Panicking because you don’t know what to do this weekend and you’re short on cash? Don’t worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won’t cost more than $10, ranging from an evening with Meghan Daum (in conversation with The Stranger‘s Katie Herzog) to a Garage Rock Garage Sale, and from a Scandinavian Holiday Bazaar to the Japanese cultural festival Bunka no Hi. For even more options, check out our complete EverOut Things To Do calendar and our list of cheap & easy things to do in Seattle all year long.
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- 15th Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration
El Centro de la Raza will continue its tradition of honoring the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos with live performances by local dance groups, a community altar, and free chicken mole.
(Beacon Hill, free) - Burien Día de los Muertos
This Burien Día de los Muertos celebration promises traditional music, arts and crafts, a community altar, and more honoring departed loved ones.
(Burien, free) - Día de los Muertos Art Night
This Día de los Muertos-themed art-making event will draw inspiration from the work of children’s book author and illustrator David Lozeau. All supplies provided.
(Fremont, $3) - Día de los Muertos Festival
Decorate a sugar skull on any surface and bring it to this Día de los Muertos party for the chance to win a one night staycation with dinner for two at Clarion Hotel Auburn-Kent.
(Auburn, free) - Día de los Muertos: Free Community Night Out
The Seattle Art Museum celebrates Día de los Muertos every year with a tapete (sand painting) installation inspired by Oaxacan traditions, a dance performance, and lots of art activities.
(Downtown, free) - Shoreline Día de los Muertos
Make sugar skulls and other crafts to commemorate the dead.
(Shoreline, free)DIWALI
- Let’s Chaat! & Friends: Diwali Celebration
Celebrate Diwali with funny improvised scenes and stories by a trio of Indian immigrant comedians.
(Ballard, $10)MUSIC
- The Almost Faithful, The Science of Deduction, Keroscenery
Seattle alt-rock trio the Almost Faithful will bring their brand of psychedelic jams to Georgetown with opening sets from post-punk quartet the Science of Deduction and Olympia jazz-rockers Keroscenery.
(Georgetown, $8) - Atlantic City: A Springsteen Tribute
Not to be confused with the Springsteen tribute band that almost played our Cheeto overlord’s inauguration disaster, Atlantic City is an “authentic musical voyage to the backstreets of New Jersey” with a consistent drive to deliver the utmost in Boss standards.
(Downtown, free) - Aurora Borealis Presents: Shameless Hussy
Groove to a night of deliciously greasy blues-rock with Seattle’s Shameless Hussy.
(Shoreline, $10) - Civilians, Subways on the Sun, The Harper Conspiracy
Enjoy good old-fashioned “original rock and roll” from Seattle bands Civilians, plus indie-pop from Subways on the Sun and folk-rock from the Harper Conspiracy.
(Belltown, $10) - Coastal Clouds, Public Pool, Crazy Eyes
LA singer-songwriter Roberto Rodriguez, who makes psychedelic folk-rock under the moniker Coastal Clouds, will perform a live set after opening ditties from locals Public Pool and Crazy Eyes.
(Pioneer Square, $8) - Crystal Beth, The Vardamon Ensemble, Ubuludu, Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand
You can find Beth Fleenor fearlessly indulging her wildest creative inklings whenever she materializes in a musical forum. A classically trained clarinetist and imaginative soloist and with a music degree from Cornish, Fleenor has made a name for herself in Seattle’s experimental-music scene both as a solo artist and with well-known composers like Wayne Horvitz. The music Fleenor makes with Crystal Beth & the Boom Boom Band falls somewhere between the grisly skronk-punk of Stickers and earthy freak-indie of tUnE-yArDs, but even fans of those left-of-center acts will be thrown for a loop. Wailing vocals not bound to any conventions but Fleenor’s own, paired with percussive “Bethnic chants,” are set over freely drawn jazz figures and world-y rhythms. TODD HAMM
(University District, $8) - Dancing On My Own – A Robyn-Inspired Dance Party!
