Our music critics have already chosen the 27 best concerts in Seattle this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genreâfrom SIFF movies and special events (including Rumble & Re:definition and An Evening of Cabaret With Robbie Turner) to food events like the Taste of West Seattle and Night Out For NW Immigrant Rights Project, and from the final week of Red May to the closing week of art exhibits like Seeing Nature at SAM, Nested Transmuter Cycle at Interstitial, and The West at SOIL. Click through the links below for complete details, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.
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MONDAY
READINGS & TALKSGeoffrey West
Geoffrey West, a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has spent years researching fundamental physics, but his curiosity doesn't halt at elementary particles. In his new book, SCALE: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, he applies emergent complexity science (which uses approaches from many different disciplines to explain non-linear phenomena) to human biology, society, and economy.
Ilan Pappé
Israeli historian, professor, and socialist Ilan PappĂ© has long written about injustice against Palestiniansâwhose expulsion from what became Israeli territory, he asserted, amounted to ethnic cleansing. As you might imagine, not everyone loves him. After receiving many condemnations and death threats, he left his post at the University of Haifa to live in Britain, where he now works at the University of Exeter. His most recent book, The Modern Middle East: A Social and Cultural History, begins after the First World War and traces the "urban, rural, cultural, and gender histories" that have shaped the region. His talk at Town Hall will be entitled "Prospects for Peace in Israel/Palestine: Facts and Fiction."
Women & Leadership: A Spotlight on Current Perspectives
Despite some huge strides for women in the workplace, women leaders are still drastically underrepresented in many fieldsâand those who break the glass ceiling don't leave biases and twisted expectations behind. Laurie Nash, executive VP of Russell Reynolds, will lead a discussion on women's roles in politics, the arts, business, and nonprofits. Hear from women across these fields, including Phyllis Campbell (JP Morgan Chase), Kathryn Kolbert (the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College), Sheila Lang (president, Seattle Central College), Kimerly Rorschach (Seattle Art Museum, Nordstrom), and Sylvia Wolf (Henry Art Gallery).
Brewed Food Seattle
Sure, you've used wine for cooking before, but what about beer? If the thought seems bizarre to you, that's exactly the sort of reaction that Chef Jensen Cummings wants you to haveâbecause he's on a quest to pioneer a craft brew cooking movement. Cummings is on a national tour spreading the good word about beer and cooking, and at the end of this month he'll make an appearance in Seattle at none other than Rachel Yang's noodle bar-parfait window-Korean bbq gem Trove. The two chefs will join forces for a collaborative Brewing Dinner, and will keep the local spirit alive by featuring "brewing ingredients" from Fremont Brewing.
(This event is sold out online.)
MONDAY-TUESDAY
ARTSeeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection
This survey exhibit of landscape paintings from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection spans continents and centuries, highlighting work by an eclectic group of artists including Jan Brueghel, Canaletto, Ădouard Manet, Claude Monet, J.M.W. Turner, Gustav Klimt, Georgia OâKeeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha.
(This exhibit closes on Tuesday.)
MONDAY-FRIDAY
ARTKatie Miller: Palimpsest
This show features work by artist Katie Miller, who had a 2014 installation at METHOD that culminated in launching a thousand paper boats into a fountain. This exhibit looks similar to what she displayed at METHOD Gallery in December 2016âa sculptural and architectural show (with a heavy emphasis on light and shadow) that explores "a rapidly changing urban landscape and its impact on our sense of place."
(This exhibit closes on Friday.)
MONDAY-SUNDAY
ARTSalish Sound Waves
This group show captures the spirit and feeling of the Pacific Northwest through art that embraces "motion, energy, vibrant color and an edgy design sensibility," from feminist and environmental woodblock prints to superhero-inspired formline paintings and prints. On Wednesday, there will be an artist talk featuring Jeffrey Veregge, who uses traditional Southern Salish forms to create nerdy sci-fi designs from your favorite serials, shows, and comics.
(This exhibit closes on Sunday.)
Seattle International Film Festival 2017
The 43rd annual Seattle International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the US, with 400 films (spread over 25 days) watched by around 150,000 people. It's impressively grand, and is one of the most exciting and widely-attended arts events Seattle has to offer. See the full schedule, buy tickets, watch trailers, and read Stranger reviews on our complete SIFF 2017 guide.
