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This neighborhood gathering will gently information you into the brand new 12 months with actions to nourish your thoughts, physique, and soul. The expertise will begin with a yoga and meditation class adopted by a guided writing session to encourage inward reflection. Then, individuals might be inspired to convey their vitality outward with spoken phrase performances and stay music from indie folks artist Kerry Courtney. AV
(Fremont Abbey Arts Middle, Fremont, Sliding scale beginning at $15)
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From the place I stand, ’80s dream pop band Cocteau Twins must be one of the troublesome musical artists to cowl. Frontwoman Elizabeth Fraser famously sang in gibberish or mouth music, and generally even overseas phrases she did not know the meanings of, making the band’s songs practically inconceivable to sing alongside to. On prime of that, Fraser’s distinctive featherlight soprano voice is troublesome to copy. For this tribute extravaganza, native tribute group Sugar Hiccup will tackle the inconceivable with a night of Cocteau Twins covers. Arrive in time to catch a further tribute from Bitter Occasions, who cowl the songs of trip-hop legends Portishead. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard, $15)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Relive your favourite ’90s teen film promenade scene at this nostalgic social gathering hosted by DJ Indica Jones. Costume to impress in ’90s promenade apparel and break your tacky dance strikes out of the vault for throwback tracks and a particular efficiency by “Seattle’s solely boy band tribute” #All4Doras. Personally, I might recreate Bianca’s two-piece outfit from 10 Issues I Hate About You. AV
(Nectar Lounge, Fremont, $12.50)
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Base Camp Studios’ labyrinthine STÖR parodies a sure meatball-serving Swedish mega-retailer, positive. Nevertheless it’s additionally an “immersive rebrand of how we expertise, devour, and buy artwork,” welcoming viewers to discover and store the objects within the set up. (Mary Anne Carter, Lilia Deering, and over 25 different collaborating artists outfitted STÖR with “surreal reinterpretations” of mass-produced residence items and decor.) Your final probability to peep the challenge is January 10, so head to downtown Seattle for the closing social gathering—in collaboration with Doll Elements Collective, the immersive house will host a buzzy sustainable vogue present. LC
(Base Camp Studios, Downtown, $15)
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
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I hope to by no means obtain an alert from one in all my associates’ emergency beacons, but it surely offers me some assurance that they are ready for what I see as way-too-terrifying backcountry adventures. If the formidable outside are calling to you, attend this workshop to find out about wilderness preparedness and what to do if one thing goes flawed. Hear about actual life rescues from the King County Explorer Search and Rescue crew, interact in “survival challenges,” and luxuriate in a chilly climate vogue present that highlights what to put on and what to not put on. SL
(REI Seattle, South Lake Union, free)
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you may attempt beating SAD with SAM once more this 12 months. The artwork museum will provide free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self away from bed and head to Olympic Sculpture Park for an intriguing menu of choices, together with workshops and stay performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” I am intrigued by Dance Church and Mia Imani’s Dreamstation, each provided on January 11. LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown, free)
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When you’re a sucker for old-school cinema with a component of shock, this recurring sequence introduced by the Sprocket Society has your identify written allll over it. Grand Phantasm will proceed a longstanding custom with its seventeenth season of matinee classics screened alongside a secret function movie each Saturday, all in dreamy 16mm. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, $9-$12)
FOOD & DRINK
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Tuck into flaky golden galettes offered by La Parisienne French Bakery at this celebration of the Epiphany co-hosted by the Alliance Française de Seattle, the Union des Français à l’Etranger, and French Ciders & Spirits. Per custom, a trinket (fève) might be hidden in every galette, and the fortunate one to search out it will likely be topped king or queen for the day, thus fulfilling your Princess Diaries-fueled fantasy of discovering out you are secret royalty (or is that simply me?). Simply do not chip your tooth. You will additionally get the chance to glug loads of crisp French cider and/or delicate drinks. JB
(La Parisienne French Bakery, Belltown, $10-$20)
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Get an early begin on the Lunar New Yr festivities with a sneak peek at Fortunate Envelope’s upcoming flavors, together with pineapple whip bitter ale (yum!) and a PCC Yr of the Snake IPA brewed with lemon berry sage tea. JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland, free)
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If a live performance encourages viewers members to convey pillows and blankets, you may rely me in. Get cozy as Portland-based ambient duo Otolithia make their Seattle debut, showcasing serene improvisational tunes that seamlessly mix vocals, flute, and koto (Japanese plucked half-tube zither) with digital devices. They are going to be joined by composer/poet/archivist María Dolores A. Matienzo and cellist Ruth Davidson. AV
(Good Shepherd Middle/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford, $10-$20 donation prematurely/at door)
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Queer/Bar will problem the Sunday scaries and the worst components of winter in a single fell swoop with THUNDERDOME, an eight-week drag competitors that sees sickening queens put up their dukes for a $5,000 grand prize and a assured reserving at this 12 months’s Queer Satisfaction Pageant. Every Sunday in January and February, Jane Do not might be joined by a rotating panel to guage the dolls. Pupusa (la reina Salvadoreña de Seattle), bearded glamazon Kenzie, babydoll monster MiMi Gina, and others will slay the home down with totally different themes every week. LC
(Queer Bar, Capitol Hill, $5 urged cowl)
SHOPPING
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Personally, I used to be overwhelmed by the quantity of markets across the holidays and suppose it could be higher if we unfold them out in the course of the 12 months. Made Area is on the identical web page and can host a pop-up (or come out) makers’ market two Sundays in a row providing residence items, magnificence merchandise, tasty snacks, and extra. Positioned within the Central District, Made Area facilities rising Black creators with a purpose of “thriving collectively.” Convey outdated associates or make new ones after which head immediately throughout the road for a drink at Chuck’s. SL
(Made Area Seattle, Central District, free)
