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TUESDAY
ARTTatiana Garmendia
This new exhibit by interdisciplinary artist Tatiana Garmendia will explore issues related to homelessness. In 2013, Jen Graves wrote: "Tatiana Garmendia has made some of the most gorgeous things. The main subjects of the exhibition are her erotic drawings that are burned into paper, not drawn on, using a tool that's like a pen, but on fire. She paints between the burn lines in pastel watercolor, in a process she describes as cooling the heat of the burns. You can almost hear sizzling."
Nancy Pearl: George and Lizzie
Seattle's most famous librarian (and action figure!) Nancy Pearl will share her debut novel. Author Katherine Heiny (who visited Elliott Bay in June) writes that Nancy Pearl "understands the desperate, confused, needy heart that beats under the surface of even the most dysfunctional of relationships, and exposes it with wit and genuine love."
Salon of Shame
Writing that makes you cringe ("middle school diaries, high school poetry, unsent letters") is read aloud with unapologetic hilarity at this Salon of Shame. Every show sells out extremely quickly, but if you canât get tickets, show up at 7 pm on the night of the show to get on the waitlistâcash only. The organizers say you have a great chance of getting in if you do so.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
FILM70mm Film Festival
Put down your phone and surrender to the splendor of actually-epic-scale cinema in the cathedral that is the Cinerama. Not much unites the films in this 10-day festival other than a commitment to MAGNITUDE, but several are essential viewing. I know youâve heard it before, but Iâll say it again: Seeing a film in a darkened theater with strangers is a secular sacrament. The fact that you can't pause, talk, text, or tweet until it's over is a feature. Please enjoy it while it's still available. (And if you must pick one, the answer is always Lawrence of Arabiaâa film that couldnât be more timely.) SEAN NELSON
TUESDAY-SUNDAY
Dragon Lady
Sara Porkalob has been completely overhauling this show about her badass Filipino gangster grandma for a couple years. It began as a solo show at the Fringe Festival, morphed into a more refined solo show at Theater Off Jackson, transformed into a dinner theater musical at Cafe Nordo, and is now a full-fledged musical with a live band and a tighter book. If you have yet to check out any of Dragon Lady's many iterations, this is the one to see. Intiman artistic director Andrew Russell, who is leaving us soon, will direct. RICH SMITH
No show on Thursday.
WEDNESDAY
COMMUNITYArtAche Market Presents: Lilac
ArtAche Market, known for its creative-vendors-converge-with-local-DJs set-up, will return to present a free live music and art market show with a headlining set by ambient electro-pop wind nymph Lilac, and support by Qoqo Roboqs, Magical Trash, Idol Eyes, DJ Explorateur, and DJ Marzelisa.
Better Than Chocolate
The First Wednesday Queer Film Series presents the sexiest film about coming out to your mom ever made. Better Than Chocolate follows a lesbian couple, the mother and brother of one of the lovers, a trans woman considering gender reassignment surgery, and a lesbian bookstore owner on their paths toward love and acceptance.
My Family's Slave
Alex Tizon's posthumously published June 2017 Atlantic article, "My Family's Slave," shocked readers with an account of the woman tricked into lifelong servitude to his family. Tizon's sister, Ling Tizon Quillen, and widow, Melissa Tizon, will discuss the story, with moderation by journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
PERFORMANCEBase Occasional
This is Base's first showcase of original choreographyâsee new dance works by Heather Kravas, Maureen Whiting, and Base co-founders Dayna Hanson and Peggy Piacenza.
WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY
ARTElectric Coffin: Future Machine
Known for their almost painfully ĂŒber-hip and high-concept interior-design work that elevates hand-drawn, street-art-inspired murals and Pacific Northwest kitsch to a new level in office spaces and restaurants around the city, Future Machine at Bellevue Arts Museum is Seattle creative design studio Electric Coffinâs first foray into the realm of fine art in a museum. Future Machine is an evolving installation that will unfold over seven months of collaborations with artists, industry leaders, technology innovators, nonprofits, and other âcreatives.â The installationâs transformational phases will loosely follow the process of an idea materializing into reality to create ânew forms, and functions, and technologiesâ that embody their vision of the future. If that sounds a little ambiguous, it is, but itâs probably worth checking out to see how the installation grows and changes in this time span. AMBER CORTES
This exhibit closes Sunday.
