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LIVE MUSIC
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On her new album, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Concept, the New Jersey singer-songwriter maintains her cerebral area rock sound (à la Bruce Springsteen) whereas embracing a haunting, goth vibe paying homage to Siouxsie Sioux & The Banshees. Simply think about Siouxsie Sioux & The E Avenue Band—that is what this album sounds prefer to me. KEXP units allow as much as 70 attendees to look at the musicians from the “stay room viewing gallery,” and the expertise comes full with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of DJing and video manufacturing processes. AV
(KEXP Stage, Downtown)
COMEDY
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I am lucky sufficient to have by no means been on a blind date in my life, which suggests I’m greater than a little bit curious to look at two strangers undergo the entire rigamarole on a theater stage. Enter First Date, Bandit Theater’s laughter-prone answer to loneliness; they’re going to arrange two people searching for love and the viewers will watch them succeed or crash and burn. Then, a group of improvisers will devise comedy based mostly on how the date went. Hey, they do say laughter makes you sexier. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
COMMUNITY
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Have a good time Syttende Mai (Norwegian Structure Day) with numerous occasions round Ballard, which has robust Nordic roots. Outside stay music runs by means of the afternoon at Bergen Place, and you can even take a look at the Leif Erickson Lodge throughout an open home. Seattle’s personal Viking-inspired mead corridor Skål may have free and all-ages leisure of their avenue café, with a $5 cowl cost inside the place the 21-and-up crowd can entry a particular menu. The annual seventeenth of Might Parade kicks off at 4 pm and claims to be the largest outdoors of Norway—can’t say I thoughts a cause to wave a special type of pink, white, and blue. SL
(Varied areas)
FESTIVALS
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Uncover 5,000-year-old Chinese language cultural traditions by means of people dances, artwork workshops, and extra at Seattle Middle Festál’s A Glimpse of China, which includes a packed lineup of conventional performances, plus slurpable noodles and Himalayan fried meals. Mmmm. Guests can snag Chinese language conventional clothes and items from the group market, take a look at visible arts exhibitions, and listen to from Chinese language Radio Seattle on web site. LC
(Seattle Middle, Uptown)
FOOD & DRINK
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Maybe you had been one of many thousands and thousands of people that grew to become conscious of the “Gays Consuming Garlic Bread within the Park” sensation after a easy poster promoting it went massively viral on TikTok final yr. The joyful gathering, which bid attendees to “BYOGB,” ended up drawing hordes of pleasant carb-seeking queers. It is again once more for a second time this spring, with loads of drinks and video games underneath a veranda. Go forth and thaw the Seattle freeze, and remember to carry your personal buttery, allium-laced snacks to share. JB
(Location given upon RSVP, Wallingford)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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They’d me at “Beltane queer ritual rave.” Bacchic Bloom, which is explicitly “not for cishet males,” encourages decadent Dionysian apparel (which means silk, golden accents, and vine-filled floral crowns) for an evening of fae potions (aka wine), tarot readings, spellcasting, and queer DJs on deck with hyperpop beats. In accordance with the rave organizers, “deep beneath town, our venue transforms right into a glowing bacchanal—lush with overgrown flowers and the heart beat of a world intoxicated by spring’s first warmth.” Sapphics, femmes, butches, and nonbinary faefolk will really feel proper at dwelling. LC
(Asylum, Pioneer Sq.)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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In March 2023, Seattleite Holden Ringer launched into a journey to stroll throughout america. He succeeded, and desires to carry the love of touring cities by foot again to the place he began. Because the host of the inaugural Seattle Tremendous Saunter, he is mapped out a tough self-guided path to stroll all of Seattle from the northernmost level of town (the Northgate mild rail station) to the southernmost level (the Backyard of Gethsemane Church in Skyway). It isn’t a race, it is all about constructing group. You may carry buddies or make new ones, and be part of for the entire route or a bit of it—even the precise route and mode of journey is as much as you! All that is required is placing one foot in entrance of the opposite. RSVP for the placement of the post-saunter meet-up at a South Seattle brewery to have a good time your success and talk about the day’s delights and difficulties. SL
(Varied areas)
AANHPI HERITAGE MONTH
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In celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month, native kids’s e-book authors Annie Cheng, Julia Kuo, Suma Subramaniam, and others will come collectively for a panel dialogue, readings, and family-centered actions. (“Princesses” are on the docket!) Attendees can take part in craft classes and seize e-book copies; kid-approved characters will even be on-site for picture alternatives. LC
(Filipino Neighborhood Middle, Rainier Valley)
FILM
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The unique standard ladies—Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, and Julie Benz—maaaay have sorta kinda killed their finest good friend on her birthday. Their new “alternative” good friend is a little bit unhinged, and a detective (performed by Pam Grier!) is on their case. If Jawbreaker feels like a very excellent combination of The Craft and Imply Ladies, you would be proper. Do not miss this free screening of queer filmmaker Darren Stein’s near-perfect ’99 flick. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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Purple Might, an mental “trip from capitalism” (and “essentially the most star-studded common radical left occasion in Seattle,” as The Stranger‘s Charles Mudede has written), affords new takes on Marx, equality, and economics in group areas. The group will facilitate this free screening and dialogue, which begins with a “cinematic collage” of How We Bought Right here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by The Sq. Root of (allan) Bloom Occasions Žižek (squared) Equals Bannon and continues with a chat led by creator David Shields, The Beacon’s Tommy Swenson, and Purple Might’s Philip Wohlstetter. The new matter? How we ended up with Trump and his cronies within the Workplace. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
FESTIVALS
