Tag: arts
04.22.2008 Tiny Mix Tapes chats with Blitzen Trapper
Tiny Mix Tapes interviews Portland’s Blitzen Trapper, who cite literary works as some of their chief influences:
“I don’t buy records, but I listen to music because it’s everywhere. It’s all around us. That’s why I don’t really buy it. Because you can go wherever and someone’s always got music. There’s almost too much music. I think get most of my ideas from books. I feel like Wild Mountain Nation is a combination of Jorge Luis Borges, Zane Grey, Italo Calvino with maybe a little bit of Frank Herbert thrown in.”
04.04.2008 LAST CALL! Nominations due for Mayor's Arts Awards
Know an individual or organization making a difference in Seattle’s communities through arts and culture? Nominate them for a 2008 Mayor’s Arts Award. Mayor Greg Nickels will present the awards at a ceremony, Friday, Aug. 29 at Seattle Center in partnership with Bumbershoot!
Nomination deadline is Monday, April 7, 2008.
The Mayor’s Arts Awards are presented by the Seattle Arts Commission, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Bumbershoot®: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, with support from Encore Arts Programs.
11.13.2007 2008 Bumbershoot Applications Available Now
Attention musicians, visual artists, writers, dancers, filmmakers, thespians, performance artists, crafters, and restaurateurs!! Want to showcase your talent at next year’s Festival? 2008 Bumbershoot applications are available now online. Visit bumbershoot.org/apply.htm for more information including upcoming application deadlines. Apply soon, or you might miss your big break!
09.12.2007 The answer to the post-Bumbershoot Blues
Jeff Vandermeer reflects on his Bumbershoot experience at the Amazon Bookstore Blog.
08.30.2007 Third Places at Bumbershoot!
Instant Coffee is installing nooks at Bumbershoot where people can meet and talk. Read more about this new idea at Seattle Weekly!
08.30.2007 A Blog by Nicola Griffith
The featured blog today comes from Nicola Griffith. Griffith was born in England and has written five novels to date. Her most recent novel, Always, is the third (after Stay and The Blue Place) to feature ex-cop and self-defense instructor Aud Torvingen. Griffith has received the Lambda Literary Award (five times), the James Tiptree award, the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Nicola Griffith will be speaking on Superheroes, Heroines, and a Strange City at the Leo K. Theatre on Monday September 1 starting at 5:15.
08.27.2007 A Blog by Ryan Boudinot
This featured blog is by Ryan Boudinot. Boudinot is the author of The Littlest Hitler, a collection of short stories and Sperm & Egg, a novel set to appear in spring of 2008. His work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, Black Book, The Stranger and elsewhere. He is on the faculty at Goddard College’s Port Townsend MFA program.
Ryan Boudinot will be performing with other Bad Ass Writers at the Leo K. Theater Saturday, September 1 at 3:30.
08.26.2007 Megan Kelso returns to Seattle for Bumbershoot
An interview with comic-book writer and artist Megan Kelso, originally of Seattle.
08.26.2007 Author Mary Gordon at Bumbershoot
Mary Gordon, with novelist Lydia Millet and moderator Matt Briggs, will take part in a Bumbershoot panel discussion titled “Happy Lives.” Read The Seattle Times review of her book Circling My Mother.
08.26.2007 Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding)
In singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding’s second novel, penned under his real name, Wesley Stace, the author both investigates and celebrates the art of ventriloquism while simultaneously lampooning every storyteller’s dilemma: finding just the right voice in which to tell a story. Read The Seattle Times review.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Jeff VanderMeer
This featured blog is from Jeff VanderMeer. This author is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner whose books have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle and many others. Translated into 16 languages, his work has inspired a soundtrack by rock band The Church and an upcoming Sony Playstation animation.
Jeff VanderMeer will be speaking during the program “Superheroes, Heroines, and a Strange City” on Saturday September 1 at 5:15 PM at the Leo K. Theatre.
