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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Khara Ellasante, Ernesto Somoza, and Rae Strozzo

Tuesday, February 21
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

Khara Ellasante is a poet, artist, and activist from Memphis who now lives in Tucson. A graduate student at the University of Arizona, Khara now has just a few weeks to finish a poetry manuscript/thesis in time to graduate in May. Khara received the Native Writer Award in Poetry at the 2011 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference and was recently published in Currency.

 

 

Ernesto Somoza is local queer artist in Tucson, Arizona. His mediums of choice are installation art along with Photography. Early on in his career Ernesto has chosen to focus on gender and identity. His creations are known for engaging the viewer, while allowing one to question their identity. His creations have been displayed nationally and internationally. Ernesto is a junior at the University of Arizona majoring in Art and Visual Culture Education and Studio Art with an emphasis in Photography. 

 

Rae Strozzo is a transgendered artist and writer. He received his B.A. in English and philosophy from Georgia Southern University in 1997. He graduated with an M.F.A in photography from the University of Arizona in May 2008. He is currently an adjunct instructor of photography at Pima Community College and a freelance graphic designer. He is also the photo editor of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT
“it’s she but the s is silent” ~ TC Tolbert, Territories of Folding
My work comes from a very personal place. It is about growing up a southern girl and becoming a man in the west. My transgendered life doesn’t just revolve around issues of gender identity and body, but of family, connection, and truth. The paintings, drawings and photographs touch on all of these and wrestle with the notions of attachment and disconnect, revealing and privacy, hope and regret.

Past Events:

January 2011

December 2011

October 2011

October 2011

March 2011

January 2011

December 2010

November 2010

October 2010

September 2010

 

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