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The Seattle viaduct was demolished again in 2019, and it appears like there’s been unending development alongside the waterfront since. This Friday, town celebrates a milestone in redesigning and renovating the world with the opening of the model new Overlook Stroll, connecting Pike Place all the way down to the waterfront with a bridge and public play area. Cease by this neighborhood get together for a primary look, meals vans, reside music, crafts, hearth pits, and extra. SL
(Pier 62, Downtown Seattle, free)
LIVE MUSIC
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Brooklyn-based trio Hiya Mary—whom Rolling Stone has hailed as “the following nice New York rock band”—will swing by Seattle this weekend to help their new album Emita Ox. The album soars on dichotomies with downtempo riffs bleeding into angelic harmonies (sung by guitarist Helena and drummer Stella Wave). In a single single monitor, the band can go from sounding just like the Sundays to sounding like Earth. Though dream pop and doom steel basically differ, Hiya Mary has found a secret passageway to attach the 2 genres. Do not miss a gap set from drone punks Bleary Eyed. AV
(Barboza, Capitol Hill, $15 – $18)
VISUAL ART
Michael Hong: Oi-ee Moo-chim
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The pleasant Korean phrase 손맛 (sonmat) interprets to “hand-flavor,” referring to the distinctive, indescribable high quality that a person cook dinner brings to their cooking, usually handed down by generations. (It jogs my memory of one thing my grandfather would say when consuming a home-cooked meal: “I can style your palms in it.”) This exhibition from ceramic artist Michael Hong explores the idea with two our bodies of labor that present his personal “hand-flavor”: a sequence of summary “self-portraits” that mirror his six-foot top and a sequence of pots impressed by the Korean fermentation vessels hangari. His work capabilities as a “methodology and a website of contemplation, the place the bodily and the cultural intertwine to depict the complicated dynamics of identification, labor, and heritage.” JB
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., free, opening)
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The Studio Saturdays open expertise night time is a recurring alternative for the very best sort of humblebrag: You would possibly come throughout the following massive factor on the Kremwerk stage. Welcoming drag divas, comedians, singers, and burlesque professionals from close to and much, every occasion’s lineup varies extensively. (This month, Twirley MacLaine, Awhoreaphobia, Harlow Marlow, and different performers will strut their stuff.) Coolest half? The present’s raffle earns {dollars} for important organizations just like the Lavender Rights Undertaking, Mary’s Place, and Deliberate Parenthood. LC
(Kremwerk, Downtown Seattle, $8 – $12)
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Do you know there is a century-old grove of heirloom apple, pear, cherry, and chestnut timber proper right here in Carkeek Park? Piper’s Orchard is usually open to the general public for choosing year-round, but it surely’s actually a deal with to go to throughout their annual Pageant of Fruit, that includes apple cider urgent, a pie stroll, apple sampling, a bee demo, and extra. You’ll be able to even carry apples from your personal yard or avenue to have them recognized by a neighborhood skilled! SL
(Piper’s Orchard, Broadview, free)
HALLOWEEN
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When you’ve by no means seen Vampyros Lesbos, I extremely suggest that you just add it to your Halloween watch record. The 1971 erotic horror movie follows—you guessed it—a lesbian vampire who lounges round her mid-century mansion and seduces girls by their goals. This bewitching bash will evoke equally sapphic vitality with mulled wine, movie images portraits, fortune-telling, and digital music that’ll make your lengthy velvet robe twirl. Halloween costumes are inspired, however concern not—pink, pink, black, frills, and lace apparel are accepted for individuals who haven’t got their costume prepared but. AV
(Asylum, Pioneer Sq., $5 – $10)
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Boundary-pushing classical guitarist Michael Nicolella will carry his revolutionary works to the Chapel this weekend together with a mix of acoustic and electrical works by Debussy, Falla, Albeniz, György Ligeti, Tom Baker, and Jacob ter Veldhuis. When you’ve by no means attended a classical live performance earlier than, this can be a good spot to start out! Tickets are by donation, the setting is informal, and Nicolella’s beautiful sound is accessible with glimmers of up to date people music. AV
(Good Shepherd Middle/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford, $5 – $20 donation on the door)
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Kait Rhoads’ large-scale set up at Methodology Gallery facilities an unsung environmental hero: kelp. (Do you know that kelp is a “major producer that modifies the atmosphere to create appropriate habitats for an excellent 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
(Methodology Gallery, Pioneer Sq., free)
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Prepare for cuteness overload: The beloved Halloween Pet Parade and Costume Contest return to Volunteer Park this weekend. Costumed pets are eligible to win a prize in classes like finest dressed, finest pet/proprietor combo, most artistic, and extra. We count on principally pups however will probably be extremely impressed if anybody can wrangle a cat into a dressing up for this. 8-Bit Brass Band will lead the parade by the park, and there will probably be craft cubicles for the kiddos. SL
(Volunteer Park, Capitol Hill, free)
