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…
1:30pm
Music | Theater
Parade
Book by Alfred UhryMusic and Lyrics by Jason Robert BrownCo-conceived and originally directed by Harold PrinceDirection by Tony Award® winner Michael ArdenBased on a true story, Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life…
6:00pm
Panel Discussion | Visual Arts
Artist Panel & Launch Party: A Journey Through Art and Self
Get ready for an unforgettable evening as two powerful forces in the creative community, Fancy Vargas, founder of @eventsbyelevate_ and @cultivate_the_collective, and Selenna, host of the @hotgirlshealingpodcast, unite for an empowering celebration of art, women, and community. On April 17th, 2025…
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.
7:30pm
Theater
Emma
Emma Woodhouse is clever, educated and energetic...and in imminent danger of going mad with idleness. In a time when respectable ladies are expected to sit quietly at home, she desperately needs projects--and prides herself on matchmaking, much to the chagrin…
7:30pm
Music | Theater
Parade
Book by Alfred UhryMusic and Lyrics by Jason Robert BrownCo-conceived and originally directed by Harold PrinceDirection by Tony Award® winner Michael ArdenBased on a true story, Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life…
7:30pm
Theater
Athena
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
By Gracie Gardner Directed by Kathryn Van MeterIn Collaboration with Salle Auriol Presented in collaboration with Salle Auriol Fencing Club NY Times Critic's Pick!ADVANCE. PARRY. REPEAT. Mary Wallace and Athena are both seventeen-year-old fencers training for Nationals. Mary Wallace lives in a…
7:30pm
Dance
Roméo et Juliette
The original star-crossed lovers are back on the McCaw Hall stage! Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette distills the Shakespearean tragedy to its most moving, timeless core. Watch as young love blooms, grows, and overwhelms in this magnetic refresh of the classic…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
2025 Rebel Beauties 2: Women in the Arts Showcase
Prepare to be inspired! ELEVATE is thrilled to announce a captivating showcase celebrating the diverse talents of 30 exceptional women artists from our local community. In partnership with The Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM). Curated by Fancy Vargas.This unique exhibition, unlike…
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…