Arizona Spotlight presents "The Class of 2024."
February 27, 2025
Featured on the February 27, 2025 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- More from “The Class of 2024” essay project, as Tucson High graduate Madelynn shares the frustrating emptiness of pandemic isolation, and the discouraging experience of using remote learning. This essay series will culminate in a live theatrical experience this weekend on Saturday, March 1st at 6:30 pm at Tucson High.
Madelynn from "The Class of 2024."
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Art Almquist and six of the graduates who wrote essays about their high school experiences.
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- Learn about the work of TIHAN, the Tucson Interfaith HIV / AIDS Network, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary of providing assistance and hope in our community. Tony Paniagua has an interview with TIHAN executive director Scott Blades, and Tim Haver, a local resident living with HIV who has received services from TIHAN.
Tim Haver (left) who is living with HIV and receives assistance from TIHAN, joined us in AZPM's studio with Scott Blades, the executive director of the non-profit group.
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VIEW LARGER Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network logo. courtesy of TIHAN
Twenty-four plays, for reading or performing. In ten minutes or less. With Ten-Minute Dramas, Alejandro Canelos gets right to the point.design by Gabriela Fleming
- And in a new Ten-Minute Drama written by Alejandro Canelos, find out how quickly a blind date can go awry, when a plate of green beans becomes the first of a series of disasters in “Haricot Verts."
"Haricot Verts" in Alejandro Canelos' Ten-Minute Drama.
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Matthew Staples as the waiter, Michael Craig as the restaurant patron, Betsy Kruse Craig as the restaurant manager, Alejandro Canelos reading stage direction, Emily Fuchs as Michaela, and Sean Hazen as Kermit (from left to right) in "Haricot Verts."
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