Fall 2025 Guest Curator: Amy Hirayama

This fall Guest Curator Amy Hirayama invites us to consider the role of play in collaboration and how collaborative play might help us connect with each other.

Her series “Serious Play” includes three events that explore how people create and connect across disciplines and how we can bring more collaborative play into our work, creative and social lives.

“Comedy Gold” features short sets from local comedians before a conversation about collaboration in comedy.

“Perfect Pairings” invites surprising collaborative pairs to share their secrets about connection across disciplines, learning from each other, and flow and conflict within collaboration.

“Collab-o-rama” is your chance to get in on the fun! This collaborative play fair will give attendees a chance to visit different stations and engage in collaborative, generative activities. You’ll walk away with art projects, written pieces or poems, ideas and resources, and hopefully connections to new friends.

About the Curator

Amy Hirayama

Amy Hirayama is a writer and educator from Seattle. She coordinates programming for Clarion West, teaches English at South Seattle College, is a creative writing instructor with Writers in the Schools, and is involved at Common Area Maintenance (CAM), a creative space and resource for artists and writers in Belltown.

Past Events

We have offered guest-curated programming since 2021.