Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 24 DREAM WEAVERS. Third Street Kids presents Sabunana, A Dream Play, today through tonight at the Tucson Center for Performing Arts, 408 S. Sixth Ave. Sabunana is "a dream within a dream, a musical fantasy," says Kids spokeswoman Marcia Berger. "It's about coming of age, about the point where the teens follow their dreams, the point where you tell your parents you're going to go your own way." The cast was culled from seven local high schools following rigorous auditions, and teens had their hands in the final script she says. Stephanie Sikes directs, with music and lyrics by Jeff Moyer and choreography by Anne Bunker, artistic director of ORTS Theater of Dance. Performances are 7 p.m. tonight, with a reserved school matinee tomorrow, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for children under age 12, and are available at Bentley's House of Coffee and Tea, 1730 E. Speedway, and at the door. Call 622-4100 for details. PUFFED UP. Revisit those days of yesteryear when trains were the preferred locomotion for political candidates as Kyle Railways hosts the San Pedro and Southwestern Whistle Stop Express today and tomorrow. Kyle has issued invitations and five minutes of free microphone time for all campaigning lip-flappers willing to hop on board for a 50-mile round-trip journey from Benson to the ghost town of Charleston. The day's events will also include a mock election, a student essay contest, and a "whistle tooter contest" for kids. Prices vary, and include an old-fashioned rally, cook-out, and a 45-minute stopover at the now-silent burg of Fairbanks, along the luscious San Pedro River. The train departs at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. from the San Pedro and Southwestern Depot, 796 E. Country Club Drive, in Benson. Call 1-888-GRAYHAWK, or visit any Dillard's box office for more information. Friday 25 NATIVITY SCENE. The late, great desert scribe Edward Abbey fondly called it "Glob." But most of us probably know it mostly as the hometown of former governor and monumental coif-maven Rose Mofford, and as one topnotch outback speed trap. Either way, you have to give the folks of hardy Globe and their nearby Miami brethren a thumbs-up, not only for birthing one of the finest hairdos going, but also for hosting the 13th Annual Apache Jii Day, a delightful celebration of the San Carlos Apaches that actually spans nearly 48 hours. The action unfurls tonight with a Native American Fashion show from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Cobre Valley Country Club. And starting tomorrow at 9 a.m., downtown explodes into a colorful street fair, rife with Indian jewelry, baskets, clothing and dolls, alongside food booths featuring such indigenous staples as traditional fry bread, Indian tacos and Apache acorn stew. Native American entertainment will include dances, singers and storytellers, topped with a rendition of the national anthem sung in Apache by tribal member Edith Via. To reach Globe, travel north on Oracle Road, turning east onto Highway 77 at Oracle Junction. The road again turns north at San Manuel; follow it through Winkelman and Hayden. The drive is about two hours. For information, call 1-800-804-5623. CREATIVE BOOST. Help the Dinnerware Artists Cooperative Gallery applaud developmentally disabled adults at RAISE ART '96. A spin-off of Pima County Adult Education, Project RAISE aims to help disabled adults hike their academic and creative skills, and is staffed by a group of visual and performing artists. This opening is a chance for the rest of Tucson to see the inspiring student paintings, drawings, textiles, sculptures, and stunning wool rugs designed under the tutelage of Patsy Donahue and Suzanne Savage. A performance and reception for the artists takes place tonight from 4:30 to 6 o'clock at Dinnerware, 135 E. Congress St. Call 881-5520 for information. Saturday 26 SHOOTERS. The celluloid Cyclops takes center stage when the Arizona Photographic Collectors present their 23rd Camera Show today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Boasting the buying and selling of "everything photographic," the show offers the chance to browse for books, pamphlets and lenses, as well as Leicas, Nikons and Canons. Admission is $4, with $1 off coupons available at local camera shops. That price tag includes free parking and a free camera check. The show will be held at the Shrine Temple, 450 S. Tucson Blvd. For details, call 529-5072. INSECT CHIC. Bogart that bull roach, friends, and head up to the Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum's Creepy Critter Contest, wherein a six-legged host of wrigglies will compete in the categories of grace, talent, and downright minute beauty--which, after all, isn't just exo-skeleton deep. Just lasso your favorite crawler, be it butterfly, beetle, dragonfly or cicada, try your best to keep it mortal, and register it by noon at the Arboretum Visitor Center. A panel of the entomologically minded will begin judging at 1 p.m. And kids can get in the action as well, with plenty of hands-on "buggy" activities. The whole point of this skitter-fest is to help people learn to dig their multitudinous co-dwellers, says curator Carol Crosswhite. "We want to tell people about the importance of these creatures to plants and humans," she says. "So often people completely overlook these small animals, or have a negative attitude about them." So lay those preconceptions aside, and travel north on Oracle Road, turning east at Oracle Junction onto Highway 79. Continue through Florence Junction and take a right on Highway 60. It's three miles east of Superior, Arizona. Call (520) 689-5248 for information. SONORAN SPOOKS. Storytellers visit the arid crypt at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Gift Shop's Twisted Tales from a