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Happy Birthday ADA!

July 24, 2020

The Americans with Disabilities act turns 30 on July 26th! In celebration of this landmark piece of civil rights legislation, we’re sharing this flash drama and song we made with our 2015 Blind Youth Audio Project students to mark the ADA’s 25th anniversary. We hope you’ll enjoy and share, in recognition of this important anniversary. […]

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Happy Birthday ADA

Categories: Youth Education Programs

Summer Vocal Workshops for Writers and Actors

June 26, 2020

Join us for a new series of workshops in vocal performance and technique, led by Jack Straw vocal coach Alyssa Keene. Call (206) 634-0919 or email workshops@jackstraw.org to sign up. Dialects and Accents Saturday, August 10, 11am-1pm Fee: $90 member, $110 non-member (limit 10) Learn how to effectively recreate any accent or dialect for theater, […]

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Categories: Adult Education

The 2020 Jack Straw Reading Series – live from our homes in June!

May 12, 2020

The 24th annual Jack Straw Reading Series is adapting for our times, with a series of live-streamed events featuring new poetry, prose, fiction, and creative nonfiction from the 2020 Jack Straw Writers. Multi-genre writer and program curator Anastacia-Renee will host three readings with the writers from their homes, streamed live via Jack Straw’s Facebook page. […]

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2020 Jack Straw Reading Series

Categories: Writers Program

Celebrate Poetry Month from Home!

March 27, 2020

If you’re feeling anything like we are in these trying times, you could use some moments of joy and beauty in your day. Although we’re closed to the public and working from home, we will continue to share the work of artists of all ages with you, including through our artist podcasts (see below) and […]

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Lowell Elementary student in the studio at Jack Straw

Categories: Youth Education Programs

Submit to Write Out of this World 2020

January 24, 2020

Submissions are still open for Write Out of This World: the Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Contest for youth writers. The deadline is February 1st! Contest winners will participate in workshops with Jack Straw’s experienced team of arts professionals. The prize package includes a workshop on writing and editing, vocal coaching, a recording session […]

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Students records her story for the Write Out of This World 2016 program

Categories: Youth Education Programs

Announcing the 2020 Jack Straw Writers

January 10, 2020

Curator Anastacia-Renée has selected the 2020 Jack Straw Writers! Our fellows this year are Rob Arnold, Ebo Barton, Jeffrey Cheatham II, Ching-In Chen, Elaina Ellis, Michelle Goodman, Maisha Manson, Wryly McCutchen, Troy Osaki, Helen Thomas, Jose Trejo-Maya, and Arianne True. These writers will be hard at work for the next few months writing and training […]

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Anastacia-Renée

Categories: Writers Program

Announcing the Jack Straw Winter Artist Showcase

November 25, 2019

Jack Straw Winter Artist Showcase Saturday, December 21, 2-6pm Jack Straw Cultural Center 4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle 98105 Suggested donation: $10-$20 All proceeds to benefit Jack Straw’s artist residency programs. Jack Straw Cultural Center celebrates the solstice with performances from a wide range of artists from our Artist Support Program. Clarinetist/composer James Falzone; Fatality […]

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James Falzone, Sharon Park, Amanda Winterhalter, ings, Tom Varner, Mako Willett

Categories: Artist Support Program

Applications for our 2020 residency programs now available

August 29, 2019

The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to only one program per year. Deadline: Thursday, November 1, 2019. All […]

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Jack Straw resident artists and Writers Program curator Anastacia-Renée

Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program

Guillaume de Machaut: Explorations

July 2, 2019

Wednesday, July 24, 7pm Jack Straw Cultural Center 4261 Roosevelt Way NE FREE Join us for a special event with Jack Straw resident artists Stuart Wheeler and Jesse Q-T, who are producing an album of music that radically reimagines the work of medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut. They will perform some selections from this project […]

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Stuart Wheeler and Jesse Q-T

Categories: Artist Support Program