HoCo Family Arts Festival
Sunday, September 26, 2010
10am-5pm
Hotel Congress
311 East Congress Street
Tucson, AZ 85701
FREE Family Friendly Local Celebration of
Arts, Culture and Innovation!
The Tucson Pima Arts Council partners with the HoCo Festival to celebrate arts and cultural enrichment with FREE Family Friendly Arts and Cultural activities. The private public partnership is also an opportunity to provide the public with a showcase of local classes, workshops, programs and organizations who provide access to the arts all year long. The Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) is the designated local arts agency for the City of Tucson and Pima County. TPAC fosters artistic expression, educational development and the economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting and advocating for arts and culture.
Participate in hands-on activities and programming all day long featuring the below organizations:
Participating Non-profit Arts and Cultural Organizations include:
The Drawing Studio
Pima Community College Center for the Arts
SharMoore Children’s Productions
KXCI 91.3 FM Community Radio
International School of Tucson
ZUZI! Dance Company
The Symphony Women’s Association
The Tucson Museum of Art
NEW ARTiculations
Industria Studios Inc.
Arts For All
BICAS
Tucson Meet Yourself
Many Mouths One Stomach
The Dambe Project Collective Awakening
Tucson’s River of Words
All Day Bicycle Valet provided by El Grupo:
El Grupo is a youth cycling club located in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to encourage the use of the bicycle for physical fitness, fun, and camaraderie.elgrupocycling.org
10:00am-12:00pm and 3:00pm-5:00pm Flam Chen/Tucson Circus Arts’: tucsoncircusarts.com Tucson Circus Arts’ mission is to provide the highest quality and most diverse physical theater, circus and performance training available. We encourage a balanced program of circus, dance, theater, music, martial arts and craft-developing body, mind and spirit thru multi disciplinary activity. Our board and teachers are both nationally and internationally based and always expanding. TCA’s directive is to further perpetuate Circus as a fine art form. Uniting physical theater, dance, music, martial arts and circus arts we believe is the key to helping create well rounded, talented and empowered performers of all kinds.
On-going Tucson Circus Arts’ workshops for children + youth with stilt walking processions through out the day!
Lil Club Congress Stage
11:00am-4:00pm Access Tucson accesstucson.org Meet our local public access television crew and perform in a mobile film studio on the Lil’ Club Congress Stage. Access Tucson staff will film children and youth performing their favorite songs, karaoke all afternoon. Bookmans will present its Story Tunes and Recycled instrument building from 11:00-2:00 on the Lil’ Club Congress Stage. All activities will be filmed and available for families to purchase on DVD for $5.00. Come join the fun and create your very own Music video!
TPAC Stage
10:30am NEW ARTiculations Dance www.newart.thedanceloft.com Join NEW ARTiculations company dancers in "FLOW" a community-based dance project using modern dance to illuminate water issues and celebrate our connection to the Santa Cruz River. Activities will incorporate movement and watershed education for all ages and a short performance.
11:00am Mama Baby Dada mamababydada.org Nest Building: What
is home? Come join this interactive workshop in which children build giant nests on and around their parents/guardians. We invite parents and their children to participate in this ongoing series that investigates the blurred line between work and play, art and life, parent and child.
12:00pm Dambe Project www.dambe.org The Dambe Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that specializes in African performing arts education and mentorship. We utilize African arts to create spaces for youth and adults to practice community solidarity, positive self-esteem and cultural diversity. Both the Dambe Project and Collective Awakening utilize indigenous music from West and East Africa. Instruments include drums, thumb pianos and harps. Martin Klabunde will perform for the entire family.
1:00pm Stories That Soar www.storiesthatsoar.org/about Stories that Soar! merges the talents of multi-skilled adult performers with children’s original stories in creating innovative, insightful and culturally relevant theatre. The program puts children at the heart of creating content for professional theatre that truly entertains the entire family. “We believe everyone has wonderful stories to tell; we are here to help those stories be heard in the most creative ways possible.” SharMoore Children’s Productions
2:00pm Batucaxé www.batucaxe.org Batucaxé is a drum and dance ensemble and school in Tucson, Arizona. Inspired by the music and dance of Brazil, Batucaxé (pronounced bah-too-cah-SHEH) features the music and movement of many traditions, from Brazil and all over the world. Join Batucaxé in a participatory dance class on the TPAC stage.
3:00pm Bookmans Story Tunes www.bookmans.com Bookmans believes that music literacy is a vital part of early childhood education. That's why they're proud to sponsor free music hours each week in our stores, and this year on the HoCo FAF festival stage. Come down to the TPAC HoCo Stage and check out Story Tunes an hour of free hands-on fun and music making for your little ones, accompanied by interactive storytelling and songs.
4:00pm Odaiko Sonora www.tucsontaiko.org and www.rhythmindustry.org
Dedicated to taiko—Japanese ensemble drumming--Odaiko Sonora has brought firsthand experiences of the big drums to southern AZ audiences since 2002. The group performs over 50 times for more than 30,000 people each year. We offer ongoing taiko instruction, school residencies, community/corporate workshops, master classes and more.
Current Sponsors and Media Partners include: Access Tucson, AZ Daily Star/Caliente, Bookman’s Bookstores, City of Tucson, KXCI, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson Weekly, Zocalo
TPAC Fall Open Studio Tour!
Saturday and Sunday
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
November 13 & 14, 2010
TPAC supports the efforts of dozens of arts and cultural organizations who present events throughout the year.
In addition, TPAC presents the Fall Open Studio Tour!
