Splinter Collective

Splinter Collective Winter Solstice Gala
2023-12-21 18:00 - 23:30 (America/Phoenix)
Please join us for Splinter Collective’s 2nd Annual Solstice Gala!
Joining us in celebration of our 2nd year are Dorian Wood, Glacier.wav, Na-il, Cirque Roots, DJ Mizskoden, and Sharkk Heartt!
Door 6pm
Show 7pm
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KINK KULTUR VIP SOIRÉE
2023-12-20 18:30 - 22:00
Splinter Collective Pre-Gayla VIP Party at the Don Martini Bar with hosts Daddy Nat and the Vamp Natalia. Limited tickets!
Doors @ 6:30pm
314 E Congress

Root Wing Apothecary Open House and Bilingual Story time with Aprender y Jugar
2023-12-17 12:00 - 17:00
Image description: A flier done in watercolor with a white background, pictures of sun and crescent moon, and blue, orange, and red text reading: Root Wing Solstice Open House
12/17/23, noon-5:00pm
Bilingual Story time at 1:00pm
Pumpkin Frybread with vegan options
Tarot readings
BOGO sale on tinctures, salves, and teas
901 N 13th Ave (in the courtyard

Spunk: a Tarp Queens Drag Show
2023-12-16 19:00 - 22:30
Fun, experimental drag curated by a trio of trans, neurodivergent, chronically ill drag queens, Piranah, Chava Dreypuss, and Zeena Karina. Performances at Tarp Queens shows often require tarps to quickly dispose of messes made from blood, cake, milk, and all manner of bodily fluids. Not to be missed!

BICAS Art Auction
2023-12-08 17:00 - 2023-12-09 21:00
Dec 8-9th, 5-9pm
BICAS will be holding their 26th annual art auction on December 8th–9th! As a nonprofit, it’s their largest fundraising event of the year. This weekend-long celebration has grown into a regular event on the Tucson art scene and auctions the works of hundreds of local artists who support their mission of bicycle transportation accessibility. An all-ages event accompanied by food, drinks, and live entertainment. BICAS’ mission is supported by many of Tucson’s most prolific working artists through bicycle-themed art donations and will be held this year at Splinter Collective.
Bicycle-themed art donations are accepted until Dec 1st.
Bids close at 8pm on Dec 9th.
More about the BICAS Art Auction:
https://bicas.org/art/auction/
Email: art@bicas.org
Free to attend and fun for the whole family! Bid on one of a kind bicycle art. Food, drinks, and music! All proceeds benefit BICAS, Tucson’s only non-profit bicycle, arts, recycling, and education center.

***POSTPONED***Eviction Defense Coalition Resource Gathering Potluck & Screening of Takeover
2023-11-26 17:00 - 20:00
NEW DATE TBA

Join us on Sunday, November 26th for an Eviction Defense Coaltion Potluck at Splinter Collective. We will be gathering resources for the winter to distribute to our unhoused relatives as well as share and eat some food!
We will also screen the documentary Takeover which explores what happened in 1970 when the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican activist group, occupied a hospital in the Bronx demanding safer and more accessible health care for the community.
Let’s get together to exchange knowledge and learn about solutions rooted in harm reduction and occupancy!

FREE!

Interdependent Free Mic
2023-11-21 19:00 - 23:00

Viginti Showcase with Blue Monsoon
2023-11-18 20:00 - 23:00

Queeraoke- Ryder's Birthday Edition!
2023-11-17 20:00 - 23:00

Spunk: A Tarp Queens Drag Show
2023-11-10 19:00 - 23:00
Fun, experimental drag curated by a trio of trans, neurodivergent, chronically ill drag queens: Piranah, Chava Dreypuss, and Zeena Karina! Performances at Tarp Queens shows often require tarps to quickly dispose of messes made from blood, cake, milk, and all manner of bodily fluids. Not to be missed!

Día de los Muertos Plática y Ofrenda
2023-11-03 19:00 - 23:00

Interrupted by Trains!
2023-10-28 20:00 - 22:30
Interrupted by Trains is a night of poetry, music, and the occasional loud train comprised of community performances in an inclusive and accessible outdoor space.