Haunted Desert. Mark Severson, Sheila Pattison and Gerard Tsonakwa cull their spine-tingling yarns from annals of the Old West and Native American cultures from 1 to 4 p.m. on Phoebe's Coffee Bar patio. The creepy narratives are included with the price of admission, which is free to museum members, $8.95 for non-members, and $1.50 for kids ages 12 and under. Take Speedway east over Gates Pass and follow the signs to 2021 N. Kinney Road. For details, call 578-3008. Sunday 27 ALTRUISTIC TROT. Join the Southern Arizona Roadrunners for a 10-mile run starting from Sabino High School at 7:30 a.m., with proceeds going to that most inspired of events, the Special Olympics. Or if your view of life is a tad more laid back, build your deep intellect with a five-kilometer run/walk. Regardless of your preference, registration for the charitably minded and relatively motivated is $20 at the Sabino parking lot, 5000 N. Bowes Road. Call 326-9383 for information. SWEET HARVEST. Feel the sensual thrill of tiny fruits squished to smithereens beneath your toes at the Fifth Annual Arizona Harvest Festival. Even Martha Stewart would be tempted to roll up her tasteful britches at this grape-crushing party, which will include cooking demonstrations, puppet shows, a pumpkin-painting contest and live music. Beverages, appropriately enough, will include Arizona wines, while foodstuffs range from fresh produce to big, fat Emu steaks. Mmm! The festival is underway from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Philip's Plaza, on the corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue. Admission is free with a donation of canned goods for the Tucson Community Food Bank. Call 293-5637 for information. Monday 28 CREATIVE STRANDS. An ongoing tapestry of sewn photographic collages, pastel drawings and mixed media sculptures continues at the PCCWest Campus Art Gallery through November 5. Pam Deutschman's collages reach into the disparate elements of the personal and societal, incorporating fabric and thread into photographic prints to bring the message home. Color-drenched pastel drawings by Pat Dolan take on Man's existence, placed smack against the natural world. Meanwhile, she captures the density of light through vivid scenes, giving her pieces the effect of rich oils. Dana Fritz narrows her focus to our interplay with plants through her mixed-media sculptures. She draws inspiration from gardens, and the well-defined, controlled spaces they inhabit, detailing the integration of those plants with our daily lives--particularly how we earnestly try to make such existence permanent--with futility as our final reward. The PCC gallery is located at 2202 W. Anklam Road. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 884-6942 for information. Tuesday 29 DEEP PURPLE. In some future century, countless weary android graduate students will probably spend their best years dissecting the meaning of Barney, a powerful icon from what will likely come to be called the Polystyrene Age. They'll scratch their weirdly protruding noggins, roll their grapefruit-sized eyes, and wonder if the rotund foam-rubber one really was a God. Regardless, Barney has pranced into a million rugrat hearts, despite the fact he's driven an equal number of parents right to the precipice of homicide with those eerie little homilies. Which leaves lingering questions: Who is Barney, and what is his message for mankind? True messenger, or plump false prophet? You be the judge, when he makes his long-awaited pilgrimage to the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave., for Barney's Big Surprise, a musical stage show at 7 tonight and at 2:30 and 7 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $12.50, $15 and $25, available at all Dillard's outlets and the TCC box office. Call 791-4266 or 1-800-638-4253 for details. NEW-FANGLED NEIGHBORS. A modern take on a very old idea shows up this evening at the Himmel Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave., with a discussion of new neighborhood designs called co-housing. The concept is an attempt to lessen the cul-de-sac alienation of our contemporary villages by clustering individual houses around a large common house, which then serves as a center for childcare, dining, offices and workshops. Outdoor areas for social activities and playgrounds also gain emphasis. The slide show presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. Call 326-0216 for information. Wednesday 30 INDIAN ODYSSEY. East meets West tonight when Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and his troupe give a dance performance at the TCC Leo Rich Theater, 260 S. Church Ave. Considered a living legend in his Indian homeland, Mohapatra and his dancers will perform Oddissi, one of the seven classical Indian dances, which originated as a form of worship. The show is sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth. Admission is free, and show-time is at 7 p.m. For information, call 321-0963. SPANISH DIGS. Their motives certainly weren't unique: to strike it rich in the newly explored lands of the present-day southwestern United States, a place then called Arizonac. That's where, in 1736, the Spanish gambusinos, or prospectors, came upon great slabs of silver called Las Planchas de Plata. Those adventurers later turned settlers, and profoundly affected the future of this region. Arizona State Museum historian and Jesuit priest Dr. Charles Polzer sinks an intellectual spade into this era with Spanish Prospectors: Arizonac, Fact and Fiction, a lecture from 7 to 9 tonight at the Arizona Historical Society, 949 E. Second St. Cost is $5, with a $2 discount for students. For details, call 628-5774. City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Mari Wadsworth. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc.

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