TierrArte Spring Equinox Gathering
🌞 You’re Invited: Spring Equinox Gathering : A Day of Renewal, Reflection & Connection
📅 Date: Saturday, March 21
🕗 Departure: Field trip leaves at 8:00 AM from the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center (60 min travel) Arrival back at audubon at 4pm.
📍 Location: Butcher Jones Recreation Site
3 E Butcher Jones Beach Rd, Fort McDowell, AZ 85264
Join AZ(LAND) for a land-based gathering at the Salt River honoring the Spring Equinox a seasonal moment of balance, renewal, and emergence and Altar Building.
This immersive experience invites participants to slow down, reconnect with the rhythms of the land, and reflect on the cycles of nature and life.
🌿 About the Gathering
The day begins with a welcome circle and land acknowledgement, grounding participants in the place and honoring the Indigenous lands and waters that sustain the region. Together we will reflect on the Spring Equinox through Indigenous perspectives, exploring themes of renewal, balance, and seasonal change.
Participants will then learn about the meaning and purpose of altars across cultures, including the significance of different adornments such as flowers, natural elements, and symbolic offerings. Through a collaborative practice, we will collectively build a community altar using flowers and natural plants from the river landscape.
✨ Reflective Practices
Through guided conversation and reflective writing prompts centered on the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, participants will explore:
Personal cycles of growth and change
Relationships with the natural world
Inner landscapes of grounding, movement, transformation, and breath
Participants will have time for quiet reflection, journaling, and optional group sharing.
🍽 Lunch and snacks provided, Break by the River
🎶 Closing Sound Therapy & Grounding
The gathering concludes with a restorative sound therapy session led by Lanette, creating space for rest, integration, and gentle restoration before returning home.
🌱 Why Attend
This experience offers an opportunity to reconnect with community, the land, and the rhythms of the season through reflection, creativity, and ceremony.
No prior experience is required—just openness and curiosity.
What to Bring: Hat, blanket, yoga mat, sunscreen, refillable waterbottle
💬 Registration
Space is limited.
👉 RSVP Here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/tierrarte-spring-equinox-gathering/?source=direct_link&
Transportation will depart from the Audubon Center at 8:00 AM and arrive back by 4pm.
We hope you will join us in honoring the arrival of spring.
In gratitude,
AZ(LAND)
Environmental & Climate Justice Education
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday-Photography
📸 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday
📅 Tuesday, April 14, 2026 10am-2pm
📷 Theme: Photography & Community Science
More details: DBG Community Day
Address: 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008
This Community Tuesday launches City Nature Challenge learning activities through photography and iNaturalist.
Participants will:
Capture desert plants and wildlife using Polaroids and digital photography.
Learn how to use iNaturalist to support community science.
Explore traditional ecological knowledge alongside scientific naming systems.
Learn how to participate safely and ethically in nature documentation.
Donation based access to the gardens.
Explore other community partner activities present.
This session supports community access to science, technology, and cultural knowledge.
📍 Desert Botanical Garden
🎟️ Included with admission | Free for DBG Members
See you outdoors,
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden
AZ(LAND) 2026 Tierra Madre Earth Day
AZ(LAND) Fund warmly invites community members, families, educators, artists, and partners to join our annual Tierra Madre Earth Day celebration along the Rio Salado. Tierra Madre is a day dedicated to deepening our relationship with land, culture, and community while uplifting environmental and climate justice education and action across the Sonoran Desert region.
This intergenerational gathering brings together local artists, community organizations, and environmental advocates for a day of learning, creativity, and collective care for our shared home.
🌎 Event Highlights
🚲 Ride the Rio (8:00 AM – 9:00 AM)
Start the day with Protectors of the Salt River and ride from Tempe Town Lake to the event site.
🛍 Mercado Tonalli (9:00 AM – 3:00 PM)
Support local vendors, artists, and small businesses offering handcrafted goods and community-rooted creations.
🌿 City Nature Challenge
Participate in the Greater Phoenix City Nature Challenge by documenting local plants and wildlife through community science.
🎭 Teatrico AZ(LAND)
Experience artist-led workshops and performances exploring land, identity, ecology, and cultural memory.
✨ Featuring Local Artists
Diane Ovalle
Estephania Gonzalez
Kate Tutaya Figgins
…and more
🤝 Community & Nonprofit Partners
Connect with organizations sharing resources, opportunities, and ways to engage in environmental and community-centered work.
🍉 Food & Refreshments
Complimentary food and drinks available for attendees.
🌱 Nonprofit & Vendor Participation
We welcome nonprofits, community groups, and mission-aligned organizations to host interactive activities, workshops, or resource tables that center:
Environmental justice
Climate resilience
Arts & culture
Community wellbeing
Education & youth engagement
If you are an artist, organization or business and want to participate, please complete the 2026 Tierra Madre Vendor Application Form.
