If your quarantine routine is getting stale, see below for our picks for virtual events this week, from Cafe Nordo's pillow fort-themed virtual soiree Past Event Like List to the Sundance Film Festival Past Event Like List , and from the virtual opening reception Past Event Like List for Anastacia-Reneé's new Frye Art Museum exhibit Past Event Like List to a Seattle Arts & Lectures talk with Circe author Madeline Miller 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
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Collide-O-Scope: Morning in America
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The trippy video series Collide-O-Scope will provide a much-needed jolt to your Monday routine with their "deliriously free-wheelin' phantasia of ephemeral footage fun."
READINGS & TALKS
André Aciman: Homo Irrealis
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If you ask Italian American writer and Proust scholar André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name), the concept of time is an unwelcome guest when it comes to our memories and imaginations. Hear him draw from the likes of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, and Fernando Pessoa in this online talk about his new book of essays, Homo Irrealis.
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TUESDAY
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What The Femme: Costuming the Final Frontier - Virtual Class
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Sci-fi geeks and fashion nerds alike can join the hosts of the Women at Warp podcast (a bi-weekly program "committed to examining Star Trek from a feminist perspective") for a breakdown of the fabulous and questionable outfits worn by the ladies of Star Trek.
FOOD & DRINK
Eat, Drink & Be Generous
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This series of virtual fundraising events from United Way of King County will feature special cooking and bartending demos from local chefs and bartenders, like Ethan Stowell this week. Food and cocktail kits supplied by local restaurants will also be available for pickup.
Virtual Author Talk: Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food by Hsiao-Ching Chou
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Award-winning food writer and cooking instructor Hsiao-Ching Chou will discuss Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food, the meatless follow-up to her cookbook Chinese Soul Food, with Meet Me At the Bamboo Table author Anita Verna Crofts. She'll also demonstrate a simple stir-fry recipe for gai lan with oyster mushrooms.
PERFORMANCE
Minna Lee, Andrew Schneider, Fox Whitney, and You: Acting Stranger
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Back in September, local performers Minna Lee, Andrew Schneider, and Fox Whitney led an interactive project dealing with the process of rebuilding connection amid the COVID-19 lockdown, with scenes featuring everything from video conference calls to a "full embrace" with a complete stranger. Audience members didn't just observe the show—they were active participants tasked with learning lines from any one of a series of short scenes and acting them out in socially distant locations throughout the city or, in some cases, over video. "It speaks to that loneliness, but it also speaks to the intense care people still have for people they don't know in the midst of all this," Whitney told Crosscut. Now, join the project's creative team for an online screening of a selection of the short videos.
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Alice Wong, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Elsa Sjunneson
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Alice Wong, the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, will join up virtually with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elsa Sjunneson, who both contributed to the essay collection Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore with Madeline ffitch - The Freezer Door
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The author of the Lambda Award-winning memoir The End of San Francisco and approximately one million other essays and stories and books continues to explore her fascination with queer characters and imaginations, this time as they ride the routine waves of suburban life, in The Freezer Door. Join the author for an online talk with PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Madeline ffitch and Third Place Books.
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WEDNESDAY
MUSIC
'Dear Erich:' International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
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Honor the memory of the six million Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau (aka International Holocaust Remembrance Day). For this online event with Holocaust Center for Humanity, composer and jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal will perform excerpts from his opera Dear Erich, with local opera singers Megan Parker and Robert McPherson.
Mozart Birthday Toast
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Google tells us that Mozart was a big, big fan of champagne, so pop open a bottle of bubbly and raise a glass to the long-dead Austrian composer on his birthday at this virtual Town Hall party. Byron Schenkman and friends will treat you to a medley of popular pieces for violin and piano, including Six Variations on Au bord d’une Fontaine and Quartet in G Minor, K. 478.
Viva Vera 20: Celebrating Two Decades of All-Ages Music, Art and Activism
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Seattle's all-ages arts and music venue the Vera Project will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its first show with a lineup of livestreamed programming with music and appearances from artists like Ben Gibbard, Perfume Genius, Foo Fighters, TV on the Radio, Tacocat, Mike Park, and more. VERA's board and member alumni and all-ages DIY activists will also join in the festivities.
The Year in Music
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Despite the melange of horrible things 2020 will be remembered for, it was filled with some pretty good tunes. Rolling Stone will move their annual Year in Music event online to reflect on this past year with resident music editor Simon Vozick-Levinson and Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee.
