For the second year in a row, BAZZOOKAFEST 2022 returns as a free BIPOC-powered music and arts festival. Taking place at Jefferson Park in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, the two-day event will feature an array of gender-expansive artists...
When Sarah, a no-nonsense molecular biologist at Columbia University, receives a call informing her of her mother’s death, her default response is denial. “There must be some sort of mistake,” she says. As the protagonist of Queen...
Drawing upon a musical practice that is deeply rooted in her sense of embodiment and spiritual understanding of the world, Japanese vocal musician Hatis Noit ハチスノイト uses voice as her primary instrument. Her latest record, Aura, was released in...
When documentary filmmaker Tzewoon Chan began making his genre-bending film Blue Island 憂鬱之島 (2022) in 2017, Hong Kong was between social movements. Coming out of a previous project, Yellowing (2016), which explored the explosive 2014 pro-democracy...
By way of Chicago, illustrator and printmaker Yewon Kwon landed in Seattle in late 2020, in desire of a lifestyle change and a chance to be closer to nature. A nonbinary artist of Korean heritage, Kwon uses art as a processing mechanism for highly...
The early afternoon sunlight is streaming into OHYUNG’s New York apartment when we meet over video call to discuss their latest album, imagine naked!, released this spring as a double cassette tape on NNA Tapes. There’s a peaceful energy...