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Desert Botanical Garden is embarking on a new partnership with London-based pioneering artist studio ScanLAB Projects, bringing its groundbreaking visual and technical artwork here in 2025. The exhibit will be a first-of-its-kind in the Valley to connect science and nature at this scale in both indoor and outdoor environments.


In October 2023, ScanLAB Projects, led by cofounders Matt Shaw and William Trossell, started a unique experience for the Garden titled DESERT PULSE — a spatialized installation that displays footage of the desert landscape and desert flora in a remarkably new way using LiDAR 3D scanning.


ScanLAB Projects has selected 15 distinct sites across the Valley and at the Garden. These daily 3D scans will be recorded over a 12-month period. The recorded data will reveal unseen environmental changes — the result of human, natural and industrial processes — all impossible to see with the naked eye or through the lens of traditional cameras. The team will document cactus flowering and fruiting, shifting sediment patterns along the Salt River, recent fire-damaged desert and desert blooms. Locations include a desert development in Rio Verde, a saguaro growth monitoring site near Needle Rock, a recovering fire area in McDowell Mountain Preserve and a working landfill.


Through their specialized rendering techniques, ScanLAB Projects will turn the recorded data into breathtaking visuals that will be exhibited as an impressive multi-screen digital installation to be exhibited amongst the Garden’s plants and trails, as well as its new Exhibits Gallery.


DESERT PULSE is not just artwork, the data collected will contain empirical, measurable facts that can and will be used for research by the Garden’s team of scientists.

Phoenix

United States

Arizona

1201 N. Galvin Parkway

Desert Botanical Garden

Desert Pulse

Join us for Market Days at the base of the Tower!

We will be featuring over 40 local vendors from across San Antonio. Come browse, shop, and enjoy as you discover and support local businesses.

This is a FREE family-friendly event, happening throughout the year, with food and live music!

San Antonio

Texas

Tower of the Americas

Market Days

Join us and elevate your travel experience by savoring Arizona’s craft beer culture. On our Tempe Brewery excursion we showcase four distinctive and award winning local breweries. Discover the craft, with a behind the scenes peek into the brewing process and immerse yourself in the flavors of Arizona at each stop. At each brewery or cidery we visit you will enjoy a pint or a flight, hand selected by the master brewer or owner. Each of our 4 Brewery Partners are 2024 award winners and collectively share close to 75 state, national and international beer awards. Shareable appetizers will also be provided on this 4.5 hour tasting excursion.


 


This is a 4.5 hour tasting tour with appetizers provided at one location. Please be sure to hydrate and eat a full meal before joining the tour. Food will be available for purchase throughout the tour. Overnight guests at the Marriott Buttes Tempe can be picked up and dropped off at the lobby of Marriott at The Buttes Resort and Spa. All other guests will be picked up and dropped off at Catalyst Crafted Ales. Please select your preferred pickup location during checkout. This tour requires some walking and encounters uneven or wet floors during the brewery tours. Please wear comfortable non-slip shoes.


Looking forward to brew hopping with you!

Marriott at the Buttes Resort and Spa

Tempe Brewery Tour

Las Vegas

Nevada

Hamburger Mary's Las Vegas

Drag Brunch at Hamburger Mary's

Stubhub

Experience Arizona's Largest Combined Brewery & Distillery Facility.


If you’re a fan of SanTan's craft beers like MoonJuice and Devil’s Ale or the award winning Sacred Stave American Single Malt Whiskey, you’re going to love seeing how they’re made. SanTan Tours provide a peek into the science and similarities behind the brewing and distilling process.


Located in at SanTan's 35,000 square-foot production facility in Chandler, SanTan Tours are perfect for a fun weekend activity, corporate retreat, family outing, bachelor/bachelorette parties and more.


*Please call well in advance for tour reservations and plan to practice social distancing*

495 E. Warner Rd.

SanTan Gardens - Brewery & Distillery Tours

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

V Theater

Popovich Comedy Pet Theater

Boston

Massachusetts

Red Lace Burlesque - Boston

Red Lace Burlesque & Variety Show - Boston

Chicago

Illinois

Red Lace Burlesque - Chicago

Red Lace Burlesque & Variety Show - Chicago

Morgan Foster Entertainment presents Follies, a weekly kiki with a rotating cast of Phoenix's fiercest drag performers — from tenured pageant queens to dapper, dancing kings — and everyone in between each Saturday at Kobalt [https://www.kobaltbarphoenix.com/].

Kobalt

Follies Drag Show

A fun, interactive dinner theater experience in which every diner is either a sleuth or a suspect. Enjoy a delicious Tex-Mex meal while a murder happens right before your eyes! Pay close attention to everyone around you. Somebody is a killer!

Alamo Cafe 281

Alamo City Murder Mystery Dinner Show: "The Whole Enchilada"

Events

Happening now

Desert Pulse

Desert Pulse

Market Days

Market Days

Tempe Brewery Tour

Tempe Brewery Tour

Tempe Brewery Tour

This afternoon

Drag Brunch at Hamburger Mary's

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

SanTan Brewery & Distillery Tour

Popovich Comedy Pet Theater

Popovich Comedy Pet Theater

This evening

Red Lace Burlesque & Variety Show - Boston

Red Lace Burlesque & Variety Show - Chicago

Follies Drag Show

Follies Drag Show

Follies Drag Show

Follies Drag Show

Alamo City Murder Mystery Dinner Show: "The Whole Enchilada"