READINGS & TALKS
Seattle Arts and Lectures presents Madeline Miller
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Madeline Miller's most recent work, Circe, which follows her Orange Prize-winning The Song of Achilles, offers a modern take on the Greek mythological sorceress and minor daughter of the sun god who turns Odysseus's men into pigs in Homer's The Odyssey. She's apparently working on a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which she'll likely talk about in this Seattle Arts & Lectures virtual event.
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.
VISUAL ART
The Seattle Times presents: Pictures of the Year 2020
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Seattle Times photographers will share their most powerful photos and videos of 2020 and discuss the techniques they used to capture them. Save your questions for a little Q&A at the end.
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THURSDAY
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Understanding History: In the Shadows of Colonialism
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Seattle Central College historian Tracy Lai will kick off the Wing Luke Museum's online series about "patterns of war and conquest that shape immigration, economic relationships, culture, and political power" with an introductory overview.
MUSIC
Blazinspace Movie Remix of Danny Denial's CONDiTiONER with Live Score by Occlusions & Nic Masangkay
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Danny Denial's short film CONDiTiONER (which follows the nonbinary Baz who "[struggles] to navigate between multiple realities," will be remixed and re-soundtracked live by Occlusions and Nic Masangkay, visualized by blazinspace, and produced by Astral Media Lab. "If you love stories, beautiful imagery and heart-melting, head-spinning good music then this show is for you," write the organizers.
Haydn Cello Concerto in C major
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Guest conductor Gemma New will help revive whimsical works by Haydn and Prokofiev in this virtual Seattle Symphony Orchestra concert.
iHeartRadio ALTer EGO 2021
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iHeartRadio's fifth annual ALTer EGO concert returns with headlining sets from alt-rock superstars like Billie Eilish and Foo Fighters, plus old favorites like Weezer and the Killers. In other words, clear your throat for an angsty pop-punk sing-along.
Whitney Mongé | Community Concert Series by Seattle Against Slavery
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Seattle Against Slavery, "a grassroots coalition working to mobilize our community in the fight against sex and labor trafficking," will raise awareness of its mission with an online concert with alternative soul musician Whitney Mongé.
PERFORMANCE
Plays in Process: Fannie
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Learn more about the creative process behind Seattle Rep's upcoming production of Cheryl L. West's staged profile of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer (the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention) in this conversation with Seattle Rep Artistic Director Braden Abraham.
This Is Not The Little Prince
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Whim W'Him retells Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince through the lens of Rene Magritte's classic surrealist painting "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," featuring music by Brian Lawlor and miniature art by Talia Silveri Wright, with filming and direction by movement photographer and videographer Quinn Wharton.
READINGS & TALKS
Cicely Tyson - Just As I Am
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Prolific actress Cicely Tyson—the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, one Tony Award, an honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award—shares her life story in her debut memoir Just As I Am. She'll join Third Place Books for an online reading.
WA State Book Awards: Eric Liu
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Eric Liu, the progenitor of Civic Saturday ("a civic analogue to church"), will read from his book Become America: Civic Sermons On Love, Responsibility, And Democracy, which won the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.
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FRIDAY
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All for the Arts: A Virtual Farewell for Randy Engstrom
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Office of Arts and Culture director Randy Engstrom is out of here: But not before having a virtual farewell party. This Friday, you can tune in on YouTube or Facebook Live to join hosts Priya Frank and Hollis Wong-Wear as they send off the outgoing director. Ahamefule J. Oluo and the cast of Susan, Residency alum Sharmaine, and Cipher Goings of Northwest Tap Connection will give performances. You can expect farewell remarks from Vivian Phillips, Dr. Quinton Morris, and Tony Mestres. No word on if Engstrom himself will spin some tunes, but I wouldn't rule it out. JASMYNE KEIMIG
MUSIC
SCOUR
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Get positively metal on the El Corazón virtual stage with Scour, featuring members of Down, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pig Destroyer, and Misery Index, with support from special guests Shock Narcotic.
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Andrew Stenson
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Tenor Andrew Stenson returns to McCaw Hall's virtual stage for a solo recital following his performance in The Elixir of Love, which was full of "meltingly lyrical moments" according to the Seattle Times.
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SATURDAY
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Keep It Surreal Soiree: Live from Our Pillow Fort!
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Harness the energy of a child whose only goal is to build the most glorious pillow fort imaginable, then get to assembling with Cafe Nordo's plush kit that, depending on which package you choose, comes with a bunch of adult beverages and "Fort d’Oeuvres," as well as a virtual party where you can show off your whimsical structure.
MUSIC
Choro das 3: First Family of Brazilian Choro
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This award-winning choro (street music) band and family will play live from Brazil at this Seattle Folklore Society concert.
