Town Hall Seattle: Civics Series
Town Hall’s Civics series highlights everything from local policies to world politics. These events offer perspectives on a range of topics as diverse as Seattle itself—a bustling forum for activism, discovery, and thought-provoking discussion.
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Mar 26, 2026
Across the water from Seattle, you can visit the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. It’s a place to honor and learn from the past. Evelyn Iritani, a longtime Seattle resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wants to remember – and learn from – another, lesser-known story from World War...
Mar 22, 2026
Celebrate the 234th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the historic December 15, 1941, radio broadcast of We Hold These Truths with a live performance and radio event at Town Hall Seattle.
Known as the poet laureate of American radio, Norman Corwin wrote We Hold These Truths months before its original airing. But...
Mar 9, 2026
As political violence, mass shootings, and the actions of radical extremists continue to be a devastating presence in our news cycle, academics and experts are compelled to look for connections. What things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? In her newest book, educator and scholar...
Mar 5, 2026
Three voices at the intersections of art,
education, and social critique come together for an evening of
readings and conversation. Jesse Hagopian will share from his
forthcoming book Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist
Education, while Martellus Bennett (MR. TOMONOSHi) and
Michael Bennett will read from their own...
Feb 9, 2026
How much do you know about Black history? From African women’s rebellions on slave ships to a former enslaved man whose account of the first Juneteenth differs from what we hear today, to Benjamin Banneker’s life, to how Islam found its way into American popular music in multiple genres, there is a lot of...