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I'm Paris Jackson.

We're in Pioneer Square, where the arts will be front and center.

A new event hits downtown Seattle, bringing crowds here and winding through Belltown.

Walk Don't Run kicks off on September 20th as part of Seattle's Art and Culture Week.

Music, roving art and live performances will fan out along the event route between noon and 6 p.m.. We caught up with one of the organizers to get a preview.

We're here in Pioneer Square where Walk Don't Run is going to kick off.

Kira, tell us what this event is all about.

So Walk Don't Run starts here in Occidental Square.

We want all of you to come on down.

It starts at noon on September 20th.

That's a Saturday.

We have over 100 artists that are going to be dotting three kilometers, that's just shy of two miles of route going up First Avenue, then turning right on Cherry, going up Second Avenue, then jogging over to Third Street via Pine and then concluding at Second Avenue in Bell Street with a great block party.

We have musicians.

We have performance art, think, dance, think cheerleading.

-Oh, I love that.

Think brass bands roaming the route.

We have incredible choreographers that are involved, incredible curators, visual artists, and all sorts of different musical acts from the traditional to the absurd.

And it's going to be just a fantastic time.

(music playing) Part of what you guys are hoping is that this really sparks some revitalization of downtown Seattle.

How do you hope it will do that?

One way that we're doing that is inviting all of you, inviting the public to come down and rediscover downtown, rediscover the streets, the shops, the businesses, the restaurants, the galleries, the music venues with us.

The other way we're doing that is we're creating over 100 gigs for artists, visual, music and performance and dance artists all along the route, that three kilometer route.

We know that keeping artists and creatives in our community and keeping them employed is part of that.

And Walk Don't Run is a piece of that bigger pie.

More than 100 performers will be participating in Walk Don't Run.

Tell us about some of those artists.

Well, one of them is a Akoiya Harris.

She weaves visceral, communal histories into movement and dance.

Really, all of her work is through the queer black gaze and becomes a log of those histories, those shared memories.

In addition to dancers and performers like Akoiya, who else is going to be a part of Walk Don't Run?

Jesse Higman comes to mind.

He's been in the Seattle art scene for many years.

He's doing a communal paint pour.

So, at our a hub that's about halfway down the route at a building called 2 and U. And you so you can go and actually make art with him.

It's going to be a great vibe.

That whole hub will have dance, visual art from Tammie Dupuis, and all sorts of different things that are scattered across that interior plaza.

What else can people expect during Seattle's Art and Culture Week?

Well Walk Don't Run on Saturday, September 20th kicks off Art and Culture Week.

And then there's a myriad of other exhibitions, performances, music, dance happening across the city.

And then the week concludes with Wa Na Wari's Walk the Block.

That's in the Central District, and it's their fifth year doing that.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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