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Salome MC

Salome MC is an Iranian musician, multimedia artist, writer and educator. She is the first woman rapper/hiphop producer of Iran, where she helped shape the hiphop scene in early 2000’s. In 2010 Salome moved to Japan after being awarded the MEXT scholarship, and received her M.A. in Audiovisual Arts at Tohoku University of Arts and […]

Blind Youth Audio Project 2020

For this year’s project we hosted students from Washington State Department of Services for the Blind for our audio workshops themed “Telling Our Stories.” Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all our classes were conducted online, and we adjusted our schedule and programming to accommodate this unprecedented situation. The workshops took place over five weeks, two […]

Blind Youth Audio Project 2019

For this year’s project we hosted students from SKILLS Seattle and SKILLS Mount Vernon, as well as YES 1 and YES 2 students at Jack Straw Studios.  SKILLS SKILLS students from Mt. Vernon came to Jack Straw for a workshop with musician Salome MC. The group wrote and recorded an original composition based on […]

Olympic View Elementary: Poetry and Song 2018-19

In the Spring of 2019 we completed a new poetry and song project with 4th and 4th/5th graders at Olympic View Elementary in Maple Leaf, to create original poetry and turn it into songs in musical genres of the students’ choice. First Jack Straw poet Vicky Edmonds worked with five classes of students in Ms. […]