🍃 Spring Break is here!

Good morning Flagstaff! If you’ve thought about getting into a creative activity like wood working or ceramics and haven’t known where to start, you might like to check out today’s section on Coco-op Makerspace. Along with that we’ve got a lot more going on in town.

Today in Flagstaff Inspires:

• 🌳 Wool & Fiber Festival looking for food vendors

• ⚕ Free community first aid training

• 🧒 Daily spring break activities at Museum of Northern Arizona

Let’s go!

— Alissa Zorn

Community Sparks

New Exhibit at Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA)

🖼 Collecting in a Changing World opened March 1st at MNA. The exhibit focuses on recent acquisitions that showcase the evolving art, culture, and science across the Colorado Plateau, and the ways people engage with a shifting environment.

Featured works in the exhibit include:

• Art and pottery from the Hopi-Tewa Nampeyo-Namingha family

• Paintings by Hopi-Tewa artists Duane Koyawena and Ed Kabotie

• Items representing resilience, such as pandemic-era Indigenous artifacts

• Star Wars-inspired Diné art, collected initially for MNA’s popular The Force is With Our People exhibition from 2019-2020

You can see some pieces from the exhibit online, or visit the museum March 1, 2025 - Jan. 4, 2026.

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Coco-op Makerspace is a community workspace where members can access tools for wood working, metal working, ceramics, sewing, digital fabrication and more! Each shop area requires an area-specific safety orientation prior to use - here are a few upcoming orientations in case you’d like to join them!

• Woodshop Orientation Wednesday, March 12 @ 6pm

• Digifab Orientation: Thursday, March 13 @ 6pm

• Textiles Orientation: Saturday, March 15 @ 11am

• Ceramics Orientation: Sunday, March 16 @ 4 PM

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AROUND TOWN

Spring Break Activities at MNA

👨‍👧‍👦 The museum is offering daily activities for kids during spring break from 1-3:30pm. These workshops are free to kids 9 and under and free for museum members.

• Tuesday: Bug Bonanza

• Wednesday: Painting Party

• Thursday: Poetry in Motion

• Friday: Cosmic Adventures

Community First Aid and Preparedness Training

⚕ This community first aid training presented by Flagstaff Mutual Aid is FREE on March 29th & 30th. Register now to secure a spot. Skilled medics will teach participants about First Aid medic packs, tools, and skills including CCR and Stop the Bleed.

Business News:

🥙 Flagstaff Wool and Fiber Festival is still looking for a few food vendors for May 31st and June 1st at the Pioneer Museum. Vendor applications can be found here.

🍔 Downtown Flagstaff’s March Madness Burger Competition continues! Grab a burger, submit your vote and support your downtown community at the same time!

📚 Flagstaff Public Library is hiring. They’re looking for a Library Supervisor - Reference Services to join the team.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Tuesday 3.11

👩‍👧👾 Cryptid Creation: Learn about cryptids from around the world and design your own! Win a prize for the best drawing/story! Ages 8-12, 2-3pm at Downtown Library

🔥 Ready-Set-Go Workshop: Learn how to prepare your household for evacuations - evacuation zones, emergency alerts, and essential go-kit items. 5:30pm at Murdoch Community Center

👽 Flagspins Vinyl Night: DJ Quick Kay will be spinning vinyl on Tuesday evenings at the DSB Beer Garden. Beer discounts if you bring your own vinyl! Every Tuesday, 6-9pm, Dark Sky Beer Garden

📝🍺Poet Brews - Open Mic for Writers: Read anything you want up to ten minutes... fiction, poetry, nonfiction, a text you sent your ex, something you wrote while listening to others, a standup routine - give it a try! 7pm, 21+, Flagstaff Brewing Co.

😂 Comedy Open Mic: Come ready to laugh! 8:30 PM at Hops on Birch

Wednesday 3.12

🩸 Lucky Charm Blood Drive at FMC: Your lifesaving donation will be a patient's pot of gold. Donate in March and be entered for a chance to win a $5,000 gift card! Register at Vitalant for an appointment.

📝 Wily Writers: New start time - 5:30pm. Join this weekly writing group for practice, motivation, sharing, and learning! Wednesdays 5:30-7pm Downtown Library, Northwest Corner

🎤 Poetry Slam: Flagslam hosts this vibrant community poetry gathering each Wednesday. They want to hear your voice! Sign up by 6pm if you want to perform! 6:30pm Firecreek Coffee Flagstaff

🧠Trivia Night at the Mead Hall: Challenging questions, local mead, fun visual and audio rounds, and prizes for 1st and 2nd place! Teams of up to 5. Seats fill up quick! Wednesdays 6-8:30pm, Drinking Horn Meadery

🍺 Brews Trivia: Form your trivia dream team and join for prizes, drink specials and a chance to win the monthly raffle. Wednesdays, 7-10pm at Brews & Cues

🏎 Mario Kart Tournament: Put those speedy reflexes to work and win prizes. Send a DM to them to register or let your bartender know you want to participate. 7pm at Mountaintop Taproom

Thursday 3.13

🧒 Pursuing the Pinyon Pine: Learn about the pinyon pine and make tree ring art. All participants will take home a seedling! (while supplies last) Ages 7+, 3-4:15pm at Downtown Library

🎮 Game Day: Kids ages 8 to 17 can swing by the community room to play video games and table top games. 3-4:30pm, East Flagstaff Library

👕 Gals, Gays & Theys Queer Clothing Swap Party: Bring your good condition, unwanted apparel and accessories to swap and trade for new-to-you threads and gear! (Originally on the 6th, had to be postponed to the 13th.) 5-7pm at Up & Coming Boutique

💃🕺Thursday Night Swing: FREE beginner swing dance lessons every Thursday. After the lesson, stick around for a swingin’ social dance. No partner needed! Lesson: 7-8pm Social: 8-10 pm, Museum Club

❓ TAPP’D Trivia Night: Join ‘Nice Mike’ for surprise categories each week. Free to play! 21+ Thursdays 7-9pm at Dark Sky Beer Garden

MUSIC

Tuesday 3.11

Drinking Horn| Open Mic | sign ups 6pm, starts 6:30pm
Yucca North | Open Mic | sign ups 3pm, starts 8pm
Museum Club | Karaoke Night | 9-11:30 PM

Wednesday 3.12

Flagstaff Mall | Blue Grass Jam | 12-1pm
Hops on Birch | Open Mic | 6-10pm
Charly’s | Blues Night - Darryl Porras | 7-9:30pm | $5
The Orpheum | Pigeons Playing Ping Pong | 7pm | TICKETS
Cornish Pasty | Jazz Jam | 8-10pm
Gopher Hole | Karaoke & Service Industry Night | 9:30pm

Thursday 3.6

Drinking Horn | Celtic Music - GreenLaw | 7-9pm
The Orpheum | The Garden with Ice Age | 8pm | TICKETS

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