March Heritage & Preservation events:
Recommended by Brandi Link, Heritage & Preservation 4Culture
Washington Museum Association
Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial Workshop
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Coach House, State Capital Museum, Olympia
As part of 2010 Museum Day on the Capital Campus, Western Museum Association is offering a workshop for individuals and local museum representatives to develop projects and/or programs for Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial. The workshop will offer ways that can assist in writing “women back into history” through identification and interpretation of women’s history in all eras—Pioneer to the women’s movement of the 1970s. The workshop includes a hosted tour of the historic Bigelow House Museum, built by Oregon Trail pioneers and activists in the Suffrage and Temperance movements. To register please contact Mark Vessey, Washington State Historical Society, State Capital Museum at 360/586-0219 or mves...@wshs.wa.gov.
Pacific Northwest Historians Guild
Pacific Northwest Borderlands Conference
Saturday, March 6, 2010 8:15am – 5:30pm
Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave, Seattle
2010 conference will explore Pacific Northwest Borderlands, and will featuring presentations on Shaping the Frontier; Women in the Northwest; Constructing Habitats; The Human-ANimal Interface; Workers, Unions and Labor; Native Settler Negotiations; Trans-{acific Connections and Traders, Smugglers, Commodities and Contraband. To view the conference program visit www.pnwhistorians.org/conferences. To register for this event visit www.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.
Historic Seattle
“How To” Demonstrations at Washington Hall
Saturday, March 13, 2010 10am – 12pm
153 14th Avenue, Seattle
Historic Seattle’s 2010 Preserving Your Old House program uses its newly purchased building, Washington Hall, as a “get dirty” space to demonstrate how to repair plaster work, refinish wood work and paint, and repair windows. On March 13, Steve Irish of Lux Interiors, will be giving a “how to” demonstration on plaster repair and restoration. To register visit www.historicseattle.org or call (206) 622-6952.
Washington State History Museum
From Parlor to Podium: Territorial Suffragists of Olympia
Opening reception Saturday, March 13, 2010 1pm – 3pm
11911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma
The exhibit will focus on the territorial suffrage campaigns centered in Olympia, and the women and men who worked to secure the vote for Washington women. Organized by the Washington State Historical Society and the Women’s History Consortium, the opening reception will feature games, suffragists in period costume, and the opportunity to meet the historians, curators, and designers behind the exhibit.
Seattle Architecture Foundation
Greatest Hits: Chart Toppers and Heart-Stoppers tour
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 10am
SAF Gallery, 3rd Floor, 1333 5th Ave, Seattle
SAF tour that focuses on the construction, context and culture which shaped Seattle’s skyline, from golden oldies like the Rainier Club to eye-catching contemporary, like the Rem Koolhaas’ asymmetric, cantilevered Central Library. Stops will also include the Fifth & Madison Condominium(901 Fifth Avenue Plaza) and Seattle City Hall.
This tour lasts approximately 2 hours and begins at the SAF Gallery, 3rd Floor, Rainier Square Atrium. For more information or to register visit www.seattlearchitecture.org/tour_greatest_hits.
Arts Events:
AJC Seatle Jewish Film Festival
Recommended by Tamar Benzikry-Stern, Public Art 4Culture
March 11 – 21, 2010
With a special focus on the complexity of Israeli life and cinema, the 15th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival is sure to intrigue and entertain. SJFF opens with Academy Award nominated Ajami, a gritty, urban crime drama that tells the interwoven stories of Jewish, Muslim and Christian neighbors living in Jaffa, and features the first Ethiopian Israeli feature film (Zruvabel), among 30 critically acclaimed films from 10 countries that explore “the world through a vibrant lens.” Festival-goers can look forward to a stellar lineup of international films, related educational programs, and illuminating guest artists, including the Academy Award nominated German filmmaker Michael Verhoeven, the recipient of SJFF’s 1st Reel Difference Award. Tickets and Passes are available to film screenings and a slew of parties and special events.
SALT HORSE - Man on the Beach
Recommended by Doreen Mitchum, Arts 4Culture
Through March 6, 2010
Erickson Theater, 1524 Harvard Avenue between Pike and Pine, Capitol Hill
Tickets: $15, students/seniors/military: $12, brownpapertickets.com
Seattle performance company Salt Horse presents a new, lushly layered, evening-length production of their critically acclaimed dance/sound work. Man on the Beach follows the strange paths of three men who have replaced reality with their desire to retain the past and become perpetually stuck in time. Their stark, monochromatic lives are invaded by colorful, dream-like forces that disrupt and embody the men’s unfolding internal narratives. Colliding dance, sound, and visual-theater, Salt Horse gradually reflects the men’s looped and fragmented memories through morphed or duplicated bodies and surreal abstractions of nature and environment. “Magic” scenic effects and gorgeous, live sound amplify the precarious fragility of perception and cinematically frame what is both funny and terrifying in an inability to let go.
