Saturday, May 25, 2013  9:00 AM
Watershed Management Workshop
Watershed Management Workshop
Avalon Gardens, Tumacácori, Arizona  (click for directions)

Learn Stormwater Management Techniques
Prevent Erosion, Reduce Runoff, Conserve Water

Guest Speakers David Seibert (Conservation Director of Borderlands Habitat Restoration Initiative-BHRI, Seibert Ecological Restoration, LLC) and Caleb Weaver (BHRI-Ecologist, Environmental Educator, and Sustainable Landscape Designer) will share their expertise in restoring native pollinator ... (click for more)
Watershed Management Workshop
Watershed Management Workshop

A Food Forest Enhancement Project within an EcoVillage


Learn Stormwater Management Techniques
Prevent Erosion, Reduce Runoff, Conserve Water

Guest Speakers David Seibert (Conservation Director of Borderlands Habitat Restoration Initiative-BHRI, Seibert Ecological Restoration, LLC) and Caleb Weaver (BHRI-Ecologist, Environmental Educator, and Sustainable Landscape Designer) will share their expertise in restoring native pollinator habitats on and around Southern Arizona farms.

Borderlands Habitat Restoration Initiative has pioneered a 3-pillared approach to habitat restoration in the Arizona/Sonora Borderland region by: 1) Restoring the physical processes such as stream flow and groundwater recharge necessary to support both people and wildlife. 2) Restoring vegetation and filling gaps at the base of the food chains that support biological diversity. 3) Reconnecting people and nature by engaging local citizens in the restoration of local ecosystem services.

Workshop fee is $50 (includes a Certificate of Completion and Organic Lunch)

Call (520) 603-9932 to register.



Workshop fee is $50 (includes a Certificate of Completion and Organic Lunch)
Watershed Management Workshop
Saturday, Jun 22, 2013  7:30 PM
INDIE FILM: Alias Ruby Blade
www.aliasrubyblade.com
INDIE FILM: Alias Ruby Blade
Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac, Arizona  (click for directions)
Film Running Time: 78 min.

One courageous woman's journey from undercover agent to First Lady and the untold story of the birth of a new nation. A great documentary of a freedom fighter of East Timor - a poet revolutionary and his Australian wife who become the President and First Lady of the new country. A story of courage and ... (click for more)

INDIE FILM: Alias Ruby Blade
INDIE FILM: Alias Ruby Blade

One courageous woman's journey from undercover agent to First Lady and the untold story of the birth of a new nation. A great documentary of a freedom fighter of East Timor - a poet revolutionary and his Australian wife who become the President and First Lady of the new country. A story of courage and faith against a more powerful Indonesian army. A powerful testament to the human capacity for hope to overcome fear, Alias Ruby Blade demonstrates that ordinary individuals, armed with little more than moral courage, can solve seemingly intractable violent conflicts. They have, in fact, the power to change the course of history.


"This inspiring and enlightening documentary about an extraordinary relationship, which formed in the most unlikely of situations, is wholly engaging and incredibly absorbing." View London



$7 suggested donation
ages 15 and up
INDIE FILM: Alias Ruby Blade
Proceeds go to scholarships for the nonprofit programs - Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults and Avalon Gardens Internships.
Saturday, Jul 20, 2013  7:30 PM
INDIE FILM: Chasing Ice
www.chasingice.com
INDIE FILM: Chasing Ice
Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac, Arizona  (click for directions)
Film Running Time: 75 min.
Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His ... (click for more)
INDIE FILM: Chasing Ice
INDIE FILM: Chasing Ice

Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

"The most important film of the year."
Chris Columbus, Director and Producer

"This is the climate change film we've been waiting for."
Caroline Libresco, Sundance Senior Programmer


$7 suggested donation
ages 13 and up
Proceeds go to scholarships for the nonprofit programs - Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults and Avalon Gardens Internships.
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013  7:30 PM
INDIE FILM: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
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INDIE FILM: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac, Arizona  (click for directions)
Film Running Time: 99 min.
17-year-old Tal has emigrated from France to Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military ... (click for more)
INDIE FILM: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
INDIE FILM: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

17-year-old Tal has emigrated from France to Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military service. A few weeks later, Tal receives an e-mail response from a mysterious "Gazaman," a young Palestinian named Naim. Thus begins a turbulent but tender long-distance friendship between two young people that are separated by a history they are trying both to understand and change. This engrossing and hopeful drama starring Hiam Abbas is based on the award-winning novel by Valrie Zenatti.

