Never Again Is Now Artwork to be featured at Bellevue College
Artist, Erin Shigaki, will be installing an art mural near the Bellevue College Main Campus Fountain today. The artwork is a wheatpaste of two children at a US government incarceration camp for people of Japanese descent during WWII.
Shigaki describes the art piece and why she chose this image for an installation.
Producer: Yuko Kodama
Photo: Purple Gate
Young, Gifted and Brown: 2015 Seattle Post-Election Analysis
In South Seattle last week, a group of young politicos of color decided to offer their points of view on this year’s vote with an event titled, Young, Gifted and Brown: 2015 Seattle Post-Election Analysis. It was a packed house as they shared their opinions on engaging communities and candidates of color. Our own Sonya Green was a moderator alongside King 5 political reporter, Natalie Brand and South Seattle Emerald founder, Marcus Green.
The panelists included District 1, Seattle City Council Candidate and Honest Elections Campaign Manager, Brianna Thomas, Progressive Majority Executive Director, EJ Juárez, Washington Bus Development Director, Crystal Reed, King County Chief Deputy Assessor, Tre Maxie and Working Washington Executive Director, Sejal Parikh.
Here are a few excerpts from the event.
To view a video of the entire event, visit the Seattle Channel.
Steampunk vs. Steamfunk
The 11th annual Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is underway at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Seattle. What began as a weekend series 11 years ago is now a nine-day festival with everything from short to long films and documentaries. And new this year is the addition of food trucks for weekend festival events. Also this year the festival features three local filmmakers. One of them joins me in the studio today. Briaan Barron created and directed a mixed-media documentary short, “Steamfunk & Rococoa: A Black Victorian Fantasy”. The short explores a little-known genre called Steampunk.
KBCS Music + Ideas Host Sonya Green discusses how people of color are creatively telling their stories through the Steampunk genre with Briaan Barron.
