Happening This Week
Mon. 9/23
7:30 pm
Lucibela
$20-25.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Traditional Cape Verdean music including the bittersweet ballads called mornas – a creole cousin of the fado from Portugal.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 9/24
6:00 pm
Trust and Responsibility in Design
$5.00
Artefact (Pioneer Square)
“Celebrate Interaction Design Day with your community by joining us for an in-depth conversation about trust and responsibility in design!”
#Design
Tues. 9/24
7:30 pm
Naomi Klein: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
$5.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“Investigate our modern climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one.”
#Civics
Tues. 9/24
8:00 pm
47SOUL
$17.00
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
“Electro Arabic Dabke (Shamstep).” With Seattle DJ Darek Mazzone.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Wed. 9/25
7:30 pm
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
$5.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“Discussion of the ways that humanity has turned our planet into a farm for growing meat.”
#Science!
Wed. 9/25
7:30 pm
Single Payer Healthcare and What Comes Next
$5.00
The Forum at Town Hall (First Hill)
“Learn about a vision for a world where we could leave our jobs without losing healthcare for ourselves and our kids; where affordable housing is healthcare; and where social justice links arm-in-arm with health justice for us all.”
#Civics
Thurs. 9/26
5:00 pm
Blink Gallery Exhibition & Speaker Series
Free
Blink UX (Downtown)
“Celebrate the work of photographer Linda Brooks and hear from author and UX leader Torrey Podmakersky.”
#Design
Thurs. 9/26
7:30 pm
A Farm’s Return to the Wild
$5.00
The Forum at Town Hall (First Hill)
“A discussion of the challenges and successes of a bold mission to revive land and wildlife by letting nature take its course.”
#Science!
Thurs. 9/26
7:30 pm
The Story Collider
$12-15.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“True, personal stories about science. Join us for our debut show in Seattle featuring five personal stories on Environmental Science.”
#Science!
Thurs. 9/26
8:00 pm
Fidel Nadal
$25.00
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
“Latin Grammy nominated Afro-Argentinian pioneer of Latin American Reggae en Español and the underground hardcore punk movement in Argentina” with Mr Pauer & Sounds of Sahara.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 9/27
7:30 pm
Garifuna Collective and Hagucha Garinagu
$15-20.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“Two Garifuna sensations in back-to-back live performances!”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat.-Sun. 9/28-29
10:00 am-9:00 pm Sat.; 10:00 am-6:00 pm Sun.
Festa Italiana
Free
Seattle Center (Queen Anne)
“The largest Italian-American event in the Northwest. It features art, music, food, dance and participatory activities for the entire family.”
#Community
Sat. 9/28
10:00 am
Town Green Day of Service
Free
Yesler Terrace Park (Yessler Terrace)
“Join Town Hall and the Black Farmers Collective for a Day of Service at Yes Farm.”
#Community
Sat. 9/28
10:00 am
DIY User Group for Bloggers
Free
Wallingford Community Senior Center (Wallingford)
“This is a new WordPress Meetup for those who are DIY (do-it-yourselfers). You may be a beginner, you may be an experienced blogger, you may maintain your own site that someone else created for you.”
#WordPress
Sat. 9/28
11:00 am
Ricardo Guity and Hagucha Garinagu
Free-5:00
The Forum at Town Hall (First Hill)
“Drummer [and community pillar] Ricardo Guity leads Hagucha Garinagu. Learn how to sing songs and play instruments in the Garifuna style, and hear stories celebrating the history and culture of the Garifuna people. Bring the whole family.”
#Community #SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 9/28
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Sustainable Ballard Festival
Free
Ballard Commons Park (Ballard)
“Family-friendly, fun, free, and full of surprises! Visit local sustainable businesses and non-profits, catch some local buskers, enjoy refreshments from local food trucks.”
#Community
Sat. 9/28
noo-6:00 pm
Georgetown Pinewood Derby
$40.00
Georgetown Trailer Park Mall (Georgetown)
“‘It’s all downhill from here!’ Categories for kids, adults, vintage racers, and an outlaw bracket.”
#HauteSeattle
Sat. 9/28
6:00 pm
Science Night: An Evening of Drunken Experiments
$22.00
Hale’s Palladium (Fremont)
“The most fun you can have without breaking the laws of physics.”
#Science!
