Seattle Events Calendar
10:00am
Visual Arts | Exhibit
New Year’s All Year Round: Theater, Dance & Sound
The New Year is a great time for reflecting, celebrating, and spending time with family. Lion Dancers move to the sound of drums and firecrackers. Families gather around the table to enjoy a feast. Come learn about the origins of…
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
Dance
All Balanchine
This program highlights the range and creativity George Balanchine brought to all of his work, and how he used the music of Vivaldi, Corelli, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky to inspire and influence his choreography. This meeting of music and dance is…
4:00pm
Theater
Uhuru - part of the New Works Northwest Festival
Mshale, a Mount Kilimanjaro tour guide, dreams of marrying a white woman and moving to the West. Sprite doesn’t like white people and sets out to decolonize what he deems “his mountain.” Henry and Frannie are white missionaries who claim…
4:30pm
Film
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [In-Person Only]
(Tobe Hooper, United States, 1986, 1hour 40min, in English)In the dozen years since the original massacre, countless more people have vanished without a trace and, despite fears from the locals that Leatherface and his family of cannibals have resumed their…
7:00pm
Theater
Legacies: A Ghost Story - part of the New Works Northwest Festival
The roof is caving in, the floorboards are shifting beneath her feet, and the walls crumble at the slightest touch. Cashew’s house is falling down around her, and she must get out before it collapses. As she packs to leave…
7:30pm
Theater
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE is a parable inspired by the Chinese play CHALK CIRCLE. Written by Bertolt Brecht at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of an…
7:30pm
Theater
The Park
Seattle Public Theater at the Green Lake Bathhouse
Bev and Libby meet on the same park bench, under the same tree, sharing sandwiches, dreams and memories for the entirety of their lives. Or maybe a century. Or maybe an eternity. Generations of strangers, families, dogs and ghosts share…
8:00pm
Theater
The Stupidest, Scariest Time
THE STUPIDEST, SCARIEST TIME is a new work of devised theater parodying the joyless productivity of modern life.Welcome to the Boundless Ocean Productivity Bootcamp, replete with conference tables; nametags; multimedia screens; and workbooks for achieving personal and professional goals. Your…
8:00pm
Film
We're All Going To The World's Fair [In-Person Only]
(Jane Schoenbrun, United States, 2021, 86 min, in English)Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Almost Live! (Almost an Exhibit)
The sketch comedy show Almost Live! aired on KING 5 from 1984 to 1999. It poked fun at regional stereotypes, gave us memorable characters and sketches, and launched local celebrities and national careers. It was a renowned success at a…
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
Dance | Music | Visual Arts
Diwali: Lights of India
Seattle Center Festál presents Diwali: Lights of India in partnership with Northwest Share. This year’s virtual festival features music, dance, visual art, martial arts, a cooking demonstration and more.
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
Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle: Conversations with Our Elders
Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle explores the many roles Elders play in our communities, celebrates their lives and achievements, and honors the wisdom gained with time. This exhibit elaborates on who an Elder can be and what a society that values…
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
Film
Seattle Hip Hop Film Festival 2024
SAVE THE DATE!Seattle Hip Hop Film Festival is set for November 2nd this year! NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!The Seattle Hip Hop Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 5th annual festival taking place November 2nd at Washington Hall. We are…