Early last year, Weekly world central interviewed Tucson poet and performance artist Logan Phillips who was one of of five Arizona artists (three from Tucson) to receive a 2012 Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.

Logan's project is The Sonoran Strange, a multimedia theater work he's performed in different spaces and worked on diligently the past year. Tonight you can catch a full performance of his poem at the Rhythm Industry Performance Factory, 1013 S Tyndall Ave, from 8:30 to 10 pm.

Trust me, this really is beautiful work. If you can make it, get to the performance space and get ready for some Sonoran Strange.

From the event page:

What if the Catalina Mountains outside Tucson dreamed of one day jumping the border of horizon, to follow their dreams of becoming thunderheads? What if the Apaches had won? What if the saguaros were sent to boarding school in Pennsylvania? What if the snowbirds don’t come home to roost, if the tumbleweeds decide to settle down? What if sand shoots from the sprinklers? What if the water runs out?

$7 suggested donation.

Performed by Adam Cooper-Terán and Logan Dirtyverbs.
Image and sound by Adam Cooper-Terán, poetry by Logan Dirtyverbs. Barrel Cactus projection structure designed by Benjamin Hall and fabricated by Benjamin Hall and Carrie Morgan. Sound support by Ray Vaughn Ray.

Made possible in part by generous support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Belle Foundation.

Last weekend, folks driving through the westside along Speedway Boulevard west of I-10 noticed a protest taking place in front of the Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind. One person who definitely noticed, got out of his car and grabbed his camera is Chris Summitt. Summitt then did what he does best and posted a story along with the photos on his popular tumblr page, Protesting Arizona.

Those involved in local movements, from immigration to Mexican-American studies, are familiar with his work. He does a lot of other stuff, which is why we featured him in last week's cover story on crowd-source funding campaigns to talk about his campaign and how he went about choosing GoFundMe.

His campaign kicked off. Check it out here, and his slide show below to get an understanding of the range of his work and why supporting him is a good investment. Summitt's timing at the ASDB was wonderful, but the fact that he took the time is an example of his good character and why we're lucky to have him in Tucson.

The State Bar of Arizona is celebrating the nationally recognized Law Day by offering community members in Tucson and Phoenix free legal clinics where they can get questions answered about a number of topics.

The clinics are expected to draw in more people this year, the second time they're being held, and will include bilingual classes to better serve the Spanish-speaking community in Arizona. This year’s topics—immigration; divorce; child support and paternity issues; bankruptcy and foreclosure issues; landlord and tenant issues; and probate and guardianship issues—were selected based on consumer demand.

That demand was measured by hotline phone calls that came in throughout the year. Alberto Rodriguez, of the communications department of State Bar Arizona, said the Spanish classes allow the State Bar Arizona to be inclusive of all community members. All immigration sessions will be bilingual as well as a few of the family law clinics in heavily Hispanic populated areas in Phoenix.

Rodriguez said he expects the immigration sessions to have a big turnout because of all the coverage the topic has been getting in the media. The clinics will hopefully also teach attendees at the immigration sessions to not fall for fraudulent attorneys who claim to have training which they don’t.

“We want to make sure that we’re answering the immigrants’ questions in a safe environment,” Rodriguez said. “So really it’s just a way for them to get informed on how to take care of their immigration status, apply for immigration and do it the right way.”

The law clinics are each 50 minute sessions and begin with an information overview followed by a question and answer section and if it’s still necessary attorneys will sit one-on-one with the community member to help.

The event is Saturday, April 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the State Bar Arizona Southern Regional Office, 270 N. Church Ave. Ste. 100. All clinics are free.

For more information about Tucson's five sessions visit:
http://www.azbar.org/legalhelpandeducation/lawday/lawdaytucson

Kevin Burke is known far and wide in Irish music circles as a quintessential Sligo fiddler.

He was born in London 62 years ago, but his parents were Irish immigrants from Sligo, and it’s the rhythms of that Atlantic-washed county in the West of Ireland that shape his playing.

“Many great fiddlers come from Sligo,” he said, last week from his home in Portland, Oregon, and they have a distinctive sound.

“If you travel north to south in the West of Ireland, you’ll find the music brisker and faster in the North,” he said, “and slower in the South.”

The famed fiddler Martin Hayes, just for instance, who hails from Clare in the Southwest, “takes long, swooping strokes. It’s quite ornamented.”

Sligo is smack in between North and South, and its fiddlers marry southern Hayes-style ornamentation with northern-style briskness, Burke said — himself included.

Tucsonans can tease out the stylistic influences in Burke’s playing when he gives a concert at Plaza Palomino this Thursday night with John Carty. A master of banjo, flute and fiddle, Carty is another English-born child of Sligo immigrants. The two musicians will likely each do a solo set and then play together, Burke said.

Both men are instrumentalists, and — unusually for an Irish band — they’re not accompanied by a singer.

