🏓 The Sport Courts at Bushmaster Park are now open!

TOGETHER WITH

Good morning, Flagstaff! Looks like rain and maybe a bit of snow is on the way!

In today’s Flagstaff Inspires:

• 🏓 Flagstaff has 8 new pickleball courts

• 🤣 Funniest Person at 7,000 Feet Comedy Contest

• 🌿🍯 Learn to make Elderberry Syrup

Let’s go!

— Alissa Zorn

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AROUND TOWN

🏓 Flagstaff has 8 new pickleball courts! The multi-million dollar Sport Courts facility at Bushmaster Park opened on Wednesday. It also includes updated tennis and basketball courts. You can learn more about opportunities to play pickleball at the Flagstaff Pickleball Association.

❄️💧 Free Insulators for Outdoor Faucets: The City of Flagstaff is giving away free insulators to protect your hose bibb and pipes this winter. Stop by 2323 N Walgreens during business hours (M-F, 8am-4:30pm) to pick yours up!

*Limit 2 insulators per household. Available until Dec. 12, 2025.

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SPONSORED BY TOTAL CARE THERAPY

✨Please join us in celebrating the Grand Opening of Total Care ABA Therapy

Bring your friends, families, and children and tour our brand new clinic!

Friday, November 14th, 1-5pm at 1806 E Route 66

🎈Join us for:
Food
Games
Bounce House
Face Painting
And More!

WHAT’S HAPPENING

🧵 Register for Wee Scotty Sewing Classes: Sign up now for a prorated price on their Big & Little Winter PJs class! You can also sign up for January/February classes to make sure you get a spot.

🎵🎭 NAU Opera Scenes: Join NAU Opera Music Theatre for scenes from your favorite operas and musicals. Music from Mozart, Sondheim, Puccini, Bock, Harnick, and more! Nov. 14 & 15, 7:30pm, Nov.16, 3pm, Kitt Recital hall

Friday 11.14

🧶The Knitting Hour: All skill levels welcome! Members of Fiber Artists of Northern Arizona Guild are available to teach beginners and help knitters out. 1-3pm, Downtown Library

🚪Behind the Scenes Tour Museum of Northern Arizona: Take a rare behind-the-scenes tour of MNA’s Easton Collection Center. 2:30-3:30pm, Museum of Northern Arizona

✏ Drawing Classes at Meadow Lark: Enjoy some hot tea and learn how drawing can connect your eyes, hands, and hearts. Teens: Perspective Drawing 3:30-4:30pm, Adults: Basic Drawing 5:30-7pm, Meadowlark Art Studio

📽 Free Film- The Six Triple Eight: This film is about 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black, all-female battalion in WWII. Showing followed by Q&A with Dr. Martin Tease. 5:30pm, Murdoch Center

Saturday 11.15

🧘‍♂️ Beauty Boost Taste of Yoga: Get 25-minute back-to-back "tastes" of yoga from various studios + health and wellness & spa experience stations. 9am-1pm, Momentum Aerial

🧶 FANA Annual Fiber Artisans Market: Find handmade gifts, wearables, home décor, and more! 9am-2pm, American Legion Hall

👨‍👧 Saturday Story Stop: A fun-filled storytime for all ages. 10:30-11am, Downtown Library

🎴Free 15 min. Tarot Readings at Bookmans: Join Pandora as she takes you on a spiritual journey of discovery. 11:30am-2:30pm, Call Bookmans to RSVP: 928-774-0005

👩‍🎨 Woodpecker Watercolor Class: Discover the beauty of the Acorn Woodpecker in this limited enrollment watercolor workshop! All materials are provided. 12-4pm, Willow Bend

🐶 Paws & Pawns: Sit, Stay, Play! Meet adorable adoptable pups from Tuba City Humane Society and play your favorite board games! 1-3pm, Good Game Cafe

🎤 The Flagstaff Foundry's November Show: Every show is something new and exciting! Comics, stand up, dancing, theatre, story-telling, and so many more possibilities. 7pm, Momentum Aerial

🌟 A Night with Vicky Drag Show: A star studded drag show hosted by Vicky Summers & Jayde Justice. 8pm, Hops on Birch

