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A self-portrait by NAU master’s student Dana Kamberg is one of many pieces, both of herself and others, that the artist uses to delve into conversations surrounding mental illness. Courtesy photo

Flagstaff, Thank you for this year’s wins!

12 FEATURE STORY Dana Kamberg uses expressionistic, narrative portraiture to explore mental illness

By Svea Conrad

ON THE COVER: Dana Kamberg’s Anxious Ladies series helped the artist confront her own depression while also launching her onto her next project chronicling stories of mental health in Flagstaff.

8 BEAT

Transforming Flagstaff ’s Viola Awards: Annual ceremony changes more than just its venue

16 LIT

‘We Are Better Together’: Children’s book illustrator Stevie Lewis takes on climate change and living simply

By Sabrina Proffitt

By MacKenzie Chase

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18 REAR VIEW

Letter from Home College Chronicles Masters of Brewtality

Nicole’s Impossibly Possible Ideas Money Shot Paper Poem

19 PULSE 22 COMICS

STAFF Editorial Editor Svea Conrad sconrad@azdailysun.com

Creative Director Keith Hickey Photo Jake Bacon Rachel Gibbons

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Contributors Peter Friederici, MacKenzie Chase, MacKenzie Brower, Mike Williams, Sabrina Proffitt, Nicole Walker, Max Cannon, Jen Sorensen, Jimmy Craig and Drew Fairweather.

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LETTER FROM HOME

The Red Hot Blues

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lickrock domes and washes of creamcolored sand, groves of tall pinon, blackbrush meadows—the long trail to Rainbow Bridge had not changed much, as far as I could tell, in the intervening more than 30 years. Not that I remembered it in much detail. When I first Peter visited the place I was a Friederici newbie to the Southwest, gobsmacked by the scale of mountains and plains, in love with the sensations of experiencing new landscapes. But I had few of the tools needed to understand them, like swelling familiarity with maps, a comprehension of geology or ecology, or simple exposure to the stories others told about them.

What I did remember, though, was that I copied the brilliant idea a friend had of strapping a bag of Red Hot Blues corn chips to the outside of his backpack. For a suburban midwestern kid raised in part on the mainstream junk foods of Doritos and PopTarts, the organic chips were themselves a revelation, an organic and tasty marker of tribal identity as accurate as Patagonia fleece jackets and Teva sandals. And so what I remember of the beginning of that longago hike is not just how the springtime desert was not hot or red at all, but rather blue in the wake of a clearing storm, with a dense smell of sage wafting everywhere—another sensation new to me—but also the distinct thwack a bungee cord makes when you use it to strap a plastic bag of chips onto a backpack just before setting out.

It’s funny the way memory works, chopping the continuous skein of existence into disconnected fragments that rest like coins in the safe deposit box where we keep the treasures of our past. I can round up those fragments from April 1990, the smell of sage, the cloudy spring sky, the look of bootprints on a muddy but drying trail, the body memory of rolling out my sleeping bag in a sandstone alcove in Bridge Canyon. I rub them together, trying to create a whole experience while knowing that too much handling probably changes them forever.

But other fragments slip clear definition, like the real reason I was so unfocused on the details of trail and landscape all those years ago. This was the presence of one of the other members of our group, a beautiful young woman whose gait and smile and eyes I can still recall vividly. Yes, I was in love, but our group backpacking trip came at just the 4 | flaglive.com | April 2022

lower part of the cliffs, though it was interrupted here and there by new deposits of darker desert varnish. Another turn and we came upon cliffs walls and tree trunks still thickly studded with the shells of dead quagga mussels.

Three of us finally had to speed-hike down around multiple canyon bends to find how far the water had withdrawn. It was a long way down, but finally there it was: a commit as much as I could to memory—not final stretch of quicksand, then the blue watime when I was realizing that the strength ter pooled in a bay. No boats, for they’d long the easy memory of photos, but intensive of my feelings was not enough to get me since stopped coming up Bridge Canyon. what I wanted. I was a friend, no more. And looks at the landscape, trying to imprint Time heals, they say, and like all truisms, patterns into my brain. so I spent much of the hike in one of the it is partly true: my long-ago love funk This, though, I did remember from that most continent’s most beautiful places in passed on, to be supplanted by a lasting long-ago trip: in 1990, a couple of friends a sort of daze, jockeying for a position next love, and by solid friendships like those and I walked down from the bridge to the to her on the trail, jealous of the attentions with my trail buddies. But it won’t heal of others. If what I wanted was red hot, all I dock that marked the edge of Lake Powell. everything. The hiker and outdoorsman This was a couple minutes’ stroll that left was coming away with was the blues. in me might be cheered by seeing Bridge us within sight of the natural bridge. Back Thirty-some years later our group is Canyon recovering from being drowned then, the great reservoir was almost full, made up of friends mainly my age, some and you could drive your houseboat up close under the weight of impounded water. But I’ve known a long time, some I’ve just met. enough so that you didn’t even need to dis- the dad and the citizen in me knows that a We’ve been through some storms, some lot of people rely on the diminishing Coloembark to see the bridge. worse than my lovelorn train funk back No more. I’d checked beforehand and had rado River, and that its shriveling is likely to then. The weather is oddly similar, as a leave us with a lot of really tough choices: a learned that Lake Powell, in mid-March, winter storm has just cleared away, leaving red-hot blues indeed. It’s not the way we’d white clots of snow in the blackbrush, pud- stood at 24 percent full. Just downstream choose to go. But one of the lessons of hikof Rainbow Bridge we could see the initial dles on the trail. And it’s cold as we make ing in canyon country is that sometimes the our way the first day to our camp at Surprise signs that showed where it had been—a subtle line of grasses along the old high-wa- place dictates for you where to go, leaving Valley. you with no options except one. And so, far I guess a benefit of the way memory works ter line, a bit of bleaching on the once-red boulders, a few remnant seep-willow or ar- downstream of Rainbow Bridge, with a long at times so inefficiently is that I can almost rowweed shrubs that only could have grown hike back to the trailhead ahead, we turned say I was seeing the place for the first time. back and headed upstream, the only way we The hidden slickrock canyons slicing down where there was water. But the water itself could go. was gone. from the snow-covered flanks of Navajo Further down, the signs grew more obMountain, the maze of red sandstone in the vious. Mooring cables still dangled from distance all the way to the Colorado River Peter Friederici is a writer and a former itinerant metal eyelets hammered into cliffs above and beyond, even the spectacular bridge field biologist and tour guide. In his spare time, he itself: had I really seen them before? Maybe our heads. The mineral “bathtub ring” directs the Master of Arts Program in Sustainable showed up, pale as baking soda, on the not really seen them. This time, I tried to Communities at Northern Arizona University.

