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 […]
Categories: Artist Support Program
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 […]
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program
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 […]
Categories: Artist Support Program
Jack Straw Cultural Center announces a new series of intimate piano performances in our studio, highlighting the diversity and talent of Jack Straw Artists and the beauty and range of our Steinway B grand piano. Every other month, a pianist who has been part of our artist residency programs will perform, along with a pianist […]
Categories: Artist Support Program
Jack Straw resident artist Peter Vukmirovic Stevens has just flown in from France to record, edit, and mix three new works for string quartet with members of Saint Helens String Quartet and Seattle Symphony. It’s going to be an intense but rewarding few weeks in the Jack Straw studios, to be sure. Join us the […]
Categories: Artist Support Program
Seattle lost a unique voice – and we lost a friend – when poet and 2009 Jack Straw Writer Kim-An Lieberman passed away in December 2013. On May 4, 2014 we gathered to celebrate her life and work, and the publication of In Orbit, her final collection of poems, published by Blue Begonia Press. Kim-An’s […]
Categories: Writers Program
Meet a few of this year’s writers in personal interviews with Writers Program Curator Donna Miscolta. You’ll discover links between poetry and music, a writer’s method of character development, and some tips on presenting written work. Michael Magee, Anna Balint, and Angela Martinez Dy share their ideas and a sampling of their work. Please join […]
Categories: Writers Program
If you missed any of this year’s Jack Straw Reading Series, you can tune in to the “Sound Focus” archive to hear portions of the live reading featuring poet and 2008 Jack Straw Writer Kevin Craft on the weekly literary segment produced by Elizabeth Austen. Kevin Craft hails from the mid-Atlantic zones of the […]
Categories: Writers Program
Here you’ll find out which writer has a certain fondness for three-letter words, who uses language as a central theme, and why poetry matters. The podcast features clips from in-studio readings by writers Kevin Craft, Rebecca Hoogs, and Brian McGuigan as well as selections from their interviews with curator Judith Roche (pictured right). Here’s the […]
Categories: Writers Program
Jack Straw Productions is proud to announce the literary artists selected by curator Judith Roche for the 2008 Jack Straw Writers Program. They are Wendy Call, Janna Cawrse, Kevin Craft, Sharon Cumberland, Waverly Fitzgerald, Merna Ann Hecht, Rebecca Hoogs, Brian McGuigan, Jennifer D. Munro, Ghida Sinno, Judith Skillman, and Michael Spence. “There are too few […]
Categories: Writers Program
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