About this Program:
Happy 81st birthday to The Showbox! Lights are out right now at this beloved local landmark due to COVID-19, but Shannon Welles takes you on a virtual tour of its history and cultural significance “until we can meet again on that dance floor.”
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About the Speaker:
Shannon Welles is a lifelong music lover and brings deep passion to her more than 20 years of work in the live music industry. She is the founder of Friends of The Showbox, a community coalition to save Seattle’s iconic music venue, and holds a management position with The Showbox.
She is also a visual artist and a longtime student of ecosystems in many forms. Shannon has studied permaculture, earthen building, herbalism, Pacific Northwest native plants, and ethnobotany, and she founded hypha, a collaborative free plant nursery project to grow community networks of plant sharing. She recently completed her MFA in Arts Leadership, focusing on the intersection of art, artistic citizenship, and ecology.
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*Corrected credit: interior crowd photo, Mike Savoia
This virtual program is made possible by these 2020 Education Program Sponsors & Historic Seattle’s Lawrence Kreisman Historic Preservation Education Fund.
Underwriting Partners: Bassetti Architects | Bennett Properties
Sustaining Partners: Lydig Construction | Marvin Anderson Architects | Pacifica Law Group
Presenting Partners: Bear Wood Windows | Beneficial State Bank | Bricklin & Newman | BuildingWork | Chosen Wood Window Maintenance, Inc. | Clifton Larson Allen LLP | Coughlin Porter Lundeen | J.A.S. Design Build | National Trust Insurance Services | Northwest Vernacular | RAFN Company | Ron Wright Associates / Architects | SHKS | SMR Architects | Swenson Say Fagét | Tonkin Architecture | Tru Mechanical | Weinstein A+U | ZGF Architects
With additional support from
