UW alum and Seahawks wide receiver Jermaine Kearse came back to campus last summer to share his memories of Husky football, being a UW student and what it meant to him to earn his degree in sociology.
News and Updates
UW workforce housing to open spring 2015
The University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital are partnering with Security Properties to develop Bridges@11th, a project to create a new pool of high-quality housing in the U District. The new community will offer priority access for UW and Children’s employees, and will include larger units and amenities designed for those with families.
When the University acquired several surface parking lots as part of the Safeco Tower purchase, it created an opportunity for the two institutions to partner on the new housing project. Security Properties/Madrona Ridge was chosen to build and operate it.
The UW and Seattle Children’s have a shared interest in creating high-quality and affordable housing for their employees, and in contributing to a vital urban neighborhood. The Bridges@11th community will include 184 total units with a mix of studios, one bedrooms, two bedrooms and three bedrooms. The project also involves a collaboration with the City of Seattle through the Multifamily Property Tax Exemption Program, which allows 20% of the apartment homes to be set aside for those who qualify under the MFTE guidelines.
Seattle Channel features panel discussion on U District proposed BIA
Link to the program here.
Arts Roundup: Music, drama – and the Dance Faculty Concert
From ArtsUW
It’s an exciting week in the arts as various units ramp up their winter events. For drama fans, there’s the Undergraduate Theater Society’s production of “Yellow Face” and the School of Drama’s take on “Twelfth Night.” For music lovers, don’t miss the rich sounds of the Nile Project at Meany Hall or the UW Symphony at Benaroya Hall. If it’s choreography you’re after, the Dance Program kicks off its 50th anniversary celebration with its Dance Faculty Concert. Whatever event you choose this week, you’re guaranteed to be entertained.
“Yellow Face”
Jan. 22-Feb. 1 | Cabaret Theater, Hutchinson Hall
The Undergraduate Theater Society presents Tony-Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s fun mockumentary that questions the constitutions of race, identity and nationality.More info.
Dance Faculty Concert
Jan. 23-25 | Meany Theater
Kicking off the Dance Program’s 50th anniversary celebration, this concert includes choreography by dance faculty as well as guest and alum Holley Farmer, a Broadway and Merce Cunningham veteran, and well-known choreographer Molly Scott. This eclectic show offers live and recorded compositions by Stuart Dempster, Jarred Powell and Paul Moore, and includes everything from flying bodies to soup cans that playfully and architecturally define space. More info.
UW Symphony at Benaroya Hall
7:30 p.m., Jan. 23 | Benaroya Hall
The UW Symphony goes downtown for an evening of performance featuring School of Music faculty members, including Ludovic Morlot and David Alexander Rahbee, conductors; Robin McCabe and Craig Sheppard, piano; and Joël-François Durand, whose composition “Le Tombeau de Rameau III” will be presented in its world premiere performance. More info. RSVP for the free pre-show reception here.
Women of the Nile at SAAM
7 p.m., Jan. 28 | Seattle Asian Art Museum, Emma Bailargeon Stimson Auditorium
What would the Nile Basin look like if its women were fully empowered? This discussion with female musicians from the Nile Project Collective explores their challenges and opportunities in the world of traditional music and with regional gender issues. Join the musicians as they play, sing and reflect on their experiences as women of the Nile. More info.
Painting + Drawing Studio Open House
7:30 p.m., Jan. 28 | Sand Point Gallery Studios
Discover new artists and visit their private studios at a School of Art + Art History + Design open house at Sand Point. Painting + Drawing MFA students’ studios will be open to the public, providing a rare behind-the-scenes opportunity to view finished and in-progress work and to talk with the students about their artistic processes. An exhibition of faculty-selected work by Painting + Drawing BA/BFA students will be on view in the adjacent Sand Point Gallery. More info.
“Twelfth Night”
Jan. 28-Feb. 8 | Meany Studio Theater
Beloved for its rebellious portrayal of gender ambiguity, William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night, or What You Will” is a comedy about a cross-dressing shipwreck survivor who finds herself at the center of a not-so-ordinary love triangle. Third-year MFA directing candidate Leah Adcock-Starr takes this delightfully comic tale of mistaken identities and weaves it into the jazz-infused world of the Roaring Twenties.More info.
Also on Jan. 30: Join the School of Drama for“Twelfth Night” Night a New Orleans-style evening including food, a live Dixie band and the story of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
JewDub Talks
7 p.m., Jan. 29 | UW Tower
The third-annual JewDub Talks will present short lectures on big ideas in Jewish history and culture. Organized by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, this one-night “TED Talks”-style event features four speakers discussing issues that are personally and intellectually compelling. This event is free and open to the public. More info and RSVP.
The Nile Project
8 p.m., Jan 30 | Meany Theater
Inspired by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, Egyptian musicologist Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero created their own, localized concert experience which uses the power of music to raise awareness of the cultural and environmental challenges along the world’s longest river. The Nile Project bridges the polyrhythmic styles of Lake Victoria and the pointed melodies of the Ethiopian highlands with the rich modal traditions of Egypt, Sudan, and others to create the new sound of a shared Nile identity. More info.
Via UW Today: ‘Paris and Beyond’: Jackson School to discuss recent terrorism in roundtable Jan. 21st
The eyes of the world are on France in the wake of the deadly shootings at the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The Jan. 7 act of terrorism has sparked questions about radical Islam, European unity and conflicts in the Middle East.
The University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies will hold a roundtable discussion on these issues and more, 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, in Room 101 of Thomson Hall. The event — which is free and open to the public — is titled “Paris and Beyond: Making Sense of the World with Jackson School Faculty.”
“The attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the supermarket in Paris reverberated across Europe, the Middle East and North America,” said Jackson School Director Reşat Kasaba. “In the Jackson School, we are grappling with the whys and hows of these events.”
Confirmed UW faculty panelists are:
- Daniel Chirot, Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Jackson School and sociology department
- Kathie Friedman, associate professor of international studies in the Jackson School
- Ellis Goldberg, director of the Middle East Studies Center and professor emeritus of political science
- Reşat Kasaba, Stanley D. Golub chair in international studies and Jackson School director
- Sabine Lang, associate professor of European Studies in the Jackson School
- Anand Yang, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies in the Jackson School
- Noam Pianko, director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and associate professor in the Jackson School
The event is co-sponsored by the Jackson School and its Center for West European Studies, European Union Center of Excellence and Center for Global Studies.
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For more information, contact Kristina Bowman, Jackson School communications specialist, at 206-221-1323 or kriscb@uw.edu.