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The Must List: Cinema de Paris, Ahamefule Oluo at the Moore
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Screen
Seattle Art Museum Presents Cinema de Paris
(3/31 to 5/26, times vary) This series is a salute to Paris and features the Seattle restoration premieres of seven films by Claude Sautet starring Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Romy Schneider. Also included are films by Jacques Becker, Claude Autant-Lara and Francois Truffaut. 3/31, Antoine and Antoinette; 4/7, A Pig Across Paris.
Must Hear
Ahamefule Oluo’s Now I’m Fine Returns for One Night Only
Saturday (4/2, 8 p.m.) After debuting at Town Hall in 2012, completing a critically praised and sold-out run at On the Boards last year and being included in the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater in New York City in January, Seattle composer, comedian and trumpet player Ahamefule Oluo’s Now I’m Fine—an experimental, jazz-inflected pop opera about suffering, loss and redemption—will return to the Moore Theatre for one night only.
Must See
UW Professor’s Solo Show at Greg Kucera Gallery
(Through 4/2, times vary) Norman Lundin, a longtime professor of painting at the University of Washington and current director of Prographica Drawings, is having his first solo show in several years, at Greg Kucera. His deeply philosophical approach to light, color and composition in his paintings of interiors is a grounding, welcome presence in Pioneer Square.
Must Make Reservations
Seattle Magazine Volunteering at Upcoming FareStart Event
Thursday (4/7, 5:30 to 8 p.m.) Chef Eric Johnson of Capitol Hill’s Stateside restaurant will lead a team of chefs in training to prepare a meal for more than 300 people at FareStart’s downtown location. The best part? Seattle magazine staffers, including editorial director Rachel Hart and executive editor Virginia Smyth will be tying on their aprons and taking tables for the evening. Make your reservations now.
Must Jam
Music Madness Coming to the Royal Room
Saturday (4/2, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.) 14/48 Projects, the group behind the pressure-packed time-crunch that is The World’s Quickest Theater Festival, is focusing on music this time with its 14/48 BoomBox event, wherein local musicians have just 24 hours to create five minutes worth of original music that a house band will perform that evening.
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