Seattle Opera debuted the groundbreaking work X: The Life & Times Of Malcolm X in February 2024, composed by Anthony Davis, at McCaw Hall in Seattle. The premiere marked a historic milestone for the company as the first opera by a Black composer ever staged at the Seattle Opera, drawing a crowd that celebrated Blackness, history, and fashion. Trae Holiday of Converge Media caught up with attendees to discuss the significance of this live show.
The opening night of Scope Screenings Season 4 earlier this year brought together independent filmmakers in Seattle and celebrated Converge host Trae Holiday’s Emmy win in June 2025. Trae’s iconic show intro for “The Day With Trae” landed her the Emmy win, and her Seattle community pulled up to Scope Screenings to watch the sensational intro on the big screen at the SIFF Cinema Egyptian in Capitol Hill, alongside other local filmmakers making the Emerald City’s creative world tick.
When it comes to hard-hitting informative impact, Converge hit gold with “The Morning Update Show,” spearheaded by the personalities and passions of hosts Trae Holiday and Omari Salisbury in 2020. Looking back at the early days of the show beginning at its conception in response to the pandemic, “The Morning Update Show” quickly transformed from a short-term project focused on informing people about the health crisis to a pillar of street-level coverage of local and national news in Seattle.
