WEDNESDAY 11/20
Following House Neighborhood Opening
(VISUAL ART) Rejoice the opening of Seattle Artwork Museum’s newest two-person exhibition, Following House: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder, totally free at this gathering. Curator Catharina Manchanda will provide a 15-minute overview of the exhibition, and pianist/composer Victor Noriega will add a contact of sophistication with layered, advanced compositions. Docents will lead excursions of the present to offer further context, and cocktails and snacks will likely be out there for buy. (Seattle Artwork Museum, 1300 First Ave, 6–9 pm, free) LINDSAY COSTELLO
THURSDAY 11/21
Stunning Freaks, Mikey Moo, and Chinese language American Bear
(MUSIC) Chinese language American Bear are using the large wave of recognition loved by Asian pop over the past decade. The married Seattle duo of Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten create immediately pleasant dance music with melodies that urgently search to brighten your day. On CAB’s 2022 self-titled debut album, the fusion of Chinese language pop (and occasional Mandarin lyrics) with Western beats and instrumentation is as easy as noodles, and the manufacturing positively gleams. The document’s hottest tune, “Love Bus,” has a misleading funkiness even because it spirals skyward with diaphanous euphoria. On this 12 months’s superior follow-up on Moshi Moshi Information, Wah!!!, CAB proceed to assemble their cute sonic confections into an indestructible fortress of escapism by which—given the oncoming Undertaking 2025 shitstorm—we’ll must take refuge every so often. On the brand new album, every little thing sounds punchier, extra vivid, and prepared for prime time. If Chinese language American Bear aren’t tickling massive pageant crowds by subsequent 12 months, I will slowly shake my head in disbelief. With Stunning Freaks and Mikey Moo as a part of Cloudbreak Music Pageant. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 7 pm, $10, all ages) DAVE SEGAL
FRIDAY 11/22
Julefest: A Nordic Vacation Celebration
(COMMUNITY) The Nationwide Nordic Museum’s annual Julefest is a weekend stuffed with vacation celebrations, together with music, dancing, and winter fare from northern Europe. Modeled after a conventional Christmas market, it contains pictures with Santa, wares from dozens of native artisans, and attractive Scandinavian snacks like æbleskiver for when you want to heat up your insides. New this 12 months, the market will open on Friday night for the 21-and-up crowd with festive drinks within the Valhalla Beer Corridor and giving adults first dibs on goodies from distributors like Hygge Sweets and Sky River Mead. (Nationwide Nordic Museum, 2655 NW Market St, Fri-Solar, $5-$20, Fri is 21+, Sat-Solar is all ages) SHANNON LUBETICH
SATURDAY 11/23
Seattle Worldwide Butoh Pageant 2024
(PERFORMANCE) At this recurring pageant introduced by the Seattle-based group DAIPANbutoh Collective, attendees can feast their eyes on the fascinating artwork of butoh, a up to date type of Japanese efficiency impressed by ghosts, anguish, rapture, and the grotesque. (If that sounds extremely cool to you, that is as a result of it’s.) Visitor artists Mari Osanai (from Japan) and Eugenia Vargas (from Mexico) will lead workshops, and dancer-activist Tebby Ramasike’s distinctive work will likely be shared through video. (Yaw Theater, 6520 Fifth Ave S, Nov 22–24, $20-$225, free and sliding scale) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SUNDAY 11/24
United Indians Native Artwork Market
(COMMUNITY) Put your cash the place your land acknowledgment is and help the Indigenous neighborhood at this curated market and exhibition that includes items from native Native artists. The market runs for a weekend in November and December, so there’s ample alternative to select from a variety of items, together with clothes, jewellery, artwork prints, woodworks, and devices. Already completed together with your vacation procuring? That is effective—these high-quality creations will likely be in model all 12 months spherical, and also you’ve earned a little bit one thing for your self, don’t you assume? You may as well go to the net reward store, which helps the mission of United Indians of All Tribes Basis. (Dawn Star Indian Cultural Heart, 5011 Bernie Whitebear Manner, Nov 23–24 and Dec 21–22, free, all ages) SHANNON LUBETICH
MONDAY 11/25
Meow Forehead
(VISUAL ART) When life provides you lemons within the type of a worst-case-scenario presidential election, make lemonade by attending a cat-themed artwork present. Look, I am unable to promise this exhibition will remedy your existential dread. I can, nevertheless, promise that Gallery ERGO has curated an “insanely good lineup” of artists, all of whom have labored their magic on “birch cat head-shaped panels.” Plus, 10% of all proceeds from the present will likely be donated to a neighborhood animal shelter. There’s nonetheless hope for humanity, you understand. (Gallery ERGO, 1501 Pike Pl Ste 314, by means of Dec 9, free, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
TUESDAY 11/26
BEAT
(MUSIC) Most folk—together with this author—contemplate UK prog-rock legends King Crimson’s peak to span from 1969 to 1974. Nevertheless, the three sporadically sensible albums that grasp guitarist/chief Robert Fripp and a unique crew minimize within the first half of the Nineteen Eighties have their champions, too—KC guitarist Adrian Belew and bassist Tony Levin amongst them. Now, these two badasses, plus guitar maestro Steve Vai (who’s assuming the Fripp position) and Device drummer Danny Carey, have fashioned the virtuosic group BEAT with the intention to play songs from Self-discipline, Beat, and Three of a Excellent Pair. These data mix artwork rock, new wave, disco, and a Westernized pressure of gamelan into eventful and sophisticated compositions that sound little like “twenty first Century Schizoid Man” or “Starless.” Eighties tracks equivalent to “Elephant Speak,” “Thela Hun Ginjeet,” and “Sleepless” even obtained dance flooring shifting—one thing that first-phase Crimson by no means actually did. The BEAT repertoire additionally contains some glistening ballads, serene ambient items, and contorted artwork rock. In case you can deal with Belew’s David Byrne-alike vocals, you are in for a robust deal with. (Moore Theatre, 1932 2nd Ave, 8 pm, $75.50 and up, all ages) DAVE SEGAL
