TierrArte Fight for Public Lands: Of Water, Wings, and Offerings: A Ceremony for Chalgchiuhtlicue
🌊 TierrArte Workshop: Of Water, Wings & Offerings
Of Water, Wings, and Offerings: A Ceremony for Chalchiuhtlicue
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Join AZ(LAND) and TierrArte artist Estephania González for a deeply immersive, land-based workshop honoring the confluence of the Rio Verde and Rio Salado. This gathering centers Chalchiuhtlicue—the Mexica water goddess of flow, sacrifice, and renewal—and invites participants to reconnect with water, land, and community through art, ecology, and ceremony .
Set along the Salt River at Phon D Sutton Recreation Area, this workshop blends Indigenous teachings, mindful ecological observation, birding, storytelling, and a meaningful collective offering back to the river.
🌿 What You’ll Experience
Participants will engage in a guided, place-based experience that includes:
Land acknowledgment and cultural grounding with teachings from the O’odham and Piipaash homelands and a representative from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC)
Birding exploration, observing local bird species as ecological messengers
Mindfulness of water through a guided sensory ritual inspired by Marina Abramović
Creosote wreath making, using natural materials such as desert plants, clay tokens, herbs, and gathered offerings
A closing act of reciprocity, returning wreath offerings to the river in gratitude and connection
📍 Schedule Overview
8:30 AM – Check-in at the Nina Mason Pulliam Audubon Center
9:00 AM – Group departure by charter bus
10:00 AM – 1:45 PM – Workshop program at Phon D Sutton:
Welcome, land acknowledgment
Birding + ecology walk
Water mindfulness ritual
Working lunch + wreath-making
Closing offering ceremony
3:00 PM – Return to Audubon Center
🌱 What to Bring
Participants are invited to bring one small, natural offering—a flower petal, stone, leaf, or herb—to incorporate into their wreath. All offerings must be biodegradable, gathered with care, and honor the land and water we visit .
Comfortable outdoor clothing & closed-toe shoes
Binoculars (for bird watching) Hat, sunglasses, sunscreen
Refillable water bottle
🎟️ RSVP here
This workshop is free and limited to 40 participants.
Reserve your spot early to be part of this ceremony of reflection, artistry, and ecological connection.
Desert Botanical Gardens Plants & People of the Sonoran Desert Festival
🌵 Plants & People of the Sonoran Desert Festival
📍 Location: Desert Botanical Garden
📅 Date: Saturday & Sunday, November 15–16, 2025
🕙 Time: 10 AM – 4 PM
Event Description:
AZ(LAND) joins the Desert Botanical Garden’s Plants & People of the Sonoran Desert Festival with an interactive, family-friendly activity. This 10–15 minute make-and-take experience will highlight the cultural and ecological connections between people, plants, and place—offering participants the chance to reflect, create, and take home a piece of desert knowledge.
Through art, storytelling, and hands-on learning, attendees of all ages will explore how desert traditions and ecosystems continue to shape resilient communities today.
TierrArte Spatial Expansion Workshops
🌞 You’re Invited: TierrArte — Power Building in the Sunbelt | Workshop 1: Spatial Expansion
Presented by AZ(LAND)
In partnership with ASU Julie Anne Wrigley Global Futures Lab, CAP LTER, Rising Youth Theatre, and SciDance.
📅 Date: Tuesday October 28th 2025 Date]
🕓 Time: 5pm-8pm
📍 Location: Phoenix Center for the Arts
🌵 About the Workshop
Join us for the first TierrArte workshop of the Power Building in the Sunbelt series, an intergenerational arts-based experience exploring Sunbelt Apartheid, the deep relationship between land, history, and environmental justice in Phoenix.
This session, “Spatial Expansion in the Sunbelt,” will trace the Indigenous origins and movements of the Southwest, the annexation of South Phoenix, and how processes of land and infrastructure expansion shaped the environmental and social landscape we live in today.