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I will begin this blurb with some brutal honesty: I discover the trailer for A Full Unknown to be corny, annoying, and positively angling to snag Tiny Tim an Oscar nod. Is that this partially as a result of once I was a teen, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Suppose Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Possibly!! However perhaps you’re keen on Bob Dylan, during which case A Full Unknown may attraction to you. The biopic is about in NYC’s ’60s music scene and follows Chalamet because the snarky, mysterious Dylan. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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The historic, volunteer-run Grand Phantasm Cinema is bidding farewell to its present location. When the lease ends in February, the theater will shut its doorways at 1403 NE fiftieth Avenue and relocate, probably staying throughout the U District. Meaning this month’s screenings are your final probability to catch a flick within the beloved house. Drop by for a mixture of classics and cult flicks all through January, like Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr, Ghost within the Shell, Harold and Maude, Cinema Paradiso, and the anti-patriarchal jubilee Daisies. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday–Sunday)
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When a plucky bunch of puffer coat-wearing analysis scientists helps shelter an odd sled canine in distant Antarctica, they slowly study that the pooch is not all that he appears. John Carpenter’s icy traditional horror stars a younger Kurt Russell battling it out towards—you guessed it—a cold-hearted, shape-shifting alien. (What higher option to say hey to 2025 than by staring right into a frosty no-man’s-land?) You possibly can enjoy The Factor’s bone-chilling particular results whereas toasty and heat in your theater seat throughout Central Cinema’s post-holiday “The Different Carpenter” programming. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
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When you requested me what I did on December 25, you may count on my reply to be “Christmas stuff.” And you would be partially proper. Like, I positively did Christmas stuff within the morning. However come afternoon, I had one purpose. Notions of tinsel and mistletoe pale from my consciousness like so many ephemeral snowflakes. The sky darkened. A fanged creature launched untold terrors upon nepo child Lily-Rose Depp. And I, expensive reader, was seated for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Take into account such a plan for your self this week. When has Eggers ever disenchanted you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
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A sure blisteringly sizzling Italian man would approve of the Beacon’s newest movie sequence, which asks, “What would occur if we spoke reality to energy with gun in hand?” The Beacon punctuates Probably In poor health-Suggested: Movies About Assassinating Your Political Leaders with some delightfully acerbic quotes, like “The second of assassination is the second when energy and the ignorance of energy come collectively, with Demise as validator” (Thomas Pynchon) and “The most effective authorities is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” (Voltaire). Let it’s identified that I am not endorsing something right here. However, like, it’s best to most likely go see these movies for cinema’s sake, proper? I like to recommend snagging seats to the following one on the docket—David Cronenberg’s freaky, and surprisingly efficient, Stephen King adaptation The Useless Zone. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50, Friday–Sunday)
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When you hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re seemingly conversant in Sigrid Nunez, whose work has inked the pages of literary powerhouses like The Paris Assessment, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. She’s philosophical, but her prose is unadorned—it is an intoxicating combine. She’s maybe finest acknowledged for her e-book The Buddy, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, sleek 2020 novel What Are You Going By. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal staff whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a warfare reporter. What is going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50-$15.50, Friday–Sunday)
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For these with little interest in visiting Park Metropolis, Utah, to begin with: I perceive. Secondly, you do not have to! Sundance Institute’s 2024 Indigenous Movie Tour brings eight brief movies by Indigenous administrators (4 from the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant, three from the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant, and one brief movie from the 2005 Sundance Movie Pageant) straight to Northwest Movie Discussion board. The curated choice is a stable alternative to interact with new work by Native administrators like Erica Tremblay, Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo, and private favourite Sky Hopinka, who blends English and Indigenous dialects like Chinuk Wawa in his ground-quaking works. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, $7-$14, Friday–Sunday)
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ArtX Modern’s newest exhibition, Within the Darkish There may be Mild, positions HiiH Lights’ artsy lamps (fabricated from supplies like resin, beeswax, and bamboo) subsequent to works you’d extra readily anticipate finding in a gallery setting–oil work, metallic sculptures, and the like. The result’s a luminous show that goals to “assist us discover pleasure and connection in darkish instances.” Works by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, Caryn Friedlander, Alla Goniodsky, Elaine Hanowell, William Tune, and others are moody and extremely contrasted—I am particularly curious about Tiao Nithakhong Somsanith’s glowy hammered gold leaf sculptures. LC
(ArtX Modern, SoDo, free, Friday–Saturday)
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Winter is a beautiful time to go to Bainbridge Island—the quieter season infuses the island with a relaxed, serene allure. If I have been you, I might seize a latte from a comfy cafe, benefit from the surroundings sans summer time crowds, after which head to the Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, the place visitor curator Fancy Vargas has conceived a gaggle exhibition to “discover, have fun, and elevate the wonder and radiance of Blackness as an expertise.” Radiant Reflections: Celebrating the Fantastic thing about the African Diaspora guarantees complexity; count on a “multifaceted” portrayal of Black resilience, and think about attending the January 18 panel with exhibiting artists for added context. LC
(Bainbridge Island Museum of Artwork, Bainbridge Island, free, Friday–Sunday)
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Koplin Del Rio’s stylish annual winter salon facilities items from the woman-led classic boutique Casa Patina this 12 months. The gallery might be outfitted with a variety of the store’s treasures—suppose fashionable antiques, classic furnishings, and moody work—positioned alongside modern artworks that sometimes occupy the house. The salon goals to assemble distinctive new dialogues between objects; I am pondering it will have a soothing impact throughout a busy time. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, free, Friday–Saturday)