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The 1920 German Expressionist masterwork (and malevolent freak fest) The Cupboard of Dr. Caligari will tackle a hypnotic new stage of otherworldliness with a dwell unique rating. Austin music ensemble the Invincible Czars will carry out their unique, up to date soundtrack for the screening, including mysterious new layers of sonic depth to the silent flick. The movie follows a fairground “physician” and the unlucky sleepwalker who murders at his command—it is a gem of early cinema that sorta-kinda invented the whole horror movie style, and influenced administrators like David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown)
READINGS & TALKS
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Mom-daughter duo Nam Quickly Ahn and Sarah Ahn have captured the hearts of thousands and thousands of viewers on Sarah’s TikTok account @ahnestkitchen, which presents a candy, poignant glimpse at their relationship and mutual love of Korean cooking. Their debut cookbook Umma (“mother” in Korean) contains conversations between the 2 that vary from humorous to relatable to tear-jerking, plus gems of culinary knowledge gleaned from Nam Quickly’s a long time within the kitchen and recipes fine-tuned by America’s Check Kitchen. At this signing, you may get to satisfy Sarah and Nam Quickly and get your cookbook personalised. JB
(E book Larder, Fremont; bought out)
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Merciless Intentions is a kind of movies that completely wouldn’t fly if it have been made in 2025, however again in 1999, we may forgive a number of creepiness if a “Bittersweet Symphony” needle drop was concerned. The deviance begins with Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar, incestuous step-siblings who goal the college sq.—an abstinence-minded Reese Witherspoon—with their intercourse pest antics. Selma Blair, Swoosie Kurtz, and Tara Reid additionally present up, so Merciless Intentions is a stable option to get your Y2K repair if you happen to can abdomen its cancellable material. This free screening might be offered by Good Rubbish, a new-ish sequence that includes “the most effective, silly-billy B-movies and cult classics to get us by the powerful occasions.” LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
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Has a murals ever moved you to the purpose of poetic expression? If that’s the case, contemplate Amber Flame, whose work “explores spirituality and sexuality, cross-woven with themes of grief and loss, motherhood and magic,” your information to the ekphrastic kind. Attendees will pull inspiration from an artwork exhibition and apply ekphrastic writing with responsive prompts. Time for sharing is woven into the session, so convey your bravery. LC
(Wa Na Wari, Central District)
LIVE MUSIC
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Singer-songwriter Robert Lester Folsom was largely unknown till his 1976 self-released Music & Desires was reissued by the Brooklyn-based indie label Mexican Summer time in 2010. These days, you possibly can hear his psychedelic-tinged yacht rock tunes in reveals like Gossip Woman and Outer Banks. As Folsom defined to Psychedelic Child Journal, “I felt I used to be misplaced and had been discovered.” He’ll cease by Tractor Tavern alongside his present backing band, Solar Youngster. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard)
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After brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson lower their 1979 debut album Dreamin’ Wild in a studio their father constructed for them within the rural Washington city of Fruitland, it sank into oblivion, as 99.3% of all data do. It took a long time for a collector to search out Dreamin’ Wild, be blown away by its heart-wrenching, farmer’s-boy blue-eyed soul, and for Seattle’s Gentle within the Attic Information to reissue it in 2012. Ten years later, director Invoice Pohlad turned the Emersons’ unbelievably inspirational story right into a touching movie. Now, main songwriter Donnie Emerson and his gifted spouse/musician Nancy Sophia are making their first West Coast tour, taking part in cherished songs from Dreamin’ Wild, together with the deeply craving ballad “Child” (almost 38 million streams on $p0t1fy), the sunshiny funk of “Give Me the Probability,” and the exuberant yacht rock of “Good Time.” Donnie and Nancy’s breezy new dance single, “Sister Oh Yeah,” will most likely get aired, too. STRANGER CONTRIBUTOR DAVE SEGAL
(Clock-Out Lounge, Beacon Hill)
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XG (which aptly stands for “Xtraordinary Women”) is a seven-piece Ok-pop group recognized for his or her Y2K model, mic-dropping rapping abilities, and highly effective one-liners. Take heed to their hit single “WOKE UP” to get full-body shivers. They’ll cease by Seattle on their first-ever world tour supporting their sophomore album, Awe. AV
(WaMu Theater, SoDo)