At this rambunctious dance party, dance on your own or with your friends and lovers as resident venue DJs play the best tracks from Swedish pop star Robyn’s seminal hits.
(Capitol Hill, $5) - DEAL — Performing the Music of the Grateful Dead
Halloween will continue into the weekend thanks to a trippy light show and performance by Grateful Dead cover band DEAL.
(West Seattle, $8) - dreamcatchr, Camp Crush, La Fille
Formed in 2015, dreamcatchr are a promising local indie unit featuring the intertwined vocal prowess of guitarist and founder Raven MacDaniels and Shannon Clark layered over catchy drum beats and crisp, pop-infused bass lines. You’ll find hints of Beach House and Tame Impala within their supple, bright melodies. Catch them tonight with Camp Crush and La Fille.
(Ballard, $10) - Día de los Muertos: Heebie Jeebies, Skates!, Ichi Bichi
“Seattle’s only pure Halloween live act” the Heebie Jeebies will bust out their surfy guitars, spooky organs, and bluesy brass instruments for a night out with Día de los Muertos in mind. Local rockers Skates! and Ichi Bichi will provide additional support.
(Greenwood, $7) - The Howling West, The Problem, Guests
Enjoy a night of “boot-thumping rock and roll” with the Howling West, the Problem, and Pride Falls.
(West Seattle, $8) - INTRO Black-Out Party
DJs Xten, Manny, Quins, and Tae Xtravagant will head up this dance party.
(Central District, $10) - Lights Out!
Lights Out!, a group of youngsters who love the oldies, will dig into rock classics by Nirvana, the Clash, Green Day, and other popular bands.
(Downtown, $10) - Mozart Requiem – St. James Cathedral Choir and Orchestra
Mozart’s stunning Requiem, the deathbed Mass (a bridge between life and death), will be performed by the St. James Cathedral Choir, with their full orchestra, organ, and soloists, to mark the Feast of All Souls.
(Downtown, free) - Pop Secret: J.Robb & Abjo
Special guest DJ j.robb will spin mostly R&B at this edition of Pop Secret.
(Capitol Hill, $10) - Professor Sweater, The Winter Shakers, Bad Honey, Blair Rose
Local folk-rockers the Winter Shakers will give you a reason to extend the wear of your costume at this video shoot and Halloween party. The theme is “Alice in Wonderland,” but you’re encouraged to wear whatever you want. Bad Honey, Blair Rose, and Professor Sweater will provide additional support.
(Ballard, $8) - Swing 3PO
Local swing outfit Swing 3PO will play classics from the Great American Songbook, as well as original compositions.
(Downtown, free) - T.G.I.F
Bust out of your work trousers and into the weekend with a night of hip-hop and R&B courtesy of DJs Gradeay and Just Jordan.
(Downtown, $10) - Weird Science – ’80s Videos Halloween Costume Party
Tease your hair as big as it will go and dance to your favorite ’80s music videos.
(Pioneer Square, $6)PARTIES
- Hot as Hell: Grand Re-Opening Party
Get free photos with “demon vixen” Lilith at this strip club party.
(Belltown, free)PERFORMANCE
- Gender Reveal Party: A Drag Show
Heavy Scene Macaque invites you to watch her four fetal children battle in utero for her affection. The local queen will be judging on how well these pre-babies forsake the gender binary.
(Downtown, $7/$10)READINGS & TALKS
- Amir Zaki
Southern California-based photographer Zaki has had more than 30 solo exhibitions, including at Seattle’s own James Harris Gallery, and has been included in group shows at museums like the Whitney in New York, the Orange County Museum of Art, and more. Learn more about his work at this talk.
(Capitol Hill, free) - Ann Cleeves: The Long Call
Ann Cleeves, the author of the novel-turned-BBC television series Shetland, will read from her new novel, The Long Call.
