Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth | TIME KILLS

March 31-May 19, 2023

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, April 21, 7pm: Remember You Must ______

Performance and Talk with Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth

In person and streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live

Saturday, May 13, 2-4pm: Youth and Family Workshop

E-mail [email protected] for more information or to sign up.

TIME KILLS is a new video installation combining sound and visual poetry from an ensemble of artist and musician collaborators. Its fast-paced editing is filled with unexpected turns that transform the tropes of the still life genre into questions regarding the perception and experience of time—and how the remembrance of things past inhabits the present.

The Jack Straw May Reading Series

Three readings featuring the 2023 Jack Straw Writing Fellows, hosted by 2023 Writers Program Curator Priscilla Long

May 5, 12, and 19 at 7pm

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle

Suggested donation: $10, includes a gift of the 2023 Jack Straw Writers Anthology

Free livestreams: Visit Jack Straw on Facebook or YouTube to see these readings live.

Friday, May 5, 7pm: Garfield Hillson, Geri Gale, David K. Rea, and Hana Choi

Friday, May 12, 7pm: Stephen Reed Griggs, Sumu Tasib, Carla Shafer, and Brian Dang

Friday, May 19, 7pm: Jim Cantú, Julene Tripp Weaver, Nancy Mburu, and Kaitlyn Teer

Words of Courage Broadsides

I Would Ask a Butterfly

Through April 2023

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Jack Straw Cultural Center is pleased to once again host the annual touring exhibit of poetry broadsides produced through Words of Courage, a collaboration of Seattle Arts and Lectures' Writers in the Schools (WITS) program and Partners in Print.

For the 2022 edition, 26 local letterpress artists rose to the challenge of capturing 21 young voices in print, transforming patients from Seattle Children's Hospital into published poets.

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We recently shared this beautiful poem by Denny International Middle School student Daniela. Our video post includes an English translation of Daniela's poem, which she wrote and recorded in Spanish with help from poet and teaching artist Raúl Sánchez.

Sueño con un mundo que se sienta como un suave y ligero "n o te preocupes que el peligro ya no está." Yo sueño con un mundo en el cual la violencia, el maltrato y la corrupción son desconocidos y solo existe la paz por el mundo Donde no hay maltrato a las personas por su color, cultura o religión Cuando al final del día, todos descansan sabiendo que el peligro no los asecha más . . .

Jack Straw Podcasts

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series continues with a conversation between Jessica Gigot and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer, and a recording of Jessica's live reading at Jack Straw.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is a soundscape of music and oral histories heard during performances of UN-[TITLED], a multisite socially engaged project conceived and organized by commissioning curator and Jack Straw resident artist Berette S Macaulay.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Tiffany Danielle Elliott talks with Jack Straw's producer Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation I promise I won't scream.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.