Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
Special Announcement
The Performing Arts Center is currently being remodeled to be bigger and better! Reopening January 2012.
About the Performing Arts Center
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center operates as a cultural performing arts center under the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation. The goal of the center is to provide quality cultural entertainment and educational components that meet the needs of the community.
Every season, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center has new classes, events and programs. Langston Hughes offers both performances and instruction, and the programming reflects the diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods, the Central District and the International District.
Mission Statement
The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center celebrates, nurtures, presents and preserves African American performing arts and cultural legacies. The center provides a unique opportunity for all citizens of Seattle, from various walks of life and diverse backgrounds to experience and engage in the performing arts.
Partnerships
Recent offerings include a partnership with the Seattle Youth Employment Program that provides valuable work experience and training in cultural leadership, creative writing, dance, theatre, and theatre production; a production, in partnership with the AFrican ConeXion 09, of "Callejon", an original bilingual musical based on Afro-Peruvian dances and rhythms; and "Hip Hop: Back to its Roots", an in-depth look at violence in our community and its root causes, and an effort to create consensus on its effects and prevention.
The center has a rich history of international theater performances, most recently by the Russian Community Theater Group, led by Pavel Sergeyv; Sub Rosa, performed by Cherrone Wong; and Khamelion Theater, led by Igor Musiyenko.
Langston Hughes is located at:
104 17th Ave S (Map It!)
Seattle, WA 98144
206.684.4757
