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Must List: Carrie Brownstein Reading, PNB’s ‘Emergence’
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Be Hungry
Carrie Brownstein Reads at the Neptune Theatre
Friday (11/6, 7 p.m.) Northwest native Carrie Brownstein, star of Portlandia, will read from her new book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, at Seattle’s Neptune Theatre. Brownstein will share her story of music and family drama and how those experiences shaped her evolution as an artist.
Must Be Joking
Laugh Along with the Seattle International Comedy Competition
(Through 11/28, times vary) Who will get the last laugh? This event features comedians from around the world showcasing their best one-liners and gags. The traveling comics will perform in 22 shows at 19 venues, with the winner crowned at the Snoqualmie Casino on the competitions last day.
Must Plie
Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents Emergence
(11/6 to 11/15, times vary) Emergence is an impressive mixed bill featuring work by emerging choreographers, including Jessica Lang, Kiyon Gaines and Price Suddarth. Also in the lineup is Vancouver, B.C.–based Crystal Pite, whose dark swarm of insect-like legs is essential viewing.
Must See
Space Imagery + Music at Origins: Life and the Universe
Saturday (11/7, 2 p.m.) Powerful imagery collected from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA will be synchronized with symphonic music by award-winning composer David Sabee and the Northwest Sinfonia orchestra at Benaroya Hall. Ticket sales benefit the UW Astrobiology Program’s scholarship fund.
Must Remember
NW African American Museum Presents Atomic Frontier
(Through 3/6/2016, times vary) Photography exhibition The Atomic Frontier: Black Life at Hanford at the Northwest African American Museum chronicles the lives of black workers who participated unknowingly in the extraction of plutonium to build atomic bombs during World War II. While they were constructing “Fat Man”—the second atomic bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki—the workers faced challenges, such as racial segregation in housing, mess halls, social events and certain neighborhoods.
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