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On his third album, The New Religion, folks musician and Black American music scholar Jake Blount imagines an Afrofuturist dystopia by which Black refugees search salvation after the collapse of world civilization as a result of local weather change. Regardless of being primarily based on a fictitious future, Blount grounds the album with very actual feelings, fears, and hopes. And, as all the time, he shines a light-weight on the Black and Indigenous roots of American folks music. Blount will return to Seattle alongside Indigenous jazz musician Mali Obomsawin to carry out songs from their collaborative album symbiont. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard)
READINGS & TALKS
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There’s one thing about listening to from an astronaut that appeals to the kid in me—or maybe the childlike grownup in me, as they’ve left the stratosphere and I’m somebody who nonetheless struggles to fold a fitted sheet. Astronaut Cady Coleman has blasted into area three instances, which suggests I am triple-interested. She’ll chat with Steve Broback of Dent the Future about her memoir Sharing Area: An Astronaut’s Information to Mission, Surprise and Making Change, which “chronicles each the skilled achievements and private progress that took her to new heights and formed what sort of individual she needed to be again on stable floor.” LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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The Piano Begins Right here sequence showcases the work of musical icons who’ve innovated the piano jazz style with their data and appreciation of the instrument. This iteration will have fun the music of vocalist, pianist, activist, and all-around icon Nina Simone and the lesser-known piano virtuoso Dorothy Donegan. AV
(The Royal Room, Columbia Metropolis)
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The College of Washington’s winter 2025 lineup of public lectures showcases must-hear audio system like Wesaam Al-Badry, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Megan Ming Francis, and others. (They will remind us that there’s “no time for hate,” which may be onerous to swallow when a sure somebody takes workplace on January 20, aka MLK Day.) Present up for considerate reflections on the aftermath of the election, the position of artwork and journalism, the Tulsa Race Bloodbath, and transnational feminism, plus performances by Quetzal and Gangstagrass and a collective songwriting workshop. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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Native queer folk-rock powerhouse Amelia Day is thought for her diaristic lyricism and pitch-perfect harmonies. When you’re a fan of Tracy Chapman or Brandi Carlile, think about including Amelia Day’s 2023 EP, Therapist’s Moist Dream, to your January rotation. She’ll be joined by her backing band the Cloves together with fellow Seattle-based artists Warren Dunes and Small Pall. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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Seattle-born multi-instrumentalist Alan Sparhawk is greatest often known as half of the genre-defining slowcore band Low. After the tragic passing of his bandmate and spouse Mimi Parker, Sparhawk discovered it tough to revisit the basic devices and sound that Low was recognized for. “The instruments I used earlier than now not work,” he tells the Guardian. “I’m making an attempt to make use of my voice, however I don’t wish to hear my voice, so I wanted to search out one other voice.” The ensuing solo album, White Roses, My God, is drastically completely different from Low’s serene, dream-like indie rock. The album’s sonic departure employs digital devices, heavy voice modulation, and hip-hop beats, however followers will nonetheless acknowledge Sparhawk’s easy but profound lyrics. He’ll assist the album alongside experimental vocalist/musician Circuit des Yeux. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
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On their debut album, I SHOULD CALL THEM, Sudanese American nonbinary artist Dua Saleh explores spirituality, resilience, and love via imaginative electronic-R&B compositions that vary from ethereal (“chi woman”) to nightclub-ready (“bo peep”). They’ll play tracks from the album after a gap set from like-minded synth-pop artist Sam Austins.