This workshop combines storytelling, creative art-making, and environmental education to illuminate how place, policy, and people intersect in the ongoing struggle for climate and environmental justice.
🎨 What to Expect
Interactive activities linking history, geography, and art.
Place-based learning rooted in the Sunbelt.
Community dialogue about environmental disparities and future resilience.
A creative reflection and embodied sensory expression session.
Light snacks provided.
🌞 Why Attend
This workshop is part of the TierrArte: Intergenerational, Arts-Based Power Building in the Sunbelt series—co-created by AZ(LAND), ASU, Rising Youth Theatre, SciDance, and CAP-LTER—to foster community dialogue, intergenerational learning, and climate resilience through creative expression.
💬 Register Today
Space is limited to 25 participants.
👉 RSVP Here ] or email info@azlnd.org to secure your spot.
Follow us @azlndfund to stay updated on upcoming workshops in the TierrArte series:
Workshop 2 – Racialization of Geography (Nov 2025)
Workshop 3 – Infrastructural Development (Feb 2026)
TierrArte River Rituals Workshops
🌵✨ TierrArte: Fight for Public Lands – Workshop 1 ✨🌵
AZ(LAND) invites you to join us for the first TierrArte “Fight for Public Lands” workshop, led by Phoenix-based artist Kate Tutaya Figgins, on Saturday, October 18th from 10 AM – 12 PM at the Sagrado Galleria.
This interactive Arts-based session will blend pinata-making, reflection, and storytelling to deepen our collective understanding of Arizona's rivers, public lands, and the systemic forces shaping them. Together we'll transform new knowledge into creative pinata artifacts and engage in a ritual of unlearning and breaking down harmful narratives that have distorted and erase the waterways connected to our public lands in Arizona
🎶 Arrival & Welcome with music and materials.
✂️ Create artifacts embodying river learnings through paper-mâché and zine prompts.
🎨 Collaborative piñata ritual: rejecting harmful narratives about rivers and embodying them through pinata making
💭 Reflection, gratitude, and ritual destructions of the piñata
Event Details:
📍 Sagrado Galleria, Phoenix
📅 Saturday, October 18th, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
🔗 Register here: TierrArte River Rituals
This is the first of three TierrArte/eARTh workshops leading up to Teatrico AZ(LAND) in March at Carl Hayden High School, a culminating community symposium of performances, art, and environmental justice advocacy.
We hope you’ll join us to honor the river, make art, and fight for our shared public lands.
With gratitude,
The AZ(LAND) Team
🌐 azlnd.org | 📸 @azlandorg
Please consider making a donation to AZ(LAND) to continue to support our work co-creating resilient and sustainable communities here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
If you are interested in partnering, collaborating, and sponsoring the work of AZ(LAND) we encourage you to connect with us here: https://www.azlnd.org/contact
Desert Botanical Gardens Opening Weekend
🌿 Fragile, Resilient, Alive: Community Climate Resiliency Collages
📍 Location: Desert Botanical Garden – Opening Weekend Program
📅 Date: Saturday & Sunday, October 11–12, 2025
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Event Description:
Celebrate the Desert Botanical Garden’s Opening Weekend with AZ(LAND) through Fragile, Resilient, Alive, a hands-on art and education experience inviting community members to reflect on the desert as one of the most fragile—and yet most resilient—ecosystems on the planet.
Through climate collages, journaling, and interactive art activities, participants will explore the meaning of climate resilience, process personal reflections on environmental change, and contribute to a collective mural expressing the interconnectedness of people, plants, and place.
Activities will include:
✨ Community Collages & Canvases – Create visual reflections using pre-cut materials, magazines, and pressed plants.
✨ Nature Journaling & Prompts – Record personal thoughts, feelings, and observations about the desert over time.
✨ Polaroid Time Capsule – Capture moments and add them to a growing journal archive.
This family-friendly program offers space for dialogue, creativity, and learning—building climate literacy while celebrating the beauty and resilience of desert life.
