WEDNESDAY 9/18
Suns Out Ones Out: A Queer Sick Pay Fund Fundraiser
(PERFORMANCE) The Queer Sick Pay Fund, based by Betty Wetter and Shane Donohue and Elby Brosch of the Drama Tops, is a security web for Seattle’s queer nightlife performers, they usually’re internet hosting a fundraiser and public sale on September 18 on the Clock-Out Lounge. Performers embody Bosco, Fox Whitney + Will Courtney, Moscato Sky, and Betty Wetter. Donohue describes their goal donor as “double revenue no little one homosexual individuals.” So anybody steadily reserving a Queer/Bar sales space, think about this your name to motion. “Our aim is $100,000,” Wetter says. “I’ll take two in the event that they’ve acquired it.” Learn the total story about qSPF right here. (Clock-Out Lounge, 4864 Beacon Ave S, 8:30 pm, $30-$400) JAVI BERKMAN
THURSDAY 9/19
2024 HUMP! Half Two
(HUMP!) Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest premiered an all-new lineup of attractive movies that includes all genders and orientations earlier this yr. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, inventive, and kinky movies to the large display screen—and since this yr’s fest options not one however two feature-length lineups, you possibly can scope out the sex-positive fest but once more for a tantalizing deal with. Half two contains 25 brand-spanking-new feasts in your eyeballs, together with “smokin’ scorching paranormal encounters, a mind-bending house carnival, spine-tingling ASMR, [and] all of the thermal eye sweet you possibly can eat.” It is value a enterprise exterior of your intercourse dungeon, however you possibly can nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, via October 5, $25, 21+) LINDSAY COSTELLO
FRIDAY 9/20
Native Sightings Movie Competition 2024
Punderneath it All screens as a part of Native Sightings Friday, September 20 at 7 pm.
(FILM) Again in 2015, Stranger senior workers author Charles Mudede wrote, “What is that this metropolis turning into? What have we misplaced within the rush and thrust of all these new developments? To whom does this rising metropolis belong? The good Native Sightings Movie Competition will present movies that reveal the solutions to those questions, via options, shorts, and animation which can be born right here or hereabouts. There’s a lot to see and far to speak about.” The premise of the hybrid competition hasn’t modified a lot since then—Native Sightings returns for its twenty seventh anniversary this yr, providing up one other spherical of curated screenings and remodeling the town right into a hub for indie filmmakers who forgo New York or LA for the Pacific Northwest’s endearing eccentricity. The always-great, hyperlocal movie competition additionally affords alternatives for regional filmmakers, emotional storytellers, and documentarians to satisfy on the competition’s occasions. (Northwest Movie Discussion board, 1515 twelfth Ave, via September 29, $60–$150) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SATURDAY 9/21
R-Day 2024
(MUSIC) R-Day is quintessential Seattle: it’s quirky, it’s enjoyable, there’s reside music, and naturally, the Rainier shall be flowing. The annual free, 21-plus celebration commemorates the second when Rainier Beer’s iconic R was restored to its place atop the Previous Rainier Brewery in Georgetown. Along with a herd of Wild Rainiers, wacky merchandise, eclectic artwork, and extra, count on explosive reside performances. Take a look at the hazy grooves of LA band Allah-Las, the fierce ’70s rock-kissed punk of Sheer Magazine, and Seattle rock band Monsterwatch. [Editor’s note: Afterward, you may have time to jet over to the Showbox to catch Pretty Girls Make Graves.] (Georgetown, 4 pm, free, 21+) SHANNON LUBETICH
SUNDAY 9/22
Xiu Xiu
(MUSIC) Former Mercury author Chris Stamm wrote: “Xiu Xiu has been waging a warfare towards passive listening for shut to twenty+ years. It’s doable to have combined emotions in regards to the band’s troublesome discography, however real-time publicity to their music is an both/or affair: You’re both giving Jamie Stewart & Co. your full consideration otherwise you’re not. Xiu Xiu isn’t right here to soundtrack your life. They’re right here to cease you in your tracks.” The experimental challenge will cease by for an all-ages present in assist of their wordy forthcoming album, 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips, which seems to be their most accessible thus far if the shiny noise-pop single “Widespread Loon” is indicative of what is to come back. (Vera Undertaking, 305 Harrison St, 7 pm, $24.72, all ages) AUDREY VANN
MONDAY 9/23
Mouthwater Competition: A Disabled Dance Competition
(PERFORMANCE) Envisioned because the “starting of an arts hub by and centering Black and Indigenous disabled artists to current, collaborate, and get uplifted for his or her crafts,” the Mouthwater Competition espouses values we are able to get behind, anticapitalism and antifascism amongst them. The fest brings collectively artists with disabilities from throughout the nation for solidarity, community-building, and over a dozen artsy occasions. I am trying ahead to Vanessa Hernández Cruz’s experimental piece Soul Seeker and the Mouthwater Cabaret, that includes performances by India Harville, Saira Barbaric, Mx. Pucks A’Loads, and others. (Numerous places, via Oct 13, $15-$80) LINDSAY COSTELLO
TUESDAY 9/24
Charly Bliss
(MUSIC) On their new album Perpetually, Charly Bliss have shed what was left of their indie rock exoskeleton and brought flight as a sophisticated pop band. Opening monitor “Tragic” may very well be a Taylor Swift music if it weren’t for the whirligig guitars, and “Again There Now” is as enjoyable and boppable as something Charli XCX launched throughout her Sucker/“Growth Clap” period. In truth, monitor for monitor, the band appears to ask comparisons to a few of immediately’s most beloved pop girlies. Do I miss the times when CB would recklessly blast via crispity, crunchity upbeat rock songs the place vocalist Eva Hendricks would scream between lyrics about leaping so excessive on the trampoline that you simply pee your pants? Certain. However the band has at all times recognized the ability of some well-placed punk patina, and I’m guessing they nonetheless will after they play the Crocodile in September. (The Crocodile, 2505 First Ave, 8 pm, $22, all ages) MEGAN SELING