Kraft Duntz featuring Dawn Cerny: Fun. No Fun.
For Fun. No Fun, 2015 Genius Award nominee Dawn Cerny and artist/architectural team Kraft Duntz (i.e. David Lipe, Matt Sellars, and Dan Webb) filled the Henry's open lower level gallery with a maze-like structure of staircases, walkways and elevated platforms. It's a playful installation that toys with themes of expectation and disappointment as it simultaneously delights and confounds. EMILY POTHAST
This exhibit closes Sunday.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
I am happy to report that the show is just as spectacular as everyone's Instagram makes it out to be. I'm also happy to report that it's infinitely more thoughtful, infinitely more nuanced, and infinitely more infinite than I thought possible. Mika Yoshitake fittingly arranges Kusama's works into a narrative and aesthetic loop. When you first walk into the gallery, you see a lot of Kusama's bright, new abstract paintings and sculpture. Then you walk into the room full of all the infinity mirror installations and the chairs covered in soft sculptures that look like yams. Then you walk into The Obliteration Room, where attendants hand you some polka dot stickers to stick all over a white room. You end where Kusuma began in the 1950s: with a bunch of eery, surreal polka dotty / stripy paintings. The effect of seeing all that bright artwork, of course, is that everyone turns into a giggling, bubbly, excitable child. But there's plenty of darkness in Kusama's work, too. RICH SMITH
This exhibit closes Sunday.
Blues for Mister Charlie
A black musician is killed by a white man with a history of violence in a small Southern town. James Baldwin's play dramatizes the consequences, in which the white man's wife, a black minister, and a local newspaperman struggle with the truthâand tell lies. Presented by The Williams Project, and performed this week at the Emerald City Bible Fellowship.
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a sweet, musical romp through the Bavarian Alps that offers wise nuns, charming children, elegant dancing, and an (almost) lovable Nazi.
The Who & the What
Ayad Akhtar is best known for his celebrated and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced (2012), which explored Muslim identity and Islamophobia through an animated conversation at a four-person dinner party. ArtsWest will open their season with Akhtar's 2014 play The Who & the What, which again investigates elements of Muslim identity while also examining gender roles and familial expectations. Akhtar's writing is full of drama and humor, and this play features dating woes, family strife, and a controversial book about the prophet Muhammad.
THURSDAY
ARTPrize Inside the Box: New Work by Tara Thomas
Have you seen people wearing that "This Bitch Face Does Not Rest" T-shirt? Have you heard people talking about the nacho cheese fountain that burbled gorgeously and grossly in a faux Taco Bell for one night only at the Factory? Or did you at least catch the February 2017 cover of City Arts magazine that featured a woman who looked like a young Liza Minnelli completely covered in gold sparkles? If so, you've only seen glimpses of Mary Anne Carter's genius. This week, she and her "producer/enabler" Adj McColl are focusing all their powers into a brand-new collaborative art space and gallery in the Tashiro Kaplan building called Party Hat. The cool thing about this studio: Carter and McColl collaborate with each artist they show in order to make a limited-edition, reasonably priced product for sale. After a few months, the Jesus Mary Anne Joseph store, which is housed within Party Hat, will be brimming with T-shirts and pins and bags designed by local artists. The other cool thing about this studio: They're taking humor seriously. For evidence of this, look no further than their inaugural show with Tara Thomas, Prize Inside the Box, which is about her three-year relationship with Franzia. There will be new paintings from Thomas and several boxes of the titular wine. RICH SMITH
Thin Skin Fundraiser ft. Charles Mudede, Ahamefule J. Oluo, and Lindy West
Ahamefule J. Oluo's one-man show Now I'm Fine was a sell-out smash hit in SeattleâBrendan Kiley called it "triumphant," praising the enthralling soundtrack played by 16 musicians, dark and deftly handled subject matter, and jokes that lifted and sustained the grim narrative. Later, the show was performed in New York, and Ben Brantley at The New York Times wrote that Oluo expanded the format of stand-up autobiography "to dizzying proportions." Now Oluo, author and journalist Lindy West, and our own film editor Charles Mudede (Police Beat and Zoo, among others) are working on a new movie loosely inspired by Now I'm Fine. They've got a list of incredible collaborators including comedian Hari Kondabolu and Stranger Genius Zia Mohajerjasbi. And at this event, Mudede, Olou, and West will share short clips from the upcoming film and lead a discussion about the project. The event is free, but consider making a donationâthey're hoping to raise $100,000 this summer through grassroots fundraising efforts.
