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Target Free Sizzlin' Summer Saturdays

Heard Museum

July 5-July 26, 2008

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Sizzlin' Summer Saturdays offers a great opportunity for families to beat the summer heat and enjoy a day of music and dance performances, artist demonstrations, an extravaganza of hands-on craft activities, the museum's three interactive galleries, sweet treats and goody bags. Performances offered twice daily at 11:00am and 1:30pm vary on each weekend and will include intertribal dances like hoop dancing as well as other cultural traditions. This month's Sizzlin' Summer Saturdays is scheduled as follows: July 5 - Watch It Grow! Hopi Butterflies & Corn Kids can get hands-on and make a butterfly, decorate their own wooden ear of corn, make a candy corn critter and form a finger-painted corncob. Young girls and boys who make up the Hopi Dance Group will perform several Hopi social dances. Plus, meet Jeanette Chimerica, a Hopi basketweaver, who will show how she makes both coil baskets and plaques using bright colors and traditional and contemporary designs. Visitors can see the film Hopi: Corn is Life (20 minutes) and grind corn in the museum's South Courtyard. Plus, author Jan Cleere will talk about and sign her newest book, Amazing Girls of Arizona True Stories of Young Pioneers, a collection of incredible tales about young girls who experienced bold adventures and survived incredible challenges in early Arizona. July 12 - Bejeweled! American Indian Jewelry After checking out the exhibit Young Jewelers: Forging a Future, kids can make a beaded bracelet out of pony beads, then create a beaded necklace with a faux bone petroglyph pendant or a wooden lizard pendant. Visitors can try their hands at a pump drill, used for centuries to drill holes in stone or shell, and see how Navajo jeweler Marvin Slim hammers and forms his distinctive sterling silver jewelry. Aztec storyteller Michael Heralda will use ballads, narratives and handmade clay flutes, gourd water drums, shakers and rasps to share stories handed down through families, generation after generation. Plus, meet Crafty Chica Kathy Cano-Murillo, who will be signing her many books including The Crafty Diva's Lifestyle Makeover and The Crafty Diva's D.I.Y. Stylebook. July 19 - Join the Herd! Sheep in Navajo Life Get hands-on while creating your own soft sheep using a variety of materials and techniques. Plus, help the mother sheep find her kid and try your hand at carding wool. Then see how Navajo weaver Michael Ornelas uses sheep's wool to spin yarn and weave it into magnificent textiles. Father and son dancers Lane and Tyrese Jensen, Navajo, will thrill audiences with a variety of Pow wow dances including fancy dancing and hoop dancing. Navajo author Monty Roessel will sign his books Kinaalda: A Navajo Girl Grows Up and Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave. July 26 - By the Sea! Northwest Coast and Inuit Art Sea creatures from the Northwest Coast and Canada come to life as kids explore the museum's Every Picture Tells a Story and Life in a Cold Place galleries, featuring Inuit prints and sculpture. Then, kids can join the artistic fun by weaving their own fish bookmark, creating an origami whale, painting a wooden fish or completing two fish mazes. Mandan sculptor Kathy 'Elk Woman' Whitman will demonstrate how she sculpts animals out of stone and recycled objects. From the Great White North to the South America, the band Nosotros performs lively, festive Latin rhythms inspired by the Great Andean Mountains and using traditional instruments, which kids can try before and after the shows. Author Beverly Bear will sign her new book Strawberry Finds a Home.

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  Tickets: Free Admission

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  Dates:
  July 5-July 26, 2008

  Times:
  Saturday 10:30am-3:00pm

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  Heard Museum

  2301 North Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004

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  Phoenix

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  • Wheelchair Access

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  • Event Name: 19th Annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest
    "What a great event!"
    Review posted by: Arts Lovin' Mommy from Mesa, AZ, Nov 15, 2008
    

    This event is great for the whole family. There are so many different dancers, from little tiny kids to seniors. They come from all over the U.S. and Canada. And when you're tired of watching the... Expand

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    This event is great for the whole family. There are so many different dancers, from little tiny kids to seniors. They come from all over the U.S. and Canada. And when you're tired of watching the dancing, you can visit the museum. My daughter loves the exhibits for kids. There's also frybread, and the great cafe in the courtyard. It's a great way to spend a day! Collapse

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  • Event Name: 18th Annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest
    "No coverage for a fantastic event"
    Review posted by: Joyce Hahnenkratt from El Mirage, AZ, Feb 13, 2008
    

    The weather was perfect for the event and the dancers were unbelivable. For years my husband and I have attended the event, watching some of the most spellbinding and graceful athletes perform in... Expand

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    The weather was perfect for the event and the dancers were unbelivable. For years my husband and I have attended the event, watching some of the most spellbinding and graceful athletes perform in spectacular outfits to haunting music. Their ability to dance with hoops at all ages is inspiring. We have watched several young dancers grow over the years into champions known throughout the world...Kevin Duncan and Nakotah LaRance are super stars in the field. Eli Manning, Tiger Woods, and Steve Nash are great but these dancers from all over the world are Champions too. We could not stay all day but assumed the winners would be written up in the paper the next day. Wrong! Nothing was in The Republic Monday or Tuesday. What a disappointment. Hopefully, when this world event happens next year the will be better coverage (or at least some). Collapse

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  • Event Name: Heard Museum Guild Library Book Sale & Treasure Market
    "They can't count"
    Review posted by: Alan Singletary from Tuscon, Az, Jan 27, 2008
    

    There were not 30,000 books there. At best they had 15,000. And the prices were high, mostly, but there are a few good bargains.

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    There were not 30,000 books there. At best they had 15,000. And the prices were high, mostly, but there are a few good bargains.

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