Join the city of Seattle’s Waterfront Seattle project to celebrate a new milestone in our waterfront’s history at the event Waterfront into Focus, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, July 12, at Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall. Bring friends and family to see what’s next for our waterfront and how our community… [ Keep reading ]
Get down to the grooves of veteran all-star band Wheedle’s Groove – a coming together of some of the finest funk and soul musicians from Seattle’s thriving soul music scene of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The group will perform a free Seattle Presents concert, noon to 1:30 p.m., this Thursday,… [ Keep reading ]
Mark your calendars! Beginning in July, Seattle Presents free concerts are back for the summer. Grab your lunch, enjoy some sun and hear great music on the plaza at City Hall every Thursday, noon to 1:30 p.m., July 12 through Aug. 30. In case of rain, most concerts will be… [ Keep reading ]
In case you missed Stokley Towles Stormwater: Life in the Gutter last fall or last month, Seattle Channel 21 will broadcast his one-man performance beginning tonight, 9 p.m, June 21 to Sunday, June 24 (see schedule below). You can also watch the video online now. Stormwater: Life in the Gutter,… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Mike McGinn posted this message to his blog today. We’re pleased to share it. Arts mean business. The nonprofit arts and culture industry in Seattle generates $447.6 million in annual economic activity, supporting 10,807 full-time equivalent jobs and delivering $38.2 million in local and state government revenues. This according… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Mike McGinn today announced the recipients of the 2012 Mayor’s Arts Awards. To mark the 10th anniversary of the award, 10 recipients will be honored this year. The honorees include three individuals and seven organizations: two dancer/choreographers, a public artist, a producer of theatrical wonders, a nonprofit acting studio,… [ Keep reading ]
We’re looking for presenters for arts- and performance-based workshops for the two-day symposium Arts and Social Change, Oct. 12 to 13 at Seattle Center. The event will focus on the role the arts can play in creating awareness, inspiring understanding and developing policies to address social change. Sessions will also… [ Keep reading ]
Does bigger artwork make for better artwork? BIG AND BOLD: An Exhibition of Sizable Artworks examines many of the city’s larger artworks in its Portable Works Collection. BIG AND BOLD is on view through Sept. 28 at the Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery. BIG AND BOLD highlights 11 artworks by 10… [ Keep reading ]
Wander down to Westlake Park in downtown Seattle and happen upon Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir’s 26 life–size, androgynous human sculptures. Thórarinsdóttir’s installation Borders will extend throughout the park between Pine and Pike streets June 6 to fall of this year. The figures, 13 aluminum and 13 cast iron, some standing, some seated on… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle artist Carol dePelecyn’s new artworks Memento and Short in the Tooth will open at Seattle Public Utilities’ ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new South Transfer Station, 9:30 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, May 30. In Memento and Short in the Tooth, dePelecyn salvaged parts of the old South Park Bridge to… [ Keep reading ]