TUESDAY
COMMUNITY & CIVICSAAUP-UW Forum: Inauguration Day Shooting
If you followed Ana Sofia Knauf's reports for the Stranger about the Milo Yiannopoulos talk at UW in January, you know that an anti-fascist activist was shot by a couple who had come to hear the white supremacist, anti-feminist poster boy. The activist, Josh Dukes, declined to press charges despite having suffered critical injury. Since the incident, many have debated issues of free speech and safety in the university community: "Is 'hate speech' protected 'free speech?' What is 'hate speech,' and should it be banned from college campuses?" The University of Washington American Association of University Professors has invited speakers to address these questions, including Knauf, Shon Meckfessel (author of Nonviolence Ain't What it Used to Be), John Walker, spokesman for Dukes and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and the ACLU's Venkat Balasubramani. The panel will also include students such as Jack Pickett from the UW College Republicans (which had invited Yiannopoulos to speak on that January evening); Alan-Michael Weatherford, doctoral student in history, and Ruby Byrne, doctoral student in physics. UW professor Abraham Flaxman will moderate. They add, "Representatives of UW administration and the UW police department were invited but declined to attend, as did the attorney for the Hokoanas, the couple who have now been indicted in the shooting."
Flights & Rights
Back again for the month of May, this session of Flights & Rights will include ACLU Policy Council Leah Rutman, whose work focuses on the impact that religion has on access to healthcare. At this event, she will speak about protecting access to reproductive healthcare during a time when religious intolerance is on the rise. Discuss crucial civil rights issues with newfound friends while enjoying beer by Double Mountain Brewing.
Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor (beloved star of stage and screen, best known for his roles in TV shows Arrested Development and Transparent) will share his first book, Are You Anybody?: A Memoir, a collection of essays about his life, career, and chutzpah.
John Boylan's Conversation: Should We Love Our Work?
Does your career fit in with your most avid interests, and should it? The organizers of this Red May panel write, "Should what you love be harnessed to the rhythm of work?... Should we even use the word 'should' when talking about work?" Awesome local philosopher John Boylan, Michael Hardt, and Kathi Weeks will discuss where work fits in our lives and loves.
Tobi Hill-Meyer and Friends
Fresh from Seattle's trans community, Kickstarter-funded Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic collects stories from 30 writers about sex and eroticism in genres ranging from sci-fi to social realism. Read it, but don't read it just to get your kicks: Some seem lighthearted, but others confront trauma, dysphoria, police violence, sex work issues, and more. Tonight, hear from Tobi Hill-Meyer, Katherine Cross, Rachel Katie Zall, Pretty Eyes Ellis, Ryley Knowles, and Frances Stewart.
Night Out For NW Immigrant Rights Project
The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project recently attracted the unwelcome attention of Jeff Sessions, who sent the nonprofit a cease-and-desist letter relating to its offer of aid to immigrants it doesn't formally represent. A federal judge has blocked Sessions for now, but this organization can still use help. Happily, several Seattle-area restaurants and bars have offered to make this easy for you by donating some proceeds of your meals and drinks to the NWIRP.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
COMEDYHari Kondabolu New Material Nights
Hari Kondabolu is a big-deal New York comic now, but he still comes to Seattle pretty regularly to record albums and try out new material. You can see what he's been working on and spend a weeknight laughing and thinking.
(This event is sold out online.)
TUESDAY-SATURDAY
ARTAlan Lau: Farmer's Market/ Harvesting Peaches From the Other Planet
This exhibit features sumi ink paintings by Seattle poet and artist Alan Lau, known for his detailed and layered visual pieces. This time, the subject is "fruits and vegetables," inspired by his time working at beloved Chinatown-International District supermarket Uwajimaya.
(This exhibit closes on Saturday.)
Artemio Rodriguez
See pastoral, mystical, and politically-charged linocuts by Mexican artist Artemio Rodriguez. The works blend the familiar and the provocative beautifully.
(This exhibit closes on Saturday.)
Joe Rudko & Daniel Carrillo
Both artists with exhibitions at Greg Kucera Gallery this month use photography as a medium, but thatâs where the similarities end. Joe Rudkoâs works employ the colors and textures of cut and torn photographs to generate rhythmic, repetitive collages that are both hard-edged and organic, effusive yet minimal. Daniel Carrillo works with daguerreotypesâone of the earliest forms of photography, made using mercury vapor on a silver-coated plate. For this show, he visited the studios of a number of other Seattle artists, turning their tools of the trade into densely detailed material documents with his anachronistic photographic process. EMILY POTHAST
(These exhibits close on Saturday.)
