Update from the Assistant Director:

Dear Artists and Friends of Casa Libre,

While I’ve spend the last three months gallivanting in the woods (and snow!) of the Rocky Mountains with students from all over the country, Kristen, the Board, and volunteers of Casa Libre have been pulling together a fantastic line up of events, workshops, and readings for the fall. Go ahead and get out your calendar now – we are sure to have at least one event that you will not want to miss!

We have two new workshops being offered this month: “Collaborative Conversation on Immigration” and “Collaborations: text, image, and technology.” Both workshops start next week and have limited seats available, so be sure to visit the event pages for registration information.

Noah Saterstrom, curator of the online project Trickhouse (www.trickhouse.org), has joined us to create monthly Trickhouse/Casa Libre multimedia events that embody the Trickhouse investigation of collaboration, community, site-specific work, and things yet unseen. The first event will be held on September 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Casa’s rear courtyards. Join us for the very first event in this new performance series!

We are pleased to invite you to a book release, reading, and celebration for Tucson’s own Arianne Zwartjes. Arianne’s first book, The Surfacing of Excess, won the 2009 Blue Linx Poetry Prize from Eastern Washington University Press. She will be reading from this work on Friday, Sept 17 at 7pm. This reading will also feature Aisha Sloan.

And don’t forget about our ongoing (and already amazing) programs. WIP – a reading series in which poets and prose writers from the UA MFA program present their work – begins again this Friday, Sept 3 at 7pm. Lamplight comes back to Casa this Sunday and we have a spectacular EDGE reading planned for September 15 featuring Jefferson Carter, Michael Gessner,& Kathleen Winter .

Also, be sure to check out our newly reorganized library (thank you Frankie, Julia, and Kristen!). There are books for sale from Biblio and an entire section of books from previous Casa Libre residents and readers. It is quite an impressive shelf!

Thank you, in advance, for taking the time to learn more about Casa Libre and for joining us at a reading or workshop. And thank you for your generous support.  We look forward to seeing you!

–TC Tolbert, Assistant Director

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WORKSHOPS

Collaborative Conversation on Immigration
Tuesdays
Sept. 7 - Oct. 26
6-8 p.m.
Cost: $10
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Collaborations: text, image, and technology Saturdays
Sept. 11 - Oct. 2
1-5 p.m.
Cost: $5 each
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EVENTS

9/3: WIP reading
7 p.m.
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9/15: Edge Reading
with Jefferson Carter, Michael Gessner,
& Kathleen Winter
7:30 p.m.
more info...

9/17:Arianne Zwartjes Book Relase Event
also featuring Aisha Sloan
7 p.m.
more info...

9/28: Trickhouse Live
7:30 p.m.
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9/29: Casa Salon
6-8 p.m.
more info...