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Keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound since 1962.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 1d
Today's excerpt is from Jaymark, a #FosterHighSchool student from the Philippines.
Written with help from #TeachingArtist Merna Ann Hecht.

Toward A Solution

#JackStrawCulturalCenter #Poetry #Education #ArtsEducation #RecordingStudio #Seattle #Tukwila #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth
Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt of a poem from Foster High School student, Jaymark. Text is “Let’s open a door to See what is in our future."
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 3d
Applications for the Jack Straw Artist Residencies are open: jackstraw.submittable.com/submit/
Jack Straw Cultural Center Submission Manager
Please contact us at [email protected] or 206-634-0919 if this application format is not accessible to you for any reason.Our artist residency programs - the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, New Me...
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 3d
Episode 4 of the 2025 season of SoundPages is up! Listen at jackstraw.org/podcasts/soundpages/ or subscribe via Apple Podcasts to hear #JackStrawWriter Sigrun Susan Lane in conversation with #curator Kathleen Alcalá (@alqalaqat.bsky.social).

#JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2025 #Podcast
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 3d
Applications for the 2025 Collective Power Fund are now open until November 16th!

Full guidelines and application at nwfilmforum.org/collective-p...

#collectivepowernw #collectivepower #warholfoundation #nwfilmforum #nwartists #seattleartists #regionalregranting @nwfilmforum.bsky.social
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 5d
Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center
Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, November 22, 2pm
E-mail [email protected] for more information
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 5d
Tara Tamaribuchi | Groove Bardos

October 24, 2025 – January 9, 2026
Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit
Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE
All events are FREE

#JackStrawArtists
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 8d
Today's excerpt comes to us from #JackStrawWriter Allison Masangkay.

Applications are open for our residency programs: jackstraw.submittable.com/submit

Flood Stage of My Aromanticism (Excerpt)

#JackStrawWriters2024 #RecordingStudio #Seattle #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth
Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter Allison Masangkay. Text is “Where is the “usable truth,” the heart of the matter buried under a knowledge unbelonging to us?"
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 8d
10/22 11am:
@hanzaraki.bsky.social

10/29, 11am: Hillary Behrman
11/5, 11am:
@npouchet.bsky.social

11/19,11am: Eric Acosta
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 8d
We’ve got four more artists lined up to chat with about their experiences with Jack Straw and how the residencies have helped them create and share their art. Join us on Instagram Live and chime in with any questions you may have!

Applications are open: buff.ly/nuaML2M

#JackStrawArtists
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 10d
The latest episode of our Artist of the Week #podcast is up, featuring #JackStrawArtist Bun-Ching Lam. Listen at buff.ly/wcrohgi or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

#JackStrawArtists

Applications for the Jack Straw Artist Residencies are open: buff.ly/z8ErESp
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 10d
Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club Seattle 2025-2026: bit.ly/48iQLoj

Episode 3 features #JackStrawWriter Jenny Harrington Lill and #musician Townsend’s Solitaire.

#BushwickBookClub #JackStrawCulturalCenter #JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2025 #SeattleMusic #SeattleWriters
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 12d
We’re marking #IndigenousPeoplesDay by looking back at O’otham Rhapsode, a multimedia work by Jack Straw resident Artist D.A. Navoti.

Learn more at buff.ly/9W23nV0

#JackStrawArtists
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 15d
Joe is here with an excerpt to tell us how it feels to be bilingual. Written with help from #poet and #TeachingArtist Raúl Sánchez.

Bilingüe, Bicultural
Bilingual, Bicultural

#Poetry #Education #ArtsEducation #RecordingStudio #Seattle #DennyInternationalMiddleSchool #HispanicAmericanHeritageMonth
Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt of a poem from Denny International Middle School student, Joe. Text is “La historia no es tu identidad, Solo es una parte."
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 16d
Applications for the Jack Straw Artist Residencies are open: jackstraw.submittable.com/submit/
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 16d
Episode 3 of the 2025 season of SoundPages is up! Listen at jackstraw.org/podcasts/soundpages/ or subscribe via Apple Podcasts to hear #JackStrawWriter Jenny Harrington Lill in conversation with #curator Kathleen Alcalá (@alqalaqat.bsky.social).

#JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2025 #Podcast
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 17d
Suchitra Iyer- Sunaad Album Release

October 26th, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Suchitra Iyer will perform some of the songs from her upcoming album Sunaad, which was produced through her Jack Straw Residency with support from 4Culture.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 19d
2021 Jack Straw Writers @abipollokoff.bsky.social and Daniel Tam-Claiborne and 2015 Jack Straw Writer Laura Da' read from their new books published this year, joined by 2022 Writer @erinlangner.bsky.social.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 19d
Jack Straw Writers Alumni Reading

Friday, October 10, 7pm
Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE
FREE

#JackStrawWriters #RecordingStudio #Seattle
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 21d
We've got an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter José Luis Montero today.

Uprooted (Excerpt)

#JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2021 #RecordingStudio #SeattleRecordingStudio #Seattle #HispanicHeritageMonth
Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter José Luis Montero. Text is “Each region in Mexico has its own distinctive oral cadence and pronunciation"
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 24d
Explore the videos, which feature the peoples and places that tell the story, and read a detailed account of the project at www.guadalevin.com/elnoroeste.

Applications for the Jack Straw Artist Residencies are open: jackstraw.submittable.com/submit/
El Noroeste | Trioguadalevin
El Noroeste is a musical history of Latinos in Washington State by Trio Guadalevin
www.guadalevin.com
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 24d
Trío Guadalevín’s project El Noroeste – produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program – is a musical exploration of the historic presence of Latinos in what is now Washington State.
El Noroeste | Trioguadalevin
El Noroeste is a musical history of Latinos in Washington State by Trio Guadalevin
www.guadalevin.com
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 24d
Listen to the latest episode of our Artist of the Week #podcast, featuring #JackStrawArtists Trio Guadalevin, at jackstraw.org/podcasts/artist-of-the-week/ or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 24d
Episode 2 features #JackStrawWriter @ashadore.bsky.social and #musician Brittany Danielle.

#BushwickBookClub #JackStrawCulturalCenter #JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2025 #SeattleMusic #SeattleWriters
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 24d
Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club Seattle 2025-2026: bit.ly/48iQLoj

In this ongoing collaborative series, The Bushwick Bookclub Seattle musicians create original music inspired by the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Anthology.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center @jackstraw.org · 29d
Here's an excerpt from Marlon, who gives us a look at where he's from. Written with help from #poet and #TeachingArtist Raúl Sánchez.

#JackStrawCulturalCenter #Poetry #Education #ArtsEducation #RecordingStudio #Seattle #DennyInternationalMiddleSchool #HispanicAmericanHeritageMonth
Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt of a poem from Denny International Middle School student, Marlon. Text is “Yo soy de la playa De la arena blanca De las vistas del mar abierto."