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Featured Guests:
Mitzi Tharin & Michael Ferguson – 22nd Tucson Beer Festival
The 22nd Annual Great Tucson Beer Festival features tastes of more than 200 specialty and micro-brewed beers, music, food, games and fun for people age 21 and over. It is held on Saturday, September 27, at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Arizona, and benefits Sun Sounds of Arizona, a reading service for people who are blind or whose disability prevents them from reading printed material. Mitzi Tharin, head Sun Sounds of Arizona, Southern Arizona region will join us to talk about the event activities, and Sun Sounds; and Michael Ferguson, Brew Master for BJ's Restaurant will also join us to tell us all about the beer tasting at the festival! 


Nancy Whitney-Reiter – author of ‘Unplugged’
Nancy Whitney-Reiter is a former economist and corporate market analyst. As a 9/11 survivor and Generation Xer, she found herself questioning the true meaning of “success,” and embarked on a year long travel sabbatical. Her travels took her to Costa Rica and South Africa, where she worked as a volunteer teacher and wildlife researcher. Thanks to this unhampered time of reflection, she decided to abandon the corporate lifestyle in order to pursue her true passions: nature, teaching, and writing. Nancy will join us to talk about her first book, ‘Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment’. Read more about Unplugged.

Kathy Gruver – Medical Massage Therapist & Natural Health Consultant
In the 1930’s Edward Bach, a medical doctor and bacteriologist, discovered Bach Flower Essences.  He used 38 individual flowers plus a combination of 5 flowers he called Rescue Remedy. Dr. Bach’s healing theories were cutting edge for the time.  He believed that every person had the ability to heal themselves and that anyone could use the flower remedies. Kathy Gruver will join us to explain how homeopathically prepared Bach Flower Essences can transform negative emotion to positive emotion, and stave off illness. Based in Santa Barbara, Kathy is a Medical Massage Therapist, Natural Health Consultant, Reiki Master, and Birth Assistant. Read her article about Bach Flower Essences.

Michael Ely –New Age Musical duo Michael and Spider
Tucson-based musicians Michael Ely and Spider Taylor first began making music together over 30 years ago, and what they are doing currently could loosely be described as new age/ambient/exotica. From 1981-1985, they gained notoriety in Los Angeles fronting the post-punk band Red Wedding, and in 1987 they moved to Tucson. In  2003 they played music under the moniker Smoke & Mirrors, and released 3 CDs of instrumental soundscapes. In 2006 they abandoned the name Smoke & Mirrors and are now, simply, Michael and Spider. Michael will join us to talk about their new instrumental album ‘Iridescent Garden – Exotica Reinvented’. Read more about Iridescent Garden.

Artists Lisa Shatts and David Svenson – 7th Annual Wrightwood Art Studio Tour
Held on Saturday, September 20, this self-guided art studio tour and auction showcases accomplished artists from the local area exhibiting artwork for sale at studios and other locations throughout Wrightwood, a quaint mountain community nestled in the Los Angeles National Forest in Southern California. This juried event comprises of a wide range of styles from traditional to contemporary. Media will include oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor paintings; metal, glass and bronze sculpture; quilts gourds, basketry, jewelry, and pottery. Lisa Shatts and David Svenson – all featured artists on the tour – will join us to talk about their art and the event. Read more about the  Wrightwood Art Studio.
 

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