelter, food and nesting opportunities for birds. “One of the biggest impacts we can have is to inspire others,” Gillette said. “Even if it’s just for stewardship of their own patios.” In more current news, the Tucson Audubon Society advocates for and against certain bills in the legislative session. Specifically, Gillette says one of the largest issues for the society, as is with all of Arizona, is water. But advocacy and conservation is not all the Tucson Audubon Society does. For many, it is a dedicated group of bird and bird-watching enthusiasts. “I really love working at that intersection of nature and people,” Gillette said. “And I think all of our staff would say the same.” Being located in Tucson, which Gillette says often ranks in the top three best bird-watching locations in country, allows for the society to make the land just outside their offices a classroom. But often, Gillette says, people’s passion for birds shifts into a passion for protecting those very same birds and their environment. “I think because birds are ‘in,’ it allows for people to come in from all different directions,” Gillette said. “Often, what is good for the bird is good for us as well.” Tucson Audubon Society hosts multiple community events every month, such as a “Beginning Birding” workshop on March 9 & 16, and a “Living with Nature” series in Tucson on March 5 and in Oro Valley on March 23. For more information, visit tucsonaudubon.org n
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Happy Valley A Hidden Paradise by Gregory McNamee THE NAME has been on the map for a long time now, so long that no one knows for certain who first applied the moniker “Happy Valley” to the streamlaced, forested basin on the eastern flank of the Rincon Mountains. Perhaps it was a surveyor, or a rancher, or a miner, or a farmer. Perhaps it was someone homesick for some other Happy Valley far away—for the name pops up on the maps of Virginia, Maryland, New York, Maryland, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire in the east, as well as California and Oregon on the opposite coast. Or perhaps it was someone with a bent for wishful thinking. Scenic though the little vale surely is, after all, it earned its name in a decidedly unhappy time, an era when Apache raiders kept the handful of settlers along the nearby San Pedro River valley close to their fires and their rifles at night and discouraged other settlers from spreading out into the valley. When the era of Apache raids ended, it became part of the range, home to large herds of cattle from neighboring ranches, including a big spread at the northern end of the mountain range whose original owners are commemorated in the name Redington. Some of those ranchers mixed with some bad company. After the Wells Fargo stage that ran between Florence and the mines at Globe was robbed several times in 1883, investigators found that a gang of outlaws led by a man called “Red Jack” had made the spread their headquarters. There, the Phoenix Republican reported, a U.S. mail pouch was found, along with a horse from the last stagecoach the gang encountered, evidence enough to convince the pursuing posse to take three of the ranchers to jail at Florence. There two of them were hanged by a mob that decided to forgo the niceties of a trial. The third went free. “He went back to the ranch, but the strain on his nerves had been too much, and he died within a week,” the Republican related. Red
Jack, who had escaped the posse’s first visit, was shot dead a few days later at the northern approach to Happy Valley, an act that “totally annihilated the Red Jack gang.” Happy Valley has seen happier days ever since. A gently sloping, grassy bowl bordered by several perennial streams and stands of cottonwoods, sycamores, and oaks, the little vale receives both ample rainwater—about twice as much as falls on the other side of the mountains, over by Tucson—and the snowmelt from 8,482-foot-tall Rincon Peak, the crown of the tall range that bounds Happy Valley to the west. At this time of year, this snowmelt appears in the form of great, gushing waterfalls that drop for hundreds of feet, painting the cliffs with what appear from a distance to be ribbons of silver. One of the mightiest of those falls feeds Paige Creek, which crosses the road just to the south of Happy Valley proper. A barbed-wire fence marks the spot where an unmarked but obvious trail leads to the sometimes thundering cataract, which also flows once the monsoon season begins in midsummer. All that water helps make Happy Valley a natural wonderland. In her fine book The Mountains Next Door, botanist Janice Bowers tells us that sixteen species of muhly grass grow hereabouts, an embarrassment of riches for a biologist and a grazing ruminant alike. She attributes much of this diversity to the great difference in elevation between the mountains’ summit and the valley floor, which makes for a vertical drop of nearly a mile. “Diversity of habitat and climate,” she writes, “means increasing living space for plants, and the result is more species in a given place.” Other streams grace the valley, notably the long, meandering watercourse called Ash Creek, which follows Forest Service Road 35 for several miles until it curves off to join the San Pedro River. Sheltered in the shade of great cottonwoods, ash, manzanita, and other native trees, those quiet streams
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desert Z make a fine haven for several kinds of fish, none of them big enough to worry about catching. It makes for fine entertainment, however, to follow the little flashes of silver as the fish move upstream and down, sometimes taking cover in the submerged, tangled roots of fallen streamside trees—and sometimes camouflaging themselves in the paisley swirls of water that pop up here and there, born of chemicals in the tree bark that give the rivulets of Happy Valley an oddly psychedelic tinge. Happy Valley stands on the edge of an ecological borderline where the Sonoran Desert shades off into the comparatively higher, grassier, but less lush Chihuahuan Desert, and on the edge of another borderline where these two deserts meet the formidable mass of the Rincon Mountains. The sentinels of this border, rising tall above the shindagger and Palmer’s agaves and other mid-elevation desert plants, are thousands of saguaro cacti, the easternmost concentration of that species to be found in Arizona in any sizeable number. One reason for the abundance of cacti, notes saguaro researcher Bill Peachey, is the relative warmth of the small plateau on which the forest sits. Nestled between the San Pedro River and the Rincon Mountains, it is usually free of frost and receives a steady supply of water. Another reason, notes Peachey, is geological: the 1.5-billion-year-old finger of diorite that stretches from the Rincons across Happy Valley and down to the river is supremely hard, but all those years have worn little fissures into the stone that saguaro roots have used to anchor themselves to the soil. “When you have a rocky substrate,” says Peachey, “you don’t have the rodents to eat the seeds that get down into the cracks. Mix that with warm temperatures and rainfall, and you have most of the requirements for a healthy population of saguaros.” The population is healthy, to be sure, and anyone curious about those cacti can easily bushwhack up the trail from Paige Canyon, which drops down from the east side of Happy Valley, into the Little Rincon Mountains, which border the valley to the east. That trail is a prime venue for moonlight hiking, the saguaros rising like ghosts all around. But those mountains, though comparatively low, are rough, and I’ve endured plenty of agave-spike wounds and rock-induced punctures that remind me to keep my eyes open even when the moon is bright. Happy Valley lies along the Arizona Trail, which begins at the Utah border and extends all the way south to the Mexico border. For walkers who aren’t quite as ambitious as all that but want a solid workout nonetheless, the Miller Creek leg of the Arizona Trail follows one of the valley’s perennial watercourses uphill for about four and a half miles, crossing into the eastern edges of Saguaro National Park. The views from Happy Valley Saddle, where juniper and oak begin to shade into ponderosa pines, are sublime, but it’s easy to understand why someone—again, some unnamed someone—thought to give the path north into the mountains the daunting name Heartbreak Ridge Trail. One path leads to another, and experienced hikers can find their way from Happy Valley all the way to faraway Mount Lemmon. Much less strenuous trails await walkers in the lower elevations of Happy Valley, and they’re just as satisfying, bringing walkers alongside flowing water and those coursing waterfalls, with plenty to see all around. Desert and grassland birds, including an abundance of sparrows, convene in the lower elevations to the south of the valley through which the dirt access road passes. As the road enters the Coronado National Forest and grassland gives way to dense thickets of trees and bushes, other species begin to appear, including spiky-crowned phainopepla,brilliantly colored tanagers and kingbirds, wrens, flycatchers, and an armada of woodpeckers. Whatever your pleasure—proving yourself against the mountains, hearing the sound of water splashing in the desert, sitting in the shade of tall trees, or visiting with birds and fish—Happy Valley more than lives up to its name. Getting There: Follow I-10 east from Tucson about 40 miles to Exit 297, J-Six/Mescal Road. Travel north on Mescal Road, which becomes a graded dirt road. The distance from I-10 to Happy Valley is approximately 17 miles. Much of Happy Valley is private property. Be alert for and respectful of property signs and no-trespassing warnings. n
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(ages 9-11): June 18-22 [8am-12pm] Kids will test the soil and prepare a garden bed, create worm bins for vermicomposting, and learn about insects, fungi and other underground life.
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(ages 9-11): June 25-29 [8am-12pm] Focusing on the science behind plant growth and the art behind garden design, young horticulturalists will learn about garden design and explore the life that exists on top of the ground and in the canopy. Campers will be tasked with designing a garden together and will learn how to grow native crops and wildflowers.
