See you at Folklife this weekend!

Jack Straw Writers at Folklife

Saturday, May 27-Sunday, May 29, Center Theatre

Our 2023 Jack Straw Writing Fellows will read and talk about their work with Curator Priscilla Long in a series of events at this year's NW Folklife Festival.

Saturday, May 27, 4:30pm: David K. Rea, Jim Cantú, and Kaitlyn Teer

Sunday, May 28, 2pm: Nancy Mburu, Brian Dang, Sumu Tasib, and Stephen Reed Griggs

Monday, May 29, 2pm: Carla Shafer, Julene Tripp Weaver, and Garfield Hillson

Jack Straw Music Showcase at Folklife

Sunday, May 28, 5:30-9pm, Fisher Green Stage

Join us at the NW Folklife Festival for a delightfully varied evening of music from Jack Straw Resident Artists arx duo, Athr, Nada Rosa, and Last of the Redhot Mamas.

5:30pm: arx duo

6:15pm: Athr

7:00pm: Nada Rosa

8:15pm: Last of the Redhot Mamas

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Zack Bent | The Charity Stripe

June 5-July 21, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, June 9, 7pm: Opening Reception

Friday, June 23, 7pm: Artist Talk

Saturday, July 8, 2pm: Youth and Family Workshop

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

In The Charity Stripe, the audience is invited to honor 3 hapless mascots (brothers) performing rituals of celebration and camaraderie on the basketball court. Dance routines and confetti pours collide with crowd cheers and court sounds in an homage to the spectacle of the sport.

Jack Straw Spring 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].

Microphone Workshop: Monday, June 5, 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.

Intro to Podcasting: Wednesday, June 7, 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: Thursday, June 8, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

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

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 Foster High School student Timothy, written with help from poet and teaching artist Merna Ann Hecht.

Let us celebrate American Samoa,

Let us celebrate the home of freedom and peace.

Let us celebrate the blue of Samoa's waves and the green of the great Samoa mountain.

Let us celebrate a place where people grow flowers and go fishing every day. . . .

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is a live recording from Ran Park's performance at our December 2019 artist showcase. A new version of this piece appears on Ran Park's new EP, Primer.

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

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series continues with a conversation between Vincent Rendoni and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer, and a recording of Vincent''s live reading at Jack Straw.

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

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Tiffany Danielle Elliott talks with Jack Straw's producer Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation I promise I won't scream.

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

Gratitude to the First People of Seattle
The staff, board, and artists of Jack Straw Cultural Center acknowledge that we are living, creating, working, and playing on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle and the Salish Sea - the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Muckleshoot nations and other Coast Salish peoples, past and present. We honor them and the land itself with deep gratitude.

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