Publications

To buy our publications, please visit our office at 48 East Pennington, Tucson, AZ. If you live out of state and would like to purchase a book, please e-mail our Administrative Assistant, Donnamarie: donnamarie@voicesinc.org

They Opened Their Hearts Tucson Elders Tell World War II Stories to Tucson Youth In Voices’ most ambitious project yet, 44 Tucson elders collaborated with 117 Sierra Middle School students over four years to document service and survival in combat, during the Holocaust, at Arizona’s Camp Poston internment camp, and on the homefront during World War II.The Voices’ artists, in conjunction with Sierra Middle School students and their teacher Deborah Dimmett, worked weekly to chronicle the oral histories and photographs of the 44 Tucson seniors. The students were also taught how to respond to other people’s stories from the heart–through poetry, journals, and imaginative journeys back into history. In these responses, the middle schoolers celebrate the sacrifice and bravery of their elders, but also grapple with some of the darker parts of their elders’ stories: the horror of battle, genocide, and fear.Affection and respect beam from each page of this book. Two generations reached out to each other over the decades of age that separated them–and changed each other forever.
Retail Price: $20/ea.

A Local Bestseller!

Snapped on the Street Here it is at last: a visual treasure trove of a forgotten time–the heyday of downtown Tucson, mid-20^th century. Before the dawn of malls and superstores, before all the asphalt and sprawl, Downtown was the place to be–to buy a dining room set or an engagement ring, to get a haircut, to gawk at Steinfeld’s miraculously “mechanized” Christmas window displays, to hang at the Walgreen soda fountain with your girlfriends while flirting with the boys in the booth behind you. Downtown was Tucson’s working center, shopping Mecca and playground all rolled into one.Put together by a team of teen researchers representing Tucson’s downtown neighborhoods and their mentors, Voices’ founders Steve Farley and Regina Kelly, this visual mother lode taps–for the first time anywhere–an archive of over 200 street photographs taken between the 1930s and 1960s. These “snaps” were taken in the Congress Street corridor by roving photographers out to make a quick buck–but who also ended up documenting an era.

This book is a companion piece to Farley’s Broadway Underpass Murals and is Voices’ best-selling book ever.
Retail Price: $20/ea.

110°–Tucson’s Youth Tell Tucson’s Stories
Issues #1, #2, #3, #4Flip open the atlas, check the coordinates. 32° 8′ north of the equator, 110° 57′ west of zero. Now you know where you are: Tucson, Arizona. But what if you had a low-income youth as your tour guide into this city’s lives and barrios? What would you hear? What would you see? Perhaps an uncannily upbeat look at Tucson’s toughest trailer park, or the story of new fatherhood from a 15-year-old perspective, or the voices of the proud Yaqui women of the Old Pascua neighborhood. Check out this award-winning magazine and its stunning blend of photography, literary journalism, and untold stories.
Retail Price: $5/ea.

Issue #1 — Sold out	Issue #2 ($5)	Issue #3 ($5)	Issue #4 (Free!)
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Don’t Look at Me Different/No Me Veas DiferenteThis 100% bilingual publication tells the poignant stories of Tucson’s first housing projects–La Reforma and Connie Chambers–through interviews, historic photographs, and sidebars about everything from the first murder to the shameful history of how the local real estate industry fought any sort of public housing for almost 40 years. Researched and written by teens from Connie Chambers in collaboration with their mentors from Voices, this extraordinary book dispels negative stereotypes about public housing and opens the door on the wealth of living in an intricately connected community.
Retail Price: $20/ea.