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May 2015
Spirit of Pride Teen Pageant 2015
Spirit of Pride Teen Pageant Sunday, May 3, 2015 Time: 7 – 9:30 p.m. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute 104 17th Avenue S, Seattle 98122 Free to attend. An all-gender event. Categories: Day at School, Talent/Performance, Theme - Spirit of Pride Interested contestants please visit http://www.Facebook.com/SeattleParksCOD for application. Contestants under the age of 18 must complete an E-13 parental authorization form. Pageant open to contestants age 13 – 20. Deadline to enter the pageant is end of day Sunday, April…
Find out more »December 2015
WE ARE ONE: A FREE CONCERT FOR WORLD AIDS DAY
A free concert to lift your spirit in commemoration of World AIDS Day 2015, featuring performances by: Message from Guinea Zambuko Marimba Ensemble Kaze Daiko Temple Beth AM Choir Minister Sam L. Townsend & the Imani Fellowship Choir Sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research and Fred Hutch. Produced by the Multicultural HIV/Hepatitis Action Network (MHHAN) in partnership with Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. MHHAN is a network of community-based organizations and concerned community members working…
Find out more »October 2016
Power: from the Mouths of the Occupied
As part of a national effort to end State violence, Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied will feature the stories of Black community members who have been targeted by law enforcement and denied basic human rights in a collaborative performance that amplifies experiences that are typically unseen and unheard. This is the first time the Seattle community will participate in Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors' national production. Seattle participants will tell their stories to help transform our community…
Find out more »February 2017
Cultural Xpressions
This is a weekend produced by Sundiata African American Cultural Association, the same group that brings you Festival Sundiata. We felt that the community deserved this great event during Black History Month. We proudly present Cultural Xpressions, a cultural event you don't want to miss. Check the schedule on the flyer there is too much to list here. It's free to the public, space permitting, Once the tickets are gone they are gone. They will be available at Langston Hughes…
Find out more »Show the Love Launch Party & INTIMAN 2017 Season Announcement
Join Intiman as we announce our 2017 programming and kick off our big, bold #SHOWTHELOVE Campaign! We’re showing the #love to our powerful community of collaborators and mischief makers - and we’re doing it with champagne and bold local talent like 2017 Co-Curator, Solo Performer, Activist, and magic-maker Sara Porkalob amongst others. #<3 Find out more about the campaign: http://www.showthelove.rallybound.org Join us at at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institutefor free drinks, outstanding performances, and other fun surprises. Tickets: $20 (FREE…
Find out more »March 2017
Genre Bender 2017
Genre Bender is an original event produced by City Arts that pairs up 10 Seattle artists of diverse disciplines, talents and voices, and commissions them to create original and unique collaborations. This year’s sixth iteration of Genre Bender will feature the following artist pairs: - Choreographer/Thunderpussy frontwoman Molly Sides + street artist No Touching Ground - Rapper/storyteller Yirim Seck + filmmaker/conceptual artist DK Pan - Visual artist/designer Mary Anne Carter + dancer/choreographer Dani Tirrell - Folk/blues musician Ben Hunter +…
Find out more »Genre Bender 2017
Genre Bender is an original event produced by City Arts that pairs up 10 Seattle artists of diverse disciplines, talents and voices, and commissions them to create original and unique collaborations. This year’s sixth iteration of Genre Bender will feature the following artist pairs: - Choreographer/Thunderpussy frontwoman Molly Sides + street artist No Touching Ground - Rapper/storyteller Yirim Seck + filmmaker/conceptual artist DK Pan - Visual artist/designer Mary Anne Carter + dancer/choreographer Dani Tirrell - Folk/blues musician Ben Hunter +…
Find out more »October 2017
An Evening with G. Willow Wilson
G. Willow Wilson lies at the center of multiple fault lines of American identity. Originally a self-described “upper-middle-class American White girl with bland politics and polite beliefs,” she converted to Islam while in college, worked as a journalist in Mubarak’s Egypt, and now writes the hugely successful comic series Ms. Marvel. Featuring a Pakistani-American teenage girl from Jersey City named Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel became a surprise hit, winning a Hugo Award and becoming one of the few comics in…
Find out more »December 2017
The Every 28 Hours Plays (Seattle)
The Every 28 Hours Plays (Seattle) A Play reading and celebration to activate, cultivate, and shape the community around the injustices against Black people. The Every 28 Hours Plays is a national collaboration inspired by our current Civil Rights Movement. The title focuses on the widely shared and contested statistic that every 28 hours in America, a black person is killed by the police, vigilante, or security guard. The collection of 80 one minute plays about this historic time were…
Find out more »February 2018
Back to the Block: A Theater and Jazz Experience
Back to the Block: A Theater and Jazz Experience Saturday, February 24, 2018 7 – 8:30 pm http://mohai.org/event/back-to-the-block-a-theater-and-jazz-experience/ This program takes place at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Experience the richness of Seattle jazz in this immersive performance of live music and monologues. Local artists engage with Central Area history, as recorded by photographer Al Smith in Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith. Join them to celebrate the legacy of jazz in the city from past…
Find out more »March 2018