🤣 Funniest Person at 7,000 Feet Comedy Contest: Come for a night of laughs as comedians from all over Arizona battle it out for cold, hard cash, a paid headliner set, and the right to claim the title of the funniest person at 7,000 feet! 8pm, Yucca North

Sunday 11.16

🚗 Wagon Road to Mother Road Exhibit Opens: Route 66 stories of revelry, hardship, and tragedy revealed through tens of thousands of discarded objects that challenge the highway’s more nostalgic image. Open daily 10am-5pm & Thursdays until 7pm, Museum of Northern Arizona

🎁 Flagstaff Elks Annual Holiday Market: Enjoy a festive day filled with local vendors offering unique gifts and holiday cheer. 10am-3pm, Flagstaff Elks Lodge

🧘‍♀️🍺 Pints and Poses Yoga: Start off your Sunday with this drop-in Yoga class, then enjoy a recovery beer for just $2, 10:30-11:30am, Dark Sky Taproom

🔭 Lowell Observatory Celebrates 30 Years of Native American Astronomy Outreach Program: Enjoy live performances, storytelling, and explore over 50 vendors. Event is free for residents of Coconino County, and Yavapai County and Arizona Native Nations. 12-7pm, Lowell Observatory

👧🧘‍♀️ Fun Family Flow: Bring your family and learn relaxation, strength, and flexibility techniques for a healthy mind and body. FREE class, geared toward K-2nd grade-age kids and their parents. 12:30-1:15pm, Northern Arizona Yoga Center

🧩 Rescheduled Speed Puzzling Competition & Puzzle Swap: Compete in teams of two to see which team is the fastest! 12:30-4pm, East Flag Library, Free but registration required

🌿🍯 Elderberry Syrup Making Workshop: Join a cozy hands-on elderberry syrup workshop to keep you healthy all season long. 1-4pm, Drinking Horn Meadery

⚡ Old Man Lighting Film Premiere: See the best climbing, comedy, comeback film with a conservation twist - by Flagstaff filmmaker, Dawn Kish. Q&A to follow with the film’s creators. 5-8pm, The Orpheum

Monday 11.17

🔵Bingo Night at Dark Sky: $5 and 100% of entry fees go directly to the chosen non-profit of the month. Regular Bingo 5:45-8pm Bonus Bingo 8-9pm, Dark Sky Beer Garden

Flagstaff Inspires is made possible by our awesome business sponsors and donations from community supporters. Thanks to for keeping Flagstaff Inspires sustainable and accessible for all!

MUSIC

Friday 11.14

Historic | Jonathan Cady | 6-8pm
Dark Sky Beer Garden | Fort Vine | 6-9pm
Awa Kava Bar | Open Mic | 7:30pm, sign ups 7pm
Charly’s | Cameron James | 7-9:30pm
Mountain Top Taproom | Cat Mountain | 8-10pm
Flag Brew | Andy See & His Swinging Jamboree | 9pm
The Orpheum | The Showgirl Era: A Swiftie Takeover | 9pm
Gopher Hole | Karaoke | 9:30pm
Monte Vista | Futurist | 9:30pm

Saturday 11.15

Wiseman Aviation | Master Chorale - Go for Baroque | 4pm
Wanderlust Brewing Company | I am Hologram | 4-6pm
Historic | Jeremy Brougher | 6-8pm
The Hive | Tree Frog Express, Naming Our Monsters, Clay and Fire | 7pm
Charly’s | Paul Garns | 7-9:30pm
Coconino Center for the Arts | S.E. Willis Presents an Evening of Flagstaff Blues | 7:30pm
The Orpheum | HE$H | 8pm
Du Bois Ballroom | Alien Arcade & Mediocore | 8:30pm | Free
Flag Brew | Brad & Deb Quartet | 9pm
Gopher Hole | Crosstown Players | 9:30pm
Monte Vista | Big Gulp | 9:30pm

Sunday 11.16

Wanderlust Brewing Company | Bluegrass Jam | 2:30-4:45pm
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany | Flagstaff Symphony - Flute Gems | 3pm | Free
High Country Motor Lodge | Klark Sound | 7pm
Yucca North | Sunday Jazz Society - house band + open jam | 7-10pm

Monday 11.17

Dark Sky Brewing | Seenan | 6-8pm
Beaver St. Theatre | Jimmy Peggie & Steve Jansen | 7pm
Yucca North | Karaoke | 9pm

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