Coconino Center for the Arts

Youth Art Drawing Workshop (Ages 11 - 16)
2023-09-30 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix) | Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
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Instructor: Erika Tsouras
Date/Time: September 30, 2023 from 1 pm – 3 pm
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Do you know a young person who loves to draw? In this two-hour small group art workshop at Coconino Center for the Arts, students will create a drawing of an object that is special to them. Local artist and art educator, Erika Tsouras, will lead students to view and reflect on the exhibit in the CCA gallery which features photographs of personal items surrendered to U.S. border patrol by hopeful immigrants. Can an object tell a story about its owner? What are the limits and possibilities there? Students will then learn skills in observational drawing, shading, and emphasis in order to create a meaningful portrait of an object they bring from home. Coinciding with the Flagstaff Festival of Science, participants are welcome to choose an object that reflects their relationship with nature or science.
tom kiefer: el sueño americano / the american dream

Youth Art Drawing Workshop (Ages 8 - 10)
2023-09-30 10:00 - 12:00
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Instructor: Erika Tsouras
Date/Time: September 30, 2023 from 10 am – 12 noon
FREE: Registration required
Do you know a young person who loves to draw? In this two-hour small group art workshop at Coconino Center for the Arts, students will create a drawing of an object that is special to them. Local artist and art educator, Erika Tsouras, will lead students to view and reflect on the exhibit in the CCA gallery which features photographs of personal items surrendered to U.S. border patrol by hopeful immigrants. Can an object tell a story about its owner? What are the limits and possibilities there? Students will then learn skills in observational drawing, shading, and emphasis in order to create a meaningful portrait of an object they bring from home. Coinciding with the Flagstaff Festival of Science, participants are welcome to choose an object that reflects their relationship with nature or science.
tom kiefer: el sueño americano / the american dream

TOM KIEFER: El Sueño Americano
2023-09-23 - 2023-12-24
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23
Members Preview 5-6 pm
Tom Kiefer in Conversation with Liz Allen 6 – 6:30 pm
Public Reception 6-8
TOM KIEFER: EL SUEÑO AMERICANO / THE AMERICAN DREAM
SEPTEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 23, 2023
Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano / The American Dream is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the artist’s home in Ajo, Arizona, about 40 miles from the U.S./Mexico border. U.S. border agents deemed these belongings as non-essential or potentially lethal. Kiefer asks the viewer to consider these photographs as untold and unknown stories, markers of human journeys cut short, creating a personal connection for the viewer that extends compassion and empathy to those who make the dangerous journey across the desert to seek a better life.

DARCY FALK: Regarding Privilege
2023-09-23 - 2023-11-03
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23
Members Preview 5-6 pm
Public Reception 6-8 pm
Artist Talk: October 17, 6:30 pm
DARCY FALK: REGARDING PRIVILEGE
SEPTEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 2, 2023
In Regarding Privilege, Falk exhibits embroidered artworks that address white privilege by exhibiting the backside of the embroideries as the primary message. Each embroidery is accompanied by a mirror, so that the words can be read over the shoulder of the viewer, with their back turned toward the message. The embroidered quotes are by prominent Black politicians, writers, activists, and others, and are rendered in the artist’s handwriting using embroidery on cloth.
Image credit: Darcy Falk | Blue cloud cloth, Langston Hughes | 2020 | embroidered textile | 20” x 24”

Interference Series: The Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO)
2023-09-17 19:30
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The Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) is acclaimed master percussionist, Tatsuya Nakatani’s, large ensemble and nomadic sound art project. Consisting of 16 of Nakatani’s adapted Gongs played with his handmade bows, it is the only bowed Gong Orchestra in the world. Local players from Flagstaff are brought together for a technique workshop and rehearsal with Nakatani before he conducts them in a public performance of his improvised harmonic composition. Through hundreds of performances, thousands of participants and audience members have been involved in creating these transformative art works.
The Interference Series is proud to once again bring this powerful and engaging project to the Flagstaff Community!
Save 10% with membership! Members use IS23 as their promo code prefix (followed by unique member number). Household members receive two tickets at a discount and individual members receive one. To learn more about membership and how to find your discount code, visit: https://www.coconinoarts.org/member-discount

Stargazer Collaborative Theatre: Women of Broadway Fundraiser Cabaret
2023-09-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-09-15 19:00 - 21:00
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Join newly founded Stargazer Collaborative Theatre for our inaugural show, The Women of Broadway Fundraiser Cabaret.