TUESDAY-SUNDAY
PERFORMANCEHere Lies Love
David Byrneâs critically adored disco musical about the life and times of Imelda Marcos, disco-obsessed wife of Ferdinand Marcos. She danced by his side (and by Richard Nixonâsâlook it up on YouTube) while his dictatorial ass terrorized the Philippines. Unlike other musicals, you donât have to forgive this one for its melodramatic, sappy songs. The fast numbers are groovy disco bangers and the slow numbers are touching, tropically inflected twee rock/pop. Production-wise, this show will be unlike anything youâve ever seen at the Rep. The installation of mobile dance floors will significantly change the theaterâs seating situation, and the audience will be dancing (according to the demands of the dictator, of course) throughout the show. RICH SMITH
Sueño
La vida es sueño is a mesmerizing 17th-century verse play by Pedro CalderĂłn de la Barca about free will, fate, and the human conditionâand Sueño is a modern translation and adaptation by award-winning playwright JosĂ© Rivera (who wrote plays including Marisol and References to Salvador DalĂ Make Me Hot, and adapted the screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries). This production is directed by Book-It founder Jane Jones.
(There will be no performance on Wednesday.)
WEDNESDAY
FILMCabaret / An Evening of Cabaret With Robbie Turner
Bob Fosse's adaptation of the sinister stage show Cabaret stars Liza Minnelli as the original Manic Pixie Dreamgirl, only she's waaaaaay out of her depth in 1930s Germany. Fascism rises while artists and queers party hysterically under the creepy eye of Joel Grey as the Emcee. Before the SIFF screening begins, resident Seattle queen and former RuPaul's Drag Race contender Robbie Turner will host an original drag take on the Kit Kat Klub.
Astronomy on Tap: The Dark Universe
What is dark matter, besides a scientific concept abused by soft sci-fi and New Agey types? Professor Sarah Tuttle will explain in a talk entitled "Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and OttersâThe Universe in Three Parts," in which she'll delve into her design work on the HETDEX dark energy-measuring project. Theoretical physicist and science speaker Ethan Siegel will follow with a light jaunt into "The Fate of the Universe: After 13.8 Billion Years, Where Is Everything Headed?" Drink heartily and rejoice in amazing science made accessible.
Displaced: Refugee Voices in Conversation
For refugees fleeing torture, famine, war, and persecution, the United States ought to feel like a havenâbut the political environment under the Trump administration has placed stress on immigrant communities. Refugees invited by the Northwest Immigrant and Refugee Health Coalition (NWIRHC) will tell you in their own words about their experiences before and after their arrival in the US. Learn about their lives, the lives of other refugees still seeking a safe permanent home, and your own possibilities for advocacy. Andrew Kritovich, international counseling director at Lutheran Northwest Community Services and a former refugee himself, will moderate.
Gideon Rachman
Journalist and Orwell Prize-winner Gideon Rachman (Zero-Sum World: Politics, Power and Prosperity After the Crash) will discuss pressing international trends in the context of his new book, Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond.
Holocaust Center Lunch & Learn Series: Resistance
With all this talk of "fighting fascism" in Trump's America, it's worth looking at the past to see what resistance to a genocidal regime was like. Marie-Anne Harkness's hardware store-owning grandmother CĂ©line Morali was awarded by Yad Vashem with the title of Righteous Among the Nations, an honorary designation for non-Jews who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. As a member of the French Resistance, she helped 300 Jewish refugees escape death at the hands of the occupying Nazis. Harkness will share what just what her grandmother did to save these people.
WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY
PERFORMANCEFrench Kiss
French Kiss is a sexy production that features dancers performing original choreography by Fae Pink, elaborate sets and projections, and themed food and cocktails. This is your last week to see it.
THURSDAY
FOOD & DRINKTaste of West Seattle
So many fantastic food, wine, beer, and sweets options are tucked away in West Seattle, and this event lets you sample them all at once and help out West Seattle families at the same time. More than 50 food and drink shops and restaurants will be offering their fare, and all those bites will go down all the easier when you know that your admission benefits the West Seattle Helpline, which supports people facing one-time emergencies on strained budgets.
In Support of Artists: The Evolution of Seattle Exhibition Spaces
What do the next years hold for Seattle galleries? As the city changes, it's inevitable that they'll change, too. A panel of gallerists and journalists will share takes on "the different models for the art gallery, how they operate and facilitate artist careers, and what the future may bring to Seattle." The speakers will include professionals at some of the most interesting artistic spaces in the city, like Tariqa Waters (Martyr Sauce), Julia Greenway (Interstitial), James Harris (James Harris Gallery), Dawna Holloway (studio e), S. Surface (the Alice), and Robert Yoder (SEASON). Brendan Kiley, current Seattle Times and former Stranger writer, will also contribute. Learn about the explosion of arts in Georgetown, the emergence of small arts spaces, and the decline or privatization of large galleries. Your donations will benefit Artist Trust.
