This week we discuss a restaurant with a secret you would never know, unless you knew. Also, the world prepares an invasion of Tucson’s film scene. And we start with Beauty and the Streets.
Downtown Tucson Partnership (DTP) has contracted with Desert Survivors to provide plants and the labor force for all the City planters located along Congress Street and Stone Avenue. Eventually, all of the Downtown planters on all streets located within the Business Improvement District will be filled with native plants.
WorkAbility, an organization dedicated to helping young adults with developmental disabilities transition into the workforce. DTP has partnered with them as well to provide three to seven adults who will work with DTP maintenance ambassadors, providing a number of maintenance activities including sweeping sidewalks and picking up litter and they also love interacting with the public, merchants and patrons.
Coyote TaskForce is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide high quality employment services, public awareness, and advocacy for adults living with serious mental illnesses, in the belief that work is an integral part of recovery and well-being. For over twenty years, Coyote TaskForce has served adults with disabilities and our community.
While you may not have heard of the Task Force, if you’ve been at the corner of Scott and Pennington Downtown Tucson, you’ve probably run into the work they’re doing. Coyote Taskforce is the umbrella organization and they carry out their mission through Café 54, Our Place Clubhouse and Re-threads thrift store-
We caught up with Joanna Keyl, (KYLE) the Coyote Taskforce development director, at Café 54. While they were setting up for the lunch rush Joanna served up some history and impactful stories.
In our extended interview, Joanna delves deeper into the programs and shares a great story about her start as a baking coach. Her eyes light up when she tells this story. Plus we chat about the really amazing artwork hanging in the Café 54 dining room- all done by artists who have experienced some level of mental illness.
To hear that interview and for more info regarding A Magical Night for Mental Illness and the programs of Coyote Taskforce Head over to our face book page.
26 feature films and 60 shorts from 21 countries will be shown at the Screening Room from April 18-April 29th as part of the 27th annual- Arizona International Film Festival.
As you might imagine, the Festival’s team was quite occupied with the preparations for this week’s launch. We did, however, reach Mia Schnaible (SNYBLE) by phone. She’s the festival’s Director of Marketing and Development and shared some recent developments.
Mia will be in our studio, live, next week and will escort a film maker in his 20th year with the festival- Liam O Mochain ( mickshane)
Head over to our Facebook page after the show for a link to the trailer of his film, “Lost & Found”. It’s 7 inter-connected stories which take place in a lost and found office of an Irish Train Station. Filmed over a five year period from 2011 to 2016, It plays in Tucson, next week, 6:00 pm at the Screening Room.
