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Edge 22: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
A note from the curator: I have often wanted to listen to authors who are in the same place in their career as myself--emerging, published in journals, with a chapbook and/or a first full-length book, still growing but full of passion, new ideas, and an edge. But there is often infrequent opportunity for this; in fact, I have often felt disappointed in the lack, that such an open community might often be circumscribed in its literary programming. Additionally, featuring emerging writers engages other young as well as established writers, to support, frequent and attend Casa Libre and other writing events. This cycle creates the foundation for a writing community which self-generates, remains true, open, and allows many voices the opportunity for visibility and being heard. I want Tucson to be an artistic community which includes and features many voices and peoples. Literature is the province of communication, but also reflectivity, the reflection and representation of all our narratives and of new narratives and ideas, voices which are challenging and also challenge us.
Raúl Alcaraz, Rachel Lehrman, and ZUZI Dance Company
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5Come to Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a series of local and national writers and cross-genre artists, emphasizing diversity of narrative, identity and literary source. Its purpose is to create community, visibility and voice for emerging and younger writers. Broadsheets of the authors' work will accompany each reading. Books and journals will be available for purchase and signing by the authors. Refreshments will be available after the reading.
Readers:
Raúl Alcaraz: Born in Jalisco, Mexico 27 years ago to two loving parents, Raúl Alcaraz beieves in the power of flower and song (flor y canto). He grew up in Richmond, CA where his struggles as a migrant child fuel his passion for social justice and community power. Raúl has organized around educational justice, youth power, queer justice, and migrant rights issues. After graduating from the Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State University in 2006, Raúl moved to the desert/borderland of Tucson, AZ to continue the path towards community and migrant justice. Evident in his writing, Raúl imagines a world free of borders and oppression and continuously struggles towards creating a world where many worlds fit.
Rachel Lehrman moved to London in 2002 after completing her MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. Her work has previously appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Drunken Boat, and Shearsman Magazine. She has forthcoming work in the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman Press, March 2010). As the Director of the arts collective Nomadic-Collaborations, Rachel spearheaded a number of art-projects in England including Nomadics (2005) and Understorey (2007). In 2004 a recording of her work accompanied an installation exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in London. That same year she exhibited her poetry in broadside format at the Camden People's Theatre. More recently, she completed a practice-based PhD in Collaborative Authorship at Roehampton University.
ZUZI Dance Company: ZUZI! is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1998 by Nanette Robinson and Nancy Mellan.
ZUZI’s original vision was to create a theater space to create a home for the ZUZI! Dance Company, and support dance in Tucson that would incorporate collaboration, multiculturalism, multigenerationalism, and inclusiveness. In October 1999, ZUZI! moved into its current home at the Historic YWCA in Tucson. Through ongoing dance classes, workshops, performances and community outreach activities, ZUZI has sought to create connection, meaning and renewal for children and adults of all backgrounds. ZUZI specializes in aerial and modern dance works, as well as applying dance in community settings.
For the March Edge Reading, ZUZI Artistic Director, Nanette Robinson, will be excerpting original narrative text and movement from her dances in ZUZI’s last Dance Concert "House Made of Light," featuring the dancers Lauryn Bianco, Scott Bird, Sariya Brown, Nancy Brown, Melissa Buckheit, Justina Curtis, Mandy Phillips, Sara Anderson Stewart, Maria Sara Villa, and Christina Vega Westhoff and the musician Pablo Peregrina.
Next Edge Reading will be held on Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
Past Edge Readings:
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