Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival returns with a reduced personal event
September 10, 2021
The 48th yearbook Tucson Meet you (TMY) Folklife Festival returns to downtown Tucson on October 8th, 9th and 10th, allowing audiences to reconnect with its diverse and diverse cultures. As always, innovation and customization are emblematic of changing traditions, and this year festival organizers redesigned the event to prioritize the safety of artists, vendors and the wider community.
Organized by the Southwest Folklife Alliance, this year’s TMY is taking place in Jácome Plaza and the surrounding blocks of Stone Avenue, Church Avenue and Pennington Street. Casino del Sol is back as the festival’s title sponsor this year after taking a hiatus in 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic on closings. Organizers have consulted with Tucson City and Pima County health authorities and the Centers for Disease Control to plan an adaptive festival that will mitigate the risk associated with Covid-19. A 15 point set of Covid guidelines can be viewed on the TMY website (and is updated regularly).
The festival highlights in 2021 include:
Festival Program Director Maribel Alvarez says: “We planned this year’s Tucson Meet Yourself very carefully and deliberately. We produce a festival for the public, of course, but our loyalty is first and foremost to the artists and food vendors who can exchange ideas. that takes security very seriously and at the same time enables celebrations and fun. ”
Alvarez invites festival goers to spend time on the website before the weekend to select their preferred suppliers and artists and plan their experience in a more limited amount of time than in previous years. “We know that cultures slowly evolve and change over time, but new discoveries and revelations can also happen in a single instant – when you try a new meal for the first time, hear the song of another culture, or the dance from within you Part sees the world you have never visited. At Tucson Meet Yourself, we strive to create moments like this, and we’re excited to be safe together this year, “says Alvarez, who is also Associate Dean of Community Engagement at the University of Arizona’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Learn more at www.TucsonMeetYourself.org
Tucson Meet Yourself is produced by the Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA), an affiliated nonprofit of the University of Arizona, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. We are the designated Folk Arts Partner of the Arizona Commission on the Arts with support from the National Endowment of the Arts. Its mission is to build more just and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage and diversity that are rooted in the Greater Southwest and the US-Mexico border corridor. Nationally, SFA expands models and methods of meaningful cultural work that focus on traditional knowledge, social justice and cooperation.
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