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Members-Only Ticket Giveaway: See Believe at SMC!
LectureMusic By TeenTix Team | March 18, 2019 | 11:16 am
Join Seattle Men's Chorus for a complimentary evening of sparkle, sequins and song as they celebrate one of the world's most infamous pop icons of all time: Cher!
You and up to four other folks are invited to see this performance for FREE with your TeenTix Pass on March 30. All you've gotta do is sign up below with the requested information to claim your FREE tickets to this event! Visit this link to directly fill out the...
Read more →Dance-Dance Deconstruction: Why FP2: Beats of Rage Is So Awesome
Written by Teen Editor Joshua Fernandes, and edited by Teen Editor Lily Williamson!
Film By Teen Editorial Staff | March 18, 2019 | 3:53 pm
Film still from FP2: Beats of Rage.
FP2: Beats of Rage at Grand Illusion Cinema reminded me why I love movies. So much character has been put into every shot—at one point I thought I could see the reflection of the filmmakers in the cinema screen. The screen, by the way, was tiny, but it was balanced out by the small size of the room. In fact, the whole theater had a sense of closeness, partially because the will call and concessions had to be managed by the...
Read more →Sound Off! Launching a New Generation of Performers
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Serafina Miller, and edited by Teen Editor Huma Ali!
Music By Teen Editorial Staff | March 17, 2019 | 3:34 pm
Sound Off! Finals at MoPOP. Photo by Nate Watters.
Sound Off!, a music competition hosted by MoPOP, showcases the talent of local artists and bands under the age of 21. The event’s atmosphere is enhanced by being hosted in the Skychurch, where the high quality space and materials allow for professional performances by the contributors. This year’s music came from a wide range of genres and exemplified the unique influences of each performer and how they will come to change the...
Read more →When A Mother Outlives Her Son
Written by Teen Editor Hannah Schoettmer, and edited by Teen Editor Anya Shukla!
DanceMusic By Teen Editorial Staff | March 14, 2019 | 1:01 pm
Whim W'Him dancers in Stabat Mater. Photo by Stefano Altamura.
The Catholic Mass is generally structured around the reading and interpretation of a passage from the Bible. At many of the churches I’ve attended, there’s a service after the Sunday Mass for the kids, where they lead you into a classroom and break down the scripture, as well as teach you the general tenants of Catholicism.
It was in these Sunday school settings that I was first presented with an interpretation of the Virgin...
Read more →Stop-Motion Animation Extravaganza!
If you've ever dreamed of becoming a stop-motion master, now's your chance.
Visual Arts By TeenTix Team | March 6, 2019 | 6:42 pm
Clyde Petersen, "Torrey Pines" (film still)
Calling all stop-motion animation fans! Have you ever wanted to make your own short film? There's no time like the present! TWO of our Partners are offering opportunities in this field just for teens.
Teen Workshop: Stop-Motion Animation with Clyde Petersen
presented by Bellevue Arts Museum
Mar 16, 1 - 4 PM
Ages 13 - 19
Join BAM for a special teens-only artist workshop with Merch & Destroy artist and filmmaker, Clyde...
Read more →Fire Season Uncovers the Brutal Realities of Rural America
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Olivia Sun, and edited by Teen Editor Hannah Schoettmer!
Theater By Teen Editorial Staff | March 6, 2019 | 4:53 pm
Fire Season at Seattle Public Theater. Photo by Truman Buffett.
“What’s past is prologue.” We hear these words of Shakespeare spoken again and again throughout the play, but does it mean that tomorrow is a fresh start? Or does it reveal that history is doomed to set the scene for one’s inevitable fate? As Fire Season draws us into a series of interconnected narratives in a deserted rural Washington town, we are invited to interpret Shakespeare’s classic quote for ourselves.
Fire Season,...
Read more →Life and Death: A Modern Take on an Age-Old Tale
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Nolan DeGarlais, and edited by Teen Editor Huma Ali!
Theater By Teen Editorial Staff | March 5, 2019 | 1:14 pm
"Everybody" at Strawberry Theatre Workshop. Photo by John Cornicello.