(University District, free) - Jenny Odell: Reclaiming Our Attention in an Age of Distraction
During public talks, multidisciplinary artist Jenny Odell stresses that How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy isn’t a self-help book designed to make you put down your phone so you can be more productive at work later on. It’s not a book about becoming a monk who stares at a silver bowl in a cave all day, either. But she does look at how social media and tech have changed our notion of “productivity” and then offers a pretty compelling way out of the crass and alienating life such a notion engenders. Along the way, she presents tons of fascinating found objects, academic research, amateur birding, journalism, and personal stories that make the book feel like a textual cabinet of curiosities. RICH SMITH
(First Hill, $5) - Meghan Daum: The Problem with Everything
Daum’s latest book, The Problem with Everything, is, in part, about watching the culture change around her, something she calls “a moment of profound cognitive dissonance.” Values that were once solidly the purview of the left—the importance of transgressive art and comedy, the need for due process, an almost pathological defense of free speech—have been abandoned by the very people who once defended them and co-opted by the political right. It’s a shift that Daum is concerned about, to put it lightly. “There is no room for nuance right now. Instead, we see a lot of purity-policing and authoritarianism,” Daum says. “The similarities between the Christian right and the woke left are pretty striking. Except the Christian right at least has the concept of redemption. The left doesn’t have that.” The Problem with Everything is about herself, but it’s also about culture, politics, society, how we live now, and the ever stretching divide between older generations and younger ones. KATIE HERZOG
(Capitol Hill, free)
Meghan Daum will appear in conversation with Katie Herzog - Nisi Shawl: Talk Like a Man
Local sci-fi icon Nisi Shawl (best-known for the brilliant Everfair) will read from their new collection of short stories, featuring virtual reality high schools, magical mirrors, and sex rites.
(University District, free) - Scott Cairns
Local poet Scott Cairns, the author of nine collections, will read from his latest book, Anaphora: New Poems.
(Wallingford, free)VISUAL ART
- Art Walk & Macaron Pop-Up
Local ceramicist Andrea Wolf will showcase her handmade matcha bowls, mugs, and espresso cups as Black Magic Sweets slings macarons in special Día de Muertos flavors.
(Wallingford, free) - Changing Bodies Exhibition
Regional and visiting artists will show work dealing with the effects of time, medicine, gender affirmation, and more on the body.
(Bellevue, free)
Closing FridayFRIDAY-SATURDAY
HALLOWEEN
- A Kangaroo & Kiwi Halloween Weekend
This weekend-long affair will include a Día de los Muertos fiesta (Fri) and a post-Halloween party (Sat), both of which promise DJs and prizes.
(Ballard, free) - Mr. Black & Easy Street Music Present: Nightfall Orphanage
Think you can handle the ghosts that lurk in this haunted orphanage crawling with sinister children? If so, you will be rewarded with candy.
(West Seattle, free)VISUAL ART
- Daphne Minkoff: Elegy
Minkoff usually combines layering and collage to craft eerie images of urban and suburban decay.
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Exhibition Opening: October 2019
See new work by manuel arturo abreu, Gretchen Bennett, Demian DinéYazhi’ and R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance and Empowerment, Jeff Guess, and others.
(Mount Baker, free)
Closing Saturday - Get It On
Try on sexy, sensual, and weird necklaces that incorporate unusual materials like “lead, fake teeth, speakers, repurposed plastics, concrete, hydrographic film, leather gloves and artist-produced microbial cellulose.”
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - James Castle: Drawings
Born in 1899, American artist James Castle’s drawings remained relatively unknown until the 1950s. Much of his work was made with soot and saliva on found items, like flour bags or receipts. The pictures themselves depict domestic interior and exterior scenes of rural Idaho, where Castle spent most of his life. Born deaf, he never learned to read, write, or use any form of signing outside of the personal signing he did with his family, though words and symbols do appear in his work. Despite his rudimentary materials, Castle’s drawings are varied and interesting, showing a strong grasp of shading that gives his drawings depth and life. JASMYNE KEIMIG
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Jodi Waltier: sit down STAND UP
Waltier often favors unusual subjects: Recent exhibitions at Shift have taken inspiration from pools, crop rotations, and “travel up, up and away from this astral plane.” In this latest show, she’ll use the “chair as metaphor for crucible to contain and harbor spirit.”
