Children cherish the stability of family and community life, yet their growth often depends on how they respond to people and ideas that challenge the status quo. Ken Goodman, internationally known for his theories about how children learn to read, has written an historical novel for young readers about how Goodman’s father dealt with new ideas...
“Hope, Faith, Love, Life” is the theme of a joint recital by sopranos Kelsey K. Rogers and Kerry Lerew to be presented on Tuesday (June 30) at 11:30 a.m. at the Arizona Senior Academy. They will be accompanied by Brent Rogers, who has appeared at the Academy in recent years as director of the University of Arizona’s Collegium Musicum choral group...
Four recent TED Talks, streamed over the Internet and presented on the “big screen” in the Great Room of the Arizona Senior Academy Building, are scheduled Thursday (June 25) beginning at 3:30 p.m. TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, was founded in 1984 to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” The four talks to be presented...
A contingent of bright young Tucson Junior Strings players will share their music at the Arizona Senior Academy at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday (June 23). As in previous concerts, the violin, viola, and cello players will consist of high school students drawn from Junior Strings students throughout the area. Each of Tuesday’s performers is part of the elite...
Calvin Baker, superintendent of the Vail Unified School District, leads one of the most successful school systems in Arizona, but he worries that state-level educational funding policies are threatening public schools across the state. Baker will discuss his concerns at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (June 18) in a talk at the Arizona Senior Academy entitled...
Identity theft is an increasingly serious occurrence where criminals use one’s personal information to open accounts, make purchases or file for tax refunds. A specialist in preventing identity theft will lecture on this subject at the Arizona Senior Academy on Wednesday (June 17). Open to the public free of charge, the lecture will begin at 3:30...
Ryanhood, a singing/songwriting duo that plays some of the best acoustic folk rock music in town, comes to the Arizona Senior Academy on Tuesday (June 16) at 11:30 a.m. Named ‘Best Group/Duo’ in the 2014 International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA’s), Ryanhood got their first break more than a decade ago as street performers at Boston’s Quincy...
Over the past 12 months, the price of crude oil has fluctuated wildly from $110/barrel in June 2014 to $45/barrel in January 2015 to the current price of around $60/barrel. What factors have made oil prices so volatile? Will the sharp decline in energy prices (oil and related products) boost economic growth? Or has it heightened the risk of...
In the bird world, different species use different strategies to raise their young. Here in the Sonoran Desert some choose to nest in holes. The most obvious cavity-nesting bird in our region is the Gila woodpecker, but others nest here as well, including purple martins and even the tiny Lucy’s warbler. But as Jonathan Horst, a Restoration...
The Arizona Senior Academy’s ethnomusicology series, “Music in a Cultural Context,” continues at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday (June 3) with “Music of the Mediterranean,” presented by Paul Amiel. Unifying and dividing such diverse cultures as Turkish, Greek, Italian, Moroccan, Egyptian, and Spanish, to name a few, the Mediterranean serves as a watery...
