Happening This 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
6:30 pm
Alfredo Chavez, Eric Reid & Ernesto Pedgianco
No cover
Geo’s (Greenwood)
“A unique journey through Latin American genres.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
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
Next Week
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
Columbia City Theater (Columbia City)
“Classic Malian music & desert blues fused with a youthful & super-charged sound of today.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Noteworthy Upcoming Events
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