Make a pilgrimage toThe All Souls Public MausoleumLocated just North of the MSA ANNEX267 Avenida Del Convento – Just off West Congress St.Open Nightly 6-10 pm We have transformed Calle De Higos as a personaland small group vigil and gathering point to drop offmessages for the URN and to pay respect to thoseyou have lost…
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NATURE: HEALER, GROUNDER & DISRUPTER This passage is from the amazing book, “Emergent Strategy, Shaping Change, Changing Worlds,” by Adrienne Maree Brown. “When I was young I was taught to fear big forces of nature — tornadoes, thunderstorms, snowstorms, hurricanes. Taught they cause destruction and devastation. Taught to hide under desks, in basements, to stay…
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The desert has a frequency, a sound you can hear in the wilds around. XIXA tunes in and warps it, in glittering, gritty psychedelic cumbia tracks on their debut album, Bloodline (Barbès Records/Glitterhouse Records, February 2016), an expansion on their recent EP Shift and Shadow. An earlier incarnation of XIXA started by playing covers of…
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As an attendee of the All Souls Procession and a Tucsonan by choice, I have a thing to say about costumes: I read a comment recently disparaging the Procession based on it “just being a big costume contest.” Despite the fact that it’s obviously not a contest (and I’m sure the naysayer meant that metaphorically),…
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In honor of our collaboration with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, we present “The Marriage of the Sun and Moon,” an homage to the roots of Western classical thought, drawing on the artistry of Medieval and Renaissance alchemical and hermetic texts. Modern science has its roots in the alchemical experiments of ancient Greece and Hellenic Egypt,…
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