(Feel free to share this invitation with aligned community partners and organizations.)
Additional logistical details will be shared as the event approaches.
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday-Sustainability
🌍 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday
📅 Tuesday, May 12, 2026
♻️ Theme: Sustainability
More details: DBG Community Day
Address: 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008
Join us for a creative exploration of sustainability, innovation, and environmental justice in the desert.
Participants will:
Create handmade paper from invasive plants.
Connect with local environmental justice groups sharing community-led solutions.
Donation based access to the gardens.
Explore other community partner activities present.
This hands-on experience highlights everyday actions and collective efforts shaping a more sustainable future.
📍 Desert Botanical Garden
🎟️ Included with admission | Free for DBG Members
In solidarity,
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday-Butterflies & Blooms
🦋 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday
📅 Tuesday, March 10, 2026 10am-2pm
🌼 Theme: Butterflies & Blooms
More details: DBG Community Day
Address: 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008
Celebrate desert flowers and pollinators during one of the busiest Community Days of the year coinciding with the Majestic Mariposas season at Desert Botanical Garden.
Participants will:
Create butterfly art using recycled materials.
Learn why pollinators matter and how we can protect them.
Donation based access to the gardens.
Explore other community partner activities present.
This family-friendly experience blends creativity, ecology, and action.
📍 Desert Botanical Garden
🎟️ Included with admission | Free for DBG Members
With gratitude,
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden
Sci-Dance Industrial Development
🌞 You’re Invited: TierrArte — Sci-Dance Industrial Development 🌎
An immersive, place-based embodied workshop exploring how land, infrastructure, and policy shape experience.
📍 Rio Salado 7th Ave NE Trailhead
📅 Saturday, March 7th
🕙 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
✨ This TierrArte experience blends:
🚶🏽 Place-based walk & talk
📝 Guided reflection & dialogue
🌊 Dance movement-based exploration
🌱 Collective future-visioning
Engaging in an Embodied workshop transforming injustice into Future Visions
Led by artist-scholar Dr. Lekelia (Kiki) Jenkins)
Together, participants reinterpret visual narratives of environmental injustice while imagining pathways toward repair, resilience, and community-driven futures.
Light snacks provided.
🌱 Part of TierrArte: Intergenerational, Arts-Based Power Building in the Sunbelt
Presented by AZ(LAND) with ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, CAP LTER, Rising Youth Theatre, and SciDance.
💬Space is limited (25 participants)
👉RSVP HERE
El Rio Vivo
🌱 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND) × Liberty Wildlife
Join AZ(LAND) and Liberty Wildlife in celebration of the Rio Salado.
El Rio Vivo is back for the 3rd year, with even more fun, art, music and food!
El Rio Vivo celebrates the restoration of the Rio Salado by bringing together nature, art, music and great food all in one day! And it all benefits the work of Liberty Wildlife in helping nurture the nature of Arizona along the Salt River in Phoenix, Arizona.
Event Date: Saturday, March 7th
Doors open at 8 am
River Walk from 8:30 – 11 am (3 mile total)
Art & Music Festival from 10 – 4 pm
View event details here: https://libertywildlife.org/event/el-rio-vivo/
Roots to Wings: Plant & Bird Eco Walk
🌱 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND), ASU x Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Program (CAPLTER)
📅 Saturday, February 28, 2026 8am-10am
🎨 Theme: Roots to Wings: Plant & Bird Eco Walk
Address: 2439 S Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Join us for a guided experience through our local ecosystem with Wildlife Research Specialist Shane Henderson from the Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAPLTER).
This immersive walk weaves together ecological insight, practical birding techniques, and a deeper understanding of how desert landscapes sustain life from roots to wings. You’ll learn how to:
• Identify key native plants that support bird populations
• Recognize bird calls, behaviors, and habitat patterns
• Observe like a field researcher — slowing down, noticing patterns, asking questions
• Understand how urban and desert ecosystems intersect
Whether you're a seasoned birder or simply curious about the life around you, this walk invites you to see our local landscape with new eyes — tracing the thread from soil, to stem, to sky.
Come ready to wander, wonder, and connect.
📍 Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area - Northeast Central Trailhead
In community,
AZ(LAND) × Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Program (CAPLTER)
Website: https://www.azlnd.org/events
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday-Diving Deep
🌱 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday
📅 Tuesday, February 10, 2026 10am-2pm
🎨 Theme: Diving Deep
More details: DBG Community Day
Address: 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008
This Community Tuesday invites participants to look beneath the surface of the world around us, of ourselves, our communities, and our desert ecosystems.
Through art and water painting participants will:
Explore native plant species using UV light to display its reflection.