08.24.2007 A Blog by the Oliver Family
Today’s featured blog comes from the Oliver Family. The Olivers of Capitol Hill are an eclectic bunch: dad Mike fixes antique clocks, mom Carol is working on the 787 for Boeing, son Nigel helps run the local Greenpeace office, and Pete will be a freshman at Nova next year. The youngest girls, Syd and Mary, are just chillin’ out this summer and are excited to be doing such fun art with the rest of their family.
The Olivers have finished all 63 assignments from Miranda July’s Learning to Love You More online art project. The entire collection can be seen at Bumbershoot in the Northwest Rooms, 11 AM – 8 PM daily.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Kim Deitch
Today’s featured blogger is Kim Deitch. Deitch is widely regarded as one of the best cartoonists of his generation. A seminal figure in the Underground Comix movement in the 1960s, his work has since appeared in many publications including Raw, L.A. Weekly, Weirdo, Heavy Metal and Nickelodeon Magazine that featured his beloved Southern Fried Fugitives.
Kim Deitch will participate in Comix All Stars on Sunday, September 2 at 5:45 at the Literary Arts Stage.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Ellen Forney
This featured blog is from Ellen Forney. Cartoonist Ellen Forney was chosen as one of 2007’s Northwest’s top writers by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She recently collaborated with writer Sherman Alexie on the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian for Little, Brown. Her recent book, I Love Led Zeppelin,received a prestigious Eisner nomination as Best Reality-Based Comic. Her comic, Lustlab Ad of the Week, will be collected into a book, Lust, to be released in January 2008.
Ellen Forney will be at Bumbershoot appearing on the Boeing Performing Arts Stage Saturday, September 1 at 3:45.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Lyall Bush
This featured blog is from Lyall Bush. Bush is the Executive Director of Richard Hugo House in Seattle. He has published personal essays in The Iowa Review and essays on film and books in Film Comment, Books in Canada, The Seattle Times and The Stranger. He is currently writing a collection of stories.
Lyall Bush will speak with fellow “Bad Ass Writers” on Saturday, September 1 at 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Leo K. Theatre.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Megan Kelso
This featured blog is from Megan Kelso. After graduating from Evergreen State College, Kelso joined the burgeoning Seattle cartoonist scene. In 1993, she became the first woman to receive a Xeric grant for her self-published comic, Girlhero. She has since published two more books and is currently working on a graphic novel and a serialized story running in The New York Times Magazine.
Kelso will be speaking with other Comix All Stars at the Leo K. Theatre starting at 5:45.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Davy Rothbart
This blog will feature Davy Rothbart. Author and filmmaker Davy Rothbart is best known as the Creator and Editor of Found Magazine, a publication dedicated to discarded notes and items found and sent in by readers. In addition to contributing to NPR’s This American Life, Rothbart is also the author of The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of short stories.
Rothbart will be speaking on Saturday September 1 at the Leo K. Theatre at 1:45 PM.
08.24.2007 A Blog By Trisha Ready
This featured blog features Trisha Ready. Trisha Ready is pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and beginning a practicum internship at a local psychiatric hospital. Her essays and stories have appeared in various publications including Swivel, The Rendezvous Reader, The Stranger, Mother Jones and Exquisite Corpse. She has an abiding fascination with plate tectonics.
Ready will be speaking on Sunday, September 2 with a program called Happy Lives. The presentation will begin at the Leo K. Theatre at 2:00 PM.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Ann Powers
This featured blog is from Ann Powers. Ann Powers is the chief pop critic for the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Seattle, got her start at the now-defunct Rocket, and recently spent four years as a curator at Experience Music Project. She is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America and, with the artist, Tori Amos Piece By Piece.
Ann Powers be participating in a discussion on writing about music at the 33-1/3 Reading & Listening Party which will be held at the Leo K. Theatre Monday, September 3 starting at 4:45.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Brangien Davis
Today’s featured blog is from Brangien Davis. Davis is editor in chief of Swivel magazine, the only nationally distributed literary journal devoted to smart, funny writing by smart, funny women. As a freelance writer, Davis’s work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Seattle Times, ReadyMade and elsewhere. She is also a book editor, most recently for Lauren Weedman’s collection.
