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Ways to Celebrate Bumbershoot, #5
People in the Park, 1976 Bumbershoot Poster by Jacob Lawrence, courtesy of One Reel
In honor of its 40th anniversary, Bumbershoot rolled out a list of 40 ways you can help celebrate. They’ve been going on all summer, which means you missed out. It’s never too late to party, though, so we’re here to suggest 5 last-minute ways to participate.
The festival later known as Bumbershoot started in 1971, before most of us were born. It was a very different era.
The first article with the moniker Bumbershoot in the Seattle Times ran in 1973 on the entertainment pages. It was right next to ads for strip clubs as well as porn films at Bellevue’s drive-in movie theater.
Another Bumbershoot Festival ‘73 article discussed grants dispensed by a number of arts organizations. Unity, a performance by black artists, received the kingly sum of $1000 in state and federal funds. But the article goes on to describe $1000 from Allied Arts to young director Karl Kr …

See the full article from “Seattlest”