Must List: May the Fourth Festivities and Seattle Opera’s ‘Ariadne’
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff April 30, 2015
Must Jedi
May the 4th Be With You at EMP
Monday (5/4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Don your finest Luke or Leia costume for a family-friendly intergalactic bash in honor of Star Wars Day, which (naturally) happens on May 4th. Expect Star Wars-themed arts and crafts, a roaming R2-D2, trivia, photo ops and Darth Vader masks. While you’re there, stroll the museum’s Star Wars and the Power of the Costume exhibit.
Must Boat
Opening Day of Boating Season
Saturday (5/2, times vary) Boating season officially begins this weekend, so if you don’t have your own water vessel, it’s time to make friends with someone who does. Here now, for your cruising pleasure, are eight Seattle restaurants at which you can dock your boat and dine.
Must Hear
Trimpin’s World-Premiere Work at Seattle Symphony
Saturday (5/2, 10 p.m.) As part of Seattle Symphony’s daring “[untitled]” series (yes, even the name is daring!), Seattle sound sculptor Trimpin presents a world-premiere experimental work, featuring his invented instruments triggered by conductor Ludovic Morlot’s movements.
Must Bravo
Seattle Opera Presents Ariadne auf Naxos
(5/2 to 5/16, times vary) It’s a question for the ages: Which pleases the public more, high art or lowbrow antics? The Seattle Opera poses it by way of 1912’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which delights in the depiction of both.
Must Tour
Mark Your Calendar for a Modern Home Tour
Saturday (5/2, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) This self-paced, self-driven circuit—from Austin, Texas-based Modern Home Tours—features total access to five to eight private Seattle-area residences chosen for their unique modern design aesthetics.
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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,…