Walkabout Brings Traditions from Around the World to Phoenix

Celebrate Diversity In World Cultures With Music, Performances, Food And Activities

PHOENIX – Ear Candy Productions Musical Instrument Drive for kids joins festivities at Phoenix Art Museum. Participants in the Instrument Drive will receive two complimentary Museum passes per usable musical instrument to the special event Walkabout, a celebration of international traditions, customs and cultures. The fantastic extravaganza is from Noon to 4 pm on Sunday, January 11 at the Phoenix Art Museum located in downtown Phoenix at the corner of Central and McDowell Road.. For more information on the instrument drive visit http://www.earcandyproductions.org/ or the entire schedule of activities at http://www.phxart.org/.

Ear Candy Productions, a 501C3 non-profit organization, is devoted to creating, supporting and sustaining music programs for youth and will be holding an Instrument Drive at the Phoenix Art Museum’s front entrance during Walkabout.  Instruments received will be used to help revive and create music programs in schools, camps and youth organizations near the area they are being collected.

Celebrate the truly staggering range of diversity in world culture through music, food, performance and hands on activities at the Phoenix Art Museum. Lose yourself in our international collections of art. Listen to opera or watch flamenco dance in the European galleries. Explore your creative side with Asian art inspired brush painting or sari draping. Bring the kids and take part in the world gallery scavenger hunt. Step outside and satisfy your hunger in Dorrance Sculpture Garden as local ethnic restaurants offer mouth watering samplings. Be captivated by the sensual martial art of Brazilian performers from Axe Capoeira and stomp your feet to the beats of the Arizona Rhythm Connection.

Finally, take a seat and grab a glimpse of the movie, One Giant Leap, a unique and inspiring journey through world music featuring interviews with the likes of Eckhart Tolle, Carlos Santana, Deepak Chopra, Bob Geldof, Susan Sarandon, Stewart Copeland, Billy Connolly and more. Walkabout offers the whole family an amazing multicultural experience.

Can’t donate an instrument? You don’t miss this cultural extravaganza! All Walkabout performances and activities are included with Museum general admission, which is $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens (65+), $8 for full-time college students with ID, $4 for children ages 6-17 and free for children under 6 and for museum members.

About Ear Candy Productions
Ear Candy Productions is a 501C3 Non-Profit Organization devoted to creating, developing and sustaining music programs for youth. Music is our Universal Language and the children of this world deserve the opportunity to be exposed to its powerful influence.  Ear Candy Productions raises funds and awareness via charity concerts, music camps, music programs, donations, and grants.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum is the Southwest’s premier destination for world-class visual arts.  Popular exhibitions featuring artists such as Rembrandt, Norman Rockwell, Annie Leibowitz and Monet are shown along side the Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design.  A community epicenter for nearly fifty years, Phoenix Art Museum presents festivals, live performances, independent art films and educational programs that enlighten, entertain and stimulate. Visitors also enjoy PhxArtKids an interactive space for children, vibrant photography exhibitions through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, the lushly landscaped Sculpture Garden, dining at Arcadia Farms at Phoenix Art Museum, and shopping at The Museum Store. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit PhxArt.org, or call the 24-hour recorded information line at (602) 257-1222.

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