(Madame Lou’s on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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California-born neo-folk artist Mariee Siou combines all the perfect components of every folks revival—Jean Richie’s timeless storytelling, Karen Dalton’s effervescent fingerpicking, and Hope Sandoval’s haunting vocals. I may even hear the influence of Siou’s debut album, Faces within the Rocks, within the work of latest folks music rivals: Taylor Swift’s wildly profitable folklore and evermore albums additionally inform whimsical folktales towards a backdrop of plucked strings and plush woodwinds. Do not miss a gap set from native queer folks duo Unhealthy Posture Membership. AV
(Fremont Abbey Arts Heart, Fremont)
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With a clean sound that takes cues from classic R&B, San Diego-based trio Thee Sacred Souls landed a file take care of legendary neo-soul label Daptone after their first handful of reside performances. From there, the band’s star stored rising as their 2022 debut self-titled album earned them A-list followers like Gary Clark Jr., Princess Nokia, and Timbaland. The ensemble will assist their extremely anticipated sophomore album, Bought A Story To Inform, after a gap set from reggae pop artist Claude Fontaine. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
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Fischersund: Fake Flora, the immersive scented exhibition created by Sigur Rós’ Jónsi and his household, shutters on January 26. If you have not scoped it out but, carve out a while—the mix of sculptures, sounds, and scent experiences was impressed by Icelandic native vegetation, and it is an awe-evoking show. This silent disco staged contained in the exhibition looks like the closest factor to a sensory carnival—the occasion will “take you again in time” with curated playlists (they’ve gotta play a minimum of one sprawling, seven-minute Sigur Rós track, proper?), plus a selfie sales space. LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard)
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When you’re one of many 84,000 individuals who observe Vanishing Seattle on Instagram, then you definately already know Cynthia Brothers is a Seattle treasure. For years, she’s used social media to keep up an in depth file of companies which have come and gone from Seattle’s ever-evolving panorama. In her new artwork guide, Vanishing Seattle: Locations Liked & Misplaced, Brothers has compiled greater than 100 images of indicators from among the metropolis’s most beloved spots, and he or she’s boosted the blast of nostalgia with historic context and reminiscences from the individuals who beloved them most. There’s RKCNDY, the all-ages punk venue the place I earned many battle scars, from bruises to concussions to damaged hearts! There’s Cellophane Sq., the place I spent hundreds of {dollars} on CDs as a result of the clerks at Tower all the time made me really feel uncool for listening to pop punk! There’s even Mama’s Mexican Kitchen, the place I went on what I believed was a date however wasn’t a date in any respect, so I ended the night crying in my automobile over veggie nolasco burrito leftovers! Wow, that is getting emo. ANYWAY! This dialogue might be enjoyable! And I might guess there is a signal for a long-gone location that brings again a fuzzy rush of nostalgia for you, too. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
COMEDY
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Emmy-nominated comic, actor, and well-meaning playboy Deon Cole has been round: You would possibly’ve seen him on BET+’s Common Joe, within the current adaptation of The Shade Purple, or in his NAACP-nommed Netflix particular Charleen’s Boy. However a comic book is greater than his accolades, and Cole brings greater than jokes; his units are like a hangout along with your most mischievous buddy. When you’re into Nate Bargatze or Hannibal Buress’ sly types, you may in all probability snort. LC
(Moore Theatre, Belltown)
FILM
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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 title written allll over it. Grand Phantasm will proceed a longstanding custom with its seventeenth season of matinee classics screened alongside a secret characteristic movie each Saturday, all in dreamy 16mm. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District)
FOOD & DRINK
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Get able to shift into soup mode, as a result of January is Nationwide Soup Month. At this inaugural soup sampling occasion sponsored by the Seattle Sister Cities Affiliation, volunteer cooks from 10 of Seattle’s sister cities will showcase worldwide soups from 4 completely different continents. Strive specialties comparable to peanut butter soup from Limbe, Cameroon; khmer rooster soup from Sihanoukville, Cambodia; potato leek soup from Nantes, France; and curried candy potato soup from Christchurch, New Zealand. Your ticket will get you 4 soup tastings, and you may get extra for a greenback every. JB
(PB Kitchen at Polish Dwelling Affiliation, Miller Park)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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Slither into the 12 months of the Snake at Wing Luke Museum’s annual Lunar New 12 months Truthful, which begins outdoors the entrance doorways with remarks from native audio system and lion dance performances from Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon and Lion Dance Affiliation. Seize a timed entry ticket to entry indoor actions together with calligraphy classes, a zodiac scavenger hunt, storytime classes, group cubicles, and humanities and crafts tables. Do not miss the latest addition to the KidPLACE Gallery, New 12 months’s All 12 months Spherical: Meals, Household, and Enjoyable, the place you possibly can study extra about Lunar New 12 months cultural traditions. SL
(Wing Luke Museum, Chinatown-Worldwide District)