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You recognize what is going to make your cozy fall photoshoot higher? A wide ranging backdrop of Mount Rainier; which is strictly what you will get (on a transparent day) at Carpinito Brothers Farm. Convey your Hinge date, your dad and mom, and/or your children (simply not your canine) and proceed to get misplaced in a number of mazes spanning acres of corn, pet cattle, and take your decide of pumpkins. For max autumnal vibes, time your go to in the course of the Third Annual Large Pumpkin Weigh-Off on Sunday, October sixth. SL (Carpinito Brothers, Kent, $0-$12, Friday–Sunday)
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Do you know Seattle and Reykjavik are sister cities? In actual fact, Seattle is dwelling to extra Icelandic individuals than anyplace else in america. To have a good time Iceland’s tradition, Seattle hosts an annual Style of Iceland competition stuffed with frosty festivities. This yr, you’ll be transported to the magical Nordic land with a free live performance that includes up-and-coming Icelandic artists at KEXP, an Icelandic cocktail class, particular tasting menus, a DJ session at Shibuya HiFi, a dialog with bestselling crime novelists Ragnar Jónasson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, and extra. Remember to spin the Icelandair prize wheel; you can win a visit to Iceland! SL
(Numerous places, Friday-Saturday)
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Celebrating all issues documentary once more this yr, SIFF’s DocFest consists of screenings of current competition faves just like the Berlin Movie Pageant’s 2024 Golden Bear Winner Dahomey. There is a lot to like about this yr’s competition lineup. I am jazzed for Yintah, a “riveting thriller recounting an Indigenous nation’s combat for sovereignty,” Nesa Azimi’s Driver, which follows the lives of feminine long-haul truckers, New Wave, a moody glimpse at Vietnam’s ’80s new wave music scene, Looking for Amani, wherein a 13-year-old aspiring journalist “investigates his father’s mysterious homicide inside one in all Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies,” and Wilding, based mostly solely upon this picture of a bit of piglet. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Passes $75-100, tickets $9-14, Friday-Sunday)
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As quickly as I realized that The Substance was directed by Coralie Fargeat, the French filmmaker behind Revenge, my favourite “sizzling lady hunts evil males” movie, I used to be on board. Fargeat’s fashion is likely to be described as New New French Extremity—whereas the aughts-era stuff was gratuitously brutal to girls (Noé’s Irreversible involves thoughts), Fargeat’s method calls upon grotesque, on a regular basis misogyny—assault in Revenge, magnificence requirements in The Substance—to craft twisted counterattacks and fuck together with her viewers a bit of. Fargeat’s latest movie stars Demi Moore as an ageing celeb who’s sport to inject herself with a black market serum to turn out to be youthful and extra lovely. I would say “could not be me,” however then once more, I’ve bought much more ageing forward of me. Maybe that underlying anxiousness is a part of the purpose. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, $14.50 – $15.50, Friday-Sunday)
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October rolls round, and abruptly, everybody needs to observe vampires, ghosts, and cannibals get their freak on. Typical!!! When you’re additionally feeling the sudden urge to emphasize your self out with Cronenberg and Murnau, All Monsters Assault! has your again. The sequence shudders to life this month with creepy greats just like the colonial-era cannibal story Ravenous, the Nicolas Cage campy cult flick Vampire’s Kiss, Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Pink Dying, and a screening of Nosferatu set to a Radiohead rating, which ought to get you amped for Eggers’ remake releasing in December. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Friday-Sunday)
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When you’re something like me, you spent a good portion of the pandemic lockdown watching Netflix’s Blown Away, wherein glassblowers competed for an illustrious residency on the Corning Museum of Glass. (As a onetime Pilchuck Glass Faculty workshop participant, I am rooting for these loopy children.) Traver Gallery and Chihuly Backyard and Glass have teamed as much as current this exhibition, which options works by Blown Away episode winners Gemma Hollister and Karen Willenbrink-Johnson and sequence winner Morgan Peterson. Willenbrink-Johnson creates naturalistic varieties, whereas Hollister’s works “supply a critique of contemporary capitalism” and Peterson’s cameo portraits of Seattle drag legends “spotlight beliefs of female magnificence.” LC
(Traver Gallery, Downtown Seattle, free, Friday-Saturday, opening)
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As a part of Frye’s ongoing Boren Banner Collection, Seoul-born, Portland-based artist Samantha Wall’s intricate stenciled work, which attracts from her nuanced views as a Black-Korean immigrant, will turn out to be larger and extra seen on the facade of the Frye Artwork Museum. Drop by the museum to see the artist’s larger-than-life, legendary serpent-woman, which pulls from Korean lore to “push in opposition to the exoticization of those that are perceived as different” and “current femininity as a strong, liminal state of being.” LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Friday-Sunday, closing)
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Because the specter of ecological collapse looms, Backyard of Our Time: Vanishing Species, Imminent Communities emerges as a poignant reflection on our fragility and interconnectedness. Hosted by Sunday Kitchen within the foyer of ninth and Thomas, the exhibition unites a kaleidoscope of artwork stars from Washington, California, NYC, and Seoul, together with Yoko Ono, Shin Yu Pai, Rob Rhee, and Francesca Lohmann. It is not daily that one can view a Yoko Ono work at a boutique workplace constructing, so cease by to meditate on our ever-shifting ecological internet, vanishing species, and the erosion of our collective reminiscence. LC
(ninth and Thomas, South Lake Union, free, Friday-Sunday)
