Vee Hua 華婷婷For the second year in a row, BAZZOOKAFEST 2022 returns as a free BIPOC-powered music and arts festival. Taking place at Jefferson Park in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, the two-day event will feature an array of gender-expansive artists...
By way of Chicago, illustrator and printmaker Yewon Kwon landed in Seattle in late 2020, in desire of a lifestyle change and a chance to be closer to nature. A nonbinary artist of Korean heritage, Kwon uses art as a processing mechanism for highly...
Translations 2022 returns with a hybrid festival of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive films from around the world! An initiative of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, Translations features short films, feature films, and networking events which...
Almost immediately after I conclude my interview with Seattle R&B singer Olivia Thomas — who goes by the name LIVt — a crew of people flood into the small basement green room at Barboza. They’re members of the opening bands...
With the 24-minute narrative short film, Matter of Time, Seattle-based production company swimteam join forces with hip-hop musician T.J. Bell, aka Campana, to create their most ambitious collaboration to date. Matter of Time follows a young Black...
Photo courtesy of PO Box Collective in Chicago Located in major cities, rural areas, and all types of geographies in-between, DIY (Do-It-Yourself) organizers, collectives, and cultural spaces can encompass everything from music venues in dilapidated...
Midway through interviewing Seattle artist and filmmaker Kolby Rowland, I notice that a building I have walked by a zillion times is now overlooking us, dangling a gigantic red and white sign which reads, “FOR LEASE.” Its upper two...
Fruitbowl, Seattle filmmaker David Quantic’s hybrid documentary and podcast series, is dedicated to “an oral history of queer sex.” Featuring colorful coming-of-age stories from diverse queer people across the country, Fruitbowl is...