The Must List: Shen Yun, Mariners Opening Day & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff April 7, 2016
Must See
Shen Yun at McCaw Hall
(4/8 to 4/10, times vary) Performing arts company Shen Yun returns to Seattle to tell the tale of heroes, dragons and emperors through dance and acrobatics in a stunning visual and musical production at McCaw Hall. The show, “Lost Paradise,” revives and celebrates 5,000 years of culture that is banned in today’s communist China.
Must Watch
Jane Comfort & Company at Meany Hall
(4/7 to 4/9, 8 p.m.) Declared “a postmodernist pioneer in the use of verbal material in dance” by The New York Times, Jane Comfort confronts contemporary social and cultural issues with compassion and wit. The company includes dancers, actors and singers whose multiple talents allow Comfort to create layered works using a wide range of theatrical elements.
Must Cheer
Opening Day for the Seattle Mariners
Friday (4/8, 7:10 p.m.) Baseball season is back, baby! Will it be a winning season? Find out while you load up on peanuts and Cracker Jack—or some of the latest locally inspired eats to hit the stadium—and root for the home team when the Mariners return to Safeco Field to take on the Oakland Athletics.
Must Marvel
Last Weekend for the Moisture Festival
(Through 4/13, times vary) Prepare for a wild and crazy time as Hale’s Palladium in Fremont is overrun with contortionists, comedians and a variety of clowns. It’s the 13th year of the Moisture Festival, which showcases a veritable circus of gravity-defying and sometimes risque vaudeville acts.
Must Voyage
Live Orchestra Production of “Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage”
Friday (4/8, 8 p.m.) Save the stardate for this live symphony orchestra production of “Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage” on the final frontier, ahem, the Paramount Theatre. A collection of the most iconic footage from Star Trek films and TV series will be featured on a 40-foot, high-definition screen and synchronized with a live symphony orchestra in this never-before-seen-in-Seattle concert event.
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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,…