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First Friday Visit to the Phoenix Civic Art Space
Friday, March 5th from 6:30pm - 7:30pm

IES Mixer - 5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
For those available and interested, there will be a meet up mixer before the main presentation within walking distance from the Phoenix Civic Art Space at:
Turf Restaurant and Irish Pub
(705 North 1st Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004)

PHOENIX CIVIC ART SPACE- 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Select members of the design team lead by Scott Wright of Wright Engineering will present the project and describe the "behind-the-scenes" insights to the design of the project. Civic Space Park is a park with unique urban design, sustainable construction and operational features and a landmark public sculpture by artist Janet Echelman. The park, which opened in April, 2009, utilizes sustainable design techniques to generate power, keep the area cool and capture rain water. Sustainable park features include:

• Solar panels on the park’s shade structures will generate 75 kilowatts of power (enough to power 8-9 residential homes) to offset the park’s lighting and electrical needs.
• Extensive shade; more than 70 percent of the park’s surface area will be shaded when its trees and vegetation reach maturity.
• Hard surfaces made with pervious concrete and pavers that reduce heat reflection and allow rainfall to seep through, reducing damaging storm runoff.
• Trees planted with a system that utilizes grates and specially engineered soils to protect roots, minimize compaction and allow ample room for root expansion.
• Immediate access to Light Rail and bus transit stations, which are located just feet from the park. To encourage pedestrian visitation and use of mass transit, there were no parking spaces built for the park.
• Civic Space Park is happy to host community events free to the public. Those sponsoring the event will be charged a recreation supervision fee. Commercial sales will not be allowed.

The Civic Space also boasts historic building space. A renovated city-owned building, commonly referred to as the A.E. England Building (424 N. Central Ave.) for the business formerly housed there, offers space for meetings, presentations, small banquets, art events, classes, offices and restrooms. Arizona State University and the Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department will collaborate to manage and program the building.

FIRST FRIDAY ART GALLERIES - 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
On "First Friday" of every month the downtown streets of Phoenix become the nation's largest, self-guided art walk! This weekend has the added attraction of the annual "Art Detour" gallery walk taking place. Tour more than 70 galleries, venues and art-related spaces to see a variety of artwork and to enjoy the spirit and culture of the city as you mingle with thousands of other residents and visitors. If you'd like to get from place-to-place on one of the free event shuttles, those begin at the First Fridays headquarters at the Phoenix Art Museum,or you can jump on at any of the stops on each route.

Click here to print out the invitation

424 N. Central Ave
Downtown Phoenix Arizona
(602) 262-7490

This event is free for IES Members and non-members.
Please RSVP to Scott Wright at vice-president@iesarizona.org if you plan to attend.

Feel free to e-mail us any suggestions for speakers that you would recommend for our group.

Mailing List

An invitation will be sent out a couple of weeks before the meeting with all of the pertinent information to all of the people on our mailing list. If you are not on our list or if your information has changed, please e-mail us your info and we will add you to the database. E-mail the following information to ies-arizona@iesarizona.org :

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e-mail address
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Past IES Arizona Events

The weather was fantastic for the 27th Annual IES Sunstroke Golf Tournament held at the Wildfire Resort in north Phoenix. Participants all agreed that the event was a success and that it was a great golf course to play. The IES board would like to thank all of the sponsors and participants for their patronage this year. The following link is to the photos taken by our resident photographer from the event. The sponsors signs/logos are included in the slide show as well as photos of each of the groups. Feel free to download any of the pictures.

http://s854.photobucket.com/albums/ab103/iesarizona/2009%20GOLF%20TOURNAMENT/?albumview=slideshow

We would also like to thank all of our past speakers for sharing their knowledge with us. Here is a partial listing of some of our past programs.

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