TEENTIX
305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109 www.teentix.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TeenTix builds a bright future for our city by empowering young people to take an active role in shaping their arts community as audience members, critics, influencers, advocates, patrons, and leaders.

TeenTix exists to break down the barriers that prevent teens from accessing art in our community, such as ticket or admission cost, not knowing where to look for events, navigating transportation around the city, and feeling insecure around arts-going if there's no one in their lives already championing the arts. THE TEENTIX PASS PROGRAM: Enables teens (13-19) to purchase $5 day-of-show tickets at any of our 75 partner organizations. We also have a robust communication platform including our web calendar listing all the events available to teens, our social media presence and weekly e-newsletter. THE NEW GUARD TEEN ARTS LEADERSHIP SOCIETY: Formally an arts leadership and administrative training program for teens, but really this group is the heart and soul of TeenTix. Teens 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, and participate in high-level decision-making

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.

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 citys 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 programs 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 2018/19 New Guard consists of 48 teens, 8 of whom serve on the New Guard Leadership Board acting as the programs primary administrators with mentorship from TeenTix's Executive Director. The 2019/20 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.

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