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Oakland-raised chef, Prime Chef alum, and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tu David Phu, government chef and managing companion on the Las Vegas restaurant District One, lower his culinary enamel working in a few of the nation’s most prestigious eating places, however he later realized that it was his Vietnamese refugee dad and mom who imparted an important classes, together with however not restricted to “frugality, food-covery cooking, and sensible gill-to-fin consuming.” His new e book The Reminiscence of Style: Vietnamese American Recipes from Phú Quoc, Oakland, and the Areas Between captures this resourceful, pragmatic spirit with childhood recollections, tales of his household’s life on Phú Quốc, beautiful images, and tips about every part from fish butchering to whipping up Dungeness crab donburi. He’ll be joined by native writer Susan Lieu, who wrote the heart-wrenching memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter. JB
(Guide Larder, Fremont)
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Debut writer and Cherry Blossom Sangha cofounder Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần, who immigrated to the US from Vietnam at 10, tracks the event of Buddhist follow in the US in Budding Lotus within the West. Buddhism generally capabilities as an enlightenment catch-all within the states, a practice that Westerners flip to in an open-ended quest for self-actualization. However what would the Buddha say about, like, abortion? Weapons? Gender equality? Trần’s vital examination gives each a crash course in key Buddhist ideas and a mosaic of her private experiences with the follow. LC
(Elliott Bay Guide Firm, Capitol Hill)
PERFORMANCE
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I am outing myself as a millennial once I admit that I look again fondly on Bobby Finger’s time as an everyday contributor at Jezebel. Fortunately, Finger continues to be humorous and is now one-half of the comedy pod Who? Weekly, alongside good friend and NYC freelancer Lindsey Weber. Collectively, they dutifully describe the hijinks of varied C-list celebs via deep dives, listener call-ins, and video games. Are you the audience for Who? Weekly? Here’s a take a look at. What number of of those names do you acknowledge: Grier Henchy, Sab Zada, Drew Starkey, Crispian Mills? In the event you stated one thing like “none,” and are actually desperately combating the urge to Google each, you must as an alternative head to this reside taping of the pod. LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
LIVE MUSIC
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I grew to become enamored of the Honduran American songwriter, musician, and producer Lorely Rodriguez, higher identified by her stage identify Empress Of, after seeing her open for Carly Rae Jepsen in 2023. Rodriguez took her stage identify from the Empress tarot card, representing the divine female, and it is not exhausting to see why—she channeled pure sensuality and energy as she commanded the viewers’s consideration, gyrating to horny bangers like “Save Me” and “Wild Woman.” On her newest launch, the bilingual album For Your Consideration, she deftly performs with energy dynamics inside love, intercourse, and the leisure business and has enjoyable doing it. The “Jolene” tribute “Lorelei” casts her as a home-wrecking femme fatale, whereas the one “Femenine” expresses her want for a subservient man: “Sabes que yo soy tu daddy,” she purrs. JB
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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Faye Webster’s star has been steadily shining since her 2013 debut Run and Inform was launched when she was simply sixteen years previous. But it surely wasn’t till her 2021 album, I Know I am Humorous haha, that issues actually started to take off. Severely, “In A Good Method” has almost 50 million streams on Spotify. The album mixes gentle R&B with a country-folk twang whereas using her whispery gentle vocal high quality to ship cheeky lyrics about basketball, falling in love, grasping landlords, and proudly owning your humorousness. Webster will play songs from her extremely anticipated follow-up album, Underdressed on the Symphony, alongside Japanese indie pop artist Mei Ehara. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
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One among my largest regrets is lacking Prince’s intimate set on the Showbox in 2013. As a senior in highschool, I could not scrounge up sufficient babysitting cash for the $75 ticket. Evidently, that ended up being my final alternative to see the icon carry out reside. I am not saying that Jack White is wherever close to Prince when it comes to potential regret-ablility. However whatever the performer, it is a uncommon deal with to see an arena-touring artist at a standing-room-only venue. Relish within the alternative to see the garage-rock revivalist, real-life vampire, Third Man Information founder, and half of the White Stripes as he swings via Seattle for an impromptu live performance. AV
(The Showbox, Downtown)
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The celesbian indie pop twin sister duo Tegan & Sara’s new middle-grade graphic novel Crush, a follow-up to the earlier installment Junior Excessive, is created in collaboration with queer cartoonist celebrity Tillie Walden and offers with the agony and ecstasy of adolescence, together with crushes, puberty, popping out, sisterhood, music, and friendship. The autobiographical collection, set within the current day, is “frivolously fictionalized” however attracts on the Canadian siblings’ actual experiences. As a fan of the sisters’ poignant coming-of-age memoir Excessive Faculty and its Amazon Freevee TV adaptation of the identical identify, I can not let you know how a lot a e book like this could have meant to me as a tween, and I am so comfortable for the Gen Alpha youngsters who get to develop up with this sort of media. Cease by Washington Corridor to see Tegan and Sara communicate on every part from first likes to songwriting. JB