AZ(LAND) TierrARte River Systems Tour
You’re invited to join AZ(LAND) for a special River Systems Tour, an immersive day-long experience exploring Arizona’s waterways, histories, present, and future. You can view the itinerary in the RSVP link below. This is an embodied learning experience for those of us removed through colonialism from the river system. Together, we’ll visit key river sites across the state, hear from community partners, and reflect on our personal and collective connections to water. This will be an outdoor journey with five planned visits where attendees will go through light walking and hiking. Please wear comfortable outdoor clothing & closed-toe shoes, a sun protecting hat, sunglasses, sunscreen. Please bring a refillable water bottle and any other items you may need for this outdoor experience.
📅 Date: Saturday October 4th, 2025
🕓 Time: 6:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Starting Point: Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center
Highlights of the Tour:
Stop 1: Audubon center - History of Salt River and South Phoenix a topic on Sunbelt Apartheid
Stop 2: Tempe Town Lake – Displacement & Urban development
Stop 3: Gila River Interpretive Trail – History of water & environmental justice (with Gila River Indian Community staff)
Stop 4: Gila Bend Petroglyph Site – Stories of land and culture
Stop 5: Tres Rios Wetlands – Ecology, research, and restoration futures
Stop 6: Returning back to Audubon Center for drop off
What’s Included:
Provided charter bus transportation to all sites
Breakfast snacks & drinks
Lunch
Guided presentations & interactive activities
What to Bring:
Comfortable outdoor clothing & closed-toe shoes
Hat, sunglasses, sunscreen
Refillable water bottle
View a detailed Itinerary and secure your spot, RSVP here . – space is limited!
👉 Contact info@azlnd.org for more information.
This event is free to you however we encourage you to make a donation to AZ(LAND) to support future community field trips and environmental justice work. We look forward to exploring Arizona’s water stories with you and hope this will help build our collective capacity to safeguard our public lands, water systems, as you carry this experience to inform your work in other spaces.
With gratitude,
The AZ(LAND) Team
¡Sombra! Celebration of Shade
Join us Saturday September 20th
Event details:
¡Sombra! Celebration of Shade
Saturday, September 20, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Memorial Hall at Steele Indian School Park
RSVP here: https://sombraphx.org/events/celebration-of-shade-festival/
Open parking in adjacent lots
Free food and drinks
Smart Casual to Cocktail attire
3D model and visual display for each project
Mayor Kate Gallego and Bloomberg Philanthropies staff will be speaking
• Premiere of the ¡Sombra! documentary film
Shades of Resilience Desert Botanical Gardens Community Day
🌵 Shades of Resilience: Exploring Heat, Justice & Ecology
📍 Location: Desert Botanical Garden – Desert Pulse Exhibition
📅 Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 (Free Admission Day)
Event Description: Join AZ(LAND) at our upcoming community academy. Community academies are all about stepping beyond the four walls of the classroom to engage and educate the community about the impact of the climate crisis and about the nutritional, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits our local Sonoran desert environment.
Join AZ(LAND) at the Desert Botanical Garden for Shades of Resilience, an interactive community day exploring the connections between extreme urban heat, environmental justice, and the resilience of desert plants and people.
Through hands-on investigative learning activities, including heat-mapping with thermometers and themed learning stations, participants will dive into how heat islands impact our neighborhoods, ecology, and daily lives. This gathering builds on the Desert Pulse exhibition, highlighting the beauty and challenges of desert landscapes—where saguaros fall, flowers grow, and communities persist.
This event is part of AZ(LAND)’s ongoing collaboration with Sombraphx Shades of Resilience project, bridging art, science, and justice to reimagine our collective response to climate change.
✨ Academy Highlights:
Understanding Urban Heat Islands
Investigative Learning Activity: Heat-mapping with thermometers
Community Stations: Explore other partner tabling heat related activities
This program offers a preview of AZ(LAND)’s upcoming fall community academies in partnership with the Desert Botanical Gardens, continuing the conversation on environmental justice and desert resilience.
