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06.29.2009 Zak Smith Makes the Sex Industry Human in We Did Porn
Porn! It’s so controversial. Are we creating fantasies that we can’t live up to? Are we exploiting women? Or are we just enjoying sex? However you feel, punk artist turned porn star Zak Smith tells all in his new memoir/sketch book, We Did Porn, and Bumbershoot is thrilled to have him spill all the juicy details Festival weekend.
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06.25.2009 Making Art in the Line of Fire
The Second Arbitrary Art Grant in Greg Lundgren’s Dada Economics has been awarded and the next grant will have you kicking up your heels!
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06.22.2009 See Bach Come to Life in Mark Haim's Goldberg Variations
Mark Haim adapts his Goldberg Variations from a solo piece to a group effort for this year’s Bumbershoot. The best of Seattle’s dance world has come together to take on the challenge of reinventing Haim’s vision, and it is not to be missed.
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06.18.2009 The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Kathleen Flinn Triumphs
Kathleen Flinn is bringing her tales of food, romance and Paris to Bumbershoot! In her book, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, Kathleen tells all, but you can learn more about the author and her life at Le Cordon Bleu as she and chef extraordinaire, Tom Douglas, share the Literary Arts Stage.
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06.18.2009 Best of SIFF 2009
Even though the Seattle Int’l Film Festival is over, SIFF Cinema is still going strong as this weekend, June 19-22, they present a selection of award winners and audience favorites known as the Best of SIFF. The weekend will include a little bit of everything: some comedy, drama, family features and of course, the best of the shorts!
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06.08.2009 Nothing but the Best: The 17th Annual Best of Gage
Gage Academy of Art will be back at Bumbershoot this year presenting a bigger and better Drawing Jam. Make some time this Labor Day Weekend to get hands-on and draw, sculpt or color with Gage in the Rainier Room. In the meantime, head to the Best of Gage event and gather some inspiration.
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06.05.2009 The New Impressionism: Chris Jordan will leave you with an Environmental Conscience
Kerfuffle (or The Uneasy Relationship Between Humanity and the Environment) is one of the thought provoking visual arts shows that Bumbershoot is presenting this year in the Northwest Rooms. The exhibit will feature larger than life environmentally conscious photos by Seattle-based artist, Chris Jordan.
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06.04.2009 The Good, the Bad and the Randomly Selected
The first Arbitrary Art Grant has been awarded! As you may recall, “Dada Economics,” created for Bumbershoot by Greg Lundgren’s Vital 5 Productions, is a series of Arbitrary Art Grants that will be rewarding creative participation ($500 at a time!) all summer long, culminating at the Festival.
In this first grant, contestants created a sculpture in a shopping cart using materials found only in a grocery store. Winners are chosen randomly, not judged on talent or experience. Check out how RANDOM “randomly selected” actually is in this video of Vital 5’s selection process.
The next Arbitrary Art Grant will be awarded to someone actively protesting performance art at the NW New Works Festival on June 5th, so head over to Vital 5 Productions to see how you can be the next Grantee.
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06.01.2009 Behind the Scenes Look at The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show
Curator Daniel R. Smith discusses The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show, on display at Bumbershoot 2009. This year’s exhibit does not avoid difficult content, but rather includes posters referencing universal tragedies.
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06.01.2009 Stretch your perception of the human body with Wise Fool New Mexico's Flexion.
Flexion by Wise Fool New Mexico swings the imagination into another world. Five acrobats roll, bend, and stretch their bodies into myriad of sculptural forms while on stilts!
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05.27.2009 Insider Deal here! More artists announced! See the lineup by-day!
We’re happy to announce another Insider Deal (this time on single day-specific tickets), and plenty of new artists, including Jason Mraz, Kasabian, Audrye Sessions, The Knux, Akron/Family, Vivian Girls, Todd Barry, David Cross and so much more!
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05.25.2009 Director's Choice at the Pacific Northwest Ballet coming up!
Don’t miss this opportunity to see the Pacific Northwest Ballet in action. This performance will get you on your tippy toes with anticipation for their show at Bumbershoot, where they will showcase an whole new performance!
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05.17.2009 Abracadabra! Magically Delicious Justin Kredible: like a magician, but cooler.
Watch this video of Justin Kredible’s magic in action as he makes a bowling ball appear out of thin air!
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05.11.2009 Today's Fresh Links: Modest Mouse, Sly & Robbie, Iglu & Hartly and more
Modest Mouse readies a new vinyl- and digital-only single, Sly & Robbie prove their legendary status, listen to the debut album from Iglu & Hartly, and more in today’s Fresh Links.
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05.11.2009 Inside look at Bumbershoot '09 Fine Arts Poster
The Western Front dishes on Bumbershoot Fine Arts Poster and poster artist Warren Dykeman.
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05.11.2009 Dance like Drumming, Drum like Dancing. COBU: where Taiko and tap meet
Led by a current member of the off-Broadway hit STOMP, COBU is inspired by the sounds of New York and traditional Japan. After the jump check out a sweet video of them in action!
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05.06.2009 S.E. Hinton: You can call her "Your Majesty"
Check out this review of an event that S.E. Hinton participated in for the LA Times Festival of Books.
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05.02.2009 Arbitrary Art Grants: Create and you can be rewarded!
In “Dada Economics,” created for Bumbershoot by Greg Lundgren’s Vital 5 Productions, a series of Arbitrary Art Grants will inspire, provoke and reward creative participation ($500 at a time!) all summer long, culminating at the Festival.
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04.27.2009 Calling All Filmmakers!
So you want to make a movie? Well, here’s your chance to get it screened at Bumbershoot!
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09.01.2008 Seattle Weekly Blogs About Bumbershoot's Arts
And they loved it, understandably. Can you really blame them?
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08.27.2008 Evan's Top 10 Tips For Bumbershoot
We’re down to the final stretch here, readers. Bumbershoot is this weekend, so I thought it would be appropriate to put together the definitive top 10 list of Bumbershoot tips (just for you, lucky people). These helpful hints are designed to let you maximize your awesome times at the ‘Shoot, courtesy of your very own Bumbershoot Insider. So pay attention, take notes if you need, because I’m about to drop some knowledge on all y’all.
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08.25.2008 The Seattle Times Gets Excited For Flatstock
Our pals at The Seattle Times get (understandably) excited for Flatstock.
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07.17.2008 Strange Fruit Makes an Impact
Australia’s Strange Fruit is making an impression on it’s North American tour. The performance group just finished up in Chicago, delighting the audience there. Read the full story at suntimes.com.
Strange Fruit will be at all three days of this years Bumbershoot, performing on the International Fountain Lawn for you to “Swoon!” over.
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08.17.2007 The Stranger's Guide to Bumbershoot
Looking for some advice on how to make the most of Bumbershoot’s massive lineup? Try The Stranger’s Unofficial Guide to Bumbershoot.
