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Wish to be taught extra about Korean tradition? Then make plans to take a look at the fifth annual WABA Korea Expo & Competition, a free occasion the place over 80 native and world companies will showcase meals, Okay-beauty merchandise, handcrafted wares, and extra. Beforehand held alongside the waterfront, the fest has moved to Magnuson Park, the place attendees will marvel over cutting-edge tech side-by-side with conventional dance and music performances. SL
(Magnuson Park Hangar 30, Sand Level, free)
FILM
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This “blindfolded” cinema sequence is precisely what it feels like—simply present up and put together to be titillated by no matter pops up on display. Alternatives to be completely shocked by a movie do not come alongside fairly often, so strive it out as a reminder that there are nonetheless mysteries to uncover on the earth. Or possibly you will hate it. Who is aware of! That is the enjoyable of the entire shebang. Go forth, swap off your mind, and let the enigma reveal itself. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, free)
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Each Friday this summer season, beginning July 26 by way of August 23, the Seattle Middle is internet hosting outside film screenings on the Mural Amphitheatre. Carry your blankets or low-back garden chairs for The Princess Bride, All the pieces In all places All at As soon as, Dune (1984), The Shade Purple (2023), and my private spotlight, Singles. Watching Matt Dillon’s grunge frontman character Cliff Poncier clarify the fictional music “Contact Me I’m Dick” to a music journalist whereas Alice in Chains play at a fictional nightclub on a 40-foot display below the House Needle? Doesn’t get far more Seattle than that. STRANGER ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Mural Amphitheatre, Uptown, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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The rising Tacoma rock band Enumclaw will head up I-5 to assist their forthcoming album, Dwelling in One other Life, which drops subsequent week. If the lead singles are any indication of the complete album, anticipate loads of warbling ’90s guitars, Dinosaur Jr.-esque vocals, and relatable matters like masturbation-fueled disgrace and “attempting to be something greater than fucked up.” AV
(Straightforward Avenue Data, Junction, free)
EXHIBIT
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Kait Rhoads’ large-scale set up at Technique Gallery facilities an unsung environmental hero: kelp. (Do you know that kelp is a “main producer that modifies the setting to create appropriate habitats for a terrific range of species?” I didn’t!) Give your because of the squiggly stuff at Proto Kelp, which expresses reverence for all issues Laminariales with a branching, collaborative poem in glass. LC
(Technique Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free)
FILM
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It is excessive time all of us confirmed Scarecrow Video some love—as our mates at The Stranger reported in July, “Scarecrow employees put out an SOS—Save Our Scarecrow—and introduced that they should increase $1.8 million earlier than the top of 2024.” I can consider few higher methods for the bodily media mainstay to lift some moolah than with a movie screening, so this occasion simply is smart. The Cat & The Canary, a “seminal 1927 spooky-house thriller comedy silent movie” for the uninitiated, might be supplemented by a dwell unique rating by Corey J. Brewer. Count on decrepit mansions, plotting heirs, and certainly one of cinema’s unique scream queens, Laura La Plante, to make a display look. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
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C-ID Summer time Cinema, the Seattle Asian American Movie Competition’s free, family-friendly outside film sequence, returns to Hing Hay Park. You’ll discover dwell music, face portray, and popcorn earlier than the film every week. Remember to seize some scrumptious Asian meals from surrounding C-ID companies earlier than or after the screening. Carry a chair or a blanket and prepare for some enjoyable movies! SL
(Hing Hay Park, Chinatown-Worldwide District, free)
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Who higher to advise you on what to look at this summer season than Scarecrow Video, the bodily media mainstay group with a video assortment that exceeds 130,000 titles?! They know what they’re speaking about, folks. Their movie sequence, co-organized with the Maple Leaf Group Council, will serve up screenings on a “Ladies (and Ladies) Saving the Day” theme this yr. On August 24, there is not any crying in movie-watching, ‘cuz the sequence will proceed with A League of Their Personal at Maple Leaf Park. Moviegoers can pop up early to arrange their chairs and blankets, seize beers, and take some guesses at trivia. LC
(Maple Leaf Reservoir Park, Northeast Seattle, free)
FOOD & DRINK
