LECTURES
CATTLE CONNECTION. UA Physics Building, Fourth Street east
of Park Avenue. Room 201. Join Steve Johnson, founder of Native
Ecosystems and public lands consultant to the U.S. Humane Society,
for a discussion and slide show entitled Cattle Grazing and
Endangered Species: The Connection, at 7:45 p.m. Thursday,
March 26. Contact John Leonard at 790-5588 for information.
CORPORATE WORKSHOP. Doubletree Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way.
Learn the secrets of management success with Steven Vollaro and
Chuck Haney of Personal Mastery Seminars and Workshops in their
workshop Communication Skills. The free workshop is part
of a series presented by the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Arizona
Small Business Association, and is held from 8 to 10 a.m. on Thursday,
April 2. Call 886-6588 for information, or visit the website at
http://www.asba.com.
DIVORCE SUPPORT. The Family Counseling Agency offers a
free support group for people ending relationships and adjusting
to the single lifestyle. All groups are free of charge. Call 323-3952
for information.
FAMILY TREE. Learn valuable clues for researching your
family's heritage from the Friends of Family History Land and
Los Descendientes del Presidio de Tucson, with classes at 1:30
p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through April 25. Classes include:
Introduction to Geneaology; U.S Vital Records; U.S. Church
Records; Using the Family History Library; U.S. Census Records;
British Isles Civil Registration; and British Isles Census
Records. Classes are $8.50, free to members of FHL and Los
Descendientes. Call 790-5444 for registration and information.
FOLDED SPIRALS. UA Student Union. Attention teachers of
young children: Going in Circles and Loving it! is a hands
on workshop teaching the Folded Spiral method for basic academic
and social skills, scheduled for April 25. Registration begins
at 8:45 a.m. and class ends at noon. Cost is $59, and includes
materials. Call (800) 378-8480.
HEBREW LITERATURE. Swede Johnson Building. 1111 N. Cherry
Ave. As part of the Distinguished Lecture Series, the UA
Committee of Judaic Studies hosts Dr. Arnold J. Band, professor
of Hebrew and comparative literature at UCLA, who presents a bilingual
lecture entitled Hebrew Literature and the Zionist Narrative
at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. Admission is free. Call 621-9114
for information.
HEMLOCK SOCIETY. Unitarian Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. The
Hemlock Society of Southern Arizona and Arizonans for Death With
Dignity are holding a general meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March
28. Topic to be discussed is Requested Physician Assisted Death
for the Terminally Ill, with a follow-up discussion on House
Bill 2001, "Medical Treatment Options: Terminal Illnesses."
The meeting is free. Call 623-2384 for information.
IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 531 E. Roger Road. TNDC Cohousing
project has selected an infill site for the construction of an
environmentally sensitive urban common house. Construction will
start in September, but you can find out more about cohousing
opportunities from 1 to 4 p.m. every Saturday through May 16.
Call 325-8256 for information, or visit the website at www.igc.apc.org/tndc.
MOON BY DAY. The Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road,
north of Prince Road and east of Tucson Boulevard. George Phar
Legeler's fantasy wonderland is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday, March 20 and 21. Admission is free, but donations
are gratefully accepted for the restoration of this Arizona Historic
Site. Call 323-1331 for information.
SINGLES DINNER. Tucson JCC, Dodge Boulevard and River Road.
Join speaker Robert Bruce Star for End the Game Playing,
a lecture and dinner on love, sex and dating beginning at 6:30
p.m. Thursday, March 26. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at
the door. Call MeMe Aguila at 299-3000 for information.
TIBETAN MEDICINE. 3705 Old Sabino Canyon Road. Dr. Dikki
Palden, assistant to Dr. Tenzin Choedrak, physician for the H.H.
Dalai Lama, presents an introductory video and question-and-answer
session on the principles of Tibetan medicine. Lecture begins
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. Cost is $10. Tibetan medical appointments
with Dr. Dikki Palden and Dr. Tenlay Palden are available Tuesday
through Thursday, March 31 through April 2, for $50. Call 885-6527
for appointments and information.
WARTIME ARIZONA. Arizona Historical Society Museum. 949
E. Second St. Learn more about Arizona's diverse and intriguing
military history with the AHS spring lecture series, Wartime
Arizona. Lectures are at 7 p.m. Wednesday evenings. Free,
lighted parking is available in the AHS parking lot on the ground
floor of the UA Main Gate garage. Persons with a disability may
request reasonable accommodation; requests should be made in advance.
Lectures are $5, $3 for students. Call 628-5774 for information.
WOMANSPEAK. Aroma Cafe. 346 N. First Ave. Featuring the
best of Tucson's established and new women's voices, the WomanSpeak
Poetry and Prose reading series meets the last Sunday of every
month. Readings by Judith McDaniel and Sharon Creeden are featured
from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 29. Call Debra White at 206-9244
for more information.
WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY FILM. St. Philips in the Hills East
Gallery. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Join Toni Wolff for two lectures
presented by the Southern Arizona Friends of Jung: Women in
Contemporary Film, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 27;
and Women: Amazon, Mother, Hetaira and Medical Woman, from
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28. Cost is $9 for members,
$12 for non-members. Call 469-7977 for information, or visit the
website at www.bapu.net/safoj.htm.
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