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eta is a band that defies both description and borders. We’ve heard tell that their live shows are a wild and life-altering experience, one that combines prog rock, punk and Venezuelan music for an experience of profound joy and engagement. Founding member of Zeta, Dan Eduardo’s favorite fan characterization has them described as “the South American angry Pink Floyd,” so obviously we’re in love. We became even more in love when we found out that the band actively works against injustice and cultural and racial prejudices.

That right there folks, is punk music at its best. Art as resistance, nothing beats it. They also enjoy quoting José Martí, the ultimate daddy of anti-colonial effort and imperial resistance. So like, come on, you gotta love ‘em. Founded in a small Venezuelan town by the name of Lecheria in 2003, Zeta incorporates calypso, cumbia, salsa, bossa nova and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, combining those with raw punk elements that harken back to 1970s psychedelia. It’s a ride for the ears, buckle up. Zeta is also known for touring almost ceaselessly. A group of musical nomads, Zeta was on the road in the U.S. perpetually for about two years straight before they applied for citizenship because of how much they were in the country; we’re talking shows every single night of the week back then. And now too, actually, for “El Tour del Tiempo.” Take a look at their current lineup and you’ll see every night is booked back to back. Will they ever stop touring? Clearly not because on Friday, April 8, Zeta will also play at Flagstaff Brewing Company, 16 W Route 66. The show is free and begins at 9 p.m.

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» ONGOING | 4.1-4.10 ‌ BOOK SMART With almost two weeks of readings, panels, workshops, contests and more, the Northern Arizona Book Festival is back this month. Each literary event, of which there are so, so, so many, reflects the interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. Old favorites will return, including the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Drag Queen Story Time and more. Featured authors and speakers this year include Klee Benally, Ash Davidson, Deidra Peaches, Raquel Gutiérrez, folks from local small press Tolsun Books and so many more. Other events we’re excited about include but are certainly not limited to: BIPOC Open Mic Night at Flagstaff Brewing Company, 16 W Route 66, on Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m., the Local Small Presses Reading the same day at 3 p.m. via Zoom, the Diné College Faculty Showcase, featuring Jake Skeets, Shaina Nez and more at 10 a.m Sunday, April 10 on Zoom. and Indigenous Story Time at the Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N Fort Valley Rd., Saturday, April 9 at 11 a,m., which will feature Navajo artist Baje Whitethorne Sr. among others. NOAZBF begins March 31 and ends April 10, with venues both virtual and all across Flagstaff. For a full list of authors, events and locations, visit www.noazbookfest.org

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Everyone’s favorite van life-er is coming to town. Instagram-famous Brianna Madia has lived an unconventional life. Her social media showcases the ups and downs of van life, her own pack of dogs and her adventures into the canyons of Utah and deserts of Nevada. But, along the way, it also captured her tragedies from breakdowns in the hot desert to the breakdown of her marriage and a tragic accident. Madia recounts it all in her new book, Nowhere for Very Long. She’s stopping by Flagstaff’s (and our) favorite locally-owned, independent Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N. San Francisco St. on April 22 at 6 p.m. She’ll talk about life, adventure, dogs and writing before signing the book. Admission is $27 including the book or $5 without. Learn more and get tickets at www.brightsidebookshop.com/ event/store-author-event-brianna-madia. We’re really hoping she brings the dogs.