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Ken Barnes: Recent Stone Sculptures
Former rock climber and current sculptor Ken Barnes shapes elegant, simple objects in beautiful stone. He’s known for reflecting natural forms in works like Fluke, Corona, and Corpuscles. He writes: “Stone is among the oldest of sculptural materials and might seem irrelevant in a petrochemical world, but people react to stone from an ancient place within. It brings them back to simpler times, with forms and textures not pulled from a machine mold, and they are drawn to touch and caress the surfaces.”
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Michael Dailey: Discoveries
Michael Dailey’s absorbing, glowing abstractions play with figure/ground perception using washes of color. Former Stranger critic Jen Graves has written: “In person, Dailey’s paintings glow and gleam and sparkle and transport. Their references are basic in the extreme: land, sea, and sky—mostly sky.”
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Robert Connell and Michael Kareken
Connell uses sumi ink and acrylic to create glimpses of Pacific Northwestern beauty, from dreamy swaths of sand, trees, and water to de Chirico-like images of Georgetown’s industrial brick buildings. Kareken, a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, produces evocative monotypes, paintings, and drawings of thickly wooded landscapes.
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Soo Hong
Soo Hong’s gestural paintings hang in the smaller BLUR Gallery.
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Whiting Tennis: New Work
Tennis’s colors cohabit uneasily, and even the symmetrical designs look unstable. He favors compositions that don’t allow the gaze to rest, but jostle it from shape to shape: intestinal tangles, chaotic patchworks, smudgy mazes, indefinable objects in confrontation. But this graphic agitation also appeals to the viewer’s sense of play and freedom. Far from severe, the forms he invents are variously insectoid, childlike, flailing, drooping, and prowling. JOULE ZELMAN
(Pioneer Square, free)
Closing Saturday - Willenbrink-Johnsen Invitational: Great Friends Who Make Great Art
Karen and Jasen Willenbrink-Johnsen, known for sculpting stately glass birds and other natural forms, are joined by their friends Jeremy Bert and Jen Elek, Thor and Jennifer Bueno, Megan Stelljes, Alison Chism, and many others in this invitational.
(Everett, free)
Closing SaturdayFRIDAY-SUNDAY
VISUAL ART
- Carrie Yamaoka: recto/verso
In Carrie Yamaoka’s art, you are integral to the completion of the work. Yes, you. Some of her paintings skip the traditional canvas, opting instead for polyester film and resin, giving the surface of her works a reflective and molten-like finish. The New York artist’s first solo museum exhibition reflects 30 years of work. Yamaoka’s work is largely process-based, meaning it focuses on the process—the act of creating the art—as its main subject. In emphasizing the work’s creation, it can help us (the artist and the viewer) think about things like time, transience, movement, beginning and ending. If I go in and look at deep blue #3 tomorrow, the painting will contain a different version than the Jasmyne who gazed at it for the first time. Yamaoka’s paintings remind us viewers that our relationship to art mirrors our relationship to ourselves—always changing, never static, not quite capturable, but always there. JASMYNE KEIMIG
(University District, $10)
Closing Sunday - Catherine McMillan, Michelle Williams
Drink some wine and check out Michelle Williams’s “Minimalist Porcelain Vessels” and Catherine McMillan’s “Stoneware and Porcelain Donuts,” and enter a $10 raffle to win one of said donuts.
(Mercer Island, free)
Reception Friday - Kelsey Fernkopf: Big Neon
Glass artist Fernkopf’s free-standing neon abstractions are crafted from “a single linear tube of illuminated glass.” The bright days are waning, so fill your eyes with light!