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Discover a seat for From Floor Zero—the anthology challenge was shortlisted for Finest Worldwide Characteristic on the 2025 Oscars and it is poised to be one of the talked-about movies on the ceremony this yr. Spearheaded by famend Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi, From Floor Zero assembles 22 quick movies created amid the continuing genocide by filmmakers from Gaza, providing a wanted platform for Palestinian creators to share their tales. Count on a mixture of genres, together with narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental cinema works. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District)
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Secret Cinema is strictly what it seems like—simply present up and put together to be seduced by no matter pops up on display screen. Alternatives to be solely shocked by a movie do not come alongside fairly often, so attempt it out as a reminder that there are nonetheless mysteries to uncover on the planet. Or perhaps you may hate it. Who is aware of! That is the enjoyable of the entire shebang. Go forth, change off your mind, and let the enigma reveal itself. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis)
FOOD & DRINK
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Greet the 12 months of the Snake (considered a time of knowledge, instinct, creativity, transformation, and non secular progress) by studying the best way to create the standard Lunar New 12 months dish bánh tét, a scrumptious savory glutinous rice cake filled with mung beans and pork and wrapped in a banana leaf. Native cooks Yenvy Pham of Phở Bắc and Trinh Nguyen of Ba Sa and artist Quynh Nguyen from Pink and Posey will information you thru the method. JB
(Little Saigon Inventive, Chinatown-Worldwide District)
EXHIBIT
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Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós launched their first correct album in over a decade final yr—EverOut music calendar editor Audrey Vann described ÁTTA as “cinematic, serene, floaty, and harmonious.” Because it seems, although, lead singer Jónsi’s inventive observe extends past his immediately recognizable falsetto. Alongside his sisters (who make up the family-run artwork collective and perfumery Fischersund), he’ll current Fake Flora, an immersive collection of sculptures, sounds, scent experiences, and extra impressed by Icelandic native vegetation. The sensory exhibition imagines new plant species and explores “the scientific relationship between scent and reminiscence.” LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard, Tuesday–Sunday)
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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 after I was a youngster, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Assume Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Perhaps!! However perhaps you like Bob Dylan, by which case A Full Unknown would possibly enchantment 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, Monday–Thursday)
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The scenic Canadian movie pageant held each fall in Banff, Alberta will glide into Seattle, sharing the perfect of the perfect in mind-bamboozling out of doors filmmaking, environmental storytelling, and mountain sportsmanship. LC
(Benaroya Corridor, Downtown, Wednesday–Thursday)
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When you do not wish to be the one that’s like, “Wait, what’s that?” whilst you’re watching the Oscars this yr, now’s the time to meet up with all the award frontrunners. One apparent choose is the stacked-cast drama The Brutalist, which follows visionary architect László Toth’s (Adrien Brody) postwar arrival in the US. He settles in Pennsylvania, the place the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Man Pearce) notices his expertise. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–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, doubtlessly staying inside the U District. Which means this month’s screenings are your final likelihood to catch a flick within the beloved area. 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, Monday–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 basic horror stars a younger Kurt Russell battling it out towards—you guessed it—a cold-hearted, shape-shifting alien. (What higher option to say hi there to 2025 than by staring right into a frosty no-man’s-land?) You’ll be able to experience 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, Monday–Wednesday)
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When you requested me what I did on December 25, you would possibly 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 light 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, pricey reader, was seated for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Contemplate such a plan for your self this week. When has Eggers ever upset you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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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 fact 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 Loss of life as validator” (Thomas Pynchon) and “The perfect authorities is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” (Voltaire). Let it’s recognized that I am not endorsing something right here. However, like, you need to in all probability go see these movies for cinema’s sake, proper? I like to recommend snagging seats to the subsequent one on the docket—David Cronenberg’s freaky, and surprisingly efficient, Stephen King adaptation The Useless Zone. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Sunday)
