Happening This Week
Mon. 1/22 12:05 pm
Thrilling Tales: A Story Time for Grownups
Free
Seattle Public Library (Downtown)
“Need a mid-day break? Laugh, gasp and shudder to live readings. This week’s story is ‘Full Moon,’ by Mischa Bach.”
#SEATalks
Mon. 1/22 5:00 pm
Marco de Carvalho Trio
Free
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
“Marco de Carvalho has been a performance guitarist, composer and arranger for thirty years. He plays an extensive repertoire of music from Rio de Janeiro as well as his own compositions.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Mon. 1/22 7:00 pm
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Free
Elliot Bay Books (Capitol Hill)
“In this astonishing adventure of a book, Juli Berwald takes us on a personal journey into the enchanting and mystifying aqueous world of jellyfish, and in so doing, sheds light on the vital ecological balances upon which our own survival depends.”
#Science!
Mon. 1/22 7:30 pm
The German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
$5.00
Westside School (West Seattle)
“German parents give their children a great deal of freedom―much more than Americans. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives, and even play with fire. Writer Sara Zaske shares her experiences raising her toddler in Berlin, and reveals discoveries about the German philosophy of instilling kids with “selbstandigkeit” (self-reliance).”
#SEATalks
Tues. 1/23 5:45 pm
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Ethical Opportunities and Challenges
$5-10.00
Kakao Chocolate & Coffee (South Lake Union)
“The ability to record brain activity and use this information to control devices like computers, wheelchairs, and brain stimulators is a goal of brain-computer interface (BCI) research. With this new technology comes great promise to improve people’s lives, but will the introduction of BCI devices into medicine and beyond raise ethical concerns?”
#SEATalks
Tues.-Wed. 1/23-1/24 7:30 pm
Harold Lopez-Nussa Trio
$28.50
Jazz Alley (Downtown)
“Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa has established a reputation as a profound musician of rising stature who has fully integrated his classical training and love of the jazz continuum with his Cuban roots and soul.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 1/23 7:30 pm
Big Chicken: How Antibiotics Changed the Way the World Eats
$5.00
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
“We often take for granted the ubiquity of chicken in the American diet. Acclaimed journalist Maryn McKenna shares her chronicle of how economic, political, and cultural forces converged to make America’s favorite meat a hidden danger.”
#SEATalks
Tues. 1/23 8:00 pm
Salon of Shame
$16.00
Theatre Off Jackson (International Disctrict)
“Join us as we drink and exploit our younger selves for your entertainment! The idea is simple: Seattleites stand and read from their worst adolescent writing, including middle school diaries, high school poetry, unsent letters, etc.”
#SEATalks
Wed. 1/24 6:00 pm
#MeToo in Seattle Tech: What Men Can Do
$7-12.00
Northwest Film Forum (Capitol Hill)
My friend Sol is putting together this “forum for men who work in the tech industry in Seattle to discuss ways that we can show up for women, trans folks, and other non-cis-male-identified folks who often experience harassment and discrimination in our industry.”
#Tech
Thurs. 1/25 6:00 pm
Innovation and Design Thinking Meetup
Free
Delta Dental (South Lake Union)
“As has become our tradition, we will be starting the new year with a Meetup focused on ‘Designing for Personal Change.’ We believe that before we can lead organizational change or introduce new ways of working to others, it is important to gain empathy for the challenges of trying to lead change for ourselves.”
#Design
Thurs. 1/25 7:00 pm
Fresh Ground Stories
Free
Roy Street Coffee (Capitol Hill)
“January’s theme: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. No matter how your good-idea-at-the-time adventure turned out we’d love to hear the story. Bring a true 8-minute-or-less story based on that theme.”
#SEATalks
Thurs. 1/25 7:30 pm
Duende Libre
$12.00
Tula’s (Belltown)
“Duende Libre plays a special brand of global fusion music. The band includes sensational electric bassist Farko Dosumov, pianist Alex Chadsey, and master percussionist Jeff Busch.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 1/25 7:30 pm
Two Divergent Solutions for Sustaining a Crowded Earth
$5.00
Pigott Auditorium (Seattle University)
“In forty years, some scientists project that Earth’s population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that many people? What kind of world will it be?”
#SEATalks
Sat. 1/27 5:30 pm
Rat City Roller Derby
$15-20.00
The Rat’s Nest (Shoreline)
“Derby Liberation Front vs Sockit Wenches & Throttle Rockets vs Visitor (Grave Danger’s bye-week).”
