Tag: Martin-Springer Institute

Through March — ‘Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present’ exhibit on display at Historic Ice House in downtown Flagstaff

Exhibit includes 20 panels showcasing inspiring and impactful local women throughout Flagstaff’s history including past and present Hispanic residents Delia Ceballos Muñoz, Procure Vergara Martinez, Noemi A., Jessie Jimenez Alonzo, Bonn Baudelaire

FLAGSTAFF — Culture Connection AZ and the Martin-Springer Institute are presenting the historical exhibit Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present at the Historic Ice House in downtown Flagstaff. The exhibit will be on display for the full month of March, Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm.

The stories of women presented in the Resilience exhibit cover each decade from the 1880s to 2020s in the former pioneer and mountain town of Flagstaff in northern Arizona. Women have been part of Flagstaff’s social fabric from its very beginnings in the 1880s. Throughout the decades, women have shaped the town’s development as public figures and caretakers. Through their stories, we can trace societal changes in a small town of America’s Southwest.

Oct. 1 — NAU to present the ‘ABRAZOS TOUR — Borderlands / The Line Within’

FLAGSTAFF — NAU’s Latin American Studies and the Martin-Springer Institute will present the “ABRAZOS TOUR — Borderlands / The Line Within,” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 at NAU’s Liberal Arts Building, Room 136.

This free film screening is for a very powerful new film, with a Q&A at the end with the filmmakers!

From the website (link in comments)

The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.

‘An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea,’ finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will be held at NAU on March 4

FLAGSTAFF — The Immigration Awareness Series program “rAn Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 at Northern Arizona University at Prochnow Auditorium, directly south across the street from the High Country Conference Center.…

NAU’s Immigration Awareness Series to present talk by Allegra Love on ‘Central American Refugees at Our Border…’ on Feb. 17

FLAGSTAFF —NAU’s Immigration Awareness Series to present talk by Allegra Love on “Central American Refugees at Our Border: The Crisis of Family Detention in the United States” at 7 p.m. Tuesday,  Feb. 17 at the Martin-Springer Institute located on the 3rd floor…

Migrant experience to be subject of NAU art continuing through April 30

FLAGSTAFF — A new exhibit that highlights the experiences of migrants who have tried to cross the Mexico border will be on display on NAU’s campus through April 30, the university reported this week in a media release. “Culpable,” a site-specific installation,…