Until recently my attachment to records has been more or less superficial, but when I started buying ethnographic records a couple years ago I began to see how they are loaded with cultural significance for both the listener and the cultures producing them. On one...
The final listening party at SAM’s Record Store will be held January 31 from 6:30-9 pm. Donna Moodie from Marjorie restaurant, Alan Maskin from Olson Kundig Architects and a host of other incredible people will be spinning choice cuts from their favorite albums in the Record...
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 6:30 – 9 pm Selector: Eric Frederickson, Western Bridge/Seattle Arts Commission Eric Fredericksen is the director of Western Bridge, Seattle and Chair of the Public Arts Committee for the Seattle Arts Commission. He has curated exhibitions at the Or Gallery, the Bodgers’...
TUES | January 17 6:30 PM – Cancelled due to weather concerns! Selectors: Jason Plourde and the Three Dollar Bill Cinema Family Join Jason Plourde, the Programming Director for Seattle’s own Three Dollar Bill Cinema, for an evening of that you will never forget. Three...
TUES | January 10 6:30 PM Selector: Joshua Kohl, Degenerate Art Ensemble Co-Artistic Director/Co-Founder Joshua Kohl has created original works for dance, silent film, concert ensembles, “classico-punk-big band” shows and street performances and has collaborated extensively on the creation of invented instruments used in DAE...
TUES | January 3 6:30 PM Selector: John Gilbreath, Earshot Jazz and Seattle Art Museum Art of Jazz Calling all jazz heads to the Record Store for an evening of intense listening, great conversation about jazz and the vinyl record with Seattle’s own Jazz aficionado...
By Guest Blogger: Alan Maskin, Partner | Olson Kundig Architects We created [storefront] Olson Kundig Architects as an experimental work place for our firm’s community collaborations, pro-bono design work, philanthropic and volunteer work, and for design research and the development of design ideas. The idea to have our [storefront] space become the Record Store...
Yesterday I was waiting in a long line and struck up a conversation with the woman in front of me. I mentioned that I worked at SAM and encouraged her to come to the museum for First Thursday. She looked at me blankly and said, “What’s...
Earth Hour is this Saturday night, March 23 from 8:30–9:30 pm. What is...
Before moving to Seattle to start my fall internship at the Seattle...
Cheryl Colopy discusses her book, Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis,...