You just a heard a selection from the first part of Tornado, a new piece composed by Town Music...
Environmental Luminaries Return to Town Hall
Every year our Distilled fundraiser captures the essence of Town Hall’s programming—the big ideas, the amplification of community voices, and the collaboration with organizations on a local or...
Urban Climate Change and Our Role as City-Dwellers
Increasingly, activists who work on climate change frame their movement around the idea of environmental justice, an interweaving of social, racial and economic justice with the fight to mitigate...
The Overlooked Power of Nature’s Invisible Giants
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American...
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...
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...