Free festival runs Friday through Sunday, October 3 through 5, at downtown Presidio Park, located west of the Pima County Courthouse at Stone Avenue and Council Street. For details, call 795-0834. The enviable green thumbs of the Tucson Botanical Gardens always aim to make the Old Pueblo a lusher paradise. Now those efforts can begin right in your own backyard, when the Gardens' devotees host their annual fall plant sale. Docents will be on hand to answer all your germinating questions.
Admission is free.
For information, call 326-9686. Comedy, pantomime, love and farce all bring their forces to bear with Ballet Continental's production of La Fille Mal Gardee . Lise's pedestrian suitor doesn't jibe well with ambitious Simone, however, who schemes to lasso an affluent alternative for her daughter. La Fille Mal Garde opens the 12th season for Ballet Continental, a non-profit regional dance company under the direction of Lisa Baker. This performance features Christina Spivey as Widow Simone, Darby Wear and Susan Wicht as Lise, Aaron Ratto as the farmer, and Angelo Jacques as Simone's co-conspirator, Thomas.