Guest Curated Series
Our community-responsive programming is guest-curated by Seattle-area artists, to increase opportunities where Seattle’s community voices can be seen and heard.
Spring 2026 Guest Curator: Amber Flame
This spring Guest Curator Amber Flame invites us to engage with the resource of delight and the healing power of connectivity in collective care. The series “We Belong Together” includes three events that explore how we expand our human and natural connections to access delight and find resources for healing.
“Rooting for the Future” brings together workers, healers and activists focused on new learning and cross-sharing. We’ll discuss practical learning tools for world-building such as collective farming; micro-communities using barter and trade systems; foraging groups; and root and medicinal knowledge sharing.
“Meet Cute at the Library” is inspired by an idea for a cheap date night that was featured in an early 2000s edition of “The Stranger Suggests”: pick a book of love poems and read them together on the Red Floor at the Central Library. You’ll experience stations of local performers sharing love poems and short stories to celebrate all kinds of love – romantic but also friend-love, platonic love, love of nature and animals, love for children, and more. Performers will come together for a panel on writing the heart.
“Peepless in Seattle” features creatives and community leaders whose work is grounded, formed and rooted in the Pacific Northwest, but hail from other parts (or countries). This panel will dive into belonging and how long it takes to call a place home.
About the Curator
Amber Flame is an award-winning multi-genre writer and interdisciplinary artist. Flame is author of poetry collections “Ordinary Cruelty” and “apocrifa,” and deputy publisher and cofounder of Generous Press.
Flame is at work on a third poetry manuscript, an essay collection, and a film while touring as singer/songwriter of Last of the RedHot Mamas, a blues band.
Past Events
We have offered guest-curated programming since 2021.