Urban Farming Workshop: The Homegrown Movement

The way we grow food, distribute food, and eat has rapidly changed in the last 50 years, and with it has changed our environment and physical health as a society. Now, many people are reversing the trend towards commercialized agriculture by growing food at home and distributing it in their own community.

Join this discussion with Leona Davis of the Community Food Bank and Tucson urban farmer Jennifer Liu around how our commercial food system works, and how the local food movement in Southern Arizona is changing our soils, our economies, and our own physical health.

Join us again next Saturday for Urban Farming: How to Grow Food at Home in Tucson 101. Same time and place.

Family Storytime

Family Storytime is for all ages. It is an opportunity for parents to introduce their children to reading and language in a fun way.

Read to a Dog

Children are invited to read to a Certified Therapy Dog. One of the favorite things for the dog to do is listen to children read lots of stories. Reading to a dog or other pet can help new and reluctant readers gain confidence, increase important reading skills, and develop a love of reading.

Find out more about Read to a Dog.

Thinking of adopting a pet? Learn more at Pima Animal Care Center.

Starting Your Own Business

Discover the personal qualities, community resources, and experience that make business start ups successful. Hear start up experience from local entrepreneurs.

Presented by business experts from Career Services Unlimited. This is part of the Employment Redirect project. It is funded through a grant from the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Agency under the Library Services and Technology Act, which is administered by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

For more information please call the Library Infoline 791-4010. There is free parking on Saturdays in the garage under the Joel D. Valdez Main Library.

Please note that the location of this workshop is in the Fourth Floor Boardroom. To reach the Fourth Floor Boardroom, enter the Joel D. Valdez Main Library and take the stairs or elevator to the fourth floor.

Now Showing at Your Library! RefugeeFest Screening

A free special screening of the film Welcome to Shelbyville in collaboration with the award-winning documentary series Independent Lens, the International Rescue Committee, Lutheran Social Services, and the Pima County Public Library.

Additional Information: This one hour free screening will be followed by an hour moderated panel discussion. The panel will be comprised of leaders in Tucson's community. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

About today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Watch and discuss the film Welcome to Shelbyville by Kim Snyder at a Community Cinema screening event. Set in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, Welcome to Shelbyville focuses on a small Southern town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues of immigrant integration. The film captures the complexity of the African American, Latino, white, and Somali subjects as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of a crumbling economy and the election of a new president.