Special Events

Catch Beatlemania with John, Paul, George and Ringo at this fab sing-a-long screening of the 1964 rock ‘n’ roll musical, A Hard Day’s Night!  Sing-a-long to all the movie’s classic tunes, including “Can’t Buy Me Love,’ “I Should Have Known Better,” and “A Hard Day’s Night!” Rock out with pre-show Beatles Music Videos, and come dressed as your favorite Mop Top for our Beatles Costume Contest before the movie. You’ll love it, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the US scene with their Ed Sullivan appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night, in which the bandmates play wily, exuberant versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. This zany, tune-filled romp follows thirty-six hours in the lives of the Fab Four as they prepare for a big TV gig in London while looking for adventure, getting into trouble and trying to outrun hordes of their screaming fans!  Directed with raucous, anything-goes energy by Richard Lester and featuring a slew of classic pop anthems, including the title track, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better,” “Tell Me Why,” and “If I Fell,” A Hard Day’s Night, which reconceived the movie musical and paved the way for the modern music video, is one of the most deliriously entertaining (and sing-able!) movies of all time. (Dir. by Richard Lester, 1964, UK, 87 mins., Not Rated)

Reserve tickets here through The Loft Cinema's website.

Join us on Saturday, May 06, 2023, from 5PM to 7PM for the "¡Fiesta Fotográfica: El Pueblo Celebration!" at the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center Patio & Multipurpose Room. Centerpiece to the evening is an exhibition commemorating El Pueblo's past, present, and future through photography and storytelling. Join us for a reception featuring mariachi, hors d'oeuvres, aguas, and community tabling. Welcome remarks will be given at 5:45PM. Your rsvp is kindly requested, linked here.

About the Collaboration: El Pueblo Neighborhood Center is a hub for recreational and public services, neighborly exchange and community placekeeping in Tucson’s Southside. Located at the intersection of Irvington & Sixth, it is adjacent to the Laos Transit center and the Tucson Rodeo Grounds, houses such key Tucson Chicano cultural landmarks as the Frank De La Cruz Public Library and the headquarters of US Congressman Raúl Grijalva. Wrapped in murals and memory and traversed by families and public servants, the center is now the focus of efforts by multiple stakeholders in the city and private sector for revitalization and reinvestment. 

In the Spring of 2023,  UArizona students in Public and Applied Humanities (PAH) 200 “Introduction to Applied Humanities - the El Pueblo Urban Humanities Studio,” in partnership with the Sunnyside Foundation and the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) joined these efforts by visualizing the legacy and future of the site as part of their coursework with Dr. Jacqueline Barrios. Together with teaching partners and community storytellers, they deployed an urban humanist toolkit (case-study and archival research, site-visits, spatial ethnography, interviews and photography) to bring El Pueblo’s cultural, historical and speculative imaginaries into the public eye

A selection of the images from the El Pueblo photography and storytelling project will then be exhibited within CCP's current exhibition, Sessions on Creative Photography: Hazel Larsen Archer, through August 05, 2023. 

We would like to acknowledge funding for this project from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA);  the Marshall Foundation; the UArizona Experiential Learning Design Accelerator; UArizona Hispanic Serving Institute (HSI) Faculty Seed Grant, which supported sessions with Latinx digital humanist scholar and course artist-in-resident, Dr. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo; Arts|Humanities|Resilience Grant from UArizona College of Fine Arts (CFA) Research, Innovation & Impact (RII) and the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR), which is providing support for our newly inducted community documentarians and artists-in-residence, Luis Gonzalez and Jessica Wolff. We want to thank community and teaching partners, collaborators and storytellers from Sunnyside Foundation; the Office of Congressman Raúl Grijalva; Nuestras Raíces Pima County Public Library (PCPL) and Frank de la Cruz-El Pueblo Public Library; Raúl Council Member Lane Santa Cruz and Ward 1; Council Member Richard Fimbres and Ward 5; Supervisor Adelita S. Grijalva - Pima County Board of Supervisors, District 5; City of Tucson Parks and Recreation, UArizona, especially the College of Humanities (COH) and the Department of Public and Applied Humanities (PAH), College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA), Center for Creative Photography (CCP), UArizona Libraries Special Collections. 

None of this would be possible without members of our communities who participated in our Community Reinvestment Days, site visits, storytelling panels, community photo-shoots, workshops, pin-ups and reviews, who took the time to help us learn and share the story of El Pueblo. 

