Seattle Upcoming Events
Lessons from the Institute of Empathy
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
Diego Cibelli: Fiori dei Miei Habiti / La Montagne Enchantée
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
Chris Kallmyer: Song Cycle
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
Qiu Zhijie: Map of the History of Science and Technology
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | 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…
A Room for Animal Intelligence
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
Samantha Yun Wall: What We Leave Behind
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
DRIFT: Meadow
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
At times reminiscent of biological structures and geological formations, Tara Donovan’s work elevates mass-produced industrial materials, such as tar paper, drinking straws, or the silvery metal rings of slinky toys, into mesmerizing installations. Her cumulative process transfigures the mundane into…
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Free
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
Get up close with Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) at the Olympic Sculpture Park, where you can walk among these monumental sculptures. Consisting of 12 zodiac head sculptures arranged in an arcing semicircle, each animal in Circle of…
Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Seattle Art Museum
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…
Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Henry Art Gallery
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…
Charlene Liu: Scallion
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Henry Art Gallery
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…
Boren Banner Series: Chloe King
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Frye Art Museum
Chloe King’s vividly layered, monumental compositions project a surreal vision of contemporary existence. For their Boren Banner—the artist’s first museum presentation in Seattle—King extends their ongoing inquiry into the politics of the dance floor, exploring Queer nightlife as a site…
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Frye Art Museum
For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his…
Frye Salon + Jonathan Lasker
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Frye Art Museum
Frye Salon is both a fixture and a living experiment—an ever-evolving installation that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s founding-era collection. The gallery features more than one hundred paintings in a floor-to-ceiling presentation mode known as “salon style,” recalling the…
Tom Lloyd
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Frye Art Museum
Artist, activist, and community organizer Tom Lloyd (1929–1996) was an early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium. Working in collaboration with an engineer at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Lloyd developed a radically experimental practice in…
The Sky Is a Diasporic Space by YouthCAN
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Wing Luke Museum
The Sky is a Diasporic Space is YouthCAN’s newest exhibit, exploring collective memory through art. In response to ongoing attacks on migrant communities, students created original works while learning how creativity has supported solidarity movements globally. The exhibit features block…
Ten Thousand Things
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Wing Luke Museum
Curated by award-winning public radio podcast host and former civic poet Shin Yu Pai, Ten Thousand Things is an exploration of the objects that shape our identities, histories, and cultural narratives. Inspired by her experience cataloging artifacts at the Wing…
DISplace
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Wing Luke Museum
Co-curated by Native Hawaiian artist and kapa-maker, Lehuauakea, and artist and educator, Kanani Miyamoto, this exhibition sheds light on the often-overlooked histories and movement of people who connect Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Northwest since the arrival of the first documented…
Lost & Found: Searching For Home
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Wing Luke Museum
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…
Almost Live! (Almost an Exhibit)
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | Museum of History & Industry
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…
Free Films For Tacoma Students @ The Grand Cinema! Free
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | 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…
Permanent Collection: Nordic Journeys
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | All Day | National Nordic Museum
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…
Parisa Ghaderi | The Wrong Order Free
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | 11:00am | ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
Artist BioParisa Ghaderi is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. Born and raised in Iran, she earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.Her work has been…
Animation Domination
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | 12:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
The Last Unicorn is a fantasy film about the last remaining unicorn on earth who leaves her home in the lilac woods in the hope that she will find another unicorn somewhere in the world. A wondrous adventure begins; capture, exhibition…
Camp
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | 4:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life. She feels the weight of these accidents like a curse has been placed upon her. Her dad suggests she go to a Camp for troubled youth…
Drunken Noodles
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | 4:30pm | Northwest Film Forum
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. He begins interning at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once encountered is being exhibited. As moments from his past and present begin…
Drunken Noodles
Next Up: Sunday, August 2 | 7:30pm | Northwest Film Forum
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. He begins interning at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once encountered is being exhibited. As moments from his past and present begin…
Free Admission @ Seattle Asian Art Museum Free
Next Up: Thursday, August 6 | All Day | Seattle Asian Art Museum
This 1933 Art Deco building in lush Volunteer Park is SAM’s original home and the location of our extensive Asian art collection, making it one of the most beloved treasures in our creative, cultured, and curious city. Seattle Art Museum…
Free Admission at the National Nordic Museum Free
Next Up: Thursday, August 6 | 10:00am | National Nordic Museum
On the First Thursday of every month, general admission to the Museum is free!
Family Cartoon Happy Hour Free
Next Up: Thursday, August 6 | 6:00pm | Central Cinema
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.
