This eye-opening concert-with-commentary explores the musical legacy of the Holocaust, along with new chamber music composed in response to the Holocaust, performed by some of the area’s leading chamber musicians. Music of Remembrance Artistic Director Mina Miller, an international speaker on musicians' spiritual resistance during the Holocaust and a concert pianist, discusses the SAM exhibition "Our National Game" and Jackie Robinson's "athletic resistance" as a counterpoint to the artistic resistance to the Holocaust that Music of Remembrance’s music commemorates.

Come help out on a fun art project! The 253 Collective is creating an art quilt to represent the Tacoma area. Add your flare to this project by bringing your own 4'' x 4'' painting, drawing, photograph, etc (paper or fabric please). Or create your square on site using provided materials. The finished Art Quilt will be on display through the end of the year.

An interactive installation of images and music within an 8' X 8' X 8"room. This multi-media work by pianist, artist, Ann Cummings, examines the emotional relationships of doubt and forgiveness based upon the properties of music. Bring your own flashlight for free admission, or $5.00 without a flashlight.

An interactive installation of images and music within an 8' X 8' X 8" room. This multi-media work by pianist, artist, Ann Cummings, examines the emotional relationships of doubt and forgiveness based upon the properties of music. Bring your own flashlight for free admission, or $5.00 without a flashlight.

Vicki Boeckman and David Ohannesian explore music from seven centuries for recorders

Get inspired! Find your inner artist! Create art! Artists in Action, professionals Amy Pleasant & Ann Blanch and you, all week, 10:00-3:00 in the Shoreline City Hall Lobby. Ask questions, try Sumi painting, & watch Amy’s generational painting come to life.

An interactive installation of images and music within an 8' X 8' X 8" room. This multi-media work by pianist, artist, Ann Cummings, examines the emotional relationships of doubt and forgiveness based upon the properties of music. Bring your own flashlight for free admission, or $5.00 without a flashlight.

An interactive installation of images and music within an 8' X 8' X 8" room. This multi-media work by pianist, artist, Ann Cummings, examines the emotional relationships of doubt and forgiveness based upon the properties of music. Bring your own flashlight for free admission, or $5.00 without a flashlight.

Poet/Scholar, Lance Loder, left us on October 6th, 2009. In remembrance, his friend, Christian Swenson, will read and sing his poems 2 times this day. Lance's poems dive deeply into the relationship of Humans and Nature with grace, ferocity and humor.

Get inspired! Find your inner artist! Create art! Artists in Action, professionals Amy Pleasant & Ann Blanch and you, all week, 10:00-3:00 in the Shoreline City Hall Lobby. Ask questions, try Sumi painting, & watch Amy’s generational painting come to life.

Come find romance in the museum. Wander through galleries looking at images of love across time and across cultures. Find a seat in front of a comfortable painting, or find something new to explore. After October 13, enjoy Luminous: The Art of Asia, an exhibition of Seattle Art Museum's world-class Asian treasues - just returned from a star-studded trip through Japan. From lacquer boxes to silk screens and new work by contemporary artist Do Ho Suh, the variety and pure beauty in this exhibition is endless.

A young boy can't sleep. Tomorrow is the big father-son camping trip, but it's late and his dad still hasn't returned home. The other adults seem to know something he doesn't, but the things they're saying don't seem to be what they're really talking about. The Cryptogram is Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet's taut, tension-filled dive into the coded language at the heart of families.

With the audience watching from the street, physical performing artist Mik Kuhlman will project historic photographs of the 1950’s Civil Rights Movement onto vacant storefront windows, and climb into them as a shadow, highlighting stories that sparked a revolution. Rain or shine. Dress appropriately.

Two women. One crown. Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth clash amidst power plays, espionage, and assassination attempts, in this London and Broadway smash hit that Variety calls, “a juicy regal smackdown.”

An Ideal Husband: Dandies and diamonds swirl in and out of Oscar Wilde's comedic classic. Sir Chiltern appears to be the ideal husband, until a choice from early in his career comes back to haunt him. Can he be restored to his adoring wife? This smart satire sparkles with wit and romance.

Tangled with scandalous love affairs and a tabloid-frenzied trial, this powerful new musical tells the real-life story of Aimee Semple McPherson – the charismatic leader of a theatrical super church in 1920s L.A. who was equally passionate about saving souls and making headlines.

With the audience watching from the street, physical performing artist Mik Kuhlman will project historic photographs of the 1950’s Civil Rights Movement onto vacant storefront windows, and climb into them as a shadow, highlighting stories that sparked a revolution. Rain or shine. Dress appropriately.

