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LIVE MUSIC
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On her newest album, CRACK A SMILE COME ON STAY A WHILE, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Abby Holliday amplifies the theme of nostalgia by infusing Phoebe Bridgers-esque indie people with digital prospers that mimic the purr of an previous CD participant. Take heed to the album’s title observe to listen to precisely what I imply. She is going to cease by Barboza to assist the album after a gap set from like-minded indie pop artist Imani Graham. AV
(Barboza, Capitol Hill, $17-$20)
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Simply because it is purported to rain all weekend does not imply we will not domesticate springtime power indoors! Public speaker Malika Lee will put a spring in your step with a night of music, dance, reflection, and interactive actions designed to “assist and encourage pleasure as individuals decide what they need to weed & seed of their lives.” Plus, with music from neo-soul queens Beyoncé, Jill Scott, and Erykah Badu bumping, it will likely be an ideal alternative to bop your self out of the winter rut. Do not forget to decorate for the event with daring, vibrant colours of the season (i.e. just about something apart from black, gray, and beige). AV (Black & Tan Corridor, Rainier Valley, $15)
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Aspiring to “[bring] therapeutic to a sick world,” tribal member Vi taqᵂšəblu Hilbert commissioned composer Bruce Ruddell to create a chunk impressed by two sacred Coast Salish songs. The outcome, Therapeutic Coronary heart of the First Folks of This Land, is a strong 50-minute work that makes use of devices which are native to the area. Do not miss the Seattle Symphony carry out the piece (which they initially debuted again in 2006) at this uncommon, free efficiency. AV
(Benaroya Corridor, Downtown, free)
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Native five-piece the Macks pull inspiration from Jimi Hendrix and the Doorways for his or her timeless blues-infused storage rock. Kick your weekend off with a bang as they assist their newest album, The Macks Are A Knife, alongside Tacoma-based rock trio Semisoft and psych-pop trio Low Hums. AV
(Sundown Tavern, Ballard, $15-$20)
VISUAL ART
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery recommends making an appointment to view Laura Luna Castillo’s Onix y Marmol, however the additional step is certainly value it: the challenge blends “generative storytelling, immersive set up, algorithmic theatre, and blended actuality cinema” to mirror on the mirage-like city of Onix y Marmol. Castillo makes use of intriguing digital methods like space-mapping sensors to carry her glitchy imaginative and prescient to life. LC
(Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Northeast Seattle, free)
COMMUNITY
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Rejoice the Northwest African American Museum’s seventeenth birthday with free treats, pins, children’ crafts, an interactive math room, and the possibility to win books and artwork from Black creators. Share your favourite reminiscence of the group hub within the video sales space, and take a second to fill out a gratitude card (or two) for somebody in your life. The museum’s present reveals, AshaAung Helmstetter’s Recognition, Love, and Therapeutic and Myron Curry’s The place Do We Go From Right here, may also be open to discover. SL
(Northwest African American Museum, Central District, $0-$10)
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you’ll be able to attempt beating SAD with SAM once more this yr. The artwork museum will supply 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 dwell performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown, free)
FOOD & DRINK
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Make up for the lack of that hour pilfered by Daylight Financial savings Time with three new beer releases from the culturally impressed brewery Fortunate Envelope: Pils German-Model Lager, Citra Hazy IPA, and the returning fan favourite It is A Me, Oreo Stout (now in cans for the primary time). JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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The Forbidden Valley Ensemble, comprised of soprano Emeraly Lessley, baritone Darrell J. Jordan, violinist Emily Acri, pianist Steven Damouni, and cellists Chris Younger and Michael King-Leiferman, makes their debut with an Worldwide Girls’s Day celebration honoring the famend feminine Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Anticipate to listen to a choice of works, together with Altering Gentle, Leino Songs, Gentle and Matter, and 5 Reflections on Love from Afar, all of which showcase Saariaho’s capacity to mix the ethereal with the emotional. AV
(Good Shepherd Middle/Chapel Efficiency House, Wallingford, $5-$20 donation on the door)
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In honor of KEXP DJ Atticus’s thirtieth birthday, native bands together with psychedelic rockers Spirit Award, instrumental funk trio mega cat, and queer psych pop purveyors Mikey Moo will congregate on the Sundown Tavern for a high-energy night of tunes. AV
(Sundown Tavern, Ballard, $15)
READINGS & TALKS
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Organizing for energy is rarely a nasty concept, however lately, it is, like, a actually good concept. Enter electricians Megan Cornish and Tori Westman, educator Alaina McCallum, and Philip Randolph Institute govt director Vanessa Prawl, a bunch of “dynamic ladies labor activists” who’re badass and arranged as hell. They will share their experiences in labor activism at this discuss and by-donation dinner. It is essentially the most inspiring method you can spend your Saturday night. LC
