Welcome, Betsey Brock!
February 18, 2022
Meet Betsey Brock, SAL’s new Development Director! You may already know Betsey from her longtime visionary work in the Seattle arts community, where she most recently served as the Executive Dir...
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A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures
“Peace” by WITS Student Gwyneth Febus
December 22, 2021
Peace and I met at 2 in the morning with my head hanging out the window to catch snow on my tongue He was so cold and refreshing and new He breathed out white clouds And the light of the moon reflecti...
Write It Out with SAL & Hugo House
December 9, 2021
Through our Writers in the Schools (WITS) program SAL empowers young people to discover and develop their authentic writing and performance voices—but we believe in the power of writing for people o...
“Dancing is My Passion” by WITS Student Ivy Lorca
December 2, 2021
Dancing is you with me floating on the sea with the sunshine on your face like you’re on stage with the lights on finding your way back but you can’t leave Dancing is like poetry: the song never e...
Faces of Bushwick: Matt Price
November 24, 2021
To celebrate our longtime partnership with Bushwick Book Club Seattle, we’re speaking with local musicians who have composed and performed songs inspired by the written works of SAL speakers. Learn...
What the SAL Staff is Reading (and Eating!): Fall Edition
November 19, 2021
In this edition of SAL Staff Reads, we turn our attention to Thanksgiving break, where our eleven team members answer the two most burning questions of the moment: what to eat—and what book to unwin...
Faces of Bushwick: Ben Mish
November 11, 2021
To celebrate our longtime partnership with Bushwick Book Club Seattle, we’re speaking with local musicians who have composed and performed songs inspired by the written works of SAL speakers. Learn...
Five Questions: Indira Dahlstrom, WITS Program Coordinator
November 10, 2021
A warm welcome to Indira Dahlstrom, our new WITS Program Coordinator! To introduce her to the SAL community, we asked Indira five questions—get to know her below! Welcome to the team! Can you tell u...
CAT Partner Spotlight: Chief Seattle Club
November 5, 2021
Our Community Access Tickets (CAT) program welcomes people into the SAL community by eliminating price as a barrier. For the next quarter, the CAT program will be co-presented with Chief Seattle Club....
“A Poem of Silence” by WITS Student Saioa Ouyoumjian
October 29, 2021
Words. Everywhere and nowhere. Everything begins with them, a poem, a friendship, a thought. To have silence, is to have words. To have peace, is to have words. Floating around you unseen. You think t...