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The band Built to Spill, yes you heard that correctly, Built to Spill (one more time for the people in the back) is coming to Flagstaff. Thanks and everyone else too, for giving us such extra great shows to attend this year! The band formed in 1992 and as many know has cemented itself firmly into the Zeitgeist of the indie-rock era and all it stands for. With hits like “Cary the Zero” and “Liar,” Built to Spill has waxed and waned in popularity since the golden 90s (does anyone call them that? Probably not but whatever) but has managed to stay relevant somehow. They’ve come a long way since Doug Martsch first brought them together in Boise, Idaho, inspired by the success and sound of none other than Dinosaur Jr. and we’re pretty happy they have yet to fade out of the picture entirely. This one is for you, 90s kids, so roll up to the Orpheum Theater, 15 W Aspen Ave. on Sunday, April 24 at 8 p.m. and spill your heart out on the dancefloor. Actually, make sure to get there at 7 p.m. because that’s when the doors open and you shouldn’t miss openers Prism Bitch and Itchy Kitty, either. Tickets are $25 plus fees. For more information, visit www.orpheumflagstaff.com

» SUNDAY | 5.1 OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM… ERS MARKET After many, many, many months of sadness, the Flagstaff Community Market is back! Seriously, our lives are empty without the rich croissants from Noble Bread, our beloved Single Speed Coffee truck, fresh microgreens from Forestdale Farms and that guy selling fresh salmon hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean. The community market is a summer tradition that simply can’t be missed. Yes, we’re bummed we can’t bring dogs anymore, but every so often one of the goat cheese people brings a goat – and that more than makes up for the rover restrictions in our eyes. The market takes place in the parking lot next to City Hall, 211 W. Aspen Ave. every Sunday from May 1 through Oct. 30 starting at 8 a.m. Check out www.flagstaffmarket.com/ for more information.

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Transforming Flagstaff’s Viola Awards Annual ceremony changes more than just its venue SABRINA PROFFITT

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istorically, the Viola Awards, which honor Flagstaff artists, teachers and organizations, have been held at the High Country Conference Center, banquet style. At least, that was until the pandemic began, causing event organizers Creative Flagstaff (formerly Flagstaff Arts Council) to head back to the drawing board.

In 2021, the ceremony was held outside, with general admission tickets available for the very first time. This year, the team is taking pages from the past, and incorporating a new venue, new date, new award categories and a new panel selection process.

Last year’s Viola Awards were hosted at the Pepsi Amphitheater at Fort Tuthill County Park. The location made it possible for the community to come together amid the pandemic, so they could still celebrate the arts. As a result, more admission opportunities also became available for the public. While this wasn’t the primary reason for Creative Flagstaff to seek a different venue, the move did lead to exponential growth and change for the following year.

The 14th annual Viola Awards will take place at the Orpheum Theater. While the event is moving back inside, it’s incorporating bits and pieces from the prior year’s format. This time, instead of a single banquet, there are several ticket options. There will be a formal pre-party, main ceremony and after-party.

The pre-party will give attendees the opportunity to have a banquet-style meal if they’d like to stay traditional. The ceremony itself will have prorated seats based on location and will offer budget-friendly admission. After-party tickets can be purchased alongside ceremony tickets or on their own, allowing attendees to create their own package or bundle.

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Members of Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival embrace at the 2021 Viola Awards. This year’s ceremony will see several changes, including a new venue and categories.

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updating of the panelist selection process.

After a community stakeholder meeting in October 2021, Creative Flagstaff decided that all panelists must apply in order to join the board. While the team behind the Viola Awards has always sought to be fair, this step was a way they felt they could further prioritize fairness and fight biases.

“We did have a lot of returning panelists who have done it for years and are experts in the field but we were able to get new panelists,” Downing said. “People who hadn’t done it before but were eager to and excited to get involved.”

Brand new award categories such as Excellence in Collaboration and the Philanthropy Award were also added to the proverbial bill.

Jim Babbitt, who passed away in November 2021 will be honored at the event as the 2022 Legacy Award recipient. Babbitt was responsible for a $20,000 endowment to ensure the sustainability of the Viola Awards for years to come, as well as being a founding member of the ceremony.

“For Jim’s award video, we’ve been interviewing different people about his legacy,” Downing said. “People describe him as a quiet man who made a huge impact. He was humble, he did a lot for arts, culture and the sciences in this town. Downtown wouldn’t be the downtown it is without him. But he did it all very quietly, and they said that he loved Flagstaff fiercely and wants everyone to love Flagstaff as fiercely as he did.”

Even with a myriad of changes, the team behind the Viola Awards wants to celebrate the ever-consistent community that has remained resilient through hard years. The finalists were all chosen because of their dedication and accomplishments in the face of the pandemic.

“I would encourage the community to look up the finalists,” Downing said. “It’s amazing what‘s coming out of our community. Read about the list of finalists, see what they’re up to and get to know what’s happening here in Flagstaff.”

The list of finalists is one of prolific art-

ists, authors, musicians and many other notable and recognized creative individuals and groups from the community. Dark Sky Aerial’s Omen, reviewed by The New York Times, Ash Davidson’s debut novel Damnation Spring, about which Stephen King tweeted “Probably the best novel I’ll read this year,” are only a fraction of the major names and accomplishments included on this year’s list.

“Coming out of the last few years and everything we’ve been through as a community, it’s really impressive the caliber, impact, collaboration between different organizations, and how innovative everyone has been,” O’Meara said. “It’s not been an easy time for arts and culture, with funding and closing venues and everything. It’s also a celebration of the sustainability of this community and how strong they are. We should celebrate that.”

The Viola Awards will take place on Saturday, April 30 at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W Aspen Ave. To learn about the event, tickets and more, visit www.creativeflagstaff.org.

