WEDNESDAY 2/19
Artist-Led Scent and Sound Bathtub with Inga and Lilja Birgisdottir, Sin Fang, and Kjartan Holm
(VISUAL ART) There’s just one wise farewell to Fake Flora, the ultra-sensory, scent-forward sculptural exhibition by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi and his inventive household. And that is a 70-minute “transportive therapeutic journey” led by Sin Fang (of the band Seabear), Kjartan Holm, and sisters Inga and Lilja Birgisdottir of the Fischersund Artwork and Music Collective. Tickets to the 6 pm expertise have offered out, however you possibly can nonetheless slap down your yoga mat for the 4 pm session. Every ticket consists of an “unique Fake Flora present from the artists.” See Fake Flora by means of Sunday, February 23. (Nationwide Nordic Museum, 2655 NW Market St, 4 and 6 pm, $115–$135) LINDSAY COSTELLO
THURSDAY 2/20
Creator Speak: Lustful Appetites with Rachel Hope Cleves
(FOOD/BOOKS) Meals and intercourse have at all times been inextricably linked. Creator Rachel Hope Cleves takes a deep dive into that age-old affiliation along with her new e-book Lustful Appetites: An Intimate Historical past of Good Meals and Depraved Intercourse, which explores all the things from the invention of Parisian eating places (which largely served as a website for males to satisfy with intercourse staff and mistresses) to the function that girls and the LGBTQ neighborhood performed in creating early gastronomic tradition. Cleves will be part of Greta Hardin of the Historical past of American Meals podcast for a dialog about all issues culinary and carnal. (Ebook Larder, 4252 Fremont Ave N, 6:30 pm, $39.50, 16+) JULIANNE BELL
FRIDAY 2/21
Fantasy A Will get a Mattress Screening and Fundraiser
(FILM) You will have seen the fliers created by Fantasy A, aka Seattle’s “Autistic Undisputed King of Hustle,” plastered throughout city—he is turn into one thing of a neighborhood legend, and his music was coated by The Stranger again in 2015. The creativity continues: Fantasy A’s main movement image stars (who apart from?) himself, and charts his challenges as he makes an attempt to turn into a famous person and purchase a mattress. Fantasy A Will get A Mattress additionally received the Greatest Narrative Characteristic award on the Seattle Black Movie Competition. Seize a seat to witness Fantasy’s love letter to South Seattle. He’ll attend this particular fundraising screening, which can assist finance his subsequent movie. (SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, 7 pm, $18.50) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SATURDAY 2/22
2025 HUMP! Half One
(FILM) The world was very completely different when Dan Savage launched an beginner porn movie competition to curious Seattleites in 2005. All HUMP! submissions that yr had been despatched to the Stranger places of work by way of mail on VHS tapes, and all proof was destroyed after the ultimate screening. Now, HUMP! is held twice a yr and proven in additional than 40 cities across the globe, they usually have a rising digital library, so you possibly can HUMP! at residence. Nonetheless, HUMP! actually is finest skilled in a theater filled with associates and strangers, the place everybody can collectively gasp, chuckle, and rejoice the competition’s various treasure trove of sexual expression. And I do imply various: This yr’s first batch of movies apparently options an entry that features the phrase “polar bear foreskin.” (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, each Fri–Sat at 6:30 pm and 9 pm by means of March 15, $25–$55, 21+) MEGAN SELING
SUNDAY 2/23
As We Imagined
(VISUAL ART) Ricky Allman, a.p. gath, Melissa Monroe, Jesse Reno, and others will discover the “efficiency and dichotomies of notion, reminiscence, and the imagined” on this group present, which blends compelling portray, images, and textile parts. I am particularly enthusiastic about Bean Gilsdorf’s contributions to As We Imagined—I final noticed the multimedia artist’s hand-dyed cotton collages in 2024, and Gilsdorf’s works for this present appear equally cheeky and colourful. Melissa Monroe’s unhappy zebra is one other stunner. (AMcE Inventive Arts, 612 nineteenth Ave E, Wed–Solar by means of March 16, free) LINDSAY COSTELLO
MONDAY 2/24
Nationwide Theatre Dwell: The Significance of Being Earnest
(THEATER) London’s Nationwide Theatre has a gift for you: a filmed model of their newest, queerest manufacturing of Oscar Wilde’s The Significance of Being Earnest. You in all probability already acknowledge the leads: Ncuti Gatwa, from Intercourse Training and Physician Who; and three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D. Clarke. The New York Occasions mentioned that “purists could attain for his or her smelling salts” at this “fabulous romp,” which is all of the endorsement we want. It is homosexual, it is slutty, it laughs at gender and sends it packing. We’re in. (SIFF Movie Heart, 305 Harrison St, a number of showings Feb 22–24, $25.50-$26.50) HANNAH MURPHY WINTER
TUESDAY 2/25
Spend Cash at Black-Owned Eating places
(FOOD & DRINK) Each February, Black Historical past Month reminds us of the year-round significance of supporting Black-owned companies and highlighting their contributions to our communities. We have made it straightforward for you by gathering quite a few Black-owned espresso outlets, bars, and eating places, from celebrated chef Kristi Brown’s Communion and Lil’ Brown Woman to the nationally acknowledged barbecue vacation spot Lil Pink Takeout and Catering and Stranger-staff favourite Pam’s Kitchen. For extra concepts, take a look at our Black Historical past Month calendar and our food and drinks information. JULIANNE BELL