Brangien Davis will be moderating “Of Clowns and Ventriloquists”“at Bumbershoot on the Literary Arts Stage, Monday, September 3 at 2:30.
08.24.2007 A Blog by Wesley Stace
This featured blog is by Wesley Stace. Wesley Stace, born in Sussex, England, published his first novel, Misfortune, to critical acclaim in 2005. One of the Washington Post’s Books of the Year and Amazon.com’s Ten Best Novels of 2005, Misfortune was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the James Tiptree Award. Misfortune was also the occasion of a rollicking Bumbershoot performance subsequently released on DVD. Stace’s reading is on the occasion of his second novel, By George, which features a ventriloquist and the dummy’s memoirs.
Wesley Stace will read portions of his new novel on Monday, September 3 at 2:30 at the Leo K. Theatre. He will also perform as John Wesley Harding on Sunday, September 2 at 8:00 on the Wells Fargo Stage, and participate in “Nick Drake Words and Music” at the Leo K on Sunday at 3:45.
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.
08.15.2007 2007 Mayor's Arts Awards Ceremony
2007 Mayor’s Arts Awards Ceremony and
Bumbershoot Visual Arts Opening
Noon, Friday, August 31
Northwest Court at Seattle Center
Mayor Greg Nickels will honor the 2007 recipients at an awards ceremony at noon on Friday, August 31 at Seattle Center’s Northwest Court. The outdoor ceremony will feature award presentations, followed by the official opening of Bumbershoot’s Visual Arts Exhibits, which is free and open to the public from noon to 6 p.m. that same day. For more information about the ceremony and this year’s recipients, visit the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs website.
The Mayor’s Arts Awards are presented by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in partnership with Bumbershoot and primary media sponsor Encore Media Group, the magazine proudly serving performing arts organizations throughout the Puget Sound. Media support is also provided by Seattle Magazine and Seattle Channel.
08.03.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's Hemingway Challenge
Let's face it: books are long. They're chocked full of big words that frankly, we simply don't have time to read. Now more than ever people want the good stuff, and they want it fast. Just look at instant coffee, instant messaging, and instant photos for proof.
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07.07.2007 Full Lineup! Discount Tickets! Music Preview!
Following a series of MAJOR teasers, we are finally unleashing the complete lineup for the 2007 Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival. That's right, music, visual arts, comedy, literary arts, film, performance, dance, theater, and special installations all for your planning pleasure. From film director John Sayles and performance artist Taylor Mac to pop icon Fergie and SNL veterans Janeane Garofalo and Fred Armisen, Bumbershoot will surely satisfy the widest of artistic tastes.
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05.25.2007 LA Weekly gets up close and personal with Miranda July
LA Weekly profiles Miranda July and her new book, No One Belongs Here More Than You.
05.25.2007 NY News profiles Miranda July
nynews.com profiles genre- and platform-hopper Miranda July.
05.12.2007 Miranda July Finds a Fresh Use for Kitchen Appliances
Miranda July’s new book No One Belongs Here More Than You comes out May 15. Check out her interesting approach to the book’s website. And then go to her Reading And Dance Party on May 17 at Neumos. It’s FREE!
05.10.2007 Miranda July on the Radar
Radar has a nice long feature on Miranda July.
04.04.2007 Bumbershoot 2007 Partial Lineup
As spring begins to bloom some of you may already be gearing up to make summer plans. We have something that just might help… a glimpse at the 2007 Bumbershoot lineup! Gold, Platinum, and 3-day passes are on sale now.
03.26.2007 2007 Mayor's Arts Awards nominations open
Know an individual or organization making a difference in Seattle's communities through arts and culture? Nominate them (pdf) for a 2007 Mayor's Arts Award. Mayor Greg Nickels will present the awards at a ceremony, Friday, Aug. 31 at Seattle Center in partnership with Bumbershoot!
Nomination deadline is Monday, April 9, 2007.