The performance features local actors singing hits from Chicago, Wicked, Rent, Waitress, Spring Awakening, Les Miserables, Hadestown and more! All proceeds will benefit Stargazer Collaborative Theatre’s upcoming season and educational program.
Cast:
Jessie Luckey
Sarah Kelley
Caitlin Burd
Alison Johnston
Emily Jacoby
Woman-founded Stargazer Collaborative Theatre is Flagstaff’s newest theatre and collaborative arts company, hitting the ground running with a full inaugural season comprised of a fundraising cabaret, several full length musicals, one play, and an educational production that will travel to surrounding communities with minimal access to art, performing at schools throughout northern Arizona.
Stargazer believes in creating elevated, thought provoking, and diverse theatre performances. With a passionate team launching this new project, there’s nowhere to go but up, into the stars. The creative possibilities are endless and we look forward to navigating the heights with our fellow community.
For more information on Stargazer Collaborative Theatre, our community commitment, workshops, and more visit www.stargazercollaborativetheatre.com!
For Streaming Ticket Purchases: A recording of the performance will be sent out to the email address used to purchase the ticket the week of September 18, 2023. Please note that the streaming ticket is not a live stream and Stargazer Collaborative Theatre LLC will be providing the patron with a downloadable link to the performance after the Women of Broadway Fundraiser Cabaret has completed its run.
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Mama's Broke
2023-09-09 19:30
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Mama’s Broke have spent the past eight years in a near-constant state of transience, pounding the transatlantic tour trail. They’ve brought their dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound to major festivals and DIY punk houses alike, absorbing traditions from their maritime home in Eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia. Nowhere is the duo’s art-in-motion approach more apparent than on their long-awaited sophomore record Narrow Line (May 13, 2022 on Free Dirt Records); it’s the sound of nowhere in particular, yet woven with a rich synthesis of influences that knows no borders. It earned them a JUNO nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year 2022. The eleven songs on Narrow Line burrow deeply, with close harmony duets, commanding vocals, and poignant contemplations on cycles of life, including birth and death. Tinges of Americana stand side-by-side with the ghosts of Eastern European fiddle tunes and ancient a cappella ballad singing, melding into an unusually accessible dark-folk sound. A careful listen of Narrow Line invokes an ephemeral sense of place—whether real or imagined—inviting us to take comfort in the infinite possibilities of life, whether or not we ever choose to settle down.
For a group defined by constant touring, it’s not surprising that the two artists that make up Mama’s Broke, Lisa Maria and Amy Lou Keeler, met on the road. As Lisa remembers it, “Amy was driving her old Mercedes from Montreal to Nova Scotia and I was looking for a ride. We spent the 17 hours in the car talking almost exclusively about music. By the time we reached Halifax we started playing together, and within a week or two became a band.” Both coming out of traveling communities that are focused on music and protest, the two owe the way in which they move through the world to the integrated and self-sustaining nature of DIY culture and activism. It was a busy life that took them on a roundabout annual touring schedule running between Canada, the United States, Ireland, the UK, and Europe. In each country, they built grassroots DIY communities to support their music or moved along the pathways of communal organizing that sustained other touring artists.
The driving force behind this band is – and has always been – the commitment to challenge borders between people, places, and traditions; while encouraging freedom of expression and community through music.
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DAWN KISH: TAD’S EMERGING WORLD: GLEN CANYON EXPOSED
2023-09-02 19:00
PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM BY DAWN KISH
Closing Reception: September 2nd
Join us on Saturday, September 2nd for the closing reception of Tad’s Emerginng World: Glen Canyon Exposed photography & film by Dawn Kish. The evening will include a screening of Kish’s film Tad’s Emerging World which world premiered at the Banff Film Festival and US premiere at the Telluride Mountainfilm. The film screening will be followed by an artist talk and Q&A with Kish who will be joined by her assistance Cierra Murrietta to give more behind the scenes details. The event will conclude with music from Julie Sullivan & Friends who will perform a variety of original and historic river songs from various regions in America including from our own beloved Colorado Plateau. Julie brings a lifetime of devotion to music in all its gorgeous and healing forms to the stage to complement the exhibition, “Tad’s Emerging World: Glen Canyon Exposed”, a profound and historically significant work by Dawn Kish.

