The Historic Y

The Historic Y thehistoricy.com THE HISTORIC Y is a vibrant, artistically and progressively oriented community, home to The Rogue Theatre and ZUZI!

The Historic Y Center for the Arts, Education, Human Rights, and Social & Environmental Justice is a full-service office building and community arts center offering long-term office leases, short-term space rentals, and entertainment. THE HISTORIC Y is an historically and architecturally significant full-service professional office complex located in the heart of the City and offering competitive

rates on month-to-month, yearly and multi-year leases. Office tenants enjoy free use of a 500+ sf conference room, beautiful and inviting lobby, courtyard and arcade, and forced air heating and air conditioning. Dance Company, School & Theater, as well as a variety of visual, architectural, performing and healing arts professionals and non-profit environmental, conservation, educational, cultural, social justice and community service organizations, including Tucson Audubon Society and Nature Shop, Paulo Freire Freedom School, Sky Island Alliance and Tucson CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). THE HISTORIC Y provides a powerful force in the Tucson community for promoting individual enrichment, creative self-expression, environmental sustainability, and respect for nature and diversity. THE HISTORIC Y offers a plethora of ways for you to be stimulated, challenged, entertained and inspired, and for your mind, body, spirit and soul to be nourished and rejuvenated. Here you will find leaders and innovators in fields as diverse as dance, movement, choral performance, acting, massage, accupuncture, meditation, spiritual rites and practices, progressive faith, painting, textile art, jewelry making, violin making, architecture, and graphic design. More than a nice building containing a collection of offices, it is a community in the truest sense of the word. THE HISTORIC Y is a place of constant activity and excitement, where many things are usually happening at once. Dance classes, choir rehearsals, stage performances, workshops, board meetings, farmer's markets - they are all either daily or weekly happenings at THE HISTORIC Y.

06/13/2026

The Senate missed the 60-day window that would have allowed lawmakers to scrap the national monument's management plan with a simple majority vote

06/13/2026

Thick-billed Kingbirds are show-offs. Allan Phillips, in "The Birds of Arizona," called this species “The loudest bird in Arizona,” and I doubt few who have heard them would disagree. Perching atop tall trees, this tyrant flycatcher pursues insects on hawking flights. Like a NFL football player hotdogging in the end zone after a touchdown, with each successful insect-capturing flight, the kingbirds cement their show-off status with exaggerated wing shaking, crown feathers erected, and much vocalization. This highly-sought species, reaching the United States only in Southeast Arizona and extreme southwestern New Mexico, is present in summer, and at relatively few locations. However, if you know where to look, it is easy to find because of their refreshingly conspicuous habits. Often heard and sometimes seen at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds (where they typically nest), other good places to observe this species include the Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, Box Canyon, and the famous-with-birders Patagonia Roadside Rest.

Thick-billed Kingbirds are medium to large flycatchers, with sexes looking alike. Dusky brown above, underparts whitish, gray breast, and variable amount of yellow on the belly. Well-named, the bill is truly massive and quite distinct in the field, making it hard to mistake this species for anything else. Rarely seen is the yellow crown stripe, usually concealed. Thick-billed Kingbirds in Southeast Arizona occur near streams or rivers with large Arizona sycamores or Fremont cottonwoods.

There is surprisingly little information in the scientific literature about Thick-billed Kingbird breeding and nesting behavior. Upon arriving in May in Southeast Arizona, courtship flights and pairing begin. The nests, made of thin twigs and grass, aren’t the sturdiest, yet the kingbirds persevere, laying on average 4-5 eggs. Incubation is thought to be done by females, and is likely similar in duration to other tyrant flycatchers, at around 16 days. Careful observation and documentation by observers like you could contribute to our knowledge of this delightful Arizona show-off.
-Keith Kamper
Image by Martin Molina

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06/12/2026

Stop Congress from silencing your voice on the - tell your senator to vote no on SB 140!

06/12/2026

Can't make it in person? Come drop into one of our Summer Zoom classes!
**Both virtual/in-person options available.

Come in. Be moved. Pre-register online: zuzimoveit.org

06/11/2026
06/09/2026

Get out your virtual reality goggles and check out this fun and informative 360° experience featuring Director of Invasive Plant Management Tony Figueroa! Go outside virtually and learn about buffelgrass and how to deal with it. Unfortunately, buffelgrass is very real…
https://threesixty.static.arizona.edu/buffelgrass/index.htm
Thanks to partners Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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738 N 5th Avenue
Tucson, AZ
85705

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