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Save the Date! May 1 - 2, 2020

Call for Entries

What would you like to see this year at the Crosscut Festival? We are looking for your thoughts on the panels and panelists that matter to you. Click below to submit your ideas for topics you’d like cover at the festival, along with the panelists & moderators you’d like to see!

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Volunteering at Crosscut Festival 2020

Interested in volunteering for the Crosscut Festival? Sign up to be a part of Cascade Public Media’s volunteer program. Our volunteer program administrator will be in touch within one week of submitting the volunteer application to set up an introductory conversation.

All volunteers for the Festival must attend one pre-event training. Several daytime and evening options will be available in the weeks leading up to the event.

As a thank-you for volunteering, individuals who complete a minimum of 4 hours are invited to attend any Saturday programming outside of the hours of their shift.

About the Crosscut Festival

Crosscut presents two days of thought-provoking conversations and innovative thinking, tackling the most important issues of our times. Journalists, politicians, authors, and newsmakers from our community and around the nation come together to take a hard look at the people, policy and events that shape our lives.

2019 Crosscut Festival

Attendees visit the food truck court during lunch at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

AO Attendees show off their Crosscut Festival bags

David Plotz, Sarah Smith, Kshama Sawant and Tina Podlodowski during Socialism's Role in American Politics panel at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

AO WA State Representative Pramila Jayapal takes a picture with an attendee

Pramila Jayapal on-stage with Crosscut's Melissa Santos

WA State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Emily Bazelon on-stage at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

AO A camera crew films during a session sponsored by The Nature Conservancy

Ted Alvarez, Kristie Ebi, Heidi Roop, Michael Cox and Rashad Morris on-strage during the Apocalypse Now panel at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

A volunteer checks attendees in during a Keynote session in Redhawk

Macklemore on-stage during the 2019 Crosscut Festival

DeRay Mckesson, Doug Baldwin and Macklemore on-stage during the 2019 Crosscut Festival

Jamelle Bouie and Valerie Jarrett on-stage during the 2019 Crosscut Festival

Evonne Tersiisky, Jill Jackson, Christopher Chan and Crosscut's Victor Hernandez during Is the News Broken?

Tara Conley, Earth-Feather Sovereign, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Amelia Bonow during #Activism that Works at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

Attendees wait for a session to begin outside of Wyckoff Auditorium.

Attendees line up for a book signing by Samantha Allen

Two student attendees enjoy samples of kombucha at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

The food truck court during lunch at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

Choose 180 volunteers staff a community partner table at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

A volunteer escorts attendees around Seattle University at the 2019 Crosscut Festival

Volunteers staff the registration tables at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Attendees are escorted around the Seattle University campus during the 2019 Crosscut Festival

Sponsor signage for Race & Social Justice track sponsor Waldron during the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Emma Brown, Sydney Brownstone and Rachel La Cort during Assault, Accusations and Accountability: Breaking a #MeToo Story at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Two attendees walk the Seattle University campus between sessions at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Kim Wyman, Maia Espinoza, JT Wilcox, Rob McKenna and Crosscut's Knute Berger during Upper-Left and to the Right: How Republicans Plan to take back Power in Olympia at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Attendees hold up their Crosscut Festival bags between sessions at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

The sold out crowd for Has the Next Civil War Already Started? at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Sponsor signage for the Washington Policy Center at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Sponsor signage at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

The League of Women Voters staffs a community partner table at the 2019 Crosscut Festival.

Featured Speakers

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Sessions

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Crosscut Festival programming explores the fabric of our cultural conversation across a wide range of subjects. Sessions will include programming in tracks including Keynote, Race & Social Justice, Politics, Business, Science & the Environment, Interactive Workshops, and Meetups. We’ll also have live music, food, drinks and social events.