First Friday Art Walk
Next Up: Friday, August 7 | 5:00pm | Collective Visions Gallery
In Downtown Bremerton and Manette you will find businesses and galleries that host local artists to show their fine art, ceramics, sculpture and other creations. Every month has different entertainment and live music sprinkled in breweries and cafes. Many businesses…
TeenTix Summer Party & MTAC Gallery Opening Free
Next Up: Saturday, August 8 | 11:00am | The Vera Project
Celebrate all the fun summer has to offer with TeenTix and the Colorization Collective.We will feature the artwork of the teen cohort from the 2026 Mentorship for Teen Artists of Color (MTAC), and join in the artistic fun with our…
Face The Music: A Tribute to the Music of ELO
Next Up: Saturday, August 8 | 8:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
Get ready for an unforgettable night celebrating the iconic sound of Electric Light Orchestra! Face the Music brings the magic of ELO to life with lush harmonies, soaring strings, and all the classic hits you know and love—from “Mr. Blue Sky”…
Is This Real? A Wipers Tribute ft. Matt Cameron
Next Up: Wednesday, August 12 | 8:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
Featuring Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam) on guitar and vocals alongside Caspian Coberly, Will Andrews, and Shane Smith, Is This Real? delivers a high-energy celebration of the music of the Wipers, while also weaving in original material from Cameron…
Strange and Found Live Video Show!
Next Up: Wednesday, August 12 | 8:00pm | Grand Illusion Cinema
Chicago VHS all-stars Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have a combined VHS collection of 16,000 tapes and will be celebrating their first year of touring their collection by showing their favorite finds from 202…
A Tribute to The Carpenters: Featuring Sue Nixon & The Bake’s Place All-Stars
Next Up: Thursday, August 13 | 7:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
A Tribute to The Carpenters: Featuring Sue Nixon & The Bake’s Place All-Stars – an ensemble of Seattle’s finest musicians – this show blends lush harmonies, rich instrumentation, and world-class artistry. In addition to Sue Nixon, three more exceptional vocalists—…
Free Family Flick: The Goonies Free
Next Up: Saturday, August 15 | 10:00am | The Grand Cinema
FREE FAMILY FLICK! The third Saturday of each month, The Grand Cinema welcomes guests of all ages to a family-friendly movie for free! Doors open at 9:30 am and movies start at 10:00 am. Seating is first-come, first-served. All children…
Open Stage at Old Stove Gardens
Next Up: Monday, August 17 | 7:00pm
Join us August 17, 2026 at 7:00pm for our summer Open Stage at Old Stove Gardens in Ballard.Open Stage is where new acts are born, seasoned performers test fresh material, and absolutely anything can happen. Every show is different, packed…
Mamma Mia! – Craft Night
Next Up: Wednesday, August 19 | 7:00pm | The Grand Cinema
It's Craft Night at the Grand! We'll keep lights up for the movie and encourage all attendees to bring a craft or project to work on while they watch socially.A spirited young bride-to-be (Amanda Seyfried) living with her single mother…
Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut - New 4k Restoration
Next Up: Thursday, August 27 | 7:00pm | Grand Illusion Cinema
For its 25th anniversary, GYPSY 83 has been completely reimagined as a brand-new Director’s Cut, restored in 4K from the 35mm camera negative. Now featuring over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage and containing more legendary goth songs from bands like…
Mysterious Skin (4k Restoration)
Next Up: Saturday, August 29 | 4:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
At the age of eight, Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now, ten years later, the two boys couldn’t be more different. Neil is a charismatic but emotionally aloof male hustler, while Brian…
Three Bewildered People In The Night
Next Up: Sunday, August 30 | 7:30pm | Northwest Film Forum
Long unseen and hard to find, Gregg Araki’s debut feature film Three Bewildered People In The Night is a stunning example of low/no budget DIY filmmaking at its best. Following a messy and tumultuous love triangle held together by a gay performance…
Zepparella: The Led Zeppelin Powerhouse
Next Up: Saturday, September 12 | 8:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
Zepparella is the Led Zeppelin Powerhouse! Vocalist Anna Kristina, Guitarist Gretchen Menn, Bassist Holly West, and Drummer Clementine have brought their passion for the sacred music of the greatest band in the world all over the world. Zepparella shows replicate…
Labyrinth - Craft Night
Next Up: Wednesday, September 16 | 7:00pm | The Grand Cinema
It's Craft Night at the Grand! We'll keep lights up for the movie and encourage all attendees to bring a craft or project to work on while they watch socially.Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly)…
The Music of Studio Ghibli with the Seattle Symphony
Next Up: Wednesday, September 16 | 7:30pm | Benaroya Hall
Embark on a musical journey through the beloved worlds of Studio Ghibli with selections from Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away. Performed live by the Seattle Symphony, Joe Hisaishi’s iconic scores capture the wonder…
The Ultimate Doors: Tribute to The Doors