(New Freeway Corridor, Rainier Valley, $0-$12)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Pay your respects to a few of Seattle’s most distinguished ladies in sports activities at this pleasant match between Seattle Reign FC and UW’s ladies’s soccer group on Worldwide Girls’s Day. The UW group has produced a number of stars, together with present Reign gamers Olivia Van der Jagt and Shae Holmes; the Reign’s common supervisor Lesle Gallimore additionally as soon as coached the UW group. It is uncommon you can see this caliber of athletic expertise for $15—a part of your ticket worth goes towards funding the college’s ladies’s soccer program. SL
(Husky Soccer Stadium, College District, $15)
VISUAL ART
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Cappy Thompson’s Pondering of Angels “put[s] ahead a common reality: What occurs subsequent is a thriller to us all.” So mainly, do not go to this present except you are able to grapple with some large religious quandaries. I discover that form of factor very enjoyable, so I am excited for this exhibition of works by Thompson, who has crafted glass for 5 a long time. Pondering of Angels attracts from various spiritual and religious references to “take in narrative explorations into spirituality and the permeability between embodied life and what exists past.” Thompson’s folkloric illustrative type is fantastically rendered on delicate glass varieties. LC
(studio e, Georgetown, free; opening)
FILM
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The Beacon’s Sunday afternoon traditional cinema collection continues this month with a Frye Artwork Museum partnership. The organizations have curated a collection of Marilyn greats—assume Some Like It Sizzling, Niagara, and The Misfits—to complement artist Natalie Krick’s Boren banner, which deconstructs classic Vogue Marilyn Monroe portraits in a complicated means of masking, patterning, and layering, subverting the ability imbalance and inherent voyeurism of the unique photos. The perfect half in regards to the Frye’s Boren banners—billboard-sized works sited going through Boren Avenue—is you can view the art work anytime. Earlier than the screening, drive by the Frye to scope it out in particular person. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, $12.50)
OUTDOORS
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On a typical day, entry to certainly one of Washington State’s pure gems will set you again $10 for a day go or $30 for an annual go, so fee-free days like this assist to make the outside extra accessible. The closest parks to Seattle correct are Bridle Trails in Kirkland and Saint Edward State Park on the northern shores of Lake Washington; each are a few 30-minute drive. SL
(Numerous places, free)
PERFORMANCE
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Your weekend dose of “the children are all proper” comes within the type of Do The Proper Factor, a manufacturing by ACT’s Younger Core Firm. The premiere, directed by ACT inventive affiliate Shana Bestock, follows a safety guard and a cop as they “navigate a method ahead collectively by means of an ethical minefield.” Anticipate “fast, juicy snapshots from quite a lot of wonderful modern performs” you would possibly acknowledge. You may additionally spot the subsequent large factor within the Younger Core Firm, which is comprised of actors aged 14-22. LC
(ACT – A Up to date Theatre, Downtown, Pay-What-You-Can)
SHOPPING
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Mom’s Day should still be a pair months away, however there’s no higher place to discover a reward for the maternal determine(s) in your life than at Tractor Tavern’s all-women makers market. Donate a buck on the door to Actual Hire Duwamish for entry to dozens of femme, trans, and nonbinary distributors. I will be trying out chainmail jewellery from Wizard Maille, whimsical miniature scenes from Containers of Glass, and tufted artwork from Spill the Tee Seattle (they name their coaster-like creations “mug rugs,” which I really like). You too can get a tarot studying or a everlasting artwork piece within the type of a tattoo. SL
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard, $1)
EXHIBIT
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A choice of works by Indigenous Australian artists like Jaclyn Holmes Nangala, Kurun Warun, Sheree Napanangka Anderson, and Janice Stanley explores “the cyclical nature of life, creation, and time.” All the artworks in The Creation Circle: Aboriginal Artwork and Time really feel complicated and vibrant, however I am particularly intrigued by Brenda Napaltjarri’s conventional dot work paired with Stanley’s marbled-effect portray type. LC
(ArtX Up to date, SoDo, free, Friday–Sunday)
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There is no actual dangerous time to go to the Seattle Japanese Backyard, even when we’re in that awkward interval earlier than spring has really sprung. Pop on a cute sweater, feed the koi, and stroll among the many tranquil bushes. It is good in your soul. Then, scuttle over to SHU 朱 – Scarlet, a choice of works by Olympia-based calligrapher Chiyo Sanada that “make the most of the standard colours of temples and Torii gates all through Japan and mix summary components with conventional calligraphy.” I really feel calmer already. LC
(Seattle Japanese Backyard, Madison Park, $0-$10, Friday–Sunday)
FILM
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It is 1997, the island of Manhattan is now a most safety jail, and the president has been taken hostage by hostile inmates. Who else however soldier-turned-criminal Snake Plissken might save the day? This dirty futuristic imaginative and prescient from director John Carpenter stars Kurt Russell as Snake, whose rescue mission is an off-the-wall mishmash of gripping motion and utter weirdness. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Saturday)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a baby, igniting an odd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies had been worshipped by just about each director you already know—Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My suggestion? Present your self just a few moments to hunt the metaphysical inside the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s collection contains screenings of Summer season with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Persona, and private favourite Winter Gentle. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Tickets $15, passes $92-$132, Friday–Sunday)