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Time flies—it is already been a yr for the reason that award-winning Stoup Brewing opened its bustling location inside the previous Optimism Brewing area on Capitol Hill. They’re going to toast to the milestone with a pop-up from Noodle/Bar, dwell music, and loads of particular drink offers. JB
(Stoup Brewing, Capitol Hill, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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North Admiral neighboring eating places Admiral Pub, Arthur’s, Mission Cantina, and Yen Wor are teaming as much as throw a free outside mini-festival full with buying, drinks, and grooves. Look out for performances from punk quartet Princess Pulpit, the Potholes, indie rock outfit the Loveless Constructing, ’90s cowl band Second Flannel, and extra. AV
(Admiral Pub, North Admiral, free)
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Prolific cellist/experimental artist Lori Goldston, whose first main look was with Nirvana throughout their iconic MTV Unplugged set, will play a free present at Nellis Data with songs from her newest solo album, Convolutions. The album was recorded throughout a 2022 Eire, showcasing Goldston’s knack for improvisation and spinning spontaneous moments into gold. AV
(Nellis Data, South Lake Union, $13.39)
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Pike Place Market’s hole-in-the-wall efficiency venue Rabbit Field is struggling to maintain its doorways open. You may assist assist by donating to their fundraising marketing campaign or, higher but, by attending this tremendous snazzy fundraiser cocktail occasion. The festivities embody a silent dwell public sale, raffles, and dwell performances from Hollis Hayes, Stella Hawthorne, and DJ Tristan Watkins. AV
(The Rabbit Field Theatre, Pike Place Market, $15)
SHOPPING
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Wa Na Wari has an extended historical past of selling Black creators and constructing neighborhood—they’ll proceed the custom this Saturday with an Afrikan Market and double characteristic film screening. Store items from native distributors like artwork, jewellery, and classic clothes. Afterward, seize a seat to look at Disney’s The Princess and the Frog and Roll Bounce, a 2005 coming-of-age flick starring Bow Wow as a teen who turns to curler skating after shedding his mom. SL
(Wa Na Wari, Central District, free)
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Taking a dip off Madrona Park Seashore into Lake Washington sounds splendid on this warmth wave (you can even naked all of it at close by Denny Blaine). When you’re drying off or killing time earlier than sundown, head over to native salon and occasion area Rock Paper Scissors to take a look at their new evening market sequence. There might be native distributors, tasty treats, and tunes from DJ Tai Lander. Previous markets have featured handcrafted candles, artwork prints, and classic threads. SL
(Rock Paper Scissors, Madrona, free)
VISUAL ART
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Envisioning the expertise of an “alternate-dimensional life as a closeted (slash) ex-gay evangelist,” Christopher Paul Jordan’s THE END transforms the gallery area right into a “queer comic-tract” within the type of African American illustrator Fred Carter. (Unfamiliar? Learn extra about Carter’s zany, ultra-religious comics right here.) Jordan, a Tacoma-based artist, salvages textiles and considers removing and relocation to suppose critically about public area and human relationships. You would possibly already be accustomed to his work: Jordan’s multimedia sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody is the centerpiece of the AIDS Memorial Pathway in Capitol Hill. LC
(Veronica, Mount Baker, free)
COMEDY
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Though Jill Silva’s comedy profession has branched out from her Tacoma roots and landed her in sunny Los Angeles, she’s not afraid to kick up some chuckles in her outdated stomping grounds. Recent off a number of pageant options (Treefort Fest, Higher Left Comedy Competition) and opening units for Janeane Garofalo, Jon Dore, Marcella Arguello, and Jamali Maddix, Silva will share tales of biking, mischief, and Hank Hill butt. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown, $15)
COMMUNITY
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As a lot as I hate to confess it, summer season is winding down. Profit from the weekend by hopping a ferry to Bainbridge Island and volunteering at this restoration occasion, the place you’ll assist restore a much-loved troll creation by recycle artist Thomas Danbo. The towering Bruun Idun sculpture (compatriot to the Nordic Museum’s Frankie Feetsplitter) performs her flute close to the shoreline to ask the orcas why they’ve all left Puget Sound, standing as a reminder to handle our pure world. As soon as Bruun Idun’s habitat has been beautified, the SCAN Design Basis will deal with people to an ice cream social. SL
(Lincoln Park, Fauntleroy, free)
FILM
