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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:

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 ...

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 ...

 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 ...

Hello! Nat (Natalie Brewster Nguyen) here, founder and ED of Splinter Collective. This year has been expansive to say the least. What I put in my dreaming-of-what’s-possible box in terms of funding, we managed to achieve already, in just 5 months. It’s amazing, and I’m so grateful to our sponsors, donors, grantors, and everyone who has believed in our vision. I also want to shout out the most incredible team of co-creators who are building this organization and vision with ...

Well friends, it’s been over 2 years since we posted here. Covid time is weird, and it didn’t feel like we had much to say for a while. We were shifting into managing the space, dealing with the pandemic, and waiting until such a time as we could open up. We had a soft opening Spring of 2021, and then a few wild and beautiful months in the fall of 2021 before Omicron. We kicked off our monthly poetry and ...