Community Storytellers: Jese Aguilar, Netza Aguirre, Richard Barker, Michael Barton, Cassandra Becerra, Martha Diaz, Vanessa Gallego, Mona Grijalva,  Congressman Raúl Grijalva, Sharayah ‘Shay’ Jimenez, Yolanda Herrera, Nancy Johnson, Beki Quintero, Ruben Reyes, Lupita Robles, Alfonso Romero, Anna Sanchez, Councilmember Lane Santa Cruz, Melissa Salazar, Jesse Soto, Brianna Velador,

Sunnyside Foundation Staff:  CEO Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Soltero, Director of Operations, Veronica Cruz-Mercado, Education & Community Manager, Karla Toledo, Administrative Coordinator, Laura Corrales, Community Investment Fund Coordinator, Selina Barajas 

UArizona and Guest Instructors and Reviewers:  Mireya Ballesteros, Cara Buchanan, Michelle Nicole Boyer Kelley, Denisse Brito, Lisa Duncan, Federicco Fabbri, Dr. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo, Stephanie Husman, Dr. Meg Jackson Fox, Ashley Swinford, Juliana Tobar, Emily Weirich, Kenny H. Wong, and all the UArizona students and members of our communities who made this project come to life. 

(Left) “Photo of El Pueblo” is a photo of a historic snapshot of the El Pueblo patio found at Congressman Raύl Grijalva’s office, and is produced by PAH 200 student Neylan Jeffreyes for his final project about capturing the traces of time passing within El Pueblo. Photo Neylan Jeffreyes

(Right) “Future” is a photo capturing PAH 200 students at work conducting their community photo-shoot  at El Pueblo, produced by PAH 200 student Riley Swindall for her final project documenting the coming together this semester of two communities,  El Pueblo and her class. Photo by Riley Swindall.

Visit CCP for Exhibition Opening Day and enjoy the North American premiere of The Linda McCartney Retrospective, photography by her beloved teacher, Hazel Larsen Archer, an image+sound installation co-created with Arizona Arts Live, and hands-on activities.

Beginning at noon in the Forum at UA's Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB), Sarah Brown, Photographic Curator of the Linda McCartney Archives, will speak on Linda McCartney’s life and legacy, followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography. 

The day will be filled with exciting activities outdoors inspired by the Center and our exhibitions! Visitors will be invited to create their own Linda McCartney-inspired cyanotypes, exchange their favorite recipes in the “Take a recipe, leave a recipe” table, or chat with vegan advocates Gissel Guzman and Hannah Hernandez about plant-based eating. Color with CCP Collection Coloring Pages, engage with the CCP exhibitions with our scavenger hunt Bingo, and much more!

*Free first-come, first-serve tickets will be available beginning when doors open at 10am, both at CCP and the HSIB building. 75 tickets will be reserved for members; 25 tickets reserved for students with student IDs; and 300 tickets for general admission. At 11:45am, the reserved tickets will become general admission.

Inspired by Linda McCartney’s plant-based movement and Mary McCartney’s contemporary project “Mary McCartney Serves It Up!,” CCP will bring our community together for creative experiences and meaningful connections through food, photographs, and conversation. Once a month between February and September 2023, CCP will co-organize a community table with photographers, chefs, and other local nonprofit leaders. Topics will center on building together a greener, more sustainable and united community through food + photography.

The community tables will be open to anyone interested in joining and will pop-up in collaboration with community events across Southern Arizona and Phoenix, from farmers markets and artisan fairs to non-profits and small businesses. The first community table will coincide with opening weekend of The Linda McCartney Retrospective, while the last will coincide with the opening of a second major exhibition on Arizonan photographer, Louis Carlos Bernal.

CCP Community Tables Schedule:

Saturday, February 25, 2023: 10:00am to 4:30pm, at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona

Saturday, March 25, 2023: 8:00am to 1:00pm, at the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market, Phoenix, Arizona

Saturday, April 22, 2023: 9:00am to 1:00pm, at Children's Museum Tucson, Tucson, Arizona

Saturday, May 06, 2023: Time TBD, at El Pueblo Neighborhood Center, Tucson, Arizona

Sunday, June 04, 2023: 8:00am to 12:00pm(noon), Heirloom Farmer's Market at Rillito Park, Tucson, Arizona

More dates forthcoming.

The Center for Creative Photography in partnership with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona is digitally convening photographer Susan Meiselas and anthropologist Dr. Ruken Sengul on November 17th at 5pm Arizona Time. The conversation will focus on their respective work about the stories, memories and diasporas of Kurdish peoples. 

This talk will stream live on Youtube here, on our Facebook page here, and in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Facebook group here. 

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer who lives and works in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003) Prince Street Girls (2016) and A Room Of Their Own (2017). She has co-edited two published collections: El Salvador, Work of 30 Photographers (1983) and Chile from Within (1990), rereleased as an e-book in 2013, and also co-directed two films: Living at Risk (1985) and Pictures from a Revolution (1991) with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles. Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was recently exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo. She has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, which supports, trains, and mentors the next generation of in-depth documentary photographers and innovative practice.

