Summer Book Bingo: Nature
April 23, 2020
2020 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library, is coming very soon! We’ve been giving a sneak preview of a Book Bingo square each week until the full card i...
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An Interview with Kristen Millares Young, author of “Subduction”
April 22, 2020
By Gabriela Denise Frank We are sharing a seismic moment. An unprecedented global pause is shifting space-time as we know it. Our struggle with sheltering in place has revealed both tension and gaps i...
“El Amar Y El Querer,” by Marta Juárez-Aguilar
April 17, 2020
El Amar Y El Querer Es el cielo o el infierno Aquella voz como fuego Que consume mente y cuerpo Cenizas dejadas al viento Saberlo todo y vivir la nada Estar viva y morir viviendo Comprender, no compre...
A Letter from Ruth
April 16, 2020
Dear friends, I was so moved by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s editorial in the New York Times last week, which made me want to return to my notes from when Nguyen came to SAL in May 2018. I got to bring hi...
Summer Book Bingo: Uplifting
April 14, 2020
2020 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library, is nearly here—early! We’re giving a sneak preview of a Book Bingo square each week until the full card is ...
Stepping Up Together: Help SAL Support Kids & Teachers
April 10, 2020
Seattle Arts & Lectures has the chance to provide critical support to kids and their teachers right now, and we need your help. On Monday, April 6, Gov. Inslee announced that Washington state scho...
Next on the SAL Podcast: Ross Gay
April 9, 2020
In our latest episode of SAL/on air, our literary podcast featuring talks from across Seattle Arts & Lectures’ thirty years, we hear from poet Ross Gay. In a time like this, where do you look to...
Faces of SAL: Sally Roberts & Richard Broad
April 3, 2020
If you’ve been to a SAL event, then you’ve seen couple Sally and Richard. Do you need a program? They always have one in hand. Need help finding a seat? They will search for you. Have a qu...
How to Support Local Restaurants Right Now
April 2, 2020
Tons of local restaurants are finding ways to provide to-go food for their communities while honoring Governor Inslee’s orders to stay home and stay healthy. We can’t all be Lizzo, who just genero...
A Letter from Ruth
April 2, 2020
Dear friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about these words: unprecedented, unimaginable, unknown. Perhaps like many of you, I keep notes on the moments from lectures and conversations that particularl...