This weekend the Flagstaff Home and Garden Show comes to the Northern Arizona University Skydome. Advertised as the largest show ever in Flagstaff, AZ, this weekend’s Home Show opens at 10:00 a.m. Friday and runs through Sunday afternoon, closing for the evenings at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Over 500 exhibitors are booked to inspire home ideas. These include local “celebrity chef” Frank Branham of the Cottage Place Restaurant. Admission is $7.00 for adults. Print this coupon for $2.00 off. Friday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., take a self-paced walk for mental health at Buffalo Park, with the two Flagstaff mayoral candidates. Sponsored by the Flagstaff area members of the National Alliance for Mental Health, the event will include discussion of mental illness, poverty and homelessness. Flagstaff area Youth Poetry Festival begins with an opening reception Friday night from 6-8 p.m. at the Coconino Center for the Arts. There will be readings by Sherwin Bitsui, Mary Sojourner, and Myrlin Hepworth. The festival continues throughout the weekend, providing a poetic platform for Flagstaff’s youth. For more information about workshops and events in connection with the festival, click here. Also Friday night, and through the weekend, there will be Sustainable Living Lectures by Corrado Poli, Professor of Economics and Environmental Ethics, University of Bergamom, Italy. Poli will explore urban planning and quality of life issues including income, gender, social status, and traffic. For a more information about the weekend events, click here. Saturday afternoon, beginning at 2 p.m. there will be a very special presentation of history, lore and photography about the Havasupai people at the Museum of Northern Arizona. Steve and Lois Hirst will share examples of early and contemporary Havasupai imagery and discuss how they located and identified early portraiture, many over a century old and never before seen. Following the presentation, there will be a book signing of the Hirst’s book I Am the Grand Canyon. Program admission is included with museum entrance fee. Have a great weekend! If you’d like to buy or sell Flagstaff real estate, start here. |
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