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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Carlyn Huckleberry Arteaga, Oscar Jimenez, & Jacks McNamara

Thursday, April 18
7-9 p.m.
$5 Suggested Donation


www.trickhouse.org


Trickhouse Live is co-organized by TC Tolbert, Assistant Director of Casa Libre and Noah Saterstrom, founder/ curator of Trickhouse.org.

in·te·gra·tive adj \ˈ in-tə- ˌ grā-tiv\
combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole

Trickhouse Live is an integrative arts series that brings together people working with words, images, sounds, videos, and a variety of performances. The series serves as a venue for visiting artists to interact with local artists and for the borders between genres and mediums to be permeable. Trickhouse Live is a physical world extension of the online cross-genre arts journal, Trickhouse.org which is based in Tucson.

Performer Bios

Raised in rural Washington State, queer Chican@ poet, Carlyn Huckleberry Arteaga, came to poetry by accident, discovering words under the thorny-sweet brambles of culture, family, gender, sex, and of course, love.  Their work has appeared in Marooned (V.2, 2004), LUX (V.1, 2005), and several online compilations.  Their other passions include literacy education, youth empowerment, all things bicycle, talking to travelers, and traveling to talkers.  They are also co-founder of GENDERowdy Tucson, an annual gathering of genderqueers and chosen family.  They just completed their first chapbook, Jesus Was No Saint (2013).  Carlyn/Huck currently lives in Tucson, AZ.

Oscar Jimenez: "I live and work in Tucson, Arizona. My work is heavily influence by borderland dynamics. I live to tell stories about culture clashes, broken expectations and emotional deserts. Since I was raised with Mexican telenovelas, my work is tinted with melodramatic touches. Catholic imagery and ceremony tend to show up in my creative projects. When I was growing up (literally on the Mexican/USA border) I wanted to be a fashion designer and a movie director. I studied Advertising Art at the Southwest University of Visual Arts (in Tucson). I did not pursue a career in the commercial art field but instead ended up working as a social worker. My social work career has given me infinite opportunities to study human behavior. It has turned into a fertile foundation for my goals as a storyteller. I have been making short films for the last decade or so. Much of it is abstract and experimental in nature. I have also worked as a garment artist, making costumes for local performers and theatrical productions. When I wrote and directed the short feature Esmeralda del Desierto (2009), I was able to combine my love for garment design and filmmaking when I told the story of a Mexican transgender woman who travels to the United States to pursue a career in the fashion industry. In 2011 I made Winkey Smiley Face, a narrative short that explored themes of long term monogamous relationships and frustrated sexuality. I am currently in pre-production on my first feature film “Arizona Nevada.” The film is a horror story where the demons are extensions of us, the haunted houses our own environments and the possessions are social constructions."

Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and healer based in Oakland, California. Co-founder of The Icarus Project, an adventure in mutual aid & radical mental health support, and co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, Jacks has facilitated workshops and performed poetry across North America and Europe. Jacks was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow and has authored five zines, most recently, So Many Ways to Be Beautiful. A painter and designer, their creations have been shown across the US and Canada. Jacks is currently building a somatic healing practice, making everyone pancakes, geeking out on plant identification, and scheming about when they will get to raise goats in the country. Jacks’ life and work are the subject of the documentary film Crooked Beauty. Visit Jacks online at http://redwingedjacksbird.net.

 

Past Events:

March 2013

Feb 2013

Jan 2013

Dec 2012

Nov 2012

Oct 2012

Sept 2012

May(2) 2012

May 2012

April 2012

March 2012

February 2012

January 2012


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