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2021 Jack Straw Writers
Curator E. J. Koh has selected the 2021 Jack Straw Writers! Our fellows this year are S. Erin Batiste, C.R. Glasgow, Patrycja Humienik, Grace Jahng Lee, José Luis Montero, Greg November, Tochukwu Okafor, Michael Overa, Paulette Perhach, Abi Pollokoff, Kristie Song, and Daniel Tam-Claiborne. Join us (virtually) on the first three Fridays in May for their public debut as Jack Straw Writers!
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Online Audio Workshops
Special Covid 19 reduced rate!
All classes are now at a special Covid 19 reduced rate of $50 for members and non-members alike.
All classes take place online via Zoom - class invitation will be sent one day prior.
To sign up or for more information, email workshops@jackstraw.org.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Rachel Lodge January 22-April 23, 2021 Visits by appointment only, M-F, 10am-5:30pm Streaming events (via Facebook Live) Virtual Opening: Friday, January 22 (archived video) Artist Talk: Friday, March 12, 7pm |
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This visual and sonic installation explores the transmutation of carbon through natural, human, and industrial forms. Hand-drawn animation and sounds bring the largely invisible carbon flowing through us and around us into imagination, from the molecular to the landscape level, evoking both the beauty and the grief of our changing planet.
Visit our New Media Gallery page for more information.
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Jack Straw Writers Program
Jack Straw Writers x The Bushwick Book Club Seattle In this new, online version of our ongoing collaboration with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, each of the 2020 Jack Straw writers was paired with a Bushwick musician, who created original music inspired by the written work. The whole series is now available for your listening and watching pleasure. Thank you to the wonderful writers and musicians who made this possible, and to our friends at Bushwick Book Club Seattle. The writer/musician pairings: |
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Purchase the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Anthology from our friends at Open Books!
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Jack Straw Artist Exhibit
Anastacia-Renée: (Don't be Absurd) Alice in Parts) January 30-April 25, 2021 Frye Museum The Frye Art Museum presents (Don’t Be Absurd) Alice in Parts, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary, Seattle-based artist and multi-genre writer Anastacia-Renée, a 2014 Jack Straw Writer and 2020 Writers Program Curator.. |
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In this exhibition, which includes audio produced at Jack Straw with engineer Ayesha Ubayatilaka, Anastacia-Renée offers a rageful meditation on gentrification and its insidious effects on the body and home, as seen through the eyes of her multilayered character Alice Metropolis.
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New Podcast from Jack Straw and SCAC
Opening Doors Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, brought to you by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. For our first season, we aim to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with disabilities, and to learn how race and disability impact their access to arts and culture. |
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This season consists of four interviews as follows:
1. Kameko Thomas: The Invisible Disability
2. Troy Coalman: How THEY see US / How WE see ourselves
3. King Khazm: Where Art, Racism & Disability Intersect
4. ChrisTiana Obeysumner: Intersectionality
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Julia Freeman: IRISIRIS Online exhibit launching July 24, 2020 Live conversation: Julia Freeman and Jed Murr IRISIRIS is a set of looping online videos that corresponds to the eight phases of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment. EMDR focuses on reprogramming the brain's response to a traumatic event, changing how the event is stored, and reducing and eliminating problematic symptoms. By repetitively crossing the brain's hemisphere with sound and images, EMDR attempts to heal and reform neural pathways formed by the event. |
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Jack Straw Youth and Artists on Social Media
Visit us on Facebook and YouTube to watch archived performances, talks, and readings!
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and enjoy selections of poetry and more from our Jack Straw Writers and youth poets from our educational programs.
Jack Straw Cultural Center gratefully acknowledges the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Seattle Foundation, ArtsFund, Adobe Foundation, Harvest Foundation, Jubilation Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Robert Chinn Foundation, Lester and Phyllis Epstein Foundation, Tulalip Charitable Fund, Humanities Washington and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020. and individual contributors for their support of our programs. Special thanks to our friends at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, ORA (Owen Richards Architects), and Forma Construction for their support.
Copyright 2020 ~ Jack Straw Cultural Center
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98105
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Happy Birthday ADA! A story and song produced with students in the 2015 Blind Youth Audio Project. ~~~
Blind Youth Audio Project In 2020 our summer program for blind and visually impaired youth took place online. The theme was "Telling Our Stories." ~~~
SoundPages features interviews and readings by Jack Straw Writers such as Daemond Arrindell, Laura Da', EJ Koh, Robert Lashley, Claudia Castro Luna, and Jane Wong. Click here to listen. ~~~
Every two weeks we will make a new audio piece created through our artist residencies available for free download. This week: Obo Addy and Julian Priester Subscribe at jackstraw.org/artistoftheweek, via itunes, or listen right here: ~~~
Foster High School Stories of Arrival Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices is a community partnership project between Foster High School, Jack Straw Cultural Center, the Institute for Poetic Medicine in Palo Alto, CA, and KBCS 91.3 FM.
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Immigration Portraits at Seattle World School The Seattle World School is a Seattle public school for newcomers to the United States. Students from three Washington State history classes created Immigration Portraits, a series of audio stories based on interviews the students conducted with each other about leaving their home countries to come to America
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