COLLEGE CHRONICLES

The gendered nature of luxury watches

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started to appreciate luxury watches a little more than a year ago.

For me, watches represent the inexplicable and beautiful human need to feel control in a chaotic universe, as we center our lives around the time that we created and continue to try to perfect.

The top luxury watch brands in the world include Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, IWC, Omega, Breitling and Rolex. It is often MacKenzie asked why a person would Brower spend thousands of dollars on these brands when something like a more affordable Apple Watch can accurately tell time. The value of a luxury watch lies in its mechanical movement, historical significance, fashion and design.

The invention of the mainspring is what enabled companies to start producing pocket watches that were portable and smaller in size. The mainspring is a spiraled metal ribbon that turns clock wheels as it unwinds.

Vacheron Constantin, founded in 1755, is the oldest manufacturer today and made the most complicated two-faced wristwatch in the world in 2005. Mechanical watches have hundreds to thousands of components, many made by hand.

Wristwatches were first worn by women.

According to Guinness World Records, the first wristwatch was made for Countess Koscowicz of Hungary by the Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe in 1868.

World War I made wristwatches fashionable for men. Until then they were seen as feminine and decorative. Watches had utilitarian value for aviation and military attacks, something that made its way into style back home as a way to show solidarity with the soldiers.

Hamilton was the official supplier to the U.S. military during WWI. For the past 100 years, Hamilton’s Khaki pilot’s watch has maintained its basic design with simple stainless steel and sapphire crystal.

In a 2013 interview, Hamilton’s CEO Sylvain Dolla told The New York Times, “that’s the beauty of it. The watches in 1917 and today are about accuracy and reliability.

They are the common point between now and then.”

Another impressive piece of history is Rolex’s 1927 advertising campaign that saw

the Oyster model submerged in water as swimmer Mercedes Gleitze traversed the 21 miles across the English Channel. The watch maintained perfect condition.

The current design of both men’s and women’s watches still shows its early purposes. Women’s watches are typically smaller, decorative, less accurate timepieces compared to men’s, which are durable and utilitarian.

Both align with stereotypical conceptions of femininity and masculinity. The feminine is sensitive and modest while the masculine is strong and assertive.

But many women want what is designated as men’s watch for a multitude of reasons. The classic style is versatile and contrasts well with other feminine fashion. It stands out with distinction and flair, making a statement that is powerful, bold and knowledgeable.

Men’s watches are also more durable, have more complexity and features, and a better caliber movement which gives them higher collectible value overall.

The modern fashion industry markets luxury brands, including watches, as a mode of personal expression and self-fulfillment.

Otto Von Busch in his book, Psychopolitics of Fashion, adds a layer of complexity to the idea of individualism in fashion, which he says is an illusion. He describes how we form an identity in relation to others and the “social emotions that drive our everyday dress practices and consumption.”

Busch explains peer comparison in fashion as a “social game.” He writes: “As I improve, I have ‘become myself’ just a bit more and better than others.”

So, even though we express ourselves through fashion, it is also social, imitative and dependent upon the look of others.

Taking this into consideration, we can better understand the gendered nature of watches. When women wear men’s watches, they feel powerful and knowledgeable because others perceive them as such.

Buying luxury watches is not just about telling time, it’s about buying the brand and the history of that brand, about genius engineering, about self-expression and perception, and — if you’re like me — about finding control in the chaos.

MacKenzie Brower is a photojournalist. She is passionate about cultural diversity, climate change and the environment. Her goal is to travel and see the world through the lens of her camera.

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MASTERS OF BREWALITY

Masters of Brewtality check out the new Dark Sky digs

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top whatever you’re doing right now and fall to your knees in praise of the beer gods, for they have seen it fit to bless we humble suds sippers with a brand new brewtopia next month! The mighty, mighty Dark Sky Brewing is finally opening its satellite patio next door to the original location on Saturday, May 7, and will be setting things off with a bacchanal the likes of which this town rarely sees.

First off, the details of the new spot! Total seatMIKE ing will accommodate WILLIAMS more than 250 people indoors and out, which is a blessing for any of us that hate waiting in line for more than ten seconds for a postwork beer. They’ll be serving all your favorite Dark Sky beers, supported by their brand spanking new production warehouse over on Old Route 66. Two new 20 BBL lager tanks, four 20 barrel fermenters, one 20 barrel bright tank, plus a 10-barrel brewhouse is making them one of the most high-end breweries in the state and that’s all getting funneled right back to downtown into our thirsty gullets.

Food is going to be provided by one of our favorite chefs, the possibly immortal Joe Rodgers. You might remember Joe from his early days at Shift and his newest venture promises to keep his mission of innovative and delicious cuisine going with the same enthusiasm that rocketed Shift to the upper echelon of Flagstaff’s fine dining scene. The Masters of Brewtality crew managed to sample some of the works-in-progress through theft and salvage, and we can say if it was that good cold and old, it’s going to be amazing refined and fresh. In all seriousness, the guy could season and fry three soggy paper towels from the bottom of a hospital dumpster and we’d probably choose that over most of our favorite childhood meals.

