Nic Masangkay is a Seattle-based community musician and poet. They graduated in 2016 from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Notable highlights include Buzzfeed, Autostraddle, and Tumblr features for poem My Gender Is for Mothers; 2018 Jack Straw Cultural Center Artist Assistance Program Resident; 2019 4Culture Arc Artist Fellow; and independent singer-songwriter-producer alt-pop releases with EP Dark at Dusk: the Final Suicide (2019), singles 'Star' (2021), and 'Mothers' (2022). Aside from their solo work, Masangkay regularly collaborates with music, movement, and film artists, for remixing, scoring, production, and live sound. As they move to create more intergenerational and all-ages art, working with young people as a teaching artist is a budding focus of their practice. In their music, poetry, collaborations, teaching, and everyday life, Nic generously shares their perspective on the transformative potential of cultural work.

Jack Straw Fall Artist Showcase

Sunday, September 24, 2023 @ 1:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person

Jack Straw Cultural Center kicks off the fall with an afternoon of music from Jack Straw Resident Artists Randal Bays and Clint Dye, Nic Ma…

Free

Fil Am Music Night: Chris Icasiano, Grex (Oakland), Nic Masangkay

Sunday, November 20, 2022 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PST)
Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA, United States

Fil Am music night // Oakland experimental duo Grex returns to Seattle, joining virtuoso drummer Chris Icasiano and musician/poet Nic Masan…

$5-15 suggested donation