Everybody dies. While this fact should come as no surprise, the realities of death and what happens after it remains far more mysterious. The uncertainty and unpredictability surrounding death frame the central conflict of “Everybody,” a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and presented at the Strawberry Theatre Workshop.
In dealing with these heavy, existential themes, which all must inevitably face, the play employs a...
Read more →Arty Gras
Written by Teen Editor Huma Ali!
Miscellaneous By Teen Editorial Staff | March 4, 2019 | 1:20 pm
Photo by Thomas Kinto on Unsplash
March is notorious for Mardi Gras—the ritual where individuals indulge in rich, fatty, foods, and other pleasures before the fasting of Lent. But this month, the Teen Editorial Staff is acknowledging another holiday, to feed our unfathomable desire to see art. Enter, Arty Gras. This TeenTix-wide celebration of the arts scene starts right here. Right now.
We have curated eight shows that encapsulate the many mediums of art....
Read more →Stories through Movement, Stories through Expression
Review of CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work.
Written by Teen Editor Huma Ali, and edited by Teen Editor Anya Shukla!
Dance By Teen Editorial Staff | February 28, 2019 | 5:58 pm
Lauren Horn performs her solo Text Messages at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work. Photo by Bret Doss Photography.
Going into CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work, I wasn’t sure what to expect, and felt slightly intimidated. While I’m not entirely new to dance, having seen performances like the Nutcracker, I still classify myself as a dance newbie; I’m unfamiliar with the movements and lingo. However, I was pleasantly surprised to witness an event curated for people like me, with the purpose of presenting “accessible, creative work from artists that...
Read more →The Divide Between ‘Me’ and ‘You’
Written by Teen Editor Hannah Schoettmer, and edited by Teen Editor Lily Williamson!
Theater By Teen Editorial Staff | February 28, 2019 | 11:17 am
David Quicksall and Tom Dang in M. Butterfly. Photo by John McLellan.
To an English speaker, the letter ‘M’ is deceitful when placed alone. In our world, we base the assumptions of an unknown person entering a room on their prefix, the “Mr.” or “Ms.”. We shape our expectations of them on it. But, what if the preface is but a single “M.”? If an unknown person entering a room greeted you on paper only as “M.” who would you prepare yourself to see?
So it is in M. Butterfly, written by David Henry...
Read more →Young Performers Wanted
You could appear on stage if you seize this exciting opportunity from one of our Community Partners!
LiteratureMusicTheater By TeenTix Team | February 27, 2019 | 6:29 pm
Are you a young performer? Do you love being on stage and making music? Poetry? Spoken word? Read on to find out how your talents could be used!
Our Community Partner, The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, is a group of musicians who create new music inspired by literature. On March 30th at Hugo House, they will be presenting a show of original music inspired by Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give (it's a Teen Night, too!). They would...
Read more →A Female Experience Along A Meridian
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Mila Borowski, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Joshua Fernandes!
Film By Teen Editorial Staff | February 27, 2019 | 1:04 pm
Noura at school in the film One Girl. Film still by Rosa Russo.
One Girl is a raw portrayal of the varied lives of four individuals living along the same meridian in South Sudan, Romania, Palestine, and Finland. Shown as part of the Children’s Film Festival Seattle at Northwest Film Forum, the crowded, cozy theater hosting the documentary already gave me a taste of the lively, intimate show I was about to see. One Girl begins with a short introduction, voiced by the girls themselves, as we...
Read more →Special 2 for $10 Deal at the Rep
See The Woman in Black with this special discount just for TeenTix Members!
Theater By TeenTix Team | February 23, 2019 | 11:23 am
Missing Halloween? We are, too! February has been no fun with the snow and rain - but you can catapult back to October with this ~spooky~ play at Seattle Repertory Theatre!
Thanks to our generous friends at the Rep, TeenTix Members can get in on the 2 for $10 deal for the following two performances of The Woman in Black:
- Sunday, February 24 @ 7:30 PM (already counts for the deal, but there's lots of TeenTix tickets...
Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son Defies Its 20th Century Setting
Review of Rutherford and Son at UW Drama
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Eileen MacDonald and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Anya Shukla!
