Dear Casa Friends,
After 16 years of bringing beauty, meaning, and art to our community, it is after much soul-searching and with heavy hearts that we announce that Casa Libre will be closing its doors.
We’re currently planning a storytelling workshop series for older LGBTQ+ folx in partnership with Southern Arizona Senior Pride to take place in May and June, which will be Casa Libre’s last community programming. This second annual event will culminate with a printed anthology and free public performance by workshop participants. Please join us on Saturday, June 29, 3-5pm, at Cornerstone Fellowship Church at 2902 N. Geronimo.
Casa Libre has been many things to many people through the years. It has been a safe haven, a house of learning, and a home. It has held laughter and joy and tears and the open hearts of those who came together to share the experience of being human through art. It has been a nomad, wandering the streets of 4th Avenue and downtown Tucson and holding in its arms space for those for whom space is not always held, to raise up voices that are too often not heard.
It has always been a small organization stitched together with so much love and inspiration and hard work that it looked much bigger from the outside. Casa Libre is the small stone that creates ripples that have become mighty waves, touching and changing people and lives from Arizona to pretty much everywhere.
We are so grateful to the thousands of people who have been a part of our story, and have shared with us yours. To all of our board members, donors, artists, volunteers and partner organizations over the years, thank you for sharing your time and talent, and for being part of our community, no matter where you were from. Each of you is inextricably woven into our fabric.
To our dear and magical founding Executive Director Kristen Nelson, thank you for creating something special and spectacular in the middle of the desert. Thank you for making a home for art and community. Thank you for believing you could and making us all believe we could, too.
To our second Executive Director Sally Roundhouse, thank you for helping us learn to leave home and fly.
We hope each of you will continue to create, appreciate, and celebrate art in all its forms. The world so desperately needs it. We are honored to have been a conduit for so much beauty and meaningful connection for so long.
Much love,
Casa Libre
After 16 years of bringing beauty, meaning, and art to our community, it is after much soul-searching and with heavy hearts that we announce that Casa Libre will be closing its doors.
We’re currently planning a storytelling workshop series for older LGBTQ+ folx in partnership with Southern Arizona Senior Pride to take place in May and June, which will be Casa Libre’s last community programming. This second annual event will culminate with a printed anthology and free public performance by workshop participants. Please join us on Saturday, June 29, 3-5pm, at Cornerstone Fellowship Church at 2902 N. Geronimo.
Casa Libre has been many things to many people through the years. It has been a safe haven, a house of learning, and a home. It has held laughter and joy and tears and the open hearts of those who came together to share the experience of being human through art. It has been a nomad, wandering the streets of 4th Avenue and downtown Tucson and holding in its arms space for those for whom space is not always held, to raise up voices that are too often not heard.
It has always been a small organization stitched together with so much love and inspiration and hard work that it looked much bigger from the outside. Casa Libre is the small stone that creates ripples that have become mighty waves, touching and changing people and lives from Arizona to pretty much everywhere.
We are so grateful to the thousands of people who have been a part of our story, and have shared with us yours. To all of our board members, donors, artists, volunteers and partner organizations over the years, thank you for sharing your time and talent, and for being part of our community, no matter where you were from. Each of you is inextricably woven into our fabric.
To our dear and magical founding Executive Director Kristen Nelson, thank you for creating something special and spectacular in the middle of the desert. Thank you for making a home for art and community. Thank you for believing you could and making us all believe we could, too.
To our second Executive Director Sally Roundhouse, thank you for helping us learn to leave home and fly.
We hope each of you will continue to create, appreciate, and celebrate art in all its forms. The world so desperately needs it. We are honored to have been a conduit for so much beauty and meaningful connection for so long.
Much love,
Casa Libre