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…
10:00am
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Fischersund: Faux Flora
Jónsi returns to the National Nordic Museum with the Icelandic artist collective Fischersund. Fischersund presents an immersive multimedia exhibition integrating scent, sound, sculpture, 3D-graphics, and photography to capture the five life cycles of a plant.Faux Flora invents new plant species, the…
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
Theater
Primary Trust
Extended by popular demand—five shows added!Kenneth has lived his entire life in the same small town. Every day he works at the bookstore, then shares happy hour Mai Tais with his best friend. And so what if his best friend…
2:00pm
Music | Theater
Camelot
Everett Performing Arts Center
Passion! Jealousy! Romance! Discover the enchantment of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, one of the greatest musicals of all time. David Lee’s (co-creator of Frasier) intimate new adaptation cuts to the heart of the story to focus on the legendary love triangle at its…
2:00pm
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…
2:00pm
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…
2:00pm
Theater
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girl
Cornish Playhouse @ Seattle Center
Join us for this quirky and heartfelt play that explores themes of change and identity through a series of interconnected stories by Naomi Iizuka.
7:30pm
Literature | Music
Original Music inspired by Parable of the Sower
The year is 2024. The world teeters on the edge of chaos. An authoritarian president looms. Octavia Butler’s astonishingly prescient novel Parable of the Sower weaves together urgent themes of hope, resilience, societal change, and individual perseverance. Texas and Missouri…
7:30pm
Music
Duke Ellington's "Far East Suite"
SRJO joins in on a momentous year of celebrations by music ensembles around the globe, commemorating the 125th anniversary of Ellington's birth by playing one of his greatest works.
7:30pm
Theater
Primary Trust
Extended by popular demand—five shows added!Kenneth has lived his entire life in the same small town. Every day he works at the bookstore, then shares happy hour Mai Tais with his best friend. And so what if his best friend…
7:30pm
Music | Theater
Camelot
Everett Performing Arts Center
Passion! Jealousy! Romance! Discover the enchantment of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot, one of the greatest musicals of all time. David Lee’s (co-creator of Frasier) intimate new adaptation cuts to the heart of the story to focus on the legendary love triangle at its…
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…
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
Theater
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girl
Cornish Playhouse @ Seattle Center
Join us for this quirky and heartfelt play that explores themes of change and identity through a series of interconnected stories by Naomi Iizuka.
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
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 | Exhibit
Lost & Found: Searching For Home
This exhibition explores the complex relationship between place and belonging through the lens of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) identity. In this exhibit, artists unpack attempts to reconnect with their cultural homelands, through both physical and emotional…
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
Dance | Food
Seattle Hwong New Year
Seattle Center Festál presents Seattle Hmong New Year in partnership with Hmong Association of Washington (HAW). The festival celebrates the end of the harvest season with intricate clothing, dance, food, and more.