PERFORMANCE
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Though the multimedia present Riot Days takes its title from the notorious Russian feminist protest and efficiency artwork troupe Pussy Riot, it must be thought-about a spin-off of types. The play was developed by Maria Alyokhina, one of many group’s most outstanding members, who based mostly it on her memoir Riot Days. Alyokhina and firm have toured internationally with 200 performances and counting, bringing the story of “resistance, repression, and revolution in a combination of live performance, rally, theatre, and political occurring” to the plenty. They are going to be joined by Canadian alt-pop artist margø. JW
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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You will have spied Los Angeles-based “pastry queen,” James Beard semifinalist, and Fats + Flour chef/proprietor Nicole Rucker’s wonderful baked items in your Instagram feed or flipped by her debut cookbook Dappled (a paean to fruity desserts). Now, she’s unveiling her follow-up Fats + Flour: The Artwork of a Easy Bake, which celebrates the alchemical magic that occurs when the 2 title substances collide. I, for one, cannot wait to recreate treats like lemon meringue chess pie, boozy banana snickerdoodles, and Abuelita milk chocolate brownies in my own residence. Rucker additionally imparts secrets and techniques like her signature “Chilly Butter Technique,” a “low-effort method for melding fats and flour that produces good cookies and the tenderest pie dough each time.” JB
(E book Larder, Fremont)
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The weekly public radio program The Splendid Desk has been an indispensable supply of culinary steerage and meals lore since its inception in 1997. I first fell in love with it when studying to cook dinner in my early twenties, and then-host Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s comforting voice was like a trusted good friend holding my hand within the kitchen. Now, the self-described “radio present for individuals who like to eat” is celebrating 30 years with this particular dwell taping. Present host and award-winning meals author Francis Lam will focus on all issues edible with a number of native visitors: Pancita chef/proprietor Janet Becerra, Musang chef/proprietor Melissa Miranda, Native Soul delicacies chef/proprietor Jeremy Thunderbird, Saint Bread proprietor Yasuaki Saito, Seattle Instances food and drinks author and Seattle Eats podcast host Tan Vinh, and Tahoma Peaks Options founder and Muckleshoot Indian Tribe member Valerie Segrest. JB
(KUOW Public Radio, Northeast Seattle)
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Claiming the title of a “modern-era Wanda Jackson,” Nikki Lane has been busy reformulating nation music along with her mix of old-school Americana, early rock ‘n’ roll, garage-pop, blues, soul, and trademark sass. She’s additionally one in every of Lana Del Rey’s shut buddies and collaborators (give Lana’s “Blue Banisters” a pay attention for a Nikki Lane namedrop). This present ought to ship tunes from her fourth album, Denim & Diamonds, after a gap set from nation singer-songwriter Cotton Clifton. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
VISUAL ART
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The Seattle Artwork Museum’s 2024–25 Constance W. Rice Fellow, Carina A. del Rosario, has exhibited extensively in public exhibitions and installations all through the state. (Possibly you have noticed one in every of her items at a bus cease, the Danny Woo Worldwide Backyard, or alongside the town’s Central Space Greenway.) Drop by the museum for this artwork exercise with del Rosario and you will be contributing to Lay Your Burden Down, her “participatory fellowship challenge.” The artist asks that members share a present burden on mulberry paper, then assist sew and embroider these burdens onto material. Better part? The textile paintings that you helped create might be put in at Seattle Asian Artwork Museum as soon as full. LC
(Seattle Asian Artwork Museum, Capitol Hill)
COMEDY
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How sturdy are your stoner-detection abilities? Pregame for an important marijuana-affiliated day o’ the yr with this recurring comedy occasion, by which a solid of improvisers creates scenes based mostly on tales knowledgeable by the viewers. This is the shtick: Half the gamers are excessive. Can you determine which of them smoked backstage? I will be on the lookout for purple eyes and simple laughers. LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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Kayla Brown and Dan Hurwitz, creators of the “award-eligible” mockumentary That is Spinal Harm, return to host this bimonthly showcase of native humorous of us with disabilities, which you may acknowledge from the large stage at Bumbershoot final summer time. The jokester troupe has been performing in and round Seattle since 2018, with a rotating solid every time. This version’s lineup hasn’t been introduced but, however count on sharp wit with a contemporary, inclusive twist. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill)