(Washington Corridor, Squire Park)
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Philly-raised musician Santigold is thought for her genre-defying sound that blends digital, new wave, indie rock, reggae, and hip-hop components. She’s going to cease by in help of her 2022 album, Spirituals. Describing the album as a “celebration of human resilience,” the title is a nod to conventional Black spirituals. “These contained songs that when sung and carried out acquired Black folks via the “un-get-through-able” she informed Rolling Stone. “That’s what this report did for me.” AV
(Showbox SoDo, SoDo)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Kraken hockey is again, child! There’ve been some participant additions and staffing adjustments (a brand new head coach and the NHL’s first lady assistant coach) within the low season, so we’re to see what this season will deliver. Head to this preseason sport in opposition to the Edmonton Oilers to get you hyped for the primary at-home common season sport on October 8. If you do not have a ticket to a sport at Local weather Pledge, you possibly can all the time head to certainly one of these bars to look at. SL
(Local weather Pledge Area, Uptown)
COMEDY
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Calling all trans, bi, sapphic, homosexual, butch, femme, pan, enby, and ally of us! This recurring evening of stand-up pulls from the properly of Seattle’s most interesting queer comedians, and it is grown to change into one of many metropolis’s buzziest showcases. This time round, FLOCK! will head to Capitol Hill’s latest comedy hang-out, so head there to squawk together with the very best of ’em. LC
(Comedy/Bar, Capitol Hill)
LIVE MUSIC
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Even in case you haven’t heard indie rock luminary Sarah Tudzin’s identify, you’ve most likely heard her work. She’s an in-demand producer, mixer, audio engineer, and, since 2018, performer beneath the stage identify Illuminati Hotties. However her meteoric rise within the business began three years in the past. In 2021, she launched her third album, Let Me Do One Extra, on her personal Hopeless Information imprint, to vital acclaim. Then she labored on boygenius’ the report and Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising—arguably two of probably the most beautiful-sounding information of the final decade—and earlier this 12 months, she gained her first Grammy for her work with boygenius. It looks like her expertise is lastly on full show, and her knack for sonic perfection is obvious on her fourth launch, POWER, which she described as “all rippers” and “no filler.” She’s going to help the album alongside fellow rock artists Maddie Ross and Daffo. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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Are you within the temper to see a residing legend? Not solely has Smokey Robinson thrived as each a solo performer and with Motown vocal group the Miracles, however he has additionally written numerous American requirements, like “My Woman,” “Tracks Of My Tears,” “My Man,” “You’ve got Actually Obtained A Maintain On Me,” and actually a whole bunch of others. And, maybe most notably, he’s my cat’s favourite singer. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
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Weezer is aware of. Regardless of the huge success the band has seen because the launch of their 1994 self-titled debut, Rivers Cuomo and firm are completely conscious that, in some followers’ eyes, they’ll by no means really prime what has come to be known as the Blue Album. With the explosive opening 15 seconds of “My Identify is Jonas,” the cheeky “Undone — The Sweater Music,” and the heartwrenched “Solely in Desires,” it’s iconic. (And it has aged higher than Pinkerton—nonetheless love you, although, Pinkerton!) To have fun the thirtieth anniversary of the Blue Album, the band is heading out on a US tour, Voyage to the Blue Planet, the place they’ll play the report from begin to end. To spherical out the alt-radio rock circa 1995 soundtrack of the night, the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. open the present. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Local weather Pledge Area, Uptown)
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Jerry Seinfeld is a corny asshole and a tacit supporter of the Israeli authorities. I do not fuck with that man. Sadly, his sitcom did one thing miraculously proper. Each time I see an episode, I am stunned that it nonetheless holds up. And so far as Jerry goes, I am extra of a George-Elaine hybrid, anyway. I haven’t got to let you know this, although. Co-creator Larry David is the ill-tempered man behind the present about nothing, in addition to Curb Your Enthusiasm, which led to April after 12 seasons. Apart from all of the widespread lore about David, a few of the most intriguing insights into his persona come from a 2012 episode of Comedians in Vehicles Getting Espresso known as “Larry Eats a Pancake.” In it, he orders an natural tea (not espresso), puzzles over a pancake, and studies that two items of pizza are his concept of “uncontrolled.” LC
(Benaroya Corridor, Downtown)
COMEDY
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Someplace down the road, PowerPoint went from being a sensible, if boring, presentation program to a catalyst for very humorous home events and on-stage nonsense. Biologist-comedian Tim X Lee is on the entrance of the pack so far as “artistic makes use of of PowerPoint” go. Mixing satire, science schooling, and the Microsoft program, his slides purpose for a mix of mental backing and hilarity. In different phrases, you may get drunk at this present and inform everybody you spent the evening learning. LC
