You made it to February! Congrats. If your quarantine routine is getting stale, see below for our picks for virtual events this week, from CHOP SHOP's Bodies of Work Dance Film Festival Past Event Like List to Annex Theatre's "decide-thine-personal-disaster-style comedy" Vampires of the Neverwood Past Event Like List , and from a Hugo House Word Works lecture with fiction writer Lauren Groff Past Event Like List to a live cooking demo Past Event Like List with local chefs as part of Soul of Seattle Past Event Like List . Plus, check out our StreamLocal events hub, and stay tuned for a roundup of the best socially distanced things to do this weekend.
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MONDAY
GEEK
Lego Harry Potter and The Transgender Witch!
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Tune in every Monday on YouTube for new episodes of this Harry Potter spinoff that not-so-subtly sticks it to J.K. Rowling's transphobic tweets. Its protagonist, Quincy Blueburger, is an 11-year-old muggle who is also a Lego. After getting her window smashed by the franchise's proverbial owl baring an admission letter, she heads to Hogwarts to discover that she is the school's first transgender student. The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony provides the score, and the organizers at Kent's Theatre Battery would like you to know that this parody is "not affiliated with JK Rowling, Warner Brothers, or LEGO."
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Stephanie Anne Johnson: That Blues Show
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Wind down your Monday with Tacoma-bred R&B/soul artist Stephanie Anne Johnson, who will play some genre standards after a chat with KNKX's John Kessler.
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Gretel Ehrlich with Frances McCue
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Prolific travel writer Gretel Ehrlich, who appeared at Elliott Bay way back in the '80s with her novel The Solace of Open Spaces, will read from Unsolaced: Along the Way To All That Is, her new book full of ruminations on climate change and the natural and manmade elements that have shaped her life. She'll be joined by poet Frances McCue.
Samantha Power and Laura Dern – The Education of an Idealist
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Beloved actress Laura Dern will join Samantha Power, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, for the virtual release of Power's memoir, The Education of an Idealist. By purchasing a ticket, you'll be supporting independent booksellers like San Francisco's Bookshop West Portal and Ann Arbor's Literati.
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TUESDAY
FILM
Phantoms of the Opera: From Horror to Heartthrob - Virtual Class
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Depending on which decade you refer to, the Phantom of the Opera can be seen as either a horrible villain or a tragic romantic hero. Dive into the shifting perceptions of the character and the musical as a whole from its 1909 inception to now in this virtual SIFF class.
FOOD & DRINK
Cook Wimpy Burgers & SmashBurgers with Mean Sandwich
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Gather the necessary ingredients and learn how to cook Wimpy Burgers and smash burgers with Dan and Ben of Ballard's Mean Sandwich on Instagram Live.
READINGS & TALKS
Who Was Chief Seattle? A Conversation with Author and Historian David Buerge
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Learn about the legacy of Chief Seattle (our city's namesake) from David M. Buerge, a biographer and a historian to the Duwamish Tribe.
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WEDNESDAY
COMMUNITY
Stick With Love: Seattle Channel Broadcast of NAAM’s King Day Celebration
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If you missed the Northwest African American Museum's online celebration on MLK Day, watch the Seattle Channel's remastered broadcast of the event, which features words from Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Virtual Silent Reading Party
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After years of prompting out-the-door lines at the lovely Hotel Sorrento, the simple pleasure Christopher Frizzelle's Silent Reading Party, which invites people to read a book in a comfy chair while pianist Paul Matthew Moore plays soothing lounge music, endures on the internet, at least until the global pandemic subsides.
READINGS & TALKS
Charles M. Blow with Bakari Sellers
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New York Times columnist and author Charles M. Blow will read from his latest venture, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, in which he "[envisions] a succinct, counterintuitive, and impassioned corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America." He'll appear in conversation with political commentator and politician Bakari Sellers, the first Black American to be named an elected official when he was elected to represent South Carolina's 90th district in 2006.
WA State Book Awards: Aaron Bobrow-Strain And “The Death And Life Of Aida Hernandez”
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The story of Aida Hernandez, an undocumented immigrant who dreamed of moving to New York to teach dance and be reunited with her son, but who instead faced deportation to her birth country (Mexico), is not an isolated one in the US, which is in part what makes it worth reading about. Aaron Bobrow-Strain's Washington Book Award-winning book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez frames Hernandez's story as part of the ongoing crisis at the US Southern border. Join him for a virtual reading.
Sarah Jaffe with Kathi Weeks: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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In America especially, we're taught that work and passion can easily fall under the same umbrella, and that we should strive for a means of income that brings us joy. In her book Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, Sarah Jaffe argues for the liberating power of rejecting that notion. She'll be joined by gender, sexuality, and feminist studies professor Kathi Weeks.