Teen Workshop: Vertical Gardening for Small Spaces (ages 12-17): May 4th [9am-12pm] In this hands-on workshop, teens will be creating a water-saving vertical garden. Participants can choose from a variety of herbs and greens and will take their gardens home with them at the end of the session. For more information, please visit TucsonBotanical.org
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Superbloom Touring Three Drives in Wildflower Country by Gregory McNamee IF YOU ARE sensitive to the rhythms of the desert, you’ll know that the period from March to mid-April is a time when a special kind of natural magic can occur. All through February, if the gentle winter rains have come on schedule, wildflowers have been peeking their heads up out of the sandy soil, reluctant to expose themselves to the still chilly air. The wildflowers this year have been fueled by rains all through the winter, though, and plenty last fall as well, meaning the odds are good for a “superbloom,” an uncommonly rich yield of flowers throughout the Sonoran Desert. We’ll know by the time this issue of Zócalo appears, for nature has a way of defying our expectations and the odds. Still, with the increasing temperatures and longer daylight of early spring, the desert should be bursting forth in bloom, making a spectacular show of it. When a superbloom promises, I pack camera gear and well-worn guidebooks and road maps, and head out to scout wildflowers. One favorite destination, a good day’s drive away, is California Highway 78, out there where the Sonoran Desert shades into what in some guides is called the Colorado Desert. The highway begins at the ocean, winds eastward through the quiet mountain town of Julian then drops down through steep mountain grades to the desert, where a good winter’s rainfall will yield an ocean of wildflowers as far as the eye can see. Anza Borrego Desert State Park flanks the highway as it leaves the high country. From the headquarters at Borrego Springs, where you can pick up checklists and other publications on local flora, radiates a series of hiking trails and roads leading into Borrego Palm Canyon and other nearby venues. Call ahead of time at (760) 767-5311 for wildflower reports. Closer to home, the Pinal Pioneer Parkway connected Tucson and Phoenix in the years before Interstate 10 was built. Now a comparatively little-traveled back road, it’s a much more picturesque route than the main highway, especially in wildflower season. The parkway itself is a 42 mile-long stretch of Arizona
Highway 79, beginning in the desert uplands below the north slope of the Santa Catalina Mountains at about 3,500 feet and slowly descending to just above 1,500 feet outside the little town of Florence. In winter, the parkway is lined with desert verbena, lupine, poppies, globemallow, chuparosa, penstemon, and daisies. Even in dry years when other parts of the desert aren’t flowering, the Pinal Pioneer Parkway always manages, it seems, to put on a good show. Stop in at the Tom Mix Memorial, 23.5 miles north of Oracle Junction, at milepost 116, to pay your respects to the late movie cowboy. There’s a little trail that begins on the west end of the monument and winds through cholla, saguaros, and lots of flowers. Another old highway, now steadily being modernized, connects Phoenix with Las Vegas by way of Wickenburg and Kingman. U.S. 93 is a narrow, winding, and sometimes dangerous route that threads across river valleys, desert flats, and mountain passes, encompassing a range of biotic zones. The lower end is classic Sonoran Desert, with large stands of old saguaros. About 25 miles north of Wickenburg, you’ll come to the Joshua Forest Parkway, where an ancient remnant stand of Joshua trees carpets the hillsides. Saguaros mingle with them, marking a zone where two deserts meet, and interspersed among them through the sandy soil, in season, are wildflowers of many kinds, marigolds, primroses, filaree, and hyacinths among them. A bonus: Arizona 86 from Tucson to Ajo across the Tohono O’odham Nation, with peak wildflower territory throughout, but especially the rocky hills around Quijotoa and the desert flats around Hickiwan. Make a little more time, and take the flowery loop road around the eastern portion of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Grab a copy of a good guidebook, like the Audubon Society’s Field Guide to Wildflowers: Western Edition, and the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum’s Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, and have a look for yourself. May you find the superbloom of dreams. n March 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 13
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FESTIVAL OF BOOKS The 11th annual festival celebrating literacy brings more
TUCSON CINE MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL The longest running festival of
than 350 authors to the University of Arizona Mall. Workshops, panel discussions, a large kids programming area, exhibitor booths, and food. Free admission and parking on campus. See website for list of presenting authors. 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. 520-621-0302. TucsonFestivalofBooks.org
contemporary Mexican cinema in the U.S., with directors, producers, editors, actors, and cinematographers and an emphasis on including films directed by women and representing indigenous people. Presented in partnership with the Hanson Film Institute. Free admission, tickets are required and available on the website. See website for more information. 520-626-1405. TucsonCineMexico.org
WEDS 6 – SAT 9 TUCSON HIP HOP FESTIVAL Primarily made up of local artists and innovators on the come-up or already on the up-and-up! With workshops, panel discussions, movie screenings, beat production, local vendors, network events, and more. All ages event but ages 13 and up are recommended. See website for tickets and schedule. TucsonHipHopFestival.com
THURS 7 – SUN 10 TUCSON TANGO FESTIVAL
Experience tango through international artists, workshops for all levels, milongas, and live music. 855-765-7829. Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Rd. TucsonTangoFestival.com
SAT 9 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN
A free, family friendly urban block party! 2pm to 9pm street performers, 5pm to 9pm stage performances. Performances, vendors, food trucks, and more. Free family friendly movie at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Downtown Tucson. 2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com
TOUR DE COOKIE The most fun you’ll have on a bicycle, without breaking a sweat! A casual 30-mile loop ride along the Santa Cruz river path filled with scrumptious cookie treats. Presented by the Rotary Club of Marana, the event serves as a fundraiser for the many local, national, and international service projects that the Club undertakes each year. 8am to Noon. Begins at Rillito River Park. Register online. RotaryTourdeCookie.org
SUN 10 ARIZONA DISTANCE CLASSIC Celebrating living a total healthy, active lifestyle, this scenic race winds through the Santa Catalina Mountain foothills in half marathon, quarter marathon, and 5K distances. All participants receive a finisher’s medal and post race refreshments. Races begin at Ventana Medical Systems, 1910 Innovation Park Dr. Oro Valley. 520-469-7084. Visit website for fees and to register: ArizonaDistanceClassic.com.
FRI 15 – SUN 17 SPRING ART MARKET & FLOWER FESTIVAL Over 100 unique and local artist and artisans with crafts, ceramics, pottery, glass goods, jewelry, textiles, fine art, and gift items. In addition, local florists and nurseries will participate offering an array of living art. Local food vendors, noontime concerts and family-friendly art making programs throughout the weekend. Market is open 10am to 5pm daily. Free art-making activities are available in the Creative Space on Sat & Sun from 11am to 3pm. Galleries are free for the duration of the market. Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Avenue. TucsonMuseumofArt.org
SUN 17 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
A day full of Irish tradition with live Irish music, dancers, a children’s game area, food and vendors. Festivities begin at 10am, parade begins at 11am, ends at 5pm. Free to the public. Armory Park, 220 S. 5th Ave. TucsonStPatricksDay.com
SAT 30 BREWS AND BLUES FESTIVAL A spring day with world class musicians, featuring headliner Canned Heat, along with Tom Walbank & Austin Counts, Dennis Jones, R.D Olson, Anna Warr, Giant Blue and the Tucson Jazz Institute. Gates open at 10am. Performances are 11am to 6:30pm. Tickets: $20 in advance (and for SABHF & KXCI members) or $25 at the gate on the day of the festival. Free for children 12 and under accompanied by an adult. Gene C. Reid Park, DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. AZBues.org
SUN 31 MADE IN TUCSON MARKET A local market created to support the Tucson artist community by creating a space for Tucsonans to meet local artists, learn about their processes, and provide an opportunity to purchase their work. 10am to 5pm. 311 E. 7th Street. FourthAvenue.org/Made-Tucson-Market
SAM HUGHES HOME AND NEIGHBORHOOD TOUR This popular self-guided tour of a midtown historic neighborhood just east of the University of Arizona has been conducted every other year for decades. This year’s tour features 11 residencies and gardens covering a 94-year age span. Noon to 5pm. Tickets and more information available at: SamHughes.org
ONGOING MONDAYS MEET ME AT MAYNARDS Southern Arizona Roadrunners’ Monday evening, non-competitive, social 3-mile run/walk, that begins and ends downtown at Hotel Congress, rain/shine/holidays included! Free. 5:15pm. 311 E. Congress St. 520-9910733, MeetMeAtMaynards.com
THURSDAYS SANTA CRUZ RIVER FARMERS’ MARKET Locally grown foods and goods with live music. Guided walks through Menlo Park begin at 4:30pm. Market Hours: 4-7pm. Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida Del Convento. MercadoSanAgustin.com
THIRD THURSDAYS Every Third Thursday of the month, MOCA is open for free to the public from 6pm to 8pm. These themed nights feature different performances, music, hands-on art making activities, as well as a cash bar and food trucks. Free admission. 265 S. Church Ave. 520-624.5019. Moca-Tucson.org
SUNDAYS 5 POINTS FARMERS MARKET Every Sunday at Cesar Chavez Park. 10am to 2pm. 756 S. Stone Ave.