The Hey Baby! Art Against Sexual Violence workshop, put on by the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault (SACASA), will continue its display of Hey Baby! Lights, in the lobby of Club Congress until May 3.

The art exhibit portrays themes related to sexual violence including the general interaction between men and women and the misogyny within our culture.

"I think the name itself is kind of a play on the kind of calls that women get on the street," said Manuel Abril, one of the contributing artists. "Which I think was pretty clever."

Abril created a series of artwork called "Nothing's Happening" in the past year which is meant to expose a culture that is often otherwise unseen.

"It's suggesting that ... the rape culture is in a way unmarked," Abril said. "So it makes it seem like nothing's happening."

Abril's series reflects the meaning of the entire Hey Baby! exhibit, according to Rowan Frost, program supervisor of community prevention education for SACASA.

"Survivor's voices are often silenced," Frost said. "Especially for young girls, they're told that nothing is happening, that they're exaggerating, they're making a big deal of nothing ... we don't see the effects of sexual violence on the person."

Other pieces include a video of people's faces as they're recorded saying what sexual assault means to them.

The intent of the galleries is to have people realize that it affects everyone in the community, not just the victims or perpetrators, according to Rowan. Once people are aware that it's a community issue they will hopefully start a conversation about the issue requiring a community solution, she added.

"The experiences that they've had affects them and ripples out to all of us," Frost said. "It affects the way that people have relationships with other people because we don't really know who we can trust and who we can't trust."

For more information about the Hey Baby! project visit https://www.facebook.com/HeyBaby.Art/info

Three Cochise County parks are hosting special events through April 28 to celebrate National Park Week.

Visitors can also celebrate the 89th anniversary of Chiricahua National Monument during the week. Tours of the Faraway Ranch will be offered throughout the week.

Rangers at Coronado National Memorial will be leading a hike at 1 p.m. Friday, April 26, to Coronado Cave.

Chiricahua National Monument will waive its fee April 22-26, meaning all three parks and all activities are free throughout the week.

For more information and directions to each park visit:

Chiricahua National Monument: http://www.nps.gov/chir/index.htm
Coronado National Memorial: http://www.nps.gov/coro/index.htm
Fort Bowie National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/fobo/index.htm

• Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation
• 4/20 Home Tour: Historic Adobes of Barrio Viejo

Six of those adobe mansions you've been curious about in Barrio Viejo are open for a tour tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It's well worth the $35 tour fee to see the insides of these adobe structures that define our distinctive Tucson style. Many contain furniture and decor consistent with the period of construction.

But the tour benefits even more landmarks we love, including the Valley of the Moon, the Cactus Drive-in, all our cool neon signs and that classic mid-century commercial architecture on Broadway, among many other projects stewarded by the tour's organizers, the Tucson Historic Preservation Association.

Everything you need to know is at preservetucson.org.

• Courtesy of the Find Isabel Celis Facebook page

April 21 will mark one year since Isabel Celis went missing from her family’s home in Tucson, and supporters of the Celis family have organized a fundraiser this Sunday to further awareness of the fight to find her.

The “Bring Isa Home” event will be held this Sunday at the Peter Piper Pizza location across from the Park Place Mall, 5925 E. Broadway Blvd. The restaurant will donate 15 percent of their sales that day to the campaign to bring the 7-year-old home if you display this flyer, available on the event’s Facebook page. If you’re unable to make it to that Peter Piper Pizza location, the business will also accept the flyer at their other locations in town. Additional donations can also be made during the event to the Wells Fargo Bring Isa Home Account.

Described as a day of “safety and awareness,” the fundraiser will follow a 9:15 service at Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 215 S. Craycroft Rd, and includes children’s activities like arts and crafts, finger painting, face painting and a balloon artist from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Local nonprofit Ben’s Bells will also make an appearance at the event, and children can be fingerprinted per their parent’s request during that time frame.

Fleet Feet Tucson, the Eastside running store where one of Tucson's Boston Marathon participants works, is hosting a run Monday at 6 pm to benefit The One Fund, set up by "Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino...to help the people most affected by the tragic events that occurred in Boston on April 15, 2013." The run begins at the store at 7301 E. Tanque Verde Road and, according to the Fleet Feet Tucson Facebook page, "everyone, regardless of age, ability, and pace is welcome."

Registration will be from 5 to 5:45pm. The event is free, but t-shirts will be available for $20, with 100% of the proceeds going to the fund.

More information at the event's Facebook page.

Stephen Chbosky, author and director of Perks of Being a Wallflower, will host a reading, signing and Q&A from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at the Bookmans at Grant and Campbell.

After releasing the novel in 1999, Chbosky went on to write the screenplay and direct the film adaptation, which was released last October. The book had garnered a cult following by the time the film was released.

Though Chbosky began this project as an author, he also has an extensive background in film. A graduate of the University of Southern California's filmic writing program, his first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995. Chbosky also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Rent, and helped create CBS's Jericho.

The signing is free and open to the public.