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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, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.


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4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98105

UPCOMING EVENTS

2009 ARTIST RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOW!
See the applications page for details.

KUOW - Sound Focus: REBECCA HOOGS 
Monday, September 8, 2pm

The poetry of 2008 Jack Straw Writer Rebecca Hoogs will be featured on KUOW's Sound Focus on Monday, September 8.
Rebecca Hoogs is the author of a chapbook, Grenade, and her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Artist Trust. In 2007, she presented commissioned work at the Seattle Poetry Festival and The Roethke Readings, a presentation of the ACT Theatre. She is the Director of Education Programs for Seattle Arts & Lectures, and is the curator for its Poetry Series.

Photo Credit: Momo Io

Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, click here.

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composer Forum present

Composer Spotlight:
Joshua Kohl & Jeff Huston

Creating the music for c(H)ord with inkBoat

Wed, September 10, 7:30pm

Joshua Kohl and Jeff Huston will discuss the process of creating the music for San Francisco-based dance theater company inkBoat's new work c(H)ord. The music for this project was created by recording hours of source material on home made instruments and then taking that material and "remixing" it through software created by Huston.

Kohl is a founding member of Degenerate Art Ensemble and has worked as music director, composer and performer since the beginning. His compositions have included works for dance, silent film, concert ensembles, classico-punk-big-band and street performances - always striving to expand the possibilities of multi media art. He is also the conductor For DAE's orchestral work.

Jeff Huston is a Seattle based guitarist, composer and improviser. In the past few years he has been recording his own music, performing in Seattle, Minneapolis and Philadelphia with choreographer Paige Barnes, and experimenting with many different ways of organizing sound. Jeff earned a Bachelors of Music from Cornish College of the Arts where he studied with Dave Peterson, Julian Priester, Jim Knapp and Chuck Deardorf.


JACK STRAW NEW MEDIA GALLERY

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas

Installation by Byron Au Yong and Randy Moss

September 12-October 10, 2008
Public Opening: Friday, September 12, 7pm
Artists Talk: Thursday, September 25, 7pm

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle 98105

http://www.hearbyron.com
http://rmoss.com
http://sitespecificarts.org

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is an interactive sound and light installation that features footage and recordings of performances by classical and experimental opera singers and water percussionists in a ceremonial event that explores water and human migration. Created by composer Byron Au Yong, in collaboration with writers, media artists and musicians, the Bottled Operas have been performed in rivers, lakes, fountains, sloughs, ravines, and other waterways as part of 4Culture's Site-Specific program.

This project was created with support from Creative Capital's Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, 4Culture's King County Site-Specific Performance Network, Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts, and Jack Straw Productions.

Raven Chronicles Vol. 14, #1 Reading & Publication Party
Friday, September 26, 7pm
(Postponed from 9/4/08; note date change!)

Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE

Join us to celebrate Raven Chronicles' Vol 14, #1 Legacies Issue.

Contributors/readers:
Thomas Hubbard, Priscilla Long, Donna Miscolta, Larry Laurence, Kathleen Alcala, Paul Nelson, Michael Hureaux, Anna Balint, Jesse Minkert, Gary Greaves, Carolyne Wright, Trudy Mercer

"Self-Portrait of Roslyn Zinn", from essay by Priscilla Long about Roslyn Zinn, artist and wife of historian Howard Zinn. Mrs. Zinn died earlier this year.

ONLINE NOW!
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 Charles Potts, Corrina Wycoff, and the Vis-a-Vis Society. 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.