Multifaceted Seattle-based singer-songwriter Deshawn Rivers always had aspirations of being an artist, though he didn’t know what kind. He just wanted to express his inklings for creation. Over time...
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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...
Navi EsparzaHosted 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...
Saelyx FinnaThe 2024 edition of True/False, the annual festival of film and music in Columbia, Missouri, features 42 musical acts who perform between February 28th and March 3rd. According to True/False, “Music touches every part of the festival:...
Upon first blush, one might pigeonhole Memphis-based artist Ashely Santinac, aka Ash León, as a rapper — but while they do rap, they find the label to be far too limiting. They are a self-described “interplanetary nonbinary...
I haven’t even stepped foot into the Snotty Nose Rez Kids show, and I already notice a couple things outside the venue. Clearly, the Indigenous fashion is on-point, with beaded earrings and cedar hats aplenty, and the audience is shockingly...
NNAMDÏ is the type of multidisciplinary artist whose playful approach to creativity renders him instantly disarming. The Chicago-based musician, whose real name is Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, makes art that is bursting — no, EXPLODING! — with...
Working through a multitude of mediums, queer POC writer, musician, and artist Bunny Michael creates with an expansive, soul-filled purpose of serving one’s Higher Self. In spring 2023, they released a genre-bending 5-track EP entitled Angels...