But, we’ll have to wait until May 7. Dark Sky’s Grand Opening Fest is going to be one for the record books. According to a brief internet search, adults between the ages of 22-64 should get a medical check-up every one to three years. We know exactly zero people who actually do that, but if you do, they’ll undoubtedly ask how many alcoholic drinks a week you consume. Be honest, they’re going to think your lie is horrible enough anyways.

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to tell them about it, too, because they need to know that your liver is a victor in one of the greatest battles against sobriety our species has ever waged.

The all-day hootenanny will feature live music (they’re still figuring out the line-up as of writing this, but we’re hoping they book the entire roster of this year’s Super Bowl plus the original line-up of Operation Ivy. *fingers crossed*) and a pop-up record shop from Puscifer. Anytime we see Puscifer, we always hope Maynard will somehow show up and dish terrible advice on whatever is going on. How cool would it be to be casually browsing through some sweet records and, suddenly, the singer from Tool is telling you to buy Michael Bolton’s B-sides collection? Done and done! There’ll also be a live mural painting by the one and only Teto, the same guy who did the sick astronaut on the side of the original Dark Sky storefront. Additional refreshments will be provided by Cider Corps, Crooked Tooth, Tombstone, Ska Brewing, Wren House, Superstition and the Beer Shop, making this as all-star of a drinking line-up as any true connoisseur could hope for. Finally, there’s a live screen printing exhibit honoring this momentous fest by Goodfella’s Merch out of Phoenix.

Prices start at $65 for general admission and VIP tickets are running $95. Before anyone loses it over the price, all proceeds are going to Dark Sky’s charity organization, making this wonderful day totally tax-deductible. Getting drunk on Uncle Sam’s dime? Count us in!

We’re just beyond stoked about this. As anyone will tell you, there’s something truly magical about a good, long patio drinking session during a Flagstaff summer. You’re hunkered down and huddled up all winter and then that warm weather starts creeping in and, suddenly, you’re surrounded by friends you haven’t seen in months laughing your head off. And whenever you can add yet another option to the patio roster, those good times are just going to keep on keeping on.

Cheers from the Masters of Brewtality crypt, see you in the sun!

Mike Williams (your titular Master of Brewtality) is a humble tattoo artist, egotistical writer, relentless beer drinker, unrepentant Hellraiser and connoisseur of all things Doom Metal. You can find him slinging ink at Flagstaff Tattoo Company or at some bar downtown.

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‘We Are Better Together’ Children’s book illustrator Stevie Lewis takes on climate change and living simply

MACKENZIE CHASE hortly after moving to Flagstaff, Stevie Lewis came across a curious sight while exploring her new surroundings.

“I happened upon an old burn area up on the 180 and I saw all these trees that were planted in these tiny little orange cones,” she said, describing a reforestation technique used by the U.S. Forest Service in areas damaged by fire or over-harvesting. “I remember taking some photos, being like, ‘Oh, this is an interesting image I’ve never seen before.’ I just wasn’t aware of those practices until that moment.”

Little did she know at the time, Lewis would draw from those photos several years later when she was approached to illustrate We Are Better Together, a children’s book written by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, forthcoming from Macmillan Publishers on April 22, 2022.

The book takes a compassionate approach to big issues that impact everyone regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status and political beliefs. From solar power and wildlife recovery to following Leave No Trace principles, readers of all ages will appreciate the rich palettes used to demonstrate how working together benefits the planet.

“I had to do a lot of research on climate change approaches, preventative tactics and, in that example, replanting and regrowing our forests,” Lewis said. “There were a few pages that I struggled with, and this happens from time to time on every book project that I’m on, but it’s really up to the illustrator to interpret [the text] in whatever way they see as creatively fit.”

And her characters are reflective of the diverse world in which we live, with many drawn from people Lewis knows in real life.

“I’m really conscious about including a wide variety of different colors, shapes and sizes. Maybe it’s just second nature because I want to see more books that are inclusive,” she said. “Being Asian American, I often read books as a kid that weren’t representative of me and what I look like.”

While Lewis has been illustrating children’s books for the past eight years, her education is in animation, with 12 years of experience under her belt. However, she made the decision to step away from her full-time job at DreamWorks Animation and focus on herself following intense burnout and the impending closure of the studio’s northern California office where she had been working.

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“The timing just sort of worked out to where I had been wanting to travel and really just do it while I’m young, I guess. So I quit my job in 2015 and moved into my car and didn’t really have an end goal,” Lewis said. “It wasn’t like, ‘I’m going to do this for a year and then I’m going to go back to my life.’ It just sort of became the norm and I took it day by day.”

The flexibility of illustration allowed her to continue working on the road without the strict deadlines and heavy workload that led to her burning out in animation. She was able to create her own schedule while she traveled around the country, hiking and rock climbing in some of the country’s most picturesque locations.

She is intentional in the way she incorporates these experiences in her art whenever possible, allowing viewers a peek into how life can be lived if we just slow down and take the time to work with nature rather than against it, listen to our body’s needs and nurture it rather than pushing it to its physical and mental limits.

So how can we be kinder to ourselves?

Be more compassionate to ourselves to not get burned out on trying to do better for the earth?

I don’t know the answer, but I think the way to approach it is with compassion.”

Now back at DreamWorks in a remote position and continuing to illustrate on the side, Lewis and her partner are preparing to return to their full-time nomadic lifestyle at the end of this month with her two 12-yearold Maltese, Tigger and Kiki, along for the ride.