MxPx Between This World and the Next
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Former Stranger contributor Andrew Hamlin wrote, "MxPx’s best-known cut, 'Chick Magnet,' told my story! No, really! I was always sitting there, unable to even get a woman to talk to me. And the guy next to me scored at will, and I could never figure out why or how. As I got older (not necessarily wiser), I met other fellows who thought MxPx were singing their song, too. And so I learned my story isn’t so special. A few years ago, I met the Chick Magnet (my Chick Magnet) on a bus platform. I’d noticed him back in town, wasn’t sure whether to talk. He was divorced, he said. He never saw his children. A few years later, his son died. And so I learned that even Chick Magnets live with what they conceal and they muster through. A painfully human moment sprung from punk-pop." The band "[plans] to explore our catalog of songs" during this livestreamed concert.
Stabat Mater
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Early Music Seattle will present an enhanced rebroadcast of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from their 2018-2019 season, which was originally performed by the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with an accompanying original dance performance by Whim W'Him.
PERFORMANCE
Virtual Versatile Arts Presents: A Brief History of Manuary
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Versatile Arts' annual celebration of queer masc identities will move its operations to YouTube Live for a retrospective of Manuary acts past.
READINGS & TALKS
Alexander McCall Smith - Pianos and Flowers & How to Raise an Elephant
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British Zimbabwean author Alexander McCall Smith (best known for penning the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series) will share not one but two books with Third Place Books: Pianos and Flowers and How to Raise an Elephant.
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SUNDAY
COMMUNITY
A Conversation About Food Justice
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Chefs Tarik Abdullah, Ariella Bangs, Melissa Miranda, and Jimaine Miler will discuss the rise of community kitchens, as well as activism and empowerment through the food justice movement in Seattle.
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Jérémy Jolley
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Settle in for an evening of classical pieces that explore "the tension between being together and being apart, individualities and community, listening and being heard" with Seattle Modern Orchestra's co-artistic director Jérémy Jolley.
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MULTI-DAY
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?
(Saturday–Sunday)
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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. Sure to be one of the more talked-about films is Passing. The directorial debut from longtime actor Rebecca Hall, it stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in a thriller about two women living in 1920s New York City where one "passes" as white while the other does not. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by the late author Nella Larsen. What may be the film that caught my attention the most is On the Count of Three. It stars Jerrod Carmichael, more known for his incisive stand-up comedy, in what is also his directorial debut. Carmichael is Val, a depressed man who forms a suicide pact with his best friend Kevin, played by actor Christopher Abbott who looks starkly different from his most recent Possessor performance. Always a utopia for great documentaries, one selection to watch for this year is in many ways about just that: making a better world. Rebel Hearts follows a group of nuns who started the Immaculate Heart College to ensure women could access degrees previously out of reach. CHASE HUTCHINSON
(Thursday–Sunday)
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German Cinema Now! presents: Lara
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After years of alienating her friends and family, a woman has a dramatic change of heart on her 60th birthday and makes it her mission to turn her musical prodigy son's debut composition into a success. This screening is part of the Northwest Film Forum and Goethe Pop Up's German Cinema Now series.
(Wednesday–Thursday)
MUSIC
Kodō: Legacy
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Japan’s legendary Kodō drummers will introduce you to Taiko, a rhythmic blend of drumming and dance developed in ancient Japan that requires massive coordination, in this performance film presented by Meany Center for the Performing Arts.
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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
(Friday–Sunday)
Music Feeds Charity Festival
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More than 40 big-name artists (including Liam Gallagher, Sam Smith, Blossoms, and Fontaines DC) will pitch in their time at food poverty relief fund FareShare's online fundraiser.
(Thursday–Friday)
PERFORMANCE
Hot Docs Podcast Festival
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All of your favorite podcasts in one place: Tune in to this globally streaming Canadian festival for events with Radiolab, Nice White Parents, 99% Invisible, Pod Save America, Roxane Gay, and more.
(Wednesday–Friday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
Seattle Boat Show: Connected
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The Seattle Boat Show, a feast for the eyes of maritime enthusiasts and professionals alike, will show off vessels of all sorts on an online show floor. They'll also have livestreamed fishing and boating seminars.
(Thursday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts
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This multidisciplinary online exhibition sees Alice Metropolis, a character that appears frequently in former Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia-Reneé’s writing and video work, creating a spiritual sanctuary dedicated to the Lorde (read: Black feminist icon Audre Lorde) as a means of finding strength in an unjust world. See here
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for details about the opening reception.
(Saturday–Sunday)
