Seattle Events Calendar
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.
7:00pm
Theater
Afro Pick
Pendo can't stay in America - at least, not without an enormous amount of money she doesn't have. As her visa time runs out, she confronts the horrors and opportunities of migration in this transatlantic dramedy. Originally commissioned by Atlantic…
7:30pm
Theater
Here There Are Blueberries
2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist | Five-time Lucille Lortel Award nominee | Two-time Helen Hayes Award winner | Named one of the “10 Best Plays of 2024” (Wall Street Journal)In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk…
7:30pm
Theater
The Heart Sellers
Alone on Thanksgiving in 1973 while their husbands work long hours, young immigrants Luna and Jane meet as strangers over the frozen turkeys at the grocery store and decide to celebrate this unfamiliar holiday together. As they bond over their…
7:30pm
Theater
Li
Seattle Public Theater at the Green Lake Bathhouse
By Wei HeDirected by Christie ZhaoA Co-Production with SiS Productions & Seattle Public TheaterLi, a mid-career thief from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, suddenly finds herself taking on too much responsibility. She breaks into an apartment and ends up emptying her pockets…
7:30pm
Music | Storytelling
SHe Said
ABOUT THE SHOW:SHe Said is a powerful new musical from local musician and vocalist Jen Ayers, inspired by her own family’s journey. When her husband comes out as transgender, their relationship embarks on a transformational path of love, identity, and…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
A Room for Animal Intelligence
We, the animals of the world, invite you to meet with us at SAM. One hundred representatives are waiting to talk about what we see happening on our planet. A few of us share your couch, while others of us…
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
Charlene Liu: Scallion
Charlene Liu (b. 1975, Taiwan; based in Eugene, OR) creates paintings, prints, and mixed media installations that blend family histories, cultural references, and decorative patterns. Liu incorporates wide-ranging traditions into her imagery, drawing from nature, food, still life painting, and…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Chris Kallmyer: Song Cycle
Song Cycle is a kinetic sculpture featuring ever-changing poetry. Part imagined, part remembered, and part observed, the revolving text is continually inscribed and reinscribed by a 256-character split-flap readymade sign reminiscent of the arrival and departure boards seen at airports…
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…
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Visual Arts | Exhibit
Figure/Ground: New Criteria
In Western art, the relationship between figure and ground has long informed creative practices. Through techniques like illusionism, abstraction, multiple perspectives, and disruptions of the flat picture plane, artists have manipulated composition, depth, and perception to distinguish between forms and…
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
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: we leak, we exceed
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, East Palo Alto, CA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a self-described “learner” who creates multi-media works that explore the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation. She often integrates…
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 | Exhibit
Rodney McMillian: Neighbors
Rodney McMillian (b. 1969, Columbia, South Carolina; based in Los Angeles, California) works with the social and political histories of the United States and how they shape our daily lives. Using existing texts and domestic materials—such as house paint on…
All Day
Visual Arts | Museum Tour | Exhibit
The MiG-21 Project
The Museum of Flight’s dazzling new exhibit is the world premiere of The MiG-21 Project, SouthAfrican artist Ralph Ziman’s 5-year, multidisciplinary project transforming a decommissionedCold War-era, Soviet-designed MiG-21 fighter jet into a stunning work of art entirely covered intens of…