Platform Gallery book signing
Recommended by Esther Luttikhuizen, Gallery4Culture
Platform Gallery, 114 Third Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104
August 8, 2009, 4 – 6pm
www.platformgallery.com
Join this book signing party for three new monographs, including Dressing by Ariana Page Russell, whose work was featured at Gallery4Culture in November 2008.
Platform will also feature a preview of these publications on First Thursday, August 6, 5 to 8PM. After these events, the gallery will be closed for summer vacation. Platform will reopen on First Thursday, September 3, with new sculpture by Scott Fife.
COMICS SAVANTS: A Survey of Seattle Alternative Cartoonists
Recommened by Esther Luttikhuizen, Gallery4Culture
August 8, 2009, 6 – 8pm
www.fantagraphics.com
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, 1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.), Seattle, WA 98108
This exhibition will feature over a dozen emerging and established artists, including many of the most accomplished cartoonists in the alternative movement, including such renowned Seattle comic artists as Ellen Forney, Charles Burns, and Jim Woodring. This event is celebrating the release of the first graphic novel by eroyn franklin (who will be featured at Gallery4Culture next summer.)
SAM REMIX
Recommended by Doreen Mitchum, Arts 4Culture
August 7, 2009, 8pm – Midnight
Olympic Sculpture Park
Join the Seattle Art Museum for a unique late-night mashup of art, music, dancing, spoken word, and after dark tours in a social atmosphere at Olympic Sculpture Park. Highlights will include a sunset performance by poet Roberto Ascalon and musician Paul Rucker, DJ sets by Colby b and DJ Freddy King of Pants, live music performances curated by Decibel, and a comics drawing rally with the Friends of the Nib. This event is open to guests age 18 and over only, and the first 100 guests at the door get in FREE.
SAM is proud to have Pacific Northwest Ballet Backstage Pass, Canoe Social Club, Central District Forum for Art & Ideas, Decibel Festival, Experience Music Project, Girl Power Hour, Great City, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Northwest African American Fine Arts Association, NW NOMA – National Organization of Minority Architects, Out for Sustainability, Sustainable Belltown, Sustainable Seattle, and Three Dollar Bill Cinema as our August SAM Remix cohosts.
History Hike: Coal Creek Townsite
Recommended by Flo Lentz, Preservation 4Culture
August 22, 2009, 10am-1pm
MOHAI presents a tour of the Coal Creek Townsite, a former coal mining area. Conducted by the Washington Trails Association, this 6 mile round-trip hike will take you to the ruins of a hotel, and past several rustic bridges and abandoned mine shafts. For more information visit www.seattlehistory.org or call 206.324.1126.
For these Unclosings
Recommended by Jordan Howland, Public Art 4Culture
August 14, 15, 21, 22, 2009, 8pm
New City Theater, 1404 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
Tickets
Susie J Lee debuts her new work, For these Unclosings, a complex, real-time composition that seamlessly integrates movement, sound and image. Exploring themes of memory–of holding on, of letting go, and arriving–this work creates an intimate theatrical experience in which three distinct characters–dancer, line, and music–push, pull and react to one another at every moment in a nuanced dialogue. Boundaries dissolve between illusion and reality, digital and analog, and presence and absence.
Original choreography and musical compositions have been developed for this work by dancer, Ying Zhou and musician, Emily Greenleaf, Also featured in this ensemble are visual artist Keeara Rhoades and filmmaker Reina Solunaya who have drawn soul and humanity in a simple projected line.
For these Unclosings also features costume design by Catherine Cabeen, lighting by Frank Phillips, and software development by Andy Wilson. Generous support for this project comes from 4Culture, the Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and New City Theater Resident Artist Program, as well as private donations.
Dead Bird Movement
Recommended by Jordan Howland, Public Art 4Culture
August 21, 23, 27, 29, 2009, 7:30pm
above Seattle Pottery Supply, 33 South Hanford Street, Seattle, WA
During the last two weeks of August, Dead Bird Movement will commandeer the top floor of a Seattle SoDo building and convert it into a temporary gallery and theater. This will be the home of “Dead Bird Double Feature,” an event that portrays dance through the lens of multiple mediums and contrasting moods. Doors open at 7:30 for people to explore the gallery installation Left and Leaving. At 8:30, the audience will be lured into the theater for the live dance/music performance Thrashoholic.
Champagne Tour: mimosas and montlake await you
Recommended by Brandi Link, Heritage & Preservation 4Culture
August 29, 2009, 2 – 5pm
Join MOHAI’s Executive Director, Leonard Garfield, on a walking tour of the historic Montlake neighborhood. Walk “The Cut” while learning about the history and architecture of the area, and end with mimosas at a private garden reception. Must be 21 years old. For tickets and reservations visit www.seattlehistory.org or call 206.324.1126.
Seattle Tilth Harvest Fair
Recommended by Willow Fox, Public Art 4Culture
Celebrate Local Food
September 12, 2009, 10am – 5pm
free and open to the public
For more information, call (206) 633-0451 ext. 103 or visit www.seattletilth.org
