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Weekly Highlights in Arizona

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Special Olympics Arizona Fall
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Special Olympics Arizona Fall

More than 1,300 athletes from across Arizona compete in swimming and bocce at the Special Olympics Arizona Fall Games on Oct. 23-24, 2026, with a free torch-lighting opening ceremony at Surprise Stadium.

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White Cane Day at Tucson's Main
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

White Cane Day at Tucson's Main

Tucson School for the Blind and Saavi Services for the Blind host a free White Cane Day celebration with a Braille scavenger hunt, adaptive games and art on Oct. 23, 2026, at the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave.

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Sprouts House Garden Open House
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Sprouts House Garden Open House

The University of Arizona-run Sprouts House school garden beside Mansfield Magnet Middle School in Tucson opens its gates Oct. 20, 2026, for an evening of food, music and greenhouse tours.

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Civic Orchestra of Tucson
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Civic Orchestra of Tucson

The Civic Orchestra of Tucson opens its 51st season with Shostakovich, Dvořák and Mozart at Mountain View High School in Marana on Oct. 24, 2026 — free admission.

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Latin Sizzle: TSO's
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Latin Sizzle: TSO's

Music director José Luis Gómez leads the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, cuatro virtuoso Jorge Glem and bajo player Elvis Martínez through an all-Venezuelan program anchored by Sibelius' Fifth on Oct. 23, 2026, at Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.

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Ballet Tucson's Spirit Garden at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Ballet Tucson's Spirit Garden at

Ballet Tucson opens its 40th season at the Temple of Music and Art Oct. 23-25, 2026, reviving Chieko Imada's Día de los Muertos ballet 'Spirit Garden' with music by Calexico and art by Lawrence W. Lee.

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Phoenix Pride Festival & Parade
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Phoenix Pride Festival & Parade

The 45th Phoenix Pride Festival and Parade moves to Arizona Center on Oct. 11, 2026, with a free-to-attend parade and street festival plus a Saturday concert.

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Holocaust Survivor Dirk Van
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Holocaust Survivor Dirk Van

Holocaust survivor and author Dirk Van Leenen shares firsthand testimony at the Mayer Recreation Center in Mayer, Arizona on October 14, 2026, in a free library program moved to a larger venue for attending students.

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Tucson Meet Yourself 2026 at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Tucson Meet Yourself 2026 at

Tucson Meet Yourself returns to Jácome Plaza in downtown Tucson Oct. 16-18, 2026, with a Smithsonian village and a wide roster of food and performances.

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Tucson Meet Yourself 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Tucson Meet Yourself 2026

Tucson Meet Yourself returns to Jácome Plaza Oct. 16-18, 2026, with a Smithsonian-backed redesign into themed villages, a rebuilt Culture Kitchen and a Tucson-Almaty showcase.

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Tucson Meet Yourself 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Tucson Meet Yourself 2026

The 53rd Tucson Meet Yourself folklife festival, reimagined with the Smithsonian into themed villages, takes over Jácome Plaza in downtown Tucson Oct. 16-18, 2026, with free admission.

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Fresh Start Expo at Tucson
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Fresh Start Expo at Tucson

The Fresh Start Expo returns to Tucson on Oct. 17, 2026, offering free warrant resolution, voting rights restoration and marijuana expungements at Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona.

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Maricopa's New Fieldhouse Opens
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Maricopa's New Fieldhouse Opens

After two years and $16.2 million, the city's first indoor recreation facility arrives with a ribbon-cutting, free court time and a wrestling show.

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The Dream Replanted
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Dream Replanted

After a year of soil rehab, new plumbing and a rebuilt pond, Patricia Deridder's Kyoto-style courtyard gardens reopen in midtown Tucson.

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Golf N' Stuff's 50th: Monster Mash
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Golf N' Stuff's 50th: Monster Mash

A Tucson mini-golf landmark marks half a century with haunted courses, a costume contest and a trinket trade.

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The Zoo That Wakes Up After Dark
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Zoo That Wakes Up After Dark

World of Illumination debuts Zombie Zoo, its first Halloween show at Tempe Diablo Stadium, where a gorilla named Tumba raises the dead and one ticket lets the whole car in.

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142 Years of the Arizona State
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

142 Years of the Arizona State

The 2026 Arizona State Fair returns to its historic Phoenix fairgrounds for a month of concerts, rodeos, rides and fair food.

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The Constitution Sings
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Constitution Sings

A comic opera born from a law student's daydream brings Justices Scalia and Ginsburg back to the bench — this time in Tucson.

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A Second Chance on Two Wheels
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Second Chance on Two Wheels

For a month each September, Earnhardt Auto Centers lots fill with donated bicycles that St. Vincent de Paul's volunteers repair and put to work carrying Arizonans to jobs, school and a more stable future.

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Maricopa's Got Talent: A City's Homegrown Musicians Step Into the Spotlight
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Maricopa's Got Talent: A City's Homegrown Musicians Step Into the Spotlight

From a Roy Orbison look-alike to a family metal band, Maricopa's Got Talent auditions bring the city's homegrown musicians to the stage, and the winners will headline October's First Friday.

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Maricopa's Got Talent: A City's
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Maricopa's Got Talent: A City's

From a Roy Orbison look-alike to a family metal band, Maricopa's Got Talent auditions bring the city's homegrown musicians to the stage, and the winners will headline October's First Friday.

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