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Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Ching-In Chen & Cassie Mira | Breathing in a Time of Disaster

Closes this Friday, January 13, 2023

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Watch/Listen party at Jack Straw: January 13, 3-5pm

FREE! RSVP to attend at https://bit.ly/bitd123

Join artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira to experience the multimedia installation Breathing in a Time of Disaster. We will listen and watch audio, video, and written projections. Selections will be based on the zip codes of those who RSVP and those who arrive.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Sasha Petrenko | Forest Time Water

January 27-March 10, 2023

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 7pm

In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center

Artist Talk: Friday, March 3, 7pm

In person and streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live

Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, March 4

E-mail [email protected] for information or to sign up.

In this interactive installation, visitors can trigger sound and video to remix the story of an ecofeminist paleodendrologist expelled from her time, using tree rings, vinyl records, and radio to stop the elites from selling the future.

Jack Straw Winter Audio Workshops 

Jack Straw's audio workshops with engineer Tom Stiles are the perfect opportunity to improve your studio skills or get that first introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.  

To sign up or for more information, email [email protected]. 

Intro to Podcasting: Wednesday, February 22, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basics of creating and maintaining a podcast, from concept to planning, production, and distribution.

Intro to Digital Audio Editing: Monday, February 27, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basic skills of recording and editing sound with audio editing software. 

Microphone Workshop: Thursday, March 2, 6-10pm

Fee: $75 (In person class, masks and COVID vaccination required)

A detailed look at microphone types, pickup patterns, placement and use, both for live and studio applications.

Jack Straw Writers and Bushwick Book Club Seattle 

Jack Straw and the Bushwick Book Club Seattle are once again teaming up to create new music inspired by the work of the Jack Straw Writers!

The Bushwick Book Club and Jack Straw will share a new video every couple weeks featuring a reading and song. Follow along on YouTube or social media! 

September 21: Nic Masangkay and Ally Ang

October 5: Emily Persha and Katharine Strange

October19: Bjørn Watkins and Jory Mickelson

November2: Christiana Crabbe and Danielle Hayden

December 7: Kristin Chambers and Helen Anderson

December 14: Aleyanna Grae and Julie Feng

December 21: Kate Olson and Jessica Gigot

January 4: Brittany Danielle and Emily Parzybok

January 18: Lucas VanLinden and Vincent Rendoni

Join us on Social Media! 

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to get regular doses of writing, art, and music from Jack Straw artists of all ages. 

We recently shared this poem by Concord Elementary School student Aniya, written with help from poet and teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

If people were flowers, You would be the stem and I would be the petals, But we could both help the world grow more beauty!

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is a track from arx duo's album Ambient Resonances, available now from Origin Classical.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts. 

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Chanee Choi talks with Whitney Lynn about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Remembrance: Magma. 

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Opening Doors

Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, from Jack Straw and the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium. Our second season continues to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.

Listen and subscribe at soundcloud.com/OpeningDoorsPod - or wherever you get your podcasts.