Next Up: Thursday, October 1 | 7:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
The Ultimate Doors has long been celebrated as one of the most authentic and powerful Doors tribute bands in the country. Described by fans and critics as “uncannily true to the original” and “the closest you’ll get to seeing The…
Eurasia Consort: Music of Paradise
Next Up: Saturday, October 10 | 7:30pm | Center for Chamber Music
In the far reaches of northwestern China lies Dunhuang, a cultural crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, famed for its hundreds of caves filled with Buddhist frescoes depicting music and dance. Inspired by these vivid murals, the Eurasia Consort brings…
Eternal Seasons
Next Up: Sunday, October 11 | 2:30pm | Auburn Performing Arts Center
In Four Seasons Recomposed, Max Richter returns to that familiar landscape and listens from the inside. Some moments remain close to Vivaldi. Others shift, pulse, and glow with Richter’s own sound. Rather than replacing the original, Richter steps into the…
Rumbarroco: Latin-Baroque Fiesta
Next Up: Sunday, October 11 | 4:00pm | Good Shepherd Center, 4th Floor Chapel
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Rumbarroco Ensemble presents an immersive musical voyage that traverses the vibrant landscape of Ibero-American music. Through the fiery strings of the Fandango and the graceful patterns of the Marionas, they pay tribute to the Morenas—the…
Rhapsodic Musings
Next Up: Friday, October 16 | All Day | 415 Westlake
Emerald City Music's 11th season opens with a vibrant, festive evening of string music, bringing together Seattle and Olympia's most celebrated string instrumentalists.
Shoshana Bean
Next Up: Wednesday, October 21 | 7:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
Grammy Award winner and three-time Tony Award nominee Shoshana Bean can currently be seen starring in The Lost Boys musical on Broadway. Prior to that she starred in Alicia Keys’ hit Broadway musical, Hell’s Kitchen. Her portrayal of ‘Jersey’ earned…
Hell’s Belles
Next Up: Friday, October 23 | 8:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
HELL’S BELLES are first and foremost dedicated AC/DC fanatics. This is what we all have in common. We’re all part of a huge community of devotees to one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands in the world. This is who we…
MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 5: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Next Up: Saturday, October 24 | 8:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
7:30PM - DOORS8:00PM - SPECIAL INTRODUCTION WITHMISS MONDAY MOURNING8:30PM - SHOWTIME!A mysterious inheritance brings horror hostess Elvira to the most uptight town imaginable, where pearl-clutching locals and a dangerously low neckline collide in one of the silliest and spookiest camp…
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
Next Up: Friday, November 13 | 8:00pm | 415 Westlake
Over two evenings in Seattle and Olympia, pianist Gilles Vonsattel offers an intimate journey through nine of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas, exploring distinct facets of the composer's evolving voice, distilled through the singular presence of one artist at the…
Vox Luminis: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Next Up: Friday, November 20 | 7:30pm | St. James Cathedral
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 (formally titled “Vespro della Beata Vergine”) is a monumental work of sacred music that bridges the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Published while Monteverdi was working in Mantua, it combines traditional Gregorian chant with innovative compositional techniques…
Disassembly of Sound
Next Up: Friday, December 4 | 8:00pm | 415 Westlake
What is music? When is sound considered music? This program explores the answers to these obscure questions through works that dissolve the boundaries between silence, gesture, dance, and theater.
Holiday Spectacular
Next Up: Monday, December 7 | 7:00pm | Auburn Performing Arts Center
Led by Music Director Wesley Schulz, this family-friendly evening celebrates the warmth and wonder of the season with the full sound of the orchestra. Expect a concert built for all ages, with music that brings back memories, creates new ones…
Seffarine: De Fez a Jerez
Next Up: Saturday, January 23 | 7:30pm | Good Shepherd Center, 4th Floor Chapel
Seffarine invites audiences into a sweeping musical journey across time and tide, tracing a lineage that stretches from the courts of Al-Andalus to the vibrant, evolving traditions of today. This special program moves fluidly between the intricate beauty of classical…
Puppets & Piano
Next Up: Sunday, January 24 | 2:30pm | Auburn Performing Arts Center
This is the world of Petrushka, Stravinsky’s vivid story of spectacle, illusion, and a puppet who feels far more human than anyone expects. Set at a Shrovetide fair in 1830s St. Petersburg, the score bristles with sharp rhythms, bright colors…
Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima: Tormento '600
Next Up: Sunday, January 24 | 4:00pm | Town Hall
Founded by famed viola da gamba virtuoso Cristiano Contadin, the ensemble Opera Prima dedicates this concert to exploring the Italian repertoire of the 1600s (the Seicento) with technical mastery and buoyant enthusiasm. They make their EMS début alongside a favorite…