(Capitol Hill, free)
Closing SundaySATURDAY
COMEDY
- LOIS Brought Stale Candy & Tired Ghouls
Newly minted Seattle sketch group LOIS will arrive fashionably late to Halloween with a night of ghostly entertainment.
(Greenwood, $10/$14)DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
- Day of the Dead
What better time to explore the historic Comet Lodge Cemetery than Day of the Dead weekend?
(Beacon Hill, $10) - Día de los Muertos – Day of the Dead Festival
Honor loved ones who have died by decorating a calavera, adding personal mementos and offerings to an altar, enjoying live music and dancing, and tasting treats like Mexican hot chocolate.
(Phinney, free)FESTIVALS
- Kirkland Urban Fall Fest
Families can get in on some fall fun, like face-painting, balloon art, a free movie, and warm treats.
(Kirkland, free)FOOD & DRINK
- Columbia City Harvest Market
Stock up on autumn essentials like squash, apples, hearty greens, and potatoes at this one-day market.
(Columbia City, free)MUSIC
- 20670 Release Party: Sabyu & Chief Javi
Local instrumental/hip-hop duo Sabyu & Chief Javi will celebrate their debut album with a special live performance.
(Kent, $10) - Black Ferns, Fotoform, Black Nite Crash, Charlatan
Bop around to post-punk, shoegaze, and noise-pop with locals Black Ferns, right after opening sets from Fotoform, Black Nite Crash, and Charlatan.
(Pioneer Square, $8) - Bloom feat. livwutang
This installment of the cerebral techno dance party Bloom will feature special guest livwutang.
(Downtown, $8) - Boom Kitty, Adastra
Boom Kitty will bring “heart-thumping dubstep, massive basslines, and a creative mix of EDM” to Pioneer Square with additional support from Adastra.
(Pioneer Square, $10) - Den Tapes Halloween Bash: Uncleholic, Rat Queen, Artem/s
Rat Queen, a self-professed “overworked poser punk trio dedicated to dwelling on the non-problems of their youth,” will share a bill with fellow Den Tapes artists Uncleholic and Artem/s for a post-Halloween night out.
(Ballard, $10) - The Deer, Temple Canyon
With elements of dream-pop and chamber music, indie-folk outfit the Deer could easily soundtrack your annual midsummer mushroom trip (not to be confused with a Midsommar mushroom trip). The visiting Texans will stop in Seattle in support of their brand-new record Do No Harm, joined by local band Temple Canyon.
(Ballard, $10) - Haute Sauce: Swervewon, Tony Goods, Famous, D Triple J
Swervewon, Tony Goods, Famous, and D Triple J will be your DJs at this edition of “Seattle’s home for hip-hop and dance music.”
(Capitol Hill, $10) - Marina Christopher
Rising Seattle jazz bassist and vocalist Marina Christopher, named Best Emerging Artist by Earshot Jazz Magazine in 2017, will perform live.
(Downtown, free) - Power Strip EP Release Party
Local experimental band Power Strip will play angsty lullaby soundscapes off their new EP with opening support from ethereal dream-pop outfit Medejin, “motivational rock” band Rachael’s Children, fuzzy melodic poppers Echo Ravine, and “29-year-old teenage lima bean” Rat Paws.
(University District, $5-$10) - ReDRuM — A Soft Option Halloween
Douse yourself in fake blood and finery for this dance party with Soft Option DJs. You’ll get the chance to win cash and VIP prizes for future parties if your costume is wild enough to impress the judges.
(Downtown, free) - The Slants, Kirby Krackle, The Adarna
Catch some synth-pulsing “Chinatown dance rock” with Portland’s all-Asian American band the Slants. For their last show ever, they’ll be joined by self-professed “nerd-rock pioneer” Kirby Krackle and Seattle rockers the Adarna.
