Apr 16, 2018 | Announcement, Town Hall News
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 offer invaluable support in our offices. More than 120 of you dedicate...
Apr 16, 2018 | Announcement, Town Hall News
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 commitment and belief in Town Hall has made it possible for us...
Apr 16, 2018 | Renovation Update, Town Hall News
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 restoration offsite. Construction is going well, and we’re thrilled to...
Apr 12, 2018 | Audio, Digital Stage, Interview/Conversation
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 Airlines—intends to take tourists into suborbital flight. And here in...
Mar 27, 2018 | Digital Stage, Interview/Conversation
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...
Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Stage, Editorial
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 step-father are serving time in prison, leaving her to care for her two...
Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Stage, Interview/Conversation
For decades, the people of Colombia have been brutalized by a violent civil war fueled by drug money and billions of dollars in military aid from the United States. It’s the bloodiest and most intractable conflict in the Western Hemisphere but it remains poorly...
Mar 15, 2018 | Audio, Digital Stage, Interview/Conversation
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer who worked for nearly two decades at Merriam-Webster dictionary, a world she reveals in the new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. She will be speaking about the book at her upcoming Town Hall event on Sunday, March...
Mar 5, 2018 | Digital Stage, Editorial
Every year, Town Hall selects exceptional local artists and scholars for paid residencies where they engage with Town Hall programs and collaborate with our programming team to develop original events for the community. In a typical season, we hand our residents the...
Mar 3, 2018 | Digital Stage, Editorial
We’re excited to welcome dynamic and diverse education leaders for one of the most anticipated diversity and education events of our season! First, TED-Ed Innovative Educators and #EducationSoWhite panelists Kristin Leong and Marcos Silva lead Classrooms in Color...
