Community

Community members are collaborating to make local art interactive in an unexpected way by building a miniature golf course. The course will be featured at Icehouse Garden’s Minature Golf this weekend and Hance Park April 7.

Mayor Greg Stanton discussed the need for Phoenix to break out of its traditional economic cycle to create a new, thriving economy during his second State of the City Address Thursday at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel.

Take Back the Night, a global event to raise awareness of domestic violence and share stories of survival, will be held Friday in Civic Space Park. The event will features personal stories, a vigil and a rally.

FilmBar, a movie theater on Second and Garfield streets, will begin a monthly screening of films Saturday produced by local filmmakers to generate creativity and support the Arizona film community.

Rock bands, Navajo tacos and traditional Native American dances will populate the Heard Museum’s outside plaza and building halls during the 55th Indian Fair and Market Saturday and Sunday.

An upcoming festival in downtown Phoenix plans to bring greater attention, and some profit, to local bands and businesses. South By South Roosevelt, abbreviated SXSR, will hold its second music festival along Roosevelt Street the weekend of March 1-3. Local businesses along the stretch from 10th Street to Third Avenue will provide the venues for the festival.

Cookies and bottled water did nothing to soothe flaring tempers over progress on the Roosevelt Street Redesign project Wednesday after the city of Phoenix Street Transportation Department presented its 90 percent completion report.

Saturday will mark the 12th year of the Melrose District’s M7 street fair, a well-known local event with festivities that offer a taste for every kind of appetite.

There needs to be a balance between embracing density in downtown Phoenix and preserving the integrity of the arts community, panelists said Tuesday at the semester’s second installment of Downtown Devil Discussions.

Protesting against potential expansion of State Route 202, a benefit concert for the No South Mountain Freeway group was held Saturday night at Lawn Gnome Publishing on Roosevelt Row.