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The Copa PanAmericana soccer tournament, featuring some of Latin America's most popular teams, runs July 16 through July 22. The schedule of the matches is as follows:
Halloween on the Salt River Jul. 21,2007, (480) 984-3305 Salt River Tubing and Recreation
$10 for shuttle service; $14 for inner-tube rental and shuttle service Discovering Nature’s Alphabet of the alphabet formed entirely by nature, untouched by human hands. Location: Arizona Museum for Youth
For Children: Arizona Educational Summer Camps 2007
Friday, October 5 from 11 am to 6 pm The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. The Green Building Expo is produced through a unique multi-city partnership, hosted by the Cities of Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe and scores of passionate volunteers. This year's Expo features expert "green" speakers and exhibitors representing architecture, environmental design, landscape design, green construction, solar technology and more. Green builders and consumers will receive up-to-date information on energy and resource efficiency and have access to new products and services that support sustainability at home, the workplace and school. The Cinema Verde Sustainable Film Festival will run throughout the event. Edward Mazria, the internationally-recognized architect who has launched the "2010 Imperative" and the "2030 Challenge," a global movement to address the current climate crisis.
Dolly Steamboat at Canyon Lake90 Minute Narrated Nature Cruise,
Tuesdays through Sundays at 12 p.m. Scottsdale Public Art The Scottsdale Public Art Program invites residents and visitors to explore our City's Public Art Collection. Robert Indiana's famous iconic Love sculpture outside the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. Conceived in a time when the United States was consumed by the Vietnam War, LOVE became a symbol for Peace. Location: The sculpture sits in the Civic Center Mall, between the Scottsdale Center for the Arts and the Civic Center Library.
Arizona Science Center, 600 E. Washington St. Phoenix, 85004 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, except Thanksgiving and Christmas. $9; $7 for kids 3-12 and seniors 62 and older.
"Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert;" an international group exhibition of 7 artists who maintain a close cultural relationship to desert concepts - geographical, social, psychological and emotional. 602-252-8840 Arizona State Park celebrates 50 years! For a free map and calendar of events: 602-542-1993
Horseback Riding at Arizona Horse Lovers' Park 19224 N. Tatum Blvd., Phoenix, Arizona 85032 (602) 534-9996 (recorded event updates)
What is 10-feet tall, roars like a lion and has a 22-foot stride? An ostrich, and its fine-feathered friends migrate to Chandler's Tumbleweek Park in March, yearly, for an ostrich race and festival that attracts more than 100,000 visitors. (Chandler has a long history of ostrich farming.)
Experience the best in Arizona agriculture: SE. Corner of Central and McKinley streets in Phoenix, Every Saturday of Each Month & 6-10pm the first Friday of the month: Cooking and creativity as vendors from across the state will offer fresh flowers, fruits & vegetables, meat & dairy products, roasted coffee, mouth watering honey, jams & chocolates, baked goods & prepared foods. For grocery and gift shopping, a meal with friends and neighbors and more - FREE parking is available on-site. For more information, visit http://www.foodconnect.org
Park of Four Waters Tours Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park 602-495-0901 The Hohokam people lived in the Salt River Area from approximately 450AD to 1450AD. They were an agricultural society, growing corn, beans, squash and cotton. In order to support there extensive agricultural system, the Hohokam people constructed miles of canals in order to direct water from the Salt River to their fields. The Park of Four Waters tour will take you on a tour through undeveloped, natural desert to the ruins of some of these canal systems. Tours of the Hohokam irrigation canals in the Park of Four Waters are offered at 10:00am on the last Saturday of each month (September through April).
