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Lucy Cooke: Re-Branding the Animal Kingdom
Humans often look at the animal kingdom through our own lens, and many times we tend to project our own values and emotions onto the animals. Here to set the record straight is National Geographic...
The Precariat Class: We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now
Over the past five years, Seattle has seen a tremendous expansion of worker protections, driven largely by the organizing of low wage workers themselves. According to Annelise Orleck, a labor...
Take Town Hall With You Wherever You Go
Town Hall is always looking for ways to make our programs even more accessible—from livestreaming sold-out programs, to making our talks freely available through our media library and podcasts. With...
April is National Volunteer Month
April is National Volunteer Month, and Town Hall would \like to say thank you to everyone who has volunteered with usl. Volunteers make our events possible, introduce new people to Town Hall, and...
Distilled Tickets are on sale now!
Inside/Out has introduced us to new community members and given us the opportunity to confront and overcome new challenges—and we've felt the support of you, our Members, every step of the way. Your...
Spring Construction Update
Our friends at Rafn Construction have been using these scaffolds to give the Great Hall a face lift, accessing the ceiling to install new molding and lovingly remove the stained glass windows for...
The Space Barons — A Privately-Financed Commercial Space Age
In 2017, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable rocket booster. Later this year, Virgin Galactic—the spacefaring spinoff of Richard Branson’s Virgin...
Impossible Monuments to a 100 Year Migration Crisis
Mary Ann Peters is an artist whose combined studio work, installations, public art projects and arts activism have made noted contributions to the Northwest and nationally for over 30 years. Most recently her work has focused on the overlap of contemporary events with splintered histories of the Middle East.
The High Cost of Living With Conviction
Town Hall presents Living With Conviction—Sentenced to Debt for Life in Washington State on Tuesday, March 27th. Keshena is $50,000 in debt; she’s filed for bankruptcy. Her husband and...