Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
One Book, One Coast: Zine-Making Workshop with Densho
June 6
Founded in 1996, the Densho project was designed to ensure the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans didn’t get forgotten—but it’s branched out to other elements of Asian American history. The organization holds archives of Gidra, a zine/newspaper published at UCLA between 1969 and 1974, covering Asian American politics and culture on the campus and eventually, the Asian American scene over Los Angeles itself. Articles included “Yellow and Proud,” “Relevance of Ethnic Studies,” “Yellow Brotherhood Food for Thought,” and “The High Cost of Saving Face the American Way.” For this workshop, Densho members shall discuss Gidra’s role in creating Asian solidarity, labor movements, plus its fights against racism, displacement, and gentrification. Then the audience will create their own zine… and what on Earth might that lead to? (Seattle Central Library, 2 pm, all ages) ANDREW HAMLIN
Chris Smalls with Ijeoma Oluo
June 8
Chris Smalls is a real-life superhero. Back in 2020, when the world was shutting down, Smalls and his colleagues at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse were being made to work harder. As he saw workers fall ill with little to no support from the company, he knew something had to be done, so he and his coworker Derek Palmer staged a walkout. What started as a contained workplace health issue quickly grew into a nationwide labor movement, with workers from Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, and Apple following suit. Smalls will be joined by author Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race) to talk about his new book, When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class, chronicling how he fought the ever-present tech giant and won. (Third Place Books, 7 pm) AUDREY VANN
Cole LeFavour
June 11
“I Love Idaho, and We Can Do Better,” reads Cole LeFavour’s website. As a former Idaho state senator and the first openly queer politician in the state, they grew up on a ranch in the Gem State’s proverbial middle of nowhere, learning in due course that their homeland was notorious for both spuds and Nazis. Their new memoir, In the Arms of Mountains: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Queer Resistance in Red America, details love, knowledge, resistance, inspiration, identity, and the determination to make something better out of a land for which many liberals threw in many towels. Can we hope to do better? They think so. (Town Hall, 7:30 pm, all ages) ANDREW HAMLIN
The Moth StorySLAM
June 26
I’ve been telling everyone, take your date to the Moth. There’s not enough to chat about at the bar, and you can’t talk at all (or drink) during a movie. The Moth StorySLAM—an open-mic storytelling competition—might be the perfect in-between. Ten attendees each tell a five-minute, true story that all share a common thread, and this round’s theme is Holiday Gone Wrong. It’s basically This American Life with fewer steps. The open-mic nature means it might be as funny as stand-up, or as painful as improv. It’s intergenerational, multicultural, and exceedingly human. Take a date, go with friends, go by yourself, and sign up to perform a story. Ten Seattleites bare their souls for you to relate to or talk shit about, and then you can talk about yourselves during the intermission. Get there closer to 7 p.m. to guarantee a chair! (Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 8 pm, all ages) DYLAN BUECHE
More
University of Washington Honors Poets June 4, Barnes & Noble University District, 5 pm
Mary Fontana June 6, Barnes & Noble University District, 4 pm
David Sedaris: The Land and Its People June 7, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 6 pm
Salon of Shame June 9, Theatre Off Jackson, 8 pm
Brooke Averick with Heather McBreen June 9, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 7 pm
Scott Kurashige June 10, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Kim Thayil with Krist Novoselic June 11, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Joseph Eckert with Kim Fu June 12, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Bushwick Book Club: Music Inspired by Hannah Templer’s Cosmoknights June 13, Hugo House, 7:30 pm
Emerald City Romance Reader Event June 13, South Seattle College, 11 am–5 pm, 18+
Bookish Bazaar June 14, Old Stove Gardens, 2–7 pm
Tomás Q. Morín w/ Daniel Tam-Claiborne June 15, 7 pm, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Dave Eggers and Andrew Sean Greer June 15, Town Hall, 7:30 pm
Daniel Pope with Daniel Tam-Claiborne and Julia Hands June 16, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Lynda Mapes June 18, Town Hall, 7:30 pm
Senator Chris Murphy with Marcus Harrison Green June 19, Town Hall, 7:30 pm
Scrib Fest June 20–21, Town Hall, 9 am
Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Ahsenti Alfedil’s Chapbook Launch June 23, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Jess Walter June 25, Barnes & Noble University District, 5 pm
Serena Chopra with Divya Victor June 25, Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm
Earthseed: Honoring the Past and Future of Feminist Science Fiction with Amber Flame, Rashida J. Smith, and Imani Sims June 25, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 5:30 pm
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