Happening This Week
Mon. 6/4 7:00 pm
Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
Free
Elliott Bay Books (Capitol Hill)
“Seattle author and Jeopardy champion par excellence Ken Jennings has taken to writing books that reflect his wide-ranging knowledge. Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture (Scribner). Ranging from bawdy humor on Sumerian tablets to Twitter doings, this book looks at how central a place in things humor has taken root.”
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Mon. 6/4 7:30 pm
American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
$5.00
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (Central District)
“Khaled Beydoun passionately argues that by failing to frame Islamophobia as a system of bigotry endorsed and emboldened by law and carried out by government actors, U.S. society ignores the injury it inflicts on both Muslims and non-Muslims.”
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Tues. 6/5 7:30 pm
How We Came to Know and Love the Orca
$5.00
University Lutheran Church (U District)
“In celebration of Orca Awareness Month, environmental professor Jason M. Colby draws on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, to tell the exhilarating and heartbreaking story of how the public came to love the ocean’s greatest predator.”
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Tues. 6/5 8:00 pm
SuperSones
Donation
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Traditional Cuban Son music with a heavy dose of salsa and jazz.”
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Thurs. 6/7 10:00 am
WordPress Freelancers Meetup
Free
Wallingford Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford)
“Do you make your living using WordPress to create websites for other people’s businesses? This new Meetup is for you! We’ll discuss the successes and challenges of running a small business, share stories, ask questions, share tools & resources, brainstorm ideas and generally create community for those of us who typically work in isolation.”
#WordPress
Thurs. 6/7 7:00 pm
Correo Aereo
$15.00
North City Bistro (Shoreline)
“Correo Aereo (Spanish for ‘Air Mail’) is an award winning multi-instrumental and vocal Latin/World music duo, performing traditional music of Venezuela, Argentina & Mexico.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 6/7 8:00 pm
Moth StorySLAM
$10.00
Fremont Abbey (Fremont)
“TECHNOLOGY: Prepare a five-minute story about the gadgetry and infrastructure that propels your life. Search engines and smart phones. Software, hard drives, spaceships and laser surgery. Universal access and online privacy. The Luddite’s lament while the futurists rejoice!”
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Fri. 6/8 8:30 am
Creative Mornings
Free
Galvanize (Pioneer Square)
“Brittany Nicole Cox is an antiquarian horologist based in Seattle, Washington. In 2015 she opened Memoria Technica, an independent workshop where she teaches, practices guilloché, creates new pieces, and specializes in the conservation and restoration of automata, mechanical magic, mechanical music, and complicated clocks and watches.”
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Fri. 6/8 9:00 pm
Mokoomba
$20.00
Tractor Tavern (Ballard)
“Mokoomba brings audiences an electrifying blend of Afro-fusion and tantalizing traditional Zimbabwean Tonga rhythms.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 6/9 8:00 am-noon
Lard Butt 1K
$30.00
Magnuson Park (Magnuson Park)
“The Lard Butt 1K (yup, 0.62 miles) replaces water stations with donut stops every 250 meters; features three waves (Show-offs; Legends, Waddlers) and a Kids Dash; and, perhaps most important, will include a Food Drive for our good friends at the University District Food Bank!”
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Sat. 6/9 10:00 am
WordPress Contributor Meetup
Free
Uptown Espresso (South Lake Union)
“Come hang out with other WordPress users, designers and developers and contribute to the WordPress project. No previous experience needed – you just show up and we’ll help you find something to do.”
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Sat. 6/9 11:00 am-5:00 pm
Spirit of Indigenous People Festival
Free
Seattle Center (Queen Anne)
“A collaborative effort of the many Native community groups in the greater Seattle area, bringing together an intertribal showcase of the culture and tradition of American Indians and Alaska Natives.”
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Sat. 6/9 noon-7:00 pm
Volunteer Park Pride Festival
Free
Volunteer Park (Capitol Hill)
“Formerly known as the Pride Family Picnic, the Volunteer Park Pride Festival is a chance for family and friends to come together in one of Seattle’s iconic parks and celebrate our amazing LGBTQ community. As in years past, the event will be free and all-ages, and there will be live music, beer garden, food trucks, craft booths, and more!”
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Sat. 6/9 noon-10:00 pm
Georgetown Carnival
Free
multiple locations (Georgetown)
“Carnival Games, Spin Art, Food Trucks, Beer & Wine Gardens Arts, & Crafts, Spontaneous Spectacles!” But the real reason to go is for the Hazardfactory’s World Famous Power Tool Drag Races.
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Sat. 6/9 3:00 pm
Combine Demolition Derby
$15.00
Lions Club Arena (Lind, WA)
Eastern WA farmers intentionally wreck their old combines in this 30-year tradition. More info here. Preview video.
