Mexico's Celebration of The Spirits Dia De Los Muertos Is A Festival @ MAC

Mesa Arts Center’s annual Dia de los Muertos Festival will take place on Oct. 22 and 23. The event is free admission, free parking and family friendly. High res images located here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ku3jypucb7pgc95/AABrJNeDYrT_TCzCRVmfzloLa?dl=0. Artist participants, festival organizers and performers available for interview. Highly visual live shots available Oct. 21, 22, and 23.

 

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Casey Blake

480-644-6620

casey.blake@mesaartscenter.com

 

Dia de los Muertos Festival at Mesa Arts Center

Saturday, Oct. 22 – Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016

Mesa, AZ: On Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 23, from noon to 5 p.m., the Mesa Arts Center campus will host a celebration of the memory of departed loved ones with the annual Dia de los Muertos Festival.

 

The free festival will offer a nonstop schedule of live entertainment, participatory children’s activities, traditional face painting, a wide variety of food options, studio demonstrations, and a Mercado Marketplace, featuring traditional and contemporary merchandise, jewelry, and Mexican arts and crafts from over thirty local artisans and vendors.

 

In the spirit of traditional Dia de los Muertos festivities, a community altar designed by artist Kyllan Maney, will be the centerpiece for the festival, where attendees can leave mementos in honor of their loved ones who have passed. Altars created by community groups, schools and families will also be on display for a festival contest sponsored by the Mexican Consulate and Mesa Association of Hispanic Citizens.

 

In the Bookmans Family Activity area festival participants of all ages are invited to decorate a traditional sugar skull. Families can also enjoy the Circus Americana Stiltwalkers, performances by juggler James Reid, and live graffiti art by artists Such and Champ Styles.

 

The festival will culminate in a performance and an open procession to the Community Altar led by Mariachi Pasion at 4:45 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26. Mesa Arts Center’s studios will offer free demonstrations throughout the festival and The Store, an artists cooperative and gallery will also be open and offering Day of the Dead themed items.

 

There is no charge to attend the Dia de los Muertos Festival, and parking is free. Mesa Arts Center is located at One East Main Street in downtown Mesa.

 

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About Mesa Arts Center
Mesa Arts Center, owned and operated by the City of Mesa, is a unique, architecturally stunning facility located in the heart of downtown Mesa. Arizona's largest multidisciplinary arts center is home to four theaters, five art galleries in the MCA Museum, and 14 art studios. Guests, patrons, and students come to Mesa Arts Center to enjoy the finest live entertainment, performances and festivals, world-class visual art exhibitions, and outstanding arts education classes. The Mesa Arts Center mission is to inspire people through engaging arts experiences that are diverse, accessible, and relevant. For more information, visit mesaartscenter.com.

 

Mesa City District 3 Initiative Building Strong Neighborhoods

Newest Building Strong Neighborhoods Initiative District 3

Post Date: 10/11/2016 9:32 AM      The City of Mesa’s next Building Strong Neighborhoods Initiative will be held in Council District 3 in the neighborhood located from University Drive to Rio Salado Parkway and from Dobson Road to Longmore. The program will begin with an orientation or “kickoff” meeting Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at Whittier Elementary School, 733 N. Longmore. Vice Mayor and District 3 Councilmember Dennis Kavanaugh is scheduled to speak.

“One of the most important things we can do as a city is to make sure our neighbors are involved in their communities. It helps build pride in an area and makes people want to help it improve. The Building Strong Neighborhoods Initiative is a fantastic way to help our residents really connect with their city and meet the people who work for Mesa that they can share ideas with,” Vice Mayor Kavanaugh said.
During the orientation meeting, residents will receive neighborhood survey results, meet neighbors, learn about helpful City services and will be encouraged to get more involved in the neighborhood. Residents attending the meeting will have the opportunity to meet staff from various City departments such as Animal Control; Transportation; Code Compliance and Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities. Several nonprofit organizations will also have displays and information including A New Leaf, Goodwill, First Things First and Child Crisis Arizona.