J. Robert Lennon and Elissa Washuta
Cornell professor of English and prolific fiction writer J. Robert Lennon shows incredible facility with a number of genres, but he's best at writing dark comedies that put a surreal twist on middle-class life. The premise for Broken River suggests he's playing to those strengths but leaning a little into psychological thriller territory. The premise, according to press materials: "A couple that makes a move in part to patch up a failing marriage unwittingly moves to a house lived in by victims of an unsolved murder." Lennon is a charming and humorous presenter, and the new book sounds fascinating, but the thing that makes this reading a "don't miss" is that it may be your last chance to see local author Elissa Washuta (author of the incredible collections My Body Is a Book of Rules and Starvation Mode) read in Seattle. In a few weeks, she heads out to Columbus, Ohio, where she landed a tenure-track job at Ohio State University. Good for her! Bummer for us. RICH SMITH
Jonathan Rosenblum
Seattle's own labor activist Jonathan Rosenblum's new book Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement begins with the first successful movementâwhich Rosenblum himself helped leadâto raise the minimum wage to $15. He'll explain how the initiative prevailed thanks to a coalition of workers, religious leaders, and community organizers. In this talk, he'll discuss the movement's past triumphs and the challenges unions must confront today in their fight for fair pay.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Water and Salt
Local poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha will present her debut work, Water & Salt, a poetry collection that will offer an emotional and varied take on people whose lives have been marred by violence. The book "sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage."
A Political Economy of the Senses
At this Red May event, political theory professor at the University of Oregon, Anita Chari, will focus on anti-capitalist, anti-neo-liberal art by Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg, Claire Fontaine, Jason Lazarus, and Mika Rottenberg.
Cannabis Concentrates
Understand what you're inhaling with this weed science class headed by a panel of industry experts from Happy Cat, Oleum, and Suncliff brands. Discover what's unique about "BHO, CO2, solventless, and distillate."
THURSDAY-SATURDAY
ARTLayne Kleinart: Dirty Laundry
Layne Kleinart paints on used bedsheets and pillowcases, creating portraits that suggest elaborate makeup left behind in the night or ghostly visions emerging from the bed itself.
(This exhibit closes on Saturday.)
Lisa Kinoshita and S. Surface: The West
For many city dwellers, the realities of life in rural America are an impenetrable mystery. Not so for S. Surface and Lisa Kinoshita, both Japanese American artists raised in Tacoma. For more than a decade, both artists have used photography and sculpture to capture their lived histories both in and relative to the American West. S. Surface's photographs of bulls, bloody bruises, and dive-bar neon signs document the artist's five-year stint as a competitive bull rider. While Lisa Kinoshita's metalsmithing, leatherwork, and mixed-media sculpture reflect the interplay between social and natural history (and include a collaboration made with prison inmates in Montana). EMILY POTHAST
(This exhibit closes on Sunday.)
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
FILMShortsFest Weekend
In its annual ShortsFest, SIFF screens hundreds of short documentaries, dramas, animated films, and more in competition, and invites special guests onto the stage. This year's contenders include films from all over the world, from Nigeria to Denmark. Special nights are devoted to Washington filmmakers, experimental shorts, teen and young adult directors, animation, and Native voices. On closing night next Monday, don't miss the Seattle debut of Little Potato, fresh off its prize for best short documentary at South by Southwest.
Grand Concourse
Grand Concourse, written by Heidi Schreck and directed by Annie Lareau, is a play about the way the group dynamics in a Bronx soup kitchen change when a new hire arrives.
Lost Falls
This month, Twin Peaks returns after more than 25 years off the airâcelebrate with this food- and performance-based homage to David Lynch, with all the small-town charm and creepy suspense you'll find in his work. They'll investigate the question: "Who killed Chef Nordo Lefesczki?" Enjoy a score by Annastasia Workman, script by Terry Podgorski, direction and menu design by Erin Brindley, and performances by Devin Bannon (on lead vocalsâfun fact: he's a performer, director, and Stranger sales rep), Evan Mosher (trumpet, vocals, sound effects and more), Matt Manges (drums), Dave Pascal (bass), Ryan Higgins, Ayo Tushinde, Opal Peachey, Carol Thompson, Ronnie Hill, and Laura Dux.