SECOND SUNDAZE
Every second Sunday, enjoy free admission and free family programming from 12-5pm. Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave. TucsonMuseumorArt.org
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The Worth of a Mountain Saving the Santa Ritas by Gregory McNamee
photo: Greg McNamee
THERE IS a certain mountain just out of view of Tucson, near the San Pedro River. If you climb it, a laborious but not impossible scramble though thickets of piñon, mountain mahogany, and agaves of various kinds, you will reach a saddle that brings a view of the back range of the Santa Rita Mountains, at their heart a cone-shaped peak that is unmistakably a long-dormant though perhaps not extinct volcano. In the right season—in the pounding male rains, as the Diné people say, of summer or the gently descending female rains of winter—you will see water flowing down the faces of all these peaks, slow or fast, gathered in rock pools, spilling down the boulder-lined washes into subtributary and tributary, following that ancient path to the distant ocean. Above that saddle, sheltered by an overhang ringed by catclaw acacia and Spanish bayonet, is a portal—literally, into another world. For within the mountain is a cave complex that has not yet been fully mapped, its most active explorer having died far too young, his contemporaries now for the most part too old to relive the daring days that led them to find the place by tracking the motions of birds and bats along a wall of crumbling limestone. Not far within the cave, still illuminated by dim sunlight, is an astonishing sight: a wall of rock wetted by a laminar flow, a sheet of water that has slowly filled a bowl-shaped rock pool, which in turn spills over, drop by drop, to feed several springs that issue forth in the narrow canyons far below—water that will one day flow all the way to the Pacific. If there is another cave quite like it in the Southwest, I do not know of it. It has seen few callers since the time of the Hohokam, the ancient people who
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lived in this desert until, 600-odd years ago, a century-long drought broke the back of every urbanized civilization in the Southwest. A thousand years ago, those Hohokam scaled this mountain, entered the cave, and crossed into a different world, from light into darkness, from aridity to abundant moisture, from the living world of people and animals to the kind of place where, in Hohokam belief, people first emerged from the underworld, and where people leave the living world to return to the land of the dead. And there these Hohokam lingered to leave offerings to the deities, the plumed serpents that inhabit water-bearing rainstorms, appeased by effigy dolls, carved and inlaid seashells, beads, ceramics, worked stones, turquoise beads, reeds stuffed with tobacco, all things of estimable value, many brought from hundreds of miles away and laid carefully on the rim of that stone bowl. Few people speak of this place above a whisper. I do not mind describing it as I have, inasmuch as the possibilities take in a couple of hundred square miles and the Hohokam artifacts have long been removed, taken away by the archaeologists and speleologists who have described the place in reports that are tucked away in the back stacks of various museums. There is not much that can endanger the place. But as for the back range of the Santa Ritas, that territory that falls within the viewshed from out the front door of our cave, that is another matter. For there a multinational company—or, more accurately, a succession of multinational companies—has been lobbying vigorously to open a copper mine on federal lands now administered by the U.S. Forest Service, destroying the
environment Z public domain for private profit. Most people who live nearby oppose the mine, and so does the county, but, as ever, a mineral law enacted nearly 150 years ago endorses the company’s efforts. As ever, the Forest Service seems eager to cooperate with that company’s desired goal of removing a mile’s thickness of mountain from the earth’s surface to scoop out what lies below: copper, ostensibly, but beyond that many other minerals, including gold and silver, those white stones, as a California Indian once remarked, that make white men so crazy. It is in the nature of the Forest Service, by dint of law and cultural predisposition alike, to place far greater weight on opening the lands it administers to mining and logging operations than on protecting forests and watersheds. Meanwhile, to sweeten the deal, the company has made alluring promises in a time of economic hardship: It will bring hundreds of jobs, it promises, and generate multiplier-effect economic activity in the millions of dollars each year. It will patch the holes it makes in the earth. It will recharge the hidden waters (with waters, it does not say, borrowed from elsewhere) and use, in its words, “water conservation and recycling techniques never before implemented by an Arizona copper mining facility.” It will be a model corporate citizen, a responsible steward of nature. Many an economic colonist has come through this part of the world in the last century and a half, and some of them have made such grand promises before. All have left behind little but deforested mountains and giant holes in the ground. You do not even have to leave the confines of the Cienega Creek watershed to find evidence of their activities: pits, shafts, slagheaps, abandoned mining towns, all stand as testimonial to an economics of sacking and looting. It is an incontestable fact that within the Santa Rita Mountains lie quantifiable veins of copper, along with all those other minerals. But of greater importance, and what the company is not seeking, and what the mine would put in danger, is the water that flows beneath the rock. The southeastern flanks of the Santa Rita Mountains and their foothills overlie a vast store of underground water that manifests itself in a rarity, an aboveground wetland known locally as La
Cienega, “the marsh,” and that flows across the eastern face of the Tucson valley to enter the watercourse known as the Pantano, “the swamp.” Much of that ancient water lies at unattainable levels, but what can be gotten at has nurtured Indian villages, later ranches and farms, and now a large city. It is of material importance to note here that no one knows exactly how that water moves in the depths of the earth, and no one can say with any certainty that opening the earth for a mine will not break its flow and stop the movement of that ancient underground river forever. Some hydrologists say yes, some no, and where there’s doubt, we should go for protecting water every time out. We know the aboveground manifestations of that water well. The Cienega Creek watershed supports a rich flora and fauna—and the adjective is especially deserved when one considers the comparative austerity of the drier desert lands around those watercourses. There are, for example, three species of quail, that blameless and amusing bird. There are ten species of bats, two of them—the Mexican long-tongued and Townsend’s long-eared varieties—threatened in parts of their range. Three species of native fish, altogether a rarity in the waters of the desert, live in Cienega Creek: the Gila topminnow is officially listed as endangered, the Gila chub a candidate for a position on that unenviable roster, the longfin dace considered “sensitive,” meaning probably bound for that roll as well. Three mountain rattlesnake species—the rock-banded, twin-spotted, and ridgenose varieties—are found in the upper elevations. Rare snails crawl along the streambanks. Countless species of insects hop among or flit about the streamside grasses, chased by migratory and native birds and a small army of lizards. Mule deer, whitetail deer, pronghorn, javelinas, black bears, and mountain lions are natives of the place. So is the jaguar, which has lately been turning up, even though long thought to have been driven from the United States into Mexico by development and ranching, proof of the old Latin adage, “You can chase nature out with a pitchfork, but it will always come roaring back.” There may even be an ocelot, rarer still, in the mix. All these forms of life lack, in the dry language of the bar, “standing” on their own: corporations may be persons in the eyes of the law these days, but jaguars and rattlesnakes are not. Accordingly, they do not often enter into the
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environment Z financial calculations of planners, bureaucrats, actuaries. The Cienega Creek watershed may feed a population of a million people, a critically important component of the regional ecosystem, but because it is not “owned”—though certainly ownable—that fact has no calculated value on the spreadsheets. It may be that very rare thing, a self-contained ecosystem that for the moment is not under direct threat by a dire combination of invasive or exotic species; and that even rarer thing, a self-contained system of perennial water in the desert; and that still rarer thing, a drainage basin surrounded by mountains that contain extensive exposures of carbonate rocks such as limestone, which yield caves, hidden water, and ancient shrines. These things are not measured, and as for their beauty—well, as has been said, you can’t eat scenery. But you can drink water, of course. No one knows for certain what will happen if the mine goes in, but there is plenty of evidence of other subterranean watercourses that mining has killed— inadvertently, to be sure, but killed all the same. In a desert environment, is the risk of destroying a known thing of inestimable public value worth the private gain that might come from tearing a mountain apart? To the mining company, to be sure, which will extract and extract for perhaps 20 years and then disappear, leaving nothing behind but that ever so common historic marker throughout the desert Southwest: a hole in the ground, scarred and treeless land all around it, dead aquifers below. The mining companies do not advertise these facts, of course. Neither will they tell you a truth about the vaunted jobs that are on the way: That open-pit mining is among the most mechanized industrial activities of all, most of its work performed by large machines that do not go on strike or complain. The company will cart away billions of dollars for its owners and shareholders—and if history is any guide, its promised program of cleanup and restoration will be forgotten once the last bit of ore has been wrested from the ground and, more likely than not, sold to China or some other rising economic power far away. More than century ago, a fledgling conservationist named Aldo Leopold killed a female wolf on the flank of the Mogollon, its hazy outline just barely visible from the cave. It changed his life, and forevermore he would try to cast himself into a frame of mind that he called “thinking like a mountain.” He meant something beyond mere economics. In that spirit, how do we think enough like a mountain to understand what a mountain is truly worth? A mountain can surely be reduced to rubble, but can it be reduced to the language of numbers and bookkeeping? No matter where you live, you are implicated in this problem. You are implicated if you use a telephone, drive a car, drink water from a well you have not dug yourself, pass water and waste in a public sewer, live in a house. If it cannot be grown, then it must be mined, and in the long run all that will save the slender shoulder of the Santa Ritas, and mountains like it all over the world, is a crash diet on the part of all of us who drive cars, use cell phones, fly from one place to another, and otherwise participate in what passes for modern civilization. It remains to be seen whether the Forest Service will follow past precedents and inclinations or act boldly to develop a new model for stewardship of the public domain in the case of the Rosemont Mine. I have little confidence that it will do the right thing, certainly not under this loot-and-burn administration. The Hohokam ancestors, makers of a civilization less demanding on the earth, knew far better than we how to value the mountain and its waters: They left things that they could scarcely afford by way of thanks for the generosity of the gods and of nature. Today as ever, Cienega Creek and the streams and springs that feed into it are a channel projecting biological information into the future: that much is priceless. They have value only to the extent that they live. Dead, they are but memories, yet another entry in the long roster of ghost rivers of the desert Southwest. What remains for us is to figure out a way to adjust our bookkeeping to account for them properly. What remains is to keep them in a kind of safedeposit trust for the future, using the terminology of dollars and cents if we must, until at last we learn the language of the mountain. n
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Octopus Heart Flam Chen Presents a Tale of the ER, Heartbreak and a Mollusk
March 28, 29, 30, & 31 at 7pm, MSA ANNEX, 267 Avenida del Convento $25/$45 for 2/$10 kids. Directed by Monica Silver, featuring the live music of Golden Boots and visuals of Tra Bouscaren. Tix at FlamChen.com/events
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Flam Chen Aerial Director Monica Silva shares a deeply personal & inspiring multi-media, physical theater, dance performance inspired by her occupation as an ER nurse. Through dance, aerial arts, live music, and video, Octopus Heart bridges the worlds of art and medicine, revealing connections between apparent opposites: patient and clinician, health and sickness, poetry and everyday life. Silver, who has been working with Flam Chen on and off for 10 years and has been a member of their core cast since 2017, explains: “Octopus Heart is a performance based on the movements, sounds, and rituals of the hospital. I’ve been a nurse (first at Holy Cross in Nogales, then at St. Mary’s), as well as a dancer and aerialist, for over 10 years. One day I was pushing a patient on a stretcher through the ER, and realized that the movements I go through at work are not intrinsically different from movements I make as a dancer, even though they often look different on the outside. That moment was the birth of this show—I wanted to express the art, dance and music that exist in everyday life as I experience it in the hospital. Part of this art is the mystery of the human body and soul. People come in to the ER, and maybe we can solve their immediate problem, like a cut finger or even a blood clot in their coronary artery, but so often the real problem is something we just can’t fix. Sometimes that might be sickness stemming from economic disparity and lack of access to resources, or it might be sickness from things like substance abuse or emotional stress. A poetic example of this is takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or “broken heart syndrome.” In this case, a person has all the symptoms of a heart attack, but once they get to the cath lab and we see an angiogram of the heart, there are no blocked vessels, no heart attack. Instead, part of the heart has enlarged due to an emotional shock, and looks like a Japanese octopus trap, or takotsubo: hence the name. Octopus Heart is the story of a patient with takotsubo, told through modern dance, aerial acts, acrobatics, shadow puppetry, video and live music. The dance choreography stems from movements performed in the hospital. The aerial acts are on invented apparatuses like plastic hospital tubing and a fourchambered lyra representing the heart. Through shadow puppetry by Puppets AmongUs founder Matt Cotten, we show the heartbreak octopus as it moves through the heart. The Tucson band Golden Boots has composed an original soundtrack for the show, incorporating sounds from the hospital. Video artist Tra Bouscaren evokes the hospital landscape with ethereal projections of texture and light. He also amplifies certain dance scenes, such as the acrobatic paramedic duet, with direct video mapping onto the dancers.” n
