Bumbershoot: Seattle’S Arts & Music Festival

Bumbershoot recognizes the great diversity held within our creativity community and serves to amplify and honor the artists that call the Pacific Northwest home. We’re celebrating what it means to be an ARTIST Artists shift perspectives, awaken curiosity and, in our shared passion for visual arts, performance, and music, help us realize we are all under the same umbrella. Together we make Bumbershoot happen. Will you join us? Third Stone and New Rising Sun are relaunching the Pacific Northwest’s iconic arts and music festival as an opportunity to highlight our regional arts and culture communities and expand the definition of ‘Artist’. We honor the essential characteristics of the festival’s rich legacy with a vision to realign Bumbershoot with Seattle’s changing growth,purpose and needs. A dual organization model allows the best of both worlds for Bumbershoot’s next 50 years with a nonprofit entity-Third Stone to engage the community and a WA Social Purpose Corp - New Rising Sun to produce the next generation of Bumbershoot, starting in 2023 with the 50th Anniversary. Third Stone is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts and education organization founded in 2022. Bumbershoot’s nonprofit entity with a mission to foster an inclusive, energized and sustainable arts economy in the PNW through youth education, festival spectacle and community driven programming. Housing Bumbershoot’s education program ‘festival as classroom’ and the main festival event. Supported by major and grassroots giving that delivers on our promise to make the festival affordable again and makes education and production costs possible. New Rising Sun is a seasoned team of concert promoters, visual arts producers who secured 100% of the rights to produce Bumbershoot through Seattle Center. Seattle Center is the steward of Bumbershoot’s licensing rights in perpetuity and home of the festival event for the next 50 years. NRS’s for profit mission will supercharge and expand the brand year round.