The Must List: Plant Sale, PNB Presents Swan Lake
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff April 8, 2015
Must See
Designer Luly Yang’s Annual Fashion Show
Sunday (4/12, 2 p.m.) Get ready to be dazzled: Luly Yang, the duchess of dresses and all things glam, is throwing one sublime fashion show on Sunday, April 12 at the W Hotel Grand Ballroom. And you’re all cordially invited.
Must Plie
PNB Presents Swan Lake
(4/10 to 4/ 19, times vary) The birds are back. PNB presents Swan Lake, the Platonic ideal of ballet, choreographed by Kent Stowell (PNB’s founding artistic director), set to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score and featuring an epic ton of tutus. If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in the body of a white swan, hoping your true love will set you free, you get it.
Must Watch
100 Years After Birth of a Nation
Saturday (4/13, 7:30 p.m.) Presented by Northwest Film Forum, the Northwest African American Museum and the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, this centennial screening excerpts from D.W. Griffith’s monumental—and extremely controversial—film may be hard to watch. Set in the Civil War and Reconstruction, with white actors in blackface playing African-Americans, the film was once used as a KKK recruiting tool. During the accompanying discussion, find out why it remains not just relevant but important to see.
Must Shop
Early Bloomers Plant Sale at the Arboretum
Saturday (4/11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) Swing by the Graham Visitors Center for the Arboretum’s first public plant sale of the year where you’ll find all manner of springy flora, including trilliums, primroses, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and camellias, all propagated from the Arboretum’s own collection and waiting for a good home.
Must Drink
Elsom Cellars Re-opens in SoDo
After five years in Woodinville, Elsom Cellars has brought her lush malbecs and cabs back to Seattle with a 3,500-square-foot tasting room and production facility in SoDo’s Gateway Complex.
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