"Heartfelt! [Bottle] is a gentle pairing of youthful idealism and tenacious hope."
Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times


$7 suggested donation
ages 15 and up
Proceeds go to scholarships for the nonprofit programs - Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults and Avalon Gardens Internships.
Saturday, Aug 17, 2013  7:30 PM
INDIE FILM: Shun Li and the Poet
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INDIE FILM: Shun Li and the Poet
Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac, Arizona  (click for directions)
Film Running Time: 100 min.
Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the ... (click for more)
INDIE FILM: Shun Li and the Poet
INDIE FILM: Shun Li and the Poet

Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local fishermen, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The Poet." A tender, delicate friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi. But gossip soon threatens their innocent relationship, a bond that had once transcended two very different, yet not at all distant cultures.

"This just might be a masterpiece!" Liberazzione

"Rapturous! Exquisite!" — Allisa Simon, Variety


$7 suggested donation
ages 12 and up
Proceeds go to scholarships for the nonprofit programs - Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults and Avalon Gardens Internships.
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013  7:00 PM
INDIE FILM: Clandestine Childhood
www.filmmovement.com
INDIE FILM: Clandestine Childhood
Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac, Arizona  (click for directions)
Film Running Time: 110 min.
Argentina, 1979. After years of exile, Juan (12) and his family come back to Argentina under fake identities. Juan's parents and his uncle Beto are members of the Montoneros Organization, which is fighting against the Military Junta that rules the country. Because of their political activities they are being ... (click for more)
INDIE FILM: Clandestine Childhood
INDIE FILM: Clandestine Childhood

Argentina, 1979. After years of exile, Juan (12) and his family come back to Argentina under fake identities. Juan's parents and his uncle Beto are members of the Montoneros Organization, which is fighting against the Military Junta that rules the country. Because of their political activities they are being tracked down relentlessly, and the threat of capture and even death is constant. However, Juan's daily life is also full of warmth and humor, and he quickly and easily integrates into his new environment. His friends at school and the girl he has a gigantic crush on, Maria, know him as Ernesto, a name he must not forget, since his family's survival is at stake. Juan accepts this and follows all of his parents' rules until one day he is told that they need to move again immediately, and leave his friends and Maria behind without an explanation. This is a story about militancy, undercover life, and love. The story of a clandestine childhood.

"Seductive! An intimate, richly tactile and impressionistic picture of a 'once-upon-a-time' in childhood." —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times


$7 suggested donation
ages 21 and up
Proceeds go to scholarships for the nonprofit programs - Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults and Avalon Gardens Internships.
Saturday, Sep 14, 2013  7:00 PM
INDIE FILM: Lucky
www.filmmovement.com
INDIE FILM: Lucky
Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac, Arizona  (click for directions)
Film Running Time: 100 min.
How could a recently orphaned, 10-year old homeless South African boy ever be called Lucky? Over the grave of his dead mother, Lucky makes a promise to make something of himself. Leaving the security of his remote Zulu village for the big city with the hope of going to school, he arrives on the doorstep of ... (click for more)
INDIE FILM: Lucky
INDIE FILM: Lucky

How could a recently orphaned, 10-year old homeless South African boy ever be called Lucky? Over the grave of his dead mother, Lucky makes a promise to make something of himself. Leaving the security of his remote Zulu village for the big city with the hope of going to school, he arrives on the doorstep of an uncle who has no use for him. Lucky then falls in with Padma, an elderly Indian woman with an inherent fear of Africans, who takes him in as she would a stray dog. Together, unable to speak each other's language, they develop an unlikely bond. Through an odyssey marked by greed, violence, and, ultimately, belonging, Lucky shows how a child's spirit can bring out decency, humility and even love in adults struggling to survive in the new South Africa.

