The Must List: Georgetown Carnival, Pepe Le Pew Takes Over EMP
What to do in Seattle this weekend
By Seattle magazine staff June 11, 2015
Must Ramble
Georgetown Carnival Hits the Streets
Saturday (6/13, times vary) Head south to the one-of-a-kind Georgetown neighborhood for the annual street festival, featuring live music, food trucks, interactive art, carnival acts and the always thrilling if slightly deranged power tool races.
Must Kill the Wabbit
Bugs, Daffy and Pepe Le Pew at EMP
(6/13 to 1/17/16, times vary) Celebrate EMP’s 15th birthday with the new exhibit What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, featuring original sketches, films, storyboards and photos from the man behind the thuperbly thilly cartoons.
Must Hike
4 Local Hikes for Beginners
The forecast promises another weekend of stunningly sunny weather—hooray! Consider getting out and taking a hike at one of these easy-to-moderate local trails.
Must Dance
Get Down at the Seattle International Dance Festival
(6/12 to 6/28, 4 to 10 p.m.) Punctuating two performance-packed weeks, the dance festival’s free Art on the Fly event in South Lake Union (6/13) features flash mobs, roving choreography and widespread support for dancing in the streets.
Must Hear
Killer Whales Book Launch and Reading
Tuesday (6/16, 7 p.m.) In David Neiwert’s latest book, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, the Seattle journalist and author pulls together 25 years of observation and reporting on those black-and-white beauties that feature heavily in Northwest symbolism and history.
Follow Us
Studio Sessions: Jade Solomon Curtis
With an interest in how bodies retain memory, emotion, and experience, the award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Jade Solomon Curtis presents an immersive work at Seattle’s historic Union station.
Discover choreographer Jade Solomon Curtis and her immersive dance installation, Keeper of Sadness, at Seattle’s historic Union Station this August.
Northwest Tune-Up Bike and Music Festival Brings Big Air and Loud Sets to Bellingham
The three-day festival celebrates its fifth year with bike competitions and a genre-spanning music lineup—plus one unforgettable band of mummies.
If I were to summarize the sensation of attending Northwest Tune-Up, Bellingham’s three-day bike and music festival, in one image, it would be watching Tomomi Nishikubo—a Japanese street trials biker—doing acrobatic acts of derring-do on his bike while Seattle rockers Thunderpussy shred in the distance. My second lasting impression of the festival would be rounding…
Ferry Tales: Eight Indie Bookstores Worth the Ride
Plan a summer day around these bookshops in Seattle, Bremerton, Bainbridge Island, Kingston, and Poulsbo.
Independent bookstores tend to be cornerstones of the communities in which they reside, and Seattle is no exception. In addition to helping customers discover their next read, these neighborhood hubs host weekly gatherings and events, like publication release parties, author talks, and book clubs. Many of them have cafés and reading tables that encourage lingering…
Rearview Mirror: Seattle Art Fair is Back, Nordstrom Throws a Block Party, and a Must-Try Ice Cream Sundae
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
SEATTLE ART FAIR RETURNS The buzziest event of the summer (well, aside from the World Cup), is returning next week. Now in its 10th edition, the Seattle Art Fair will once again take over the Lumen Field Event Center, packing it to the gills with art from 101 local, national, and international galleries. This year,…