FRIDAY
FILMRumble & Re:definition
Catherine Bainbridgeâs important documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World traces the impact that Native American musicians have made on blues, rock, jazz, hiphop, and heavy metal. Using Link Wrayâs menacing 1958 instrumental âRumbleâ as its anchor (akin to Do the Right Thingâs use of Public Enemyâs âFight the Powerâ), Bainbridge relates stories of several influential, distinctive performers, including the Bandâs Robbie Robertson, activist folkie Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mildred Bailey, Charley Patton, and a cat named Jimi Hendrix. Rumble asserts the primacy and resiliency of Native culture despite the governmentâs concerted efforts to suppress and erase it. Before the SIFF screening, check out the exhibit of work by Native artists at Re:definition, and stay on after the film for a reception with a guest DJ.
La Petite Mortâs Anthology of Erotic Esoterica
See "the darker side of performance art" at this eerie, secretive variety show with circus arts, burlesque, music, and more. Feel free to wear a mask if you'd rather not be seen.
In the Moment of General Assembly
This Red May panel including Michael Hardt, Eva Cherniavsky, Anita Chari, and Philip Wohlstetter will examine a particularly tough question for all grassroots movements: Why doesn't assembly in the streets produce lasting change in so many cases, like in Egypt's Tahrir Square rising, the Occupy movement in Zuccotti Park, or the massive Turkish protest movement centered in Gezi Park? The panelists ask if these movements will be reborn, and what we can learn from them now.
Made at Hugo House Mid-Year Reading
Sonora Jha and Anastacia-Renee Tolbert, writers-in-residence at Hugo House, will host this reading of current work from the writing center's program. Discover pieces in progress by Gabrielle Bates, Beryl Clark, Katie Lee Ellison, Willie Fitzgerald, Shankar Narayan, and Ray Stoeve.
Marcus Harrison Green
Scholar-in-residence at Town Hall Marcus Harrison Green will present the limited-edition book Flying to the Assemblies, which he co-edited with Mark Baumgarten and which collects essays from Marcus Harrison Green, Hanna Brooks Olsen, Kristin Leong, and Ben Hunter on maintaining hope in our ridiculously scary political context. He'll be joined by the essayists onstage; ask them your questions on civics and politics.
Robert Lashley, Gary Copeland Lilley
Stranger Genius Award Nominee Robert Lashley draws on his family's Southern roots and scholarship to create poetry that Stranger writer Rich Smith says "rockets off the page." He's also an emotional, theatrical, spellbinding reader. Smith again: "You know how some poets speak with poet voice? Lashley doesn't speak with poet voice. He embodies the pain and joy in the poemsâsometimes he seems ecstatic, sometimes he seems fed up at the world, sometimes he'll even sing." Lashley will read along with Gary Copeland Lilley, founder of the Black Rooster Collective and two-time D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellow.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
COMEDYOuter Rim: An Improvised Space Western
Improv artists will take you on a long-form trip through deep space. No two performances will be the same, but every night the crew will have to employ all their hyperdrive and wiles to survive as they hop from planet to planet "on the fringes of civilization."
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
FESTIVALSNorthwest Folklife Festival
Folklife's goal is noble as heck: "We envision strong communities, united by arts and culture. Northwest Folklife stands for the belief that the arts invigorate and revitalize interpersonal connections and sense of community. When people share aspects of their culture, opportunities are created to dissolve misunderstandings, break down stereotypes, and increase respect for one another." What does this translate to? A gigantic hippie fest full of lovely people, dancing, performing world music from "yodeling to beatboxing" and everything in between, serving tasty street food, and leading workshops in arts and crafts. It's a great, if potentially overwhelming people-watching experience: up to 250,000 people have visited the festival in past years.
