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Thursday, June 6th, 2013

Show at 7 p.m., Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Fluxx Studios & Gallery, 416 E. 9th St., Tucson, $7

Misunderstandings, misinterpretations and misinformation.  To infer, imply or conclude:  Sometimes it's Lost in Translation.  Stereotypes, generalizations and associations- we may be a lot more similar than you assume or much more different than you imagine.   Austria or Australia? Columbia, South America or Columbia, South Carolina?  Dominica or Dominican Republic?  Please, slow down... I've only taken two years of Tongan, Thai or Turkish.

Storytellers: World traveler, Stephina Brewer; Arizona Daily Star writer, David Fitzsimmons; poet Logan Phillips; retirement community program director, Mallory Reed; writer and stand-up comedian Nancy Stanley; and more!

 

Venue: Fluxx Studios and Gallery

is a non-profit community art space designed to host

exhibitions, performance art, movie screenings,

workshops and special events. They are located just

off 4th Avenue, near the underpass to Congress

Street, across the street from the Shanty.

Doors open at 6:30, come early to get a good seat.

Parking is free on the street.

Special Note: Sections of 4th Avenue are currently

under construction, so please plan your route

accordingly.

We are happy to announce that our shows are no

longer 21 and over now that we have moved to

Fluxx Studio and Gallery so adults of all ages can

enjoy the stories. Refreshments are available for

purchase including wine and beer for those with

an appropriate ID.

Bios: 

Stephina Brewer (no relation to Jan) grew up in a motel on Route 66. Maybe the allure of station wagons filled with fatigued families lured her to take to the road. Maybe not. What ever the reason. she has lived in such diverse places as  Capetown, South Africa, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Himeji, Japan, and Santiago,Chile. She has taught and learned a couple of languages along the way, but confusion and miscommunication have been her constant travel companions.

 

Cartoonist, columnist and Editorial Writer for The Arizona Daily Star, David Fitzsimmons is syndicated to over 700 news publications-- which is timely since there are only 700 newspapers left in the world today. A one time Pulitzer Finalist, his award-winning cartoons have drawn fire and praise since Geronimo was a paperboy way back in 1986. When he is not at his drawing board slinging ink or editorials, David is entertaining audiences with his “Fastest draw west of the Potomac” shtick. Fitz has performed his chalk talks in every  casino, conference, resort meeting room, theatre, school, and clubhouse west of the San Pedro.  With 3 kids, a glorious dame on his arm, 2 cats and a dog with an IQ that rivals the overnight low in Flagstaff  this flaming moderate at the fringe of America’s center is a snappy dresser. Fitz loves reading hate mail from readers, making his kids laugh, and cursing the television.

Logan Phillips works to create new opportunities for the intersection of poetry and wider society. As a bilingual poet, performer and DJ he tours his art throughout the US, Latin America and beyond. Born and raised in the Arizona / Sonora borderlands, Phillips lived in and around Mexico City from 2006-2011, where he contributed to  organizing and hosting the country's first regular poetry slam series. Phillips co-directs the transdisciplinary performance group Verbo•bala, recipient of a 2012 Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for the piece Sonoran Strange, which is touring now. Teaching also forms an important part of Phillips' artistic practice, and he currently serves as Cofounder and Codirector of Spoken Futures, Inc. whose programs include the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam. Artspeak LLC, an arts and education consultancy company, was founded by Phillips in 2012. He was recently the only cultural worker recognized as 40 Under 40 by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Arizona Daily Star.

Mallory Reed took off from small town upstate New York, gangled around France and Thailand for a few delicious years, and recently landed in the beautiful Tucson desert.  She finagles the fun and manages the mayhem as the Program Director at a local retirement community.  She feeds her rav (see: ravenous) with sunrise swims, sweaty yoga, sushi, (over)sharing via written and spoken word, alliterations (apparently), and cooking up yummy food, wit, and wisdom with good people. 

 

Nancy Stanley is the mother of two teenagers who are perfect and beautiful.  She is a former journalist, a non-practicing lawyer, a sometime writer, and a wannabe standup comedian fueled by the indignities of advancing age.  A native Tucsonan, she has a story for every street corner between Stone and Kolb, Ajo and Skyline, and waxes nostalgic about the ‘good old days’ so often that her children and friends simply tune her out.  She enjoys reading (mostly trash) and travel (in the off-season because she is profoundly cheap.)  For more than a decade she worked with international exchange groups from the former Soviet republics, and as a result was constantly “lost in translation.” Her daughter, who continues to endure her mother’s peculiarities with exceptional grace and good humor, wrote this bio.

More storyteller bios coming soon!

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We’ve chosen themes for the whole year to make it easier for future

storytellers to see where your favorite personal story will fit in.

Next Up

July 12, 2013: “BREAKING FREE: STORIES OF DISOBEDIENCE”

Fluxx Studios and Gallery, 416 E. 9th Street, Tucson.

Do You have a story? Contact us!

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Storytelling is a way to make connections with diverse and different people that you may not meet in your every day life. Because these stories are from our lives they may be amazing, messy, enlightening, disturbing, and entertaining . . . and more.