MMOS provides space and opportunity for Arts to be at the center of public life, whether in celebration or in mourning.
We have been at the heart of the arts and culture scene since the 1990s.
When we began, there was a great need in our community for meaningful responses to grief and loss and also markers that were relevant for celebration and rites of passage.
Many Mouths One Stomach refers to the collective need in our community to be fed and the recognition that what feeds one may feed all.
We enact a ceremony where everyone’s wishes and losses are placed together in a sacred container and transformed by fire.
We discovered our work by doing the work and now our mission is to nurture festal culture and community-created ceremony without branding or co-opting by large corporate pressures.
Meet our Directors
Nadia Alev Hagen Onuktav/ Artistic Director grew up in NYC with her grandmother in the late 70’s. She spent the better half of the “80s traveling around the United States and exploring alternative social arrangements and artistic experiments.
in the late ‘90s , she facilitated the opening and running of underground warehouse art spaces and toured as a member of the infamous industrial music project Crash Worship.
In 1996, she formed her own ensemble, Then Tingari, a multi-disciplinary music and dance ensemble that innovated the model for The Annual All Souls Procession and Flam Chen Productions. Nadia is the Creatrix and Artistic Director for both these projects, in partnership with Technical Director, Paul Weir.
Her career spans over 30 years of performing, directing, and designing large public spectacles and events. She is currently part of the event production team at MSA Annex Festival grounds on Tucson’s Westside
Paul Weir/ Technical Director/ Board Member
Paul Weir grew up in New Orleans. He brings a background in mountaineering, Industrial Design and Butoh Dance to his work. He is a founding Board Member of MMOS.
He launched Daddy Long Legs Stilts in 2007, specializing in high-quality circus gear shipped to performers all over the world.
He is currently site manager for MSA Annex, a multi-use retail and performing arts center on Tucson’s West side.
To-Ree-Nee Wolf /Attendant and Ambassador Spirit Groups
To-Ree-Nee Wolf is an award winning multidisciplinary Renaissance Woman who has contributed to the cultural landscape of the Southwest for more than three decades. As a muralist, mosaic artist and gifted Singer-songwriter, To-Ree-Nee is known for her love of bright bold colors and her inventive use of mixed media.
Photographer at Voices Of Race and Photographer at What White People Think
Tucson-based portrait and event photographer. Mom of a wonderful adult son.
Her intention is to continuously evolve and help out where she can.
Born in Sonora Mexico. Grew up on the west side of Tucson. She has been teaching elementary and middle school in Tucson, AZ for over 15 years, working for Sunnyside School District for many years, and now with TUSD as an English Language Development teacher.She loves helping and connecting with people.
“I have always found myself planning fun and memorable events in and out of my professional life. Seeing people’s smiling faces when having a good time at an event brings the most joy to my heart.”
Sage Graham is a multidisciplinary artist and community builder.
A transplant from Charleston, South Carolina where she helped found The Charleston Guild of Puppeteers, organized The Charleston Zine Fest, and ran subversive DIY performance art events out of her home and the occasional warehouse. She is looking forward to helping foster a nurturing artistic community in her new home.
Allison Dee/ Director Ghost Buskers
Allison Dee is a stilt-artist, mermaid, tarot reader, and health educator. Raised on a steady diet of Mummenschanz and Muppets, Allison is at home among the whimsical and surreal. From the intimacy of coffeehouse storytelling to the dazzle of larger-than-life festivals and parades, Allison delights in the sacred connection between art and audience, and the blurring of which is which.