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Within the Eighties, my movie professor assigned us Candy Sweetback’s Baadasssss Music, auteur Melvin Van Peebles’s low-budget, avant-garde, proto-Blaxploitation movie. My primary reminiscence is of Van Peebles working away from the “pigs” to the extraordinary, kinetic funk of pre-hit-making Earth, Wind & Fireplace whereas sporting gold velvet trousers. It’s a motif that sticks with you. The plot—whereby Sweetback (MVP), a brothel intercourse present performer who will get trapped in a convoluted scheme involving a Black Panther, tries to flee US authorities by crossing into Mexico—is much less vital than the unbelievable soundtrack, the intercourse and struggle scenes, and the feeling of Black males beating the system whereas wanting fly. STRANGER CONTRIBUTOR DAVE SEGAL
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill)
LIVE MUSIC
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Wowza, the town is amping up the free summer season concert events this yr! Simply forward of their tour with Weezer and the Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr.’s unique lineup of J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph will swing by way of Westlake Park for a free live performance subsequent to essentially the most anxious Sephora on earth (IYKYK). The legendary Massachusetts indie rockers will take the outside stage after opening units from native favorites the Black Tones and Muneca. AV
(Westlake Park, Downtown, free)
FESTIVALS
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Since its beginnings within the 1800s because the Snohomish County Honest, the Evergreen State Honest (to not be confused with the bigger Washington State Honest) has been a house for livestock and agricultural reveals. It nonetheless has these issues, however has additionally added points of interest like monster truck and NASCAR races, a rodeo, meals stands, carnival video games, and different trendy honest trappings. Because you’re already there, shell out a bit of further to see Martina McBride or Flo Rida carry out. SL
(Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, $13-$70, Friday–Sunday)
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Competition Sundiata (pronounced: soon-jah-tah) is the longest-running African American pageant within the Pacific Northwest, and was named in remembrance of Sundiata Keita, founding father of the Mali Empire. The celebration highlights the various cultures and traditions of individuals of African descent by way of music, artwork, efficiency, and meals. Get your groove on on the Mural Amphitheatre to the sleek tunes of Jeffrey Osborne, R&B group the S.O.S. Band, and Earth, Wind & Fireplace tribute band Kalimba. Contained in the Armory, you’ll discover extra dwell music, historic reveals, and native photographers and artists exhibiting off their work. SL
(Seattle Middle, Uptown, free, Friday–Sunday)
FILM
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The American Style Movie Archive, aka the “world’s solely nonprofit archive and movie distributor devoted to preserving and defending the best style movies of all time,” celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this yr, which suggests it is time so that you can plop your butt in a seat for a number of the weirdest exploitation filmmaking, discovered footage feasts, underground trash artwork, and riot grrrl flicks conceivable. AGFA makes rescuing forgotten options look simple—their archives home over six thousand 35mm movie prints. In partnership with One thing Bizarre Video and AGFA, SIFF will display some stable alternatives from the gathering. Count on all the pieces from The Zodiac Killer, a ’71 flick “made to seize the real-life Zodiac Killer, however as a substitute ship[ing]…outrageous and compelling ‘tabloid horror,'” to John Cassavetes movies, Sarah Jacobson’s punk-inflected DIY movies, and the world’s first discovered footage horror. LC
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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Seattle Parks and Recreation presents this summer season sequence of much-loved movie screenings below the celebs, with pre-movie actions kicking off round 6 or 7 pm and every movie starting at nightfall. The sequence continues this weekend with the ’99 teeny-bopper Taming of the Shrew interpretation 10 Issues I Hate About You. (Remember your child tees.) On August 24, Lilo & Sew will remind you that ‘ohana means household at Hing Hay Park. LC
(Varied places, free, Friday–Saturday)
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LA/206 director Zia Mohajerjasbi’s debut characteristic Know Your Place is a movie that everybody in Seattle (and all different main cities) ought to (should) watch. It’s a packed work, and so unpacking all of it is nothing however unattainable inside the apparent attentional limits imposed on weblog posts. However, I’ll start by saying the star of this movie is, above all, Seattle. However this star has two vital and completely different elements. One: the town that is changing into, class smart, homogenous. This sort of metropolis has much less and fewer area for the working courses. Two: the town that is shedding its shade. Black Individuals had been the primary to go. Now it is black Africans. Subsequent might be East Asian Individuals. Know Your Place takes place within the now. Learn extra of Charles Mudede’s evaluate on The Stranger. STRANGER SENIOR WRITER CHARLES MUDEDE