Horseback Writing Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
2023-08-12 13:30 - 15:30
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Instructor: Jodie Hollander
Date/Time: August 12, 2023 from 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Registration Fee: $35 Members / $40 Non-Members
Experience art at a new level and use it to inspire your writing. Poet Jodie Hollander teaches this workshop, in which participants respond poetically to the Equus exhibition. Students will study examples of celebrated horse poems that respond to or were inspired by art. Then students will be led through a variety of writing activities inspired by art, ultimately leading to a draft of an original poem. Students will discuss poetic techniques such as the use of vivid imagery, the importance of sonics, how to shape a poetic line as well as techniques for drafting and revision.
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Greenhouse Productions Presents: SUSTO
2023-08-09 19:30
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SUSTO will return with My Entire Life July 28 via New West Records. The 12-song set was produced by Wolfgang Zimmerman (Band of Horses) and SUSTO’s Justin Osborne and Johnny Delaware. My Entire Life follows their critically acclaimed 2021 album Time in the Sun which Holler said “provides proof that Osborne and his bandmates are an important voice in today’s conflicted world,” while No Depression called it a “fluid and engaging listen.” Ink 19 said “It’s a great example of SUSTO’s ability to create true lyrical and musical masterpieces so fresh you simply cannot turn it off” while the Bitter Southerner named it one of “The Best Southern Albums of 2021.”

A season of drastic change is what brought SUSTO frontman Justin Osborne to the band’s new album. There was a divorce, difficulties re-building his band after the pandemic, and the pain and helplessness of witnessing family members struggle with addiction and mental illness. Despite these challenges. Justin ultimately found himself in a new landscape, with new love and a deeper perspective, all of which is masterfully projected into My Entire Life. As a whole, the album documents Justin’s personal journey through highs and lows in his life, with many of the details on full display. He narrates the demise and aftermath of an almost decade long relationship, while celebrating the joy of falling in love, and the hopefulness of starting over.

Today, Paste Magazine premiered the video for the album’s title track and lead single, “My Entire Life,” a song with an urgency “to keep living.” Director Luke Pilgrim says, “We at Sozo Bear Films ventured into the relatively unknown world of AI art. We took inspiration from the lyrics, SUSTO’s entire catalog, as well as Justin’s previous musical endeavors to create visuals that represent themes from his entire life. We used stable diffusion to create a mind-bending psychedelic experience. Stable Diffusion is a type of deep learning generative neural network with the ability to prompt, render and process AI imagery.”

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Podcast Launch with Laurel Morales
2023-08-09 - 2023-09-21
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Instructor: Laurel Morales
Dates/Times:

Wednesday, August 9, 6pm – 7:30pm
Wednesday, August 16, 6pm – 7:30pm
Wednesday, August 23, 6pm – 7:30pm
Wednesday, September 6, 6pm – 7:30pm
Wednesday, September 13, 6pm – 7:30pm
Wednesday, September 20, 6pm – 7:30pm

Registration Fee: $200 Members / $225 Non-Members
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Limited, need-based scholarships are available. Please email Jay Gallegos at jgallegos@creativeflagstaff.org to inquire
In six 90-minute sessions guided by a facilitator with 20 years of NPR journalism and podcast production experience, you’ll find a clear voice for your podcast within a storytelling framework. Through listening sessions, discussions, and hands-on tutorials, you will finish the course with a constructed podcast episode. Participants will give and receive feedback and support in a safe, creative environment.
This course will cover:

Introduction to podcasting, pitching and focus sentences (8/9)
Booking guests/storytellers, interviewing (8/16)
Elements of story and structure, writing for the ear (8/23)
Finding your voice as host (9/6)
Putting it all together (9/13)
Listening and feedback session (9/20)

This workshop is for you if…

You want to get into podcasting or radio but don’t have the experience or connections.
You want to build your storytelling skills.
The idea of learning new things and practicing new skills excites you.
You or your organization wants to produce a podcast heavily informed by storytelling techniques.
You enjoy being a part of the creative process.