Create water paintings based on native plant uv light reflection.
Donation based access to the gardens.
Explore other community partner activities present.
This session highlights the unseen connections that shape our desert home.
📍 Desert Botanical Garden
🎟️ Included with admission | Free for DBG Members
In community,
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden
Ecosystem Stewardship and Sustainable Harvest
🌞 Join us for Ecosystem Stewardship and Sustainable Harvest Gatherings
Presented by AZ(LAND) CAP LTER, Luke Ramsey, Groundwork USA
📅 Date: Saturday, January 31st
Topic: Nature Journaling: 8am-9am
Topic: Plant Pulling and Paper Making 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
📍 Location: Rio Salado 7th St S Trailhead: 2875 S 7th St. Phoenix, AZ 85040
🌵 About the Workshop
Join AZ(LAND) and CAP LTER to learn about nature journaling (starting at 9am) that can support community science initiatives and learn about urban wetland plants and help City of Phoenix manage populations of Cattail (Typha ssp.), Bullrushes (Schoenoplectus ssp.) and Giant Reed (Arundo donax) that threaten the stormwater infrastructure that feeds the Rio Salado. The harvested plants will be used to make paper by hand in future outreach events.
Wear something comfortable that you don’t mind getting dirty!
🎨 What to Expect
Guided eco walk
Place-based learning along the Rio Salado
Intro to nature journaling
Intro to cattail, stormwater infrastructure, and paper making
🌞 Why Attend
This workshop is part of our AZ(LAND) community academy leading to larger workshops in partnership with the Desert Botanical Gardens Community Tuesday events. Learn how you can document changes over time with nature journaling, support community science initiatives in upcoming workshops, and the importance of maintaining and stewarding our Rio Salado river systems.
💬 Register Today
👉 RSVP Here
Nearest light rail stop at Pioneer/central avenue near audubon center to location address.
TierrArte-Threading Oracles from Uneven Lands
🌞 You’re Invited: TierrArte — Power Building in the Sunbelt
Workshop: Threading Oracles from Uneven Lands
Presented by AZ(LAND)
In partnership with ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, CAP LTER, Rising Youth Theatre, and SciDance.
📅 Date: Saturday, January 24
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Rio Salado 7th Ave Trailhead. Light rail directions below.
Workshop presented in English and Spanish
🌵 About the Workshop
Join us for the next TierrArte workshop in the Power Building in the Sunbelt series, an intergenerational arts-based learning experience exploring how land, policy, and power intersect in Phoenix.
“Threading Oracles from Uneven Lands” invites participants to examine how discriminatory land-use practices, redlining, and infrastructure decisions have shaped place, access, and environmental exposure. This workshop centers creative practice as a tool for understanding harm and imagining more just futures.
Led by artist-scholar Dr. Marysol Ortega Pallanez, participants will engage in a photo-embroidery and storytelling session rooted in place-based inquiry and community reflection.
🧵 Workshop Focus
Transform images of injustice into oracle cards.
Participants will work with photographs and embroidery to reinterpret histories of land injustice and collectively envision pathways toward repair, resistance, and resilience.
🎨 What to Expect
Guided photo-embroidery and oracle card creation
Place-based learning along the Rio Salado
Discussion on land, geography, and environmental justice in South Phoenix
Collective reflection and future-oriented storytelling
Light snacks and drinks provided
🌞 Why Attend
This workshop is part of TierrArte: Intergenerational, Arts-Based Power Building in the Sunbelt, a collaborative series using art, science, and storytelling to foster community dialogue, healing, and climate justice action.
💬 Register Today
Space is limited to 35 participants.
👉 RSVP Here
Nearest light rail stop at Pioneer/central avenue near audubon center to location address.
Follow us @azlandorg for updates on upcoming TierrArte workshops and community events.
We look forward to creating, learning, and imagining with you.
In solidarity,
AZ(LAND)
Elevating Environmental & Climate Justice Education
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AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday-Time Lapse
🌵 You’re Invited: AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden Community Tuesday
📅 Tuesday, January 13, 2026: 10am-2pm
🎨 Theme: Time Lapse
More details: DBG Community Day
Address:1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008
Join AZ(LAND and Desert Botanical Garden for a hands-on Community Tuesday exploring how our communities and desert environments have changed and how they are still changing over time.
Participants of all ages are invited to:
Review a co-created community timeline tracing Phoenix’s environmental and cultural history.
Create sculptures representing moments in that timeline.
Donation based access to the gardens.
Explore other community partner activities present.
This interactive experience invites reflection, storytelling, and future-visioning through art and history.
📍 Desert Botanical Garden
🎟️ Included with admission | Free for DBG Members
We hope to see you there,
AZ(LAND) × Desert Botanical Garden
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/