500 Women Scientists: Dealing with Controversy
Join the 500 Seattle Women Scientists to "learn how to be more effective when discussing charged scientific topics." Joy DeLyria, the Interpretative Programs Supervisor at the Pacific Science Center, will present.
Daniel Handler with Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie decided to cancel his tour and most public appearances for the year, but the news so far is that he's planning to attend tonight. And Daniel Handler will certainly be there! He's dropping the Lemony Snicket pen name and returning to his more realistic, troubling, Philip Roth-y treatment of the dark lives of juveniles with a new slim novel called All the Dirty Parts. It's about a porn-obsessed high schooler named Cole who constantly thinks about having sex. Like the young protagonists in Roth's Portnoy's Complaint or J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Cole's newly increased testosterone levels apparently give him license to push the legal boundaries of sexual and social behavior. If you don't get enough of the president's unrestrained id throughout the week, try a romp through this dirtyâand ultimately very lonelyâteenager's mind. You'll probably laugh as much as you cringe with this one. RICH SMITH
A Place to Call Home: Jane Wong, Michelle Peñaloza, and Tessa Hulls
Friends and collaborators Michelle Peñaloza, Jane Wong (both poets), and Tessa Hulls (a mixed-media artist), will share their work centered around themes of home and belonging as Asian American daughters of immigrants.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
ARTJohn Criscitello: In Code
John Criscitello is well known around Capitol Hill for his public art about anti-gentrification featuring "Woo Girls" and homophobic Amazon bros. This new show features "rock stars, reimagined album covers, and printed garments," communicating "gay identity and the fragile architecture of masculinity" through traditional media, video, and installation.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY
ARTChris Engman and Dan Webb
Greg Kucera is the gold standard for established Seattle galleries, and Chris Engman and Dan Webb are two of the most sophisticated artists currently working in the Pacific Northwest. Engman takes photographs that combine built environments with landscapes in ways that dare you to figure out how they were created. These spaces are illusory yet functional; mysterious yet matter-of-fact. Webb is a master woodcarver who creates figures so real they might seem to leap out of the block, if they weren't also tethered by forces outside their control. Together, these artists marry natural environments and forms with artifice in a way that transcends both. EMILY POTHAST
Leiko Ikemura and Alwyn O'Brien
In 2012, Jen Graves wrote, "Alwyn OâBrienâs ceramics are the smartest to come out of the UWâs great program in the last few years, and the sexiest, too. Theyâre like patches of weeds embedded with video feeds. In that tangle of porcelain you might find a mysterious photograph of a blindfolded crowd in a meadow, say. All you know for sure is that you will follow these curving transports." See pieces by O'Brien alongside a variety of haunting, shadowy, and symbolic works (including paintings and ceramics) by Leiko Ikemura.
Sofie Knijff
Based in Amsterdam, Dutch-Belgian photographer Sofie Knijff mixes documentary techniques with staged settings and costumes to create dreamlike images in which the real and fictional become difficult to distinguish. Drawing on her background as a theatrical peformer, Knijff crafts dramatized simulacra that reveal unseen truths behind what is seenârealities that can be felt or intuited are illustrated as though they are real. This fascination with identity, performance, and theatricality suggests questions as to the ultimate nature of self. Who are we, and how did we become that way? What aspects of identity are a mask, and what is the truth behind them? EMILY POTHAST
Unarmed
Demian DinéYazhi, an indigenous Diné (Navajo) transdisciplinary artist from Portland Oregon, is the winner of the 2017 Brink Award. As a guest curator for September at Bridge Productions, DinéYazi has brought together the work of photographer Kali Spitzer, ceramicist and sculptor Lia Greisser, and photo, video, and performance artist Nika Kaiser. The work of these three young artists seems married by an interest in effusive form that revels in its own embodiment. The title implies vulnerability, the most difficult thing to cultivate in times of violence and uncertainty. I can't wait to see how these artists fill the space. EMILY POTHAST
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
PERFORMANCEThe Tempest
The Fern Shakespeare Company tackles Shakespeare's sorta trippy tale of a powerful duke-magician, his slaves (an air spirit and a bitter native), his hot daughter, and their plot to regain the dukedom of Milanâdespite being isolated on an island. See the play that launched a million papers on post-colonialism.
Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike
Lamplight Productions presents the 2013 Tony Award-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a Chekhov-inspired (but timely!) family quibble.
FRIDAY
FOOD & DRINKSolid Ground Farm to Table Dinner
I realize this event is pricey, but you get a lot of good stuff. This four-course feast is held at Solid Groundâs Marra Farm in South Park, the cityâs only working farm, and cooked by chef Shawn Applin of Outlier. Outlier is amazing, and Iâm already impressed with what Applin can do with vegetables, so I definitely support anything that has him cooking at a farm where they grow awesome organic vegetables. For your ticket price, which includes wine pairings, you also get a vigorous discussion of food justice, which is a way more important subject than you probably think. Food is one of the most basic pillars of health, health is one of the most basic pillars of personal economic stability, and poor people in this country are systematically denied access to healthy food. Lots of seemingly unrelated societal issues stem from food, basically. South Park, still one of the cityâs poorest neighborhoods, is a fitting setting for this discussion, as the only produce available since the Mexican grocery closed is a few sad limes and onions held in a tiny beverage cooler at the convenience store. Marra Farm uses the 15,000 pounds of produce it produces annually to feed the communityâs neediest residents and also offers free classes on how to grow your own. Marra Farm deserves your money. TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE
Rainbow Bingo Sports-A-Palooza
It's a week heavy with queer fundraisersâsome quite worthy, others perhaps not everyone's cup of tea. If you can't pony up $2,750 for a table at the HRC gala, head on down to the Southeast Seattle Senior Center for a rootin' and tootin' fundraiser open to anyone with a couple bucks to chip in for local elders. Sylvia O'Stayformore and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be shaking a leg alongside the Black N Blue Band, and you'll get a chance to win fabulous prizes in a series of 12 bingo games. Enjoy some beer, wine, and Jell-O shots knowing your money will help make a real impact in the community. MATT BAUME
The Construction Zone
This edition of the Construction Zone is a month-long workshop curated by eSe Teatro, where you have the chance to see new work by contemporary Latino playwrights. Plus, you'll get a preview of what's coming up next at ACT, because one play from the series will be featured in ACTLab and eSe Teatro's 2018 season. This week's work is Tanya Saracho's Hushabye.
Myriad of Myths
Mythological beings (embodied by Hot Fawking Productions and Apollo's Vision members) from "Puck to Morrighan" will cavort and prance in a feminist burlesque show benefiting Mercy Stackhouse, HFP's queer choreographer, as he deals with transitioning.
Ann Powers: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
Influential music writer Ann Powers (currently a critic and correspondent for NPR, and former senior curator at what we used to call the Experience Music Project) will share her new book about the history of American music as well as the erotic and politically-transformative nature of pop: Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music.
Felice Picano and Eric Andrews-Katz
Celebrate two new titles at this release party: Felice Picano's collected memoirs True Stories, and Eric Andrews-Katz's modern but mythology-inspired Tartarus.
Rowan Buchanan Hisayo: Harmless Like You
Rowan Buchanan Hisayo's debut novel Harmless Like You is about '60s and '70s New York City, cross-cultural identity, global movement, inherited trauma, and genderâbut centrally, it seems to focus on ideas of art and meaning. The protagonist of Harmless Like You is grappling with the decision to "become an artist," and all the interconnecting identity themes expressed in the book interact with and develop her ideas about creation and self-worth. Namara Smith at the New York Times describes Hisayo's writing as "lyrical and evocative, if occasionally overdone."