performances Z ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival
First Avenue. 1200 West Speedway. 520-882-9721. InvisibleTheatre.com
March 3 to 10. See website for performance times and locations. Jerusalem Quartet, April 3 at 7:30pm; Zofo Piano Duet, April 18, 7:30pm; 520-577-3769. ArizonaChamberMusic.org
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Time
ARIZONA OPERA
Silent Night, March 9 & 10 at Tucson Music Hall. The Marriage of Figaro, April 13 & 14 at Tucson Music Hall. Cosi Fan Tutte, April 28 at PCC Center for the Arts West Campus. 520-293-4336. AZOpera.org
ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE
Richard III, March 12 to April 1. Spring Awakening April 8 to 29. 1025 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-1162. Theatre.Arizona.edu
ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY
American Mariachi, March 9 to 30. Things I Know to Be True, April 20 to May 11. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-884-8210. ArizonaTheatre.org
ARTIFACT DANCE PROJECT
Goliath, A Story Retold. March 21 to 24. Steve Eller Dance Theatre, University of Arizona, 1737 East University Blvd. 520235-7638. ArtifactDanceProject.org
BALLET TUCSON
Spring Concert, March 8 to 10. Steve Eller Dance Theater, 1737 E. University Blvd. 800838-3006. BalletTucson.org
BROADWAY IN TUCSON
The Illusionists – Live from Broadway, March 22 & 23. Fiddler on the Roof, April 9 to 14. Centennial Hall, 1020 East University Blvd. 903-2929, BroadwayInTucson.com
CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF TUCSON
The Emperor, March 16 at 3:00pm at Journey Church, 4700 N. Swan Rd and March 17 at 4:30pm at Crowder Hall, UA Fred Fox School of Music, 1017 N. Olive Rd. 520730-3371. COTMusic.org
FOX TUCSON
BANFF Mountain Film Festival, through March 2, 7:00pm; The Clairvoyants, March 3 at 7:00pm; One Night of Queen, March 5 at 7:30pm; John Pizzarelli Trio, March 6 at 7:30pm; Eric Benet, March 7 at 7:00pm; Late Nite Catechism 3: Til Death Do Us Part, March 8, 7:30pm; Frank Ferrante in An Evening with Groucho, March 9, 3:00pm; Glenn Miller Orchestra, March 10 at 3:00pm; Chonda Pierce, March 12 at 7:00pm; Max Raabe & Palast Orchestra, March 15 at 7:30pm; Raffi, March 16 at 1:00pm; Love Letters, March 17 at 3:00pm; Amanda Miguel & Diego Verdaguer, March 21 at 8:30pm; NPC Natural Outlaw, March 23 at 10:00am; The Greatest Showman Sing-Along, March 24 at 3:00pm; 4th Annual City of Gastronomy Downtown Chef’s Table, March 27 at 5:30pm; Humorist Jeanne Robertson, March 29 at 7:00pm; Stayin’ Alive: One Night of the Bee Gees, March 30 at 7:30pm; ASERE! A Fiesta Cubana, March 31 at 7:00pm. Fox Theatre, 17 W Congress St. 520-547-3040. FoxTucson.com
INVISIBLE THEATRE Letters from Zora, April 6 & 7 and 20th Century Blues, April 23 to May 5. 1400 North
Stands Still continues through March 30 on the Mainstage; The Brave Knight, Sir Lancelot, continues through March 24 in the Family Theatre. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-3274242. LiveTheatreWorkshop.org
ODYSSEY STORYTELLING SERIES
15th Anniversary Show: Journeys, March 7. Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm. The Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th St. 520-730-4112. OdysseyStorytelling.com
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Mamma Mia, through March 3, Proscenium Theatre. Polaroid Stories, April 18 to 28, Black Box Theatre. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 520-206-6986. Pima.edu
THE ROGUE THEATRE The
Secret in the Wings, continues through March 17. The Crucible, April 25 to May 12. 300 E. University Blvd. 520-551-2053. TheRogueTheatre.org
SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE Blood Wedding, March 28 to April 14. 738 N 5th Ave. 520-448-3300. ScoundrelandScamp.org
SOMETHING
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The Hall of Final Ruin, continues through March 10. Temple Cabaret, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-468-6111. SomethingSomethingTheatre.com
SO AZ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
March 2 at 7:30pm at SaddleBrooke DesertView Performing Arts Center; March 3 at 3:00pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. 520-308-6226. SASOMusic.org
TUCSON CONVENTION CENTER
Silent Night, Arizona Opera, March 9 & 10. Steven Curtis Chapman, March 30. Cirque Du Soleil – Corteo, April 3 to 7. 260 S. Church Ave. TucsonConventionCenter.com
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Grand Canyon State, March 2 at 4:00pm; Gomez Plays Mozart, March 8 at 7:30pm; Mahler Symphony No. 5, March 15; The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber & Stephen Sondheim, March 23 at 7:30pm; Animalia a TSO Just for Kids event, March 30 at 10:00am. Tucson Symphony Center. 520-882-8585. TucsonSymphony.org
UA OPERA THEATRE Die Fledermaus, continues through March 3. University of Arizona, Bryant-Jordan Hall. 520-621-1162. Opera.Music.UA.Edu
UA PRESENTS
Joe Lovano, with the UA Studio Jazz Ensemble March 1; The Illusionists, March 22 & 23; Complexious Contemporary Ballet, March 27. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. 520-621-3364. UAPresents.org
UNSCREWED THEATER
Family friendly shows every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 pm. 4500 E. Speedway Blvd #39. 520-289-8076. UnscrewedTheater.org
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Mamacita, Tucson Cine Mexico’s 2019 Opening Night Film (Arizona Premiere)
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Tucson Cine Mexico 2019 March 27-31 By Carl Hanni
THE SIXTEENTH annual edition of the Tucson Cine Mexico film festival is upon us March 27-31. This year’s festival features seven recent films from Mexico, all of them Arizona premiers, and is being held in three local venues: the Center for Creative Photography on the UA campus, the Tucson Museum of Art and the Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 cineplex on south Calle Santa Cruz. There will be several filmmakers travelling to Tucson to present their films, filmmaker panels, and an opening night party at Tucson Museum of Art. Curated and produced by the Hanson FilmTV Institute at the University of Arizona, Cine Mexico has long sought to present recent work from Mexico to Arizona audiences in an all-inclusive setting that mirrors the culturally rich environment of Tucson. In a nice twist, Tucson Cine Mexico tickets are always free. It’s not necessary to get tickets, but ticket holders are seated first. Note: reserved tickets do not guarantee a seat; seats are allocated to ticket holders on a first-come, firstserved basis. I was able to screen two films before deadline: José Pablo Estrada Torrescano’s opening night film Mamacita, playing on Thursday March 28; and Xavi Sala’s first feature length film Xquipi Guie’dani (Guie’dani’s Navel), screening on Friday March 29. There’s a lot to unpack in José Pablo Torrescano’s debut feature length film Mamacita, and he does an admirable job of marshalling a mass of information and overlapping stories that stretch from the late 19th century right up to the present in 2018, all in an hour and twenty minutes. Torrescano’s one hundred year old grandmother and family matriarch, Maria Del Carmen Torrescano (referred to exclusively as Mamacita throughout the film), and her dynasty of beauty and lifestyle clinics/salons and products is the surface subject, and what a remarkable subject she turns out to be. By turns convivial, domineering, dramatic and demanding, she’s an aging diva dynamo who has been the boss of her extended family (including eight kids and twenty-three grandkids) for decades and is clearly used to being deferred to. But her crusty veneer is cracked by her grandson’s gentle prodding and family sleuthing, and once she (and her daughters) open up, dramatic family revelations start to seep out. As the film progresses, the family history moves to the forefront, and Mamacita herself transforms: “You have opened my heart” she tells her nephew as the film closes. Although they are not directly addressed as part of the larger narrative at all, all sorts of dicey subjects lie just beneath the surface of the family business: women’s self and body image and the very idea of ‘beauty’ itself, especially as it relates to self-worth; the lucrative business of selling beauty, here coupled with Mamacita’s home-grown self-actualization psychotherapy; and the reality of a self-made (as she says over and over) powerhouse female entrepreneur who creates a multi-generational family dynasty that is largely concerned (on a cynical level) with making women attractive to men. Or, perhaps, attractive to themselves; under either circumstance, appearance-focused, for better or worse. But these are questions from a more modern perspective, and it’s unlikely that they would have even been conceived of several decades ago in the upper-strata Mexican society when the Maria Del Carmen Torrescano e Hijas company (now called ‘Las Torrescano’) was founded and flourished,
much less spoken about. Along the way, we learn some pretty shocking family history, including the only case of an incest tax - courtesy of The Pope himself - I’ve ever heard of. I traded a few short questions with Torrescano, who was born and raised in the same upscale Pedregal neighborhood of Mexico City that Mamacita - who was 95 during the filming - lives in, although he resides in Germany. When you started filming, did you know that you were going to be digging deeply into family history as well as the history of the company and Mamacita herself? “Yes, I knew that I would dig into the family history and the company. But I didn’t know the structure of the film, or what exactly I was going to do. So, I just let it flow, allowing things to happen and reacting accordingly. I also didn’t know that my own story was going to be part of the film. But during the editing and the workshops that we were part of the production, we saw that the story would feel more complete adding my story.” Did you struggle with whether to include some of the most personal aspects of the family history? “Not really, since Mamacita wrote her autobiography in 1990, and in there she included almost everything. My main struggle was that I didn’t know how my family would react with the film. But they were very happy with it, and they are extremely happy with its success in Film Festivals.” How well known throughout Mexico is the family company? “Mamacita was quite well known in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s among high-society women, as was as her company. Famous Mexican singers and actresses would come to the cliniques to become more beautiful. My aunts appeared several times in TV-shows talking about the cliniques, the technique, etc. They were also in the newspapers, magazines, and radio interviews.” Did you ever feel like you were making a documentary film that was veering into the territory of a Mexican soap opera, given the nature of some of the revelations during the filming? “Well, I knew how Mamacita was and knew that she will be interesting for an audience, in a way soap-operas are. But although all the family story could make a really nice soap-opera, I decided to do it quite raw with the camera, so it looks more realistic, and not soap-opearaish. And I believe that thanks to that the audience is engaged and reacts beautifully after watching the film.” ON ANOTHER end of the spectrum we have Guie’dani’s Navel, Spanish director Xavi Sala’s first feature length narrative film after several shorter films and documentaries. Guie’dani (Sótera Cruz) is a twelve year old Zapotec girl from a village in Oaxaca who, as the film opens, is leaving for Mexico City with her mother Lidia (Érika López), where they will be employed as ‘domestics’ by an upper-class family of four. The family are more or less a decent bourgeois unit, especially the pregnant mother Valentina (Yuriria del Valle), who goes out of her way to be welcoming. Dad David (Juan Rios) is nice enough until confronted
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Director José Pablo Estrada Torrescano unearths family secrets in his debut documentary feature Mamacita. Mamacita, José Pablo’s 95 year-old grandmother, has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stone walls. Arizona Premiere at Tucson Cine Mexico 2019 (5:30pm, March 28, Center for Creative Photography) with something he doesn’t like, and the kids are typical teenagers, with the occasional casual cruelties and thoughtlessness of teenagers everywhere, but it’s basically a decent situation - provided one is ok with being a cook, maid and house-cleaner for folks whose wealth, goods and lifestyle is unattainable in any known reality. Lidia seems to have more or less made her peace with it, but Guie’dani has definitely not. “I don’t want to be a damn slave like you” she tells her mother at one point; Lidia’s automatic response is a slap to the face. And therein lies the true story of the film. Adopting a subdued, minimalistic approach, with much of the dialogue and ambient sound off screen, Sala shows instead of tells, lets scenes play out in long takes and generally films like a fly on the wall. Most of the film plays out across Guie’dani’s face, a largely expressionless mask most of the time, but one covering a huge well of resentment, anger and disgust, much of it with her mother, but really with the entire set-up of the situation she finds herself in against her will. Sala does an excellent job of getting into the headspace of a teenage girl in that adolescent grey area when the hypocrisies, injustices and cruelties of the adult world are in sharp relief before they are overwhelmed by the ‘realities’ of adulthood and a class system that seems as entrenched now as it did a hundred years ago, at least to a native girl living behind a wall in a strange city. Friendship with another daughter of a local maid, Claudia (Majo Alfaroh) and an extended act of defiance brings Guie’dani some much needed joy and a break from her drudgery, but it’s short lived and has the feel of a last stand. The final, long shot is a disconcerting gaze into Guie’dani’s probable future.
