Comments on: Don’t miss Big Kahuna Tropical Bash today!

By: fraser007

fraser007 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:00:30 +0000

The shelf life for a film like this is several months, maybe a year. It was suppossed to be 12 or so minutes and be part of an intro into a museum of the area for the Rio Nuevo Project. They must have expanded it to one half hour so we would not feel cheated!! LOL
KUAT will show it once or twice, maybe someone else. If 100 people saw it then what is the per unit cost? Over 8,000 dollars for every person there. Why dont they just give me the check and I can spend it on something important. Sorry Carolyn, you are a good person but you should be outraged about this. Yell!!!!

By: Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Classen — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:08:47 +0000

Photos of this Big Kahuna event at Hotel Congress & at Main Gate online now at Tucson’s Birthday website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tucsons_birthday/sets/72157624668245577/

By: Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Classen — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:00:49 +0000

This movie is a well photographed & filmed history of this region, starting off with the Tohono O’odham, followed by the Jesuit missionaries (including Father Kino), then the Mexicans, up to today including Anglos. It talked about the agriculture and water rights along the Santa Cruz River, and focused on the archaeological record of the Convento area, at the base of Sentinel Peak (“A” Mountain). It included many interviews of local people with musical interludes. It is a beautiful movie, but was probably over budgeted, since it allegedly cost $820,000 to produce. About 100 people were in the audience of the Fox Theater to see it last night. Mark Irvin of the Rio Nuevo board introduced the film and said it will be used as an “orientation” film for promotion and education.

By: fraser007

fraser007 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:04:58 +0000

Carolyn–So tell us about the $820,000 1/2 hr movie. I welcome your comments!

By: Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Classen — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:00:51 +0000

Yes, Mike we miss you too and your erudite speech. We started off at the Fox Theater watching the premier of “Finding Tucson’s Origins” which is a 1/2 hour film, commissioned back in 2006 for the Tucson Origins Park. Then we ate birthday cake at Maynard’s Kitchen and went to an art show at Delectables restaurant (artist Mary Theresa Dietz), followed by a visit to Main Gate where we heard some lively street musicians drumming. Lots of aloha shirts tonight and it rained a lot too, cooling everything down by 30 degrees.

By: mike_brewer

mike_brewer — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:17:32 +0000

Geeezzz, and to think, I would have been conducting on the Trolley tonight. Now I miss you all.