Tucson Meet Yourself

Tucson Meet Yourself Tucson’s longest-running folklife festival | 50+ years in downtown Tucson | An immersive cultural experience | Come for the food, stay for the culture!
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OCTOBER 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2022. Tucson Meet Yourself. Downtown Tucson.

When did Tucson first feel like home for you?
09/11/2026

When did Tucson first feel like home for you?

Tucson Meet Yourself, where our community celebrates the ordinary as extraordinary tradition.
09/10/2026

Tucson Meet Yourself, where our community celebrates the ordinary as extraordinary tradition.

09/04/2026

Thank you, Rissi Palmer. ❤️

What a night.

Thank you to Rissi Palmer for bringing your music, stories and incredible energy to Tucson—and to Smithsonian Folklife and the Fox Tucson Theatre for helping make this special evening possible.

And a special thank-you to Holladay Fine Arts Elementary Magnet School, where Rissi spent time with students for a songwriting workshop before the concert. We loved seeing music and storytelling become part of the school day.

We also appreciate the time and talents of our local artists Adriana Felix and Homer Marks Jr., for giving concert goers a taste of Tucson Meet Yourself in the Fox lobby.

This is what Of the People is about: bringing people together through culture, creativity and shared experiences.

Thank you to everyone who joined us. We’re grateful you were part of it.

And now, a few moments from the night. 🎶

Concert photos: C. Elliott

An agave leaf is caustic enough to burn your skin. Jesús García turns it into rope.He's an ethnobotanist who grew up on ...
08/31/2026

An agave leaf is caustic enough to burn your skin. Jesús García turns it into rope.

He's an ethnobotanist who grew up on a ranch in Sonora, where his vaquero father made rope from horsehair. Jesús carries that craft forward with something pulled from the desert itself. The twist that holds the rope together is the same principle that holds up the Golden Gate Bridge. Why he keeps doing it has nothing to do with bridges, and everything to do with his father.

This is the first portrait on our channel, FOLKLIFE: Art & Culture, a project of the Southwest Folklife Alliance. Watch the full process, from raw desert plant to finished rope, and the story running underneath it.

What Jesús does with rope isn't only a craft. It's a way of seeing. That's what we mean by the Folklife Lens. Folk art has a way of revealing the curiosity, connection, and meaning already hiding in ordinary life once you know how to look.

Watch the full making → https://bit.ly/3SkKZNH

We also made a free guide to seeing this way, and it comes with the FOLKLIFE newsletter from Dr. Maribel Alvarez and the folklorists of the Southwest Folklife Alliance → folklifelens.org/signup-yt

Big thanks to Cathalena Burch and the Arizona Daily Star for the article on Rissi Palmer's concert that takes place toni...
08/28/2026

Big thanks to Cathalena Burch and the Arizona Daily Star for the article on Rissi Palmer's concert that takes place tonight at the Fox Tucson Theatre, Aug. 28, 7 p.m.

The concert is free. Tickets remain available. Registration for tickets here:
https://foxtucson.com/event/rissi-palmer/

Co-presented with the Fox, Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Tucson Meet Yourself. See you tonight!

Funding to bring Palmer to Tucson is from the Smithsonian’s “Our Shared Future: 250,” a Smithsonian-wide initiative created to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary and the ongoing Smithsonian vision over the next 250 years.

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115 N Church Avenue
Tucson, AZ
85733

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Friday 11am - 10pm
Saturday 11am - 10pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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+15206214046

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