Hosted by the Tubac Rotary Club, this New Year’s Day 5-club golf event at the Tubac Golf Resort is celebrating its 16th year. Dedicated to the memory of Carey Daniel, who started this great tradition, funds from the event will go to the Amado Youth Center Building Fund.

It’s a fun event for a worthy cause – with prizes for the putting contest, team with the lowest score, highest score, longest drive and closest-to-the-pin. There’s a 50/50 raffle, 3 very special silent auction items to bid on, and refreshments and awards in the Resort’s Geronimo Room. To sign up, contact Bill DeJarnette at 520-604-1800 or billdej55@gmail.com.

Thursday, Jan. 9, 10:00 – 11:30 am
Where: United Methodist Church of Green Valley, 300 W Esperanza Blvd., Green Valley, AZ 85614

Many of us come from different parts of the country and we are interested in learning more about the Borderlands and our neighbor, Mexico. This gathering will introduce you to the wonderful learning opportunities offered by the nonprofit Border Community Alliance. Whether you want to learn about US Immigration Policy, the History of Mexico, or how to make a tortilla, we have classes and forums to answer your basic questions. We also offer cross border tours, primarily to the northern state of Sonora, Mexico including Nogales, Magdalena, Hermosillo and Rio Sonora.
Through our tours we’ll show you how you can make a difference through social investment. Thanks to our unique partnership with a Mexican non-profit (FESAC), you can help us support nonprofit Mexican leadership that’s been carefully vetted.
We’ll also take time to answer your questions about traveling to Mexico, what kind of documents you need and tips for getting back through US Customs.
Border Community Alliance defines its mission as “bridging the border and fostering community through education, collaboration and cultural exchange.” We depend on fees, donations and grants for our funding. Our office is located at 2221 E Frontage Rd., F-201/202 and our mailing address is PO Box 1863, Tubac, AZ. 85646.

As a woman Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was original, complex, creative and unconventional. Her architecture exhibits those qualities as well: it was an expression of her personality and her passion. Andrew Berke, one of her biographers, says it well: The story of Mary Colter, is compelling.

It is a one-of-a-kind tale of talent and tenacity, played out against a backdrop of flourishing opportunity in a rugged region-telling of an exceptional person who pioneered both as an architect and as a woman.

In this talk, Susan will talk about the buildings at the couth rim of the Grand Canyon, but also about some of Mary Colter’s hotels – El Navajo and especially La Posada in Winslow, AZ

Pre-registration is not required. Free to TCA Members. $8 suggested donation for guests.

Please join us on Saturday from 1 – 4 PM to meet one of our most popular artists. Nicholas Wilson will be on hand demonstration his drawing techniques. Stop by to meet this talented artist and see his natural ability in person in the K Newby Gallery located at 15 Tubac Road.

About the Artist:
Nicholas Wilson
Strong interest in nature at eight years of age led to Wilson’s development as a nationally recognized artist today. As Curator of Exhibits at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in the early 70’s, his abilities and sensitivities were further enhanced. Wilson’s artwork is in private and corporate collections across the United States. His work has been exhibited in museums in the states and abroad — Smithsonian, National Geographic Society, London Museum of Natural History and the Scotland Museum of Natural History. He is also published in various magazines and books. Wilson is a self-taught artist and has lived in Arizona for 33 years. “Nick Wilson has the rarest qualities of being in complete harmony with his subject matter. The intensity and depth of his study and concern for wildlife is inescapable for him and is as well for those who appreciate his artistic efforts. He has evolved a style of work that allows him to convey the most subtle and delicate of the Southwest’s boundless natural wildlife. His total commitment is-as coyote to desert-one.” –Paul A. Rossi, Artist & former Director, Gilcrease Institute of American History & Art

Walking tours of the “wild javelinas” in the Javelinas de Tubac outdoor art exhibit will be offered twice a month from January through March 2020 before the javelinas are auctioned off on April 4. The tours will take place in the Village of Tubac and include:

information about the origins and history of the outdoor exhibit and of the Village of Tubac
viewing of several of the Javelinas de Tubac
the opportunity to meet one or two of the artists at the location of the javelinas to learn the inspirations behind their javelina’s art, other types of artwork they create, and why they opted to participate in the Javelinas de Tubac exhibit.
The 90-minute tour costs $25/person and will begin at 10:30 am at the Tubac Center of the Arts, #9 Plaza Rd., Tubac, AZ, on the following dates:

Wednesday, Jan. 15
Saturday, Jan. 25
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Saturday, Feb. 29
Wednesday, Mar. 11
Saturday, Mar. 21
Participants register for the tours by calling Baja Arizona Tours at 520-987-0076.
Tours must have 10 participants to run and are subject to weather. Refunds or the opportunity to reschedule will be offered if a tour doesn’t take place.

Border Community Alliance in collaboration with Tubac Presidio State Historic Park invites you to join us for this special presentation by University of Arizona Professor Jennifer Jenkins on her recently published book, Celluloid Pueblo that has a special connection to the Santa Cruz Valley.

The five Cs of Arizona—copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate—formed the basis of the state’s livelihood and a readymade roster of subjects for films. With an eye on the developing national appetite for all things western, Charles and Lucile Herbert founded Western Ways Features in 1936 to document the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona, the U.S. Southwest, and northern Mexico.

Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. Active during a thirty-year period of profound growth and transformation, the Herberts created a dynamic visual record of the region, and their archival films now serve as a time capsule of the Sunbelt in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing upon a ten-year career with Fox, Western Ways owner-operator Charles Herbert brought a newshound’s sensibility and acute skill at in-camera editing to his southwestern subjects. The Western Ways films provided counter-narratives to Hollywood representations of the West and established the regional identity of Tucson and the borderlands.