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Events Thursday, October 16 Dinnerware Annual Art Auction Dinnerware ArtSpace, 264 E. Congress St., 792-4503, www.DinnerwareArts.com. Time: 6pm-10pm. Admission: $25. Artists support Dinnerware with their donated artwork. Buyers support Dinnerware with their purchases. Dinnerware relies on elbow grease and fundraising activities to bring the arts back to Congress Street. Gala reception is at 6:30pm; live auction at 7:30pm. Sunday, October 19 20th Annual AIDSWALK Tucson University of Arizona Mall, University Blvd. Between Park Ave. And Campbell, www.AIDSWalkTucson.com. Time: 6:30am. Admission: adults $25, youth $15, living with HIV/AIDS $10. The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) teams up with Access Tucson to invite walkers to share why they walk in AIDSWALK and create an oral history about AIDS, and provides a means to remember those who have passed while supporting people living with HIV/AIDS. Street that celebrates the best of Downtown Tucson’s musicians, artists, businesses and non-profits. Cory’s Life in Arizona” by Sarah Nucci, Faculty Associate, Arizona State University. Friday, October 31 Aztec Dancers from Mexico Old Town Artisans, 201 N. Court Ave., 623-6024, www.OldTownArtisans.com. Time: Noon-5pm. Admission: Free. Ceremonial performances take place at noon, 2pm and 4pm, a guitarist plays inbetween the shows. The event includes vendors selling Sonoran pastries, tamales and tortillas. Little Angels Costuming Workshop Series Friday, October 17 Sunday, November 16 The Invisible City: A Public Arts Laboratory Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N. Stone Ave., www.AllSoulsProcession.org. Time: 6pm-9pm. Admission: Donations. Kids and their families are welcome to come down and create a fantastical All Souls Procession costume in biweekly workshops through October. The procession and grand finale take place on Sunday, Nov. 9. Thursday, October 23 Ignite Tucson The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St., 792-4503, www.DinnerwareArts.com. Time: 7pm-9pm. Admission: $5 donation. Back to back five minute presentations by community members on topics that are awe inspiring. Thursdays Santa Cruz River Farmer’s Market Not So Spooky Halloween for Little Ones Downtown Tucson, 882-6092, www.korepress.org/InvisibleCity.htm. Times: Varies. Admission: $5 to participate, $2 to watch. Women dancers, writers, and musicians at work and at play in unusual spaces, creating a 5-week, site-specific arts laboratory, exploring urban space through improvisational dance, text, and music. Open labs: October 19, 2-6 pm; October 24, 5-7 pm; October 25, 7-9 pm; October 26, 2-6 pm; October 31, 5-7 pm. Friday, October 24 Bear Down Fridays Homecoming Edition Tucson Children’s Museum, 200 S. 6th Ave., www. TucsonChildrensMuseum.org. Time: 5pm. Admission: $1 Admission for this event only. Activities include a costume contest, face painting, spider making (with the Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute), trick-or-treating, and more! Santa Cruz River Park, NE Corner of Speedway and Riverview. Time: 4pm-7pm. Admission: Free. Locally grown fruits and vegetables, plants, flowers, canned goods, honey, baked goods, eggs, gourds, herbal remedies, and more. Ongoing Daily Segway Tours Various areas around 4th Ave and downtown, (800) 979-3370 or (212) 209-3370, www.TucsonSegway.com. Time: Varies. Admission: $55-$65, reservations required. Start with a training session and then head out into the city. Tours include the historic Fourth Avenue shopping district, Geronimo Hotel, West University District, Iron Horse district, the Rattlesnake Bridge, Pie Allen Neighborhood, Historic Railroad Depot, Presidio San Agustin de Tucson and the Barrio Viejo streetscape. Food For Thought Lecture Series Friday, October 17 Bear Down Fridays Pep Rally Main Gate Square, 814 E. University Blvd., 622-8613, www.MainGateSquare.com. Time: 5pm7pm. Admission: Free. A Spirit and Pep Rally pre-UA football game with the Pride of Arizona Marching Band, Wilbur and Wilma, UA cheerleaders, pom squad, twirlers and flags. Live music by Retro Rockets; face painting, a public participation mural, food sampling, a football toss, putting contests, table shuffleboard, prize giveaways, prize wheels. Auditions will be held at the event for performers interested in singing the National Anthem at UA athletic events. Main Gate Square, 814 E. University Blvd., 622-8613, www.MainGateSquare.com. Time: 5pm-8pm. Admission: Free. A Spirit and Pep Rally pre-UA football game with the UA Cheer Squad, Wilbur & Wilma and UA Marching Band prior to the UA Alumni Association’s Annual Bon Fire, with the band and cheerleaders parading to UA Mall at 8pm. Fireworks will follow the bonfire. Win prizes at a football toss, prize plinko, prize pong, or express your creative side at the red and blue participation mural, chalk art or Ben’s Bells. Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., www.library.pima.gov. Time: Noon-1pm. Admission: Free. October 2: Buffelgrass in the Sonoran Desert. October 16: Ballot Propositions. October 23: Family Secrets: The Uneasy Tradition of Diarists and Their Readers. October 30: Scare-Izona: A Travel Guide to Arizona’s Spookiest Spots. Fridays Downtown Farmer’s Market El Presidio Park, SW corner of Church & Alameda, 326-7810. Time: 8am. Admission: Free. Fresh local produce and products. Saturday, October 25 Information Power for Small Businesses Wednesdays Downtown Farmer’s Market Jacome (Main Library) Plaza, 101 N. Stone Ave., 326-7810. Time: 8am. Admission: Free. Fresh local produce and products. Farmers Market at University of Arizona at Main Gate Square Saturday, October 18 Fall Brunch Series-Grand Plans & Dirty Deeds: Politics in Arizona Arizona Historical Society Main Museum, 949 E. 2nd St., 628-5774, www.ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org. Time: 9:30am-noon. Admission: One session $25; $20 AHS Members. “Legacies of Camelot” by L. Boyd Finch, author/ historian, describes how Stewart and Lee Udall fostered a partnership between the national government and the arts that sparked America’s cultural renaissance. Includes a hot brunch followed by a lecture that uncovers unusual tales of Arizona’s backroom politics. Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101. N Stone Ave., www.library.pima.gov/research/business/ #upcoming Time: 9:30am. Admission: Free. Thinking of starting a business or expanding an existing business? Learn how to use market analysis for developing a winning business strategy. 4th Avenue Kids Halloween Costume Contest Women at Work: Pioneers of the Modern Age- Wednesday Evening Lecture Series Main Gate Square, 814 E. University Blvd., 622-8613, www.MainGateSquare.com. Time: 10am. Admission: Free. Over 25 vendors selling a variety of sauces, salsas, native plants & seeds, beans, olive oils, Arizona grown produce and beef, teas, jellies, jams, breads, cheese, honey, coffee, granola. Sundays Little Angels Costuming Workshop Series Winsett Outdoor Performance Center, 316 N. 4th Ave., 624-5004, www.FourthAvenue.org. Time: 5pm. Admission: Free. A safe Spooky Kids Halloween Costume Contest with prizes and goody bags. Costume contest at 6pm, and scary movies, Live DJ, MC Kini Wah-deh and trick or treating all along the Avenue. Downtown Saturday Night Downtown Tucson, 547-3338, www.DowntownTucson.com. Time: 6pm-10pm. Admission: Free. An allages Urban Block Party with live music, street performers, food and art vendors, and more. Between 5th and 6th Avenues. Enjoy the festive atmosphere on Congress Arizona Historical Society Main Museum, 949 E. 2nd St., 617-1154, www.ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org. Time: 7pm. Admission: $8; $6 for AHS members. This series explores the careeers of reknown Arizona politicians and artists. October 1: “Getting into the Battle: Hughes and Munds, Arizona Suffragettes,” by Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D., historian. October 8: “Documenting a Half Century of Friendship: Isabella Greenway and Eleanor Roosevelt 1904-1953” by Kristie Miller, author. October 15: “Nellie Trent Bush: Arizona Politician” by Heidi Osselaer, Ph.D., author. October 22: “Luisa Ronstadt Espinel: Tucson’s Interpreter of Spanish Culture” by Wynne Brown, author. October 29: “Artist-Author-Advocate: Kate Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N. Stone Ave., www.AllSoulsProcession.org. Time: 1pm-4pm. Admission: Donations. Kids and their families are welcome to come down and create a fantastical All Souls Procession costume in biweekly workshops through October. The procession and grand finale take place on Sunday, Nov. 9. october.08. downtown tucsonan 23 http://www.DinnerwareArts.com http://www.AIDSWalkTucson.com http://www.AllSoulsProcession.org http://www.OldTownArtisans.com http://www.TucsonChildrensMuseum.org http://www.DinnerwareArts.com http://www.TucsonChildrensMuseum.org http://www.korepress.org/InvisibleCity.htm http://www.library.pima.gov http://www.MainGateSquare.com http://www.TucsonSegway.com http://www.MainGateSquare.com http://www.MainGateSquare.com http://www.library.pima.gov/research/business/#upcoming http://www.ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org http://www.ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org http://www.FourthAvenue.org http://www.AllSoulsProcession.org http://www.DowntownTucson.com

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