Let us guide you through the week with our latest picks, from a screening of Pink Floyd: The Wall Past Event Like List (presented by Unstreamable columnists Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig) to Sugar Plum Gary: Christmas in July Past Event Like List , and from Kassa Overall, Breaks and Swells, and Marshall Law Band Past Event Like List at the Neptune to a new Tip Toland Past Event Like List exhibit at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
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MONDAY
MUSIC
Motown on Mondays
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Join MoM as they celebrate their 7th anniversary and re-launch party with DJ sets by 100proof, Supreme La Rock, blueyed soul, and founder Gordo Cabeza.
Barboza (First Hill)
WEDNESDAY
PERFORMANCE
Opera On Tap
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If you associate opera with ornate concert halls and pricey tickets, think again: Opera on Tap makes the artform accessible with donation-based performances that take on a humorous bent. This iteration will feature musical stories inspired by quarantine tales.
Chophouse Row (Capitol Hill)
THURSDAY
COMEDY
Pandamnit: Comedic Stories about Lockdown Life
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COVID itself is no laughing matter, but some of our experiences during isolation are another story. Join local comics as they regale you with their most absurd quarantine moments.
Ballard Homestead
FILM
Movies at Peddler
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Kids, adults, and dogs alike are invited to the Ballard brewery for an outdoor screening of classic movies like The Sandlot.
Peddler Brewing (Ballard)
FRIDAY
FILM
Unstreamable Presents: 'Pink Floyd: The Wall'
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The Stranger's Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig will take their weekly Unstreamable column—where they review movies viewable only in analog form—to Bellingham's Pickford Film Center, where they'll present an outdoor screening of Pink Floyd: The Wall. There will also be "food, music, and good vibes" before the movie starts.
Pickford Film Center (Central District)
MUSIC
Chastity Belt
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Uber-popular Seattle-based post-pop quartet Chastity Belt are back with new material and a new tour.
Neumos (Capitol Hill)
Shaina Shepherd
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Showing equal reverence for "gospel and garbage metal," local singer-songwriter Shaina Shepherd (of BEARAXE) will treat you to an early afternoon set of her impressive vocal stylings (for free!).
Denny Park (South Lake Union)
PERFORMANCE
Dacha Theatre Summer Park Shows
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The local theater company is bringing two of its touring shows to as-yet-unannounced Seattle parks this summer. The first, Star Play (opening July 23), is billed as a "galaxy-sized epic adventure shrunk to be a sweetly witty bedtime story," while the drive-in production Dears In Headlights (opening July 30) picks bits and pieces from Dacha's past productions, like An Awfully Big Adventure and Metamorphoses.
Various locations
Queer/Bar Summer Series
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The LGBTQ+ bar's dragtastic lineup continues with Pangina Heals, the co-host of Drag Race Thailand.
Queer Bar (Capitol Hill)
SATURDAY
ACTIVISM & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Seattle March for Medicare for All
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Seattle will join over 30 cities across the country in demanding Medicare for all. Speakers include Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Stephanie Gallardo, and longtime local healthcare activists like Dr. Hugh Foy.
Westlake Park (Downtown)
FOOD & DRINK
Seattle World Whiskey Day
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Over a dozen Washington craft distilleries will showcase their brown liquors, including whiskeys, bourbons, and ryes. Plus, listen to music, nosh on food truck fare, and browse items from other vendors.
Redmond Downtown Park
MUSIC
Chromeo DJ Set
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The self-proclaimed “only successful Jewish-Arab partnership since the dawn of human history” is a neo-disco duo making slinky sounds for most of the new millennium.
Neumos (Capitol Hill)
Fleetwood Snack
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Local dark ambient project Fleetwood Snack combine strange samples with drone effects to create chopped 'n' screwed soundscapes. Join them for a night out with Soul Ipsum and DJs Headwound, Panthr, and Sacred Janitor.
Barboza (Capitol Hill)
Kassa Overall, Breaks and Swells, Marshall Law Band
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A graduate of the University of Washington's jazz scene, Kassa Overall will share his dynamic percussion work with a night of original compositions, right after opening sets from notable Seattle rockers Breaks and Swells and Marshall Law Band.
Neptune Theatre (University District)
Welcome Back Week: Pioneer Square & Westlake
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After last week's kickoff in Chinatown-ID, the city's Welcome Back Week continues with free live concerts in Occidental Square
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(Sat) and Westlake Center
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(Sun). The first features live music from Shaina Shepherd, Shenandoah Davis, and The Black Tones, a "found fashion" exhibition from Path with Art, free screen printing from Party Hat, and a vaccine pop-up. The second features sidewalk sales, free face-painting and "Thriller" dance classes, and a "Halloween in July" event where kids can dress up and go trick-or-treating in Pacific Place.
Occidental Square & Westlake Center
SHOPPING
Urban Craft Uprising: Edmonds Summer Fest
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Let your crafty freak flag fly at this Urban Craft Uprising showcase boasting over 100 makers. Plus food trucks.
