ArtSEA: Memorial Day Weekend opens Seattle’s outdoor music season
Summer festivals include old favorites from Northwest Folklife to Bumbershoot, plus new waterfront concert venues Downtown and in Tacoma.
Brangien Davis
Brangien Davis is the arts and culture editor at Cascade PBS, where she writes the weekly https://crosscut.com/artsea
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ArtSEA: SIFF launches amid federal threats to the film industry
The festival showcases an inspiring array of international and regional voices in cinema, including a locally made doc about Seattle’s first disco.
ArtSEA: NEA tells Northwest arts orgs their funding is ‘terminated’
Plus, the Seattle writers who earned Pulitzer Prize honors, book-themed weekend events and a significant loss to the poetry scene.
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Seattle writer Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize for best memoir
‘Feeding Ghosts,’ a graphic memoir, traces three generations of Chinese women across time and continents, trauma and resilience.
ArtSEA: The surprising Seattle connection to ‘The White Lotus’
Plus, local art shows with “opening sequence” vibes and three inventive takes on memoir.