Alexa Peters
Tensions between Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, the City Council, Seattle Arts Commission (Commission), the Office of Arts and Culture (ARTS), and local Black arts community members have mounted following the mayor’s early September appointment of Royal Alley-Barnes as interim director of ARTS. The mayor made the appointment with a little more than 100 days left in her term and without having consulted with local arts community stakeholders about her decision.
Here is a website for a company called CQUESTIP that I re-wrote and helped design.
“The Rabbit Box Theatre, a bar, restaurant and arts venue, opened in Pike Place Market last November. But, don’t let the literary-inspired craft cocktails and
I wrote the cover story for the June issue of Earshot Jazz, which is themed around pride month. My focus was trombonist and event producer Haley Freedlund, who is an inclusive, community-minded force in the Seattle music scene.
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