Photo courtesy http://arizona.edu "Coppelia," a Shanghai Ballet staging of a doll that comes to life, runs at Centennial Hall this weekend.

Environmental justice, activism topics for book forum tonight

Tonight at 7, join Joni Adamson and Teresa Leal for a discussion at Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave. about about Comadres, an organization of women helping other women who work in maquilas and live in the Nogales area.

Adamson is co-editor of "The Environmental Justice Reader," a new collection of interviews, essays and accounts of global environmental justice issues and activist efforts. The discussion is free. For more information, call 792-3715.

Thompson Arboretum welcomes eclectic mix of music Saturday

For those of you who are heading out of town this weekend, you can enjoy live acoustic and eclectic music from Arizona musicians at several points along the main trail through the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. The event begins Saturday at 10 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m.

Arboretum admission is $6 for adults. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is located 90 miles north of Tucson via Highway 79. For more information call 689-2811.

School of Music and Dance Present: Nicholas Zumbro

Sunday afternoon at 3, internationally acclaimed professor of piano Nicholas Zumbro will perform composer George Tsontaki's monumental work, "Ghost Variations," Mozart's "Elvira Madigan" and Franz Liszt's "Variations on a theme of Bach: Weinen, Klage, Sorgen, Zagen." The performance costs $4 for students. For more information, call 621-2998

Shanghai Ballet will perform ĪCoppelia' in Centennial Hall

On Saturday and Sunday nights, the 23-year-old Shanghai Ballet will perform "Coppelia," the treasured ballet in three acts about a beautiful doll that comes to life, at Centennial Hall.

The company, with the dazzling technique and poetic choreography of Arthur Saint-LŽon, has established a prominent position in the world of ballet with a repertoire rooted in the international tradition of classical movement yet embracing the creation of original works based in the folk tradition.

Ticket prices range from $30 to $60, for more information, call 621-3341.