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Saturday)
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The electrified, freaked-out world of Mandy is difficult to explain, however image a giallo flick set to a drone metallic soundtrack that includes a demonic biker gang, and also you’re possibly midway there. Nicolas Cage is on the absolute high of his sport right here, and I say that with no trace of sarcasm. He performs an ’80s-era Pacific Northwest logger-turned-chainsaw-wielding-revenge-hound, and director Panos Cosmatos’ phantasmagoric imaginative and prescient is the visible equal of a lucid dream. Simply belief me on this one. Come ready for the type of ultraviolence of a “disintegrating rock opera.” LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
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Catherine Breillat’s filmmaking strategy could be very, nicely, French—she typically seeks to light up the taboo in provocative explorations of need, violence, and ladies’s psychology. Grand Phantasm’s celebration of the controversy queen spans each decade of her directing profession, together with screenings of brand-new 4K restorations (A Actual Younger Woman, 36 Fillette, and ExcellentLove) and Janus Movies’ 35mm print of my favourite Breillat, the abrupt and rattling 2001 movie Fats Woman. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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In case you could not get sufficient of Li’l Woody’s Burger Month, through which the native fast-food chain presents new burger specials created in collaboration with native cooks every week, prepare for his or her Seafood Month. This model provides the Burger Month format a fishy spin, with unique sandwich creations impressed by the bounty of the ocean. This week’s chef particular is the Emerald Metropolis Catfish Sandwich (fried catfish, remoulade, lettuce, and tomato on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Stevie Allen of Emerald Metropolis Fish & Chips (August 20-26). JB
(Li’l Woody’s, Friday–Sunday)
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Blissful rosé season to those that have a good time! No matter your ideas on the ever-present blush beverage, it is exhausting to think about a drink higher suited to summer season. All through the month, the farm-to-table pop-up-turned-restaurant Three Sacks Full will supply a weekly rotation of rosé specials by the glass, culminating in a particular rosé dinner on August 28. (Co-owner Matthew Curtis is a licensed sommelier, so you’ll be able to anticipate some well-curated picks.) JB
(Three Sacks Full, Roosevelt, $10-$14, Friday–Sunday)
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Vampires, be warned: This three-day pageant goes all out with meals, music, arts, and crafts to have a good time the legendary “stinking rose,” in any other case often known as garlic. Take pleasure in delightfully pungent specials resembling garlic pizza, smoked garlic heads, garlic ice cream, garlic shaved ice, and garlic Cajun seafood boils. Simply remember to convey some breath mints alongside. (Tip: Take a look at the quirky 1980 documentary Garlic Is as Good as Ten Moms to get enthusiastic about garlic’s wealthy tradition earlier than you go.) JB
(Southwest Washington Honest, Chehalis, $0-$7, Friday–Sunday)
OUTDOORS
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Due to the tireless efforts of numerous ecological stewards, Washington’s salmon inhabitants is slooooowly rebounding, and you’ll be taught all about how these humble fish assist our complete ecosystem at a family-friendly gathering by the Ballard Locks. Salmon might seem like slippery little weirdos, however their complete lives are fascinating quests rivaling these of essentially the most intrepid adventurers. And right here in Seattle, we’re lucky to have the ability to cheer them alongside on their journey—one which helps maintain numerous different species from dropping off the face of the Earth. The Salmon Journey gatherings are hosted by skilled naturalists on Saturdays from July to September; you’ll learn to spot a spawning salmon, about their surprisingly epic exploits, and the merciless enemy threatening to wipe them out. (Surprising twist: It’s folks!) FORMER STRANGER STAFF WRITER MATT BAUME
(Ballard Locks, Ballard, free, Saturday–Sunday)
PERFORMANCE
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Cannot get sufficient of the big, hand-built troll sculptures which have popped up in scenic spots all through the Pacific Northwest? Similar right here—Danish artist Thomas Dambo’s recycled Nordic trolls aren’t solely large and pleasant, in addition they illustrate essential classes of environmental stewardship. Drawing from Scandinavian folklore, playwright Bryan Willis’ whimsical new manufacturing tells the story of the Vashon Island troll, who’s a protector of birds. Take a scenic day journey to the Heron Meadow on the Vashon Middle for the Arts for a late summer season fantasy. LC
(Vashon Middle for the Arts, Pay-what-you-can)