#HauteSeattle
Sat. 1/27 7:00 pm
Science Night: An Evening of Drunken Experiments
$20.00
Hale’s Palladium (Fremont)
“The most fun you can have without breaking the laws of physics. Science Night is a hands-on Science Experiment free-for-all, with dozens of experiments to try. Blow things up with air! Levitate metal! Make homemade lightbulbs, unbreakable bubbles, 3-D art, potato cannons, and more!” Johnny Jetpack has asked me to assist him again, so if you want to see me in a lab coat doing bad science, now’s your chance.
#Science!
Sat. 1/27 7:00 pm
Mambo Cadillac
$10.00
Seamonster Lounge (Wallingford)
“Latin music with Mambo Cadillac with a very special lineup! We will have Cuban cuatro guitarist Kiki Valera, Grammy winning vocalist Carlos Cascante, stellar pianist Julio Jauregui, timbales player Francisco ‘Jr’ Medina, bassist Jeff Volkman and Mambo Cadillac founder and conga player Tor Dietrichson.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sun. 1/28 2:00 pm
National Geographic Live — View From Above
$28-48.00
Benaroya Hall (Downtown)
“Terry Virts took more photographs than any astronaut who came before him. To hear Virts tell it, no photo can capture the perfect shade of blue from a sunrise viewed from outer space.”
#SEATalks
Next Week
Mon.-Tues. 1/29-1/30 7:30 pm
National Geographic Live — View From Above
$28-48.00
Benaroya Hall (Downtown)
“Terry Virts took more photographs than any astronaut who came before him. To hear Virts tell it, no photo can capture the perfect shade of blue from a sunrise viewed from outer space.”
#SEATalks
Wed. 1/31 5:29 am
Supermoon & Total Lunar Eclipse
Free
east/northeast sky
“If you can only catch one episode of the supermoon trilogy, catch the January 31st supermoon. It will feature a total lunar eclipse, with totality viewable in Seattle.”
#Science!
Thurs. 2/1 10:00 am
WordPress Freelancers Meetup
Free
Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford)
“February’s Meetup will include our first Member Spotlight and the topic will be Accounting and Invoicing.”
#WordPress
Thurs. 2/1 7:00 pm
The Limits of Presidential Power
$10.00
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum (Downtown)
“Responding to students’ requests, professors at UW Law School pulled together a course on presidential powers just months after the 2016 election. Professors Lisa Manheim and Kathryn Watts’s new book explores the legal basis for presidential powers and steps Congress, citizens, and the courts can take to protect the rule of law.”
#Civics
Fri.-Sat. 2/2-2/3
Crosscut Festival
$15-95.00
Seattle University (Capitol Hill)
“The Crosscut Festival will bring together some of the boldest thought leaders in politics, business and social justice activism to be interviewed live on stage by some of the finest journalists in the Pacific Northwest.”
#Civics
Sat. 2/3 10:30 am
Civic Saturday
Free
Hillman City Collaboratory (Rainier Valley)
“Civic Saturday is a civic analogue to church: a gathering of friends and strangers in a common place to nurture a spirit of shared purpose. But it’s not church religion or synagogue or mosque religion. It’s about American civic religion—the creed of liberty, equality, and self-government that truly unites us (even as we argue over it).”
#Civics
Get Tickets Now for These Upcoming Events
Fri.-Sat. 2/16-2/17
The Jazz Epistles featuring Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya and Hugh Masekela
$46.50
Jazz Alley (Downtown)
“Legends of South African music reunite for a historic concert to tell the story of The Jazz Epistles, arguably the most important jazz album ever recorded in its country’s history. This music was almost lost forever — only 500 copies were made in 1959, buried, and rediscovered decades later after the tyranny of apartheid. These giants of South African jazz tell their story at this extremely rare and unique performance.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Wed. 5/2 7:30 pm
Angélique Kidjo’s “Remain in Light”
$50-80.00
Benaroya Hall (Downtown)
“Critically acclaimed, three-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is one of the greatest artists in international music today. In her latest project, Kidjo reimagines The Talking Heads’ classic album, Remain in Light.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Get This Noteworthy Event on Your Calendar
Fri.-Sun. 4/27-4/29
World Rhythm Festival
Free
Seattle Center (Queen Anne)
Annual gathering of world percussion and dance fans.
#SeattleWorldBeat