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David Lynch’s jazzy ’86 dreamscape stars display screen beauties Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan in an odd investigation that each one begins with the invention of a severed ear in an deserted area. This screening of Lynch’s masterwork Blue Velvet can pay tribute to the late director, who handed earlier this yr. For this screening, facilitator and SIFF programmer Dan Doody will journey to the “darkish undercurrents of suburbia.” (Know what you are in for, although: Impressed by Roger Ebert’s annual Cinema Interruptus sequence, attendees of Cinema Dissection are signing up for a scene-by-scene deconstruction of the featured flick.) LC
(SIFF Movie Middle, Uptown)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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As somebody who loves the Earth, cardio exercise, and being exterior, I merely can’t look ahead to this run in honor of Earth Day. (I even have an outdated pair of trainers to eliminate, which is ideal since organizers might be accumulating used kicks to ship to the nonprofit athletic shoe recycler MORE Basis Group.) After finishing a 5K, 10K, or 15K run, you possibly can pot a tree to take residence, or select to donate it to native nonprofits. There’s additionally a youngsters’ sprint so you can begin your younglings early on the trail to changing into tree huggers. SL
(Magnuson Park, Northeast Seattle)
EXHIBIT
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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 timber. It is good on your soul. Then, scuttle over to SHU 朱 – Scarlet, a collection 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 parts with conventional calligraphy.” I really feel calmer already. LC
(Seattle Japanese Backyard, Madison Park, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Positive, you have most likely heard the time period “Lynchian” roughly a thousand occasions, however how did David Lynch’s completely singular, idiosyncratic language translate for Otto Preminger or Robert Altman, for instance? The Beacon’s spring screenings of Lynch-inspired cinema makes an attempt to reply that query. Explorations of liminality, melodrama, absurdism, and the surreal take heart stage, with a screening of one in every of my all-time favorites (3 Girls) alongside Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf, Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Completed?, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor, and Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating. Principally, level your finger on the lineup and you will find one thing unbelievable. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Sunday)
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On the time of its launch, Alex Garland’s 2024 movie Civil Battle was A24’s most costly in-house manufacturing, following a bunch of military-embedded journos headed to DC “earlier than insurgent factions descend upon the White Home.” Garland’s work tends to thrive in dystopian settings, and Kirsten Dunst stars as a photojournalist, which is motive sufficient to observe. Should you’re a fan of the filmmaker behind Annihilation and Males, it is best to let this one marinate earlier than heading again to the theater for Warfare. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Monday & Wednesday)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a toddler, igniting an odd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies have been worshipped by nearly each director you understand—Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My advice? Reward your self just a few moments to hunt the metaphysical inside the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s sequence contains screenings of Summer time with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Persona, and private favourite Winter Gentle. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Sunday)
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The 2025 Academy Award winner for Greatest Documentary Characteristic follows the extended pressured demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Financial institution neighborhood whose houses Israel wished for goal apply. In No Different Land, Palestinian activist and Masafer Yatta neighborhood member Basel Adra documented the destruction for half a decade, constructing an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist alongside the best way. For a glimpse of Adra’s documentation apply, take a look at his Instagram, which shares footage of Israel’s damaging practices. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni’s newest is a black comedy launched by A24. On Changing into a Guinea Fowl follows Shula, who discovers her uncle’s physique and, later, her middle-class Zambian household’s shrouded secrets and techniques. I’ve heard the movie described with quite a lot of inviting adjectives–cathartic, unfussy, surreal, assured, good—however one succinct Letterboxd assessment maybe describes it finest: “An intriguing movie with an interesting depiction of an African funeral.” I will be seated. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Thursday–Sunday)