We Are Better Together helped put some things into perspective for Lewis. Despite the frustration and guilt of being a consumer when corporations continue to produce packaging that isn’t accepted by recycling programs, she hopes books like this and decades of advocacy building upon itself will encourage others to shift their mindsets and lead to change.

“Reading Bill’s work, a lot of his non-

fiction work, it can be very depressing, honestly,” Lewis said. “How do you take that and translate it to inspire children in a positive way versus making it feel like there’s no hope?

“I used to always make myself feel really bad, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I took like this really long shower,’ or, ‘We’re driving around a gas-guzzling van and living in it, living

the dream, but at the same time I’m leaving a huge impact.’ But at the end of the day, am I? Because I didn’t have a house at the time and I wasn’t using all these other resources. So how can we be kinder to ourselves? Be more compassionate to ourselves to not get burned out on trying to do better for the earth? I don’t know the answer, but I think the way to approach it is

with compassion.”

We Are Better Together is scheduled for release on Earth Day, April 22, through Macmillan Publishers. Copies can be purchased locally at Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N. San Francisco St. Learn more about the illustrator at www.chocosweete.com or @chocosweete on Instagram, and the author at www.billmckibben.com.

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NICOLE’S IMPOSSIBLY POSSIBLE IDEAS

They say communism is impossible

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few weeks ago, I drove through Orderville, Utah on the way to give a reading at BYU. Orderville was, for a while, a fully cooperative town. Based on a tenet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that members should all give the church 10 percent of their income for the general benefit of others, the town of Orderville established a cooperative grocery store where all farmed goods and made products were donated to the store. People came in Nicole Walker and exchanged what they had to give for what they needed.

Orderville doesn’t operate exactly like that anymore, but unlike other small towns that I drive through on my way to Provo and Salt Lake, it’s hanging in there. There are apple orchards and little cabins you can rent among the trees. There’s a zipline and a trout farm. In my imagination, the apple farmers and trout fishers still share their

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harvests while zipping across the Virgin River, then sitting around the campfire by the little cabins.

Communism has been denounced as an impossible dream. Even socialism, the

benign brother of communism, is seen as anathema by a large number of Americans.

People bristle at the thought. Turn defensive. Start calling you names like Stalin and Nazi. Words hurt, apparently. The resistance seems to be that we shouldn’t give our hard-earned work and dollars to ‘the man.’

The man, in this case, is the government.

But we seem pretty comfortable giving our hard-earned dollars to A Man. On the drive through Orderville, I was listening to Lily King’s Euphoria, a book about three anthropologists in a love triangle while studying Indigenous people in New Guinea.

The anthropologists, in the midst of a community of Tam people, get down to work, sorting people by type—Northern people are aggressive, Southern people are chill.

Eastern people are spiritual and Western people interested in the mind. So you can figure yourself a Northern Western kind of person. Or Southern, Eastern.

The Nazis, in the book, took this compass of personality type to augment their whiteis-right philosophies. The idea fails when it’s obvious our two narrators, Nell Stone and Andrew Bankson, are a better match than Nell’s actual husband, Fen. After Fen commits a heinous act, the three flee the Tam. As Nell and Fen, abandoning Bankson, wait for the boat to take them from Sidney back to New York, Fen makes an astute statement when Nell lists the troubles that will come for the Tam and other peoples along the Sepik River. The rubber, the ore, the minerals will be taken from this land and sent to the “North” for wealth-building.

Braxton turns his head at the statement. Fen says something to the effect of, “Ah, never

talk to the British about what the colonized start talking about where the money comes from.” It was funny to think of Nell, a white American and Fen, a white Australian, as extensions of British Colonies, but, in a way, they are. The English frown at talking about where the money comes from because it’s not a pleasant story. It comes from the work and exploitation of people and land.

It made me think of the BBC drama Downton Abbey. I remember the outside shots of the manor. The inner workings of the upstairs/downstairs economic system are on display but we never know where the funds originally came from to build that estate. To buy that land. To the manor born is our understanding of how wealth systems worked in England. I think of a brick in that manor house and recognize each one was built by someone who gave their time and work to it. Each brick was baked and transported, set and mortared by people who will never live in that house. Capitalism is a kind of socialism in the way feudalism is a kind of socialism. You give your work to A Man. He lives in the house. You send another brick, or engine part for a private airplane or fiberglass for a yacht to your feudal lord, be it Bezos, Trump, Gates or Musk.

Say the word “communism” and all the “big government tears” start falling: “How can I trust the government with my money?

One day the government wants to build a school. Another day they say the government wants to build a park! Why should we build a park? We have plenty of grass in our backyard.”

Somehow, it’s a lot more palpable to give your money to A Man and the manor. Perhaps we’re proud of the work we see in the lay of the castle, the layers of fiberglass on the yacht. “Look at my brick!” we say from your hut on the edge of the manicured gardens. It would be great if the lords joined us in celebrating that brick but they can’t.

They’re too busy on the inside of the manor, making sure we keep helping to build his castle instead of our parks and schools, charting out treatises about why socialism, at least the kind where the money doesn’t go to him and his castle and yacht and manor, is an entirely impossible idea.

Nicole Walker is the author of seven books, most recently Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. The words here are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of her employer.

