🌿 Fragile, Resilient, Alive: Community Climate Resiliency Collages

📍 Location: Desert Botanical Garden – Opening Weekend Program
📅 Date: Saturday & Sunday, October 11–12, 2025
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Event Description:
Celebrate the Desert Botanical Garden’s Opening Weekend with AZ(LAND) through Fragile, Resilient, Alive, a hands-on art and education experience inviting community members to reflect on the desert as one of the most fragile—and yet most resilient—ecosystems on the planet.

Through climate collages, journaling, and interactive art activities, participants will explore the meaning of climate resilience, process personal reflections on environmental change, and contribute to a collective mural expressing the interconnectedness of people, plants, and place. 

Activities will include:

✨ Community Collages & Canvases – Create visual reflections using pre-cut materials, magazines, and pressed plants.
✨ Nature Journaling & Prompts – Record personal thoughts, feelings, and observations about the desert over time.
✨ Polaroid Time Capsule – Capture moments and add them to a growing journal archive.

This family-friendly program offers space for dialogue, creativity, and learning—building climate literacy while celebrating the beauty and resilience of desert life.