Word Works: Kelly Link
In 2015, Paul Constant wrote: "The first sentence of the first story in Kelly Link's new collection, Get in Trouble, reads, 'Fran's daddy woke her up wielding a mister.' If you stop there, your mind goes to some strange places: a father waking up his child by menacingly waving another man around? Is he a giant? If you've read Kelly Link's stories before, you know that certainly wouldn't be uncharacteristic; her stories almost always involve at least one fantastic element. But no. The second sentence describes him 'spritzing her like a wilted houseplant,' and suddenly the giant becomes a guy armed with a plastic spray bottle, an act of miraculous transmogrification in reverse. It's just a tiny little trick with words, but it demonstrates the muscular sentence-to-sentence propulsion of a Link story." Hear Link show off her creativity and wordplay live at this Word Works talk (titled "A Vampire is a Flexible Metaphor") that will focus on the details of writing fantasy.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
ARTRobert C. Jones and Cable Griffith
Robert C. Jones is a Seattle touchstone, having taught art at the UW for the awe-inspiring span of 38 years. His colorful gestural abstractions are embedded with Matissean black lines, and are a pleasure to look at. See Jones' paintings and drawings alongside soft and skillful paintings by Cable Griffith, the Seattle artist and professor at Cornish College of the Arts.
Seattle Cider Summit
Do you want to drink a bunch of the Northwest's most esoteric and delicious cider and raise money for good causes while doing it? Of course you do. Cider Summit Seattle, at the South Lake Union Discovery Center, brings you cider from the likes of Reverend Nat's and Sea Cider, as well as vittles from Capitol Cider. While these types of things can be a little Portlandia-ish, if you can stomach the toe shoes and doggy parents (that's right, there's onsite doggy day care), you'll get the chance to swill such delicacies as Sea Cider's Prohibition Rum Barrel cider, a personal favorite. TOBIAS COUGHLIN-BOGUE
HERON Ensemble: The Earth Shakes
HERON Ensemble presents this multidisciplinary take on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, written by NYC playwright Samantha Cooper and featuring modern choreography as well as original music performed live.
The Future is 0
This satirical DIY game show (filmed with a live studio audience right here in Seattle) pits artists of various disciplines against each other in "a battle of mental, physical, and psychological challenges."
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
COMMUNITY5th Annual San Gennaro Festival
From the boot of Italy to the, uh, lumpy slice of badly cut bread of Washington! Georgetown's San Gennaro Festival is back for its fifth year, and you can partake in the entire Italian itinerary over the course of three full days. There will be food vendors as well as others selling their wares, and live entertainment. New this year is the La Cucina Galbani cooking stage, featuring demos from an array of local Italian chefs. Avanti!
King of the Yees
Nationally-celebrated playwright Lauren Yee is just 21 years old, and already she's written more than a half-dozen plays that explore culture and history through humor and charming dialogue. She only seems to be picking up steam: another of her works, The Great Leap, will be staged at the Seattle Rep in the spring. King of the Yees promises a self-aware analysis of her own family history. F. Kathleen Foley at the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Although the play can be maddeningly random, it is a delightfully disorderly entertainment, as sprawling and silly as it is unexpectedly moving."
Mrs. Bave Presents the Pig War
The Pig War is a piece of unique local history that's fun to pull out for trivia purposes occasionallyâthe "war" had no deaths, and its end result was the designation of the San Juan Islands as U.S. territory. Bellingham TheatreWorks presents this "almost true" story based on the historical event.
The Odyssey
Todd Almond's ambitious take on The Odyssey opened in New York to great reviews that praised the inspired and unrestrained adaptation and gigantic, impressive cast that featured a number of new and amateur performers. Seattle's version of the fantastical and violent story, directed by Marya Sea Kaminski, will feature over 100 Seattle residents alongside professional actors.
The Seagull
Dacha Theatre will stage their "backyard take" on the first of Chekhov's four major theater works, The Seagull, a play-within-a-play.
SATURDAY
ARTElizabeth Mputu
Fans of Elizabeth Mputu's work have probably experienced it digitallyâMputu's work often resides in a computer screen, from the guided meditation video made after a grand jury failed to indict anyone for Sandra Bland's death, to the interactive and informative web installation Broken Windows that dealt with police brutality, vulnerability, and security. This exhibit offers Seattle audiences the chance to see what Mputu can create in a gallery space.