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Theatrikos Theatre Company’s Steel Magnolias. A group of southern ladies in small-town Louisiana face life’s challenges together. Fridays-Sundays through April 17. Proof of vaccination upon entry is required. $18-$24. 11 W Cherry Ave.

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Harvest: A night of poetry and jazz music. Free. Signup at 9:30 p.m., show at 10 p.m. 16 E Route 66.

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Yucca North: BONNIE X CLYDE. Get ready to dance. 9 p.m. $20. 15 N WC Riles St.

2022 Northern Arizona Book Festival. April 1-10. In-person Pineo & Loeb. Canadian electronic DJ duo. With House and online readings, panels and events. Author lineup and music makers CHKLZ. 9 p.m. 23 N Leroux St. event details at www.noazbookfest.org.

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Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival. $4-41. 15 W Aspen Ave.

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Museum of Northern Arizona:

Northern Arizona Book Festival. Indigenous Story Time.

11 a.m. Abalone Mountain Press presents Taté Walker and Yucca North: Boderra Joe. 12 p.m. Maker activity with author Amber McFranks & Deans with The Surfside IV and Critical Miss. 8 p.m. Crary. 1 p.m. Free. 3101 N Fort Valley Rd. Free. 15 N WC Riles St. Flagstaff Brewing Company: Museum Club: BIPOC Open Mic Night. Part of the Northern Arizona Book Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. Festival. Sign up at www.noazbookest.org. 8 p.m. 16 W Route 66.

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Brews & Cues:

High Country Humane Art Show Fundraiser hosted by Flagstaff Crafters Guild. 11665 N. U.S. Highway 8. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Buffalo Park:

Brews & Cues Movie Night. A new movie every Thursday. McMillan Mesa Community Celebration. With Aspen Dirt Band and Tha Yoties. 11 a.m. Free. 2400 N Gemini Rd. The Dark Knight. 8 p.m. 3 S Beaver St. 779-0079

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of Bob Dylan, and proposing a interdisciplinary approach to artistic practice. Free. Masks required. 7:30 p.m. 719 N VARIOUS EVENTS MUSIC EVENTS Humphreys St. Visible Difference: Museum Club: Museum Club: Urban Sketchers. Five-day workshop. Mondays. April 18-May Bucked Up Tour featuring Moonshine Bandits. 7-11 p.m.

Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 16. 3-5 p.m. $85. 116 S Beaver St. 774-3349.

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3404 E. Rte. 66 Museum Club: VARIOUS EVENTS VARIOUS EVENTS Orpheum Theater: Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 Brews & Cues: E. Rte. 66.

Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival. $4-41. 15 W Aspen Ave. Thursday Movie Night. The Other Guys. 8 p.m. 3 S Beaver Mon/4.11 St. 779-0079 Tue/4.19 MUSIC EVENTS Fri/4.15 MUSIC EVENTS Orpheum Theater: MUSIC EVENTS Orpheum Theater: OhGeesy. With Pressa, Dub The Million Dollar Baby and Tre Orona. $27 general admission. Doors 6:30 p.m. Show Ardrey Memorial Auditorium: Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters. With Fran Moran & 7:30 p.m. 15 W Aspen Ave. Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra Earth Day Celebration Con- The Nervous Wrecks. $30 ahead of time, $33 day of show.

VARIOUS EVENTS cert. 7:30 p.m. $9.50-$75. 1115 S Knoles Dr. Doors 7 p.m. Show 8 p.m. 15 W Aspen Ave. Museum Club: Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge: VARIOUS EVENTS Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 The Radolescents. Punk legends featuring Rikk Agnew of Sunwest Bank: E. Rte. 66.

Christian Death and Casey Royer of D.I. 9 p.m.

Thu/4.21 MUSIC EVENTS Gopher Hole: CHASS. Dubstep. $10. 9 p.m. 23 N Leroux St. Museum Club: Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free.

3404 E. Rte. 66 VARIOUS EVENTS Downtown Flagstaff: Taco Crawl. Four participating downtown restaurant chefs and bartenders will be showcasing their creations with a tasting size portion paired with a drink. There will be 30 minutes to eat and 10 minutes to transition to the next location. $50. 5-8 p.m. Meet at Heritage Square. E Aspen Ave. Brews & Cues: Thursday Movie Night. Hook. 8 p.m. 3 S Beaver St. 779-0079 Clifford White Theater: NAU Department of Theater presents Our Town through April 24. $10. 7:30 p.m.

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Theatrikos Theatre Company improv workshop. Play Improv MUSIC EVENTS games in a safe, supportive environment. Free. 1-2:30 p.m.

MUSIC EVENTS Orpheum Theater: Yucca North: 121 E. Birch Ave. Prochnow Auditorium: Arise Roots. Reggae from Los Angeles, with guest Kyle Reel Rock 16. The latest epic climbing films. Must show Prochnow Auditorium: Smith. $18 advance, $20 day-of. 7 p.m.