Sasquatch! Music Festival
PBR&B crooner Frank Ocean may have bowed out of his Friday headlining slot due to âproduction delays beyond his control,â but his replacement is eminently cooler (and more fun and exciting): LCD Soundsystem, the NYC-brewed dance punk/electro-rock project of James Murphy, whoâs putting the finishing touches on the first new LCD album since 2010âs This Is Happening. Additional highlights of the three-day music extravaganza at the Gorge: smart, syrupy Chicago alt-hiphop-talent-turned-Grammy-darling Chance the Rapper; psych rockers MGMT, mostly absent from the spotlight the past four years but back in the swing of things with video teases about a forthcoming LP, Little Dark Age; and indie-rock/folk pushers of poignant songwriting, the Shins. Other performers include Twenty One Pilots, Bonobo, Phantogram, Mac Miller, Sleigh Bells, Thee Oh Sees, Foxygen, Big Freedia, Jagwar Ma, and American Football. LEILANI POLK
SATURDAY
ARTMSHR: Nested Transmuter Cycle
MSHRâpronounced "mesher"âis the duo of Portland-based artists Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper. Their visual aesthetic is a vocabulary of intricate, often symmetrical glyph-like patterns developed within the parameters of various 3-D image processing programs. These shapes are presented both physically and virtually: printed onto two-dimensional surfaces, laser-cut from sheet plastic and assembled into 3-D sculptures, and projected in videos that show them as objects in movement, a process of dimensional unfolding. In Nested Transmuter Cycle, their current installation at Interstitial, these forms are assembled into "magic lantern infinity mirrors"âtwo-way mirrors, laser cut into patterns, facing each other with a colored light bulb hanging between them. There are light sensors in the mirrors, resulting in a feedback loop between the light bulb and the sensors. The action of the light sensors drives the audio parameters to form a cybernetic system that continually generates light and sound from its own inputs, which may be left to evolve on its ownâlike a "synthetic, stylized life form"âor modulated by human intervention. EMILY POTHAST
(This exhibit closes on Saturday.)
An Afternoon with Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott has a voice like a friendly cartoon grizzly bear, lending a certain lovable gravitas to his roles in films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Big Lebowski, Road House, and Thank You For Smoking. At this SIFF event, see the perfect cowboy in a live interview featuring live clips, followed by a screening of his latest film, The Hero by Brett Haley.
SIFF Saturday Night Party #2: The Little Hours
After watching The Little Hours, a bawdy medieval nunnery comedy starring Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Molly Shannon, and Kate Micucci, join this SIFF after-party at the Seattle Art Museum with Plaza, director Jeff Baena, and producer Liz Destro.
(Tickets are currently on standby; there may be some at the door.)
Latinx Queer Brunch/Almuerzo
Join Somos Seattle for their monthly queer meetup, this time at Beacon Hill brunch spot Montis Grill. Enjoy $8-14 plates and drinks, and connect with other Latinx Queer folks. All ages are welcome.
Marxathon 4: Capital on Capitol Hill
At this Red May event, leftist scholars will spend the day in Capitol Hill venues delivering lectures on topics through a Marxist lens like debt, accumulation and First Nations people, LukĂĄcs and Debord, and the Grundrisse.
Samir Gandesha, Anita Chari: The Spell of Capital
Learn more about two great thinkers in the Marxist tradition: Georg LukĂĄcs and Guy Debord. The two speakers at this Red May event will tie LukĂĄcs's theories of reification (or "thing-ification") of social relations and Debord's of the society of spectacle to the capitalist struggles of our time.
SUNDAY
BIKE MONTHEmerald Bike Ride
For just one day, bikes will rule the highways. Ride with 10,000 others on the SR 520 bridge, I-5 Express Lanes, and (new this year) the I-90 Express Lanesâan opportunity that may never come again, at least not until cars finally become obsolete. Choose to bike either 10 or 24 miles and stop along the way for a bite to eat (long route only). You'll also get a nifty free hat to back up your bragging rights. Go on, do it! Cackle, "No emissions here but mine, you dirty cars!" all along the way!
The Current Moment or WTF Trump??!!??
This is Red May's last hurrah, where the speakers and scholars will look back on the entire month of radical leftist thought jams and reflect on the future's possibilities. Share your own thoughts at the mic in song, poetry, or out-loud musing.
Time. Work. Domination.
Unfortunately, if time is money, then "every moment of leisure that we try to enjoy is framed against some moment of optimized productivity that we could be living instead." If that's the case, then how do we ever escape from work under a capitalist system? Samir Gandesha will moderate this Red May discussion.
Pride ASIA 2017
Members of the queer Asian and Pacific Islander community in all their strength and splendor will assemble in advance of Pride Month for music and speeches. The lineup includes featured speaker Danyal Lotfi (external affairs liaison with the City of Seattle), the Mayor's office, Misses API International, Utopia, ABAWA Pride Vanitii Fair, Neighbours, and Voodoo Doll, musician LatinRose, and slam poet Nic Masangkay, plus an appearance by David Leong's NW Kung Fu Association and music by DJs Julie Herrera, LeGaspi, and Moist Towelette.
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