SFA and TMY serve as a presenter of interactive educational content at the Children’s Day Festival (Día del Niño) and Vive el Grito! Mexican Independence Celebration, two Arizona Bilingual events.
This collaboration with the Smithsonian Foliklife Festival will present the Of the People Village at TMY’s October 2026 festival, featuring a Narrative & Dialogue Stage hosting facilitated civic conversations on work, culture, and belonging and Occupational Folklife Demonstrations.
Tucson Meet Yourself (TMY) is one of the longest consecutively running folklife festival in the nation and an immersive cultural experience — a free, three-day celebration held every October in downtown Tucson that has brought together the living traditional arts of Southern Arizona and the broader U.S.–Mexico border region since 1974.