VISUAL ART
Artist Conversations with Carletta Carrington Wilson and Eileen Jimenez
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This online conversation between Carletta Carrington Wilson and Eileen Jimenez, both of whom have work featured in the current Bainbridge Island Museum of Art show Breathe
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, will focus on their experiences of migration, identity, and race.
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THURSDAY
COMMUNITY
Promising Young Woman: Emerald Fennell, FLETCHER and Carey Mulligan in Conversation with Brittany Spanos
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If you loved Promising Young Woman
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, the new movie starring Carrie Mulligan and directed by Emerald Fennell (who worked on Killing Eve and had a starring role in The Crown), then don't miss them in a virtual conversation moderated by Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos. Fennell will first chat with FLETCHER, who is featured on the movie's soundtrack.
FOOD & DRINK
Eat, Drink & Be Generous
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This series of virtual fundraising events will feature special cooking and bartending demos from local chefs and bartenders, including Rodney Hines of Metier Brewing Company this week. Food and cocktail kits supplied by local restaurants will also be available for pickup. Proceeds will go to various causes supporting the community.
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Virtual Night Sky Tour With Pierce College Science Dome
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Take a virtual tour of the night sky via real-time telescope observations captured with the Slooh telescope network.
MUSIC
Hope & Harmony
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Seattle Symphony Conducting Fellow Lina González-Granados will take the helm in this livestreamed concert with soloist Noah Geller. The program is a mystery, but organizers hint that it "aims to inspire hope and healing for audiences everywhere."
READINGS & TALKS
Jennifer Berney with Anne de Marcken
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Jenn Berney exposes the oft-close-mindedness of medical professionals as she recounts her experience visiting fertility clinics with her wife, in turn offering "a wonderful glimpse into the many ways we can become family." Hear her read from her memoir The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs with Elliott Bay.
Katherine Seligman with Heidi Durrow - At The Edge Of The Haight
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After witnessing a murder, a young homeless woman living in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is confronted about reuniting with her family for safety's sake. Author Katherine Seligman will join Heidi Durrow (The Girl Who Fell from the Sky) for a reading and conversation.
Thom Hartmann
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The latest installment of Thom Hartmann's Hidden History book series, which explores the origin of policies that helped shape harmful systems in America, is subtitled American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class. He'll talk more about it in this virtual event with Elliott Bay.
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FRIDAY
COMEDY
Adam Ray & Friends
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Seattle-raised comedian Adam Ray will host a chat with Sue Bird, Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, Iliza Shlesinger, Adam Devine, Melissa McCarthy, and other funny people across the entertainment industry.
FOOD & DRINK
Live Cooking Demo with Local Chefs
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As part of the month-long fundraising series Soul of Seattle
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, tune in for a live cooking demo hosted by Matthew Lewis of the Creole food truck Where Ya At Matt, featuring chef Dre Neeley of the Vashon Island restaurant Gravy and chef Sabrina Tinsley of La Spiga. Add on an optional three-course meal from one of the featured chefs and dig in while you watch.
MUSIC
Grace Love Benefit Concert
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Help fund a permanent space for Nadine's Kitchen, a soul food project owned by singer and chef Grace Love that largely provides YMCA kid meals, by contributing some bucks during this virtual concert.
International Clash Day 2021
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Get ready for a bunch of obscure references and English puns with KEXP's annual day of Clash fandom, where they'll be playing cuts and classics by the English punk band (as well as Clash covers by local bands) and diving into the anti-fascist ethos of the group.
It All Starts with Art - Live from the Glasshouse with Tomo Nakayama
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Seattle folk-rock musician Tomo Nakayama
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will head up the latest installment of Chihuly Garden and Glass's virtual concert series.
PERFORMANCE
Into the Unknown — 17 Minute Stories
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In addition to working within a time constraint, Macha Theatre Works' series of quick-bite solo shows also explores the very concept of time, or more specifically, how we end up where we do, and how we fumble through human existence in our own ways. This week, catch Maria Campoy's Letters I Never Wrote, in which she reveals "the unspoken parts of family history during a time of uncertainty in her life."
READINGS & TALKS
2021 Critical Issues Lecture Series
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University of Washington's School of Art + Art History + Design presents its online lecture series in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery, this week featuring Hồng-Ân Truong, who "uses photography, sound, video, and performance to examine histories of war and immigrant and refugee narratives," according to her bio.
Seattle Arts & Lectures 'Women You Need to Know Series' presents Gabrielle Hamilton
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Gabrielle Hamilton, the chef/owner of the East Village restaurant Prune and the author of the acclaimed memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, will join Seattle Arts & Lectures for their Women You Need to Know series.