Prerequisites:
Laptop computer (limited number available for use at CCA), with audio editing software (free and low-cost software options available).
Access to a recording device (CCA has a limited number of digital audio recorders that participants can share). Please bring your own SD card. Smartphones are also acceptable.
Participants are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire upon registration.
Instructor’s Qualifications:

Trained by Rob Rosenthal through a Transom mentorship (guest teachers Ira Glass and Jay Allison), Robert McKee, and Uniondocs.
Master’s in Journalism from Northwestern
20+ years of public radio reporting and editing, NPR freelancer
Six years podcast production experience

Jodie Hollander: Poetry Reading
2023-08-03 19:00
Coconino Center for the Arts presents a poetry reading by Jodie Hollander.
Jodie Hollander’s work has appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, PN Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press & Oxford University Press. Her second collection, Nocturne, was published with the Liverpool & Oxford University Press in 2023. Hollander is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. She is also the originator of ‘Poetry in the Parks,’ in conjunction with several National Parks and Monuments in the US. She currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Daniel Champagne
2023-08-02 19:30
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Daniel Champagne exudes a natural ease on stage, as he sings poignant lyrics and beautifully crafted melodies that invariably whisk the heart up with grand romanticism. Coupled with an exhilarating guitar talent that transcends mere acoustic playing to replicate a whole band, Champagne must be seen to be believed.

The story goes that Daniel first picked up his instrument of choice as a 5-year-old following in the footsteps of a musical father. He began writing songs at 12, training classically throughout his teens and performing wherever he could, honing his craft and developing the dynamic live show that he is renowned for today. At 18 he left school, turned professional and hit the road without looking back.

The following decade saw him release 5 studio albums, tour relentlessly around the globe with upwards of 300 shows per year, play some of the biggest festivals under the sun and share stages with the likes of Tommy Emmanuel, INXS, John Butler, Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, Judy Collins and Rodrigo y Gabriela.

In early 2020 as the COVID pandemic ground all touring to a halt, Daniel returned to Australia writing music and further honing his craft and returned to international audiences with a swag of new songs and a complete new live show.

His current release, “Shimmer Through The Windscreen” is making waves on the streaming services and promises great critical acclaim once it is circulated to the media.

“Daniel Champagne is a crossroads. Fusing the strong traditions of Blues, Folk and other roots art with pop showmanship and admirable lyrical ability. I firmly believe that he will become an ambassador for roots music in a time where it desperately needs representation.” The Indie Blender, CANADA

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Find Your Inner Horse Workshop with Kathy Taylor
2023-07-22 13:00 - 16:00
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Instructor: Kathy Taylor
Date/Time: July 22, 2023 from 1 pm – 4 pm
Registration Fee: $40 Members / $45 Non-Members
Arizona artist Kathy Taylor will lead a painting workshop that will guide participants through the artist’s process of “intuitive painting” using color, symbols, and mark-making to discover their own inner horse. Basic materials are provided, and participants are encouraged to bring any personal acrylic supplies of their preference.

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Meaning and Methods: Mixed Media Workshop with Tanner Jensen
2023-07-12 10:00 - 15:00
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Instructor: Tanner Jensen
Date/Time: July 12, 2023 from 10 am – 3 pm
Registration Fee: $55 Members / $60 Non-Members
North Carolina artist Tanner Jensen leads an intention-focused mixed media art workshop that will explore materials, techniques, and methods of creating. This meditative artistic process will encourage the exploration of composition and meaning. Basic materials provided, and participants are encouraged to bring reference photos of images they would like to work with.
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EQUUS: The Horse Rendered in Contemporary Art
2023-07-08 - 2023-09-03
TANNER JENSEN, RON TOAHANI JACKSON, & KATHY TAYLOR
July 8 – September 2, 2023
Opening Reception: July 8