Theater By Teen Editorial Staff | February 20, 2019 | 4:07 pm
Still from Rutherford and Son at UW Drama, photo by Kyler Martin
In 1912, Rutherford and Son, written by anonymous playwright K.G. Sowerby, was heralded as a masterpiece and placed on a list of the top 100 plays of the 20th century. When it was later revealed that the author was, in fact, the female writer Githa Sowerby, critics were shocked—yet the meaning of the piece became all the more profound.
Performed for the third time in the United States, the play is the thesis production of...
Read more →Stories of the Past Connect to our Future
Review of Lore Re-imagined at the Wing Luke Museum.
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Eleanor Chang-Stucki, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Hannah Schoettmer!
Visual Arts By Teen Editorial Staff | February 11, 2019 | 5:19 pm
'Anxious Watermelon' by Alex Anderson. Photo courtesy of Wing Luke Museum
Read more →“i hope the honesty of my searching and unknowing feels like a palpable thing a viewer could hold. because my experience, this sensation, is not unique. it is, sadly, so many of ours to share. and i hope we can sit here with it, here, in the quiet of this room, with this work’s embrace of its precarity and incompleteness—its recognition of its own insufficiency as an archival object—and know that maybe we, in our flawed...
Join the TeenTix Team
Our little team is growing! Two new paid internships are waiting for you.
By TeenTix Team | February 8, 2019 | 12:17 pm
Over the last 15 years, TeenTix has devoted itself to radically empowering youth to take charge of their arts experiences, and every year we've grown our capacity to serve our constituents. There are big changes on the horizon for this lil' nonprofit, and YOU can be a part of our expansion!
TeenTix is now accepting applications for two paid internships. Read more below to see if one of them is a good fit for you!
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Read more →February Selections for Your Art Addiction!
Written by Teen Editorial Staff member Joshua Fernandes!
By Teen Editorial Staff | February 4, 2019 | 10:21 am
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.
Pretty much everything is best in moderation. Yet, from phones, to Starbucks, to binge watching a dozen Lifetime original movies at 2 AM , it seems you can’t go far without getting hooked on something. However, we here at TeenTix believe you can never have too much art! Being the professional art addicts we on the Teen Editorial Staff are, we’ve come up with some recommendations to satisfy your art cravings this February. For...
Read more →Spontaneity Captures the Essence of a Wes Anderson World
Review of Yes Anderson at Jet City Improv.
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Jaiden Borowski, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Huma Ali!
Improv By Teen Editorial Staff | February 1, 2019 | 10:01 am
The cast of Yes Anderson at Jet City Improv. Photo by Matthew Joseph.
Wes Anderson, the filmmaker of notable movies like The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom, inspired the team at Jet City Improv to design the show Yes Anderson—based off of a social media following of Anderson’s called “Accidentally Wes Anderson.” After hearing about the basis of this show, the questions that arose weren’t “How would Jet City Improv accomplish this?” or “What led them to attempt this challenge?” Rather, my...
Read more →Behind the Scenes of the New Guard Partner Meeting
A look inside one of our favorite annual events!
Miscellaneous By TeenTix Team | January 30, 2019 | 4:34 pm
Members of The New Guard and Arts Partners participate in a round-table discussion at the Cornish Playhouse.
Each year, The New Guard: Teen Arts Leadership Society invites representatives from our Arts Partners to come scope out what its constituents are most interested in, what makes them attend events, and how to get more teens through their doors. This year's meeting took place on January 23, 2019.
In a large, round-table discussion that started off the meeting, we discussed topics like social media use, trigger warnings,...
Read more →Announcing Beyond the Review: An Immersive Arts Journalism Intensive!
By TeenTix | January 24, 2019 | 5:16 pm
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We are excited to launch applications for the very first "Beyond the Review" Press Corps Intensive. The Beyond the Review Intensive is a deep-dive workshop into the craft of arts journalism. In this week-long immersive course, ten teens will work with professional arts journalists to learn how to interview artists, and write previews and features of art events. Teens will receive one-on-one mentorship on their writing, and, at...
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