Excursions 2020

2020 AATE National Conference
July 29-August 2, 2020

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Excursion #1: Story Slam at Changing Hands Bookstore
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 6:00pm

$15
Accessible by light rail

Join us at Changing Hands Bookstore for an evening of story and sharing. Bring a short story of your own, or your favorite folk tale, or just come and relish in an evening of spinning yarns! First Draft, Changing Hands' Book Bar, will also be open to keep our thirsty storytellers happy!

Excursion #2: Roosevelt Row Walking Mural Tour

Friday, July 31, 2020, 5:15 pm

$40
Transportation is Included

Beat the heat and join Murals of Phoenix as they guide us through some of the dozens of striking and dynamic murals found on the streets of Phoenix. Murals of Phoenix will provide a guided tour, with expert insight into the work, the artist, and their inspiration. Focusing on Roosevelt Row, participants will be bussed to their location then explore the murals on the surrounding blocks.

Excursion #3: Heard Museum: Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
Saturday, August 1, 2020, 1 pm

$45
Transportation is Included

AWAY FROM HOME: AMERICAN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL STORIES is the updated installation of the long-running Boarding School exhibition at the Heard Museum. Since opening in 2000, Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience has become the Heard Museum’s most thematically powerful exhibition. Over the past two decades, interest in American Indian boarding schools and scholarship about the subject has increased. It is a story that must continue to be shared and one that is central to remembering the nation’s past and understanding its present. Away From Home examines an important and often unknown period of American history. Beginning in the 1870s the U.S. government aimed to assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society by placing them in government-operated boarding schools. Children were taken from families and transported to far-away schools where all signs of “Indian-ness” were stripped away. Students were trained for servitude and many went for years without familial contact—events that still have an impact on Native communities today. Much of the content in the current exhibition remains relevant and continues to offer a profound and powerful visitor experience. The updated exhibition presents new works of art, archival material, first-person interviews and interactive elements in an immersive setting to encourage visitors to have a personal and visceral connection to the topics explored.

Excursion #4: Youth Theatre Showcase at Valley Youth Theatre
Sunday, August 2, 2020, 1:30 pm

$30
Transportation is Included

Spend your Friday evening at the Teen Artist Showcase and support local youth theatre! Enjoy 90 minutes of theatre, song, and dance with performances by Valley Youth Theatre, Brophy College Preparatory, Xavier College Preparatory, Arizona Theatre Company's ATCteens, and other Arizona-based youth theatre programs. The evening will be hosted by Carolyn Marie Wright, with the support of VYT Artistic Director Bobb Cooper, and will feature the VYTeens.