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…
12:00pm
Film
AGFA August: The Stairway to Stardom Mixtape
AGFA August From homemade R&B party hits to aggro stand-up comics, from interpretive dance by zombified children to amateur magicians, Stairway to Stardom is an unending treasure trove of bizarro entertainment that has been a staple among tape traders for…
2:00pm
Music
Strings in the Garden
Join the Auburn Symphony String Quartet for a lovely afternoon in the Garden for fun, family-friendly favorites! Pack a picnic and enjoy some beautiful music with the best view in town. Bring your own lawn chairs or use ours. No…
2:00pm
Film
AGFA August: The Films of Sarah Jacobson
Sarah Jacobson's punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism, standing as a testament to the vision, determination, and raw talent of the Queen of Underground Cinema. Tickets on sale August 1. A double feature…
2:00pm
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…
5:00pm
Film
AGFA August: The McPherson Tape
On a fall evening in 1983, a young man videotaping his niece's fifth birthday party keeps the camera running as an alien invasion unfolds. Tickets on sale August 1. The world’s first found footage horror movie! A decade before The…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…