Zócalo asked Cine Mexico’s producers to comment on the festival, and Codirector/ Co-programmer Vicky Westover had the following to say: “A partnership between the Hanson FilmTV Institute and Cinema Tropical, Tucson Cine Mexico has become an important platform for the exhibition and promotion of Mexican cinema in the U.S. Over the past 15 years we have built a mixed, diverse and enthusiastic audience, and our eclectic selection of films this year, which includes documentaries, dramas, a romantic comedy, and a family film, serves that audience. Several of the films this year, including Las ninas bien/The Good Girls; Xquip’ Guie’dani/Guie’dani’s Navel; and La camarista/The Chambermaid, reflect a concern with class in Mexican society, and these films further the conversation about servitude that Roma moved to the forefront, but they deal with the issue of class in a significantly different way. In addition to programming films that show the great variety of work being made in Mexico, by female and male directors, Tucson Cine Mexico includes indigenous people and stories on the screen to more fully reflect Mexican society. One of the films in this year’s line-up that does this in a powerful way in Guie’dani’s Navel, and we are delighted that director Xavi Sala will be with us to engage in what we expect will be a vibrant post screening discussion with the audience. Tucson Cine Mexico programming also places a focus on emerging talent and filmmakers to watch. In the last six years, the Oscar for Best Director has gone to a Mexican director five times. While Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro Innarritu are Mexican powerhouse filmmakers, there are many Mexican directors making their mark in international film festivals and
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Internationally acclaimed photographer Maya Goded makes a promising film debut with Plaza de la Soledad, a moving continuation of her photography work in La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City, where prostitution has been present since the days of the Aztecs. Arizona Premiere at Tucson Cine Mexico 2019 (7:30pm, March 28, Center for Creative Photography)
venues, and Tucson Cine Mexico recognizes new exceptional filmmakers with its Jaguar Award given for outstanding directorial debut. The Co-directors of the festival have selected La camarista, directed by Lila Aviles, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, to receive the Tucson Cine Mexico 2019 Jaguar Award. The festival will be screening La camarista in advance of a U.S. theatrical release, and we expect the film and Aviles to continue to receive accolades. And this year the Tucson Cine Mexico committee will select a documentary film to receive a newly established award- the Ocelot Award for outstanding documentary. Along with screenings, the two talks with filmmakers will provide audiences with an understanding of how new talent in Mexico is emerging and how that talent is nurtured, so that the continuing waves of new Mexican cinema continue to reach international shores (and deserts).”
Tucson Cine Mexico Schedule: MAMACITA ARIZONA PREMIERE, Thursday, March 28, 5:30pm, Center for Creative Photography. Documentary, Mexico/Germany, 2018, 75 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Director José Pablo Estrada Torrescano unearths family secrets in his debut feature Mamacita. When the aspiring director went to study film abroad, his grandmother made him promise to return to Mexico one day to make a film about her life. Little did he know that his film would unearth secrets, lies and deceptions affecting five generations of a high society Mexican family. Mamacita, José Pablo’s grandmother, is an extravagant Mexican beauty queen living in her own kingdom with her loyal servants: gardener, chauffeur, chef, housekeeper and nurses. The 95-year-old lady has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stone walls. José Pablo conquers his granny’s empire like a Trojan
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horse, discovering the haunted spirits of his own past and the reason for the lack of love that his entire clan has suffered from for generations. PLAZA DE LA SOLEDAD ARIZONA PREMIERE, Thursday, March 28, 7:30pm, Center for Creative Photography. IN PERSON: PRODUCER MARTHA SOSA ELIZONDO . Documentary, Mexico, 2016, 84 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Internationally acclaimed photographer Maya Goded makes a promising film debut with Plaza de la Soledad, a moving continuation of her photography work in La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City, where prostitution has been present since the days of the Aztecs. “Beautiful, respectful, and celebratory” (Film Comment) and winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Latin American Documentary, the film follows four strong women—middle-aged and older—who want to break a vicious circle that began with abuse and abandonment suffered from an early age. Carmen, Lety, Raquel, and Esther aspire for a better life, and Goded’s poignant lens follows their quest to find true love, their capacity to transform themselves, and above all, their resilience and solidarity. XQUIPI’ GUIE’DANI / GUIE’DANI’S NAVEL ARIZONA PREMIERE, Friday, March 29, 6:00pm, Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. IN PERSON: DIRECTOR XAVI SALA. Drama, Mexico, 2018, 119 min. Directed by Catalan-born filmmaker Xavi Sala, this incisive portrait of racism and classism follows young Zapotec Guie’dani, who moves from her Oaxacan village to Mexico City when her mother takes a job as a live-in maid for a wealthy family. Defiant and morose, Guie’dani abhors their new roles in service. Everything changes when she meets Claudia, a rebellious girl with whom she becomes close friends. Newcomer Sótera Cruz brings razor-sharp intensity to her portrayal of a girl determined to fight for her dignity.
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Gabriela Cartol and Teresa Sánchez are chambermaids working in a luxury Mexico City hotel in La camarista. With impeccable cinematography, a neardocumentary eye, and a humanistic gaze, the film signals director Lila Avilés as a talent to watch. Arizona Premiere at Tucson Cine Mexico 2019 (6pm, March 30, Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18)
LAS NIÑAS BIEN / THE GOOD GIRLS ARIZONA PREMIERE, Friday, March 29, 9:15pm, Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. Drama, Mexico, 2018, 94 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Based on Guadalupe Loaeza’s satiric and iconic 1985 bestseller of the same name, Alejandra Márquez Abella’s second film is a portrait of the always charming, perfect and spoiled Sofia, the queen bee of her group of friends, who faces the unimaginable - her social decay. It’s 1982 and a big economic crisis is hitting Mexico. Sofia will have to maintain appearances but her fall is not only inevitable, it will acknowledge what is lost when the money is gone. Starring an impressive ensemble cast including Ilse Salas (Güeros, Museo), Cassandra Ciangherotti (Time Share, Cantinflas), and Paulina Gaitán (Sin Nombre), The Good Girls is a poignant snapshot of the decadent Mexican bourgeoisie of the early eighties. LA CAMARISTA / THE CHAMBERMAID ARIZONA PREMIERE AHEAD OF U.S. THEATRICAL RELEASE, Saturday, March 30, 6:00pm, Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. IN PERSON: visit tucsoncinemexico. org for attending filmmaker details. Drama, Mexico, 2018, 98 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. A poignant and delicate class portrait, The Chambermaid follows Eve— played by the wonderful Gabriela Cartol (I Dream in Another Language)—a young chambermaid working in one of the most luxurious hotels in Mexico City, who confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life. Inspired by the filmmaker’s own theater play of the same name—in turn inspired by Sophie Calle’s 1980 artistic project “The Hotel,” in which the French artist worked as a chambermaid in a Venice hotel— The Chambermaid is a standout among a thriving new generation of Mexican and Latin American women filmmakers. With impeccable cinematography, a near-documentary eye, and a humanistic gaze, the film signals director Lila Avilés as a talent to watch.
CINDERELO U.S. FESTIVAL PREMIERE, Saturday, March 30, 9:00pm, Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. IN PERSON: DIRECTOR BETO GÓMEZ. Romantic Comedy, Mexico/Dominican Republic, 2019, 91 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Beto Gómez’ humorous screwball comedy Cinderelo follows Marlon Flores (the wonderful Miguel Rodarte), a talented photographer with an amazing ability to highlight anyone’s inner beauty, but not his own. His ugliness attracts the rejection and ridicule of all women, except his assistant Maria, who can see him for what he really is. Tired of constant contempt, he unexpectedly encounters his fairy godfather (Joaquín Cosío, Narcos: Mexico, Me gusta pero me asusta, The Thin Yellow Line), a mysterious man who casts a spell on him, transforming him into an irresistible hunk named Brando (played by popular actor William Levy). The catch? It’s only in effect at night. With the help of his best friend Felix, Marlon turns the handsome Brando into the most coveted man in the city. But can you find true love with a double identity? TESOROS / TREASURES ARIZONA PREMIERE. Sunday, March 31, 2:00pm, Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. Family, Mexico, 2017, 95 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Written and directed by veteran filmmaker María Novaro (Danzón, Leaving No Trace) and set in a palm-fringed fishing village on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, this tale follows young siblings Dylan and Andrea as they embark on a search for lost pirate treasure left centuries ago by Francis Drake. Guided by their own intelligence and curiosity, the children chart the limestone islands off the coast, and find something much more valuable than a treasure chest. A sweet and optimistic film from Mexico’s best-known woman director. For tickets and more information: www.tucsoncinemexico.org. You can also follow on Facebook and Instagram, @tucsoncinemexico. n
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American Stories: David Hurn, David Graham, Bill Owens, continues at Etherton Gallery through April 20. Shown: Bill Owens, We really enjoy getting together with our friends to drink and dance. It’s a wild party and we’re having a great time, 1972, gelatin silver print © Bill Owens, Courtesy of Etherton Gallery.
