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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, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present

Composer Spotlight: BILL SMITH
Space in the Heart, a jazz opera
Wed, May 14, 7:30pm

Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
FREE

Bill Smith will present a lecture on his newest work, Space in the Heart, a contemporary jazz opera with a libretto written by former Earshot Jazz editor Peter Monaghan, at the May Composer Spotlight. Space in the Heart is a recording project in the 2008 Artist Support Program and is produced with generous support from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. Performers in Space in the Heart are singers Maria Mannisto, Jordan Petersen, and Kathy Sankey, and instrumentalists Smith, Greg Campbell and Brian Cobb.

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. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, click here.

JACK STRAW MAY READING SERIES

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 7:30pm
Merna Ann Hecht, Kevin Craft, Jennifer Munro, Wendy Call.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 7:30pm
Janna Cawrse, Waverly Fitzgerald, Brian McGuigan,
Ghida Sinno.

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 7:30pm
Michael Spence, Rebecca Hoogs, Judith Skillman,
Sharon Cumberland.

Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
$5 suggested donation

Poet and program curator Judith Roche hosts three readings at Jack Straw Productions in May that feature new work by the 2008 Jack Straw Writers. Admission to each reading is a $5 suggested donation, and comes with a gift of the 2008 Jack Straw Writers Anthology. Listen to the podcast preview.

JACK STRAW NEW MEDIA GALLERY

RESONANCES

Performance + Sound Installation

by DORSEY DUNN

April 4-June 20, 2008

Jack Straw Productions presents Resonances, a sound installation that begins with a live electro-acoustic improvisational performance in the gallery and continues as an extended aural ‘dying-away’ of the event itself over the course of the exhibition. Music and sound captured during the opening will slowly disappear in a long series of disintegrating reverberations, from an intense beginning to a final period that is spare and minimal. Dorsey Dunn, based in Los Angeles, works in sound, text and image in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works.

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

These bi-monthly podcasts feature interviews and readings by Jack Straw Writers such as Charles Potts, Corrina Wycoff, and the Vis-a-Vis Society. 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.

Recently ended

WIRES
by Jason Kahn

Read Chris DeLaurenti's review of Wires in the The Stranger.

Listen to our interview with Jason Kahn.

Wires, an eight-channel sound installation for tin cans, piezo loudspeakers, and steel wires, seeks to heighten the visitor's perception of space through sound intervention within the Jack Straw New Media Gallery. Wires is Jason Kahn's first exhibition in Seattle. He is a sound and visual artist based in Zürich, Switzerland.