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Win FREE tickets to Sound Off! 2019
Three lucky winners can see this infamous youth music competition for FREE!
Music By TeenTix Team | January 14, 2019 | 3:53 pm
Every year, MoPOP hosts Seattle's premier 21-and-under music showcase and competition called Sound Off! This local showcase supports the local music scene by giving artists of all backgrounds the opportunity to show off their original music on a large platform, connect with peers and industry professionals, and take the next step in their music careers.
This year, TeenTix Members can enter to win a pair of two tickets to one...
Read more →2019 Winter/Spring Opportunities for Teens
Brighten up the cold Winter months or plan ahead for Spring with these opportunities just for teens!
DanceTheaterMiscellaneous By TeenTix Team | January 8, 2019 | 3:48 pm
It's time for a fresh start, dontcha think? Try something new this year with these classes, workshops, and more from our partners. There are plenty of ways for teens to get involved in the arts this season!
DANCE
Experience Dance Program | CHOP SHOP
January 23, 27th, and February 1
All ages
Take one of two FREE dance classes this Winter, "Reading Dance" and "Introduction to Modern Dance"! These fun events serve as a...
Read more →New Year, New You
Written by Teen Editorial Staff member Anya Shukla!
Miscellaneous By Teen Editorial Staff | January 5, 2019 | 3:20 pm
New Beginnings. Photo by Solaiman Hossen on Unsplash.
January. The first month of the new year and the perfect time for a new you. A clean slate. In other words: resolution time! If you want to read more or kick that procrastination habit, chances are you’re going to start this month. But here’s a secret: if your New Year’s resolution is to see more art—specifically art that celebrates new beginnings—the Teen Editorial Staff has got you covered. Interested in shows about youth?...
Read more →A Night Full of Laughs, Holiday Cheer, and Way Too Much Fun
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Sumeya Block, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Joshua Fernandes!
Improv By Teen Editorial Staff | January 5, 2019 | 3:07 pm
A(n improvised) Christmas Carol. Photo courtesy of Unexpected Productions.
A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is an already well known holiday story that makes its way around as a Christmas classic. Many are familiar with the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, teaching viewers about the values of being a good person through some funny characters, and of course, holiday cheer. Yet when A Christmas Carol turns into improv and Scrooge is the head of a meditation school, the story...
Read more →A Christmas Lesson
Review of A Festival of Lessons & Carols by the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Sofia Gerrard, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Anya Shukla!
Music By Teen Editorial Staff | January 3, 2019 | 6:29 pm
A Festival of Lessons & Carols
Many families have a multitude of traditions during the holiday season: some bake cookies, go caroling, volunteer at charity, or go to church. But one tradition for many families is attending A Festival of Lessons & Carols, a concert performed by the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle. As divisions of Northwest Choirs, both groups aim to instill a passion for music and the arts in children and teens from the Pacific...
Read more →Writing About Music About Writing
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Tova Gaster, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Anya Shukla!
Music By Teen Editorial Staff | December 28, 2018 | 2:43 pm
Jack Straw Writers Anthology 2018. Photo by Lily LaMotte.
Spotify Wrapped screenshots plaster social media as the year comes to end, users’ music tastes consolidated into neat consumable packages. It’s possible I’m just salty that they called me out for listening to 50+ hours of the same artist (love you Y La Bamba), but Spotify, Apple Music, and similar streaming services are changing the way we engage with music—digitizing, isolating, and directing our listening via depersonalized...
Read more →The Past in Polaroids
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Soren Kopp, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Lily Williamson!
Visual Arts By Teen Editorial Staff | December 28, 2018 | 2:21 pm
"Personal" courtesy of Bellevue Arts Museum.
Human beings are constantly categorizing. “Polaroids: Personal, Private, Painterly" Photographs from the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, showcases a variety of Polaroids separated into the aforementioned categories. Out of the 13,000 photos in his collection, about 300 are Polaroids, 150 of which were selected and curated by Jackson in conjunction with Ben Heywood, chief curator at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
“Personal”...
