Tonight - November 14

Monday, November 14 • 5 to 9 p.m.

Location
Dinnerware Artspace
119 E. Toole Avenue – downtown between 7th Avenue & Stone
Tucson, AZ

A first of its kind: Tucson Food Truck Roundup

Sample Jamaican food, try some Caribbean chicken, maybe taste a Korean taco. Enjoy that early evening breeze and listen to live music. Pets are welcome.

Taste savory and sweet treats from the best of the herd of Tucson’s wild prairie food trucks. Tame your taste for culinary adventure. Listen to live music by Baba Marimba,view art, have a beer. Sit outside or inside. A percentage of all sales goes to support Dinnerware Artspace.

Live music by Baba Marimba:
Heidi Wilson on Sax,
Mike Ankomeus on Trumpet,
Stu Mortimer, Swami Peizer,
Ali Sherbiny on drums and marimbas,
Mark Haldaway on guitar, marimbas, and kalimbas, and,
maybe a special appearance by Toreenee Wolf on vocals.

Participating trucks thus far:

D’s Island Grill JA Lunch Wagon (Jamaican food)
Jerk Chicken, Brown Stew Chicken, Curry Goat, and more

Jamie’s Bitchen Kitchen
Caribbean Jerk Chicken. Spicy chicken served with island rice and grilled pineapple.
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MaFooCo: (Mexican-Asian Food Company)
Korean Tacos and Kimchi Quesadillas.Where Kimchi meets Pancho Villa!
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KborK Tacos y Gorditas

Street Delights:
Candied apples, banana split pie, peanut butter brownie cups, and more.
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Pin Up Pastries
Whoopie Pies, Cupcakes, Cake Pops and Pastries
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Trucking Good Cupcakes

Cyclopsicle
Handmade Ice Pops
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Tarot Readings by Merrie Wolfie:
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Artwork by Patrick McArdle, ToReenee Wolf, Roberta Lewis, Jerome Rago, Randy Trujillo, Alex Kouvel, Carol Steffgen and more.

Brought to you by Dinnerware Artspace and Tucson Food Trucks – Fundraiser for Dinnerware Artspace – a portion of the food sales donated back to the gallery.

For more information contact David Aguirre at dinnerwareartspace@gmail.com

Arizona food bounty

Arizona Heritage Food Wagon: Calling artists & craftsmen

Hitch your artistic dream to a wagon, a food wagon, a Heritage food wagon.

Sabores Sin Fronteras/Flavors Without Borders is a new regional, bi-national and multi-cultural alliance to document, celebrate, and conserve farming and food folkways that span the U.S./Mexico borderlands from Texas and Tamaulipas on the east to Ambos Californias on the west. This new collaborative is in the proposed Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area not far from the international boundary between Sonora and Arizona, where the de Anza National Historical Trail meanders along the Santa Cruz floodplain.

Hey Tucson: It’s in your backyard.

The project is to build the Arizona Heritage Food Wagon. Here’s an opportunity for artists, architects, designers, carpenters, and metal workers to come together in knowledge and creativity.

The purposes of the Arizona Heritage Food Wagon are to serve as:

1) a piece of art with iconic images of Arizona heritage foods;
2) an information kiosk about the history of those foods and the Arizona based producers and restaurants currently offering them;
3) an educational video display viewing station for presenting DVDs (produced separately) that will be about these foods;
4) a farmers’ market “booth” featuring the actual foods for viewing, sample tasting, or sales;
and
5) a speakers’ platform where humanities content (historic, social and geographic) regarding Arizona’s unique food, farming and ranching legacies can be presented at public events.

The Food Wagon will be built on a 77-inch x 12-foot long flatbed trailer. The walls, doors, and/or windows of the food wagon can be made primarily from recycled materials or from Arizona native woods, copper, and woven materials. The motifs should reflect the multicultural traditions of the state and feature iconic foods such as chiles, cattle, corn, squash, cactus, wheat, and mesquite.

Designers/builders may work as a team or as individuals. Three-dimensional designs of a sculptural nature are highly encouraged, but two-dimensional elements in any media will be acceptable.

Project budget
Artists’ fee of $7,500 ($5,000 up front and $2,500 upon completion) will cover design, building and all materials except the platform, which will be provided.

Preliminary Applications DUE June 1, 2011. For more information, visit the website.