SMoCA Announces Spring Events
Whether you're ready for a night on the town or simply want something fun to do from the comfort of your couch, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) has a variety of exciting events this spring with in-person, virtual and hybrid options.
'Volume One: The Outsiders' of 'The American Immigrant' Series to be Released Today
The politics of immigration have created a lot of impersonal dialogue. 'The American Immigrant' is a means of reconnecting the faces of real people to this controversial topic. Barbaro Garbey left Cuba to become a professional baseball player in America. Rolando Rodriguez was uprooted from Mexico to Texas, and eventually became a well-known pastor. Morris Drachman trekked across the Atlantic to make a living in New York. These are just three stories in 'Volume One: The Outsiders' of 'The American Immigrant' series, out October 20.
2015 Clarence Darrow Symposium Commemorates Famed Attorney at the Darrow Bridge and More Today
On the seventy-eighth anniversary of famed attorney Clarence Darrow's death, this year's annual Darrow symposium today, March 13 explores contemporary activism on the issues of undocumented laborers and immigration. Darrow's attitude is summarized by a quote from a 1929 debate on 'Is Immigration Beneficial?' in which he said, 'I am a foreigner; my people didn't get here until about 1710. They got here, and now I am asked to close the doors to the people who came over on a later ship.'
2015 Clarence Darrow Symposium to Commemorate Famed Attorney at the Darrow Bridge and More, 3/13
On the seventy-eighth anniversary of famed attorney Clarence Darrow's death, this year's annual Darrow symposium on Friday, March 13 explores contemporary activism on the issues of undocumented laborers and immigration. Darrow's attitude is summarized by a quote from a 1929 debate on 'Is Immigration Beneficial?' in which he said, 'I am a foreigner; my people didn't get here until about 1710. They got here, and now I am asked to close the doors to the people who came over on a later ship.'