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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Aisha Sloan, Beth Alvarado, & Lisa O'Neill

www.trickhouse.org Trickhouse Live is curated by TC Tolbert, Assistant Director of Casa Libre.

Tuesday, April 28
7-9 p.m.
$5 Suggested Donation

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

Beth Alvarado is writing a fabulist story-cycle—à la Candide (one can hope): witty, political, unflinching—about a twelve-year-old mute girl called Jillian. Tales from the cycle have been published in The Southern Review, WHR, The Drunken Boat’s Librotraficante Portfolio, and Eleven Eleven. Other recent essays and stories have been published in The Sun, The Collagist, Necessary Fiction, Third Coast, and Sonora Review.  Her memoir, Anthropologies, and the stories in her short story collection, Not a Matter of Love, are also set in the beautiful Sonoran desert. She was a non-tenure track lecturer at the University of Arizona for 25 years—which means she mentored about 500 teachers and taught over 2,500 students, responding to over 17,500 essays—but who’s counting?  She now teaches part-time as an adjunct, believes teaching writing is a form of activism, and is in complete solidarity with adjunct faculty everywhere.

Lisa M. O’Neill is a writer, teacher of writers, editor, curator, and creative usher. A native of New Orleans, she has a strong affinity for handkerchiefs, porches, bourbon, and brass instruments of every kind. She makes her home in Tucson where she primarily works in the medium of nonfiction and is currently writing a book on sound and silence. At the heart of her creative process is a desire to learn more about herself and others in order to have compassion for all. She thinks the best writing makes us feel something, and it makes us feel something because we understand—through narrative, through language, through a connective thread between us and the story being told—what it means to be human. Lisa was awarded a New Works Artist Grant by the Tucson Pima Arts Council in 2012. The year before, she was honored as Adjunct Lecturer of the Year by the Writing Program at The University of Arizona, where she has taught since 2007. She co-created a writing workshop series for future first generation college students and has also developed curricula for and taught writing workshops with incarcerated students at adult and juvenile detention centers. Lisa is the creator and curator of the online literary project The Dictionary Project, in which writers use a word bibliomanced from the dictionary as an impetus for new writing. Her work has appeared in Diagram, defunct, The Feminist Wire, the drunken boat, and Edible Baja Arizona, among others. Find her at lisamoneill.com and thedictionaryprojectblog.com.

Aisha Sloan's essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, Michigan Quarterly Review, Terrain.org, Callaloo, The Southern Review, and Guernica. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. She is a contributing editor for Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past Events:

Jan 2015

Nov 2014(2)

Nov 2014

Oct 2014

Sept 2014

May 2014 (2)

May 2014

Feb 2014

Jan 2014

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