SEPTEMBER 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
EMP Latino Exhibit Debut
SAM and Hotel 1000 Team Up
Jazz, A to Z
Fifty Theatres Participate in Theatre Week
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
EMP Latino Exhibit Debut
Experience Music Project, an interactive music museum, will open a new exhibit entitled American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music on Oct. 13. The exhibit is the first-ever bilingual and interactive museum exhibition to explore the influence and importance of Latinos in American popular music. The exhibition includes 100 artifacts such as Ritchie Valens' Harmony electric guitar and the Mexican-style vest he wore on American Bandstand in 1958, a gown and shoes worn by salsa star Celia Cruz, as well as oral history interviews with 45 Latino musicians. The exhibit will be at Experience Music Project through Sept. 7, 2008 followed by a national traveling tour.
For more information, visit www.empsfm.org.
SAM and Hotel 1000 Team Up
This fall, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) will present Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum in two parts, Oct. 11- November 25, 2007 and Dec. 1, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008.The exhibit features 142 pieces such as paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware and textiles, many of which have never traveled out of Japan before. The exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Seattle-Kobe sister city relationship.
SAM is also co-presenting a speaker series with Hotel 1000, taking place on the first Wednesday of every month now through Feb. 6, 2008. The series is designed to give locals and visitors a behind-the scenes look into the collections that make the Seattle Art Museum one of the premier art museums in the northwest. Each month, attendees are invited to the Studio at Hotel 1000, a living room-style alcove, for a reception featuring a curator or special guest speaker from SAM and a presentation on one of the museum's current exhibits.
The October 3, 2007 lecture will feature SAM's Asian Art Curator, Yukiko Shirahara, with an insider's look into Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum. The cost is $10 per reception, which includes valet parking and wine and hors d'oeuvres from BOKA Kitchen + Bar.
Visit www.seattleartmuseum.org for more information.
Jazz, A to Z
The 19th annual Earshot Jazz Festival begins Oct.19 and plays through Nov. 4, with more than 70 events in concert halls, clubs and community centers in the Seattle area. Seattle's most popular jazz festival, the Earshot Jazz Festival brings hundreds of artists to Seattle for performances, workshops, classes and panel discussions. Festival programs also include a series of rare jazz films and photo exhibitions. This year's festival celebrates Jazz from A to Z, kicking off with jazz master Ahmad Jamal and ending with John Zorn.
For more information and a complete schedule, call the Earshot Jazz Festival at (206) 547-9787 or visit www.earshotjazz.org.
Fifty Theatres Participate in Theatre Week
Theatre Puget Sound presents Live Theatre Week, October 15-21. During Live Theatre Week, local theaters join together to offer 50 free night performances, as well as 30 special events such as open houses, workshops, tours and meet-the-artist events. Participating theaters include larger theaters such as the 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT Theatre and the Intiman Theatre, as well as small theaters such as the Seattle Shakespeare Company, the Taproot Theatre Company and the Washington Ensemble Theatre.
For a detailed schedule of events, visit seattleperforms.com/ltw or call (206) 770-0370.
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
The 12th annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival will be held Oct. 12-21. The festival is the largest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest and plays a vital role in film and video in the Seattle area lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. The festival will present 75 programs with more than 150 narrative features, documentaries, local films and shorts. The programs will be held at eight venues throughout Seattle, such as the Seattle Public Library's Central Library, the Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama Theatre and the Harvard Exit Theatre. Festival passes and single tickets go on sale Sept. 25, 2007 via ticketwindowonline.com, by phone at (206) 325-6500 and at all Ticket/Ticket outlets in the Seattle area.
For more information, visit www.seattlequeerfilm.org
Journalists are encouraged to contact the following SCVB public relations staff for answers to questions or for more information:
David Blandford, (206) 461-5806
dblandford@visitseattle.org
Heather Bryant, (206) 461-5805
hbryant@visitseattle.org
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