🔗 Learn more about our partners and projects:
Community Learning Circle: Collage for Climate Justice
Join AZ(LAND) for a design workshop that is intended to introduce climate resiliency strategies through art as we work to elevate knowledge about climate change and the environmental inequities present in our communities.
Title: Climate Resiliency in South Phoenix: Exploring Air and Water Quality
🔥 RSVP here or on the azlnd.org events page.
At these workshops we will:
🌱 Redefine resilient community-rooted partnerships and assets that uplift historically excluded yet resilient communities
🌱 Champion the future of resilient and sustainable project initiatives that center on environmental justice
🌱 Introduce resilient, inclusive solutions focused on water harvesting and air quality
🌱 Promote resilient and sustainable eco-friendly climate resilient adaptation and mitigation practices
🌱 Introduce innovative climate strategies, including solarpunk
This is your chance to connect with a network of community, environmental and climate changemakers, learn from each other's insights, and explore collaborative visions that will propel environmental and climate resiliency forward in our communities.
Just relax over art, listen, and enjoy authentic connections, insightful conversations, and meaningful opportunities for collaboration.
July 25th workshop: 🔗 RSVP here!
Community Learning Circle: Policies Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities
Join AZ(LAND) and the America The Beautiful 4 All Coalition in our 4 part upcoming webinar series
Title: Policies: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities.
Description: Join our multi-part webinar series exploring the rising threat of extreme weather and how it disproportionately affects underserved communities. Discover how equitable access to parks and greenspaces can be a powerful solution for cooling cities, mitigating storm impacts and building climate resilience. Register here: bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather. Webinars include: April 25: Introduction, May 30: Local Stories, June 27: Resources and July 27: Policies.
📍 Who feels the heat the most?
Communities with fewer trees, more pavement, and limited access to greenspace often face the most extreme temperatures. Our first webinar dives deep into how climate injustice impacts health and equity.
🔥 RSVP: http://bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather
#HeatEquity #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice
AZ(Land), Children & Nature Network, GreenLatinos, Groundwork USA, Nature for All, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Together for Brothers, Trust for Public Land & WEACT
Community Learning Circle: Collage for Climate Justice
Join AZ(LAND) for a design workshop that is intended to introduce climate resiliency strategies through art as we work to elevate knowledge about climate change and the environmental inequities present in our communities.
Title: Climate Resiliency in South Phoenix: Exploring Air and Water Quality
🔥 RSVP here or on the azlnd.org events page.
At these workshops we will:
🌱 Redefine resilient community-rooted partnerships and assets that uplift historically excluded yet resilient communities
🌱 Champion the future of resilient and sustainable project initiatives that center on environmental justice
🌱 Introduce resilient, inclusive solutions focused on water harvesting and air quality
🌱 Promote resilient and sustainable eco-friendly climate resilient adaptation and mitigation practices
🌱 Introduce innovative climate strategies, including solarpunk
This is your chance to connect with a network of community, environmental and climate changemakers, learn from each other's insights, and explore collaborative visions that will propel environmental and climate resiliency forward in our communities.
Just relax over art, listen, and enjoy authentic connections, insightful conversations, and meaningful opportunities for collaboration.
July 18th workshop: 🔗 RSVP here!
Community Learning Circle: Resources: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities
Join AZ(LAND) and the America The Beautiful 4 All Coalition in our 4 part upcoming webinar series
Title: Resources: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities
Description: Join our multi-part webinar series exploring the rising threat of extreme weather and how it disproportionately affects underserved communities. Discover how equitable access to parks and greenspaces can be a powerful solution for cooling cities, mitigating storm impacts and building climate resilience. Register here: bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather. Webinars include: April 25: Introduction, May 30: Local Stories, June 27: Resources and July 27: Policies.
📍 Who feels the heat the most?
Communities with fewer trees, more pavement, and limited access to greenspace often face the most extreme temperatures. Our first webinar dives deep into how climate injustice impacts health and equity.