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Sun. 6/10 5:30-10:00 pm
Columbia City Beatwalk: Global Beats/World Rhythms
Free (donations appreciated)
various locations (Columbia City)
“Help welcome summer with the first edition of Beatwalk 2018!” Acts include The Romales (Leif Totusek and Mario Butkovic), L’Orchestra Afrisound, Trovadoro, and other word beat groups.
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Next Week
Tues. 6/12 5:30 pm
New Tech Seattle
$5-20.00
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
“New Tech is the Northwest’s largest tech community. We’re the place where you make meaningful connections, learn from the industry’s best, and have a fun night out.”
#Tech
Tues. 6/12 5:30 pm
Seattle Greendrinks Summer Soiree
$7-10.00
Port of Seattle (Waterfront)
“Enjoy wine from Badger Mountain Winery, beer from Fremont Brewing, ice cream from Snoqualmie Ice Cream and tasty food from Naija Buka! Plus live music from The Remedy! PLEASE remember to bring your reusable cup. Or purchase a Seattle Greendrinks pint glass for $10.”
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Tues. 6/12 7:00 pm
WordPress Developers Meetup
Free
WeWork (South Lake Union)
“Get into the code side of WordPress – from plugins, to themes, and beyond.”
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Tues. 6/12 7:00 pm
Disaster Night!
Free
Naked City Brewing (Greenwood)
“Join KUOW for Disaster Night!, a quiz show all about natural disasters. Show off your catastrophic knowledge, bring questions you’d like our calamitous experts to investigate, and compete for the title of Seattle’s Master of Disaster.”
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Tues. 6/12 8:00 pm
Salon of Shame
$18.00
Cornish Playhouse (Seattle Center)
“We invite you to join us in exploiting 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.”
#HauteSeattle
Wed. 6/13 6:30 pm
FuckUp Nights
$10.00
Atlas Workbase (Queen Anne)
“Fuckup Nights is a global event series that shares stories of professional failure. Each month we convince people to get up in front of a room full of strangers and talk about their own professional fuckup. The business that crashes and burns, the partnership deal that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled – we tell them all.”
#HauteSeattle
Thurs. 6/14 7:00 pm
UX Book Club
Free
Ada’s Technical Books (Capitol Hill)
“We’re reading, ‘Mapping Experiences’ by James Kalbach. This is a traditional book club style meeting where we chat about the book as a group (not an author event or presentation). Feel free to join even if you don’t get a chance to read the book!”
#Design
Thurs. 6/14 7:30 pm
The Good News About Bad Behavior
$5.00
University Lutheran Church (U District)
“In our modern highly-connected age it sometimes seems as though children have less self-control than ever. Journalist and parenting expert Katherine Reynolds Lewis explores the ways we can instill the values of independence, responsibility, and self-regulation in our kids without falling into old (and, she says, fallible) patterns of punishment and reward.”
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Fri. 6/15 8:30 pm
World Beat Night: Rhythms from Black Panther
$10.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Massamba Diop is perhaps the world’s most renowned master of the Tama, a talking drum from Senegal, West Africa. Most recently, Massamba has received much acclaim for his collaboration on Marvel’s Black Panther soundtrack, providing the drumming for King Tchalla’s theme music, heard throughout the film whenever the title character makes an entrance.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 6/16 10:00 am
WordPress 101
Free
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
Sat.-Sun. 6/16-17 noon-8:00 pm Sat.; noon-6:00 pm Sun.
Festival Sundiata Black Arts Fest
Free
Seattle Center (Queen Anne)
“Festival Sundiata presents a two-day celebration of African American culture, including African dance and drumming workshops, fashion demonstrations, a market, food, and more.”
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Sat. 6/16 1:00 pm
Fremont Solstice Parade
Free
Center of the Universe (Fremont)
“Come celebrate the longest day of the year through profound street theater, public spectacle, and a kaleidoscope of joyous human expression. This handmade parade consists of human-powered floats and community-based ensembles.”
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Noteworthy Upcoming Events
Sat. 6/23 8:00 pm
Ozomatli
$30-32.50
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
“Since its inception in 1995, innovation and creativity have defined Ozomatli. Hailing from Los Angeles, the group found a way to represent the city’s eclectic culture through music that appeals to the local community and the world beyond. Ozomatli’s success is exemplified in an impressive variety of genres from classic to modern Latino, urban, hip-hop and other world styles.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 7/21 8:00 pm
Bombino
$22.50
Crocodile (Belltown)
“Bombino is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs.-Sun. 8/2-5
Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band
$34.50
Jazz Alley (Downtown)
“Master Conguero, Band Leader and Latin Jazz Legend Poncho Sanchez stirs up a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 11/17 8:00 am-4:30 pm
TEDxSeattle 2018
McCaw Hall (Seattle Center)
“The theme for this year’s event is Tall Order. As an individual, many of us have thought, ‘that’s a tall order’ about something in our personal and work lives. As a theme, Tall Order balances the sense that these are challenging times – but that the challenges can be met. Tickets will go on sale this summer.”
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