Zaria Forman: Antarctica
This exhibit featuring work by Zaria Forman is inspired by the month she spent aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. Jen Graves wrote about Forman's images of disappearing glaciers in 2014: "In response to the accelerating disappearance of arctic glaciers, artists have taken to making replacements. These sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photographs are an effort to steady the glacier population of the world, even if more and more of them have to be fake. Zaria Forman is the latest practitioner, a 31-year-old living in Brooklyn who is highly talented at conjuring mesmeric scenes of turbulent water and sky in pastels. In pastel drawing, you hold the sticks and shards of color in your fingers; it's a process that looks like finger painting, but Forman's results are fastidiously precise. For the last nine months, she's been making a series of large, majestic drawings of arctic glaciers and waves crashing on the coasts of the Maldives, the tiny, low-lying Asian island country that's particularly vulnerable to rising sea levelsâa canary in the climate-change coal mine. From even a little distance, Forman's drawings look like dramatic, high-contrast photographs of tempestuous water and sweaty mountains of ice the colors of blue slushy and gleaming-white toothpaste. It is not surprising that these romantic spectacles are flying off the walls into collectors' homes. Ice is the new vanishing race."
Night Market and Autumn Moon Festival
This night market is mostly about food, and will host more than 30 food trucks and offer chances to try bites from local booths and restaurants. But in addition to the nosh, they'll also have other handmade goods, fresh cut flowers, and live music and dance from local groups.
Sustainable Ballard Festival
In its 14th year, this optimistic festival will push the theme "Certified Local" and reaffirm its dedication to renewable energy and sustainable practices. Pet animals, press cider, discover electric car tech and ride an electric bike, and eat healthy food and desserts.
2017 Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival
The Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival is back again, and this year promises to be just as decadent as ever. In case you don't know about it, here are the essentials: over 20 local cheesemakers, all under one roof, showcasing around 100 cheeses combined. The lineup often includes mixed milk cheeses, cave-aged cheeses, washed-rind cheeses, and raw milk cheeses, as well as other dairy products like cultured butter, ice cream, and kefir. In other words, no basic string cheese here. Get there hungry; there will also be additional products on hand to fill out your cheese selection (think pickles and spreads, as well as beer and wine pairings). The Festival is a benefit for the Washington State Cheesemakers Association (WASCA), a non-profit organization whose mission is to support Washington cheesemakers through education, promotion and collaboration. Admission includes all cheese samples and three drink tickets for beer and wine tastes. Beer tastes are one drink ticket each; wine tastes are two drink tickets each.
Apple Pressing at MOHAI
Join MOHAI and City Fruit for a community apple pressing. You'll learn about urban orchards and how to make cider at home, plus you'll get a science lesson on how new varieties of apples are developed. The WSU Mount Vernon Cider School will also be there to teach you how to make the perfect hard cider.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
ARTUnreal City
This art show and book signing is centered around D.J. Bryant's first collection, Unreal City, the plot of which Publisher's Weekly describes as "suffused with a David Lynch-like emphasis on surreal theatricality." At the opening party, special guest Tom Hansen (author of 2010 drug-fueled memoir American Junkie, set in Seattle when grunge and punk reigned over all) will read from his debut novel This Is What We Do.
SUNDAY
FILMSeattle Black Panther Party 50th Anniversary Kickoff
This event, which is a part of the nationally recognized Seventh Art Stand movement, will feature a preview screening of a documentary based on Aaron Dixonâs book My People Are Rising. Dixon helped open the first chapter of the Black Panther Party outside of California. This happened in 1968 in the Central District, Seattleâs former black neighborhood. The Black Panther Party is famous for combining in its program self-defense and the organic intellectualism that the antifascist Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci described in his concept of hegemony. Dixon will be at this event. Looking at him is like looking at a statue of the peopleâs history of Seattle. CHARLES MUDEDE
Dar Williams: A Thousand Small Towns
Earlier this year, Andrew Hamlin wrote, "Dar Williams fits short stories into song, assesses the moral magnetic compass of the Xer generation, at least, and stays so catchy that you barely realize youâre being tested. Until you get the CD home and check out the lyrics." At this event, the folk singer will share her new book What I Found in a Thousand Towns, in which she "couples the work of urban theorists with her own experiences to propose solutions for rebuilding declining communities."
Marci Calabretta Cancio Bello with Arlene Kim and E.J. Koh
Hear Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello read from her debut collection, Hour of the Ox, alongside prominent Seattle poets Arlene Kim and E.J. Koh.
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