🔥 RSVP: http://bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather
#HeatEquity #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice
AZ(Land), Children & Nature Network, GreenLatinos, Groundwork USA, Nature for All, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Together for Brothers, Trust for Public Land & WEACT
Community Learning Circle: Local Stories: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities
Join AZ(LAND) and the America The Beautiful 4 All Coalition in our 4 part upcoming webinar series
Title: Local Stories: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities.
Description: Join our multi-part webinar series exploring the rising threat of extreme weather and how it disproportionately affects underserved communities. Discover how equitable access to parks and greenspaces can be a powerful solution for cooling cities, mitigating storm impacts and building climate resilience. Register here: bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather. Webinars include: April 25: Introduction, May 30: Local Stories, June 27: Resources and July 27: Policies.
📍 Who feels the heat the most?
Communities with fewer trees, more pavement, and limited access to greenspace often face the most extreme temperatures. Our first webinar dives deep into how climate injustice impacts health and equity.
🔥 RSVP: http://bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather
#HeatEquity #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice
AZ(LAND), Children & Nature Network, GreenLatinos, Groundwork USA, Nature for All, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Together for Brothers, Trust for Public Land & WEACT
Plastic Flowers and Heat Index with AZ(LAND) #2
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/plastic-flowers-and-heat-index-with-azland/
Plastic Flowers and Heat Index with AZ(LAND)
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/plastic-flowers-and-heat-index/
Community Learning Circle: Introduction: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities
Join AZ(LAND) and the America The Beautiful 4 All Coalition in our 4 part upcoming webinar series
Title: Introduction: Cooling the Heat & Weathering the Storm: Parks, Equity & Climate Resilience in Our Cities.
Description: Join our multi-part webinar series exploring the rising threat of extreme weather and how it disproportionately affects underserved communities. Discover how equitable access to parks and greenspaces can be a powerful solution for cooling cities, mitigating storm impacts and building climate resilience. Register here: bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather. Webinars include: April 25: Introduction, May 30: Local Stories, June 27: Resources and July 27: Policies.
📍 Who feels the heat the most?
Communities with fewer trees, more pavement, and limited access to greenspace often face the most extreme temperatures. Our first webinar dives deep into how climate injustice impacts health and equity.
🔥 RSVP: http://bit.ly/UPGSextremeweather
#HeatEquity #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice
AZ(LAND), Children & Nature Network, GreenLatinos, Groundwork USA, Nature for All, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Together for Brothers, Trust for Public Land & WEACT
Corn Husk and Dying with AZ(LAND) #2
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/corn-husk-and-dying-with-azland-2/
Corn Husk and Dying with AZ(LAND)
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/corn-husk-and-dying-with-azland/
AZ(LAND) Art of Breath Mercado and Performance
🌳🧠 “Future Building: TierrArte/eARTh of Breath Mercado and Performance!! 🏜️🌳
Join us! AZ(LAND) and The Sagrado Galleria are hosting the Art of Breath Mercado & Performance on Saturday, April 5th from 4pm-8pm!
This is a free, family-friendly event! Free food is first come, first serve, then opportunity to buy food after.
Join us as we reflect on our TierrArte series, which connected independent artists with environmental advocacy in South Phoenix. We will also learn more about Ambiente Public Arts, an initiative of The Sagrado Galleria using public art to communicate air quality data.
We will also be hosting a Night Mercado of local artists, performers, food, and local grassroots community organizations.
We will also be hosting Rising Youth Theater and SciDance facilitators for an immersive movement performance about the history of South Phoenix.
Join us for this Mercado supporting local artists, environmental advocacy, and embodied learning!
Interested in being a vendor?
Complete the AZ(LAND) Art of Breath Mercado and Performance Vendor form here.
AZ(LAND) Art of Breath Mercado and Performance RSVP here.
Please consider making a one time or recurring donation to help one of Arizona's only nonprofits fighting climate change by centering education. Your investment and partnership will support the continuation of our work.