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When you hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re doubtless conversant in Sigrid Nunez, whose work has inked the pages of literary powerhouses like The Paris Overview, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. She’s philosophical, but her prose is unadorned—it is an intoxicating combine. She’s maybe greatest acknowledged for her guide The Pal, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, sleek 2020 novel What Are You Going By means of. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal workers whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a struggle reporter. What’s going to occur once they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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For these with no real interest in visiting Park Metropolis, Utah, initially: I perceive. Secondly, you do not have to! Sundance Institute’s 2024 Indigenous Movie Tour brings eight quick movies by Indigenous administrators (4 from the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition, three from the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition, and one quick movie from the 2005 Sundance Movie Competition) straight to Northwest Movie Discussion board. The curated choice is a stable alternative to have interaction 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, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Amid profession excessive factors like taking part in alongside Barbra Streisand, Girl Gaga, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Joni Mitchell, Grammy Award winner and pop-jazz showman Chris Botti will head again to Seattle together with his trumpet for a five-night residency at Jazz Alley. Botti might be celebrating the discharge of his first album in over a decade (and debut on prestigious jazz label Blue Word), Vol 1, which focuses on acoustic jazz and basic requirements. AV
(Jazz Alley, Belltown, Wednesday–Sunday)
PERFORMANCE
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As Iranian immigrant Azam Kabiri shares tales of her life with others ready on the airport baggage carousel, she begins to meditate on wider questions of “what she is bringing along with her, and what she has left behind.” The place Is Right here? / اینجا کجاست؟ is a co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble and Seattle Public Theater. The solo present, conceived by playwright Naghmeh Samini, might be carried out in English by Azadeh Zanjani and in Persian by Sarvin Alidaee in separate performances. Excited by seeing each? No sweat—the theater has deliberate “double present days” with each performances break up by a brief intermission. LC
(Seattle Public Theater, Inexperienced Lake, Friday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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When you’re not conversant in the groundbreaking work of Black artist, sculptor, performer, and printmaker Joyce J. Scott, now’s the time to repair that: Seattle Artwork Museum will current a significant profession retrospective surveying Scott’s multimedia works, which spans her 50-plus-year profession and emphasizes her “virtuosic use” of beads, glass, and textiles. Scott has “upended hierarchies of artwork and craft, insisting that inventive expression is that ‘further inch of life’ that nourishes the soul even in essentially the most difficult circumstances,” the museum explains. I am concerned with how Scott’s distinctive aesthetic imaginative and prescient addresses the racism, sexism, and inequality of the twentieth century and the trendy period via a refined, typically humorous lens. LC
(Seattle Artwork Museum, Downtown, Wednesday–Sunday; closing)
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“Native artist Maja Petrić’s elegant work is greatest skilled in individual,” the Seattle Occasions says. I am apt to agree: In Specimens of Time, the artist’s gentle sculptures use generative algorithms to conjure the influence of local weather change in once-pristine pure environments. The dynamism of Petrić’s work serves as an instance the affect of human life on these delicate environments; upon coming into the exhibition, you would possibly discover the influence of your personal presence within the area. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, Thursday–Saturday)
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I’ve written steadily about Peter Gronquist’s art work—In Manifest, the Portland-based multimedia artist’s large-scale sculptural work included bone fragments, dyed wasp paper, wool, lace, rose quartz, and “fossilized” occasion posters as supplies, whereas Gentle Document displayed a physique of abstracted works impressed by each photographic and portray processes. Gronquist’s sculptural work are nonetheless a deal with to look at—his brushstrokes are seen, his textures really feel sedimentary and excavated from an historic supply. Gronquist’s present assertion for Alchemist is a little bit of an artwork piece in itself: “Every onerous, shell-like carapace, resting on serene color-fields of milk-gold and blooming pink, illustrate the artist’s obsessive, ritualistic manipulation of supplies,” it explains. “Your complete portray turns into a sort of ‘psychic tundra.'” Language can solely go to this point, although; you may wish to see how Gronquist works with satin, resin, and salvaged paper in individual. LC
(Winston Wächter High quality Artwork, South Lake Union, Thursday–Saturday; opening)
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Koplin Del Rio’s stylish annual winter salon facilities items from the woman-led classic boutique Casa Patina this yr. The gallery might be outfitted with a variety of the store’s treasures—suppose fashionable antiques, classic furnishings, and moody work—positioned alongside up to date artworks that usually occupy the area. The salon goals to assemble distinctive new dialogues between objects; I am considering it’s going to have a soothing impact throughout a busy time. LC
(Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Georgetown, Wednesday–Saturday; closing)
WINTER
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Seize some sizzling cocoa and get cozy with your folks, household, or Hinge date at this wintertime immersive expertise stuffed with big glowing lanterns, every formed like natural world from across the globe. Children and people of us who’re youngsters at coronary heart will get pleasure from a magical world with a forest prepare, tree fairies, and illuminated unicorns (good luck explaining that these do not exist after your youngsters see this show) alongside brilliantly lit peacocks and different winged creatures within the Birds of Paradise zone and monkeys hiding within the Underneath the Jungle Cover. WildLanterns’ 2024–2025 season consists of nightly conventional Chinese language cultural performances comparable to lion dances, umbrella juggling, face altering, chair balancing, and extra. SL
(Woodland Park Zoo, Phinney Ridge, Thursday–Sunday)