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Alicia Chesser

Hi I'm Alicia Chesser
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tulsa, art, visual art, indigenous, bipoc, women, 2-spirit Tulsa

Tradition As Transmission

What if we thought about traditions as active, living things—less like ossified forms and more like natural organisms?

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Alicia Chesser
17 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
tulsa, dance, ballet, vampires, dracula, tulsa ballet, houston ballet Tulsa

The Vampire Business Is Booming

Tulsa Ballet's "Dracula" plays it straight. But that cape is fabulous.

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Alicia Chesser
8 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
tulsa, music, experimental, west tulsa Tulsa

The Soothing Sounds Of Gonkulation

Ten bucks got me a whole night of creative laboratory action, a few new pals, and—as usual—a fresh appreciation for the mischievous, investigative, risk-taking chops of the friendly artists who gather around the One Aux cable.

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Alicia Chesser
25 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K Tulsa

Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K

Tulsa Ballet: Creations In Studio K Tulsa Ballet Sept. 14, 2024 Blink and you’ll miss it: the moment when, at the end of one of the most irresistible duets

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Alicia Chesser
20 Sep 2024 · 5 min read
“Waitress” Cooks Tulsa

“Waitress” Cooks

Theatre Tulsa: “Waitress” Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 8, 2024 Fair warning: I’m going to exercise about as much restraint in my use of cooking-related metaphors in this

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Alicia Chesser
13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
“Shorts” In The Round Thinks Outside The Box Tulsa

“Shorts” In The Round Thinks Outside The Box

Heller Shorts: Kick Off Your Shorts! Notion Coffee Tulsa Sept. 1, 2024 I went a bunch of places last Sunday afternoon: a backyard garden, a courtroom, a roadside diner with

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Alicia Chesser
6 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown ​“Fiddler” Has It All Tulsa

Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown ​“Fiddler” Has It All

TPAC Produces: Fiddler On The Roof Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa August 18, 2024 “I didn’t know Tulsa theatre could do that.” It’s a sentence I regularly hope

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Alicia Chesser
25 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Living Memory Tulsa

Living Memory

“Living” Living Arts of Tulsa Tulsa Through Aug. 24, 2024 I’m not sure how, growing up in the Tulsa burbs, I got so obsessed with the fringes of art.

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Alicia Chesser
2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Land Back, Language Back: Osage Poetic Forms Tulsa

Land Back, Language Back: Osage Poetic Forms

𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Tulsa Through Aug. 10 Standing in 𐓏𐒰𐒿𐒷́𐓒𐒷 (Markings): 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰́𐓓𐒷 𐒻́𐒷 poetic forms, the current exhibit at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship space, I feel as though

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Alicia Chesser
29 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
The City Belongs To Us: Emergent Futurism In A Downtown Parking Garage Tulsa

The City Belongs To Us: Emergent Futurism In A Downtown Parking Garage

Downtown Parking Garage Concert Series: “Super Imposed” 100 W. 1st St. Tulsa July 11, 2024 What’s the point of a downtown parking garage after all the workers go home

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Alicia Chesser
19 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice Tulsa

Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice

Pembroke Players: Pride & Prejudice 101 Archer Tulsa June 1, 2024 I couldn’t have been more charmed by an invitation if Mr. Darcy had delivered it to me himself.

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Alicia Chesser
9 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
“Lucky Bubby” Inspires A Feast Of A Show Tulsa

“Lucky Bubby” Inspires A Feast Of A Show

June Kosloff: “Recipes For Life: The Lucky Bubby Cookbook” Positive Space Tulsa May 4, 2024 Quietly but persistently, Positive Space has become one of Tulsa’s most vital art spaces,

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Alicia Chesser
12 May 2024 · 5 min read
“With A Side Of Ranch”: Big Bite’s Effervescent Encore Tulsa

“With A Side Of Ranch”: Big Bite’s Effervescent Encore

Big Bite Food Festival Gateway Event Center April 20, 2024 I’m only a little bit embarrassed about the noise I made in public when I put Antoinette Bakery’s

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Alicia Chesser
28 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Tripping The Light Stochastic: Adventures In Ambient Noise Tulsa

Tripping The Light Stochastic: Adventures In Ambient Noise

ONE AUX: A Night Of Ambience Noise Town April 17, 2024 If you’ve never spent a Wednesday night sitting on a floor in West Tulsa listening to experimental ambient

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Alicia Chesser
26 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
“We Have Arrived”: Envisioning Sovereign Futures Tulsa

“We Have Arrived”: Envisioning Sovereign Futures

Sovereign Futures Various locations April 4 – 7, 2024 Sovereign Futures, a multi-day program from the University of Tulsa, brought artists, academics, and others together for performances, exhibits, communal meals, chartered

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Alicia Chesser
15 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Collaging A Queer Future Full Of Rowdy Joy Tulsa

Collaging A Queer Future Full Of Rowdy Joy

Bradford Lovett: “Myths & Hymns” The Parlour Tulsa March 21, 2024 In Bradford Lovett ’s Gaythering at the Fam Farm, a disembodied hand reaches down from the sky with a

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Alicia Chesser
31 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Clear-Eyed Humanity In Two New Plays Tulsa

Clear-Eyed Humanity In Two New Plays

Heller Theatre Company: Double Feature Lynn Riggs Theatre Tulsa March 8, 2024 What does it mean to be “good”? Two new plays presented by Heller Theatre Company last weekend raised

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Alicia Chesser
17 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
House Packed For Musical Science Theater Tulsa

House Packed For Musical Science Theater

David Alan Broome: “Music Of The Senses” LowDown March 9, 2024 I never thought I’d see an overflow crowd show up for an experimental music gig in Tulsa, but

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Alicia Chesser
14 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
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