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Earth Day Fundraiser
w/food, drinks,
readings, music, & raffle

Tuesday, April 22
6-10 p.m.
Location: La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave.

Free & Open to the Public

In celebration of Earth Day, Casa Libre is holding a fundraiser at La Cocina that will bring together literary readings, environmentalism, music, food, drink, and a chance to win fabulous prizes. This is part of La Cocina's Tuesdays for Tucson series, and just by showing up to eat dinner you'll help raise money for Casa Libre. La Cocina will generously donate 10% of food and drink profits for the evening. Readings will be given by esteemed local writers Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Eric Magrane. There will be a screening of the locally produced "Rosemont Ours" documentary and Two-Door Hatchback with end our evening with acoustic indie-folk tunes. Our raffle will include books from ASDM Press, Native Seed Search, This Piece of Earth, and Casa Libre merchandise.

Participants

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, the publishing division of the Desert Museum, publishes books and guides designed to teach and inspire readers about the natural world of the Sonoran Desert—its plants, wildlife and natural history. Two of their titles were selected as 2013 Southwest Books of the Year by the Tucson Pima Public Library. And their most recent project is a broadside of "Dreaming Down the Rain" by ASDM Poet in Residence Eric Magrane. Signed broadsides as well a a selection of their most popular titles will be available at the event.

 

https://www.desertmuseum.org/books/

 

 

This Piece Of Earth: Words And Images From Tumamoc Hill, a collaboration between the POG poetry group and Tumamoc artists, is a showcase for some of the recent environmental art and writing projects created on-site at Tumamoc Hill. In keeping with the working philosophy that has evolved on Tumamoc, all of the work was completed (mostly) while on-location, within the 860-acre boundaries of the Tumamoc Landmark. Tumamoc Hill was the laboratory for these paintings and writings. http://tumamocsketchbook.com/this-piece-of-earth

 

7-8pm Readers

Christopher Cokinos is the author of three books of literary nonfiction, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds and The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, both from Tarcher/Penguin, as well as his new lyric essay collection, Bodies, of the Holocene, from Truman.  His poetry chapbook, Held as Earth, is now out from Finishing Line Press. He has poems, essays, reviews and stories in such venues as Pank, Science, Poetry, Orion, High Desert Journal and elsewhere. He contributes essays fairly regularly to High Country News and the Los Angeles Times. The winner of a Whiting Award and the Fine-Line Prize for Lyric Prose, he teaches at the University of Arizona, where he is affiliated faculty with the Institute of the Environment. With Eric Magrane, he is co-editing A Literary Field Guide to the Sonoran Desert for University of Arizona Press, and he is working on an essay collection about environmental heresy, a natural history of North American wild cats and two poetry collections, one tentatively titled Sweet Lesion, the other as-yet-unnamed that focuses on sites of technological ruin and optimism in the American West, including Biosphere 2.

Alison Hawthorne Deming was born and raised in Connecticut. She is the author of the poetry books Rope, Genius Loci, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence and Science and Other Poems and the nonfiction books Writing the Sacred into the Real, The Edges of the Civilized World and Temporary Homelands. Her new nonfiction book Zoologies is coming out from Milkweed in August. Her honors include the Walt Whitman Award, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Bayer Award in Science Writing, Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and Senior Fellow at the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University.  She lives in Tucson, Arizona and on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.

 

photo by Thomas McDonald

Eric Magrane is a cultural geographer and poet. He has been an Artist in Residence in three U.S. National Parks and is the first Poet in Residence at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. He is the founding editor of Spiral Orb, an experiment in permaculture poetics, and is pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of Arizona, where he is a Carson Scholar and works on the intersections of art, science, and environment for the UA’s Institute of the Environment.

 

 

8-8:30pm Screening of "Rosemont Ours"

Rosemont Ours: A Field Guide celebrates the plants and animals of the Santa Rita Mountains of Southern Arizona, and its nearby riparian areas, featuring movement meditations of over 20 species – from Coleman’s Coralroot Orchid to Filamentous Algae, Desert Tortoise to Jaguar – performed by trained modern dancers. Rosemont Ours was born in response to the construction of Rosemont Mine, an open-pit copper mine proposed by a Canadian mining company. If built, the mine would impact over 4,000 acres of land in Southern Arizona, including critical habitat for nearly a dozen species federally recognized as threatened or endangered as well as precious riparian areas and groundwater resources. By “replacing” plants and animals with human beings in reverential and playful ways, the film invites us to consider our role as both stewards and consumers of nature.
The video a project of NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre in collaboration with visual artist Ben Johnson. It was directed by Kimi Eisele and filmed/edited by Ben Johnson. An original musical score was composed by Vicki Brown and David Sudak.

8:30-9:30pm Music

Two-Door Hatchback is a Tucson-based acoustic indie-folk band with classically inspired roots and a blue-grass twist. The ensemble is comprised of local artists from diverse backgrounds, delivering a sound with rich instrumental textures and vocal harmonies. Their original songs and lyrics span a full emotional spectrum from light to broken-hearted.

Members: Dante Rosano, Laura Kepner-Adney, Samantha Bounkeua and Chris Black

 


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