"An emotionally resonant portrait of contemporary South Africa...delicate and real...extraordinarily touching."Variety


$7 suggested donation
ages 21 and up
Proceeds go to scholarships for the nonprofit programs - Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program for teens and adults and Avalon Gardens Internships.
Saturday, Oct 05, 2013  12:00 PM
Earth Harmony Festival - Day One
earthharmonyfestival.org
Earth Harmony Festival - Day One
Avalon Gardens, Tumacácori, Arizona  (click for directions)

A free weekend celebration of eco-living & sustainabilty held at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage celebrating living in environmental, social, spiritual, and musical harmony

Mother Earth shares everything of herself with her children, and it is time we share more, take less, respect and preserve her natural beauty. Humanity needs to come out of the age of greed and competition ... (click for more)
Earth Harmony Festival - Day One
Earth Harmony Festival - Day One


A free weekend celebration of eco-living & sustainabilty held at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage celebrating living in environmental, social, spiritual, and musical harmony

Mother Earth shares everything of herself with her children, and it is time we share more, take less, respect and preserve her natural beauty. Humanity needs to come out of the age of greed and competition and into the age of love and cooperation. Through cooperation, education, understanding, selflessness, and a commitment to peace and unity without uniformity, we can be a part of restoring the balance to our own lives and to the planet. The Earth Harmony Festival is about creating Light & Life. It is a celebration and an honoring of all things beautiful, true, and good.

Take home tips & tools to help grow a more sustainable world for future generations. The Earth Harmony Festival is an all-ages event with hands-on activities for the whole family that features:

  • Live Music
  • Food
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Eco Booths
  • Organic Garden & Eco-Village Tours
  • Children's Village Activities
  • Camping
  • Fun & Friendship
  • Pony Rides
  • Family Camping

Our tour 'Introducing Sustainable Practices of an EcoVillage' will be happening twice daily, both days of the festival.

Visit the Earth Harmony Festival website for more information


Sunday, Oct 06, 2013  12:00 PM
Earth Harmony Festival - Day Two
earthharmonyfestival.org
Earth Harmony Festival - Day Two
Avalon Gardens, Tumacácori, Arizona  (click for directions)

A free weekend celebration of eco-living & sustainabilty held at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage celebrating living in environmental, social, spiritual, and musical harmony

Mother Earth shares everything of herself with her children, and it is time we share more, take less, respect and preserve her natural beauty. Humanity needs to come out of the age of greed and competition ... (click for more)
Earth Harmony Festival - Day Two
Earth Harmony Festival - Day Two


A free weekend celebration of eco-living & sustainabilty held at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage celebrating living in environmental, social, spiritual, and musical harmony

Mother Earth shares everything of herself with her children, and it is time we share more, take less, respect and preserve her natural beauty. Humanity needs to come out of the age of greed and competition and into the age of love and cooperation. Through cooperation, education, understanding, selflessness, and a commitment to peace and unity without uniformity, we can be a part of restoring the balance to our own lives and to the planet. The Earth Harmony Festival is about creating Light & Life. It is a celebration and an honoring of all things beautiful, true, and good.

Take home tips & tools to help grow a more sustainable world for future generations. The Earth Harmony Festival is an all-ages event with hands-on activities for the whole family that features:

  • Live Music
  • Food
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Eco Booths
  • Organic Garden & Eco-Village Tours
  • Children's Village Activities
  • Camping
  • Fun & Friendship
  • Pony Rides
  • Family Camping

Our tour 'Introducing Sustainable Practices of an EcoVillage' will be happening twice daily, both days of the festival.

Visit the Earth Harmony Festival website for more information