🌵 Shades of Resilience: Exploring Heat, Justice & Ecology
📍 Location: Desert Botanical Garden – Desert Pulse Exhibition
📅 Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 (Free Admission Day)
Event Description: Join AZ(LAND) at our upcoming community academy. Community academies are all about stepping beyond the four walls of the classroom to engage and educate the community about the impact of the climate crisis and about the nutritional, medicinal, and utilitarian benefits our local Sonoran desert environment.
Join AZ(LAND) at the Desert Botanical Garden for Shades of Resilience, an interactive community day exploring the connections between extreme urban heat, environmental justice, and the resilience of desert plants and people.
Through hands-on investigative learning activities, including heat-mapping with thermometers and themed learning stations, participants will dive into how heat islands impact our neighborhoods, ecology, and daily lives. This gathering builds on the Desert Pulse exhibition, highlighting the beauty and challenges of desert landscapes—where saguaros fall, flowers grow, and communities persist.
This event is part of AZ(LAND)’s ongoing collaboration with Sombraphx Shades of Resilience project, bridging art, science, and justice to reimagine our collective response to climate change.
✨ Academy Highlights:
Understanding Urban Heat Islands
Investigative Learning Activity: Heat-mapping with thermometers
Community Stations: Explore other partner tabling heat related activities
This program offers a preview of AZ(LAND)’s upcoming fall community academies in partnership with the Desert Botanical Gardens, continuing the conversation on environmental justice and desert resilience.
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