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Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, University Rotary, Wells Fargo, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw's programs.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jack Straw Writers Program Events
See our Writers Program page for the full list of upcoming events

Thursday, Sept. 9, 7pm
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle
Roberto Ascalon
Brian James Barr
Martha Clarkson

Thursday, Sept. 16, 7pm
SAM Word
Seattle Art Museum, Third Floor Galleries
Marjorie Manwaring
Katherine Grace Bond
Martha Clarkson

Friday, Sept. 24, 7pm
RASP Reading Series
16600 NE 80th Street, Redmond
Katherine Grace Bond
Amber Flame
Marjorie Manwaring

Wednesday, October 6, 6:30pm
Duvall Reading Series, Grange Café upstairs
15611 Main St., Duvall
Marjorie Manwaring

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Composer Spotlight Series

Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composer Forum present

Composer Spotlight:
PHILLIP ARNAUTOFF
Concerning My Variations for Cello
(2005-2010)

Wed, September 8th, 7:30pm

Jack Straw resident artist Phillip Arnautoff illustrates the synthesis of just intonation and the techniques of developing variation that characterizes his Variations for Cello, a large-scale work exploring both the implications of the harmonic series and the genesis of an entire composition from a few motivic cells. A number of significant examples will be given, followed by a performance of a small segment of the complete score.

(Hear one of Arnautoff's Variations on our Artist of the Week Podcast.)

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. See our Composer Spotlight page for more information.

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Chamber Music 8: Particles/Waves

by Steve Peters

September 10 - November 12, 2010

Gallery Opening: Friday, September 10, 7pm

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle 98105

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 - 5

Chamber Music is a series of listening environments derived from recordings of the empty spaces in which they are eventually presented. These recordings of "nothing" are filtered to extract subtle resonant frequency drones that become the raw materials of the work.

See our New Media Gallery page for more information.

Artist of the Week Podcast

Each week we will make a new audio piece created through the Jack Straw Artist Program available for free download.

Subscribe at jackstraw.org/artistoftheweek, via itunes, or listen right here:

AYP Centennial

Jack Straw and Harriet Baskas present the Alaska Yukon Pacific Centennial Radio Project. Check it out!

Green ACRE Radio

Jack Straw and Martha Baskin have partnered on this weekly radio series on KBCS FM, focusing on Agriculture, conservation, restoration & environmental issues. Read about the series and listen to past episodes on the Green ACRE Blog.

Lake Union: Past & Present

Audio Clips and a video from our Lake Union Oral History project are now online! Listen here!

Blind Youth Program

The Seattle Channel features the Jack Straw Blind Youth Audio Program on its "Community Stories" Program. Watch the program online.

These podcasts feature interviews and readings by Jack Straw Writers such as Michael Spence, Merna Ann Hecht, and Wendy Call. Click here to listen.

Special Projects

Jack Straw Productions works with various organizations and communities to create oral histories, museum audio guides, and neighborhood audio tours. Click here to learn more.