AGUA CALIENTE PARK In the Steps of the Masters is on view through March 13
ETHERTON GALLERY American Stories: David Hurn, David Graham, Bill Owens
by members of Club Camera Tucson. Hours: 10am to 3pm. Ranch House Gallery, 12325 E. Roger Rd. 520-749-3718.
is on view to April 20. Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-5pm or by appointment. 135 S. 6th Ave. 520-624-7370. EthertonGallery.com
ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM
IRONWOOD GALLERY Feathers: Solo Exhibition by Chris Maynard opens March
In This Together: Daring to Create a More Perfect Arizona, an ACLU of Arizona art exhibit is on view to March 5. John Slaughter’s Changing West: Tombstone, Bullets, and Longhorns is on view through August. Permanent exhibits include: History Lab, Mining Hall, and Treasures of the Arizona History Museum. Hours: Mon & Fri 9am-6pm; Tues-Thurs 9am-4pm; Sat & Sun 11am-4pm. 949 E. 2nd Street. 520-628-5774. ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org
ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM One World, Many Voices is open through June 1 and Hopi Katsina Dolls: Changing Styles, Enduring Meanings closes July 27. Long term exhibitions include, The Resiliency of Hopi Agriculture: 2000 Years of Planting; Life Along the River: Ancestral Hopi at Homol’ovi; Woven Through Time; The Pottery Project; Paths of Life. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. 520-621-6302. 1013 E. University Blvd. StateMuseum.Arizona.Edu
CACTUS WREN GALLERY Cat Mountain Art Show is on March 10 from 9am to 2pm. Gallery hours: Everyday from 9am to 4pm. 2740 S. Kinney Rd. 520-437-9103. CactusWrenArtisans.net
23 and continues through July 7. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 2021 N. Kinney Rd. 520-8833024. DesertMuseum.org
JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM Call Me Rohingya is on view through May 31. Hours: Weds, Thurs, Sat & Sun 1-5pm; Fri 1-3pm. 564 S. Stone Ave. 520-670-9073. JewishHistoryMuseum.org
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY I-10: Adrian Esparza is on view through March 7. Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520-626-4215. CFA.arizona.edu/galleries
LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY School of Art Scholarship Exhibition is on view through March 7. Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520-626-4215. CFA. arizona.edu/galleries
LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Separados por Frontera – Separated by
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Richard Avedon: Relationships
Borders is on view through March 8. Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition opens April 8 and is on view through May 3. Hours: Mon-Thurs 10am-5pm and Fri 10am-3pm. Pima Community College, 2202 West Anklam Rd. 520-206-6942. Pima.Edu
is on view through May 11. Ansel Adams: Examples is on view through May 4. Hours: Tue-Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 1-4pm. 1030 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-7968. CreativePhotography.org
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Ghost Stories and Fairytales: Make Believe in Miniature is on view through April 28. Girls’ Day Display is on view to March 3. Dave Cummins: Envisioning Bugatti is on view through April 28. Tues-Sat 9am-4pm and Sun 12-4pm. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr. 520-881-0606. TheMiniTimeMachine.org
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY On Our Watch opens March 1 and continues
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design, and
through April 20. Hours: Tues-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat 11am-4pm. 154 E. 6th St. 520-6299759. DavisDominguez.com
Beyond continues through April 12. Hours: Weds-Sun 12-5pm. 265 S. Church Ave. 520624-5019. MOCA-Tucson.org
DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN The Way of the Cross continues through
PORTER HALL GALLERY Kate Breakey: Black Tulips is on view to April 28; Out
May 22. Desert Blooms continues through September 4. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 6300 N. Swan Rd. 520-299-9191. DeGrazia.org
of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens is on view in The Legacy and Porter Hall Galleries through April 13. Hours: Daily 8:30am-4:30pm. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 520-326-9686. TucsonBotanical.org
CONTRERAS GALLERY The Art of Frank Rose opens March 2 with a reception
DESERT ARTISANS GALLERY Sonoran Sunshine and Beguiling Miniatures continue through March. Pop-Up Watercolors and Oils with Gretchen Huff and Wanita Christensen is March 2 from 10am to 1pm. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 10am1:30pm. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Rd. 520-722-4412. DesertArtisansGallery.com
SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM Dinner in the Diner is currently on display featuring original china and silver service from the named first class Pullman trains. 414 N. Toole Ave. 520-623-2223. TucsonHistoricDepot.org
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Carlos Estevez: Entelechy, Works from 1992 to 2018 is on view at Tucson Museum of Art through May 5.
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Signature Show is on view through March 3. Fiesta Sonora is on view March 5 to 31. Hours: TuesSun 11am-4pm. Williams Centre 5420 East Broadway Blvd #240. 520-299-7294. SouthernAzWatercolorGuild.com
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Mid Mod Ceramics - Arizona pt. 1 - Rose Cabat, Maurice Grossman, DeGrazia and more. Exhibition opens March 24 and continues through May 5. Opening reception is March 23 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. 2934 E. Broadway Blvd. SunshineShopTucson.com
TOHONO CHUL PARK Pollen Path is on view in the Main Gallery through April 17. Featured Artist Erinn Kennedy is on view through April 17 in the Welcome Gallery. In the Entry Gallery Project Space, Laurie McKenna is on view through March 17. Hours: Daily 9am-5pm. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 520-742-6455. TohonoChulPark.org
TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM EFFIE! Plein Air Pioneer is on view through April 28. Ongoing exhibitions include: Desert Hollywood, The Dawn of American Landscape, and The Weavings of the Dine. Hours: Weds-Sun 10am-4pm. 7000 E Tanque Verde Rd. 520-202-3888. TucsonDArt.Org
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Carlos Estevez: Entelechy, Works from 1992 to 2018 is on view through May 5. Blue Tears: Installation by Patricia Carr Morgan is on view through April 21. Ongoing exhibits include Selections from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation; Asian Art; Native American Culture and Arts; European Art; Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, Art of the American West; Art of the American Southwest; J. Knox Corbett House, and the La Casa Cordova. Hours: Tues-Wed & Fri-Sat 10am-5pm; Thurs 10am-8pm; Sun 12-5pm. 140 N. Main Ave. 520-624-2333. TucsonMuseumofArt.org
UA MUSEUM OF ART Current exhibitions include: Botanical Relations on view to March 31; What is the Color, When Black is Burned? The Gold War. Part 1. on view to March 24; 6 & 6 on view to March 31. Ongoing exhibitions include, The Altarpiece From Ciudad Rodrigo. Hours: Tues-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun 12-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520621-7567. ArtMuseum.Arizona.Edu
UA POETRY CENTER Broken Threads, Lives Unraveled: Fuentes Rojas and the Migrant Quilt Project is on view to April 20. Hours: Mon & Thurs 9am-8pm; Tues, Weds, Fri 9am-5pm. 1508 E. Helen St. 520-626-3765. Poetry.Arizona.Edu
WILDE MEYER GALLERY Group Show opens March 1 and is on view to March 31 with receptions March 1 and March 15 from 4pm to 7pm. Hours: Mon-Fri 10am5:30pm; Thurs 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12-5pm. 2890 E. Skyline Dr. Suite 170. 520-615-5222, WildeMeyer.com
WOMANKRAFT ART GALLERY Getting Into Shapes is on view to March 30 with a reception on March 2 from 7pm to 9pm. Hours: Weds-Sat 1-5pm. 388 S. Stone Ave. 520-629-9976. WomanKraft.org
YUME GARDENS Sakura: Photography by Mark Taylor is on view through May 4. Garden hours: Tues-Sat 9:30am-4:30pm; Sun Noon-5pm. 2130 North Alvernon Way. 520-303-3945. YumeGardens.org n
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Tucson Thrift Shop Celebrates 40 Years A conversation with Arlene Leaf, owner of Tucson Thrift Shop and The Other Side. Having spent the last 40 years running Tucson Thrift Shop and The Other Side on Tucson’s 4th Avenue, owner Arlene Leaf is just as engaged in her work as the day she first opened. We recently sat down with Arlene and discovered a wonderfully friendly lady who loves her business, 4th Avenue, and the community. How did you start your business? We understand you started it with your father, correct? Yes. It was 1979. My parents had been downtown merchants. They came to Tucson in the 40s. And I grew up downtown, running around on the streets. My parent’s shop was called Red Fern’s Dress Shop and it was a women’s clothing store. It became a simple mom-and-pop store. They sold it and my father was retired, and he was very, very unhappy. You know, I think when you’re used to dealing with the public, it’s like a fix almost. You’re used to having interactions and talking about things. He had cancer and was saved by the City of Hope Hospital, and then he had the idea to open a store to give benefits to the City of Hope. And I had just come back to Tucson after traveling around and living in different places, so I said, okay, let’s open a new shop. And that’s how it started. And it was called Tucson Thrift Shop? I called up and the name was available. We started at 338 N. 4th Avenue. What was it like back then? When we opened, 4th Avenue at that time had seven second-hand stores. It had, The Blind, it had Arizona Children’s Home, I think Salvation Army was
here for a while. Goodwill was here for a while. Then there were other stores that were selling recycled merchandise; How Sweet It Was, Desert Vintage, so, there was a lot happening on the avenue. And where I was, I had the right to buy for the store even though we were giving to a charity. I had the right to buy, so my dad and I would go out and buy so we could control the inventory. And when I look back and think of the things that went through the store, it was amazing. We’d go and buy what we liked. People were breaking up houses from the 50s, and we would buy the antiques and things. Fifty percent of the store was that type of a business; pots and pans, and practical things. And then the other was specific clothing items. Like the Hawaiian shirts, flannel shirts. Back in the 70s it was all the embroidered shirts, all the hippy dresses. But even then it was a hybrid. It wasn’t your usual thrift store. We always washed everything, made sure everything worked and was in good condition. And the inventory changed over time? It changed. After my father died, I was very content with the place. I could have just kept running Tucson Thrift Shop just like it was. And you know, I was very happy with it. But then I had a series of wonderful people that showed up to help me run the store. I would take them buying. And then it was 26 years
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after opening that I realized that I don’t have to go out all the time looking for merchandise, we have enough coming in. I always loved Halloween from the very beginning. I always loved odd things and I would save them, and became really passionate about saving things for Halloween. So I always had a Halloween. I would save hats, I’d save unusual clothing, just try to make it so people could put things together. Then everything changed. At that time in the costume marketplace, it was rental. You couldn’t buy costumes inexpensively, it was all rental. And I can’t really say what time frame it changed, but it changed all of a sudden. There was one woman that did it, she totally changed the industry. And she was from Korea and she started having the costumes made in Korea. Good quality that you could afford to buy them for less than a rental and you’d have your costume. And it absolutely revolutionized the whole costume industry. So then through my channels of getting used merchandise, I could get the costumes. So then we started moving more in that direction. And now you’re celebrating 40 years in business. 40 years. Mm-hmm. What do you think is the key to your longevity? It’s been a really solid business community [on 4th Avenue.] Even when all the construction started, there was only one of us that left. So it’s been a very, very solid business community. It doesn’t have a lot of turnover. I think we all stay, because we love it. We love it here. We really get the essence that we’re here doing something bigger than ourselves, that we’re holding this piece of Tucson together. I love it. So you mentioned 4th Avenue back when there were a lot of second-hand thrift stores. And here we are in 2019, what do you think about some of the changes? Well, I do not like seeing gentrification. I’m very worried about gentrification. You know, none of us are making a lot of money, but we’re having a lifestyle. And if the rents start going up and the local merchant has to compete with a chain store for a location, the chain store is going to win, right? Because that’s their business model. So that really scares me because I think that we have a precious jewel here. I’ve known 4th Avenue my whole life. There have been fabulous businesses here. There was Stanley the sandal maker. I think it was called Fanny’s Farmery, a little natural grocery before the Co-op, then the Co-op came. There were bookstores. Everything that was created here was created from love. And I think that permeates the area. I really felt we were the custodians at the soul of Tucson. I still do. I still do. And you know being a merchant is an interesting trip, because on the one hand you have the dollar signs and the money and you’ve got to make your calculation so you stay in a healthy business. But on the other hand, you’re very connected to the community and that the community is very connected to you. It’s like a symbiotic relationship, you know, for me it’s a precious thing to be.
