Volunteer knitters, crocheters, weavers and quilters are racing against the thermometer to create 300 blankets by Dec. 1 as part of the Ground Cover Public Art Project, commissioned in Arizona by the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.
Radio Phoenix has moved up from a room in a historic downtown bungalow to an area in the Phoenix Center for the Arts. Now they're fundraising to build their very own FM station to host their community-driven programs.
Bioscience High School seniors took a walk down Seventh Street Wednesday to visit the site where they will start a new community garden. The lot is currently a stretch of dirt behind a rental home owned by Dr. Preethy Kaibara. Kaibara reached out to Bioscience last summer about reactivating the lot because the neighborhood could use an interactive community space, she said. The students will incorporate school and internship projects into their plans for the garden.
Several thousand people marched through downtown Phoenix Saturday while following a route was carefully chosen to tell the story of deportation symbolically by passing through a church, ASU and ending at the Superior Court.
Community members and local activists mets in the ARTS market lot next to Bodega 420 on Roosevelt Street Monday night to discuss interactions with law enforcement after a report stated undercover officers infiltrated Occupy Phoenix meetings.
Greg Esser, co-founder of Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation, became the link that brought the cultural phenomenon of First Fridays from the Southwestern United States to Eastern Europe. Esser said the task wasn’t too difficult, because the event is highly adaptable.
