Celebrating 60 Years of Jack Straw!
Since our founding in 1962 to start and run KRAB-FM community radio, Jack Straw has been dedicated to keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound.

Give now to help our programs thrive!

Jack Straw Fall Audio Workshops

Microphone Workshop: Wednesday, Nov., 16, 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.

Zoom Hosting: Tuesday, Nov. 22, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn how to enhance interactivity, how to get the best audio and video quality, and how to effectively host a meeting.

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

Jack Straw Artist Residency Applications

Artist Support and New Media Gallery Program deadline: Monday, November 28

The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to only one program per year.

Apply Now!

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

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

Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, December 3, 2pm

Email [email protected] for more information or to sign up.

Join us for a hands-on sound art workshop with artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira, in conjunction with Breathing in a Time of Disaster. Participants will explore the concept of breath and participate in an audio story circle. Participants will also work with Jack Straw audio engineers to create an original soundscape.

Exhibit open through December 23, 2022

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

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: Ally Ang and Nic Masangkay

October 5: Katharine Strange and Emily Persha

October19: Bjørn Watkins and Jory Mickelson

November2: Christiana Crabbe and Danielle Hayden

November 16: Aleyanna Grae and Julie Feng

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 Ragany, written with help from poet and teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

Deep inside

I am like a butterfly

that lightens your world up

into love and kindness.

Jack Straw Podcasts
The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is Reggie Garrett's "A Woman’s Work (Is Never Done)," featuring Wayne Horvitz on piano, from Reggie's forthcoming album York's Lament & Other Stories.

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.

Support Jack Straw Cultural Center
Jack Straw Cultural Center relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs. Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us at 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

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