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Archives for December 2019

Tucson Meet Yourself

December 17, 2019 By //  by SFA Staff

Founded in 1974 by folklorist Jim Griffith and his wife, Loma Griffith, Tucson Meet Yourself is an annual celebration of the living traditional arts of Southern Arizona's and Northern Mexico's diverse ethnic and folk communities. The free, three-day event features hundreds of artisans, home cooks, dancers, musicians and special exhibits that …

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Master-Apprentice Artist Award Program

December 16, 2019 By //  by SFA Staff

We provide direct support for master traditional artists living in Arizona to pass on art, culture, and heritage practices to apprentice learners through the annual SFA Master-Apprentice Award. The award is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and Arizona Commission on the Arts. The award supports a master artist or …

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Memorial to the Homeless

End of Life Programs

December 15, 2019 By //  by SFA Staff

SFA’s End of Life: Continuum (EOL) project shares cultural knowledge about traditions, expressions, and practices associated with end of life, grief, mourning and death in Southern Arizona’s folk, ethnic, occupational, faith-based and alternative communities. In 2019, as part of our Continuum: End of Life program, SFA facilitated a series of …

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VozFrontera

December 14, 2019 By //  by SFA Staff

A city without culture is a dead city. You just live to eat and work. Where there’s no creativity, no spontaneity, it’s a challenge to get your dreams going. –Gustavo Aranda, High school music teacher VozFrontera is a program for youth engagement, leadership, and local arts incubation in Nogales, Arizona. It offers documentary arts mentoring …

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Learning Folklife

December 13, 2019 By //  by SFA Staff

SFA Documentary Cohort In 2018-19, our educational focus has been in convening a cohort of documentary artists in Southern Arizona for learning exchanges in ethnographic methods, peer mentoring, and folklife immersion. Learn about cohort members here. This Is Folklife Classes & Workshops We offer a periodic series of classes & workshops …

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Documentation & Cultural Criticism

December 10, 2019 By //  by Kimi Eisele Leave a Comment

We are committed to amplifying stories about culture and heritage in our region. Some of those stories come out of our programs, like interviews we gather with recipients of our annual Master-Apprentice Artist Award, and special publications we've created in our End of Life programs.  Our montly online journal, BorderLore, is a repository of …

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