SAGA Halloween Party- TGNC Youth and Family
2023-10-25 17:00 - 21:30

Tarp Queens Fundraiser and Film Screening: Jennifer's Bodies Bodies Bodies
2023-10-23 19:00 - 22:00

***CANCELLED Outlaw Project Halloween Drag Show CANCELLED***
2023-10-21 20:00 - 23:30

How We Take Care of Us: A Panel on Housing, Services, and Alternatives to Incarceration
2023-10-21 12:00 - 15:00
Join us as Dr. Keith Bentele, Bernicé Jenko, Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo, and Beatriz Nevarez discuss the multifaceted issues within housing and supportive services throughout Tucson and Pima County. We invite all members of our community to collaborate with us, as we attempt to envision our region as one that achieves decarceration, housing equity, and community-based care for all.

Magma & Pearls: Kieoui x MOCA Opening After Party
2023-10-20 21:00 - 23:00

Kimyah Dawson with Your Heart Breaks and Mega Ran
2023-10-16 19:00 - 22:00
Advance Tickets: Givebutter.com/kimya
$10-$35 sliding scale
From her original soundtrack for the film Juno to her Anti-folk rock band the Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson brings you heartbreaking songs about life and the world around her.
Bring the Kleenex and cry alongside us as we welcome her to Tucson. Opening the show is Northwest singer Clyde Petersen, performing as their band Your Heart Breaks. For 25 years, Your Heart Breaks has performed songs about adventure, community, the books they love and their favorite episodes of Star Trek: TNG. This is your chance to see and support musicians who are Black and trans, disabled and immunocompromised and don’t tour very often anymore. Join us for an outdoor show at Splinter Collective!

Teacher, Rapper, Hero, Author, Father….We’re running out of titles. Vice calls him “Your new favorite video game rapper,” but Mega Ran is much more.
After placing songs in WWE, AEW, Clerks III and several top game releases (Mortal Kombat 1, TMNT Shredder’s Revenge, River City Girls 2), Ran braved the hardest challenge yet: FOSTER PARENTING.
Mega Ran’s 2-year journey through the foster parenting system is captured and celebrated with his new multi-genre album “Buddy’s Magic Toy Box,” which debuted at #2 on the Children’s Billboard charts.

Advance Tickets: Givebutter.com/kimya
$10-$35 sliding scale

Queer Voices of Ukraine with local support from Tucson Refugee Beats
2023-10-15 19:00 - 22:00
Queer Voices of Ukraine – West Coast Mini-Tour

Announcing the upcoming tour of “Queer Voices of Ukraine: Poetry, Prose, and the People’s Resistance” featuring a film screening of two short documentaries by Rebel Queers & a reading of the Queer Ukraine anthology by Dvijka collective.

“Ukrainian Queer Fighters for Freedom” is a documentary series by genderqueer artist, activist, and filmmaker, Angelika Ustymenko, the driving force behind Rebel Queers collective. In the early hours of February 24, 2022, cruise missiles hammered down on Kyiv and across Ukraine – announcing that Russia’s full-scale re-invasion had begun. Every Ukrainian had to make a choice: What are you going to do to resist? Many queer people joined the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers – most with no prior military training – who joined the armed resistance. “Queer Fighters of Ukraine” reveals the experiences of young LGBTQ+ activists and queer party DJs now fighting on the frontlines. Angelika began documenting queer fighters’ reflections after a year of war and broadening the focus to include other forms of queer resistance. “I just had to show the ways that queer activists are also fighting,” Angelika explains. “It’s important for the world to understand our context better and see what’s really going on here.”

“Queer Ukraine: LGBTQi+ Voices during Wartime” is an anthology of stories, essays, and poems by 12 queer people in Ukraine and in the diaspora community, edited by Dvijka Collective. Against the backdrop of brutal invasion, LGBTQI+ people find ways to express themselves against all odds, to create beyond all constraints. Every voice tells a story, and this anthology is a platform for these voices, an archive of their existence. It is time for them to tell their stories on their own terms – and for the rest of the world to stand in solidarity with them. Proceeds from the sales of this book go to projects supporting LGBTQI+ people in Ukraine.

