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.

Listings 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. TW


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