Brittney Frantece It’s with great excitement that Centrum announces the 2023 Curator & Arts Worker Residency. This two-week, invitational program brings together a range of specialists working independently, within galleries, museum, or arts organiza ...
Welcome Back to Port Townsend's Chamber Music Series! CELEBRATING THE STRING QUARTET Franz Josef Haydn changed the landscape of classical music when he codified the string quartet as a genre starting in about 1757. The range of the instruments from low ...
Tatiana Hargreaves winces at the word “prodigy,” though it’s a tempting one to apply. At 27 years old, the Durham resident has already achieved a lifetime of accomplishments: expert fiddle player, prolific recording artist, lecturer in UNC- ...
On a sunny spring afternoon, a group of Seattleites packed into the Central District home-turned-arts space Wa Na Wari to catch the final act of Berette Macaulay’s roving performance, UN-. As three dancers twirled around the wood-floored li ...
Hiking through the deep, buggy greenery of a mountain in Maine, Jourdan Imani Keith, then a teenager at summer camp, shut her eyes to simply listen: leaves in the wind, the crunch of twigs. When she opened her eyes, a bird flew past her, right at eye leve ...
In 2015 Quenton Baker was reading Walter Johnson’s 1999 book Soul by Soul, an investigation of the slave trade in antebellum America, when they stumbled upon a brief mention of an unfamiliar event: an 1841 revolt aboard the ship Creole, in which enslaved ...
Bobby Rush was born Emmett Ellis, Jr. outside Homer, Louisiana, in 1933. He twanged a diddley bow before picking up a guitar around age 11, and his preacher father knew enough about a harmonica to pass along a few riffs to his progeny. The family relocate ...
Port Townsend—Centrum Foundation has been approved for a $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support its Fiddle Tunes and Acoustic Blues Workshops. Now in it’s 50th year, Centrum will bring world-class ...
Dive Into a World of Words, Inspiration, and Literary Magic Immerse yourself in a world of words, inspiration, and literary magic at Centrum's annual PT Writer’s Conference in the charming Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1974, Centrum’s Writing Programs ...
Tyler Jackson is a world-renowned tenor banjoist and upright bassist. When he was just twelve Buddy Griffin noticed his talent on ukulele immediately and approached Tyler about learning the tenor banjo. Griffin spent the next year pouring decades of ban ...
