Faces of the Festival

I’m a medicine man. I help people. We’re native healers. People that are sick, broken bones, we put them back together. We have natural herbs. I was chosen by God….

    I am originally from Palestine. I’ve been about 40 years here, since 1979. I didn’t struggle when I came. I was working in Saudi Arabia in Aramco and…

I’m super friendly and love to get to know people and love to get to know different cultures. My sister’s and my hobby is to travel around the world. Our…

I’m not from Tucson. I grew up all over the place, moving around a lot. I’ve been in many different places from Louisiana to Connecticut to Texas to Ohio. My…

I learned to cook from my mom, in Thailand. I’ve been in Tucson 34 years. I’ve been cooking at Tucson Meet Yourself since 1981. I make Thai food: pad thai,…

I grew up in Kentucky and lived there for 23 years and I definitely thought  that was where I most belonged. But I applied for graduate school and got into…

  I’m Peruvian, but I was raised here. I came here when I was four years old.  My family had a Peruvian restaurant for five years. It was called Irene’s….

When I photograph I think of nothing else. I’m just focused on that. There’s nothing else in my mind—no sick family members, business, getting plumbing repaired in the studio. I…

I’m a Tucson native of 32 years, been break dancing for over 18 years. Graffiti artist as well, muralist. Jack of all Trades, entrepreneur. Now known as Jesus the Masseuse,…

Most people don’t hug strangers. It’s not a big part of who we are right now, and I don’t know if it’s ever been, but I wanted it to be…

We are believers in messiah. I was born in Israel. I am actually a Jew who believes in Yahshua, known as Jesus to most people, but that’s the Hebrew name….

I am from Southeast Asia, Thailand. I am a Buddhist monk. I like to be a good person in my mind. Buddhism is about being good inside, taking good action,…

I went through the Miss Pascua Yaqui pageant this past September. For the pageant they judged me on, I had to make a dozen tortillas handmade without a rolling pin…

La música es algo me conecta a mi cultura y a mis raices. Me recuerda a mi pueblo, me recuerda a mi país y me hace sentir más felíz. Me…

Yo nací en Mexico, en Guadalajara. Vine aqui a curarme, porque me dectectaron cáncer. Apenas tengo aquí un més. Ya conocía a Tucson, por eso vine aquí. Me dieron radiaciones…