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It is a rule akin to “shut up and get off your telephone within the movie show.” Do not contact the artwork. We have heard this since perpetually, proper? This is applicable in each gallery setting, proper? WRONG. Please Contact: Collectively, Breaking Obstacles invitations viewers to the touch the paintings on show, aiming to “increase consciousness about accessibility for blind and low-vision people within the arts” by facilitating a tactile expertise. Viewers are inspired to “shut their eyes, use their open palms, and gently stroke their paintings, describing the that means it holds for them,” which sounds downright blissful. LC
(King Avenue Station, SoDo, free, Friday-Saturday, opening)
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In Warren Dykeman’s fifth solo exhibition at studio e, block-like figures are rendered in composite view—assume historic Egyptian artwork—whereas different items function vases of tangled vines or ultra-stylized “pastures.” It did not shock me to study that Dykeman is a graphic designer by day; his fashion patchworks a folksy sensibility with a wise, up to date aptitude. Dykeman grew up in Kennewick, simply outdoors the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; this solo exhibition pulls its title from a “quick neutron” nuclear take a look at reactor on the Hanford website, and feels infused with forgotten Americana. LC (Each Thursday–Saturday, by October 26, studio e, Georgetown, free, Friday-Saturday)
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Slip Gallery’s newest group exhibition cooks up a medley of food-themed artworks from each nook of the artistic kitchen—assume glassblowers, video makers, and collage creators. In what you carry to the desk, a dozen artists will dish out items that discover how meals intersects with our “fundamental wants, relationships, reminiscences, and societal expectations.” Imagined as a communal visible feast, the present consists of interactive works, together with a collaborative still-life tableau on September 28 and a closing potluck on October 5. LC
(Slip Gallery, Belltown, free, Friday-Saturday, closing)
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For my part, there is no higher time to go to the Seattle Japanese Backyard than in early fall, simply because the leaves begin to tackle tinges of pink and gold. Hatsumomiji (初紅葉) is the proper alternative, encouraging guests to understand “nature’s artwork” with maple excursions and scavenger hunts, a chigiri-e (torn paper artwork) workshop, and extra. Backyard guests may also view kirie (paper-cutting) artist Kanako Abe’s poetic solo exhibition Flower, Chicken, Wind, Moon, a set of season-appropriate “serene and introspective” paper-cut compositions. LC
(Seattle Japanese Backyard, Madison Park, $10, Friday-Sunday, opening)
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Fulgencio Lazo’s second solo exhibition at ArtX Modern continues to showcase the artist’s ultra-vibrant, visually complicated fashion, knowledgeable by his cultural identification as a member of Mexico’s Indigenous Zapotec individuals and his hometown of Oaxaca. As an artist, Lazo is integral to the material of Seattle’s Latine cultural scene—he is participated in Day of the Useless celebrations on the Seattle Artwork Museum and the Tacoma Artwork Museum. Head to this exhibition to familiarize your self with a neighborhood legend. LC
(ArtX Modern, SoDo, free, Friday-Saturday, opening)
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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 inclined to “depart many emotions out of the narrative,” FRESSSSSH! argues. One method? A partnership between the Workplace of Arts and Tradition and Seattle Metropolis Mild is presenting a “summer time Younger Grownup/Youth Curatorial Residency,” Contemporary Views. Aiming to highlight those that might not really feel represented in historically curated areas, this exhibition by BIPOC youth curators consists of works by stellar BIPOC artists Damon Brown, Aramis Hamer, Warren W. Pope, and Kellie Colemon. LC
(11 am–5 pm, King Avenue Station, SoDo, free, Friday-Saturday, closing)
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Frye Salon served as a strategy to beat the warmth this summer time, however spending the afternoon in an elegant museum area isn’t a nasty apply for transitioning into fall, both. Over 100 work from the museum’s founding assortment are displayed in a salon-style dangle that dates again centuries. “The set up approximates the dramatic viewing expertise loved by guests to Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle dwelling within the first a long time of the 20 th century,” the Frye explains. Fancy! LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Wednesday-Sunday)
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Iran-born, Washington-based artist Mana Mehrabian and Seattle-based artist Mary Coss band collectively on this exhibition, which “examine[s] private and ancestral migrations” by a mix of sculpture and set up artwork. Too A lot to Carry feels spare and pensive, but materially well-considered; I am all in favour of Coss’ tangled steel varieties positioned alongside Mehrabian’s curious steel storage shelving items and wire baskets. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, free, Friday-Saturday, closing)
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In her largest solo museum exhibition but, the Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman makes use of her signature motif—closely lidded eyes—to look at how surveillance and erasure form experiences of othering. That includes work, sculptures, and a “deeply private” audio set up, the present references Kahraman’s upbringing as an Iraqi/Kurdish refugee in Sweden. Disembodied eyes act as a not-so-subtle stand-in for Western oppression, from authorities iris scans to racist plant classifications, whereas Kahraman’s marbling method displays the unpredictability of identification, resisting pressured assimilation with every bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, free, Saturday-Sunday, opening)
