September I.D.E.A.s

PNB Community Education teaching artists and accompanists are already back in schools this fall serving over 300 elementary public school students in Seattle Public Schools and Highline School District with inclusive, school-day, arts integration residencies.

Join us for the DISCOVER DANCE performance at McCaw Hall on November 9 @ 6:00pm to see students from Arbor Heights Elementary, Daniel Bagley Elementary, and Licton Springs K-8 perform student-choreographed works created during their in-school residencies. This performance also features PNB Company dancers.

PNB is proud to present our second sensory-accessible season, in partnership with Sensory Access. A sensory-accessible season includes a Sensory Guide for each rep available for audience members to understand the sensory elements of each performance (view the Rep 1 Carmina Burana Sensory Guide), the availability of Sensory Bags at all performances which include ear plugs, fidgets, and a cue card for nonverbal communication, and two dedicated sensory-friendly performances with additional modifications and resources.

2022-2023 Sensory Friendly Performances
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®; December 20 @ 2:00pm
Snow White; March 24 @ 10:30am

Questions about the sensory-accessible season? Contact Stella Margarita Gonzalez at stellamg@pnb.org.

Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium's Fall Series begins October 12! An Accessibility Deep Dive: Barriers, Integration, and Virtual Spaces is a free three-part series taking place over Zoom intended to jumpstart your accessibility journey and offer a road map to integrating these practices within your organization. Understanding barriers to implementation is critical for moving forward.

You are encouraged to register for the full series to experience the full collection of knowledge and tools; you may register for just one of the sessions if you prefer.

All sessions will have automated captioning through Zoom. All sessions will be recorded. Sessions are one hour long. Click here to learn more and register!

PNB Development Staff member Jackson Cooper (he/him) has been appointed by Seattle City Council to Seattle’s LGBTQ Commission. The Commission advises the Mayor, City Council and City departments about issues of concern affecting the LGBTQ community. The Commission recommends policies and legislation, brings together LGBTQ communities with the larger Seattle community through long-range projects, and ensures City departments fairly and equitably address issues affecting and involving Seattle's LGBTQ communities as individuals and as a protected class afforded accessibility and inclusion to the services of the City of Seattle.

All meetings are public and held every third Thursday via WebEx. Visit the Commission’s website for more information: https://www.seattle.gov/lgbtq

The IDEA Committee is encouraging “at-large” membership in an effort to include and make use of the many valuable perspectives, life experiences and skill sets of our larger PNB community.

Some examples of ways that “at-large” members could participate include:
• Bringing ideas to the IDEA Committee for any of the subcommittees to work on.
• Offering to help with specific committee needs (ie. language translation, event planning).
• Supporting specific events (ie. extra hands on deck for Community Engagement events).
• Participating in the IDEA Committee’s monthly media club activities (ie. book club readings and discussions).
• Volunteering as a facilitator for IDEA Committee’s trainings of PNB staff.
• Submitting stories, events, and resources that could be shared in the monthly IDEA newsletters

Contact IDEA Committee co-leads Naomi Glass (she/her) at nglass@pnb.org or Kiyon Ross (he/his) at kross@pnb.org for more information!

Did you know?

Members of PNB's I.D.E.A. Committee have been building a Welcome Committee to give new PNB employees a warm introduction to their work life as a part of PNB. The Welcome Committee is currently looking for volunteers to act as Welcome Buddies to new employees for a short period of time. Interested in learning more about the Welcome Committee's work? Reach out to Ayumi Matsuda (she/her) at e.a.mtsd@gmail.com, Naomi Glass (she/her) at nglass@pnb.org, or Kristen Ramer Liang (she/her) at kliang@pnb.org.