This article was written on special assignment for the Art Beat blog through the TeenTix Press Corps, a teen arts journalism program run by TeenTix, a youth empowerment and arts access nonprofit organization. Read their other Art Beat articles here.
The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) is partnering with TeenTix to publish a round-up of arts and cultural events. The partnership supports and provides additional outlets for teen expressions in media. TeenTix programs create a place for teens to process, interpret, reflect, and think critically about the content they engage with through professional journalism and podcasting practice, and in-school arts criticism training. TeenTix and ARTS support and uplift youth voices in media to empower students while fostering future writers and content creators. Read more work by youth at teentix.org.
Take a peek at some of their recent features below:
Reimagining Identity: The Feminine Perspective at the Seattle Black Film Festival
Review of SEATTLE BLACK FILM FESTIVAL at LANGSTON
Written by TeenTix Newsroom Writer HANNAH SMITH and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member AUDREY GRAY
For this year’s Seattle Black Film Festival, arts organization, and festival host LANGSTON Seattle paid homage to the complexity of Black experiences. The festival offered a variety of films featuring local and international Black actors, directors, and producers. The genres and styles varied from unconventional mediums, like music and dance videos, to short yet devastating films showcasing the intricacies of interpersonal relationships. I focused on short films from the series “‘Waiting to Exhale: Films from the Feminine Perspective” and was struck by how each filmmaker chose to utilize or subvert expectations placed on Black women.
Adam Neiman’s Piano Recital is a Sonic Jewel Box
Review of ADAM NEIMAN at SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
Written by TeenTix Newsroom Writer OLIVIA QI and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member ANNA MELOMED
Pianist Adam Neiman is a painter of sound. No note is too brief for him to color, and no piece is too simple to spin vivid images of. At the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Neiman’s program of Ravel and Rachmaninoff miniatures wasn’t monumental, but he brought out their charm. Sensitive and meticulous, he treated the audience to a jewel box of a performance—intimate, quaint, and restorative.
Going All Out @ Day In Day Out Fest
Written by TeenTix Alumni VIDA BEHAR on special assignment to Day In Day Out Fest.
Day in Day Out is a three day indie music festival at Fischer Pavilion in the Seattle Center. This year, hundreds of people flocked out to see their favorite artists while withstanding some seriously hot weather, with temperatures hovering around the mid 80s over the weekend.
How To Honor a Lost Connection
Review of GONE TOO SOON at MOPOP
Written by TeenTix Newsroom Writer VADA CHAMBERS and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member AAMINA MUGHAL
Like most people, I feel attached to celebrities, to people I’ve never met. It’s a cerebral thing, to wonder about that connection, to wonder how you’d feel about those people if the story had ended differently. That’s what Gone Too Soon seeks to explore—how death can immortalize, and how it can make something more meaningful.
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