Celebrate community with FREE Admission on Sunday, May 18!

It will be a busy day at the Gardens and advance bookings are highly recommended.

Why Sunday, May 18? This is the last day of the American Public Gardens Association’s (APGA) Go Public Gardens initiative that aims to encourage everyone to visit, value, and volunteer at public gardens.

https://tucsonbotanical.org/event/go-public-gardens-day/

Animals learn, too! Visit on Teacher Appreciation Night and hear about how the animals at Reid Park Zoo learn with positive reinforcement training. Teachers get in free with work badge/ID.

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Animals learn, too! Visit on Teacher Appreciation Night and hear about how the animals at Reid Park Zoo learn with positive reinforcement training. Teachers get in free with work badge/ID.

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Join the Oro Valley Community & Recreation Center for a fun night out with family and friends for a movie under the stars. The movies will begin shortly after sundown and will be hosted on the backside of the facility near the golf driving range. This is a free community event. Dates and movies: 

2025 movies have been selected!

April 26 - Kung Fu Panda 4

May 17 – Wild Robot

June 21- Despicable Me 4

July 19 – Honey I shrunk the Kids

Join us on Sunday, May 11, 2025 as music director Khris Dodge and the Tucson Pops present our annual Mother’s Day concert as our spring Music Under the Stars season opener.



Khris promises that the program will include material new to the Pops that’s been requested by our mothers! Our special guests will be the members of El Mariachi Tapatio de Tucson, directed by Alberto Ranjel.



Come early to visit our food trucks and claim a prime spot for your blankets and lawn chairs.

Follow these tracks to some desert literacy!

Midsummer is an excellent time to keep kids connected to books, just as the monsoon season tunes us into the power and beauty of the desert we live in.  With desert literacy as our focus– learning to ‘read’ the plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert–join us for this joyful celebration of reading and writing in so many forms!

Get ready for:

This 3 hour workshop will allow your child to discover Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, and earn the Taliesin West Fun Patch by building a 3D architectural model.

PoeFest is back to commemorate the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and you can be a part of it all at multiple locations throughout Phoenix, Arizona this October. PoeFest has been a labor of love for a decade. When PoeFest first opened, it did so to just six audience members. With a packed audience on the third night, they knew they had something special. The fest includes mainstage productions of Poe’s short stories every weekend during the month of October with Poe’s stories rotating nightly.