MARKERS & MISCHIEF: The Art of Resistance Plus the Rise Up, Sing Out national concert livestream

Feeling fired up? Feeling overwhelmed? Feeling both?

Pull up a chair and join 🟣🐮The Arizona Maverick🟣🐮 and our partners, 🐦‍⬛AZRF🛡️ and 💙❤️East Valley Unite🤝🏼 , for an afternoon of art-ivism, cartoons, comics, satire, creativity, music, and community.

We’ll be turning current events into cartoons, transforming frustration into art, and exploring how creativity and humor can challenge authoritarianism, strengthen democracy, and help us stay connected during turbulent times.

-🎨 Cartooning, comic- and art-making

-🐄 Collaborative creative activities

-🏆 Prizes

-🖼️”Best Art” and “Best Worst Art” will appear in upcoming issues of The Arizona Maverick and on the Zine website!

-🎵 “The Rise Up, Sing Out” concert livestream

-🍴🥤Food and beverages (with vegan options)

🤝 Community, conversation, and connection

No artistic talent required! Seriously. Stick figures are welcome.

Hosted at the historic Baseline Flowers, this gathering also features the opportunity to learn about the site’s rich history, including Japanese-American experiences in Phoenix, their relevance to today, and the cultural traditions of flower growing as art forms and expressions of resilience and resistance.

Come create. Come laugh. Come connect. Come leave with fresh inspiration and a few new friends.

Subscribe, volunteer for the Editorial Collective or our protests/events, and/or or pitch an article, art, cartoon or other content to The Maverick Zine!

The Arizona Maverick an all-volunteer, non-profit. Please donate a few bucks, if you’re able.

About the Rise Up, Sing Out livestream: On June 14, the Committee for the First Amendment will be hosting Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment, an uplifting evening of song, solidarity, and action. Featuring an all-star line-up of performers, this 90-minute concert event will celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment—of speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest—and the people power that both fuels these rights and is essential to guarantee them.

*** Please note: this event is free (Of course!), but there are limited spaces due to the special venue.

A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.