Art of Adobe Brick Making with AZ(LAND) #3
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/art-of-adobe-brick-making-with-azland-3/
Art of Adobe Brick Making with AZ(LAND) #2
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/art-of-adobe-brick-making-with-azland-2/
Art of Adobe Brick Making with AZ(LAND)
Join us for the AZ(LAND) Future Building: “Shades of Resilience: Community Fabrication Workshops.”
We invite you to be a part of the fabrication of the AZ(LAND) Sombra Shades of Resilience structure to be installed at Steele Indian School Park May 10th, 2025.
Workshops will run Saturdays from 7:00am-9:00am.
This series of workshops will have the capacity to engage up to 30 participants. During these workshops you can expect to participate in adobe brick making, corn husk dying, and working with recycled plastics that will be incorporated onto the structure.
With limited capacity, please RSVP to be able to take part in the adobe brick making. Corn husk making, dying, and recycled plastic weaving.
Please note: By attending this event, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur.
Register here: https://sombraphx.org/events/art-of-adobe-brick-making-with-azland/
Barrio Innovation Community Academy @ Scottsdale Family ArtsFest
As a part of our Eductional programming and our Barrio Innovation Community Academy Project: Join AZ(LAND) at this years Scottsdale Family ArtsFest at SkySong. This is a free, two-day festival of creativity that includes performances, interactive demonstrations, creative interventions, and culinary delights from local food trucks throughout the SkySong campus.
Over the course of the event, attendees will experience performances and art exhibitions delivered by Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) students, family-friendly arts activities presented by Scottsdale Arts and community partners, and interactive demonstrations from City of Scottsdale departments.
View more info here: https://skysong.com/artsfest/
AZ(LAND) TierrArte Rio Needle Felting
🌞🎨 Upcoming AZ(LAND) Event! 🌳
Future visioning is an integral component of the Barrio Innovation approach. Futuring enables youth and community members to imagine desirable futures and the pathways needed to bring about transformative change in their communities. Our team aims to continue using storytelling, art, and sense-based climate education through our TierrArte or ‘(eARTh)' project to paint futures of our historically resilient communities in Phoenix. These communal events aid our process in co-creating future narratives alongside Phoenix residents. Visit our events page to view upcoming eARTh or other organization project events
RSVP here to join AZ(LAND) and Protectors of the Salt River on Sunday, November 24th from 7AM-10AM!
Meet us at the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center. Following our river clean-up, we will learn from Abi Lopez how to needle felt using raw wool fibers.
Please:
Bring recycled textiles (old t-shirts, sheets, etc) to be used in your textile piece
Please bring a water bottle and closed toed shoes for the clean-up
Due to the specific nature of this activity, we have made this event 10+ for the workshop component. If you have younger kids, please join us for the Protectors of the Salt River clean-up at 7AM, no RSVP required.
Visit azlnd.org/events to learn more. RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/azland-tierrarte-rio-needle-felting?source=direct_link&
💭📝Reflect with us!
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Please consider filling out our AZ(LAND) Program and Project Reflection Survey
Please consider making a donation to AZ(LAND) to continue to support our work co-creating resilient and sustainable communities. Your support helps us continue to be present in classrooms and communities across the valley most impacted by environmental inequities. You can donate here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
If you are interested in partnering, collaborating, and sponsoring the work of AZ(LAND) we encourage you to connect with us here: https://www.azlnd.org/contact
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🌞🎨 ¡Próximos eventos AZ(LAND)! 🌳
La visión de futuro es un componente integral del enfoque de Innovación Barrio. Futureing permite a los jóvenes y a los miembros de la comunidad imaginar futuros deseables y los caminos necesarios para lograr un cambio transformador en sus comunidades. Nuestro equipo tiene como objetivo continuar utilizando la narración de historias, el arte digital y la educación climática basada en los sentidos a través de nuestro proyecto TierrArte o '(eARTh)' para pintar el futuro de nuestras comunidades históricamente resilientes en Phoenix. Estos eventos comunitarios ayudan a nuestro proceso de cocreación de narrativas futuras junto con los residentes de Phoenix. Visite nuestra página de eventos para ver los próximos eventos de eARTh u otros proyectos de organizaciones.
