Vee Hua 華婷婷Returning for the second year since it went on a hiatus from 2020 to 2022, Bumbershoot Festival 2024 took place in Seattle Center over August 31 and September 1 – the Saturday and Sunday prior to Labor Day. Its strong presence of interdisciplinary...
Bizhiki‘s debut album, Unbound, released on JagJaguwar, presents a powerful reimagining of contemporary Native music, born from Ojibwe homelands of the present-day Midwest. A multi-genre, multicultural collaboration that spanned across years...
Before Mexico City’s Sonido Gallo Negro took the stage at the Nectar Lounge in Seattle, the evening had already been beautifully anticipating their presence. Such anticipation began at the entryway, where the band’s swaggy merch – full...
Navi EsparzaIn the Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence exhibit at Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), multidisciplinary artist Anida Yoeu Ali invites guests into a wonderland featuring two of her most iconic art pieces: The Buddhist Bug and The Red Chador. It is the...
Hosted at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on April 26, the 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival celebrated opening night with Songs from the Hole, a powerful and moving documentary film co-written and directed by Emmy-nominated...
On a cloudy day in early April, Black art gallery Wa Na Nari partnered with Black Cinema Collective to showcase a screening of five short films from New York-based Caribbean multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Simon Benjamin. The screening took...
For the 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival, Seattle interdisciplinary arts organization LANGSTON portrays an expansive definition of Blackness in film. With stories representing experiences of African Americans, immigrants, those living beyond...
Over the course of the past three years, Los Angeles-based Russian-American artist, filmmaker, and illustrator Phillip Gladkov has been working on his first mixed media animated short film, Story of the Sun. In what may be the first birch bark...