Serap Ruken Sengul is a sociocultural anthropologist from Kurdistan of Turkey. Her research expertise converges on gender and sexual formations of sovereignty, nationalism, kinship, violence, memory and displacement in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Dr. Sengul earned her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, and completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She currently serves as Distinguished Research Fellow through the Promise Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. Besides her scholarly work, Dr. Sengul has maintained activist research in Turkey since the late 1990 with special focus on political violence in the Kurdish region.

Members and VIP Guests, join us in welcoming David Hume Kennerly, former White House photographer and current University of Arizona Presidential Scholar, for a special discussion on the stories behind some of his most beloved images throughout his career as a photojournalist. Following the presentation will be Q&A with CCP members and guests. Don’t miss this unique opportunity for an up close and personal look at Kennerly’s impactful, enduring work.

 David Hume Kennerly has documented history for more than fifty years, creating iconic images of wars, politics, sports, celebrities and everyday life.

CCP Members, please register here. 
 

Not a member yet? Learn more here and join us for the public event taking place on October 15, 2020!

Can photographs affect our understanding of politics? What is life like as a photojournalist during an American election year? How does photography begin to capture the impact of pandemics and protests?

In October 2019, the University of Arizona and the Center for Creative Photography announced the major acquisition of the David Hume Kennerly Archive. Kennerly, who won a Pulitzer Prize at the age of 25 and became President Gerald Ford's official White House photographer two years later, has provided an intimate view of politics and world events for newspaper and magazine publications, and television broadcasts, for over fifty years. Kennerly was also named the first Presidential Scholar under University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins.

Hear from photojournalist David Hume Kennerly in this in-depth conversation with CCP Director, Anne Breckenridge Barrett, on the challenging and timely topics of 2020, including the coverage of American campaigns, political leadership, and moments of crisis. Together they will reflect on the year since Kennerly's archive came to UArizona, and share selections from Kennerly's newest work to enter the collection.

This free virtual event will stream live on the CCP's Facebook page, and on Youtube here:

CCP Members, learn more about the exciting member and VIP event taking place on October 13, 2020 here.

Photographer and educator Cheriss May shares her experiences covering the intersectionality of race, politics, and protest, in the wake of the national reckoning on racial injustice. May will then be joined by CCP Director, Anne Breckenridge Barrett, for conversation and virtual Q&A with the audience.

This free virtual event will stream live on the Center's Youtube and Facebook pages. There is no registration required. 

About Cheriss May: 

Cheriss May is a lauded portrait and editorial photographer based in Washington, D.C. She is the president of Women Photojournalists of Washington, an Adobe Education Leader, and an adjunct professor at Howard University, her alma mater. She is often commissioned to speak about inclusive storytelling. Her work  has appeared in O Magazine, The White House Historical Association, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Time, ABC News, The Today Show, and MSNBC. Cheriss’s work is featured in a permanent exhibit: MFON's In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

"Cheriss May: Beyond The Protest" is part of the 2020 fall program series for the upcoming CCP exhibition "Photojournalism 20/20: A Think Tank for an Unimaginable Present."  Looking through the lens of CCP’s historical collection, Photojournalism 20/20 will consider the critical role of photojournalism during this period of physical confinement, protests for racial justice, and a presidential election season. The installation takes on a new timeliness by acting as an interactive, in-progress think tank that gathers raw material in real time about photojournalism in our daily and collective lives over the course of 2020. It does so in the search for ways to address how photography is both shaping and documenting these global crises, and to archive our experience of 2020 for future research about photojournalism.

Dr. Rebecca Senf will give virtual book talks at the following dates and locations:

March 25, 2021, 6:00pm (PDT), hosted by Portland Art Museum. More information here. 

Learn more about Making A Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams here. 

Our focus on preserving family photographs continues in a livestream conversation with Tricia Patterson, Digital Preservation Analyst at Harvard Library, who will discuss why personal digital archiving is important for everyone, how digital materials can be more at risk than physical ones, and offer guidance on formats, storage, and organization. Patterson will introduce basic practices you can employ at home to ensure your dearest digital memories endure for generations to come. Please click here to register

Have a digital preservation question for Tricia Patterson? You can submit your questions ahead of time to the CCP Education Department at ccp-education@email.arizona.edu.

Tricia Patterson is a Digital Preservation Analyst at Harvard Library, where she champions communication with the future by ensuring long-term stewardship and usability of Harvard’s digital historical assets. She supports programmatic activities for the digital repository, web and email archiving, digital forensics, emulation, and other related enterprises across the Library. Prior to joining Harvard University, she was a National Digital Stewardship Resident (NDSR) at MIT Libraries, where she researched and documented digital preservation workflows. Tricia has served as a coordinator for the SAA Research Forum, an inaugural NDSR Advisory Group member, and she co-developed and instructs an SAA DAS course on email archiving.