These events will be facilitated by elliott miskovicz, the only US-based writer of the Queer Ukraine anthology. A trans artist and activist with personal ties to Ukraine, miskovicz does humanitarian work in Ukraine while also doing educational work in the US to bridge the knowledge gap around Ukrainian resistance in anti-war activist spaces.

For event details and accessibility info, visit:
bit.ly/queerukraine

Spunk: A Tarp Queens Drag Show
2023-10-14 19:00 - 23:00
TRICK OR TREAT!!! SPUNK is back for another sickeningly sweet drag freak show @ 7pm, October 14 at @splintercollective520
This month’s cast features some of our favorite creeps:
@chavadreypuss
@666daddysatan
@beat_by_adrian
@maybemikel
@nailaliemmert
@nebulastarrrlight

Hosted by your spooky sisters @piranha_queen and @zeenakarina with production help from @fluxxproductions

Cover: $15

Vibes: Creepy, kinky, queer. Halloween for the freaks who celebrate year-round. As always, this is a community focused party, we’re all here to share the magic, so have fun and don’t be a jerk!
NO TERFS
NO SWERFS
NO RACISTS
NO MISOGYNISTS
NO ABLEISTS

Dress code: Express yourself! Come in a halloween costume, or any dark, gothic, wickedly witchy wear

Please bring cash to tip our performers, and if you have the means bring a little extra to shop with our vendors (TBA shortly)

Come get SPUNKED
901 N 13th Ave. Tucson, AZ

Root Wing Apothecary x Aprender y Jugar Open House and Bilingual Story Time
2023-09-24 11:00 - 16:00

Interrupted by Trains!
2023-09-23 20:00 - 22:30
Our monthly poetry event featuring a badass lineup of local poets. $5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Collage Class with Fifi
2023-09-23 12:30 - 14:00
Collage class by Fi! The theme is “Create a Planet.”
DM @fithefuture on instagram to register!
Event is in person at Splinter Collective, Studio 1
$25 for the class, all materials included

NoVoGRAFíAS 03 : urban psychogeography spellbook- A Book Release
2023-09-20 19:30 - 22:00
A book release event for NoVoGRAFíAS 03 : an urban psychogeography spellbook by local fave Logan Phillips. Also featuring work by poet Anna Flores. $5-10 suggested donation

Queeraoke: Rock UR Crocs!
2023-09-15 20:00 - 23:59 | Splinter Collective, 901 N 13th Ave, Tucson, AZ, 85705, United States
Pull up n rock those mfn crocs

Spunk: a Drag Show for Freaks
2023-09-09 19:00 - 22:00
Monthly drag showcase with the Tarp Queens! This month’s theme is Guyliner, dress code is Emo, Scene, Mall Goth <3

222: The EP Release
2023-09-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Splinter Collective, 901 N 13th Ave, Tucson, AZ, 85705, United States
Come celebrate Jalen’s Nelson’s release of their new project, 222: The EP!
Doors at 6pm, show at 7pm.

Interrupted by Trains
2023-08-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Splinter Collective, 901 N 13th Ave, Tucson, AZ, 85705, United States
Splinter’s monthly poetry showcase is back for the fall season! Highlighting the work of black, queer, and other marginalized artists. Hosted by Sam Bloom.
Accessibility notes:
ASL translation provided, courtyard is all one level, all gender bathrooms, wheelchair access.
NOTAFLOF

Tarp Queens Presents: Spunk!
2023-08-12 19:00 - 23:30 | Splinter Collective, 901 N 13th Ave, Tucson, AZ, 85705, United States
Our monthly drag show produced by resident queens, Piranha and Zeena Karina! 18+, $15 at the door.
Featuring: Black Rose, Estelle de Vil, Dorian Rattwel, Yashi, Na-il, Chava Dreypuss

Collage with Fifi!
2023-07-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Splinter Collective, 901 N 13th Ave, Tucson, AZ, 85705, United States
July’s theme is create your alter ego! For those who have attended a workshop with Fifi, you know it’s going to be a great time. And for those who haven’t, this is your chance to check it out. Bring a friend or make a new one! All supplies are included. To sign up, DM @Fithefuture on instagram. This workshop will take place inside studio #107.