RSVP aquí para unirse a AZ(LAND) y Protectores del Río Salado el domingo 24 de noviembre de 7AM-10AM! Reunirse con nosotros en el a Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center. Después de nuestra limpieza del río, aprenderemos de Abi Lopez cómo agujar fieltro usando fibras de lana cruda.
Por favor:
Traiga textiles reciclados (camisetas viejas, sábanas, etc) para ser utilizados en su pieza textil
Por favor traiga una botella de agua y zapatos cerrados para la limpieza de río
Debido a la naturaleza específica de esta actividad, hemos realizado este evento 10 para el componente taller. Si tiene niños más pequeños, únase a nosotros para la limpieza de los Protectores del Río Salado a las 7 AM, no se requiere RSVP.
Visite azlnd.org/events para obtener más información. RSVP aqui: https://actionnetwork.org/events/azland-tierrarte-rio-needle-felting?source=direct_link&
💭📝¡Reflexiona con nosotros!
¿Ha asistido a un evento AZ(LAND) reciente?
Considere completar nuestra Encuesta de reflexión sobre el programa y el proyecto AZ(LAND)
Considere hacer una donación a AZ(LAND) para continuar apoyando nuestro trabajo de co-creación de comunidades resilientes y sostenibles aquí: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
Si está interesado en asociarse, colaborar y patrocinar el trabajo de AZ(LAND), lo invitamos a conectarse con nosotros aquí: https://www.azlnd.org/contact
Barrio Innovation Community Academy-Canal Convergence
Join AZ(LAND) at our pop up Barrio Innovation Community Academy. Our community academies are all about embedding ourselves and being present amongst the same communities we are working to empower. We believe in stepping beyond the four walls of the classroom to engage and educate the community about the impact of the climate crisis and about the nutritional, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits our local Sonoran desert environment. You can catch us at one of the following community events hosting an educational tabling or workshop session.
Visit: https://canalconvergence.com/event/whispers-of-the-past-shaped-by-water-11-13/ to learn more.
Continue to support our work by making a contribution here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
Barrio Innovation Community Academy-8th Annual Healthy Fall Festival
Join AZ(LAND) at our pop up Barrio Innovation Community Academy. Our community academies are all about embedding ourselves and being present amongst the same communities we are working to empower. We believe in stepping beyond the four walls of the classroom to engage and educate the community about the impact of the climate crisis and about the nutritional, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits our local Sonoran desert environment. You can catch us at one of the following community events hosting an educational tabling or workshop session.
Visit: https://www.equalityhealthfoundation.org/festival/healthy-fall-festival-phoenix/#arizona_register to learn more.
Continue to support our work by making a contribution here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
Barrio Innovation Community Academy-Nature Fest Phx
Join AZ(LAND) at our pop up Barrio Innovation Community Academy. Our community academies are all about embedding ourselves and being present amongst the same communities we are working to empower. We believe in stepping beyond the four walls of the classroom to engage and educate the community about the impact of the climate crisis and about the nutritional, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits our local Sonoran desert environment. You can catch us at one of the following community events hosting an educational tabling or workshop session.
Visit: https://www.phoenix.gov/oep/naturefestphx to learn more.
Continue to support our work by making a contribution here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
AZ(LAND) Board of Directors and Advisory Council Interest Meeting
Join AZ(LAND) Thursday, October 17th from 5:30pm-7pm at the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center in downtown Phoenix. AZ(LAND) is a hyperlocal community based organization. We are a small and young organization, for now.
We are currently looking to identify and develop our AZ(LAND) Founding Board of Directors. We invite you to attend our upcoming interest meeting if you have an interest to serve on our founding board or on our AZ(LAND) Community Advisory Council. During this time, you will learn about our Founder and CEO Regional “Reggie” Carrillo. You will also gain an understanding of our AZ(LAND) journey and origins. We will provide an AZ(LAND) organizational overview. Lastly, you will gain an understanding of our needs, areas of support and the role that the Founding Board of Directors and Community Advisory Council will play in helping to expand the AZ(LAND) mission and vision.
