The CAC featured Stella Pope-Duarte, reading from her books and poems. Stella Pope-Duarte is the Arizona award-winning Chicana writer and author of Fragile Night, Let Their Spirits Dance, and The Women of Juarez. Musical entertainment was provided by Carmen DeNovais, who with her husband, Zarco Guerrero, are local influential fixtures in the Arizona and the Southwest arts scene.

Stella Pope Duarte

Stella Pope Duarte

Carmen DeNovais

Carmen DeNovais

A mission of The Cultural Arts Coalition’s is that these artistic expressions will call upon our humane need to dialog, to create conversations and therein to promote shared understanding- causing us to pause for meaningful discussions in a public space around critical issues and public policies.