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Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, University Rotary, Wells Fargo, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw's programs.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Foster High School Poets on KBCS

Jack Straw Productions, Foster High School, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio present

Stories of Arrival

Seattle Poet and 2008 Jack Straw Writer Merna Ann Hecht worked with Foster High School students from around the world to write poems about their experiences for a project titled Stories of Arrival, produced with support from The Voices Education Project in Seattle; The Institute for Poetic Medicine; Bread for the Journey; The Tukwila School District; the Tukwila Arts Commission; the Washington State Arts Commission; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In August 2010 KBCS Community Radio will broadcast the Stories of Arrival poems Monday through Friday all month.

See our Stories of Arrival page for details.

Foster student Zakariya Omar with Jack Straw teaching artist Maria Glanz

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Jack Straw Audio Workshops

Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to jump start that recording project you've been thinking about, to refine your digital editing skills, or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing. For more information email workshops@jackstraw.org.

Basic Field Recording	Saturday, August 21, 9am - 5pm
Intro to ProTools	Wednesday - Friday, August 25-27, 6 - 10pm

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Thinking Caps

by Vaughn Bell

June 18 - August 27, 2010

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle 98105

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 - 5

In this installation Vaughn Bell suggests a mountain landscape made for urban conditions. Four mountains, arranged in an orderly manner, each offer sounds of water, ice, or other elements of a mountainous landscape. Passing through the gallery space and sitting within the interior of a mountain, the grand vista of landscape is brought to human scale, immediate and accessible. At the same time, this fabricated landscape is clearly fragile and ephemeral, made of paper and recorded sounds.

More information at our New Media Gallery page.

Artist of the Week Podcast

Each week we will make a new audio piece created through the Jack Straw Artist Program available for free download.

Subscribe at jackstraw.org/artistoftheweek, via itunes, or listen right here:

AYP Centennial

Jack Straw and Harriet Baskas present the Alaska Yukon Pacific Centennial Radio Project. Check it out!

Green ACRE Radio

Jack Straw and Martha Baskin have partnered on this weekly radio series on KBCS FM, focusing on Agriculture, conservation, restoration & environmental issues. Read about the series and listen to past episodes on the Green ACRE Blog.

Lake Union: Past & Present

Audio Clips and a video from our Lake Union Oral History project are now online! Listen here!

Blind Youth Program

The Seattle Channel features the Jack Straw Blind Youth Audio Program on its "Community Stories" Program. Watch the program online.

These podcasts feature interviews and readings by Jack Straw Writers such as Michael Spence, Merna Ann Hecht, and Wendy Call. Click here to listen.

Special Projects

Jack Straw Productions works with various organizations and communities to create oral histories, museum audio guides, and neighborhood audio tours. Click here to learn more.