Local Art News

Regular festival-goers have probably already marked their calendars for the Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival, to be held June 29-July 26 at Benaroya Hall. Chamber-music newbies, as well as anyone who wants a taste of this year's fest, are invited to a free SCMS multimedia presentation from noon-1 p.m. June 18 in the Microsoft Auditorium at Seattle Public Library's central branch, downtown Seattle. Did we mention it was free?

The coming weeks are rich in opportunities for Seattleites to experience many facets of Japanese culture: a silent film, museum exhibitions, a photography book and a close look at Noh. Dig in:

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URBAN LIGHT STUDIOS presents “The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers”   +   Introducing AXIS Pioneer Square FRIDAY, June 14th  6-10pm! urbanlightstudios.com Part of the monthly Phinneywood Art Walk URBAN LIGHT STUDIOS 8537 Greenwood Ave N Seattle, WA  98103 206.708.7281 URBAN LIGHT STUDIOS | 8537 Greenwood Ave N | Seattle | WA | 98103

Whether you're into historic rock 'n' roll, crude humor, fine art or just a frosty-topped mug of beer, your weekend is here. We've got five suggestions of ways to spend it. Want more? Go to our Entertainment page for ideas. Also feel free on the comments thread your own ideas of things to do this weekend.

Echo Echo Gallery Art Walk June 14th! Put it on your calendar!  August 9th Between Two Worlds, Fire Walk With Me Seattle Artists Take on Twin Peaks! facebook.com/betweentwoworldsfwwm Hours? We want to bring you our art when you want it. Right now we are working hard on expanding hours that we are open. If you [...]

Beginning June 15, the Tacoma Museum District is offering a district pass, allowing visitors admission to Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum and Washington State History Museum for one price: $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, kids 6 and up and military. Each pass is good for seven days from the first time is used; each pass is good for one visit to each of the three museums during the seven-day period. Passes are available at each of the three museums, or here.

Usual admission prices are: Museum of Glass, $5-$12; TAM, $8-$10; history museum, $7-$9.50.

From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic:

A memorial service has been set for influential theater director, author and scholar Herbert Blau, of Seattle, who died May 3 (obituary here). The author of a dozen books, he held several posts at the University of Washington: professor emeritus of English and comparative literature, adjunct professor in the School of Drama and the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities. He retired from teaching in 2012.

The memorial is 4 p.m. June 22 at Kane Hall 210, University of Washington. Organizers request RSVPs by June 15 at schadmin@uw.edu or http://herbertblau.eventbrite.com.

Other Desert Cities ACT Theatre, through June 30 By Alice Kaderlan Sometimes a good play sneaks up on you. Through the first act and well into the second, Other Desert Cities appears to be little more than a sociological study of a dysfunctional family...

THE VERA PROJECT ANNOUNCES 11TH ANNUAL A DRINK FOR THE KIDS Event dates June 22 – June 29, 2013 For Immediate Release Contact: Annie Holden, Marketing and Communications Manager AnnieH@TheVeraProject.org The Vera Project is excited to announce our 11th annual drinking fundraiser A Drink for the Kids! Happening just in time for the best week [...]

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 Through June & July, Tasty is exhibiting a 2 month group show featuring snazzy wheels and luscious ladies in a collection we call: HOT RODS & HONEYS. Artists include: Adam Jackson, Augie Pagan, Court Hoffman, Jeffery Petterson, Lisa Penz, Megan Majewski, MJ Lindo, Phresha, Raw Garbage, Reis O’Brien, Rob Schwartz and The Collagemonauts.In addition, Saturday [...]

  Tyna Ontko, Freddy Mercury and more… View this email in your browser Absence in Between: Tyna Ontko Thurs, June 13th 5-9pm. On view through July 8th, 2013 We are proud to introduce you to Tyna Ontko, an emerging artist from Bellingham. Tyna will be exhibiting her collection of large format cut paper installations and [...]

Friday night brings one of SIFF 2013's most interesting events to The Triple Door: It's the band The Maldives playing a live score to the 1928 Lillian Gish film, "The Wind."

That's about par for the course for The Triple Door, a venue that hosts an eclectic range of Americana, blues, folk, jazz and cabaret music. In a nod to the club's adventurous programming, ArtsPage is giving away one $100 gift certificate to be used toward tickets or food. To enter the contest, answer this week's ArtsPage trivia question by noon Friday, June 7: "How did The Triple Door get its name?"

Search for the correct answer -- or just make up one of your own. (We don't really care how you do it; creativity counts.) Send your answer by noon Friday to ArtsPage honcho Melissa Davis at mdavis@seattletimes.com. She and her fellow editors will choose a winner at their whim and notify him or her via email Friday afternoon.

 

 

Here at ArtsPage HQ, we know the combination of artiness and free is irresistible. Here's an event coming up on Monday (June 10) that fits the bill:

Balagan Theatre invites all to its free season-preview party on Monday, which will feature not only music from the new season of shows, but also the unveiling of the not-yet-announced fifth mainstage production. Also on tap: Jinkx Monsoon (aka local actor Jerick Hoffer, aka winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race") and Broadway veteran/Tony winner Alice Ripley ("The Who's Tommy," "Next to Normal."  Balagan's new artistic director, Louis Hobson, will be on hand as well.

7:30 p.m.. June 10, Moore Theatre, Seattle.

 

 

This is a post about art ... sort of. The video below shows what we at ArtsPage HQ believe is a work of art.

Let's say you're a big public library. You want to kick off your summer reading program in style. You have energetic young folk hanging around and a big ol' stack of books. This being Seattle, you probably have lots of coffee handy.

What to do? You spend seven hours setting up 2,131 books (destined for a book sale) just right .... and then knock them over. That's what nearly 30 people did on a recent Friday night at SPL's central branch. It took five attempts, but the results are glorious -- and, the library says, a world record.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np450xMSncE