Don’t let a lack of advance planning or money get in the way of having a great weekend. See below for events that won’t cost more than $10, ranging from dance nights (including the Bootie Seattle NYE Do-Over Party and The Prince and Michael Experience) to art walks (Georgetown Art Attack, Art Up PhinneyWood, and the Belltown Art Walk), and from readings recommended by our critics (Writers Resist: A Celebration of Free Speech, the Dead Dad Dining Club Volume 1 release party and potluck, and Tyler Nordgren) to Trump resistance events (Our First Stand: Save Health Care and the Resist Trump Coalition Town Hall). See our complete Things To Do calendar for even more options, including movies to see this weekend, MLK Day events, and events happening the rest of the month to plan ahead for.
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1. American Revolutionary, the Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Meaningful Movies presents this free screening of American Revolutionary, the Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. The following review by David Schmader is from 2014—everything he wrote still stands, except for the fact that, sadly, Boggs passed away in October 2015. “Director Grace Lee met the subject of her latest documentary through an earlier work, The Grace Lee Project, which collected stories from women bearing that common name in hopes of refuting the stereotype of Asian American women as passive. In philosopher/activist Grace Lee Boggs, director Lee found a story that required its own film. Now 98 and still engaged in daily political and social activism in Detroit, Boggs has devoted her life to an array of US social movements: feminism, radical labor, civil rights, Black Power. As Angela Davis says in the film, ‘She’s made more contributions to the black struggle than most black people have.'”
(Beacon Hill, free)