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And what about your employees? Surely you’ve had quite a number of people come and go throughout the years. It’s hard to generalize, but when I sort of scan them in my mind, everyone is so different and they have very different talents. I’ve always seen Tucson Thrift in terms of an employee. When I was an employee myself, I was good for a year and then I was into something else. So I never put the trip that you have to stay. But I knew that while people were here, I wanted them to have a good experience, you know? And I’ve seen people come here, have this experience, go on and do wonderful things. They’ve become teachers. They’ve become, PhDs. You know, it’s amazing. I’ve had somebody else that came here to go to the massage school and became a wonderful healer. And other people that I
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didn’t even expect would go on and truly develop their life, come back to me and they’re doing something wonderful. So it’s magical to me. I’m just so happy to be able to be part of people’s lives. What’s your favorite thing about Tucson if you had to choose? It’s the people of course. Tucson has always had a really interesting group of people. There’s been a cosmopolitan quality here, even back in the 40s and the 50s. They came here for their health and they came from all different walks of life or they came here with the military, they came here with the university. But it’s always had a really interesting group of people. I really feel that Tucson draws its own, and it’s brought together this amazing group of people, and especially the young ones, where they can live without it costing a fortune, and a great place to express yourself, have friends and have fun. For a young person just starting a business for the first time in Tucson, what kind of advice would you give them? Well, I would say on a business level, is don’t take the money out of the business, keep it in there. Don’t think, “Oh, I made this money. I can go out and spend it.” You’ve got to make it so you’re covering it. Look at your business as an entity that you are taking care of. And so that would be the business attitude. The other would be just interact with the community and follow what they want and not have too many pre-conceived notions. What’s next for you? Well, I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s next or it’s simultaneous. I’ve been
working with people since 2004 that are very concerned about our elections. We see that one of the base issues is, “Are our votes being counted the way we intend?” And in the investigations and things that have come out since 2004, we see there’s a lot that needs to be cleaned up, needs to be transparent and needs to be publicly verified. Because right now it’s controlled by the vendors that have proprietary rights and they do not have public oversight. So I’m involved in election integrity. (see AuditElectionsUSA.org) I see myself sort of as a watcher, that I’m watching things unfold. I guess in my heart of hearts, I know where I want to see the world go. I want a more just world. So I’m just watching. And what I’m seeing is a real awakening among the people and that people are all of a sudden seeing they need to take responsibility because by not taking responsibility it’s going haywire. And to me that’s very exciting because that’s when our country will fulfill itself. We’ve been given the platform and it’s going to be a struggle, a lot of people don’t want change, but I see great potential and I see the potential because of the people. I feel extremely blessed that I have a place to come to every day to work where I love the people I work with. I love working with old clothes. It is very sensual. And working with the public is wonderful. There’s nothing about this that says leave or move on. So after 40 years you still seem as much engaged in your business as you were the day that you started. Yes, I feel very lucky. I work with wonderful people, that’s why. Just wonderful people. n
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What’s Live Raffi by Jim Lipson
IN 1980 I had just moved to Daytona Beach Florida, joined a food co-op and began teaching yoga. I made a lot of new friends, many of them parents of small children. We were all into music. Grateful Dead, Billy Joel, The Roches, Carole King, Holly Near and other icons of the day. But no one dominated the cassette players of my new found community more than the artist known far and wide by a single name. Not Madonna, not Prince, Not Beyoncé or Jewel. No, it was Raffi, a mega star whose way with children, be it during a playdate, dinner time, taking a bath or getting ready for bedtime, was nothing short of magical. Raffi Cavoukian laughs when I ask him if he had any idea the release of his first children’s’ album Singable Songs for the Very Young, would have led to not just his rise as a children’s artist but the creation of an entirely new genre of music—one that looked to connect with kids in the same way so-called regular musicians looked to connect with adults. “Impossible,” he chuckles. “I was a folk musician at the time and we were just trying to break even.” It changed my life almost instantly.” That record, engineered by fellow Canadian Daniel Lanois, who would go on to great fame as a Grammy winning composer and producer for folks like Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson (of The Band), Brian Eno and U2, brought a new standard of production values never before seen or heard on albums made exclusively for young children. “I gave his studio its first gold record,” he says with no small amount of pride. By the time “Baby Beluga,” arguably his most well-known and beloved song, was released in 1980, Raffi had attained the status of genuine folk hero to not only a generation of toddlers but their parents as well. But it was not just about the songs and certainly never about the money, as Raffi understood that along with the fame and adulation came a responsibility. Rather than simply singing down to and performing for kids from a stage, he understood he had the opportunity to lift them up by recognizing that even as young children they were still fully formed individuals entitled to their own thoughts and emotions which needed to be acknowledged and supported. After Baby Beluga had become a mega hit, there were numerous offers to market its likeness, character and story to kids, including the making of an animated motion picture by a major movie studio. When they came calling Raffi says, “I had only two questions for them. First, do you plan to market this film directly to kids? And their response was, ‘well of course.’ The second question was, do you plan to design and market a series of cheap plastic products? And again, ‘Oh yes,’ was the response. Well, needless to say it was a very short conversation.” 44 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | March 2019
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Raffi Cavoukian, March 16, at the Fox Theatre Riding a wave of popularity no one could have predicted, as a trio, Raffi played six sold out shows on Broadway in 1993, again something unprecedented for a children’s musician to undertake. Eventually feeling he had accomplished all he could possibly have imagined as a performer, Raffi retired from the stage in the early part of this century. Eventually he established his non-profit Child Honouring Foundation–his vision for creating a humane and sustainable world by addressing the universal needs of children. From its website, The Child Honouring ethic is described as a “vision, an organizing principle, and a way of life—a revolution in values that calls for a profound redesign of every sphere of society.” Now known as the Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring, it partners with other like-minded organizations working with concepts such as commercial free childhood screen time, ending corporal punishment, environmental health, climate change and continuing education for parents, educators and caregivers. This spring the Foundation will also be rolling out its much anticipated on-line course which will focus on all of these subjects. In many ways one could make the argument that Raffi was to children’s music what Fred Rogers was to children’s television. Although the two had only encountered each other once, it was indeed memorable. It was at the behest of Hilary and Bill Clinton who invited them both to be part of an Inaugural Show for Children as a part of their inaugural festivities in 1993. “He was incredible, he said. “What we share is not just a love of children but a respect for the child as a whole.” In 2014, after a 12-year hiatus from recording, Raffi returned with the album Love Bug. No really a singalong, this album employed many musicians and has become a hit with not just the kids but their parents, a group he lovingly refers to as his “Beluga Grads.” This album was followed by 2016’s Owl Singalong and the recently released Dog on the Floor. Raffi will appear at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, March 16 in a very kid friendly 1 PM show. There will also be a meet and greet opportunity for parents and kids with info available at foxtucson.com. More stuff… March 2 – Baba Marimba, Monterey Court – This world music ensemble, led by musical savant Mark Holdaway, is making its first appearance in some time, also gearing up for next month’s appearance at the Tucson Folk Festival. March 5 – Carnivaleros , Club Congress – Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras! Congress tends to have the best Mardi-Gras party in town and it’s because they usually because the Carnivaleros are on the bill with their unique take on desert swamp rock.
