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Applications for 2021 Artist Residencies Now Available
Apply now for our Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery Program, or Writers Program!
More information available on our FAQ page.
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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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Our first episode launches September 15th and features an interview with Kameko Thomas, founder of Vonem Creative Media.This season consists of four interviews as follows:
1. Kameko Thomas: The Invisible Disability (9/15)
2. Troy Coalman: How THEY see US / How WE see ourselves (9/22)
3. King Khazm: Where Art, Racism & Disability Intersect (9/29)
4. ChrisTiana Obeysumner: Intersectionality (10/6)
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Cameron Perry Fraser: Large String Array October 2 - December 18, 2020 Visits by appointment only, M-F, 10am-5:30pm Streaming events (via Facebook Live) |
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Twelve hundred piano strings reach from floor to ceiling in Large String Array, transforming the Jack Straw New Media Gallery into an automatic resonant instrument that plays a story of life in a pandemic. An ensemble of twelve discrete voices reverberates throughout the room, each pulled directly from the windows, walls and wires of Cameron's home while sheltered in place. Custom high-gain amplifiers and contact microphones were developed to listen in to faint transmissions of daily life. Large String Array reimagines this cloistered soundscape as a tone poem transfigured through steel wire.
Visit our New Media Gallery page for more information.
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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 Writers Program
RASP Reading Series It's about Time Reading Series |
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Jack Straw Writers x The Bushwick Book Club Seattle We're delighted to announce a new, online version of our ongoing collaboration with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle! Jack Straw writers will be paired with Bushwick musicians (many of whom are also Jack Straw artists), who will write original music inspired by the written work. Pairings will be announced on the Bushwick and Jack Straw websites and videos released on social media by Jack Straw and Bushwick. The first three pairings: |
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Purchase the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Anthology from our friends at Open Books!
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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: Seattle Baroque Orchestra 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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