Engage your senses this October with ARTS CRUSH. All month long Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) challenges residents and visitors around Puget Sound to “GET CRUSHED” with hundreds and hundreds of special one-time arts events, discounts and free activities. Currently over 150 arts organizations from all arts disciplines have signed up to participate in a variety of ways, and more groups are expected to join in the coming weeks.
2010 marks the inaugural year of ARTS CRUSH, a festival that grew out of TPS’s highly successful Live Theatre Week (LTW) program. Given that the ARTS CRUSH festival is rooted in the theatre community, the majority of participants do come from the regional theaters. However, TPS has received hundreds of entries from the literary, film, dance, music and visual arts communities. Museums, galleries, public art spaces, clubs, public transportation stations, shopping malls, parks, community centers, movie houses and even restaurants and bookstores have all signed on to host events. ARTS CRUSH will be everywhere!
While the vast majority of arts organizations come from the Seattle area, there are over dozens of groups from the Eastside, at least 40 groups from Tacoma and Pierce County, and more than 50 other groups stretching from the South near Olympia to the North past Edmonds and west toward the Islands and Olympic Peninsula.
Free Nights: Every Thursday in October
Family Day: Every Saturday in October
Date Nights: 2-for-1 admission or discount ticket offers every Tuesday and Friday in October
- Free Special Events Include: open rehearsals, open houses, guided tours, public parties, participatory workshops, meet-the-artist events.
- Through Site-Specific Work ARTS CRUSH will stimulate organic collaboration among creative disciplines and the business community – bringing music to galleries, theatre to cafes, art to vacant spaces, dance to the streets.
- With Public Art Works Arts Crush reawakens the senses and invites people to participate in the act of making art through large community driven events that culminate in the creation of a new work or performance.
ARTS CRUSH reaches people in unique ways; through hands-on participation, once-a-year glimpses behind the scenes, and surprise arts experiences in unexpected places. In addition, ARTS CRUSH extends an open invitation to sample the abundance of arts and culture in our region by adopting creative pay-what-you will or discounted fee structures for traditional arts experiences.
See Cornish College’s year long Merce Cunningham minEvents project featured during Arts Crush!
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