Wallows. Alternative indie from L.A. Free for NAU students proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test 72 hours with ID. $25 general admission. 7-11 p.m. 326 W. Dupont Ave. prior to the event. $22. Doors 5:30 p.m. Show 6:30 p.m. 15 Medical Apartheid and Race with award-winning author Orpheum Theater: W Aspen Ave. Harriet Washington. 7-9 p.m. 317 W. Dupont Ave. Mountain Jam DJ Competition. A panel of three judges will Charly’s: score DJs by difficulty of performance, phrasing, musicality, Museum Club: Cline Library: Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up use of technology and crowd reactions. 7 p.m. 15 W Aspen Ave. of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 CAL/SBS Film Series. Into the Wild. 7 p.m. 1001 Knoles Dr. VARIOUS EVENTS Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. select drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic bottles, $4 Bright Side Bookshop: import bottles $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Orpheum Theater: Wed/4.20 Brianna Madia author of Nowhere for Very Long. $27 with 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Dar Williams. Folk. $27 general admission. Doors 6:30 p.m. book, $22 without book. 6 p.m. 18 N San Francisco St. Show 7:30 p.m. 15 W Aspen Ave. MUSIC EVENTS Sat/4.16 Flagstaff High School: Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge: Yucca North: MUSIC EVENTS FHS Powwow. Grand entry 7 p.m. 400 W Elm Ave. Raised on TV. 9:30 p.m. 100 N San Francisco St. Bad Cop/Bad Cop. Punk from Los Angeles.

7 p.m. $18 in Museum Club: Orpheum Theater: VARIOUS EVENTS advance, $20 day-of. 15 N WC Riles St. Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 select ZOSO: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience. $20. Doors Drinking Horn Mead Hall: drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic bottles, $4 import bottles 6:30 p.m. Show 7:30 p.m. 15 W Aspen Ave. Charly’s: $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. 66.

Flagstaff Brewing Company: Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up Sat/4.23 Brews & Cues: Ultraviolet Communication with special guest Metropolis of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every MUSIC EVENTS Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for Man. Free. 9 p.m. 16 E Route 66.

Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. the grand prize. Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Yucca North: Yucca North: VARIOUS EVENTS Beaver St. Warsaw Poland Bros with guests The Originals. 7:30 p.m.

SoDown. A mixture of electronic subgenres. 8 p.m. $15 for Drinking Horn Mead Hall: Museum Club: $12 advance, $15 day-of. 15 N WC Riles St. the early birds. 15 N WC Riles St. Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. 66. VARIOUS EVENTS VARIOUS EVENTS E. Rte. 66.

High Country Conference Center: Brews & Cues: Willow Bend Environmental Education Center: Adult Mountain Spelling Bee. 25th annual bee hosted by Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for the Literacy Center. $55. Includes dinner. 5:30 p.m. 201 W Thu/4.14 Adult workshop: Food fermentation for health and flavor. the grand prize. Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Butler Ave. MUSIC EVENTS $30 for the general public, $25 for Willow Bend members.

Beaver St. Flagstaff High School: Must sign up in advance. 703 E Sawmill Rd. 779-1745.

KickStand Cafe: Museum Club: FHS Powwow. Grand entry 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. 400 W Elm Ave. Never Ending Artist. An improvisation performance by Is- The HeArt Box:

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abella Heigl (painting) and Agustín Castilla-Ávila (electric Art of Intention, Bravery Mandala Workshop with Jill Sans. Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 guitars) inspired by the songwriting and philosophy $75. 12-4 p.m. 17 N. San Francisco St. E. Rte. 66.

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Sun/4.24 MUSIC EVENTS Museum Club: Carvin Jones. Blues. 5-9 p.m. 3404 E. Route 66 Orpheum Theater: Built to Spill. With Prism Bitch and Itchy Kitty. $25. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. 15 W Aspen Ave.

Mon/4.25 VARIOUS EVENTS

Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for VARIOUS EVENTS the grand prize. Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Orpheum Theater: Beaver St. NAU 2022 Student Film Festival. 6 p.m. Tickets to main event $9.50, main event plus after-party tickets, $13.50.

Museum Club: Museum Club: Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 select drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic botE. Rte. 66. tles, $4 import bottles $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Thu/4.28

Mon/5.2

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Charly’s:

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VARIOUS EVENTS

Museum Club:

Museum Club:

Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 14th Annual Viola Awards. The Viola Awards are back with new panelists, a new venue and new ticket options. More 3404 E. Rte. 66 info at www.creativeflagstaff.org.

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Wed/4.27 MUSIC EVENTS

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MUSIC EVENTS Thursday Movie Night. Top Gun. 8 p.m. 3 S Beaver St. 779- Orpheum Theater: Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up Marcus King. 25-year-old guitar and songwriting, blues and of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every 0079. rock phenom. With guest Hannah Wicklund. $25. Doors at Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. Fri/4.29 6 p.m., show at 7 p.m. 15 W. Aspen Ave. VARIOUS EVENTS VARIOUS EVENTS MUSIC EVENTS Drinking Horn Mead Hall: Flagstaff City Hall: Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. 66. Museum Club: Community Market. 8 a.m.-noon. Every Sunday through Creed Fisher. 7-11 p.m. 3404 E. Route 66.

Brews & Cues: Oct. 30. Free. 211 W. Aspen Ave. Charly’s:

VARIOUS EVENTS Museum Club: Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Wed/5.4 MUSIC EVENTS Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. VARIOUS EVENTS Drinking Horn Mead Hall: Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. 66.

Brews & Cues: Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for the grand prize. Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Beaver St. Museum Club: Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

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