Tucson Coverband Show
🎸sign ups are open!!! 🥁 it took us a minute to catch up with all the things but everything is on schedule to make this another amazing show! sign up here cannot wait to celebrate with you! $12 February 14 @ 7:00pm in the Splinter Courtyard please reach out to SamBloom@SplinterCollective.org if you’re interested in vending this event! vending fee is 10% of your sales from the event! 💵 follow the tucson coverband show instagram!
Members Survey
help us help you! we’re looking for community input as to how we can best support y’all we’re here for you and want to collaborate in making this community everything we’ve all dreamt of. survey is open until december 5 you will be entered to win raffle prizes for filling out our survey! we can’t wait to hear from you! go to: https://bit.ly/47zChzz
October Newsletter
Hello Splinter Peep, catch up on October events at splinter, read a heartfelt writing from sam on anti-BLACK-ness, and updates and calls to action about STAR village, Global Sumud Flotilla, Nepal, Sudan and Congo. Click the link to read ✨ we. love. you.
🌕Hey Babes, We’re Back to Season at Splinter! 🌵
This September We Have: Cine con Orgullo Film Showcase, Open Mic, Yoga & Healing Circles, Audio Tune Up Sessions…and more! Stay up to date on all our upcoming events in our September Newsletter Click here to sign up for our mailing list! 📩
It’s Giving…Tuesday!
Hi there, beloveds. Sam and Nat here, your fashionably late co-executive directors of Splinter Collective. We’re coming to you here on giving Tuesday to ask for your support. Our communities are under attack, with rampant anti-Trans bills, impending mass deportations, the increasing criminalization of poverty and houselessness, the scapegoating of critical race theory and diversity initiatives, and all the other terrible things we anticipate coming our way with the next administration. Our collective staff is made up of folks with ...
Splinter 2024 Arts Programming Sponsorship
Interested in becoming a sponsor? With your help, we are raising $100,000 so we can continue to offer sliding scale admission to all Splinter Collective events, offer free or reduced rental rates to our BIPOC and trans/queer community members, give artists micro-grants to produce events at Splinter, and pay Splinter staff a livable wage. With your support, all of this is possible! Click below to view our packet! Note: Link updated for Summer/Fall:
Late Spring Musings
Comrades, Co-Conspirators, Cuddlies, We’ve had a packed spring event season starting with the annual Cover Band Show and All Black Everything in February, along with dance parties, poetry readings, and workshops, all on top of our regularly scheduled programming. We want to give a huge thank you and shout out to everyone who comes to our events and supports the work we do at Estevan Park. We’ve been held so well by our community’s support this spring. We’re also acknowledging ...
Estevan Park Project
Last fall, we submitted a proposal to the city of Tucson to provide and manage services at Estevan Park, where there has been an encampment for many years. The City’s MO has been sending police to regularly sweep the camp and evict the people who live there. There are bathrooms at the park, which have rarely been unlocked and stocked for use by the residents there. The city sites safety as their grounds to restrict access to the bathrooms. Over ...
Charging Station- Past and Future
In spring of 2020, as we entered the strange and uncertain months of strict quarantine, only a few months after Natalie Nguyen bought the warehouse that has become Splinter Collective, we made the acquaintance of a few men who lived at the encampment at Estevan Park just north of our home. Though interactions were brief and impersonal due to social distancing, we slowly began to form friendships with a few of those people. During the early days of the covid ...