By james art 
By Sidney Ritter | Scottsdale Arts
Scottsdale Arts continues its 2024-2025 season with a series of must-see events, including engaging comedy acts, mesmerizing musical performances and the 12th annual Canal Convergence Light Art Festival.
Canal Convergence and Dreamy Draw Music Festival kick off the upcoming season of outdoor events, while the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Joshua Radin and Ron Pope, Amy Mann, Cristela Alonzo and Marc Broussard to its intimate indoor theater.
The following is a list of events and exhibitions from Scottsdale Arts, a non-profit organization that includes Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, SMoCA, Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation, Canal Convergence and Civic Center LIVE.
Visit ScottsdaleArts.org for information.
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
Dreamy Draw Music Festival
Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 2024, 1-11 p.m
Scottsdale Civic Center
Tickets start at $75/single day or $135/weekend
Inspired by Arizona’s vibrant Southwestern spirit, the two-day Dreamy Draw Music Festival celebrates the harmonious fusion of country and Americana. Headliners include Mt.Joy, Flatland Calvary, Shakey Graves, Charles Wesley Godwin and Paul Cauthen.
Convergence of the channel
Friday, November 8 to Sunday, November 17, 2024, 6-10pm Friday and Saturday, 6-9pm Sunday and Monday to Thursday. This free, 10-night outdoor public art event features immersive, large-scale, light-based artwork, as well as educational workshops, family activities, art tours, live music and dance performances, a mini film festival, beer and wine garden, food trucks, etc.
Books2Boogie with HeART
Saturday, November 9, 2024, 10:30 a.m. Children and their caregivers engage in music, movement, and song in this program that encourages bonding and emphasizes natural rhythms in language.
Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra
American celebration
Sunday, November 10, 2024, 4:00 p.m
Tickets start at $15.
Join the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra for “An American Celebration,” featuring music by American composers and a special salute to veterans in honor of Veterans Day.
Memory Salon
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 1:30 p.m
Tickets start at $10.
Create art and make memories with the Memory Lounge, an arts-based program for people with mild to moderate memory loss and their caregivers.
Amy Mann
Saturday, November 16, 2024, 8:00 p.m
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $40
With a knack for writing “simple, beautiful, instantly engaging songs” (Time), Aimee Mann’s musical career spans from the 1980s hit “Voices Carry” to the “Magnolia” soundtrack and beyond.
Joshua Radin and Ron Pope
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 7:30 p.m
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $44
Empathetic and captivating troubadour Joshua Radin and uncompromising and unyielding artist Ron Pope join forces in the intimate theater of Virginia G. Piper.
Compton & Bennett’s – One Stooge Shy
Thursday – Sunday, 21-24 November 2024, 2pm and 5pm
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $37
One Stooge Shy is a brand new show from the people who brought you Assisted Living: The Musical®: Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett.
Glow Up @SMoCA: Sound Bath
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 7:00 p.m
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Tickets: $25
Refresh your aura and bathe in the soothing melodies of a sound bath that makes you deeply relax.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 7:30 p.m
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $45
Together for more than 30 years, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy continues its decades-long mission to celebrate and revitalize jazz and swing music.
Cristela Alonso
Saturday, November 23, 2024, 8:00 p.m
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $25
Be classy with comedian Cristela Alonso, the first Latina to create, produce and star in her own network sitcom, ABC’s “Cristela!”
Marc Broussard
Sunday, November 24, 2024, 7:30 p.m
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $25
Marc Broussard’s infectious blend of soul, rock, blues, R&B and funk-pop, combined with his powerful vocals, have won worldwide acclaim.
Memory Lounge at Bove Neuroscience
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 1:30 p.m
Bové Neuroscience Institute at HonorHealth
Tickets start at $10
Create art and make memories with the Memory Lounge, an arts-based program for people with mild to moderate memory loss and their caregivers.
LOOKING AHEAD
Inspiring aspiring architects
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 9 am
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Tickets: $25
Inspiring Aspiring Architects is a career preparation program offered to students aged 13–18 who are interested in architecture and design.
Explosive local unavoidable celebration
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:00 p.m
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Free with RSVP
Co-curators Brad Kahlhammer and Dan Mills present an evening of programming that includes performances, videos and poetry.
Arizona Concours d’Elegance
Sunday 19 January 2025 7am Dawn Patrol 9am General Admission
Scottsdale Civic Center
Tickets: $75
The Arizona Concours d’Elegance presents some of the world’s finest examples of body art and automotive engineering displayed in the luxurious atmosphere of a stylish garden party.
EXHIBITIONS
SMoCA _____ courtyard space and installations
21 September 2024 to 23 February 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
for free
“Entrainment 718” by Phoenix-based artist Shomit Barua explores spatial and temporal perception through video and sound techniques in the space _____ (empty space). Admission is free for this exhibition and Barua’s sound installation ‘Hyperwilding’ located in the SMoCA courtyard.
The explosive born inevitable
10 August 2024 to 5 January 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
Exploding Native Inevitable features works by contemporary Native artists accompanied by a program of dance, film, music, performance, readings, storytelling and video.
poetics of dissonance
10 August 2024 to 23 March 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
Situated on the cusp of other key elections, The Poetics of Dissonance presents 18 artists from SMoCA’s collection whose work navigates the turbulent landscape of socio-political discourse.
Brain and beauty: At the intersection of art and neuroscience
August 17, 2024 to January 19, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
Visually explore neuroaesthetics, a new and rapidly expanding field of research that combines neuroscience and psychology to study the neural processes of aesthetic experience.
Cybele Lyle: Floating seeds create deep shapes
24 August 2024 to 19 January 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
“Floating Seeds Create Deep Forms” is a site-specific installation that responds to the deserts of the North American Southwest as non-places — liminal spaces of ambiguity within a regenerating ecosystem.
Meditative mindscapes
7 October to 31 December 2024
Scottsdale Civic Center Library
Admission: Free
Paradise Valley artist Janet Tobin’s intricate drawings and prints are tangible evidence of creative meditations.
ArtRx: The Mind-Body Connection
17 October 2024 to 5 January 2025
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Admission: Free
“ArtRx: The Mind-Body Connection” explores the healing qualities of engagement with the arts through music, visual art, poetry, dance and architecture.
After Hours: Scottsdale Staff Show
27 September 2024 to 3 March 2025
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Admission: Free
See the creative inspiration behind the work at Scottsdale Arts with original works by the creative minds behind the nonprofit’s performances, exhibitions, public art stewardship and arts education efforts.
Scottsdale’s permanent collection of public art
It continues
Various locations in Scottsdale
Entrance: free
More than 150 works of art, many of them large-scale sculptures, can be found throughout the city in parks, public facilities and on the streets. See the ScottsdalePublicArt.org map for locations.