Frances Anderson Center (Edmonds)
SUNDAY
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Slightly Stoopid
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The seven-piece Ocean Beach group Slightly Stoopid will generate their big-rock, reggae-inspired, canna-happy vibes for Marymoor Park's summer concert series.
Marymoor Park (Redmond)
ZooTunes
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Now in its 39th year (last year's festival was canceled due to COVID), ZooTunes is a Seattle tradition that brings big-name artists to the bucolic North Meadow of the Woodland Park Zoo. You can thank KEXP for curating this year's lineup, which includes the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
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Woodland Park Zoo (Phinney)
PERFORMANCE
Wandering and Wondering
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As you wander through the tranquil Japanese gardens, you'll find butoh (Japanese avant-garde dance) performers scattered around the landscape.
Kubota Garden (Rainier Beach)
MULTI-DAY
COMEDY
Curtis Cook
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LA's Curtis Cook has appeared on Portlandia, traveled through an Evola checkpoint for a Vice News segment, and written for the recent reboot of Crank Yankers.
Laughs Comedy Club, University District (Friday-Saturday)
FESTIVALS
Saint James Faire
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This medieval fair invites you to "leave behind the hectic 21st century" and travel back in time to King Arthur's ancient realm of Somersetshire, where you'll get your fill of knightly combat, puppetry, minstrels, fiddle music, and era-appropriate dishes (such as "fenberry pye" and "roste beef aliper").
Camlann Medieval Village, Carnation (Saturday-Sunday)
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Otis Taylor Band with special guest Mato Nanji
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Accomplished musician Otis Taylor will employ his talents on the guitar, mandolin, and harmonica to sing the blues about the Black experience. Jazz Alley, Belltown (Tuesday-Wednesday)
Arturo Sandoval
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Cuban American jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (no relation to Hope) will bring his 10-time-Grammy-winning talents to Seattle for a four-night gig.
Jazz Alley, Belltown (Thursday-Sunday)
Joey Jewell's Tribute to Sinatra at the Sands
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With the help of Jim Keri’s Swingin Sixties Orchestra, crooner Joey Jewell will transport you back to the Sands Hotel on the Vegas strip in his tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes.
Triple Door, Downtown (Friday-Saturday)
10th Annual Beat Masters
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206 Zulu and Friends of Waterfront Seattle present the 10th Anniversary of Beat Masters, a beat battle and cypher showcase. This year’s event will be kicked off by an online panel featuring Sir Mix-a-Lot, Jake One, and Ski Beatz.
Pier 62, Downtown (Friday-Saturday)
PERFORMANCE
GreenStage's Shakespeare in the Park
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Laying out a spread of one's favorite snacks and swatting away gnats as players belt familiar verses of iambic pentameter across a park lawn never gets old. GreenStage's free Shakespeare in the Park series returns this year with productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.
Various locations (Friday-Sunday)
Sugar Plum Gary: Christmas in July
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"A misanthropic disposition combined with a strong satanist worldview distinguishes Sugar Plum Gary from other yuletide figures," writes Rich Smith. The "somewhat beloved storyteller and comedian Emmett Montgomery" will forsake the concept of time by slipping into his red velvet onesie four months early.
18th & Union, Central District (Thursday-Sunday)
Vashon Repertory Theatre Fest
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The lineup for Vashon Rep's inaugural theater fest, which will take place at various theaters and stages across the island, looks excellent. It includes Peter Glazer's musical Woody Guthrie’s American Song at Ober Park, Elizabeth Heffron's magical realist Bo-Nita at Vashon Center for the Arts, and classics like Shakespeare's The Tempest at Open Space.
Various locations, Vashon Island (Thursday-Sunday)
VISUAL ART
BAM Arts Fair
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The Bellevue Arts Museum is turning 75! They'll fête the occasion with a virtual version of their annual fair, where you can admire (and purchase) work by over 100 juried artists. In addition to the virtual programming, families with artsy little ones can swing by the museum to pick up a free craft kit between July 23-25, while supplies last.
Online (Wednesday-Sunday)
Terri Grant & Purnima Patel: Trace
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This joint exhibition from Northwest glass artists Terri Grant and Purnima Patel started at the Pilchuck Glass School's Douglas fir-lined campus in Stanwood, where they took inspiration from the landscape to explore new ways of working within the art form.
Bellevue Arts Museum (Friday-Sunday)
Tip Toland
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Hyperrealism is already kind of unnerving, especially in sculpted form. Nothing quite gets you into uncanny valley territory like a facsimile of life in perfect stillness. Northwest artist Tip Toland's painted clay figures seem to concentrate our reality to explosive density, whether through their apparent emotional extremity or their air of not-quite-humanity. Four of these sculptures, plus some ceramic paintings, will be displayed at BAM.
Bellevue Arts Museum (Friday-Sunday)