Sat. 9/28
7:00 pm
Orchestra Zarabanda
$10.00
Seamonster Lounge (Wallingford)
“Live Cuban dance orchestra playing groovy Havana and NYC classic salsa tunes!”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 9/28
8:00 pm
Huun Huur Tu
$20.00
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
Tuvan throat singing and more. “Descendents of isolated Siberian herdsmen make serious, strangely universal music out of some of the planet’s quirkiest acoustics.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 9/28
8:00 pm
Duende Libre with Frank Anderson
$15.00
North City Bistro (Shoreline)
“Energetic new trio that utilizes the American jazz tradition as a point of departure for daring explorations of rhythm & influences from the Americas, Europe and Africa.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 9/28
8:00 pm
Azucar & Correo
$15-20.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
Two Seattle Latin music favorites: Alma y Azúcar and Correo Aereo Quartet.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Next Week
Mon. 9/30
8:00 pm
Too Many Zooz
$20.50-23.50
Neptune Theater (U District)
“The curious thing about being a fan of brasshouse? You’re pretty much talking about being into one solitary but extremely unforgettable band.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 10/1
5:00 pm
Mambo Cocktail Hour
No cover
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
“Traditional rhythms of Cuba and South America are given flight with jazz arrangements and sensibility. The songs breathe with a deep lyricism, inviting the audience into a rich and unpredictable musical landscape, where cha-cha-cha, vals, and swing meet like old friends on the dance floor.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 10/1
6:00 pm
New Tech Seattle
$8-25.00
Thinkspace (Westlake)
“The Northwest’s largest tech community.”
#Tech
Wed. 10/2
7:30 pm
Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
$5.00
The Forum at Town Hall (First Hill)
“If we focus on endowing machines with common sense and deep understanding — rather than prioritizing statistical analysis and rampant data collection — we will be able to create an AI we can trust.”
#Tech
Thurs. 10/3
10:00 am
WordPress Freelancers Meetup
Free
Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford)
“Do you make your living using WordPress to create websites for other people’s businesses? This Meetup is for you!”
#WordPress
Thurs. 10/3
6:30 pm
Ignite Seattle
$5-10.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“The largest open submission public speaking event in the Pacific Northwest. Each speaker gets 20 slides, for 15 seconds each, to share a passion for 5 minutes. Enlighten us, but make it quick!”
#SEATalks
Thurs. 10/3
7:30 pm
The Nature Fix
$5.00
The Forum at Town Hall (First Hill)
“The science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain.”
#Science!
Thurs. 10/3
7:30 pm
You Are What Your Grandparents Ate
$5.00
The Reading Room at Town Hall (First Hill)
“We now know that the experiences of previous generations have a direct effect on our health.”
#Science!
Thurs. 10/3
8:00 pm
Moth StorySlam
$15.00
Fremont Abbey (Fremont)
“Fraud: Prepare a five-minute story about fakes, liars, and hustlers. Tell us about a time when you felt like a phony or a sham.”
#SEATalks
Fri. 10/4
7:30 pm
Who Needs College?
$5.00
The Forum at Town Hall (First Hill)
“An examination of the American promise of social mobility, and an unblinking look at how the system works — and who it works for.”
#Civics
Fri.-Sat. 10/4-5
7:30 pm Fri. & 3:00 pm Sat.
Africa Remix 2019
$10-20.00
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (Central District)
“New choreography drawn from traditional West African and contemporary African dance styles. The show explores the ways we mask ourselves in society, interpreted through dance, engaging high-caliber local and international dancers.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 10/5
10:30 am
Civic Saturday
Free
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
“A civic ritual — a place to come together in civic community, be inspired and encouraged to reflect and connect, and create new civic traditions that are joyful and communal.”
#Civics
Sat. 10/5
7:00 pm
Guilherme Arantes
$35.00
Erickson Theatre (Capitol Hill)
“Amongst the most talented and successful Brazilian musicians of the last decades.” With Eduardo Mendonça.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sun. 10/6
noon-6:00 pm
CroatiaFest
Free
Seattle Center (Queen Anne)
“Music, dance, historical exhibits, marketplace, art gallery, genealogy workshops, and more.”
#Community
Noteworthy Upcoming Events
Mon. 10/7
7:30 pm
Tinariwen
$42-62.00
Benaroya Hall (Downtown)
“Extraordinary guitar-poets from the southern Sahara desert blend blues, rock and pop with Berber and Arabic influences to create an altogether hypnotic concert experience.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 10/11
8:00 pm
Songhoy Blues
$25-28.00
Neptune Theater (U District)
“The future of African rock n’ roll. Steeped in the deep traditions of classic Malian music & desert blues fused with a youthful & super-charged sound of today.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Mon. 10/28
7:30 pm
Vieux Farka Touré & Bombino: Sons of the Sahara
$45-60.00
Benaroya Hall (Downtown)
“A unique collaboration between two of Africa’s most esteemed and dynamic guitar masters.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues.-Sun. 12/3-8
Stomp
Moore Theater (Belltown)
“International percussion sensation uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms.”
#SeattleWorldBeat