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The Revivalists, March 13, at the Rialto Theatre March 6 – John Pizzarelli Trio – The Jazz Festival may have come and gone but if you still need that kind of a fix, this is the place to be. Established as one of the prime contemporary interpreters of the Great American Songbook, Pizzarelli has expanded that repertoire by including the music of Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Beatles. His themed shows, often performed with his wife Jessica Molaskey, suggest there is no limit to Pizzarelli’s imagination or talent. March 7-9 - Tucson Hip Hop Festival – This three day affair will feature shows at the Rialto (3/7), 191 Tool (3/8) and Club Congress,(3/9). March 9 – Frank Ferrente in an evening with Groucho, Fox Theatre – Most readers know my take on tributes but when was the last time anyone got to experience the great Groucho Marx? Unfamiliar with his work? Well it’s comedy I can’t even begin to describe. Go find him on You tube or better yet go rent Duck Soup, Animal Crackers or A Day at the Races or Monkey Business. March 10 – Glenn Miller Orchestra, Fox Theatre – Glenn Miller has been dead for a very long time but big band music is timeless and this outfit is probably the best in the biz. March 10 – International Womxn’s Day Celebration, 191 Toole – This very alternative take on International Women’s day features a potpourri of music, advocacy and performance art. Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) United-Tucson is an organization of radical abolitionists who believe change will not and cannot come from a system designed to perpetuate and profit from: white supremacy, violence, toxic masculinity, homophobia, transphobia, and the continued devaluation of our humanity. Sliding scale, no one turned away. March 13 - The Revivalists – Rialto Theatre – From New Orleans this 7-piece band featuring guitars, pedal steel, saxophone, keyboards and a horn looks like gobs o’ fun. March 17 – Nancy McCallion and Friends, Whistlestop Depot – Ever since her time with the Mollys, Nancy McCallion has been the queen of St. Pattys Day and her shows, with or without the Mollys has been THE place to be on St. Pattys. Friends include Heather Hardy and Danny Krieger. March 23 – TKMA Spring Fundraiser, Monterey Court – Raising money for next month’s (one month earlier than usual) still free Tucson Folk Festival will be JC & Laney, Sabra Faulk and Friends (featuring Petie Ronstadt, the Jacob Acosta Band and the Wayback Machine. This show starts at 6:30 pm $10 donation. n
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Jade Jackson performs at 191 Toole on Sunday, March 24. Brand X performs at 191 Toole on Saturday, March 30.
LIVE MUSIC Schedules accurate as of press time. Visit the web sites or call for current/detailed information.
191 TOOLE 191 E. Toole Ave. rialtotheatre.com Fri 1: Buckethead Sat 2: Cash’d Out Wed 6: The Bellrays, The Atom Age Sat 9: The Underachievers Fri 15: Cherry Pools, tiLLie Sat 16: Darlingside, River Whyless Sun 17: Cold Cave, ADULT, Sextile Thu 21: The Crystal Method Fri 22: March Mayhem: 21 Dreams, Ovesic, Noise Field, In Lessons, Sinphonics, Gila Byte, Heroes Reunion Sat 23: Homo La Flor Sun 24: Jade Jackson Tue 26: Electric Six, Dave TV Sat 30: Brand X
BORDERLANDS BREWING 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773, BorderlandsBrewing.com See web side for information
CHE’S LOUNGE 350 N. 4th Ave. 623-2088, ChesLounge.com Sat 9: Miss Olivia & The Interlopers
CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848, HotelCongress.com/club Sun 3: Ritt Momney, Pelt, Yum! Mon 4: Gustaf, Pecas, June West,
Weekend Lovers Wed 6: Carlos Medina Fri 8: Blind Wine, Masta Ace, Marco Polo Sat 9: Bailen Mon 11: Reptaliens Tue 12: Pirámides (Santiago), Sei Still (CDMX), The Trees, Mesquite Mon 18: Wand + Teen Tue 19: The Blank Tapes Fri 22: Green Wine Sun 24: Boy Harsher Tue 26: Ulthar, Scorched, Languish, Skullcrush Wed 27: Tonight’s Sunshine, Diluvio, The Dry River Band Thu 28: Slow Crush Sat 30: Tucson Battle of the Beats
LA COCINA 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351, LaCocinaTucson.com Fri 1: Greg Morton & Friends, Oscar Fuentes Sat 2: Nathaniel Burnside Sun 3: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 6: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 7: Freddy Parish Fri 8: Greg Morton & Friends Sun 10: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 13: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Fri 15: Greg Morton & Friends Sun 17: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 20: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 21: Mitzi Cowell Fri 22: Greg Morton & Friends, Eugene Boronow
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Sun 24: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 27: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 28: Hank Topless Fri 29: Greg Morton & Friends, Eugene Boronow Sun 31: Mik and the Funky Brunch
FINI’S LANDING 5689 N. Swan Rd. 299-1010 finislanding.com Fri 1: Steve Bennett & The Two Hand Band Sat 2: Funk Bunnies Tue 5: The Bourbon Street Bombers Fri 8: Desert Treasure Fri 15: Bryan Dean Trio Sat 16: Bastard Sons O’ Patrick
FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org Sun 3: The Clairvoyants Tue 5: One Night of Queen Wed 6: John Pizzarelli Trio Thu 7: Eric Benét Sun 10: Glenn Miller Orchestra Fri 15: Max Raabe & Palast Orchester Sat 16: Raffi Thu 21: Amanda Miguel & Diego Verdaguer Sun 24: The Greatest Showman Sing-along Sat 30: Stayin’ Alive: One Night of The Bee Gees
HACIENDA DEL SOL 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol., 2991501, HaciendaDelSol.com Nightly: Live Music on the Patio Sun 10: Katherine Byrnes
HOUSE OF BARDS 4915 E. Speedway, 327-2011 houseofbards.com Wednesdays: Ladies Night with A2Z Mondays: Open Mic Fri 1: Motley 2 Sat 2: Sex Prisoner/Harm Done/ AOM/Languish/Forewarned/Trench Fri 8: Ektömörf, The Tenebrian Machine Tue 12: WORHOL Sat 16: The Iron Maidens, The Jack Sat 23: Dying Wish/Serration/ Trench/Frailty/With Crows Sun 24: Fates Warning
THE HUT 305 N. 4th Ave., 623-3200 www.facebook.com/TheHutTucson Saturdays: Mike & Randy’s 420 Show with Top Dead Center
MONTEREY COURT 505 W. Miracle Mile, 207-2429 MontereyCourtAZ.com Fri 1: Kiko Jacome & The Stone Avenue Band Sat 2: Baba Marimba Sun 3: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, Backroads Tue 5: The Quarter Wed 6: Nick McBlaine & Log Train Thu 7: Don Armstrong & The
The Warren Dukes Band performs at Monterey Court on Wednesday, March 13.
Whiskeypalians Fri 8: Rockin’ Johnny Burgin Band Sat 9: The AmoSphere Sun 10: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, Combo Unica Tue 12: Throuble In The Wind Wed 13: Warren Dukes Band Thu 14: Touch Of Gray Fri 15: The Carnivaleros Sat 16: Little House of Funk Sun 17: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, Ley Line Tue 19: The Tucsonics Wed 20: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Thu 21: Virginia Cannon Presents Thursday Night Live Fri 22: Heather Hardy Band Sat 23: TKMA Fundraiser Sun 24: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, The Brothers Reed Wed 27: Stewart MacDougall Thu 28: Titan Valley Warheads Fri 29: J.D. Loveland & the Silver Squirrels, Amber Norgaard Band Sat 30: Key Ingredients of African Soul Sun 31: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, P.D. Ronstadt & The Company
THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Rd. 797-1233 theparishtucson.com Mondays: jazz & blues Fridays: live local music Sundays: Andy Hersey
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Eric Benét performs at Fox Theatre on Thursday, March 7.
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PUBLIC BREWHOUSE 209 N. Hoff Ave. 775-2337 publicbrewhouse.com See web site for information
RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000, RialtoTheatre.com Sat 2: Rialto Theatre’s 7th Annual Fundraising Gala Tue 5: Kurt Vile & The Violators Wed 6: Trippie Redd, Lil Keed, Coi Leray, Lil Duke Fri 8: Better Oblivion Community Center, Sloppy Jane, Christian Lee Hutson Sat 9: The Very Big Show Tue 12: Bad Suns, Vista Kicks Wed 13: The Revivalists, Rayland Baxter Fri 15: Selena Night Wed 20: Steve’n’Seagulls, ClusterPluck Sat 23: Tribute Takeover II: Bucketfingers, Psycho 78, Ramonz, Wild Side, WAZP Wed 27: Galactic featuring Erica Falls, Con Brio Fri 29: Julia Michaels, Billy Raffoul, Josie Dunne, Corey Harper, Spazz Cardigan
ROYAL SUN LOUNGE 1003 N Stone Ave (520) 622-8872 BWRoyalSun.com Sun-Tue: Happy Hour Live Music
SAINT CHARLES TAVERN 1632 S. 4th Ave (520) 888-5925 facebook.com/pg/ SaintCharlesTavern Fri 8: Still Life Telescope, St. Augustine
SAND-RECKONER TASTING ROOM 510 N. 7th Ave., #170, 833-0121 sand-reckoner.com/tasting-room Fri 1: Dan Stokes Sat 16: FebboFuentes
Wed 6: Open Mic Fri 8: Louise Le Hir, Eyelashes!, TelephoneGames, Soft Streak Sun 10: First Hold, David Liebe Hart Tue 12: Songwriter Showcase, Steff Koeppen Wed 13: Open Mic Thu 14: Energy Talks, Nail Polish Fri 15: Monsterwatch, Taco Sauce, The Ex-Bats Tue 19: Tom Walbank Wed 20: Open Mic Fri 22: Cirque Roots Sat 23: Timothy Eerie, Tropical Beach, Untied Snakes Tue 26: Songwriter Showcase, Steff Koeppen Wed 27: Open Mic Fri 29: David Liebe, Chip the Black Boy, Whatever Your Heart Desires
TAP & BOTTLE 403 N. 6th Ave. 344-8999 TheTapandBottle.com Thu 7: Feverfew, Otherly Love
SEA OF GLASS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 330 E. 7th St., 398-2542 TheSeaOfGlass.org Wed 6: The Fitzgeralds Fri 8: The Willie Green Project
SKY BAR TUCSON 536 N. 4th Ave, 622-4300. SkyBarTucson.com Fri 1: The Moves Collective, Legion of Mario, Pherkad Sat 2: Ned & The Dirt, The Rifle, gloryBots, BIBLEFIGHTS Tue 5: Tom Walbank
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