Experience all of Tucson Meet Yourself across five performance stages, three pavilions, and ten micro-pavilions.
Stages
Stages are our TMY curated performance locations.
Pavilions
Pavilions are our TMY curated spaces, returning year to year.
Cooks, cultural workers, and communities share dishes, techniques, and stories linking food and culture — including the Chinese Chorizo Project, Tucson Foodie, and the Tucson City of Gastronomy Food Heroes Awards.
sponsored by Tucson Appliance
This pavilion brings festivalgoers close to master artists at work — Tohono O’odham pottery, flower arranging, and more — through live demonstration, conversation, and hands-on teaching.
The artists of the Native Nations tents — Pasqua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham will present in rotation on the stage at the center of our Native Nations Pavilion.
sponsored by Desert Diamond Casinos
Micro-Pavilions
Micro-Pavilions are smaller, rotating spotlights on a single culture or theme, curated by partners from the specific tradition or theme, with performance, food & workshops.
On the Gathering Green
Asian Creations
A collaboration with the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center highlights the city’s diverse East and Southeast Asian communities.
Flamenco Sonora
Celebrates Flamenco culture from Spain with hostess Angelina Ramirez and friends. Learn the basics of flamenco dance and music and taste homemade paella, a traditional Spanish rice dish
In the Global Arts Triangle
Arizona State Museum
Arizona State Museum presents FORGE+FUTURE: Contemporary Native Jewelry Artists, a new Arizona State Museum exhibit at Tucson Meet Yourself.
Disability Cultures
Learn about the latest about disability culture in Tucson led by SFA’s Disability Cultures Folklorist Alisha Vasquez in this collaboration between SFA and the UC Berkeley Disabled Ecologies Lab.
The Jewish Pavilion
Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona shares programming presenting perspectives from a broad and diverse spectrum of the Jewish people.
Kazakhstan: Almaty x Tucson
A cultural exchange with master artists from Kazakhstan, this micro-pavilion showcases shared cultural values with music, art and conversation from Tucson’s sister city, Almaty.
sponsored by the Smithsonian, Samruk Kazyna, Chevron, TriDave Legacy Trust, and the Southwest Folklife Alliance.
Tucson Museum of Art
TMA shares its work and its mission at Tucson Meet Yourself.
Perú Expo
This cultural micro-pavilion, curated by Erika Marquez, celebrates Peruvian culture with dance performances, workshops, speakers, tasty treats, ceremony, and a dance party with live music at the end of each day
In the Of the People Village
National Museum of the American Latino
The national museum brings its exhibtion to Tucson Meet Yourself. Hosted at the indoor space at 37 Pennington space, next to City High.
Somos TUSD: Desert Voices and Living History
Learn more about learning and folklife with this collaboration with Local Learning, on behalf of the Smithsonian, connecting local teachers with folklife-based pedagogy.
