Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry

We are so excited to be a co-sponsor of the 5th Annual MMIP Awareness Symposium! 🌿❤️ 📅 May 4, 2026 | 9 AM – 5:30 PM 📍 Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) Join us for a powerful day of awareness, education, & community. Speaker details coming soon. Stay tuned!

The Confluencenter is thrilled to be a co-sponsor of this year's Raquel Rubio Goldsmith Lecture in Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies! 🌟 📅 Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM 📍 University Park Marriott, Tucson, AZ 🎟️Buy Tickets & register at link in bio!

🎉 Attend for a chance to win a FREE copy of Los Tucsonenses! Join us tomorrow for Show & Tell: A 21st Century Vision for a Mexican American/Chicano Cultural Center ✨ 📆 April 16 | 5 PM reception | 6 PM panel 📍 Playground Bar & Lounge 🔗 Link in bio

Save the date and join us for a virtual gathering continuing a collaboration between the Indigenous Teacher Education Program, the Confluencenter, and PUIC at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.✨ 📅 April 22 ⏰ 5:30–7:30 PM 📍 Zoom Link in the bio to register💻 🔗

🎭¡BOCÓN! by Lisa Loomer, is a powerful and imaginative play that celebrates courage, storytelling, and what it means to be heard — uplifting the voices of children seeking safety and belonging. 🎟️🔗 Don't miss it and get your tickets today: tr.ee/l0OP3pQ6eL

🚨 SAVE THE DATE!🚨 Join us for Show & Tell, Los Tucsonenses: A 21st Century “MACCC” (Mexican American/Chicano Cultural Center) ✨ 📆 April 16 at 5 PM 🔗 Register here: tr.ee/FfgmSrXiQp #TucsonEvents #MexicanAmerican #Chicano #TucsonCommunity #ShowAndTell

Save the date and join us for a virtual gathering continuing a collaboration between the Indigenous Teacher Education Program, the Confluencenter, and PUIC at the National Autonomous University of Mexico on how water is honored.✨ 💻Link to register🔗: tr.ee/jDm8EtcRcP

Happy Women’s History Month!💫 We celebrate dynamic women ever day who are shaping history and breaking barriers. Uplifting their communities stories and creating space for more women to create, advocate and express themselves. 🎨 📖 📰 🏅 ✊ ✨⛸️ #womenshistory #herstory

Join the conversation on how emerging technologies intersect with Indigenous values, governance, and community partnerships 🤖✨ 📱 Register: tr.ee/OmQu-54aPj #IndigenousSovereignty #IndigenousGovernance #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Fronteridades

🚨 ATTENTION🚨 The DEADLINE for: In This Frontera Moment, Creative Reuse of the Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersections in the U.S.-Mexico Border, & Confluencias: Voices and Visions of the Arizona-Sonora Border is now extended to FRI. APRIL 10! Apply NOW! 🔗 in bio

Join the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory for 3 talks exploring surveillance, power, & resistance. 🕔5 PM |📍Pacheco ILC 130 📅 3/17, 3/24 & 4/7 🔗 More info: theory.arizona.edu/series/speaker…

📣 Call for Proposals: Creative Reuse of Fronteridades We're seeking proposals that creatively analyze, reinterpret, or build upon materials & stories featured on the #Fronteridades website! 💰 Up to $4,000 📅Deadline: April 3, 2026 🔗 Apply here: tr.ee/jDm8EtcRcP

Meet our 3rd cohort of the Fronteridades Undergraduate Internship Program!💫 These students are working closely with local nonprofit and grassroots organizations serving diverse communities in our region.🌵 #Froneridades #Undergraduate #UArizona #BearDown #Tucson

📣 Apply now / Postulate ahora, Confluencias grants support border arts & education across Arizona–Sonora. $2,000 award. Deadline March 27. 🌵🎨 🔗 :tr.ee/qzInVLyLZz #Fronteridades #ArizonaSonora #Borderlands

📣Call for Proposals: In This Frontera Moment 🎓 Are you an enrolled U of A graduate student? We are seeking proposals that document, analyze, or creatively engage the urgent impacts of shifting immigration and border conditions 📚🎨🎙 Learn more: tr.ee/0Ui2VVw7e4

Yesterday, #CCI #AIHorizons #Fronteridades cohort gathered at the Confluencenter casita to meet one another, share what they're working on, and dive into conversations around AI and its possibilities. 🤖 Stay tuned to learn about their projects!💫 💻 tr.ee/jW1npqHJ91

Join us for a Zoom Charla featuring Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli (WOLA), Javier Corrales (Amherst), & Flo Tomasi (Telemundo 33). We’ll explore intervention in Venezuela & its regional impact—political, social, and international dynamics. Register: link in bio 💻

We need your help by participating in the Desert Voices project survey!🏜️💻 Click the 🔗 in bio for more info & to submit a response. __ ¡Necesitamos tu ayuda participando en la encuesta del proyecto Voces del Desierto🏜️💻! Usa el 🔗 en nuestro bio para mas info & participar.

We’re excited to announce the second cohort of student recipients for the CCI AI Horizons 2.0 - Fronteridades Edition🎉 This program supports creative, ethical, & community-centered projects that explore how artificial intelligence shows up in life at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a panel discussion on the vision for a Mex-American/Chicano Cultural Center in Tucson. Huge gratitude to Mayor Regina Romero , Dr. Lydia Otero , & Raul Aguirre for sharing their insights. A conversation led by our director Javier Duran.🎙️