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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Shawn Finn, Joel Gregory, Elizabeth Salper & Emji Spero

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

Tuesday, November 4
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

Jo Anderson is a Tucson painter, printmaker and creator of artist’s books. From the age of eight to eighteen Jo lived with her family in Columbia and Panama. Since then she has lived in Los Angeles, CA, Albuquerque, NM Austin, TX and Tucson. She believes her art has been directly and indirectly influenced by the many places she has lived and visited. Her artwork is intuitive in origin. She often sourcing dream images and information that arises from meditations and connections to her natural surroundings. Jo received a bachelors degree in art from the University of Arizona and has  taught private art classes and offered painting and printmaking workshops in her Tucson Mountain home/studio for over fifteen years. Her work is included in private and public collections across this country and in Europe. She was the recipient of the Art Matters Individual Artist Fellowship from New York, the Award For Excellence and Innovation from Tucson Pima Arts Council, a  2013 Purchase Award from the University of Arizona’s Special Collections Library, and the 2013 Donn Sanford Award for Book with Text.

 

Shawn Finn has been exploring life, poetry, and creativity in the beautiful Sonoran Desert for more than 2 decades. Her poetic voice is steeped in archetypes, nature, history, and imagination. She has read at many open mics around Tucson over the years. At one time, she read regularly at a weekly open mic at the Casbah Teahouse. Other locations where she has read include Bookman's, Cafe Magritte, Casa Libre, Wingspan LGBT Center, Revolutionary Grounds coffeehouse, and Antigone Books. At Antigone’s she has participated both in open mics and a group reading with 3 other writers. She was a featured reader in the Other Voices Women’s Reading Series at Antigone Books in August 2009. She is also a writer of articles on women's Goddess-oriented spirituality. She has been published in Of a Like Mind and Sagewoman magazines.

 

Joel Gregory is a dropout of the New School MFA program and a co-founder of Timeless, Infinite Light. He is a poet and visual artist living in Oakland, California.

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Salper derives joy from exploring the convergence of the ordinary with the sublime in writing and photography, and wrestling with her 12 year old son Micah. When she’s not dancing in her kitchen, persuading patrons at the library to campout in the 811’s, or hanging out at Gerson’s Used Building Materials, she’s writing or promoting poetry. Elizabeth curates the blog, the wednesday poem, advocates for poetry in public spaces, and believes in leaving poems for the crossing guard. This summer she coordinated A Walk in the Woods, a poetry celebration at Woods Memorial Library (which included Tucson’s first and current poet laureates William Pitt Root and Rebecca Seiferle) and initiated “Poetry in the Plaza,” encouraging Broadmoor neighbors to chalk poetry in the public plaza. When she read her poem, “Pear Dreams,” by phone for WBUR’s Here & Now Serenity Poem Contest, she competed with one hundred squawking grackles. She would like to confess that she puts some things in her recycle bin that cannot be recycled – she sees this as hope.

Emji Spero is an Oakland-based artist exploring the intersections of writing, book art, installation, and performance. Their writing has been featured in Tripwire, Dusie, Jupiter88, Wheelhouse Magazine, Tract/Trace, The Vulgate, and Not Enough Data. Spero's new book, almost any shit will do, published by Timeless, Infinite Light, uses found language, word-replacement, and erasure to strange the familiar and map the boundaries of collective engagement.

 

 

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