(Fremont, $8/$10) - Swing Low Indigo
Swing Low Indigo promise to perform jazz standards, deep-cut covers, blues classics, and some originals off their debut album So Little Has Been Tried.
(Beacon Hill, free) - Voycheck, Floored Faces, Shame Banger
Post-hardcore rockers Voycheck will spread their noise throughout the south end with support from fuzzy garage punks Floored Faces and Shame Banger.
(Tukwila, $8)READINGS & TALKS
- Christine Day: I Can Make this Promise
Local author Christine Day will read from her debut middle-grade novel I Can Make This Promise, which follows a young Native girl who searches for her roots when she finds out she was adopted.
(Edmonds, free) - Dave Wyman and Bob Condotta: If These Walls Could Talk
Former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Dave Wyman, who now co-hosts the Danny, Dave & Moore Show on KIRO-710, will share the stage with longtime Seattle Times football writer Bob Condotta for a discussion of their new co-authored book about past and present Seahawks lore.
(Capitol Hill, free) - Jack Straw Writers Group Reading
This year’s Jack Straw Writers Program Curator Kathleen Flenniken will host a reading with resident writers Samar Abulhassan, Dianne Aprile, Josh Axelrad, Christianne Balk, Gabrielle Bates, Leanne Dunic, Sylvia Byrne Pollack, Rena Priest, Michael Schmeltzer, and Suzanne Warren.
(Downtown, free) - Poetry Northwest 60th Anniversary Reading
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the poetry journal with readings by Michael Bazzett, Laura Read, Kathryn Smith, and Ryo Yamaguchi.
(Wallingford, free) - Veterans Day Open Mic
Veterans and their families are invited to share their stories in an open mic.
(First Hill, free)SHOPPING
- 2nd Annual Seattle Women’s Show
Over 75 exhibitors will sell fashion and accessories, health and wellness products, cosmetics and skincare, and more things apparently geared toward ladies.
(Downtown, $10) - Garage Rock Garage Sale
Thumb through knick-knacks, bric-a-brac, and record stacks (as well as handmade goods, clothing, art, and other things that don’t rhyme with “snack”) while DJ Maxwell Edison spins garage rock. You can even drink booze while you shop.
(Belltown, free) - Holiday Bazaar
All you early-bird shoppers can find gifts for your loved ones from over 80 vendors and get in the holiday spirit at a “candy cane cafe.”
(SeaTac, free)VISUAL ART
- Chrissy Gordon: Creature Comforts
Eat cake provided by Honey Crumb Cake Studio and drink champagne at the closing reception for Chrissy Gordon’s exhibition of oil pastels.
(Downtown, free)SATURDAY-SUNDAY
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
- A Mexican Celebration to Remember Our Departed
Explore a community altar and cemetery, take part in traditional Día de los Muertos rituals, craft paper skeletons and sugar skulls, and march in a music-filled procession to remember the dead.
(Seattle Center, free)FESTIVALS
- Handmade Tile & Art Festival
Over 20 Northwest artists will show their handmade tile work, including a large display of garden art. The event also includes a juried art show featuring tiles made using traditional techniques.
(Mount Baker, free)PERFORMANCE
- Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook
Another installment in the Junie B. Jones children’s series by Barbara Park gets a stage adaptation. Your kids can root for Junie as she mourns the loss of her new mittens and considers whether she should be allowed to keep someone else’s cool pen as a consolation. Plus, there’s a love interest!
(Redmond, $10)SHOPPING
- Polish Bazaar
At this annual bazaar, learn about Polish culture and customs through food (like pickle soup, borscht, pierogi, and cabbage rolls) and live entertainment. Plus, shop for holiday gifts like Polish crystal and pottery wares.
(Capitol Hill, free) - 46th Annual Northwest Artists’ Holiday Show
Over 50 artists will sell paintings, prints, pottery, glassware, and more.
