Hey You! Arts Lover! Help Save Arts in Seattle
4Culture, the single largest source of arts and heritage funding in King County, is about to go away. A coalition of artists, arts and heritage organizations, and audiences is coming together to support the continued funding of 4Culture.
I want you to join us.
You can sign-up here: http://www.advocate4culture.org/p/join-us.html
1. Join the Advocate4Culture Coalition so we can count you among our supporters.
2. Learn about the issue.
3. Tell other people.
4. Be prepared to act by making some noise!
We will ask you to help at crucial points as we work to pass a bill in Olympia over the next session, which is about to begin! Together, we will save 4Culture!
Thank you, and all the best,
Josef Krebs
Development Director, ACT Theatre
Board Member, Theatre Off Jackson
Member, Canoe Social Club
Cabinet Member, Advocate 4Culture Coalition
Community Loudmouth
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