You are a good fit if you have:
Been intimately involved in the work of AZ(LAND) such as being present at our community events.
Past experience serving on a board or other leadership positions
Past experience working in a collaborative and supportive team environment
A passion for environmental justice, sustainability, the Sonoran desert, addressing the climate crisis.
Expertise and/or a skill set in the areas of finance, accounting, legal compliance, grant writing, fundraising, community engagement and outreach, sustainability, education, research and data, urban design and development, community organizing
Please RSVP and share this invite with those in your network: https://actionnetwork.org/events/azland-board-of-directors-and-advisory-council-interest-meeting?source=direct_link&
Donate here to support the AZ(LAND) mission and vision: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
Annual Ancestral Community Gathering and Art Showcase
Join AZ(LAND) at our pop up Barrio Innovation Community Academy. Our community academies are all about embedding ourselves and being present amongst the same communities we are working to empower. We believe in stepping beyond the four walls of the classroom to engage and educate the community about the impact of the climate crisis and about the nutritional, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits our local Sonoran desert environment. You can catch us at one of the following community events hosting an educational tabling or workshop session.
Visit: https://www.thesagrado.org/programs to learn more.
Continue to support our work by making a contribution here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/az-land--org-1
AZ(LAND) Future Building: Community Design Talks
Join AZ(LAND) and Sagrado Design Empowerment as we collaborate to explore present and upcoming community designs from the 3rd st bridge to the City of Phoenix Sombra Shade Structure development and installations. Attendees will hear and engage with a diverse panel of lead designers working on these various community initiatives and spaces. RSVP here . Sombra Translates to Shade. AZ(LAND) in collaboration between the Department of Arts and Culture, the Parks and Recreation Department, the Office of Innovation, the Office of Heat Response and Mitigation, and the Mayor’s Office will be holding a series of community events focused on addressing Urban heat through the design and development of a Sombra or Shade structure. Heat does not affect all people equally. Underserved communities, including those in South Phoenix, are especially susceptible to extreme heat. The lack of trees, ground vegetation and shade, along with large amounts of asphalt, contribute to the heat-island impact resulting in increased temperatures. With this in mind, we are partnering with the Sagrado galleria Design Empowerment team to explore how community centered design can contribute to developing more equitable, sustainable, and resilient communities in the face of climate change in the Sonoran Desert.
Únase a AZ(LAND) y Sagrado Design Empowerment mientras colaboramos para explorar los diseños comunitarios presentes y futuros desde el tercer puente hasta el desarrollo y las instalaciones de la estructura Sombra Shade de la ciudad de Phoenix. Los asistentes escucharán e interactuarán con los diseñadores principales que trabajan en estas diversas iniciativas comunitarias. Confirme su asistencia aquí . Sombra se traduce en sombra. AZ(LAND), en colaboración entre el Departamento de Arte y Cultura, el Departamento de Parques y Recreación, la Oficina de Innovación, la Oficina de Respuesta y Mitigación del Calor y la Oficina del Alcalde, llevarán a cabo una serie de eventos comunitarios centrados en abordar el calor urbano. a través del diseño y desarrollo de una estructura Sombra o Shade. El calor no afecta a todas las personas por igual. Las comunidades desatendidas, incluidas las del sur de Phoenix, son especialmente susceptibles al calor extremo. La falta de árboles, vegetación en el suelo y sombra, junto con grandes cantidades de asfalto, contribuyen al impacto de isla de calor que resulta en un aumento de las temperaturas. Con esto en mente, nos asociamos con el equipo de Design Empowerment de Sagrado galleria para explorar cómo el diseño centrado en la comunidad puede contribuir al desarrollo de comunidades más equitativas, sostenibles y resilientes frente al cambio climático en el desierto de Sonora.