Refill is a community-driven, live-streamed benefit concert to help raise $25,000 for the Seattle Artist Relief Fund (SARF), a Black-led community response to help provide direct financial support to artists who have been affected by COVID-19.
We're set up to use YouTube Giving and partnered with LANGSTON to make sure 100% of your donation goes directly to artists effected by COVID-19. There are no transactions fees involved. Refill transaction free!
To donate, click on 'Donate Now' or head to the YouTube stream and click the ‘Donate’ button.
The Seattle Artist Relief Fund is a Black-led community response that has partnered with LANGSTON, a non-profit cultivating Black Brilliance, to supply direct funding to artists who have been impacted by COVID-19.
The fund aims to support artists from communities that have been historically and systemically economically disadvantaged in the Seattle Area: BIPOC artists, transgender & nonbinary artists, and disabled artists - but the goal is to help artists from all backgrounds and walks of life.
More information about the fund can be found on their GoFundMe page, linked below.
Here's what Tim Lennon, Executive Director of LANGSTON, has to say about their partnership with Seattle Artist Relief Fund.
In March, we partnered with Ijeoma Oluo, Gabriel Teodros, and Ebony Arunga to bolster their efforts with the Seattle Artists Relief Fund. In a time where we can’t gather together in person in support of Black Brilliance, it’s a fitting expression of our mission to support this Black-led community response to COVID-19’s impact on our creative community. This is so much more than a fundraiser. It’s a creative act wholly conceptualized and executed by brilliant Black culture workers: having each others’ backs as a work of socially engaged practice performed on a stage bigger than the Seattle metro region.
LANGSTON’s mission is to strengthen and advance our community through Black arts and culture. The Black artists and musicians who created this fund truly exemplify the Black brilliance we strive to cultivate. Working together we've been able to help hundreds of local artists of all backgrounds by channeling our community's generosity directly into the hands of the creatives and culture workers who define the soul of our city and region. Though this is new work to all of us and we've had to overcome some challenges getting up to speed, we've made this impact faster than most local, state and federal efforts to date have been able to. Because Black artists have always made a (beautiful!) way out of no way.
Seeing our broader community rally around Black culture workers in support of all culture workers is a damned beautiful thing. I'm so proud of the work we've done in support of our community, but we have so far to go yet. We've only just begun to meet the needs of the thousands who have reached out to us in the last 4 weeks. We're now primed and ready to disburse payments even faster, but now we've hit the limit of the money we've raised so far. Small donations, from diverse individuals all over the state, have added up to almost a half-million dollars and kept hope alive in the hearts of hundreds of local artists.
If you are one of the thousands who have already donated to and/or benefited from the Seattle Artists Relief Fund we want to say THANK YOU for embodying the beloved creative community it's our honor to serve.
Now we need the large local companies, foundations, and philanthropists who value what artists bring to this region to join the rest of us indirectly supporting the people who make this place worth living, working and investing in. If you have the means and would like to join us in this creative act of generosity please visit langstonseattle.org/SARF to donate today.
KEXP is a nonprofit arts organization and public broadcaster serving music lovers and artists through in-person, broadcast, and online music programming. KEXP operates one of the most influential listener-supported music radio stations in the country, 90.3 KEXP-FM, Seattle. On KEXP's YouTube channel, videos of exclusive in-studio performances garner over 15 million views per month.
KEXP is dedicated to lifting up artists in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, and is grateful to be partnering with Refill, LANGSTON, and Seattle Artist Relief Fund by hosting the concert on YouTube and providing production assistance, media sponsorship and promotional support.
Here's what Tim Lennon, Executive Director of LANGSTON, has to say about their partnership with Seattle Artist Relief Fund.
In March, we partnered with Ijeoma Oluo, Gabriel Teodros, and Ebony Arunga to bolster their efforts with the Seattle Artists Relief Fund. In a time where we can’t gather together in person in support of Black Brilliance, it’s a fitting expression of our mission to support this Black-led community response to COVID-19’s impact on our creative community. This is so much more than a fundraiser. It’s a creative act wholly conceptualized and executed by brilliant Black culture workers: having each others’ backs as a work of socially engaged practice performed on a stage bigger than the Seattle metro region.
LANGSTON’s mission is to strengthen and advance our community through Black arts and culture. The Black artists and musicians who created this fund truly exemplify the Black brilliance we strive to cultivate. Working together we've been able to help hundreds of local artists of all backgrounds by channeling our community's generosity directly into the hands of the creatives and culture workers who define the soul of our city and region. Though this is new work to all of us and we've had to overcome some challenges getting up to speed, we've made this impact faster than most local, state and federal efforts to date have been able to. Because Black artists have always made a (beautiful!) way out of no way.
Seeing our broader community rally around Black culture workers in support of all culture workers is a damned beautiful thing. I'm so proud of the work we've done in support of our community, but we have so far to go yet. We've only just begun to meet the needs of the thousands who have reached out to us in the last 4 weeks. We're now primed and ready to disburse payments even faster, but now we've hit the limit of the money we've raised so far. Small donations, from diverse individuals all over the state, have added up to almost a half-million dollars and kept hope alive in the hearts of hundreds of local artists.
If you are one of the thousands who have already donated to and/or benefited from the Seattle Artists Relief Fund we want to say THANK YOU for embodying the beloved creative community it's our honor to serve.
Now we need the large local companies, foundations, and philanthropists who value what artists bring to this region to join the rest of us indirectly supporting the people who make this place worth living, working and investing in. If you have the means and would like to join us in this creative act of generosity please visit langstonseattle.org/SARF to donate today.
Here's what Tim Lennon, Executive Director of LANGSTON, has to say about their partnership with Seattle Artist Relief Fund.
In March, we partnered with Ijeoma Oluo, Gabriel Teodros, and Ebony Arunga to bolster their efforts with the Seattle Artists Relief Fund. In a time where we can’t gather together in person in support of Black Brilliance, it’s a fitting expression of our mission to support this Black-led community response to COVID-19’s impact on our creative community. This is so much more than a fundraiser. It’s a creative act wholly conceptualized and executed by brilliant Black culture workers: having each others’ backs as a work of socially engaged practice performed on a stage bigger than the Seattle metro region.
LANGSTON’s mission is to strengthen and advance our community through Black arts and culture. The Black artists and musicians who created this fund truly exemplify the Black brilliance we strive to cultivate. Working together we've been able to help hundreds of local artists of all backgrounds by channeling our community's generosity directly into the hands of the creatives and culture workers who define the soul of our city and region. Though this is new work to all of us and we've had to overcome some challenges getting up to speed, we've made this impact faster than most local, state and federal efforts to date have been able to. Because Black artists have always made a (beautiful!) way out of no way.
Seeing our broader community rally around Black culture workers in support of all culture workers is a damned beautiful thing. I'm so proud of the work we've done in support of our community, but we have so far to go yet. We've only just begun to meet the needs of the thousands who have reached out to us in the last 4 weeks. We're now primed and ready to disburse payments even faster, but now we've hit the limit of the money we've raised so far. Small donations, from diverse individuals all over the state, have added up to almost a half-million dollars and kept hope alive in the hearts of hundreds of local artists.
If you are one of the thousands who have already donated to and/or benefited from the Seattle Artists Relief Fund we want to say THANK YOU for embodying the beloved creative community it's our honor to serve.
Now we need the large local companies, foundations, and philanthropists who value what artists bring to this region to join the rest of us indirectly supporting the people who make this place worth living, working and investing in. If you have the means and would like to join us in this creative act of generosity please visit langstonseattle.org/SARF to donate today.
