between Fences (olde event)

Smithsonian Institution
Traveling exhibition

Do "good fences make good neighbors?" Why?

The International Sonoran Desert Alliance will explore this and other aspects of the cultural history and current meanings of fences and land use as it hosts Between Fences, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. Between Fences will be on view in the Curley School Auditorium, 200 Esperanza, Ajo, AZ beginning Dec. 1, 2007 and continuing through January 20, 2008.

We are one of six sites expressly chosen by the Arizona Humanities Council to host Between Fences as part of the Museum on Main Street project - a national/state/local partnership to bring exhibitions and programs to rural cultural organizations. In addition to exploring the multiple meanings of the fence icon through the artifacts, photographs and illustrations of this Smithsonian exhibit, we will concurrently hang the multi media art show, "Borders, Fences, Gates", conduct a Sunday Afternoon Speakers Series, Cultural Music Events and a Free Wednesday Night Movie Series.

Local collaborators include Ajo Council for the Arts, Ajo Copper News, Pima County Public Library - Salazar Ajo Branch.

Exhibition open to the public:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday:
  • 10:00 – 1:00
  • 6:00 – 9:00

Saturday, Sunday
  • 1:00 – 5:00

Thursday, Friday
  • TOURS ONLY

SCHEDULE GROUP TOURS ON THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS BY CALLING ISDA AT :
520-387-6823

General Schedule of Events

• “Borders, Fences, Gates” Art Show open during all exhibition hours - Curley School Auditorium.
  
• Sunday Speaker /Music Series (below) in the Curley School Auditorium.
• Wednesday Movie Series - in the Curley School Auditorium.
• Ocotillo Living Fence being built by Native American youth beside the Curley School gymnasium on Esperanza Avenue.

2pm Sunday Speaker /Music Series
(come at 1pm for music entertainment)
Curley School Auditorium

Sunday, Dec. 2

GRAND OPENING
1pm-5pm:

• Smithsonian Exhibition "Between Fences"
• Art Show Opening: "Borders, Fences and Gates"
• Music by Phil Riddle & William DeRaymond
• Refreshments

2pm -3pm

• Panel discussion by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Community, based on concepts of borders, fences, or sense of place... you wont want to miss this.

Sunday, Dec. 9

- Have your questions ready!

"Questions and Answers" - Tohono O'odham Nation, U.S. Border Patrol, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Bureau of Land Management

  • Performance by Ballet Folklorico de Ajo.
Cancelled due to rain

• "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" - Dick George
  

Sunday, Dec. 23
  • Holiday Music, Curley School Artists Open Studios
  • Performance by Lorraine Young and Stella Peterson, Chamber Music
  • Performance by Pisinemo & Company

• Movie followed by discussion on "A Day Without a Mexican" - Ed Williams.
  
  
• Performance by The Divas

• 2pm-4pm  Conversation Across Borders
  
• 1pm-pm  Performance by T. O. Natives

• 2pm  "Repatriation of Mexican and Mexican-American Citizens in the 1930's" - Santos Vega