Word Works | Lauren Groff on Fiction’s Hidden Architectures
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Amazingly talented fiction writer Lauren Groff, a National Book Award finalist for Florida and Fates & Furies, will talk with Hugo House and aspiring writers about the differences between the creation of short stories and novels. Groff will also engage in a Q&A with Where'd You Go, Bernadette author Maria Semple.
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SATURDAY
READINGS & TALKS
Ron Chew with Sally Yamasaki - My Unforgotten Seattle
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Gentrification has forced many Asian American-owned Seattle businesses to close throughout the years, from family-owned shops to small restaurants to sewing factories. Local writer and social justice activist Ron Chew reflects on places he's seen come and go—and what that means for the legacy of Asian American culture in Seattle—in his memoir My Unforgotten Seattle.
MULTI-DAY
FESTIVALS
Westerlies Fest
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Brooklyn-by-way-of-Seattle jazz, roots, and chamber-influenced brass quartet the Westerlies (trumpeters Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands, and trombone players Andy Clausen and Willem de Koch) have never forgotten their Emerald City roots. They'll return this first full weekend in February to host their third eponymous music fest, which, according to press materials, was created "to give back to the musical ecosystem that raised them by engaging local students, highlighting local talent, and facilitating explosive collaborations between artists from Seattle and beyond." Basically, workshops at area schools by day, and concerts that find the Westerlies performing with a different guest artist by night. Needless to say, it'll all take place online this year. Don't miss events like Margaux
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(Fri), Morgan Henderson
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(Fri), Michael Mayo
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(Sat), and ChamberQUEER
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FILM
2021 HUMP! Film Festival
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Every year, The Stranger puts out the call to sex-havers everywhere to submit a homegrown amateur porn film depicting whatever they're into (barring poop, kids, and animals, of course). The result is an incredibly diverse representation of human sexuality in all its straight, gay, trans, queer, kinky, funny, pissy, painful, and pretty forms. Let's see what wild spins people put on their submissions that were created during the lockdown, shall we?
(Friday-Saturday)
2021 Sundance Film Festival
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For the first time since it began in 1978, the Sundance Film Festival will partner with the Northwest Film Forum. The seven days of programming will be available digitally due to COVID scuttling any in-person festival plans. The shift to an online festival will bring 70 plus features, 50 short films, and various Q&As right into audiences' homes. The festival will offer live showings of films that can also be viewed anytime within a three-hour window and for a second time two days after the premiere. Head here
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for details on the films that still have tickets (like Ailey
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, First Date
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, and Night of the Kings
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). CHASE HUTCHINSON
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MUSIC
Cuarteto Latinoamericano: A Search for Musical Language
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Learn the history that shaped the renowned Latinx string quartet Cuarteto Latinoamericano from Gabriela Ortiz, first violinist Saúl Bitrán, UW professor Anthony Geist, and Meany Center Executive and Artistic Director Michelle Witt.
(Friday-Sunday)
MUSIC
Meklit: Live at Studio 124
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Meklit Hadero is a very talented and enchanting Bay Area–based Ethiopian-born singer who in 2010 dropped an excellent solo album, On a Day Like This, and in 2012 dropped an equally excellent hiphop album, Colored People’s Time Machine, with the local rapper and activist Gabriel Teodros. Hadero moves between folk, traditional, indie rock, jazz, and hiphop with the ease that a water spider skips across a sunny pond, and she has a voice that is at once powerful and dreamy. Hadero has also worked with local jazzers Evan Flory-Barnes and D’Vonne Lewis, who happen to be half of the band Industrial Revelation. CHARLES MUDEDE
(Monday-Friday)
PERFORMANCE
CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work Dance Film Festival
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This contemporary dance festival has presented performances from troupes and artists around the world, with the goal of reaching diverse audiences and connecting people of all abilities with dance instruction. This year's festival can be enjoyed from home, featuring online dance films from Daniel Costa Dance, Eva Stone and Simone Elliott of Root Collective, Mark Haim, NYC's Omar Román De Jesús, and others from near and far. Films will be presented in installments on Thursdays, with Q&As with each week's featured artists to follow on Sundays.
(Thursday-Sunday)
Vampires of the Neverwood
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Annex Theatre's new "decide-thine-personal-disaster-style comedy" follows Jonelle Dinklebreeze and her mission to retrieve the mythical Solstone, during which time she gets wrapped up in a side quest: searching for the droves of missing people in her hometown of Pipistrellus. Were they kidnapped by vampires? You'll have to tune in on YouTube and engage with "pole dance fighting, dungeon crawling, over 20 different puzzles, sitcom-esque setups bound to trigger your social anxiety, several odd subplots involving Chicken Marsala and a Lacrosse team, and so much sexual degeneracy" to find out.
(Tuesday-Wednesday)