(Edmonds, $3 suggested donation) - Scandinavian Holiday Bazaar
Whether you want to buy someone an early holiday gift or just eat Scandinavian treats, you’ll find coffee, baked goods, aquavit, sweaters, and other Nordic delights at this bazaar.
(Queen Anne, $2)VISUAL ART
- Artist Showcase Featuring Queer + Trans Artists
Discover work curated by the Lavender Rights Project.
(Hillman City, free)
Opening Saturday - Sara Osebold and Taylor Hanigosky: Relic
Local artist Sara Osbeold plays with textures and materials that represent her native Northwest landscape in this series of sculptures.
(Ballard, free)
Opening SaturdaySUNDAY
FESTIVALS
- Bunka no Hi
Celebrate Japanese and Japanese American cultures through performances, demonstrations, games, food, and other activities.
(Chinatown-International District, free)FOOD & DRINK
- Wowzer Launch Party
Wowzer, the dating app for dog lovers, will celebrate its launch with a night of socializing (with both humans and canines). Meet adoptable dogs from Pasado’s Safe Haven, snack on bites from Marination, witness dog costume contests, and play games.
(Capitol Hill, free)MUSIC
- ‘Coastal Fire – A Common Diary’ CD Listening Party
Independent Seattle composer Susan Maughlin Wood’s album Coastal Fire – A Common Diary will be on loop in the Obama room. You’re invited to purchase a snack and a drink and listen to your heart’s content.
(University District, free) - The Dylan Revue, Hamilton Boyce, Russell Rabut
The Mondegreens, who perform Bob Dylan covers as the Dylan Revue, will share a bill with folk singer-songwriters Hamilton Boyce and Russell Rabut.
(Ballard, $10) - Endorphins Lost, Whoresnation, Generation Decline, City of Industry
Local sludge-punks Endorphins describe themselves as “loud,” “fast,” and “pissed off.” They’ll get rowdy after sets from Whoresnation, Generation Decline, and City of Industry.
(Ballard, $10)READINGS & TALKS
- An Afternoon with Kazu Kibuishi
Acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator artist Kazu Kibuishi will sign copies of his Amulet series and chat with readers.
(Fremont, free) - Floating Bridge Group Reading
Hear readings by three talents who were awarded prizes by Floating Bridge Press: Jory Mickelson with Wilderness//Kingdom, Katrina Roberts with Lace, and Elizabeth Vignali with Endangered [Animal].
(Capitol Hill, free) - Gears of War: Joshua Ortega and Jason Hough
Want to know how to translate the frenetic graphics of a video game into the static frames of a comic book? Joshua Ortega and Jason Hough will enlighten you.
(University District, free) - Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, two journalists who have been covering Trump’s backward ideas about immigration since his inauguration, will offer a glimpse of their co-authored book, Border Wars, which chronicles the actions the president has taken to block asylum seekers searching for a better life in the US.
(First Hill, $5)SHOPPING
- The Big Flea Pop-Up
“Seattle’s original flea market” will present you with all the flannels your wintry Northwest heart desires, plus antiques and collectibles.
(Fremont, free) - Danish Holiday Bazaar
Eat smørrebrød (dark rye bread that’s buttered and smattered with various toppings) while you do some early shopping for holiday gifts sourced straight from Denmark.
(North Seattle, free)VISUAL ART
- Jordan Christianson: Tea Dance
Local artist Jordan Christianson shows trasferware patterns using both traditional and contemporary decals that hark back to a time when being queer was considered a crime.
(Capitol Hill, free)
Opening Sunday - Julia Wald: Teatotaler
Illustrator Julia Wald uses India ink to explore the cultural significance and history of tea-drinking. At the opening reception, enjoy food by Alder Brothers BBQ, including, among other treats, “shortbread gobs” with smoked pineapple and strawberry whipped cream and green tea and passion fruit mimosa.
(Capitol Hill, free)
Opening Sunday
FRIDAY
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
