Seattle Events Calendar
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Visual Arts | Workshops/Classes
Family Saturday | Art in the Air
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
Spend a fun-filled morning with your family exploring art and the environment! Build with materials that catch wind, light, and sound with teaching artist, Claudia Villalobos! This program takes place outside at the Olympic Sculpture Park on the covered north…
1:00pm
Theater
Young Dragon
By Keiko GreenBefore he was a legend, Bruce Lee was just a young man trying to figure it all out—right here in Seattle. This action-packed, soul-searching story follows the Young Dragon as he navigates a new country and finds his…
2:00pm
Dance
2026 Original Works
Original Works is an annual celebration of the incredible minds and movements of VCA’s dance student body, alongside those of community dance professionals and dancers from additional island studios. The goal of the concert, since its inception (over a decade ago)…
2:00pm
Dance
Firebird
Firebird is back after a 20-year hiatus! Ming Cho Lee’s breathtaking sets, the epic Stravinsky score, and choreography from PNB Founding Artistic Director Kent Stowell work in harmony in this theatrical one-act ballet. Balanced perfectly by Alejandro Cerrudo’s most playful…
4:30pm
Theater
Young Dragon
By Keiko GreenBefore he was a legend, Bruce Lee was just a young man trying to figure it all out—right here in Seattle. This action-packed, soul-searching story follows the Young Dragon as he navigates a new country and finds his…
7:00pm
Dance
2026 Original Works
Original Works is an annual celebration of the incredible minds and movements of VCA’s dance student body, alongside those of community dance professionals and dancers from additional island studios. The goal of the concert, since its inception (over a decade ago)…
7:30pm
Dance
Firebird
Firebird is back after a 20-year hiatus! Ming Cho Lee’s breathtaking sets, the epic Stravinsky score, and choreography from PNB Founding Artistic Director Kent Stowell work in harmony in this theatrical one-act ballet. Balanced perfectly by Alejandro Cerrudo’s most playful…
8:00pm
Music
Andrew Bird with Ted Poor
Meany Hall (Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater)
Grammy-nominated violinist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird joins acclaimed jazz drummer Ted Poor for a night of genre-defying music. Blending elements of folk, jazz, classical and indie rock, their sound is adventurous and soulful. Bird’s signature whistling, looping and lyrical…
8:00pm
Theater
The Outsider
By Paul Slade SmithDirected by Tammis DoyleNed Newley doesn't even want to be governor. He's terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur…
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
Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest
Inspired by the region’s natural beauty and rapidly changing city, this exhibition showcases artists who told the raw story of Seattle in the 20th century. By sharing the Pacific Northwest’s perspective through trending art styles—including Social Realism, Surrealism, and Abstract…
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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…
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Visual Arts | Exhibit
DRIFT: Meadow
Art’s capacity to delight and to make you curious is a characteristic trait of the Netherlands-based studio DRIFT, founded in 2007 by Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (born 1980) and Ralph Nauta (born 1978). The duo leads a multidisciplinary team that…
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
Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́
ojo|-|ólǫ́ (pronounced oh-ho hol-ohn) is an exhibition of recent and newly commissioned work by Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege (b. 1994, Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico]) that includes sculpture, textile, collage, and video, activated by moments of performance. Across this work, Riege…
All Day
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…
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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…
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Visual Arts | Exhibit
Myron Curry | Soulful Impact
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
For artist Myron Curry, art is an expression of emotions, interests, curiosities, fascinations, beauty and it’s affects. His art is absolute therapy. He crystalizes moments in life entangled with others like a tree's roots enabling them to last forever with…
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
Visual Arts
Qiu Zhijie: Map of the History of Science and Technology
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
For the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park, the artist designed a Map of the History of Science and Technology. In this project, Qiu interweaves scientific and technical advancements in Asia and the West from ancient to contemporary times. The…
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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…
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Visual Arts | Exhibit
Samantha Yun Wall: What We Leave Behind
Samantha Yun Wall’s new paintings use overlapping silhouettes of female figures as portals to unknown spaces and different temporal realms. Impetus for the new body of work is a Korean folk tale in which the Pasque flower is symbolic of…