Real Summer Exploration

$2 Admission Sundays All Summer to feature Science Fun and Special Guests! Fun-filled learning is happening this summer at the Children’s Museum Tucson with Science Sundays from May 20th through September 2nd.  This Sunday-only program will feature science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) themed activities from 10:30am to 4:00pm.  Museum staff and weekly guest organizations will provide hands-on fun for visitors with animals, physics, math, lasers and much more.  The Planetary Science Institute kicks off this summer program with solar eclipse activities on May 20th.  Science Sundays are also $2 admission days.

Regular admission is free for children under 24 months; $6, ages 2-18; $8, Adults; $6, Seniors. The Museum is located at 200 S. 6th Ave in downtown Tucson. For more information, please call (520) 792-9985 or visit the Facebook page or website www.childrensmuseumtucson.org.

July 7 - 10th Annual Ha:san Bak: Saguaro Harvest Celebration: Join us in celebrating the Saguaro! Harvest Workshop 6:30 a.m.; presentations, vendors, and activities 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

June 3 - Sunday in The Park: "Wild Cats of the Sky Island Region"; with Jessica Lamberton, Sky Island Alliance; two presentations, 2:00 p.m. & 3:15 p.m. Fact and fiction about our bobcats, mountain lions, jaguars, and ocelots!

Let Gray Line show you Tucson and Southern Arizona! We have been showing this area off to the world for almost a century and we still find amazing things to show our friends here in Tucson and from afar. As Tucson’s longest running tour business, we know the ins and outs that will make your trip special.

Price includes wine, great company and inspired discussion! Headquarters presents the MOCA 2012 Book Club: Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’12: Art, Politics, Media. This year’s book club examines the intersection of art, politics and media. From Shepard Fairey’s now-iconic graphic of President Barack Obama to George Clooney’s The Ides of March, from the OWS movement to the vast industries devoted to creating the visual materials produced for campaigns, from Colbert’s “performance art” to Dick Tuck’s political tricksterism, this topic provides an endless stream of discussion material in an era when visual impressions, sound nanobites and “truthiness” seem to trump facts and substance. Books are available for purchase in MOCAshop.

• 1 March The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss
• 3 May Within the Context of No-Context by George W.S. Trow
• 6 September What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
• 1 November Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson

Price of offer, event or promotion:   Members $5, Non-members $10 - This event recurs on 3 May, 6 September, and 1 November 2012. Time: 5:30-6:30pm.

In an event hosted by MOCA Tucson, the Flinching Eye Collective will present a collection of live performances, video works and mixed-media collaborations investigating the relationship between sound, music and noise. Artists include: Mark McCoin, Max Berstein, Ryan W. Ruehlen, Adán de la Garza, Tobias Fike, Matt Weedman, Mark Banzhoff, Scott Ferguson, Benjamin Gale-Schreck.  $5 MOCA Members, $8 Non-members

As part of the museum’s summer-long celebration of performance art, MOCA Tucson cordially invites you to a special artist talk and performance with former MOCA Poet in Residence Renee Angle. At this event, Angle will discuss and perform the collaborative on-line dream journal she began developing during her residency, entitled The New Dream Anatomy. The New Dream Anatomy attempts to illustrate the dream life of the citizens of Tucson and beyond by collecting dreams for storage, cataloging, and consideration from any dreamer who wishes to donate. What do the dreams of Tucsonans look like during monsoon season? What are the residents of Barrio Viejo dreaming? What does Tucson dream in October? After firecrackers? The New Dream Anatomy attempts to answer questions like these and many, many others. Dreams are a most basic creative fact, yet most illusive. By diagramming a collective dream experience, we might get closer to learning about those aspects of dreams that elude all of us, tapping into a more primal, substantive dream source than what is currently available to the single self. The New Dream Anatomy’s online public dream journal will launch this summer. Learn more about the project and prepare yourself for dream donation by attending Angle’s dream incubation session at MOCA. This session will be informed by the online survey which you can participate in by following this link. The survey takes five minutes to complete and Angle will incorporate your answers into the text of her reading.  FREE for MOCA members, $5 Non-members

Led by the resort’s colorfully-uniformed mascot, Ranger Ron, a devotee of fun and games and an expert in Southwestern wildlife, history and Arizona’s high Sonoran Desert lifestyle, the Dove Mountain Rangers have introduced a guided program of desert adventures highlighted by the following. An expanded roster of further activities will be announced throughout the spring.

Geo-Caching Desert Treasure Hunt – For Children, Adults, Groups and Families
A first in the region, geo-caching is now presented by the Dove Mountain Rangers and allows GPS-carrying guests to seek hidden “caches” where resort collectibles are tucked away. Using provided GPS technology, guests will walk along the resort’s Wild Burro, Alamo Spring and Upper Javelina trails, seeking caches hidden behind cacti, trees and rocks.  Each treasure hunt leads to six such hideaways, and found treasures may be kept by each guest as mementos of a successful hunt.

The Desert Tortoise and Desert Wildlife Experience
The Dove Mountain Rangers love introducing young guests to their desert friends, including Rocky the Desert Tortoise, a friendly tarantula, and two non-poisonous snakes, all of whom live with and are cared for by the trained Ranger staff.  The property’s Desert Tortoise Habitat has allowed Rocky the Desert Tortoise to enjoy the company of young resort guests, as well as round-the-clock TLC from the Rangers, and a gourmet diet of lettuce, fruit, vegetables and grass. Desert wildlife abounds at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, and the Dove Mountain Rangers also present a night-time Bug Experience and other animal adventures, allowing kids to get up-close-and-personal with critters from the 850 scenic acres surrounding the resort.

Draw, paint, sculpt, collage, print, and more! Children ages 5-13 will discover culture and art from around the world at the Museum's Summer Arts Program, June 4 - August 10. Experiences will inspire children to create original works of art in a variety of gallery and studio activities. Each weekly session is planned and led by art teachers who focus on lessons in fine art making. Classes are offered for three age groups: 5-7, 8-10, and 11-13 years of age. Hours are 8:30am - 12:30pm. Cost: Members $100/session, Non-members $155/session.