Read more →A Coalition of the Arts
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Eleanor Cenname, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Hannah Schoettmer!
DanceTheater By Teen Editorial Staff | December 27, 2018 | 7:24 pm
Poor People's TV Room. Photo by Ian Douglas.
And the show had begun. Four women on a stage. Crawling on the floor under a blanket. Furniture suspended from the ceiling. A layer of something called scrim. A topless woman. They are dancing. No, they are singing. No, they are talking. Are they sisters? Strangers? A mother and daughter? Wait, now it’s a show about Oprah. There is a pulsing noise in the background. Two scenes are happening at the same time. They are repeating...
Read more →A Brighter Tomorrow
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Ben Capuano, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Huma Ali!
Theater By Teen Editorial Staff | December 21, 2018 | 5:23 pm
Visesia Fakatoufifita alternates the title role in Annie at The 5th Avenue Theatre - Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.
People have a hard time forgetting firsts. You’re going to remember events like your first concert for many years after the fact. If you or a loved one are looking to experience a musical for the first time, there isn’t a better choice than the 5th Avenue Theatre’s production of Annie.
Annie was actually the first musical I ever saw—my sister loved the 1982 version and we’d seen it performed everywhere from Youth Theater...
Read more →Announcing the Theater & Dance Press Corps Intensive!
Miscellaneous By TeenTix | December 18, 2018 | 10:44 am
The Press Corps Intensive is a deep-dive workshop into arts writing and arts criticism. In this multi-week course, ten teens will get to work with professional critics and arts journalists to receive mentorship on their writing. And the best part, this program is FREE!
Applications for the Theater & Dance Press Corps Intensive are now open! This Intensive runs March 10 - April 14, 2019. This FREE four-week program focuses...
Read more →The Jimi Hendrix We Didn’t Know
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Lark Keteyian, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Anya Shukla!
Visual Arts By Teen Editorial Staff | December 14, 2018 | 4:28 pm
Bold as Love at the Northwest African American Museum. Photo by Anya Shukla
Jimi Hendrix is a Seattle icon. Or so I'm told. Before going to see Bold as Love: Jimi Hendrix at Home at the Northwest African American Museum, I had never really gotten around to listening to his music. I'm also terrible at museums; I expect them to be stagnant and awkwardly informational. So the combination of a museum with a Seattle superstar I knew next to nothing about was mildly terrifying. I slunk into the exhibit with...
Read more →MOHAI Shows How Art Shaped the Activism of Seattle
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Eileen MacDonald, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Hannah Schoettmer!
LectureMiscellaneous By Teen Editorial Staff | December 14, 2018 | 4:20 pm
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The Art of Protest. Photo courtesy of MOHAI.
The recent MOHAI sponsored event, Engage: The Art of Protest, cultivated artistic empowerment throughout the Seattle community.
Walking through the glass doors of the MOHAI, we were greeted by plaisc covered tables strewn with photographs of powerful and historic street protests: women with chains around their necks fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1960s, workers picketing outside Pike Place Market, elderly...
Read more →Volunteer for Black Santa Visits!
Help bring families holiday cheer at Northwest African American Museum this weekend!
Miscellaneous By TeenTix Team | December 13, 2018 | 4:10 pm
Black Santa embraces two children at NAAM, from Instagram account @bettinahansen.
Ho, ho, ho! Suit up in your most festive wear and help spread the spirit of the season this weekend at Northwest African American Museum when you volunteer for Black Santa Visits!
There are two ways to donate your time:
- Photo Elves assist with posing families for photos, collect media releases and contact info, offer support to the photographer, and help share information to guests for purchasing prints for photos. ...
A Crystalline Tradition: PNB’s The Nutcracker
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Camille Mauceri, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Huma Ali!
Dance By Teen Editorial Staff | December 10, 2018 | 3:40 pm
Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers and PNB School students in the finale of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, choreographed by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust.
While it may be controversial to begin the Christmas season so early, I began mine the evening of November 23rd, opening night of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s The Nutcracker. The result of which was a distinct and familiar feeling of jovial warmth—a near impossible emotion to leave McCaw Hall without.