(Rendezvous, Belltown)
LIVE MUSIC
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I noticed PJ Harvey again in 2016 whereas she was supporting her ninth album, The Hope Six Demolition Undertaking. At first, I used to be dissatisfied to not hear decades-old tracks from Dry, Rid Of Me, and To Convey You My Love. However, reflecting on the expertise, I extremely respect her prioritization of recent materials and willingness to maintain evolving. I did not comprehend it on the time, however her new music is nice. Harvey’s newest album, I Inside The Previous 12 months Dying, is hushed and ethereal, highlighting her attractive falsetto vocals. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
EXHIBIT
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Seattleites of a sure age who make jokes about Ballard residents driving round with their seatbelts hanging out from beneath closed automotive doorways shall be very stoked for the Museum of Historical past and Trade’s latest exhibit. Virtually Reside! (Virtually an Exhibit) is a group of props, costumes, and clips from the weekly sketch comedy present that outlined—and poked enjoyable at—the Pacific Northwest area from 1984 to 1999. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(MOHAI, South Lake Union, Monday–Sunday)
FALL
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Although pumpkin beer is a decidedly divisive beverage, Elysian Brewing Firm’s annual squash-themed competition continues to attract followers, celebrating 20 years this October. The good pumpkin in query—a big gourd weighing in at a number of hundred kilos—is scooped out, scorched, full of pumpkin beer, sealed, conditioned, and tapped on the occasion. What’s extra, over 80 pumpkin beers, together with round 20 from Elysian, shall be poured. All proceeds profit the all-ages programming on the Vera Undertaking. JB
(Seattle Middle, Uptown, Friday–Saturday)
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Washington’s personal Bavarian-styled village hosts three weekends of Oktoberfest enjoyable, full of conventional foods and drinks, music and dance performances throughout three levels, and a kinderplatz (aka youngsters’ zone) full with a 62-foot ferris wheel. Quench your thirst with imported German beer and wine and satiate your starvation with bratwurst—there’s even non-alcoholic, vegan, and gluten-free choices. Every Saturday begins with a polka band-led festzug march via city, and keg tappings are held day by day. Prost! SL
(Leavenworth, Friday–Saturday)
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This three-day, Munich-inspired Oktoberfest celebration boasts German-style meals, steinfuls of beer, and reside leisure, together with conventional music and dance performances alongside ’80s cowl bands. Festivities embrace the “Bavarian Bier-lympics,” a “sports activities haus,” and a hammerschlagen event, the place of us compete to throw a hammer within the air, catch it, and drive a nail right into a stump. There’s a whole day targeted on the dog-variety of wieners, together with a trivia problem, longest wiener contest, peanut butter lick contest, and the favored wiener canine races. Households can benefit from the Stein Sprint 5K, a root beer backyard, pumpkin adorning, and extra till 6 pm when the occasion goes 21-and-up. SL
(Washington State Honest Occasions Middle, Puyallup, Friday–Sunday)
FESTIVALS
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Bainbridge Island’s inaugural e book competition gives all the everyday components you’d count on from an occasion of its variety—readings, panels, writer signings, Q&A periods–with the bonus of a scenic day journey to Bainbridge Island. (Possibly you will spy some autumnal foliage. Image it now: Latte in hand, signed books, crunchy leaves. You are welcome.) Anyway, Friday’s ticketed launch occasion will have fun novelist Nicola Yoon’s One among Our Sort, however Saturday’s occasions are free, with much-loved authors like Sloane Crosley, Sonora Jha, Neely Tubati-Alexander, Jonathan Evison, Michela Tartaglia, Jon Mooallem, and Chelsea Bieker in dialog. LC
(Bainbridge Island, Friday–Saturday)
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Do you know Seattle and Reykjavik are sister cities? In actual fact, Seattle is residence to extra Icelandic folks than wherever else in the US. To have fun Iceland’s tradition, Seattle hosts an annual Style of Iceland competition full of frosty festivities. This 12 months, 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. Do not forget to spin the Icelandair prize wheel; you would win a visit to Iceland! SL
(Numerous places, Thursday–Saturday)
FILM
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The Beacon’s newest movie collection is a strong method to interact in some not-so-subtle nihilism. Towards Civilization’s flicks emphasize a quote by anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan: “As our plight deepens, we glimpse how a lot have to be erased for our redemption.” Whew. On September 27, the collection will proceed with The Final Wave, directed by Australian New Wave dreamer Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock) and described as “half homicide thriller, half apocalyptic nightmare.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Tuesday)
