Now that our season is behind us, we’ve turned our thoughts toward summer and other projects. I’ll be reading a bunch and trying to figure out how to play the banjo. Let’s see what the Bushwick artists will be up to during our off months. Read more
We’re back with part two of our interview with artist Tekla Waterfield. She is making a new album and has a Kickstarter project in support of it. There are five days left to support her campaign. 
On to the interview:
Tonight Bushwick artists will take the Annex Theater stage and perform songs inspired by Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. The book takes place in a post-apocalyptic America. The subject matter started me thinking about what I would do when shit goes down. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I would not survive to see The Traveling Symphony. I’m not well stocked. There aren’t gallons of water stored in a special survival closet. I don’t have any weapons. I don’t even have cigarettes to use for currency. Do other people know what to do in the face of the end of society as we know it? I checked in with tonight’s artists to find out and asked, “What’s your apocalypse survival plan? How do you plan to start a new life that includes your art after life as we know it ends?” Here is what they have to say.
Coming up this week is our next event Music Inspired by Emily St. John Mandel’s Station 11. The book is a fascinating story on what artists do to make a new and meaningful life after the collapse of our society. I am enamored with it and took to the Internet to find out more about the book itself and its author. Let’s take a look:
After reading The Little Prince once again, this time in preparation for tonight’s show I started thinking about how the book’s meaning and importance has changed for me over time. I liked it when I was young and yet it wasn’t until I was an adult that it took a permanent place in my heart. It’s one of my favorite books of all time and is comforting in times of loss, grief or heartache. When I was a kid, I loved the Berenstain Bears, books I now find heavy-handed and preachy. This got me thinking about how children’s books can change meaning to the reader as they age. I asked the Bushwick performers “what was your favorite children’s book when you were a kid and what is your favorite children’s book now? How has your thoughts on your favorite kid’s book changed as you grew up?” Take a look at what they said.
Tonight is the night! Original Music Inspired by The Little Prince is at 6pm at the Fremont Abbey. Before you go take a look at some inspiring quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry classic book.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is arguably one of the most charming children’s books of all time. In preparation for the next Bushwick Book Club Seattle event inspired by the book, I took to the Internet to look for interesting facts about both the book and the author. What I found was a little bit of fascination and even some mystery.
Our next event is super exciting because we are bringing together four local literary institutions, Seattle7Writers, The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, Hugo House and Town Hall Seattle to partner the event. “3 for 3: Music Inspired by Books; Books Inspired by Water” will feature Bushwick Book Club’s songwriters and musicians performing songs inspired by the books of three Seattle7Writers. Authors Daniel James Brown (The Boys in the Boat), Jennie Shortridge (Love Water Memory), and Jim Lynch (Before the Wind) are all new to me so I took to the Internet to find out more about them. Here are five facts about our authors and their work:
Connect With Bushwick