The Jack Straw May Reading Series

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

Final Reading: Friday, May 19 at 7pm

With Jim Cantú, Julene Tripp Weaver, Nancy Mburu, and Kaitlyn Teer

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle

Suggested donation: $10, includes a gift of the 2023 Jack Straw Writers Anthology (available for purchase from Open Books)

Stream live for free: Visit Jack Straw on Facebook or YouTube to stream our readings live. (Watch readings 1 and 2 now!)

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth | TIME KILLS

Closes Friday, May 19, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Time Kills combines sound and visual poetry from an ensemble of artist and musician collaborators to 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.

Jack Straw Musicians and Writers at Folklife!

Jack Straw Music Showcase

Sunday, May 28, 5:30-9pm

Fisher Green Stage

A delightfully varied evening of music from Jack Straw Resident Artists arx duo, Athr, Nada Rosa, and Last of the Redhot Mamas.

Jack Straw Writers Series

Saturday, May 27-Sunday, May 29

Center Theatre

Our 2023 Jack Straw Writing Fellows will read and talk about their work with Curator Priscilla Long.

Saturday, May 27, 4:30pm: David K. Rea, Jim Cantú, and Kaitlyn Teer

Sunday, May 28, 2pm: Nancy Mburu, Brian Dang, Sumu Tasib, and Stephen Reed Griggs

Monday, May 29, 2pm: Carla Shafer, Julene Tripp Weaver, and Garfield Hillson

Jack Straw Spring Audio Workshops

Jack Straw's audio workshops with engineer Tom Stiles are the perfect opportunity to improve your studio skills or get that first introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.

To sign up or for more information, email [email protected].

Microphone Workshop: Monday, June 5, 6-10pm

Fee: $75 (In person class, masks and COVID vaccination required)

A detailed look at microphone types, pickup patterns, placement and use, both for live and studio applications.

Intro to Podcasting: Wednesday, June 7, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basics of creating and maintaining a podcast, from concept to planning, production, and distribution.

Intro to Digital Audio Editing: Thursday, June 8, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basic skills of recording and editing sound with audio editing software.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Zack Bent | The Charity Stripe

June 5-July 21, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, June 9, 7pm: Opening Reception

Friday, June 23, 7pm: Artist Talk

In The Charity Stripe, the audience is invited to honor 3 hapless mascots (brothers) performing rituals of celebration and camaraderie on the basketball court. Dance routines and confetti pours collide with crowd cheers and court sounds in an homage to the spectacle of the sport.

Join us on Social Media!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to get regular doses of writing, art, and music from Jack Straw artists of all ages.

We recently shared this poem by Foster High School student Thang, written with help from poet and teaching artist Merna Ann Hecht.

I carry the memories of the sound of my culture

how we used to dance with bamboo and with swords

surrounded by a fire, a pig in the middle,

people drumming,

people firing guns.

I carried the tastes of my culture’s meat, which I only ate

one time which I can’t wait to have again,

I worry for the next generation,

I would like them to remember this. . . .

Jack Straw Podcasts

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series continues with a conversation between Vincent Rendoni and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer, and a recording of Vincent''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 an excerpt from I Wayan Sinti's 2004 Artist Support Program project, produced while he was in residency as a visiting artist teaching Balinese vocal and gamelan music at the University of Washington School of Music.

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.