Members’ Preview: 5-6 pm
Artist Gallery Talks: 6 pm
Public Reception: 6-8 pm

Closing Reception: September 2, 6-8 pm
EQUUS: The Horse Rendered in Contemporary Art aims to transcend conventions of Western American art, placing the viewer in a liminal space to contemplate the threshold between traditional depictions and contemporary perspectives. Equus (Latin term for horse) brings together the creative work of three accomplished artists—Tanner Jensen, Ron Toahani Jackson, and Kathy Taylor—who share a kinship of mutual respect with, and admiration for, the horse: free and unbridled in spirit and form.
Tanner Jensen (Greenville, North Carolina). Jensen has been enthralled with horses since she was a child; since then, they have served as a muse, the source of inspiration for her creative practice. “It’s a mystery to me why the horse lends itself to my search for understanding, but it does. Through these animals, I have learned to be a much better human being. They’ve taught me patience, given me lessons about life and death, lead me through grief, and are a constant reminder to stay present and to delight in this miracle of a world” (tannerjensenfineart.com). Before moving to North Carolina, Jensen was a resident of Flagstaff intermittently since 1976.
Ron Toahani Jackson (Tségháhoodzání or Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona). Toahani is an artist, photographer and animal rights activist working to preserve the last free wild roaming horses on his ancestral lands. The artist describes the intimate experiences he has with the wild horses that inspire his work: “When you sit in the landscape with the horses, they will come up and surround you. They get close, just a few feet from you. They are spiritual; it is a spiritual experience.” Toahani’s monotypes are one-of-a-kind ink or painted images, created on a substrate and transferred to a paper surface, oftentimes embellished with additional pencil marks or textures. Toahani’s videography of wild horses is displayed on the exterior of Coconino Center for the Arts during evening viewing events.
Kathy Taylor (Phoenix, Arizona). Taylor reflects on the development of the horse as a reoccurring motif and as part of her intuitive approach to mixed-media painting and sculpture: “When the first horse emerged in one of my paintings, it was no surprise to find out that these beautiful symbols of strength, freedom, and power were just what I needed at the time. Horse had chosen me! While I paint, the horses meet me in that place where the invisible world meets visible reality bringing with them messages of hope and healing” (Voyage Phoenix, October 18, 2018). Taylor attributes her abstract artistic influences on her formative years living in Southern California in the 1960s.

They/Them: One Climber's Story
2023-06-30 18:00
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They/Them follows Lor, a trans climber, into the sandstone canyons of northern Arizona, on a journey to piece together one of the hardest and most inspiring routes of their life. By embracing the strength in vulnerability, Lor has found the space to thrive and build a climbing community that others like themself can call home. For Lor Sabourin, climbing is more than a sport; it’s a way of exploring identity and building resilience in the face of adversity.
Coconino Center for the Arts is honored to be partnering with Flagstaff Pride to host a screening of They/Them, the screening will be followed by a Q&A with Lor Sabourin and filmmakers Justin Clifton and Blake McCord.