“This is an opportunity to work in a neighborhood whose residents are very interested in a program that will provide them many City resources and services. I look forward to working closely with them,” Mesa Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator Cynthia Ezcurra said.

The neighborhood will receive Clean Sweep dumpsters and residents will be invited to participate in Action Teams.

The City of Mesa Building Strong Neighborhoods Initiative was introduced in the fall of 2006 to provide education and resources to neighborhoods throughout the City.

For more information, contact Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator Cynthia Ezcurra at (480) 644-5889 or cynthia.ezcurra@mesaaz.gov.

 

Public Information and Communications
Contact: Kevin Christopher
Tel. 480-644-4699 kevin.christopher@mesaaz.gov

New Proposals for Development @ SEC 1st Avenue & Macdonald

The same development/investment partnership - Mesa Housing Associates - that brought the first new apartment building to be constructed in over 30 here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa, The RED Design Award-winning Encore on First [shown in image to left] located at 25 W First Avenue with 80 one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments including six ground-level garden-entry units with extensive landscaping and water features.

Just six months Encore on First West was opened at 47 W First Avenue adding 40 additional apartments.
Plans have been in the works for months on proposals for additional housing situated on the southeast corner of first Avenue/MacDonald Street where plans for a Goldwater library fell through at the end of December 2016.
While having concurrent projects underway in Tempe and Phoenix, the principal partners in Mesa Housing Associates have stayed active in the regeneration here in Mesa for new construction in urban in-fill projects on vacant and under-used land in a series of small, incremental steps for affordable and attainable mixed-use housing in a diverse housing market that includes market-rate rents.
Just this morning two proposals were under consideration at a Mesa City County Study Session.Here's a look to view 2 Proposals

1. Mesa Housing Associates II $36,748,360 total investment
2. Arthaus Projects LLC $32,145,000 total investment

Here's the link >>
http://mesa.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2851514&GUID=FBBB8AE5-CFE4-4218-B700-B71192B0C6AD


Rose Law Group Reporter re-posted an article on March 9, 2016 written by reporter Maria Polletta with some of the politics going on in Mesa about affordable housing where the thinking now has obviously turned around for affordable and attainable mixed-use development in a diverse housing market

Final Agenda City Council Study Session/ City Council Study Session

Readers note that item 6-j [in live streaming video is not on this final agenda]
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Roll Call (Members of the Mesa City Council will attend either in person or by telephone conference call)
1 Review items on the agenda for the October 17, 2016 regular Council meeting.
2 Presentations/Action Items
 
2-a 16-1116
Hear a presentation and discuss an update of the City's Multi-Use Path Projects.

2-b 16-1054
Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the following unsolicited proposals for the development of approximately two acres of City-owned property on the southeast corner of 1st Avenue and Macdonald:
1. Mesa Housing Associates II
2. artHAUS
3. Artisan Development

3
16-1083 Information pertaining to the current Job Order Contracting projects.

4 Approval of minutes from an Executive Session held on September 22, 2016.

5 Acknowledge receipt of minutes of various boards and committees.

5-a 16-1100 Human Relations Advisory Board meeting held on August 24, 2016.5-a

5-b 16-1101 Historic Preservation Board meeting minutes held September 6, 2016.

5-c 16-1102 Judicial Advisory Board meeting held June 29, 2016.

6 Hear reports on meetings and/or conferences attended.

7 Scheduling of meetings and general information.

8 Convene an Executive Session.

8-a ES-009-16 Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3)) Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order to consider the City’s position and instruct the City Attorney regarding the City’s position regarding contracts that are the subject of negotiations, in pending or contemplated litigation or in settlement discussions conducted in order to avoid or resolve litigation. (A.R.S. §38-431.03A(4)):
1. Boruch I and II v. State of Arizona and City of Mesa,     Nos. CV2014-014115 and CV2015-007341
Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney.  (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (3))  Discussion or consideration of employment, assignment, appointment, promotion, demotion, salaries, discipline, dismissal, or resignation of a public officer, appointee or employee of the City.  (A.R.S. §38-431.03A (1)):
2. City Clerk Review
3. City Attorney Review
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"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described[by whom?] as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind".

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