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Pleasure & Prejudice serves an important position in cinematic historical past: It is a key reminder that Tom Wambsgans from Succession is, in reality, smoldering and English. Lengthy earlier than Matthew Macfadyen uttered the phrases “ludicrously capacious bag,” he performed Mr. Darcy on this Austen adaptation reverse Keira Knightley. Within the phrases of 1 attractive commenter on the r/janeausten subreddit, “I’d lick Macfadyen off the plate even when I used to be supplied utensils.” For many who require convincing, this 40-second scene ending in a flexed hand is actually pornography. Get pleasure from! LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Friday & Sunday)
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Starring three of my absolute favourite messy queens (Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe), David Lynch’s lurid melodrama Wild at Coronary heart follows two outcast hotties who flee their hometown to pursue a torrid, surreal romance. What ensues is a sex-fueled street journey match for a cleaning soap opera, which looks like it would be fairly cool, till the grotesquely terrifying Bobby Peru reveals up and ruins the whole lot. Should you appreciated final yr’s Love Lies Bleeding, you’ll dig Wild at Coronary heart‘s avant-garde ambition and manic depth. Cue up Cage’s rendition of “Love Me Tender” to get within the temper for insanity. And it goes with out saying, however: RIP, David. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Tuesday–Wednesday)
GEEK & GAMING
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Sakura is the Japanese phrase for cherry blossom, however for a weekend in Seattle yearly, it represents one the most important anime conventions within the nation. Do not miss cosplay chess, voice actor appearances, a dwell efficiency from Japanese alt rock band Hitsujibungaku, and panels on subjects starting from furries to growing old in cosplay. Entrance to the three-day con requires a membership by the nonprofit Asia Northwest Cultural Schooling Affiliation, and grants you entry to the whole lot from the manga library to the mahjong room and masquerade ball. I am in awe of the oldsters posting their three-day cosplay lineups on socials; I can barely give you one Halloween costume. SL
(Seattle Conference Middle, Downtown, Friday–Sunday)
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The Arkestra performs the music of its namesake, legendary jazz pioneer Solar Ra, who introduced collectively large band, avant-garde, free jazz, and cosmic exploration and left behind a novel inventive legacy saved alive by 100-year-old Arkestra bandleader Marshall Allen. (Sure, he nonetheless performs!) Do not miss the otherworldly ensemble as they headline each nights of the Area Is The Place Fest (named after the Afrofuturist movie starring Solar Ra) alongside outsider music icon the Area Woman, Tacoma-born rave legend Donald Glaude, drum and bass wizard Slantooth, native experimental rock trio Diminished Males, and many extra. AV
(Naf Revival, Riverview, Friday–Saturday)
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Self-described “motion artist who works in persona,” Stranger Genius Award winner, and beloved Seattle drag-theater icon Cherdonna Shinatra isn’t one to be slept on. The dancer-slash-comedian-slash-chanteuse took the stage with the Bearded Women for final yr’s Threesome, and 2022’s Goodnight Cowboy delved into the parable of Western conquest, heroics, masculinity, and domination. This time round, Cherdonna will bless us with “run-on sentences, story derailments, and shock viewers presents,” so count on to be bombarded with love, generosity, and one thing a contact more unusual. LC
(Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, Capitol Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Should you dug Our Expensive Useless Drug Lord, Alexis Scheer’s Escobar-evoking fever dream set in 2008, you may recognize the playwright’s newest manufacturing. Whereas Drug Lord centered teen ladies summoning the ghost of a cartel kingpin, Laughs in Spanish heads south to Miami, the place a stressed-out gallerist grapples with stolen work, a confused intern, and a telenovela-worthy crush. Oh, and her mom’s on the town. Good luck, woman! LC
(Bagley Wright Theater, Uptown, Thursday–Saturday)
