‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Opens, Drink and Draw on Capitol Hill and Get Ready to Run for a Good Cause
By Seattle magazine staff April 10, 2014
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Multitaskbra href=”http://bit.ly/1qlbfiR” target=”_blank”Draw a Masterpiece and Drink a Pint/a/strongbrThursday (4/10, 7 p.m.) — Capitol Hill Cider is taking an active approach to the neighborhood’s second-Thursday art walk with “Drink and Draw,” curated by the Gage Academy of Art, wherein patrons use free drawing supplies to sketch live models while sipping suds./p
pstrongMust Marvelbra href=”http://bit.ly/1ka5qms” target=”_blank”PNB’s emA Midsummer Night’s Dream /emOpens/a/strongbr(4/11 to 4/19, times vary) — Pacific Northwest Ballet brings Shakespeare’s woodland comedy to life with George Balanchine’s incomparable choreography and Felix Mendelssohn’s memorable score. The familiar story of how love, mischief and mishaps arise when humans and fairies mix is as appealing as ever./p
pstrongMust Seebra href=” http://bit.ly/1gQ7HOa” target=”_blank”Bellevue Arts Museum Hosts Contemporary Craft Exhibit/a/strongbr(Through 4/27, times vary) — Where is the line between art and craft? The answer proves elusive in this show featuring more than 60 works in wood, ceramic and fiber by emerging and established artists from all over./p
pstrongMust Hearbra href=” http://bit.ly/1lNebmi” target=”_blank”Author Lorrie Moore at the Downtown Seattle Library/a/strongbrSaturday (4/12, 7 to 8:30 p.m.) — Beloved fiction writer Lorrie Moore (Birds of America; A Gate at the Stairs) reads from her new collection of short stories, Bark, at the Central Library in downtown Seattle./p
pstrongMust Runbra href=”http://bit.ly/1lT7OQW” target=”_blank”What to Expect atem Seattle/em Magazine’s 2014 Earth Day Run/a/strongbrSaturday (4/19, 9:30 a.m.) — Celebratory pints from West Seattle Brewing Company and sustenance from Chopstix and Curb Jumper Street Eats food trucks will be at the ready when you cross the finish line of our fun 5k run along the Alki waterfront./p
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