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Give the Gift of SAL
 This holiday season, give the gift of reading, of a night out for two, of intellectual insight and conversation to follow. Our special holiday package pairs two tickets to see Geraldine Brooks on January 28, 2016 at the beautiful McCaw Hall with a copy of her just published book, The Secret Chord. The New York Times called the novel "a thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating reconsideration of the story of King David,” one that "makes a masterly case for the generative power of retelling."
Order here by December 8th to arrive for Hanukkah and December 18th to arrive for Christmas.
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Just Added: Florian Schulz Now On Sale!
 Explore The Wild Edge with Florian Schulz
THUR, APR. 28, 2016, 7:30 PM
Benaroya Hall \ Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall
Co-Presented by Braided River
Come along as acclaimed conservation photographer Florian Schulz takes you on an epic journey from Baja, California to America's Arctic. Follow the migrations of whales, manta rays, sea birds, spirit bears, salmon and more, as Schulz demonstrates how the remarkable ecosystem along North America's west coast is connected from the depths of the ocean to the tops of ancient trees.
This event will showcase images and stories from Schulz's recently published book, The Wild Edge: Freedom to Roam the Pacific Coast, the first book to reveal the great Pacific seam of North America that knits together land and sea, ocean and continent in a tumble of interrelated life. Through vivid imagery, stories, and science, The Wild Edge reveals how the health and livelihood of a distant Iñupiaq Eskimo whaler is related to a suburban family in Los Angeles enamored with the pod of whales passing by their city beach.
Don't miss this unique evening of powerful images, stories and advocacy! Tickets on sale here.
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Our New SAL Blog is LIVE!
We are proud to launch a new Seattle Arts & Lectures blog entitled Sonder. After much title deliberation – no easy task in a group of people passionate about words – we learned that "sonder" is quite a complex word open to many slightly different and compelling definitions. In Afrikkans, it means “without,” in French, it is “to probe,” and in Swedish (as “sönder”), it translates to “asunder.” These disparate uses – and the different stories where the word could appear, around the world – sounded fitting for its English meaning, as “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.”
To us, “sonder” became a wall of windows into different perspectives. Or, the place to connect the dots between them, as we do when we find a constellation’s alignment. One of the main intentions behind this blog was to create a place for the different voices of the Seattle Arts & Lectures community – writers, speakers, students, teachers, readers, listeners, and all points in between – to be collected, considered and exchanged. The more we looked at SAL and “sonder” together, the more alike they seemed.
We hope that Sonder will help us capture the flicker of others’ vivid complexities before we continue on our way. If you have a story, response, or blog post idea related to SAL’s programs to share, send your pitch to elangner@lectures.org. We’d love to hear your stories, too.
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First Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Reading!
Join us for the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate 2015 Finalists Showcase on Friday, Dec. 4th at 7:00 p.m. at Hugo House! Leija Farr, a senior at Cleveland High School, was named the first-ever Seattle Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) in May 2015 at the Northwest Folklife Festival. Help us celebrate her work as well as the incredible talent of the eight other teen finalists in the YPL Project. Thanks go to WITS writers Aaron Counts and Matt Gano for mentoring Leija and leading this project. Each finalist will read some of their original work. Come support local youth poets and bring along the youth poet in your life to learn about the application process for next year's contest! This event is FREE and open to the public!
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Can't make it to the Youth Poet Laureate Showcase? Don't miss these upcoming events around town featuring SAL's own WITS Writers-In-Residence!
**Unless otherwise noted, all events are FREE and open to the public!**
- Daemond Arrindell will be performing slam poetry as part of The Winter Round, Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at The Triple Door, downtown Seatle. Experience a list of special guest musicians sharing the stage with slam poets and live painters in a unique multi-arts show presented by Abbey Arts. All proceeds go to support local artists and nonprofit programs for people of all ages and incomes. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for dinner and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available here!
- Samar Abulhassan, Daemond Arrindell, Emily Bedard, Aaron Counts, Laura Gamache, Rachel Kessler, Clare Meeker, Peter Mountford, Sierra Nelson, Imani Sims, and Greg Stump will all read from works in progress at our next Local Voices event, Wednesday, Jan. 20 at Hugo House.
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Recap: Laughs, Insight and Amazing Syntax with Anthony Doerr!
Anthony Doerr gave an inspirational lecture entitled "Some Thoughts On the Importance of Artistic Failure In Six Parts."
We quickly discovered that Doerr is not only effortlessly eloquent, but also incredibly quotable. Here are some of our favorites from the evening:
"What if sometimes it might be desirable simply to fail...to fail for the sake of trying, for the sake of dreaming, for the sake of the work itself."
"The only kind of lasting success I've found is work."
"The beauty is not in the result, but in the intent...we need to live in fear that we will stink...the fear that we will take our flawless ideas and butcher them on the pyre of reality."
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Call for Nominations – Prowda Literary Champion Award
Two years ago, we launched the Prowda Literary Champion Award which honors the people and organizations that make this community an outstanding place for readers and writers. We’ve been tremendously proud to honor Lee Soper, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and the trifecta of Ron Sher, Robert Sindelar and Michael Coy from Third Place Books. As we prepare to pick our 2016 honoree, we’d love to hear from you – what people or organizations are you most grateful for in our literary community? Who do you believe helps make Seattle an amazing place for readers and writers? Please send nominations along with 1000 words or less on why you believe the organization or individual should be celebrated to sal@lectures.org by December 31, 2015.
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POETRY SERIES
SRIKANTH REDDY
TUE, DEC 1, 2015
Srikanth Reddy will give a lecture entitled: "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink," examining the question of likeness in Emily Dickinson's similes and Gertrude Stein's portraits as a way of thinking about social identity and difference in modern American poetry.
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LITERARY ARTS SERIES
GERALDINE BROOKS
THU, JAN 28, 2016
Geraldine Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her most recent novel, The Secret Chord, was published to rave reviews last month. Other novels, Year of Wonders and People of the Book, are international bestsellers, translated into more than 25 languages.
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WOMEN YOU NEED TO KNOW (WYNK) SERIES
AMBER TAMBLYN
WED, FEB 10, 2016
Poet and actress Amber Tamblyn and her mother, Bonnie Tamblyn, will weave together poetry and music to create a mélange of intimate and funny storytelling. In their one-of-a-kind presentation, Amber reads her poems and prose while Bonnie plays guitar and sings original songs.
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