Happening This Week
11/7 Tues. 5:00 pm
New Tech Seattle
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
Network with “the Northwest’s smart, fun, creative, innovative tech community – software and application developers, company owners, startup founders, recruiters, hackers, job seekers, executives, investors, and community leaders.” Great event for folks new to Seattle.
#Tech
11/7 Tues. 8:00 pm
Election Day
your mailbox or local ballot drop box
Don’t forget to vote!
#Civics
11/8 Wed. 6:30 pm
Pundamonium: The Seattle Pun Slam!
Peddler Brewing Company (Ballard)
“Pundamonium is a pun slam. One by one, 10 contestants have two minutes each to make puns based on prompts they have received ahead of time. Each contestant is immediately judged by five audience judges. Then they all do it again, only this time contestants get their prompts on stage and only have 30 second to think and another two minutes to make puns. Want to compete? Just show up! It’s first come, first served.”
#HauteSeattle
11/8 Wed. 7:00 pm
A Panel on “Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name”
Seattle Central Library (Downtown)
“Join us for a discussion of Chief Seattle and his times. Panelists include Duwamish Tribal Chairperson Cecile Hansen, historian David Buerge, linguist Nile Thompson, and moderator David Brewster.”
#Civics
11/9 Thurs. 7:00 pm
Ada’s UX Book Club
Ada’s Technical Books (Capitol Hill)
“We’re reading ‘Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics’ by Tom Tullis and Bill Albert (Second Edition).”
#Design
11/10 Fri. 8:30 am
Creative Mornings
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
“Katrina Spade has been a designer and entrepreneur since 2002, with a focus on human-centered, ecological design. While earning her Architecture degree, she invented a system called ‘recomposition’ which transforms the dead into soil. In 2014, Katrina founded the non-profit Urban Death Project to bring attention to the problem of a toxic funeral industry and lay the research groundwork for this new form of disposition.”
#SEATalks
11/11 Sat. 10:00 am
WordPress Contributor Meetup
Uptown Espresso (South Lake Union)
Help create the world’s most popular publishing software. Anyone can contribute to the WordPress open-source sofware project – whether you’re a user, a developer, a designer, or a blogger or publisher.
#WordPress
11/11 Sat. 2:00 pm
WordPress Study Group for Women
Wallingford Community Senior Center (Wallingford)
“Women, this meetup is just for you! Bring your laptops, bring your questions, and bring your projects – we’ll get together to discuss WordPress, answer questions, show off what we’re doing, and help each other out. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome.”
#WordPress
11/11 Sat. 7:00 pm
Doundounba: A Community Celebration of African Music & Dance
Langston Hughes Perfoming Arts Institute (Central District)
“The Odunde Festival presents Doundounba! Annual Fundraiser for The Odunde Festival. African Market Place, tasty African cuisine, and community networking. The Doundounba dance is a fun, energetic and social dance of solos from Guinea, West Africa.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
11/11 Sat. 9:00 pm
Alma y Azucar
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Enjoy an evening of music and dance with the sultry, seductive and dynamic Latin rhythms of Alma y Azucar paired with very special guest performer, Flamenco extraordinaire Deseo Carmin.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
11/11 Sat. 11:11 pm
This Is Spinal Tap
Dark Lodge (Columbia City)
“Get ready to smell the glove as Dark Lodge amps it up to 11 for Rob Reiner’s classic ‘This Is Spinal Tap.'”
#HauteSeattle
11/12 Sun. 6:00 pm
Dan Ariely with Jeff Kreisler: The Psychology of Smarter Spending
Rainier Arts Center (Columbia City)
“Why does spending money sometimes feel almost physically painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something again just because we’ve overpaid for it once before? Dan Ariely, professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, steps forward to answer these intriguing questions about our spending psychology. He shares the stage with his co-author Jeff Kreisler—Princeton educated lawyer turned award-winning comedian.”
#SEATalks
Next Week
11/14 Tues. 7:00 pm
Fuckup Nights Seattle Vol. VI
Atlas Workbase (Queen Anne)
“Every failure has a story. Every story has a lesson. Come join Seattle’s bravest leaders as they share their biggest fuckups!”
#SEATalks
11/15 Wed. 6:30 pm
History Cafe: Ghosts of Seattle Past
MOHAI (South Lake Union)
“Seattle has always been a boom town, shaped as much by the gold rush of the 19th century as by the explosion of the tech industry today. Join editor Cali Kopczick and artist Shelly Leavens as they discuss their anthology ‘Ghosts of Seattle Past,’ which seeks to reconstruct community hubs lost to growth. Bring your own stories of Seattle’s long-gone places to be mapped and remembered!”
#SEATalks
11/16 Thurs. 7:00 pm
Fresh Ground Stories
Roy Street Coffee (Capitol Hill)
“November’s theme is ‘Anything For Love.’ Bring a true story about a time in your life when you found love, lost love, chased love or did anything else for love. It doesn’t matter if the story turned out good or bad. What matters most is how it affected you.”
#SEATalks
11/17 Fri. 7:30 pm
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Toxic Tech
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
“We conduct a substantial portion of our daily lives online, but to what degree do our own biases spread through our technology? Sara Wachter-Boettcher takes an unflinching look at the values, processes, and assumptions that inform decisions in the modern tech industry with her new book Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech.”
#SEATalks
11/18 Sat. 9:00 am-5:00 pm
TEDxSeattle “Changing Places”
McCaw Hall (Seattle Center)
“In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.”
#SEATalks
11/18 Sat. 10:00 am
WordPress 101
Works Progress (Greenwood)
“Come get an introduction to WordPress and get some questions answered. This is a drop-in class with a rotating set of topics. Each class starts with a short presentation on that month’s topic, followed by plenty of time to ask questions and troubleshoot individual website situations.”
#WordPress
11/18 Sat. 10:30 am
Civic Saturday
Elliot Bay Books (Capitol Hill)
“Civic Saturday, an ongoing monthly series of meetings moving around Seattle since November 2016, is a civic analogue to church: a gathering of friends and strangers in a common place to nurture a spirit of shared purpose.” Strongly recommended as an inspiring antidote to the incivility we read about in the news.
#Civics
11/18 Sat. 11:00 am
Saturday Family Concerts: De Cajon Project
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“The phrase ‘de cajon’ is a Peruvian expression meaning ‘without question,’ ‘for sure,’ or even ‘rain or shine.’ And there’s no question – De Cajon Project will get you moving! Their bright and animated performances center on the syncopated sounds of the cajon (a Peruvian box drum).”
#SeattleWorldBeat
11/19 Sun. 7:30 pm
Zakir Hussain
Meany Theater (UW Campus)
“Fall Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Zakir Hussain is known in India and worldwide for his virtuosity in the fields of world music and percussion as a tabla player, percussionist, and composer. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, he has enjoyed many historic collaborations with artists such as John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, Mickey Hart, George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma, and many others. In this performance, Hussain performs a tabla solo and presents the culmination of his work with UW faculty and students.”
#SeattleWorldBeat