Press & Media Archive
October 30, 2024
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Normal Gossip’s Kelsey McKinney Added to 2024/25 Season
June 14, 2022
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2021/22 Youth Poet Laureate Zinnia Hansen’s Book Release
February 1, 2022
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces New Date for Michael Schur
January 21, 2022
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Format & Time Change for Ed Yong
January 7, 2022
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Format Change for Bernardine Evaristo: Event Will Be Online-Only
December 2, 2021
Comedy Television Creator Michael Schur Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2021/22 Season
November 3, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Indigenous Literature and Land-Based Pedagogy Workshop with Laura Da’
October 25, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces New Date for Jelani Cobb
May 28, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2020/21 Youth Poet Laureate Bitaniya Giday to Publish Her First Book in June 2021
March 25, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures Names Ijeoma Oluo and Jack Straw Cultural Center as 8th Annual Prowda Literary Champions
February 18, 2021
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Ibram X. Kendi Event Changes
February 10, 2021
Luvvie Ajayi Jones Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2020/21 Season
January 5, 2021
Bill Gates Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2020/21 Season
December 3, 2020
‘Black Futures’: A Timeless Capture of What it Means to be Black and Alive—South Seattle Emerald
December 1, 2020
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Winter Events Will Be Online-Only
November 9, 2020
Seattle Arts & Lectures & Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas Present Black Futures with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
August 13, 2020
Tana French to Join Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2020/21 Season
May 27, 2020
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 2019/20 Youth Poet Laureate Wei-Wei Lee to Publish Her First Book on June 9, 2020
April 2, 2020
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Online Event With Elizabeth Kolbert on 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
February 7, 2020
Her Creativity and Other Inspirations—TeenTix
February 5, 2020
SAL Names Books to Prisoners and Amy Wheeler, Outgoing Executive Director of Hedgebrook, As Seventh Annual Sherry Prowda Literary Champions
January 28, 2020
In ‘Tightrope,’ Pulitzer-winning writers examine the woes of the U.S. working class in their hometown—The Seattle Times
January 22, 2020
Reporters who broke Harvey Weinstein story to speak at Benaroya Hall—The Seattle Times
January 9, 2020
In her haunting memoir, Carmen Maria Machado tackles abuse in queer relationships—The Seattle Times
June 3, 2019
“Make it as intimate as possible:” Solmaz Sharif at Seattle Arts & Lectures—Poetry Northwest
May 15, 2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell among Seattle Arts & Lectures speakers in 2019-20 season—The Seattle Times
February 11, 2019
SAL Names Claudia Castro Luna and Hugo House as Sixth Annual Sherry Prowda Literary Champion Winners
February 1, 2019
Tara Westover Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2018/19 Season
January 30, 2019
Melinda Gates Joins Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2018/19 Season
October 19, 2018
Phoebe Robinson Gets Real About Confidence, Honesty and Writing in Her Own Way—The Seattle Times
August 2, 2018
SAL Announces 2018/19 Season Featuring Alice Walker, Barbara Kingsolver, Van Jones, & More!
February 16, 2018
Madeleine Albright to Join Seattle Arts & Lectures’ 2017/18 Season
December 15, 2017
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces Event with Daniel Pink, March 5
June 15, 2017
NEA Approves $25,000 Grant for Seattle Arts & Lectures to Support Writers in the Schools
May 4, 2017
SAL Receives Major Support from M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for “Bridge to 30” Capital Project
April 25, 2017
Seattle Arts & Lectures Announces 30th Anniversary Season to Feature Ron Chernow, Isabel Allende, Colson Whitehead, & More
February 23, 2017