Cinema Dissection: Bamboozled
Are you ready for one intense Cinema Dissection? Join our class in discussing Spike Lee's BAMBOOZLED. Let's engage with his controversial commentary on the historical and modern implications of minstrelsy. We will examine the film scene-by-scene with filmmaker and scholar Sharon Williams, along with audience observations. In 2000, Bamboozled hit like a bolt of lightning. Spike Lee's provocative portrait of a black TV creative producer who decides to commit career suicide by proposing the most offensive show he can imagine,…
Find out more »June 2018
Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist
Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist A Multi-Media Solo Performance by Chad Goller-Sojourner In Partnership with Langston, Gay City & 4- Culture June 21, 22 & 23, 2018 PRIDE WEEKEND Set in NYC during the height of the AIDS Crisis, Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist, is a Multimedia Solo Performance, that explores the paradoxical and precarious relationship between fighting AIDS while simultaneously engaging in multiple self-harming behaviors. Despite being on the…
Find out more »October 2018
Madison McFerrin / SassyBlack
Co-presented with Langston. $20 adults, $18 Earshot members and seniors, $10 students and military. Two arresting singer/songwriter/producers: New Yorker Madison McFerrin deploys “wonderful vocal dexterity, deftly swerving from sharp, clearly enunciated staccato bursts to fluttery, free-form melismata” (New York Times), while Seattle’s SassyBlack conjures up “electronic psychedelic soul” and “hologram funk.” https://www.facebook.com/events/523370601435666/
Find out more »November 2018
Transgender Day Of Resistance and Remembrance 2018
Trans Day of Resistance and Remembrance “Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living!” Trans Day of Resistance and Remembrance “Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living!” In light of the most recent waves of attacks on trans people, there is a growing urgency within the queer and trans community, as well as the wider left, to develop a strategy to fight back against these vicious attacks. PFLAG, UAW 4121, Seattle Democratic Socialists of America,…
Find out more »May 2019
Theater: FagGod
FagGod is a new, evolving work-in-progress created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua, and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance and storytelling as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. We honor those that have passed, that did not receive the love and respect they deserved. Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and…
Find out more »September 2019
Randy Ford + CD Forum present Queen Street
QUEEN STREET is a physicalized experience through the lens of queer, trans, non binary, and gender nonconforming people of color. This full length evening dance show highlights the importance of centering intersectionality by giving audiences a peek inside the physical, mental, and spiritual transitions of its performers. Randy Ford (Au Collective, Black Bois) creator and performer, uses dance, theater, photography, video, and song to show how evolution doesn't just happen once but we are in an ever evolving state. The…
Find out more »October 2019
Horror Noire Screening with Tananarive Due
Presented by Langston Seattle and hosted by Seattle's Horror Hostess, Isabella L. Price, this screening will explore the depiction of black people throughout the history of horror films. From the black painted racist monsters of Birth of a Nation to the social justice smash hit, Get Out, the roles of black characters is varied and barely explored. The documentary, a first and only of its kind, delves deep into the lore and impact of horror on society. Renowned writer and…
Find out more »December 2019
The Wondaland BALL
Alice in Wonderland is a childhood classic and introduced us to whimsical, twisted, magical realms. WONDALAND is to Alice in Wonderland as The WIZ is to the The Wizard of OZ. We are putting our twist on Alice’s playground and making it richer, extra melanated, queerer, and sexier. THE WONDALAND BALL calls for us to recreate this fantasy in OUR style. CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS: 1. LIP SYNC PERFORMANCE: You have just awakened in WONDALAND and not sure how you arrived. You’ve…
Find out more »January 2020
Showing Out: Black Choreographers (part 2)
SHOWING OUT: CONTEMPORARY BLACK CHOREOGRAPHERS (Part 2) A mentorship and performance event curated by Dani Tirrell. SHOWING OUT supports the creation and development of work created by Black Choreographers from around the Pacific Northwest -- perfectly aligned with CD Forum's mission to support distinctive Black artistic voices. This follow up to Showing Out Part 1 (Nov 2019), during which artists received audience feedback, showcases new and re-imagined iterations of their work. Some adult content and language. Recommended for ages 12…
Find out more »February 2020
Special Sunday Dinner (On Sat): Black Bois Cast
A SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER (on Saturday) + The Living Room (hosted by Dani Tirrell, Randy Ford and J Mase III), with featured guests, the cast of BLACK BOIS, following their Feb 14th performance at The Moore Theatre, Seattle. Each month we are bringing the community together for food and conversation, as we celebrate some of the most inspirational Black folx in Arts and Culture. We will enjoy food catered by some of Seattle's most sought after and talented Black chefs.…
Find out more »Black Bois After Party
Join the cast of Black Bois as we celebrate this groundbreaking work. We are ready to party with our community. As we do with Black Bois come looking fly AF! And also come dressed to sweat and break it down. With DJ Essex and DJ Onesies (Markeith Wiley). Dessert Bar and Cash Bar Cost: $10.00 at the door, with cash or card. Or, attend the Special Sunday Dinner (On Sat): Black Bois Cast before hand, and admission to the After…
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