Treat yourself to some “Slow Cookin'” from Cajun band Big Squeezy, a tune “Under The Moon” by Dub Lounge International, and the siren song of a glow bug as told by indie stars Mirah and Spectratone International. Call city phone lines and here the latest Seattle OnHold music mix. Check out the rest of the line-up on the OnHold Web site.
You don’t have to dial a city office and be placed on hold to hear the music. Subscribe to the free music podcast to get a new song every seven to 11 days.
Step back in time with the Greg Williamson Large Ensemble as it re-imagines music of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (A-Y-P) Exhibition – Seattle’s first world’s fair. The 15-member group will play period instruments and project images from the fair.
The free noontime performance, Thursday, Oct. 29 is part of our year-round Seattle Presents concert series. Thanks to our partner Earshot Jazz Festival. View the full concert calendar.
In college, Joe Mallahan minored in art. Mike McGinn’s iPod features a mix of music – from jazz to folk to roots reggae. Seattle Channel’s C.R. Douglas sat down this week with the mayoral candidates to talk arts and culture. Learn more about their personal tastes and hear what the candidates have to say about arts education, affordable cultural space, the future of Seattle Center, dedicated funding for the arts, the City of Music initiative and more.
To watch the interview with Mallahan, click here. To watch the interview with McGinn, click here.
Read the candidates’ responses to an arts and culture questionnaire issued by the Washington State Arts Alliance. To date, several candidates for Seattle City Council, city attorney and mayor have submitted their responses.
For more than three decades, weather and insects took their toll on a waterfront totem pole. So when the Port of Seattle called, we were happy to lend a hand to return the totem to its original glory and install it at its new home in Elliott Bay Park. Tiffany Hedrick, the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs’ conservation technician, worked with the Port and a Tlingit tribal representative to refurbish the Port-owned pole. Watch a two-minute video to get a glimpse of the crew fast at work.
The Port commissioned the 32-foot-tall totem in 1975. Its first home was Alaska Square at Pier 48. John Hagen, Ed Kasko and Cliff Thomas, members of Alaska Indian Arts, Inc., carved the pole to honor the relationship between Alaska and Washington. After nearly 25 years at the pier, the Port moved the totem to one of its outdoor terminals before installing it at Elliot Bay Park earlier this month. The Port rededicated the totem at a ceremony featuring traditional ceremonial dances by members of local and Alaskan tribes.
We think it’s cool that Gabi Campanario, who has a sketching gig with the Seattle Times, draws on arts and cultural events to tell the city’s story. Last week, he stopped by Jovino Santos Neto’s free lunchtime concert at City Hall, billing the concerts as a welcome break from the cubicle. Campanario also sketched the Christopher Columbus statue, which is temporarily under cover to protect it from vandals, and Hammering Man, who will undergo repairs to his arm in early November.
Seattle Art Museum has a new director, Derrick Cartwright. You can meet him at a CityClub event, Tuesday, Oct. 20 at Washington Athletic Club. KUOW’s Marcie Sillman will moderate the “Conversation with Derrick Cartwright,” which is part of CityClub’s Arts & Culture Series. Registration opens at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon program is 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Click here to register. We’re pleased to be one of several co-presenters.
Before coming to Seattle, Cartwright was executive director at the San Diego Museum, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and director of the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny in France. He succeeds Mimi Gates, a 2007 Mayor’s Arts Award recipient, who retired in June after 15 years as SAM’s director.
Also, check out SAM’s new blog SOAP, where Cartwright writes he is in “deep listening mode” his second week on the job.
Master pianist, flutist and composer Jovino Santos Neto performs contemporary Brazilian music with his trio Thursday, Oct. 15, noon to 1 p.m. Jovino is beloved for his musical playfulness and stunning dexterity.
The free concert is part of the Seattle Presents lunchtime concert series at City Hall. Check out the rest of the fall concert schedule here.
The fall arts season is in full swing. So is flu season. And the winter storm season isn’t far behind. When disaster strikes, many arts and cultural organizations have no plan to help them prepare for, respond to and recover from an emergency.
Being prepared means having a plan BEFORE a crisis hits. Many arts and cultural organizations are busy paying the bills and launching the next show, leaving precious little time to craft an emergency plan.
Sound familiar? If so, take time now to plan for the next disaster. Arts and cultural organizations are invited to a free emergency-preparedness seminar, 2 to 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Seattle University’s Piggott Auditorium. Get more details and register here.
The seminar is hosted by Seattle University, in partnership with ArtsFund, 4Culture, the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Public Health-Seattle & King County.
We bought some art from emerging Northwest artists to add to the city’s Portable Works Collection. Come check out the artworks, meet the artists and enjoy some free eats. We’re hosting an artist reception, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery.
On display are 25 works by 17 artists—including paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture and mixed media. The featured pieces are part of a larger recent purchase by Seattle City Light totaling 86 works by 56 artists. We’ve divided the purchase up into three shows. This show is the second installment. It closes on Dec. 31. The rest of the artworks will be on display in a third exhibition opening in January. Preview all the artworks online.
Image: Justin Gibbens, Double-headed Redtail (detail), 2008; watercolor, gouache, ink, pencil, tea on paper; 40″ x 26″. Photo by Justin Gibbens.
