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The Evergreen State College's Performing and Media Arts

Expressive Arts programs at Evergreen help students gain skills and experience in the Performing and Media arts with a very deliberate focus on the interplay of theory and practice. In many programs, students have the opportunity to work in more than one art form simultaneously and with collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches to learning. Program themes are drawn from current aesthetic and ideological interests of the faculty and vary widely from year to year, ensuring that the faculty and curriculum remain vital and relevant.

Students should be aware that sequential skills training is not available in most of the arts but a hands-on approach is taken in every program that has Expressive Arts faculty as members of the teaching team. Expressive Arts offerings usually include work in the performing arts (theater, music and dance), media arts, visual arts and creative writing. In all of these contexts, we are working to create a learning environment that supports a strong multicultural perspective.

For more information, please visit www.evergreen.edu

The Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia

The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, South Puget Sound's largest performing arts facility, is committed to providing a wide variety of entertainment and cultural activities for the residents of five counties. Located in the heart of Washington State's capital city, The Center has become a community gathering place, providing a focus for the performing arts unique to the region.

The Center presents their own season of national and international touring artists from a broad spectrum of genres and styles. The real purpose, however, is to provide the support services needed by the many local performance groups who call the Center home.

The multi-purpose facility contains a 983-seat proscenium theater with four seating levels and adjacent lobby spaces, as well as a smaller Stage II black box theater with its own lobby. The Center's stages and lobby areas are available for rental - not only for regional performing arts groups and touring artists, but also for workshops, seminars, receptions, parties, video shoots... just about anything you could think of.

Opened in 1985, our facility has played host to thousands of events, with almost 2,000,000 people crossing our threshold. The history did not start in 1985, however. The Washington Center is really the grandchild of the old Liberty Theater, a 1924 vaudeville house which stood on the same ground the Washington Center does today. The Liberty Theater was renovated and refurbished in 1948, becoming the Olympic Theater movie house. The Olympic was then taken down to just a few exterior walls in the early 1980’s, and completely rebuilt as the Washington Center. While the building's facade still retains elements of the 1924 architecture, the interior is contemporary and modern.

The Washington Center building is owned by the City of Olympia, and the Washington Center for the Performing Arts is a private, not-for-profit organization with a long-term contract to operate the Center. We are a real success story in public/private partnerships, with each party bringing its strengths to the table.

For more information, please visit www.washingtoncenter.org