TeenTix

Teentix press corps: the press corps promotes critical thinking, communication, and information literacy through arts criticism and journalism practice for teens. Since 2006, some of the city's most talented professional arts critics from the seattle times, the stranger, seattle globalist and more have taught over 550 teens through workshops and intensives focused on arts criticism training, resulting in over 450 reviews of arts and culture events that live on the Teentix blog. In 2015, we put the press corps on hiatus and worked with task force of community members to address some of the program's ongoing challenges, including lack of significant racial and socio-economic diversity amongst program participants and staffing challenges. The press corps relaunched in spring of 2018. Our updated press corps is designed to include racial equity and social justice priorities and has an explicit goal of disrupting systems of oppression within arts media that have kept marginalized voices out of arts journalism.

The new guard: new guard members play a central role in guiding the development of Teentix programs and events, identifying organizational values and serving as the primary teen ambassadors for Teentix. They participate in high-level decision-making alongside our board of directors and advisory council. The new guard consists of 34 teens representing 24 schools and 22 zip codes in the greater seattle area. Since its launch the new guard has nurtured over 150 young leaders who have gone on to contribute to their communities as artists, journalists, activists, arts administrators, politicians, scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs. The new guard partners with the colorization collective, a group led by young people (who are also Teentix alumni! ), which promotes diversity in the arts, to present a mentorship program for teen artists of color. Teens work with their mentors and a cohort of peers to hone their craft and develop new work. The new guard supports these efforts by hosting an annual event to showcase their work at the end of each year.

Teentix pass program: any teenager (13-19 years old) can sign up for a free Teentix pass. The pass entitles teens to purchase $5 day-of-show tickets at any of our 75 partner organizations in seattle (69) and tacoma (6). Since 2004, over 60,000 teens from all over the world have signed up for a Teentix pass, purchasing more than 118,000 affordable tickets to arts and cultural events in our community. Ed voices out of arts journalism.

The Teentix arts podcast (tap) is a group of teens who produce a monthly podcast focused on arts and culture. The tap program operates in line with the school-year schedule and runs continuously from september-june. Tap teens get to choose the focus for each episode, and work in partnership with ground zero radio to produce a new episode each month - they also get paid for their work!the mentorship for teen artists of color (m-tac) is hosted by Teentix, in partnership with the colorization collective (a teen-run organization that promotes diversity in the arts). This program will specifically allow teen artists of color to hone their artwork under the guidance of professional mentors. This is a great way for teens to better their craft, build connections in the arts community, and present their art!