VISUAL ART
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I wasn’t beforehand accustomed to artist Andrea Dezsö’s work, however I’ve shortly turn into a fan: Dezsö’s detailed pochoir stenciling methods, charming birch-carved designs, embroidered musings, and pyrovitreography reveal an artist who fears no medium. Her work additionally feels distinctly extra bouba than kiki. I am in love with the bizarre little guys populating her compositions, and I need to know all about their folktale-informed world, which additionally grapples with “girls’s roles, authoritarianism, household, ideological and societal affect on the person, relationships with nature, and the physique.” You will most likely dig it, too. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, free, Friday–Saturday)
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Little has been revealed about Seattle-based artist Claudia Fitch’s solo exhibition Fashions and Messengers, however I am already intrigued. The artist’s sensible, playful sculptural work is all the time a quizzical journey for the eyeballs, typically sourcing cultural narratives from pop and artwork historical past to daring, ingenious ends. I am excited to see what she’s give you this time—will she be working in bronze, ceramic, solid resin, or one other medium completely? (Fitch has additionally created fairly just a few of the town’s public works; see for those who acknowledge any.) LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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In Relaxation/Much less, Much less/Relaxation, Tacoma-born painter David Hytone renders sophisticated scenes in acrylic and on Okowara paper, a thick, fibrous Japanese handmade paper manufactured from kozo and sulphite pulp. The solo exhibition feels rife with symbolism—titles like The Bureau of Hypnagogia Human Sources Division Would Like a Phrase and Three Seventeen AM within the Arms of Saint Dymphna really feel like glimpses into the artist’s dreamscape. “I’m within the intersection between specificity and approximation, significantly how this relationship informs our notion of the world round us and the position reminiscence performs in that interface,” the artist defined in a latest bio. That sense of interaction reveals itself in Relaxation/Much less, Much less/Relaxation; moments of heavy detailing are discovered amongst floating heads and abstracted kinds. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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I’ve had greater than my share of transcendent experiences in conventional “white field” galleries, however criticisms of those areas are legitimate, too—hushed, austere artwork areas are likely to “depart many emotions out of the narrative,” FRESSSSSH! argues. One strategy? A partnership between the Workplace of Arts and Tradition and Seattle Metropolis Gentle is presenting a “summer season Younger Grownup/Youth Curatorial Residency,” Recent Views. Aiming to highlight those that might not really feel represented in historically curated areas, this exhibition by BIPOC youth curators contains works by stellar BIPOC artists Damon Brown, Aramis Hamer, Warren W. Pope, and Kellie Colemon. LC
(King Avenue Station, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
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Lino Tagliapietra: Maestro, Mentore welcomes the legendary Venetian glassblower, maestro Lino Tagliapietra, to exhibit works alongside his crew members, Nancy Callan, Jen Elek, John Kiley, Dante Marioni, and Dave Walters, for an exhibition that “inform[s] a narrative of inventive mentorship and mutual reverence.” The crew’s sense of sample and angular kinds is dizzying to behold. LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown, free, Friday–Saturday)
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As somebody who simply spent just a few weeks in japanese Oregon, the phrases “smoke season” elicit an all-too-familiar burn within the throat. Christian French’s Untitled (Exodus sequence), a brutal red-tinged and desolate {photograph} featured in SOIL’s new group exhibition Smoke Season, elicits an analogous somatic reminiscence. “The Anthropocene has turn into the Pyrocene,” the present supplies assert; I am intrigued by Tim Marsden’s fiery embroidery and janet galore’s Smoke Break, a three-minute video looped on a classic tv set put in within the gallery. LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Sunday)
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Zachary Schomburg, a Portland poet who “combines narrative methods with surrealism to nice impact” (Stranger information editor Wealthy Smith) is my favourite type of particular person, insistent on creating in myriad mediums. And as an illustrator and painter, Schomburg’s work nonetheless feels knowledgeable by his writing apply. Cake, Palms, and Gentle, the artist’s first solo present at Koplin Del Rio, “leans into mild and shade” with juicy, vivid compositions and nice titles. “Pity the Imply,” “Sorry Head,” and “Pawn Cake” are a few of my faves. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, free, Friday–Saturday)
