Seattle Events Calendar
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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…
7:00pm
Film
Lilo & Stitch: 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…
7:00pm
Film
AGFA August: The Little Shop of Horrors
Seymour Krelboin works in the Skid Row flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik. In his spare time, Seymour creates a new plant species he names Audrey Junior in honor of his girlfriend Audrey. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper…
7:30pm
Music
Mercury Rising @ OlyTheater
If you missed Mercury Rising's sold out show at the Washington Center last year, now is your change to see them like never before... in the intimacy of a black box theater. Twenty four songs. Six performers. One epic night…
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…
8:00pm
Film
A League of Their Own (1992) @ Maple Leaf Reservoir Park
This summer marks the third anniversary of the Movies by the Tower series, a collaboration between Scarecrow Video and the Maple Leaf Community Council. What began as an outdoor family movie night in Councilmember Billy Thompson’s backyard has quickly grown…
9:00pm
Film
AGFA August: The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club (New Restorations)
A double feature of What Really Happened to Baby Jane and All About Alice. Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films…
All Day
Visual Arts | Food
Black Arts Fest by Festival Sundiata
Armory Food and Event Hall Seattle Center | Mural Amphitheatre
Seattle Center Festál presents Festival Sundiata presents Black Arts Fest in partnership with Sundiata African American Cultural Association (SAACA). The festival focuses on intergenerational activities and promotion of traditional and contemporary African American heritage, showcasing local entertainment, photography, food merchants…
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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
Proto Kelp
A non-profit, non-commercial, entirely volunteer-run installation gallery in Seattle's Pioneer Square.
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…
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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…
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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…