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November 2016
Original Music inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents Original music inspired by this classic by Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic Western novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Follow "The Kid" across the US-Mexican border as he kills for bounty, pleasure, and eventually out of sheer compulsion. Our Performers include: Lizzie Weber Aaron Starkey Mike McDermott Alex Guy Susan Hwang Evan Peterson Chris Poage Michael Walenfels The Bushwick Book Club…
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Original music inspired by the Jack Straw Writers Anthology 2016
Original music inspired by The Jack Straw Writers Anthology 2016. Writers from the Anthology are paired with Bushwick musicians. These musicians then have the opportunity to work with the writers on creating a new work inspired by the writers creation. Our pairs include: Nancy K Dillon - Casandra Lopez Simon Kornelis - Carolyne Wright Tekla Waterfield - Corinne Manning Tai Shan - Shin Yu Pai Kristin Chambers - Alison Stagner Nick Droz - Robert Lashley Linda Waterfall - Shontina…
Find out more »February 2017
Original Music inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. This novel is a powerful story of race, identity and love. Two characters find themselves on different sides of the world, separated not only by an ocean, but by a political unrest that makes reconnection nearly impossible. Adichie has painted a provocative picture of immigrant experience, racial climate in America, and the effects of single-story perspectives. The Bushwick Book Club Seattle musicians and artists will dive…
Find out more »March 2017
Tunes and Tales: A Bushwick Benefit
Join Bushwick Northwest for an evening celebrating and showcasing our interdisciplinary relationship with the arts and education. The program will feature stories, poetry, and music, and each table will have the opportunity to collaborate with a Bushwick songwriter charged with creating a special piece of music inspired by the experience of the evening. Dress code is "Seattle Nice" or "Classy Casual". You know how we do here in Seattle... Show support for Bushwick Northwest while experiencing inspired music and poetry from local…
Find out more »April 2017
Original music inspired by The Little Prince
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents original music inspired by The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Bushwick artists will take us on journey through deserts, the sky and space discussing the strangeness of the adult world. We are strange creatures as we reach away from childhood, and back again. "One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye." Performers include: RL Heyer, Beth Whitney, Julia Massey, Kimo Muraki , Amanda Winterhalter, Lana…
Find out more »May 2017
Original music inspired by Emily St. John Mandel’s Station 11
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents original music inspired by Emily St. John Mandel's Station 11. Artists with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle will take us on a journey through a future that is frightening and hopeful! Station 11 is an audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes…
Find out more »October 2017
Original music inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents Original music inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales. These are not those Disney Tales you read when you were young. We are bringing you the stories in their original format, and music inspired by those stories. Performers include: Leslie Braly, Mike Votava, Pepper Proud and more...
Find out more »November 2017
Original Music inspired by Lindy West’s Shrill
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, The Royal Room, and JazzED partner to present an evening of empowered original music inspired by renowned New York Times columnist Lindy West’s memoir, Shrill, on November 17. West will be on-hand to offer remarks, and the evening will begin with a performance from Seattle Girls Jazz Band. Advance tickets are available through Stranger Tickets. Lindy West is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. A Seattle resident, West’s work has also appeared…
Find out more »February 2018
Original Music inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Bushwick Book Club Seattle and Town Hall Seattle present Original Music Inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower Not your run-of-the-mill book club, Bushwick shows offer a special interaction between audience and performer surrounding a common source. Each musician reads the show’s featured book and writes an original song inspired by it, unveiling the new work at the event. KEXP’s DJ Riz (Riz Rollins) helps curate the lineup this round, which includes Om Johari, JR Rhodes, Coreena Brown,…
Find out more »April 2018
Original Music inspired by Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents an evening of original music and performance inspired by Katherine Dunn’s freak show classic Geek Love on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at the Tractor Tavern: 7:30pm. Advance tickets available through TicketWeb. Geek Love is Katherine Dunn’s award-winning, pathbreaking story of a family of circus performers. When first published in 1989, Dunn hadn’t released a full-length book in nearly two decades. Publishers Weekly prophetically called Geek Love “a novel that everyone will be talking…
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