Seattle Events Calendar
11:00am
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Frye Salon
Frye Salon features over one hundred paintings from the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection hung floor to ceiling—a display mode referred to as a salon-style hang. The installation approximates the dramatic viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to Charles and Emma…
2:00pm
Visual Arts
kwonny | Modern Day Saints
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
Modern Day Saints is a collection of works made by kwonny between 2023-2024 and is an introspection of the relationship we carry with the idea of ourselves. Just as we encounter others, we encounter our own selves constantly through our…
4:00pm
Music | Food
Summer Nights at MOHAI
Welcome to Summer Nights on the Terrace at MOHAI! Appreciate the cool breeze and sunset from the museum’s rooftop terrace with stunning views of Lake Union. Enjoy refreshing drinks and snacks available for sale by Gourmondo and relax with our…
5:00pm
Visual Arts
Press Play: New Works in Print
An exhibition of contemporary printmaking by Cornish alumni, curated by Ben Beres (Art '00). Opening Reception: Friday, March 1st, 5 - 8pm Gallery On View: March 1st - August 15th, 2024
6:00pm
Film
AGFA August: Indecent Desires (New Restoration)
Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. He realizes the doll looks like Ann, his neighbor. When he realizes Ann experiences everything he does to the doll, he starts to unwind. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director…
6:00pm
Music | Visual Arts | Miscellaneous | Food
Summer at SAM
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
Play, picnic, and create this summer at the Olympic Sculpture Park! SAM presents an entire summer season packed full of programs that combine visual art, music, and community. Thursday evenings bring the party with performances by Seattle-based musicians, hands-on art…
6:00pm
Film
Family Cartoon Happy Hour
It's the Happiest Hour for the whole family! Two hours of classic cartoons to get your weekend started off right. Every Thursday 5:00 until 7:00.
6:30pm
Dance
Summer Heat - Deepening Connection on the Dance Floor
Come home to your body for the ride of being alive. Deepen connection with yourself and others on the dance floor doing the same. Join Kelsey Maloney for Summer Heat--Open Floor dance labs to tune in, breathe, and rest in…
7:00pm
Theater
Dice: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre, University of Washington
The production begins inside the Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre on the University of Washington campus. During the performance, the audience will move outdoors where we will have limited blankets and folding chairs, so bring your own! Dice: A Midsummer Night’s…
7:30pm
Film
The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl-Seattle Parks
Some of us who live outside the city center (howdy from Lake City!) bemoan that the most publicized events can sometimes feel like a hassle to get to, what with heavy traffic and increasing parking rates. But it’s summer, the…
7:30pm
Theater
MISS HOLMES
Center Theatre at Seattle Center Armory
Sherlock Holmes is hot on the trail of a murderer, but there are many obstacles in HER way: her brother Mycroft’s interference, corrupt cops, and a society that doesn’t understand that a woman’s proper place is in–vestigation!Teaming up with her…
7:30pm
Improv | Music | Comedy
Inside Voices: An Improvised Musical
Every person is made up of parts: parts we love, parts we rely on, parts we're afraid of, parts we're ashamed of, and more. Inside Voices is an improvised musical comedy that explores the relationship between ourselves and our parts…
9:00pm
Film
AGFA August: Attack of the Beast Creatures (New Restoration)
A beloved regional horror vortex that was conjured in Connecticut, Attack of the Beast Creatures is a triumph of low budget ingenuity. In an unknown galaxy, a group of travelers crash their boat on an island. At first, all is…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Christine Sun Kim: Ghost(ed) Notes
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California; based in Berlin, Germany) is a groundbreaking artist exploring sound's social and political dimensions. In her first Seattle exhibition at the Henry, Kim presents Ghost(ed) Notes, a mural animating the museum’s east…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Diego Cibelli: Fiori dei Miei Habiti / La Montagne Enchantée
SAM’s ornate Porcelain Room features an evocative ceiling fresco, The Triumph of Valor over Time (ca. 1757) by the greatest Venetian artist of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Tiepolo. Contemporary artist Diego Cibelli presents a site-specific response to the famous painting…
All Day
Film
Free Films For Tacoma Students @ The Grand Cinema!
The Grand Cinema is pleased to participate in a pilot program funded by Tacoma Creates. Students and EBT/Quest card holders living within Tacoma city limits may now attend most* public showings at The Grand Cinema. Any student of any age…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Lessons from the Institute of Empathy
Three Empathics have moved into Seattle Art Museum and are a central feature to the latest installation imagined in our African art galleries. The popular and immersive ChimaTEK: Virtual Chimeric Space by contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk was first shown in…
All Day
Visual Arts | Museum Tour
Permanent Collection: Nordic Journeys
The National Nordic Museum’s core exhibition, Nordic Journeys, spans centuries, from prehistoric migrations to Viking adventures to modern-day challenges and triumphs. Go on a journey across 1.3 million square miles and twelve thousand years to explore the Nordic region. Then…
All Day
Visual Arts
Raúl de Nieves: A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder…
In A window to the see..., Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) presents an interplay of colored light and poetic prompts to guide visitors on a journey of continual transformation…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images
Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images examines how the camera records and constructs American histories. Mining the archives of major US institutions, Syjuco (born 1974, Manila, Philippines) engages with photographs and objects to reframe our view. She uses photographic tools such as color-calibration…
All Day
Visual Arts
The 2024 Neddy Exhibition
An exhibition showcasing the 2024 Neddy Artist Awards finalists and recipients, curated by Philippe Hyojung-Kim. Featuring work by: Eric Chan*, Sofya Belinskaya, Grace Athena Flott, Hank Reavis, Le’Ecia Farmer*, Alison Bremner, Sarah Kavage, and Lynne Siefert. * Neddy Artists Award…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks
Time for a summer “block” party at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry! Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks partners some of the world’s most dazzling and innovative skyscrapers with the world’s most popular building brick. The exhibit features astonishing…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Twilight Child: Antonia Kuo and Martin Wong
A study in personal and artistic resonance, Twilight Child brings together the work of Antonia Kuo (born 1987, New York, New York) and Martin Wong (born 1946, Portland, Oregon; died 1999, San Francisco, California)—two queer diasporic Chinese artists born more…