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“By the darkness of future previous, the magician longs to see, one probability out between two worlds, fireplace stroll with me!” It has been 31 years since David Lynch’s batshit brilliance shone in his soapy nod to movie noir. Twin Peaks: Fireplace Stroll with Me hit the massive display screen and instantly launched a polarizing critics’ conflict—within the phrases of 1 New York Instances author, “It isn’t the worst film ever made, it simply feels prefer it.” Fortunately all of us got here to our senses and the movie is now a cult traditional of the homicide thriller style, and within the wake of Lynch’s loss of life, the misty, autumnal gloom of Twin Peaks feels necessary to revisit. What higher time to reimmerse your self within the city’s murky underbelly? LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, $12, Friday–Sunday)
FOOD & DRINK
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Because of the nutrient-rich outflow of water from the Skagit River, stunning Penn Cove’s well-known mussels develop full-sized in file time and are harvested younger, making them impossibly agency, fats, and candy. This annual competition, which payments itself as a celebration of all issues “daring, briny, and blue,” options boat excursions of the Penn Cove Mussel Farm, dwell music, a mussel consuming contest, cooking demonstrations with native cooks, a waterfront beer backyard, and the principle occasion: a tasting competitors with eating places from throughout Coupeville vying to have their mussel chowder declared the best on the town. JB
(Coupeville Recreation Corridor, Coupeville, Friday–Sunday)
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Be part of the Grit Metropolis for over 45 occasions celebrating beer, cider, artwork, music, and group. The festivities, which characteristic family-friendly choices, will embrace bingo, trivia, beer and meals pairings, cider tastings, dwell sport exhibits, live shows, cider tastings, a science honest, and extra. Trend your individual racing automobile from a beer can and check out your luck in a derby, or vie for the grand prize in contests for finest sizzling canine toppings and residential brews. JB
(Numerous places, free, Friday–Sunday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Get up babe, Seattle’s finest new date exercise simply dropped. The limited-run occasion Smash Putt returns with 9 new mini-golf holes constructed by native makers, designers, and artwork collectives. Putt by means of holes with immersive themes like “Yr of the Snake,” “Summer season Sizzle,” and “Battleship” whilst you sip drinks curated by Belltown taproom Simply The Faucet. As somebody who’s been underwhelmed by Seattle’s mini-golf choices after experiencing the delights of City Putt in San Francisco, I am excited to take a look at this promising course that the creators name “pure hootenanny” and “an absurdly good time.” SL
(Base Camp Studios 2, Belltown, $15, Friday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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In a backyard of connecting paths, 15 artists craft a “metaphor of a backyard plot, designed to specific how seeds of inspiration and roots of thought can unfold by means of formal teachings, artistic collaborations, and collective dreaming.” The choice of natural, floral work, collages, and sculptures feels completely in line with the approaching of spring. I have been intrigued by quinn mcnichol’s work, which calls upon tarot readings, climate shifts, and medicinal herb gardens as “narratives” in “visible adventures,” for just a few years now, so I am excited to see their title within the combine amongst different native favorites, like Whiting Tennis and Saya Moriyasu. LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., free, Friday–Sunday)
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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 components. 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. LC
(AMcE Artistic Arts, Miller Park, free, Friday–Sunday)
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San Francisco-based multimedia artist Josh Faught’s diversified works mix weaving methods, discovered objects, and ephemera to ponder the queer underpinnings of craft lineages and his personal historical past. (Should you dug Joey Veltkamp’s 2022 Bellevue Artwork Museum exhibition SPIRIT!, this present would possibly attraction.) I am intrigued by Faught’s cotton-hemp piece Sanctuary, adorned with a button that reads, “Be type. I’ve a teen.” The artist “reimagines methods of classification that assign social and cultural worth, investigating how collective and particular person identities are formed and analyzing constructions of social assist and visibility,” the Henry explains. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Advised donation $0-20, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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Some locals keep away from Pike Place just like the plague, however I take pleasure in weekend jaunt by means of the maze of flooring beneath the well-known flying fish and flower distributors. Among the many used e book and file shops, you’ll discover Gallery ERGO, which at the moment has Juliet Schreckinger’s new solo present Explorations of the Evergreen State on show. The Brooklyn-based artist spent a summer season in Seattle and the affinity she developed for the world exhibits in these items, which depict quite a lot of creatures on skateboards and water fowl perched atop container ships in Puget Sound. Tattoo lovers will acknowledge using stipple shading in her artwork; I am hoping Schreckinger returns for a visitor artist spot at a neighborhood tattoo parlor. SL
(Gallery ERGO, Pike Place Market, free, Friday–Sunday)