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October rolls round, and immediately, everybody needs to look at vampires, ghosts, and cannibals get their freak on. Typical!!! In the event you’re additionally feeling the sudden urge to emphasize your self out with Cronenberg and Murnau, All Monsters Assault! has your again. The collection 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 Crimson Loss of life, 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, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest premiered an all-new lineup of horny movies that includes all genders and orientations earlier this 12 months. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, artistic, and kinky movies to the massive display screen—and since this 12 months’s fest options not one however two feature-length lineups, you possibly can scope out the sex-positive fest but once more for a tantalizing deal with. Half two consists of 25 brand-spanking-new feasts to your eyeballs, together with “smokin’ sizzling paranormal encounters, a mind-bending house carnival, spine-tingling ASMR, [and] all of the thermal eye sweet you possibly can eat.” It is price a enterprise outdoors of your intercourse dungeon, however you possibly can nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. LC
(On the Boards, Uptown, Thursday–Saturday)
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Bodily media experts Scarecrow Video, town’s personal nonprofit video archive and resident specialists on all issues cinematic, are celebrating Halloween all month lengthy at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. (Horror flicks are “each video retailer clerk’s favourite style,” says SIFF, and I am inclined to imagine it.) Present Scarecrow some love by testing the flicks they’ve curated for the collection. The choice is strong, with a spread of acquainted freakshows and barely screened deeper cuts. Scarecrowber will ooze to life with George Franju’s Eyes And not using a Face, the ’71 creep fest Let’s Scare Jessica to Loss of life, Dario Argento’s Opera,The Strangers (the ’08 unique, which is definitely terrifying), and different scares. LC
(SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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This 12 months’s Seattle Latino Movie Competition closes out Nationwide Hispanic Heritage Month with important cross-cultural views from 21 Hispanic and romance language-speaking nations. Venues city-wide will host screenings for the competition’s sixteenth annual version; I am stoked for the opening evening screening of The Shadow of the Solar, which “addresses themes related to the deaf group, marking a particular tribute to inclusivity and illustration,” and a slate of Iberoamerican brief movies screening on the Beacon. LC
(Numerous places, Friday–Saturday)
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Maybe certainly one of my most “properly, duh” opinions is that The Shining is fucking superior. The e book, in fact, but additionally Stanley Kubrick’s slow-burn masterpiece, even when Stephen King hates it. The flick’s spine-chilling setting, replete with lonely halls and snowy mazes, owes a hefty quantity of its dramatic impact to the Pacific Northwest, too—it options the long-lasting exterior of the Timberline Lodge. Additionally, in case you want extra convincing, the lately handed scream queen Shelley Duvall graces the display screen, whether or not or not Nicholson and Kubrick actually deserved her. All work and no play makes anybody a boring boy, so test into Room 237 (aka SIFF Cinema Downtown) for this contemporary 4K restoration. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–Wednesday)
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Celebrating all issues documentary once more this 12 months, SIFF’s DocFest consists of screenings of current competition faves just like the Berlin Movie Competition’s 2024 Golden Bear Winner Dahomey. There is a lot to like about this 12 months’s competition lineup. I am jazzed for Yintah, a “riveting thriller recounting an Indigenous nation’s battle 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, during which a 13-year-old aspiring journalist “investigates his father’s mysterious homicide inside certainly one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies,” and Wilding, primarily based solely upon this photograph of just a little piglet. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Thursday–Sunday)
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
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Hispanic Heritage Month runs from mid-September to mid-October, a interval throughout which many Latin American nations have fun their nationwide independence days. MEXAM NW Competition is an exhilarating multi-event, multi-venue competition curated by the Consulate of Mexico in Seattle that showcases the vibrancy of Hispanic and Mexican American tradition. The competition concludes in mid-October with a Día de los Muertos live performance. Count on tons of Latin American meals, mariachi bands, people dancing, arts and craft markets, and group pleasure. SL
(Numerous places, Thursday–Sunday)
LIVE MUSIC
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Final 12 months, 73-year-old blues rock legend Bonnie Raitt gained the coveted Grammy for Music of the 12 months, beating out pop radio heavies like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Harry Types, Lizzo, and Adele—and for good motive! Though a few of her hottest songs weren’t penned by her (“Angel From Montgomery” and “One thing to Discuss About”), Raitt’s albums have included unique music because the begin—my favourite being “Thank You” off her 1971 debut. After an extended profession of her coated materials taking heart stage, it was wonderful to see Raitt’s songwriting skills lastly get the popularity they deserve. She’s going to help the award-winning album Simply Like That… for 2 consecutive nights on the Paramount alongside blue-eyed soul maven James Hunter. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown, Friday–Saturday)