Content Warning: This film includes discussions of eating disorders, body dysphoria, self-harm, sexual assault, and suicide. While we have done our best to explore these topics conscientiously, remember that we are looking through the lens of a single person’s experience.⁠
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Fellow Pynins
2023-06-23 19:30
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Fellow Pynins is an award winning contemporary folk duo with a keen and bucolic sense of vocal harmony and song craft. The live performance is a whimsically emotional escapade through the chasms of our, yes, feelings. Dashed with spontaneous and clever banter, mirth and woe, you will probably cry and quite possibly laugh, a lot. Wielding claw-hammer banjo, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, and acoustic guitar the duo sings predominantly original music as well as reworked traditional ballads gathered from their travels.
“Folk Music with a hefty touch of whimsy” – Bob Boilen (NPR)
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BLKBOK
2023-06-01 19:30
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Neo-classical piano renegade x culture innovator. Born and raised in Detroit’s inner-city, BLKBOK (born Charles Wilson III), grew up in a music-filled house and by the time he was 8, BLKBOK was an acclaimed piano prodigy, winning statewide accolades and college-level competitions. When it came to music, most of the kids he grew up with pursued hip-hop, adopting rap names. However, it’s no coincidence that Charles chose the name BLKBOK, which echoes that of one of the greatest pianists and composers of all time. The tag is also an apt reflection of the elements that have contributed to the artist’s identity and symbolizes his colorful journey from pop and hip-hop culture to his critically acclaimed, neo-classical debut album Black Book, and various Mixtape projects and collaborations. BLKBOK’s live, high-energy performance is culturally reflective and seeks to entertain with a live piano based performance like none you have ever seen before. BLKBOK’s vision is to illuminate awareness for all, encouraging dialogue and counterpoint in the way we perceive ourselves and the world we live in together. BLKBOK’s critically-acclaimed debut album Black Book, served as a founding cornerstone at the very first Juneteenth Foundation’s Freedom Concert and was re-released as a DLUX Edition in June, with two new tracks, Forgotten Girls and Kendrick + Karine, covering relevant topics in mainstream culture, and in the voice that is uniquely BLKBOK. His first Mixtape release, CVRART, and Mixtape project Angels Watching Over Me, with world-renowned tenor Lawrence Brownlee, illustrate the innovative and disruptive musical landscape that is BLKBOK. His original track Stars (Ad Astra) was performed as the first-ever piano duet from Space in April 2022. More info x vibes visit BLKBOK.com + Follow @BLKBOK
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Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival Presents: Single Black Female
2023-05-21 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-05-20 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-05-20 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-05-19 19:00 - 20:30
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Join FlagShakes for our first mainstage production of 2023, Single Black Female by Lisa B. Thompson! We are trying something new this year! This production will perform both in Phoenix and Flagstaff, so you have lots of chances to see this lovely show.
Starring our Equality and Casting Director Racquel McKenzie and professional Phoenix actor Cynnita Agent, and directed by Bray Lawrence (director of our Viola Award winning production of Crumbs from the Table of Joy), this two person play will bring you new perspectives on what it is like to be a Black woman in America today.
The play is told from a viewpoint we rarely hear, a middle class Black woman, and includes ample direct audience address to draw the viewer into the story. The show examines the ebbs and flows of navigating life as a single Black woman in the modern world. Following two “SBF”s (single Black females): one an artistic professor, and the second a sophisticated lawyer, the women talk about class, dating, past relationships, interracial relationships, and their relationship with other Black women with comedy, satire, and poignancy. The show highlights the beauty of female friendships but is relatable to people of all walks of life, regardless of race or gender.
Includes adult language and content.
The show runs Fridays through Sundays May 12-14 in Phoenix and May 19-21 in Flagstaff.
Tickets for performances Friday May, 19 – Sunday May ,21:
$28.00 – General Admission
$23.00 – Senior/Student/Military
$12.00 – Youth
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The Mysto REALLY BIG Magic Show!
2023-05-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-05-06 15:30 - 17:30
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Two Showtimes: 3:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Youth (15 and under) – $15, Adults – $20
Mitch Harwood aka Mysto the Magi, fell in love with magic at an early age performing his first professional show when he was just 12 years old. By the time he was 14 he performed for an audience of over 300 for a Cancer Society benefit, in which he levitated an audience member.
Since then, Mysto has performed over 10,000 shows ranging from restaurants, art and renaissance festivals, Hollywood movies, cruise ships, corporate events, fundraisers, theaters, and performing art centers.
A consummate entertainer, Mysto is an award winning magician in both stage magic AND close-up sleight of hand, a unique combination in the world of magic.
ABOUT THE SHOW
By using character, skits, and flawless magic technique, Mysto brings his audiences back to a simpler time of joy, wonder, amazement, and just good olde-fashioned FUN!
My influences are Abbot & Costello, Lucille Ball, and Bugs Bunny.
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Tow'rs with special guest A Boy and His Kite
2023-05-05 19:30 - 21:30
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Tow’rs is a band from Flagstaff, Arizona led by husband-and-wife duo Kyle and Gretta Miller. For more than eight years, this group has focused on the quiet connection between a song and its creator — a connection they’ve shared with their grassroots following through touring and five albums.
The band is currently introducing the world to songs from their upcoming album “Joy Alchemy” due to release on March 23rd, 2023. Their latest singles, “Baker’s Dozen” and “Uncertainty,” draw on themes of embracing mystery and finding a great sense of fulfilment in being present with the ones we love when there are more questions than answers. Both tracks can be streamed online now.
Learn more about Tow’rs at www.towrsmusic.com