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Olivier Award-nominated actors Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner current this “unauthorized Harry expertise,” which crams all seven Harry Potter books right into a rapid-fire, uproarious 70-minute manufacturing. J. Ok. Rowling be damned—Potted Potter shrugs off TERFy bullshit to give attention to horcruxes, Hufflepuffs, and the whole lot that makes the fantasy sequence nice. LC
(Moore Theatre, Belltown, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Roméo et Juliette is a delicate reminder that typically, issues are widespread as a result of they’re good. Jean-Christophe Maillot’s pared-back, light-handed interpretation of the Shakespearean tragedy options Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers and a strong Prokofiev rating. One thing tells me it will not be something like my fifth-grade manufacturing, by which I, as Juliet, kicked up a fuss about holding Romeo’s hand. LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown, Thursday–Sunday)
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Maker-writer Ruth Marie Tomlinson’s intriguing course of includes mapping the trajectory of J. A. Baker’s The Peregrine (which is in print by the too-cool New York Evaluation Books–if you understand, you understand). Tomlinson “translated and reimagined” every web page, and over the following month, she’ll invite poets, storytellers, and artists to interact in conversations documented by artist-writer Molly Schaeffer. These public conversations will meditate on the “place between completely different inventive practices: poetry and cooking, music and writing, gardening and making.” View the works this week, then drop again in on April 26 for a chat with Yixuan Pan, Jane Wong, Shin Yu Pai, and D. A. Navoti. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, Monday–Sunday)
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For this set up of the Frye’s common Boren Banner sequence, photographer-artist Tarrah Krajnak will proceed her apply of “reshaping the boundaries of up to date images” with lush, difficult black-and-white compositions. (I am intrigued by this stark picture of Krajnak in entrance of a planetarium.) One of the best half in regards to the Frye’s Boren banners—billboard-sized works sited going through Boren Avenue—is that you could view the paintings anytime. Simply drive by or take a stroll to scope it out on the facade of the museum. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Wednesday–Sunday; opening)
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Native American glass artist Preston Singletary, who first discovered his signature glassblowing strategies over 30 years in the past, will current a brand new collection of his mystical works, which characteristic themes of transformation, animal spirits, and shamanism impressed by his Tlingit cultural heritage. Raven Is As Raven Does finds its footing in Singletary’s collaboration with bestselling creator Garth Stein. The pair retell historic raven myths: Singletary with daring colours and surprising kinds, Stein with a up to date perspective. LC
(Traver Gallery, North Queen Anne, Tuesday–Saturday)
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Keep up-to-date with current additions to the Henry’s sprawling 30,000-plus-piece everlasting assortment at this exhibition, which presents new work, sculptures, and works on paper that “discover concepts of house, time, and notion.” Cool! Shifting Floor: Latest Acquisitions within the Henry Assortment contains items by key up to date artists you will have heard of earlier than—Demian Dinéyazhi’, Mary Ann Peters, and Sarah Cain amongst them—and the newly acquired works characterize the Henry’s contemporary give attention to its entry gallery. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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Unusual Time traverses new terrain in timekeeping, dreaming up kinetic sculptures, arcade video games, and audio experiences that inform time in novel methods. Twelve artists are featured within the exhibition—together with Betsy Kenyon, Alex Miller, Tristan Huber, Zainab Aliyu, Kai Beck, and others—every of whom goals to “conceive of latest methods of being, freed from the inflexible construction imposed by the ticking clock.” I am focused on Melissa Winstanley and Max Cerami’s Flower Clock, by which a tactile array of synthetic flowers open and shut at particular occasions, “permitting one to inform the present time by which flowers are open.” LC
(SOIL, Pioneer Sq., Friday–Sunday)
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Cappy Thompson’s Pondering of Angels “put[s] ahead a common fact: What occurs subsequent is a thriller to us all.” So principally, do not go to this present except you are able to grapple with some large non secular 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 non secular and non secular references to “soak up narrative explorations into spirituality and the permeability between embodied life and what exists past.” Thompson’s folkloric illustrative model is superbly rendered on delicate glass kinds. LC
(studio e, Georgetown, Thursday–Saturday; closing)