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Rajiv Joseph’s Obie Award-winning play follows two Imperial Guards in Seventeenth-century India, the place from their morning put up, they gaze upon the newly accomplished Taj Mahal. Okay, simply pause for a second and picture that. This is a picture in case you need assistance. Obtained it? Now meet me again right here. The narrative grows sophisticated when the pair are ordered to carry out an “unthinkable job”—per the New York Instances evaluation of the manufacturing, Guards on the Taj “raises potent questions in regards to the human value paid all through historical past.” LC
(ArtsWest, Junction, Monday–Sunday)
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I do know what I like, and what I like is musical theater primarily based on legendary homicide mysteries. This one’s so well-known there is a devilish youngsters’s tune named after it. Lizzie Borden was placed on trial (and acquitted—she was Teflon Don within the courtroom, I assume) for taking an axe to her mom and father in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. LIZZIE explores the heated days main as much as and following the murders with a “guitar-driven rock rating,” “faux blood and gore,” and sufficient “implied sexual abuse/incest” to warrant a set off warning. Proceeds from the manufacturing profit Authorized Voice, which works in Pacific Northwest courtrooms, legislatures, and communities to “create and implement robust, equitable legal guidelines and empower folks to know their rights.” LC
(Broadway Efficiency Corridor, Capitol Hill, Friday–Saturday)
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Envisioned because the “starting of an arts hub by and centering Black and Indigenous disabled artists to current, collaborate, and get uplifted for his or her crafts,” the Mouthwater Competition espouses values we are able to get behind, anticapitalism and antifascism amongst them. The fest brings collectively artists with disabilities from throughout the nation for solidarity, community-building, and over a dozen artsy occasions. I am wanting ahead to Vanessa Hernández Cruz’s experimental piece Soul Seeker and the Mouthwater Cabaret, that includes performances by India Harville, Saira Barbaric, Mx. Pucks A’Loads, and others. LC
(Numerous places, Monday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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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 pulls from her nuanced views as a Black-Korean immigrant, will change into greater 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 robust, liminal state of being.” LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Monday–Sunday; closing)
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Charles Peterson’s images of Seattle’s music scene via the late ’80s and early ’90s have lengthy been celebrated as jarring and charming snapshots from one of many Pacific Northwest’s most pivotal eras in trendy historical past. However Peterson’s work is about a lot greater than being in the best place on the proper time. He’s a fucking nice photographer! And this fall, the Tacoma Artwork Museum has curated his work, not simply as important music historical past however because the artistic endeavors they really are. The present may even function work from artists Sylvia Plachy, Nicholas Galanin, Jeffry Mitchell, and Peterson’s photographer professor, Paul Berger, to “draw out visible and contextual nuances of Peterson’s images.” Intriguing. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Tacoma Artwork Museum, Tacoma, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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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 every single day that one can view a Yoko Ono work at a boutique workplace constructing, so cease by to meditate on our ever-shifting ecological net, vanishing species, and the erosion of our collective reminiscence. LC
(ninth and Thomas, South Lake Union, Monday–Sunday)
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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 approach displays the unpredictability of id, resisting pressured assimilation with every bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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Centering artists with “deep connections” to the Pacific Northwest, the Frye’s newest exhibition options born-and-raised Portlanders, Seattle transplants, and others who’ve formed the creative scene in our neck of the woods. I am excited to listen to that private fave Ellen Lesperance’s work knowledgeable by knitting patterns are a part of the combination, in addition to Margie Livingston’s “paint objects,” Natalie Ball’s assemblages, Olympia-born group Tracy + the Plastics’ digital video, and different multimedia works. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, 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” via a mix of sculpture and set up artwork. Too A lot to Carry feels spare and pensive, but materially well-considered; I am focused on Coss’ tangled steel types positioned alongside Mehrabian’s curious steel storage shelving models and wire baskets. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, Thursday–Saturday; closing)
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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—suppose glassblowers, video makers, and collage creators. In what you deliver to the desk, a dozen artists will dish out items that discover how meals intersects with our “primary wants, relationships, recollections, and societal expectations.” Imagined as a communal visible feast, the present consists of interactive works, together with a closing potluck on October 5. LC
(Slip Gallery, Belltown, Thursday–Saturday; closing)