A Boy and His Kite is music from Colorado singer-songwriter and producer Dave Wilton. The sound is an amalgamation of heartfelt indie rock woven with thoughtful folk lyrics and instrumentation. A Boy and His Kite’s first ever release was the single “Cover Your Tracks” included in the film and soundtrack (The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Pt. 2). It was followed by a self-titled album that went onto be featured in Google Play’s“Best Unsigned Artists of 2012” album collection. After a seven year lull from making music A Boy and His Kite released a new album “The Path Became A Ghost” July 31, 2020

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Up Next Flagstaff: The Carbonics and Cameron Jameson
2023-05-04 19:30
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Up Next Flagstaff is a new series at Coconino Center for the Arts that is proud to showcase local emerging artists. For its premiere concert in the series CCA brings to the stage two local acts, The Carbonics and Cameron Jameson. This concert is Pay What You Can. Proceeds go to support performing artists in the series.

The Carbonics are an alternative rock band founded in Flagstaff in 2022. Their sound combines a pop sensibility with strong roots in folk, blues, and soul. The result is emotionally compelling songs with catchy melodies and heartfelt lyrics. They can fill a dance floor with an infectious bass groove or spin a contemplative yarn to a listening room. Hints of contemporary influences like Nathaniel Rateliff, the Lumineers, and Vampire Weekend can be heard in their music, along with legendary songwriters from Otis Redding to Bruce Springsteen.
The band got its start when lead singer and songwriter Bryan Griffith, an accomplished visual artist, began writing music as a new creative outlet when all of his art exhibitions were canceled due to Covid-19. After the pandemic, Griffith recruited lead guitarist Sam Williams, bassist Mike Handforth, and drummer Beau Santillan to help bring those songs and more to life.

Cameron Jameson is a born and raised flagstaff local who is bringing fresh original music through his band Piso Mojado and is now taking the stage with a solo performance! With influences from Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Jason Mraz he’s bringing fun acoustic music to every show he plays!

This concert is Pay What You Can. Proceeds go to support performing artists.
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Greenhouse Productions Presents: Tony Furtado
2023-04-21 19:30 - 21:30
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Tony Furtado is a Portland Oregon based singer-songwriter, banjo champion and slide guitar master.
Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef (he’s also an accomplished sculptor, but that’s another story).
Save 10% with membership! Members use TF23 as their promo code prefix. Household members receive two tickets at a discount and individual members receive one. To learn more about membership and how to find your discount code, visit: https://www.ccaflagstaff.org/member-discount

Opening Reception for Paula Jean Rice 'Transformation & Transcendence' and Jihan Gearon 'TRICKY'
2023-04-15 17:00 - 20:00
Member Preview: 5pm to 6pm
General Public: 6pm to 8pm
Suggested Donation: $10
Join us for the opening reception of two incredible exhibitions.
In the Main Gallery:
Paula Jean Rice: Transformation & Transcendence is a retrospective exhibition of visionary ceramic sculpture. The collection includes four decades of Rice’s work from public and private collections, offering a comprehensive survey of the artist’s complete oeuvre. Presented as a multi-media exhibition, the three-dimensional sculptures and relief wall-mounted pieces are accompanied with recent audio recordings of Rice sharing the stories and inspirations behind each series. The artist’s captivating recollections provide the audience with poetic insight on her life’s work.
Paula Jean Rice is a nationally renowned ceramic sculptor and educator, whose interests include the nature and mystery of the human body and our place in the cosmos. Rice is Professor Emerita of Art at Northern Arizona University, where she has received myriad awards for excellence in teaching and creative work. Living at 7000 ft elevation in Flagstaff, Arizona—location of the discovery of the dwarf planet Pluto—she is a passionate observer of the clear night skies.
In the Project Gallery:
Jihan Gearon’s TRICKY includes and builds on the artist’s November 2022 exhibition SURRENDER: Quarantine Questions | Pandemic Wisdom. Surrender – to surrender, to give oneself up – was the key theme of that body of work. In surrendering, Gearon is learning to believe in herself; give and receive love more deeply; foster excitement instead of fear; and transform bitterness, isolation, and ego into compassion, wisdom, and awareness that all is connected.
But surrendering can be tricky. What about all those parts of ourselves we don’t want to be, let alone surrender ourselves to? What of doubt, jealousy, pride, fear? How can we navigate those chaotic waters? Previous and new paintings will offer guides, warnings, and experiences through tricky situations.
