As a gift to you and yours, the BIMA team has put together a mix tape of some of our favorite comforting tunes to keep you warm & cozy all winter long.
Grab a cup of hot cocoa, snuggle under a blanket, and enjoy!
From all of us at BIMA, here’s to a happy 2021! […]

BIMA is excited to announce a new partnership with Hiatus Magazine, an online compilation of quarantined teenagers’ most creative works. On BIMA’s social media, we will be featuring pieces from Hiatus’ spring 2020 issue featuring works by their teenage contributors created and imagined while sheltering at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Any written works will appear here on BIMA’s blog for you to read in its entirety! […]

BIMA is excited to announce a new partnership with Hiatus Magazine, an online compilation of quarantined teenagers’ most creative works. On BIMA’s social media, we will be featuring pieces from Hiatus’ spring 2020 issue featuring works by their teenage contributors created and imagined while sheltering at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Any written works will appear here on BIMA’s blog for you to read in its entirety! […]

BIMA has had the privilege of being the site for Bainbridge Pride and Kitsap Pride Network’s annual event observing Transgender Day of Remembrance. As we cannot gather in person this year to remember the transgender lives lost this year, we asked Eve Palay, trans community member and representative for Bainbridge Pride, Rainbow Crew NW, and Jefferson County Transgender Support Group, […]

BIMA is excited to announce a new partnership with Hiatus Magazine, an online compilation of quarantined teenagers’ most creative works. On BIMA’s social media, we will be featuring pieces from Hiatus’ spring 2020 issue featuring works by their teenage contributors created and imagined while sheltering at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Any written works will appear here on BIMA’s blog for you to read in its entirety! […]

In the spirit of our Tuesday night films & dinners, we’ve put together a short list of films to watch and celebrate Día de los Muertos.

See our full lineup events happening from our 2020 Día de los Muertos celebration here!
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The Book of Life
The Book of Life is a refreshingly original animated film that takes viewers to the underworld and back. […]

This year, BIMA took the Within/Earshot Jazz Festival to places it has never been before—both figuratively and literally! For the first time, Within/Earshot was offered for free and presented digitally, allowing households across the globe to tune in. People from all over “visited” BIMA, streamed concerts, lectures, and programs all month long, allowing the museum to continue to produce meaningful and compelling digital programs throughout the lockdown and beyond. […]

For this year’s Within/Earshot Jazz Festival, we asked artists from the lineup and some that have performed at BIMA in the past about what inspires them. Check out what some of this year’s artists said below!
Be sure to check out the lineup for this year’s festival for links to watch all the concerts and events even after they’ve happened! […]

For years now, I rise every morning and step into the living room of whatever house or apartment I happen to be living in, and I look into a painting. I take a few moments and sink into reflection as I view the magnificent La musique or l’orchestre rouge (1957) by Salvador Dalí. A framed print of this painting has followed me from my first apartment as an adult in Seattle, […]

We live in strange and dramatic times. The new normal for live music and the fine arts has physically separated performers and artists from the audience. A wave of cancelled public events was replaced by music in the living room and online performances with no public present. The pandemic may have restricted movement, but not creativity. […]