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08.26.2009 Your Bumbershoot Stories Wanted!
Assemblage, a national arts collective, wants your Bumbershoot stories and memories for Way Stations, a unique audio walking tour made especially for Bumbershoot. Way Stations is combining fan emails, voice messages and hours of personal interviews to create an audio experience that evokes the lives of strangers who share public and private spaces.
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08.25.2009 Today's Fresh Links: Black Joe Lewis, Three Inches of Blood, Champagne Champagne and more!
Champagne Champagne party with the people, 3 Inches of Blood share new music, Black Joe Lewis shares his musical story and more in today’s Fresh Links.
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08.24.2009 Bring the Kids on Down to Youngershoot!
Bumbershoot is a great place to take even the youngest of music and arts fans, to explore, create and enjoy kid-friendly entertainment all weekend long! Weâve highlighted the performances and activities that we think the entire family can get behind in our Youngershoot schedule. Check it out!
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08.17.2009 Uniting Cultures Across Borders: The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show
The culmination of Daniel Smith’s cross-cultural poster shows is here! Get connected and head over to Seattle Center’s Northwest Rooms to check out the debut of The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show Bumbershoot weekend.
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08.10.2009 Reggie Watts: Man About Town!
Not only is Reggie Watts a stand-up comedian, musician, and performance artist, but he takes all these magical forms and blends them together into SUPER ENTERTAINMENT! Discover more about this performance polymath after the jump.
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08.03.2009 BuzzDish: Seattle hosts eclectic Labor Day weekend festival
BuzzDish.com highlights Bumbershoot’s diversity not only in music, but also in arts, comedy and film!
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08.03.2009 Bring the Kids on Down to Youngershoot!
Bumbershoot is a great place to take even the youngest of music and arts fans, to explore, create and enjoy kid-friendly entertainment all weekend long! We’ve highlighted the performances and activities that we think the entire family can get behind in our Youngershoot schedule. Check it out!
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07.27.2009 Word of Mouth: Youth Speaks Seattle is Hella Dope
Youth Speaks Seattle is bringing their freshest spoken word to this yearâs Bumbershoot. These poets may be young, but they deliver an earful of goodness and truth that will open your heart and expand your mind.
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07.21.2009 COBU Wins Kollaboration NYC
Congratulations to COBU, the big winners at Kollaboration NYC 2009! COBU will perform all three days at Bumbershoot, bringing their top notch dancing and drumming with them.
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07.20.2009 Music That Tears Itself Apart: Jason Webley is My Hero
Whether performing his stage-stravaganza or leading a parade through the grounds, Jason Webley will make you remember why you love Bumbershoot.
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07.13.2009 Who? What? Why? The Pop Oracle Knows All. Find Your Answers at Radio8Ball.
Have you been looking for answers in all the wrong places- the crystal ball, the palm reader, wikipedia? Well your search is over, listen to the Pop Oracle for your answers at Radio8Ball during this yearâs Bumbershoot.
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07.06.2009 A True Renaissance Man: Melvin Van Peebles Does It All
Melvin Van Peebles is coming to Bumbershoot! This icon will be giving insight into his life and creative mastermind as he speaks on his loosely based autobiographic graphic novel and movie, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus ItchyFooted Mutha.
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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 yearâs Bumbershoot. The best of Seattleâs dance world has come together to take on the challenge of reinventing Haimâs 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 Intâl 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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05.02.2009 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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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
Weâre 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 âShoot, courtesy of your very own Bumbershoot Insider. So pay attention, take notes if you need, because Iâm about to drop some knowledge on all yâall.
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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.