Various candy-inspired photo booths and guests dressed in formalities, ranging from hipster-dressy to black tie, paraded the...
Read more →SCT Takes on Muhammad Before Ali
Written by TeenTix Press Corps Newsroom Writer Jonah de Forest, and edited by Teen Editorial Staff Member Joshua Fernandes!
Theater By Teen Editorial Staff | December 7, 2018 | 2:21 pm
And in This Corner: Cassius Clay at Seattle Children's Theatre. Photo by Elise Bakketun.
Muhammad Ali is one of those historical figures whose titanic cultural presence often overshadows the nuances of his life. Playwright Idris Goodwin aims to find the man behind the legend in his new work, And in This Corner: Cassius Clay, presented by Seattle Children’s Theatre. The result, as directed by Malika Oyetimein, is a lively and thoroughly original piece of theatre.
The story unfolds as if out of a pop-up-book on...
Read more →Seasons Greetings from the Teen Editorial Staff!
By Teen Editorial Staff | December 4, 2018 | 12:46 pm
December is inherently a month of celebrations. Initially, one might think these “celebrations” are limited to those regarding holidays. But here at TeenTix, we think of celebrations as much more.
This month, we hope to celebrate the people in our lives, the things we have, and of course, celebrate the impact of art on our lives.
From the classic family-feel-good Annie at the 5th Avenue Theatre, to the snapshots of life...
Read more →TeenTix in Tacoma Day!
Join us to celebrate our Tacoma Arts Partners on December 8th!
FilmLectureMusicVisual ArtsMiscellaneous By TeenTix Team | December 3, 2018 | 4:28 pm
TeenTix is celebrating our Tacoma Arts Partners this Saturday, December 8th!
There will be activities and events at the Tacoma Arts Musuem, the Museum of Glass, Tacoma Arts Live, The Grand Cinema, and MORE. Plus, join our #selfiescavengerhunt challenge and you'll be entered to win free swag! Keep reading to learn more.
FULL SCHEDULE
11 AM - 12 PM: Art-Making at Tacoma Art Museum
Stop by TAM and get your arts and...
Read more →The TeenTix Newsroom is Expanding!
Apply to Become a Teen Reviewer TODAY!
By Teen Editorial Staff | December 3, 2018 | 1:45 pm
Made for teens to connect with other like-minded youth and write about art, the TeenTix Newsroom is a place for teen arts lovers to practice their writing skills! The TeenTix Newsroom is led by the Teen Editorial Staff - 5 teens who curate the review portion of the TeenTix blog. Editorial Staff members decide which art events to cover each month, then assign teen writers to review them.
How It Works:
Along with a teen...
Read more →Seeing the Sunrise Starts with Survival
Written by Jaiden B, during TeenTix’s arts criticism training workshop, the Fall 2018 Press Corps Intensive.
Theater By TeenTix Press Corps Intensive | November 30, 2018 | 2:19 pm
A Thousand Splendid Suns at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Photo by Nate Watters.
The opening scene in the theatrical adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Ursula Rani Sarma, contrasts the entire play with the eerie stillness it sets the audience in. By piercing the quiet atmosphere with sharp, lingering notes, this scene stills the air and makes the audience pause for breath. From the next scene onwards, the audience is kept in silence not by the moving musical accompaniment, but by the paralyzing...
Read more →Challenging Viewers in a New Way
Written by Eleanor C, during TeenTix’s arts criticism training workshop, the Fall 2018 Press Corps Intensive.
Visual Arts By TeenTix Press Corps Intensive | November 30, 2018 | 2:01 pm
Caitlin Berrigan (U.S., born 1981). Imaginary Explosions (video still). 2018. HD video. Image courtesy of the artist.
Art has one true purpose, to evoke feeling, to cause a reaction within someone.
The enigmatic art exhibit entitled "Between Bodies" conjures up complex, even contradictory, responses. At times the immersive installations made me feel as if I was both in our recognizable world and beyond it, leading me to reconsider ideas about representation, humanity, and the environment.
The exhibition, currently at the Henry Art...
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