The tickets are $110, and that's steep in these times, but you might want to consider this one anyway: The event is Festa del Arte, the annual fundraiser for Arts Corps. The time is 6 to 10, the date is this Thursday, May 6. Location: Triple Door.
What is Arts Corps? It's one of the best arts organizations I know of.
Arts Corps is the largest nonprofit arts educator in Seattle. If it were a single school, it would rival the biggest schools, since it serves thousands of kids across the city every year by taking classes to them. Arts Corps fills the gaps in public-school arts education, in a smart way, and it's been proving itself for a decade. Arts Corps hires working artists as teachers, and doesn't pretend that traditional, European-based arts are the only ones that want teaching.
The organization's vitality is the reason Seattle was chosen to be one of four American cities piloting a program this year called Musician Corps, which is modeled on the Peace Corps and funded in part by the public-private federal force called the Corporation for National and Community Service. (Arts Corps had the name first!) Here's last year's fundraiser promo video—which manages to feature a bunch of interviews with kids without being sugary sweet.
That's the cause.
The event will be wall-to-wall performances by students and teachers.
And for now, a quick animation by Arts Corps teaching artist Amos Miller and Mark Oi, from a goofy, endearing series called Porch Jams:
