Open house, Friday Feb 6th, 1-5pm at the Historic Y (738 N 5th Ave, Suite 214)! Come browse some of our many collections ranging from forest defense to anti-ICE organizing, books to prisons work and Palestine encampments, experimental music and an ICE whistle collection! There will also be rad books from AK and PM Press for sale.
This event is part of Windshift (www.windshift.world), a month of events in Tucson that includes lectures, workshops, discussions, dinners, parties, actions, and more for revolutionaries, anarchists, world builders, freedom fighters and everyone who wants something better from this broken world~
You can see the full event description here /event/show/id/NVxE3CsC7p7X9dRP9dEvqJDC8tbNWA.
Wed. 10/22 Archives Commune open house, 3-7pm! Featuring a Desert Drone mini exhibit 6-7PM. Historic Y. 738 N. 5th Ave, Suite 214.
Come check out the space, some of our collections, and radical book sale!
Learn how to become a member to access resources for your own digital archives and documentary projects. Enjoy the Desert Drone show downstairs after!
Sunday, November 2nd, Desert Drone presents a special evening in The Historic Y Courtyard with Dactyls and Compersion. Celebrating two of our favorite local acts coming together to play music outside on a beautiful fall evening.
Dactyls - experimental jazz fusion
Compersion - experimental chamber trio
Sunday November 2nd Historic Y Courtyard 300 E University Blvd
Doors 7:00pm Music 7:30pm All Ages event
$10 entry but no one will be turned away for lack of funds
Presented in collaboration with the BCC Archives Commune, this will be an extension of the ongoing Tucson experimental archive project. For more information please visit @archivescommune
Desert Drone and the BCC Archives Commune team up Wednesday October 22nd to present a special show in The Historic Y Main Lobby. We’re hosting Dreamage, accompanied by Vulture Vault, and The Listening Choir.
Dreamage is a new collaborative project from Chris King and Jesse Kees of This Will Destroy You. The idea for Dreamage originated in 2018 during the writing sessions for New Others 1 & 2. Kees’ melodic sensibilities shine on tracks like “Weeping Window,” while King’s signature approach to texture and ambience is evident in pieces like “Provoke.” With their new LP Dreamage, King and Kees delve into the more tender and introspective elements of TWDY’s sound, reminiscent of tracks such as “The Puritan” and “They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light.”
The Archives Commune is a collective and resource space housed at the Historic Y, dedicated to preserving radical history in Arizona-- i.e., antiauthoritarian, antifascist, anticolonial, queer, trans and working-class history. The Archives Commune and Desert Drone together are building a collection of experimental music in Tucson: recordings, flyers, set lists, zines, photographs, ephemera, and oral histories documenting how these scenes create and sustain forms of collective life outside the systems of domination we are currently embedded in.
We invite contributions of materials now through October 22, culminating in a Desert Drone show and exhibit at the Historic Y. The Archives Commune will hold an open house from 3-6pm, with a focus on the Experimental Archive 6-7pm, before the music, where you can bring items to scan for the digital collection or contribute to the physical one. No donation required to visit the archives, but we encourage you to donate $12 if you attend the show to support the artists (NOTAFLOF).
The Archives Commune is a memory collective, resource space, and social center in Tucson dedicated to preserving radical histories—antiauthoritarian, antifascist, decolonial, and working-class struggles in the Southwest and beyond. This is the official launch of our Instagram page!
Initially housed at @bcctucson , we are now at the @thehistoricy , but collaborate across spaces in Tucson. Participating projects include the @jewishzinearchive , @perilouschronicle , @ibp_archive and @permanent_org
Open hours vary but can be viewed with this calendar link /yc3bubbs.
You can email [email protected] or [email protected] to confirm your visit.
For location and access information see: /the-archives-commune/
Donate at /archives-commune
Featured poster, "Drop the charges against the Tucson 12" from @tucsonantirepression More details on our collections to come!
