‘Weirdos who play music together’: The importance of ‘third places’ during the pandemic

"It can be easy to slip into a cycle of going to work or school, and then coming home, day in and day out. You might feel the need for another place to go, to get away from that routine.

But during the pandemic lockdown, there were suddenly a lot fewer of these "third places."

RadioActive’s Gideon Hall looked at one of his ‘third places’ — a Seattle music organization — and how they’re coming back from being online.


Like a lot of people in high school, I spend seven hours a day at school, then I go home to do homework. That was, until my friend Ari Whidbey bullied me into joining my high school’s theater program".