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The U District Avenue Honest claims to kick off Seattle’s summer season occasion season, they usually’re not incorrect—I discover it to be one of many first weekends the place town feels totally out of hibernation and alive once more with sunshine and smiling folks. This group arts and crafts truthful spans over a dozen blocks and attracts tens of hundreds of holiday makers who stroll the Ave whereas having fun with stay music from native bands, meals vans, restaurant specials, beer gardens, exercise cubicles, and extra. The U District mild rail station makes it straightforward to get to, depositing attendees proper within the coronary heart of the motion so nobody has to take care of parking. SL
(Varied areas, College District, Saturday–Sunday)
FILM
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David Lynch’s jazzy ’86 dreamscape stars display beauties Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan in a wierd investigation that each one begins with the invention of a severed ear in an deserted subject. This screening of Lynch’s masterwork Blue Velvet pays tribute to the late director, who (in case you someway have not heard) handed in January. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Friday–Sunday)
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As a result of I am in possession of a soul, my curiosity is piqued by Move‘s premise. The Greatest Animated Characteristic winner at this yr’s Academy Awards follows a kitty who goes on a mystical journey after his house is destroyed in a flood. He meets a capybara, a lemur, a hen, and a canine alongside the way in which, navigating a “newly aquatic” planet aboard a wood boat. One Letterboxd reviewer reported that his five-year-old son was “completely enraptured—I am speaking full Nicole Kidman AMC pre-roll ‘We come to this place for magic’ locked IN. [He] raved to me afterward that it was ‘even higher than Moana 2,‘ so take that for what it is value.” Here is a candy interview with director Gints Zilbalodis, in case you want much more convincing. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Friday–Saturday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Smash Putt is Seattle’s finest spring date exercise. The limited-run occasion 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, Friday–Sunday)
SHOPPING
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This quirky flea market in a hip pocket of city payments itself as a “sustainable retail mannequin,” boasting dozens of classic and handmade distributors working out of upcycled trailers. Anticipate a variety that celebrates “sprouting buds” at this spring market, which incorporates hula-hooping, cornhole, and every little thing from cigar humidors and handmade candles to curious ephemera, “glass worlds and tiny cosmos,” and oven-fresh cookies. LC
(Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, Georgetown, Saturday–Sunday)
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All that glitters may really be gold at this low-cost mineral market. You will discover fossils, gems, jewellery, and different artwork from over 60 sellers, plus door prizes and bites from Shug’s Soda Fountain, Po’Boy & Tings, and Nacho Rio for munchies. Bonus: there will be free rocks for teenagers! Children love free rocks. LC
(Magnuson Park, Northeast Seattle, Saturday–Sunday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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You’ve got in all probability heard about touch-a-truck occasions, the place people (largely kids) are invited to rise up shut and private with massive autos like fireplace vans, bulldozers, and extra—however right here within the Pacific Northwest, we have additionally bought plenty of very cool water vessels. This annual occasion from the Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Middle invitations the group to discover traditional (retired) and dealing tugboats, fishing boats, and emergency response vessels whereas assembly the captains and crews. Take a look at the beverage tent on the Fireboat Duwamish; inbuilt 1909, it’s the second oldest fireboat within the nation and it was the world’s strongest fireboat till 2003. SL
(South Lake Union Park, South Lake Union, Saturday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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Name up your astrologically inclined besties, as a result of Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (Bronze) is occupying Olympic Sculpture Park with a gargantuan and really heavy Chinese language zodiac cycle. (Every sculpture weighs over 1,500 kilos). Organized in a semi-circle, you may discover Ai’s sculptures positioned so as of the standard rotation, with a rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, canine, and boar represented. The origin of the work is tremendous attention-grabbing, too: The zodiac heads are based mostly on those who as soon as adorned a Qing imperial fountain earlier than they had been stolen in the course of the Second Opium Struggle. The ensuing work “embodies Ai’s lengthy engagement with questioning the tendency to worth the actual over the faux and the unique over the copy,” Seattle Artwork Museum explains. LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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Artists Karey Kessler and Tali Weinberg rework maps, knowledge, and textual content into visible meditations on loss, care, and resilience in All Doable Futures. Via layered colour fields, stitched threads, and tactile supplies like bark and plastic, the duo creates works that invite emotional and relational methods of figuring out. Everyone knows we’re within the midst of (a number of) international crises, so the present affords a mushy house to land, providing alternative routes to witness and hook up with grief by actually reworking maps and knowledge. The outcome looks like a poetic, grounding apply which may encourage a little bit hope for the long run. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, Friday–Saturday)
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Traver Gallery’s latest signed artist is Dharma Strasser-MacColl, whose debut exhibition Intersection crafts curious abstractions in hand-dyed porcelain, sewn paper, thread, and pigment. I am intrigued by the artist’s textural wall items, which kind chainlinks and complicated webs, and her “Luddite tempo,” which emphasizes a gradual, imperfect course of and a focus to element. Cease by to familiarize your self with the Portland-born, Sausalito-based artist, whose work you may possible see once more. LC
(Traver Gallery, North Queen Anne, Friday–Saturday)
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If you happen to caught Holly Ballard Martz’s 2024 present on the Vestibule, you realize the artist is eager about preservation and reminiscence. The exhibition felt completely timed with the discharge of Caroline Fargeat’sThe Substance,pondering our “futile makes an attempt” at clutching to youthfulness with hooks and holes and bottled specimens and phrases like “plump” and “taut.” By title alone, I am curious if this present contemplates related themes. However Previous Excellent Future Tense feels contemporary in its materials exploration–sculptural bra straps clutch synthetic melons, whereas classic quilt remnants turn out to be sentiment-filled punching luggage. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., Friday–Saturday; closing)
