Upcoming Tours & Programs
Thursday, april 23, 9am-5pm
Cross-Border Day Tour
Nogales, Sonora
Join us to visit two of our partner nonprofit organizations in and learn about the value of “social investment” in cultivating community. We will also learn about the vast city on our tour of various neighborhoods. For lunch we’ll enjoy true Sonoran burritos and we’ll wrap up in the afternoon with flan and coffee at La Roca. This tour is full. Click to join the waitlist.
wednesday, april 29, 8am-3pm
Borderlands Tour
Amerind Museum Tour
Join us for a trip to Dragoon, Arizona where we will have a private tour of this extraordinary museum, art gallery, and research center dedicated to archaeology, Native cultures, and Western art. We will also take time to enjoy the museum grounds surrounded by the spectacular boulders of Texas Canyon.
Wednesday, May 13, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Carolyn Niethammer, A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Carolyn Neithammer is a celebrated Tucson-based author who has spent decades documenting the intersection of food, culture, and nature in the Southwest. Her work is deeply rooted in the Sonoran Desert, earning her a reputation as a leading voice in regional culinary history.
Wednesday, June 10, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Daisy Hernández, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Hernández explores our country’s ongoing debate about who belongs, and provides fresh ways of thinking about citizenship, exploring the challenging questions of belonging, identity, and the intricate immigrant experience in America.
Wednesday, July 8, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Craig Childs, Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Childs' book is a journey through the ancient Southwest, interpreting the petroglyphs and pictographs that map the history of the Colorado Plateau.
Monday, July 27, 3-4pm
Borderlands Ambassador Internship Program
Final Presentations of Our 2026 Borderlands Ambassador Interns
Join us as we hear from this year’s Borderlands Ambassadors! This event is online and in-person at the United Methodist Church of Green Valley.
Friday, July 31, 4-5:30pm
Borderlands Ambassador Internship Program
Reception & Final Presentations of Our 2026 Borderlands Ambassador Interns
Join us at the Tubac Center of the Arts as we hear from this year’s Borderlands Ambassadors!
Wednesday, August 12, 10-11:30AM
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Katherine Gaia Barbaree, Borderlands Restoration Network
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Katherine will discuss articles and videos of vital environmental work being done to restore desert ecosystems and support binational wildlife corridors.
Wednesday, September 9, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Álvaro Enrigue, Now I Surrender
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Álvaro Enrigue will discuss his bold, visionary novel that reimagines the history of the Apache Wars and the surrender of Geronimo. Both historical and fictional, this work radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.”
Wednesday, October 14, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Lydia Otero, Storied Property: María Cordova's Casa
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Lydia Otero will discuss this powerful look at the intersection of urban renewal and the erasure of Mexican American history. Centered on a historic home in Tucson’s center, the book highlights themes of displacement and investigates how history is written and who gets remembered.
Wednesday, November 11, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Alberto Ríos, Every Sound Is Not a Wolf
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Arizona’s inaugural Poet Laureate shares a collection that finds the extraordinary in the everyday, weaving together memory and the borderlands of the Sonoran desert.
Wednesday, December 9, 10-11:30am
Borderlands Literature & Film Circle
Carrie Gibson, El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Join us for our monthly BLFC on Zoom. Carrie Gibson will discuss her sweeping historical account that chronicles the Hispanic influence on the North American continent from the Spanish arrival to today.
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