Jul
07
2017
First Fridays at the Heard Museum presents Fiesta de Frida, a party to celebrate Frida Kahlo's 110th birthday. The event will feature The Phoenix Fridas, a female art collective based in La Phoenikera that is inspired by the Mexican arist.
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Jul
07
2017
An immigrant family faces life after the passage of Arizona's Senate Bill 1070. The play, produced in English, explores the social and political fallout of the now infamous law that put Arizona on the map for all the wrong...
Jul
07
2017
Carpa Fest is a family event that will feature an art exhibit curated by Francisco "Enuf" Garcia commemorating SB1070, an Arizona law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants. Fair Trade Cafe will provide coffee and snacks, and Ni de Aqui, Ni...
Jul
07
2017
The NCLR's annual conference is in La Phoenikera this year and they are throwing the house down all weekend. Their National Latino Family Expo is a family event that will have tons of resources for Latino families in La...
Jul
07
2017
Venezuelan singer/songwriter MV Caldera is coming to La Phoenikera all the way from New York. She'll be sharing classic boleros with the audience in an intimate night of beautiful Spanish music. MV Caldera has collaborated with artists like Marc...
Jul
07
2017
La Phoenikera's hottest cumbia event Clandestino presents Selena Summer: A Tribute Show and Cumbia Dance Party. Show up with your dancing shoes and be ready to party with Selenamos, L.A. based tribute band, aslo from L.A., El Conjunto Nueva Ola and...
Jul
07
2017
This solo exhibition features the work of painter and muralist Edgar Fernandez. The artwork of the exhibit illustrates the empowering aspects of masks in the Southwest, Mexico and Central America.
The first 20 people to arrive at the opening reception...
Jun
22
2017
Before traveling to Cuba this month, we had tons of questions. A couple of our friends had gone relatively recently, so we were able to compile a hodgepodge of answers that helped us through the trip. So you don’t...
May
26
2017
For the last few years, the schedule has been set for us on Thanksgiving Day: help mom pick up the last-minute things she needs from the store, wait for the family to arrive, stuff our faces with pierna de...
May
19
2017
La Phoenikera is home to nationally acclaimed playwright Guillermo Reyes. This week, Rising Youth Theatre and the School of Transborder Studies at ASU are presenting the first public reading of his new play Q-Kid Rap. Directed by Sarah Sullivan,...
May
19
2017
The film Catching Babies by Barni Axmed Qaasim will be showing this weekend as part of The Sagrado Galleria's experiential exhibit Mujeres del Desierto. The screening will be followed by a talk with Cihuapactli Collective, a group of local...
May
19
2017
La Phoenikera's only bilingual bookstore is reopening in a new location. Shug's Coffee, the bookstore's neighbor, is celebrating the reopening this weekend. Come enjoy great books, great coffee, and other fun things to do with friends and family!
WHEN: Sunday,...