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!
Watch: Interrupted By Trains, February
Here’s a small selection of poetry from our recent IBT event! Check out our event calendar and come to the next one!
ICYMI: Splinter Year End Review video, newsletter
We had a big year! Check out the recap above, and read more in our latest newsletter below. If you’re not subscribed, you can do that too: https://mailchi.mp/splintercollective/black-futures-month-2024
Watch: Solstice Gala 2023!
The Gayla livestream has been edited and uploaded to youtube, and is now available if you missed it (or want to relive it!). If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our youtube channel and click the bell to be notified when we go live or post a new video! Chapter markers and links to all the performers are in the video description.
News & Notes from Nat, events, & 2 Day Splinter Gayla Dec 20 & 21!
Beloveds members and supporters, If you’d like to skip my missives, please scroll down to read about upcoming offerings, including Splinter Collective’s 2 day Gala celebration on 12/20 and 12/21 and more! In person and virtual options! Communication. It’s a puzzle. I recently saw a beloved in Chicago. As we were catching up, I realized that they weren’t aware of Splinter or anything else that has been going on with my life for the last few years. I also realize ...
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 ...
February Newsletter
Dear friends, relatives, and accomplices, How are you? It’s been a minute. It feels like we just wrapped up our Solstice Gala, and we’re already launching full throttle into a packed spring event season. With all our projects in the works, it’s hard to know where to start. We have so much to share with you all about our partnership at Estevan Park, but that will be next time, because it’s Black History month, and we have a lot to ...
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 ...
October Announcements
Dear friends, supporters, and accomplices, I don’t know about you, but for us at Splinter, this summer has been a lot of things- trying, exhausting, transformative, and beautiful. As you know from our last newsletter, we’ve been focusing primarily on reorganizing our internal structure and fine tuning our operations in order to build a solid foundation for our fall season. We’ve had some major staffing changes, including the step down of two amazing and instrumental members of our team, Ronah, ...