Postponed until Saturday April 23, 2022
Mil-Tree’s mission is to bring Veterans, Active Duty and Civilians together through arts and dialogue to help transform the wounds of war. Our vision is to provide safe space for veterans returning to civilian life so that they may gather, express, themselves and tell their stories in a non-judgmental environment. We do this through ongoing creative programs that engage veterans and their families, active military and the greater community.
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The Performers
Kevin Bone
Wonder Valley: A Home For The Holidays
Kevin fell into theater by way of the long-running “Point Break Live” in Los Angeles (stage manager). From there he started creating and producing his own shows, including a short play and music series called “There in Ten”.
Abe Daniels
Full Circle
Abe has been in love with Joshua Tree for 15 years. Originally from Arizona, where he spent his childhood with his grandparents in their adobe house, being in Joshua Tree was like coming back home. While in Joshua Tree he and his husband, JR, opened the Wind Walkers pottery and native American jewelry store where they aided travels on their journey for over 10 years.
Skyler Fell
Come Ride Into The West
Skyler Fell, accordionist, lead singer, and horsewoman is the owner and proprietor of the Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop, which has served as a hub of the West Coast accordion revival for over 20 years. Skyler’s work in the traditional craft of accordion repair was featured on NPR’s Squeezebox Stories. She is also a horseback trail guide in the Joshua Tree National Park through Knob Hill Ranch.
Barbara Gothard, Ph.D.
I’m A Contradiction
From modest Illinois roots, Gothard aspires to utilize her creative potential in a contemporary art form that is associated with the unconscious mind. She lives, works and is influenced by her ever-changing desert environment, a soft malleable and metamorphic dwelling space surrounded by majestic mountains awash in brilliant colors.
Chakra Kahn
Creosote Tea
Chakra is a San Diego Native, married mother of 3 wildlings, and a happy high desert transplant of the past 4 years. She's a real witch, and ghost wrangler and will offer to read your tarot cards as quickly as she'll offer you a glass of water on a hot dry desert day.
Josh Kjerstad
First and Last
Josh is the singer/songwriter of the Clouds, a band he started less than a year after moving to Joshua Tree in March of 2006. He recently participated in the Open Studio Tours, showing several of his etched and carved art glass pieces.
Hamid Moazzam
Everything Is Connected
Hamid was born in a mystical Persia, the youngest and last of seven children. I started my adulthood journey of my life when I left my hometown and family, arriving in California after high school to attend college. One thing led to another “which is a story by itself “ and I landed in one of my most favorite places Joshua tree and I’m still here twenty some years later.
Renee Asher Pickup
Finding Home
Renee Asher Pickup is a Marine Corps vet and mellowed out punk living in Southern California. Renee writes fiction about bad things happening to flawed people, nonfiction that is critical of the status quo, and truly believes From Dusk Till Dawn changed her life. Her novel with Andrez Bergen: Black Sails, Disco Inferno is available now from Open Books.
Luis J. Rodriguez
From Our Land to Our Land
Luis J. Rodriguez is an award-winning multi-genre writer of 16 books, including a bestselling memoir, "Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." and the sequel "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions & Healing." He served as Los Angeles Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2016.
Nell St. John
Skysonic Symphony
Josh is the singer/songwriter of the Clouds, a band he started less than a year after moving to Joshua Tree in March of 2006. He recently participated in the Open Studio Tours, showing several of his etched and carved art glass pieces.
Cheryl Montelle
Co-Producer, Director and Host
Cheryl Montelle is thrilled to host and curate Mil-Tree’s second online spoken word fundraiser. She is a writer whose stories have been published in anthologies and magazines, and performed in Los Angeles, Joshua Tree and New York City. She created and hosted Desert Stories at the HDCC for 12 years, 14 shows. She has also produced similar shows in New York City and Los Angeles. Cheryl loves bringing community together and in 2012 she founded the veteran/ community non-profit, Mil-Tree. For more information go to mil-tree.org.
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