Another March Festival is the National Festival of the West. This three-day event is a western fans holiday, and if you love the American West, this is the place to be because it's not only one of the biggest western events in the country, but we have Arizona's notoriously beautiful March weather. Then, there are the fun ethnic festivals: The Highland Games have the Scots showing us a fling or 2. The kilt-clad guys can toss a 16-pound hammer or a 28-pound weight. Or launch a 50-foot pole called a caber. Or shot-put a massive stone from a standing start. These chaps are artsy, too. Some are dashing drum majors who lead bagpipe brigades to bring "wind in the wood" to our desert terrain. For centuries, the men got to huff and puff and the women, when they finally got to join these throwing games, had to toss bean bags, frying pans and rolling pins. But at the 30th annual Scottish Highland Games, no more! The women threw whatever the men threw, whether it was poles, stones, hammers or temper tantrums. The Matsuri Festival of Japan (602) 262-5071 takes place in the historic district of Phoenix, celebrating the food and art of Japan as well as martial arts demonstrations, traditional Japanese dancing and music. The festival is informative as it is beautiful. The Scottsdale Culinary Festival occurs in mid-April, and begins with a black-tie event, the Mayors' Culinary Cup Dessert Competition on a Friday. Saturday showcases the "hail to the Chefs" who present cooking demonstrations throughout the day. Then Sunday is The Great Arizona Picnic, an international food-tasting celebration. More than 30 area restaurants, caterers, and gourmet shops present a diverse selection of goodies. Auction Action:
Russo and Steele Sports and Muscle in Scottsdale This is the Auction event Enthusiasts wait for every year. We feature the finest in European Sports, American Muscle Car and Street Rods and Customs. RM Auctions Vintage Motor Cars in Arizona: The 2007 Arizona Biltmore Auction represents the finest event of its kind in the world. Silver Auctions Fort McDowell is Silver's 10th year for our Arizona flagship auction during the world-renowned Arizona-in-January extravaganza of collector car auctions.
The Fountain Hills Arizona Great Fair (480) 837-1654, is two days of family fun in February in the shadow of the world's tallest fountain. Over 40 colorful hot air balloons can be viewed before the ascension. More sky entertainment includes a talented parachuting group. There is also plenty to eat, and over 400 arts and crafts booths selling and displaying work by artists from all over the nation. Old Town Tempe Spring Festival of the Arts (480) 967-4877 The Scottsdale Arizona Arts Festival (480) 994-2787
The Arizona Renaissance Festival celebrates their 8th annual event in February and March, presenting a re-creation of a sixteenth century European marketfaire, a 25-acre Festival village with an action theater show of armored knights re-creating Medieval jousting tournaments. Mingle with royalty and townsfolks in a beautiful country fair setting. The 18th annual Festival in 2006 in Apache Junction 16th Century European Village celebrating romance & revelry of Renaissance Europe, music theater, comedy, hearty food & drynk, crafts, games & knights jousting, $6-16, 5 & under free, weekends, 10 am - 6 pm, 520-463-2700 Spring Pow Wow - Top Indian dancers, drummers, singers gather in Tempe each spring for their annual ceremony. Tribal dancers from Oklahoma, Minnesota, South Dakota and as far north as Canada take part in competitions. Many dancers travel on a pow wow circuit and compete. The dances are competitive, and prize money can be sizable.
Barrett-Jackson Antique Auto Auction Carefree Fine Art and Wine Festival 480-837-5637
Celebrating Goodyear’s western heritage, the Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce brings a Senior Rodeo to Goodyear each year. The event is held at the rodeo grounds. Rawhide now opene at Wild Horse Pass on the Gila River Community. 5700 North Loop Rd, Chandler, AZ 85226
Maricopa County Fair 602-252-0717 Sedona International Film Fest Independent Films celebrate annually the best in cinematic art.
Thai American Friendship festival will be held October 21-22 in 2006
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LOVE has been a fixture in the art of Robert Indiana. Its form and structure have changed significantly throughout the years from 1958-1966 and even through to today. The iconography first appeared in a series of poems originally written in 1958, in which Indiana stacked LO and VE on top of one another. The first LOVE sculpture was carved out of a solid block of aluminum, highly unpolished, that the pop artist had made for a show at the Stable Gallery in 1966.
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