🌞 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.

🌞 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

www.azlnd.org

Donate to AZ(LAND) and continue to support environmental and climate justice educational community events

🌵 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 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.

🌵✨ 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

Donate to AZ(LAND)

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

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

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: 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:

• AZ(LAND) Artist Collective

• Shades of Resilience

• Desert Pulse at DBG

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!

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

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!

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

🌳🧠 “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.

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/

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/

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/

🌞🎨 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!

Have you attended a recent AZ(LAND) Event?

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&

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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

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