Ongoing

Toward 2025

Desert Botanical Garden 1201 N. GALVIN PARKWAY, Phoenix
Humanities

DATE: Now - June 1 TIME: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. PRICE: Included in Membership and General Admission Explore an engaging exhibit led by textile-based artist Ann Morton, centered on community and environment. TOWARD 2050 invites the public to craft handmade artworks that express their views on the environment. These unique creations will come together in a captivating labyrinth installation at the Garden that encourages visitors to take steps towards addressing climate change. About the Artist Ann Morton is a textile-based artist, educator and social practitioner ​living in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work utilizes traditional fiber techniques as conceptual tools for aesthetic, social communication to examine a society of which we are all a part — as bystanders, participants, victims and perpetrators. She is driven by a desire to employ her art as a voice for advocacy. The work reflects her own handwork, but also orchestrates the handwork from a variety of community participants through public interventions that seek to harness the power in the act of making for social purpose. View additional exhibit information here. May 3, 2025 is World Labyrinth Day Guided Labyrinth Experience 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. at Sunset Plaza with artist Ann Morton and labyrinth expert […]

Storytime

Recurring
Desert Botanical Garden 1201 N. GALVIN PARKWAY, Phoenix
Humanities

DATE: April 25, 27 | May 2, 4 TIME: 9:30-10 a.m. PRICE: Included with Membership or General Admission Join Desert Botanical Garden for Storytime. Introduce your child five and younger to the beauty and wonder of nature through engaging books, songs, activities and play. Designed for children and caretakers, each session leads children through an immersive experience of nature learning in the Garden. Storytime attendance is first come, first serve. Space is limited. Storytime will take place in Weisz Learning Center April 25 & 27 | Love, The Earth by Frances Stickley May 2 & 4 | Can You Hear the Plants Speak? by Nicholas Hummingbird with Julia Wasson 

Sixtiesmania

Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland
Humanities

Sixtiesmania is one of the leading 60s tribute band in the USA today.  Having performed all over the world the band is now based full time in Las Vegas Nevada, but still travels all over the country to perform their incredible salute to the greatest music of all time. Sixtiesmania, a sixties tribute band, covers everything from the Beatles British invasion to the music of Woodstock and everything in between, and after! Stones, CCR, Doors, Monkees, Beach Boys, Kinks, Free, Cream, the Vietnam anthem songs, Summer of love, etc. etc. If you want a band that covers all these great groups, and does them in the original spirit and energy, Sixtiesmania is the perfect choice for your event.