With the audience watching from the street, physical performing artist Mik Kuhlman will project historic photographs of the 1950’s Civil Rights Movement onto vacant storefront windows, and climb into them as a shadow, highlighting stories that sparked a revolution. Rain or shine. Dress appropriately.

Enjoy your theaters, support local artists, dine out & shop in Tacoma’s vibrant Theatre District in a weekend festival that offers a variety of free events for all ages!

Register at www.broadwaycenter.org for wristband pass.

An interactive installation of images and music within an 8' X 8' X 8" room. This multi-media work by pianist, artist, Ann Cummings, examines the emotional relationships of doubt and forgiveness based upon the properties of music. Bring your own flashlight for free admission, or $5.00 without a flashlight.

The Art Galleries at SDC, 8 fine art galleries at the Seattle Design Center, hosts a Meet the Artists Gallery Walk, featuring talks and demos by over 2 dozen local artists. Huge selection of art, live music, cash bar, refreshments.

Sight and Sound BREW is a multi disciplinary performance based on two exhibitions presented by Gallery 110. The collaborative experiment will result in new poetry and performance that layers dialogue and interpretation of digital and photographic works by Ray Schutte and Jan Cook. Artists’ reception to follow.

You are invited to Photo Center NW to meet and greet photographers who will just have completed Artist Trust I Am An Artist workshop. Please stop in and view their work, meet the photographers and have the opportunity to learn more about the Artist Trust Creative Career Center and classes offered at Photo Center NW.

Enjoy a guided backstage tour of Seattle Rep with sneak peek performances by local actors from some of our favorite plays.

Join JT Stewart (poet) and Harold Taw (novelist) at Hugo House for comic/sober, late-night readings from their latest books. Rise for blues-inspired Shout-Outs, then lose sobriety and inhibitions in foot-stomping, karaoke jam. What makes you sing or holler on Indigenous People’s Day? Cash bar.

Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini’s internationally bestselling novels have been widely translated and published in 48 countries. The Kite Runner is the story of two boys struggling to grow up amid violence in Kabul, while A Thousand Splendid Suns tells of two girls who become unlikely friends as women. Both books illuminate the beauty and complexities of life in modern, war-torn Afghanistan.

Seattle Pro Musica, one of the premier choirs in the PNW, will hold an open rehearsal and community sing - we’ll sing for you, and then you’ll sing with us. All are welcome, no formal vocal training required; just bring your voice, warm up with Maestra Karen P. Thomas, and enjoy a choral good time!

Join vocalist Lydia McCauley at Village Books in Bellingham for an engaging performance on keyboard, harmonium and dulcimer. By combining the ancient sounds of the Celts, the Spirituality of Medieval Mystics, and the woeful mourn of the Appalachian tradition, Lydia writes new music that evokes a sense of the past.

Art On The Ridge mystery art party, The Masterpiece Incident is family fun. Receive clues to hidden objects in the art. You and your family work together to discover a new way to enjoy art!
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Vuthy is a quirky 16-year-old who thinks it's a good day if he can make it home without getting beat up for being "too Cambodian for the black and Latin kids, and not Cambodian enough for the Cambodian kids.” Ra, his older sister is working towards the American dream of a higher education their immigrant mother never had. Layered with humor and heartbreak, Year Zero is an American story of young Asians trying to find their place in life while still dealing with the legacy their parents left behind.

Two middle-aged men celebrate a fiftieth birthday by filling out a gypsy matchmaker's wish list for the perfect woman. When that longed-for lady walks through the door, both of their lives are disassembled--slowly and painstakingly--forever. This is an outrageously hilarious comedy about men, women, love, loyalty and being careful what you wish for.

The thrilling horror story of a young scientist's disastrous attempt at playing God. Appalled by the monster he has created, Victor Frankenstein abandons his creation. Rejected in horror everywhere, the creature becomes increasingly vengeful and seeks his creator--to strike a ghastly bargain.

The Northwest Repertory Singers, one of the region’s premier choral ensembles, breaks into song at the Proctor District Farmers’ Market. Come experience for yourself the music of this outstanding and creative choral ensemble. Their visit last year is still the talk of the market regulars.

The Second Annual Organ Concert for Life - From Bach to Rach, Saturday, October 15, 7:30pm. This is a unique and exciting classical organ concert on the 40 rank Aeolian Skinner Pipe Organ at Mason United Methodist Church.

Theatre Week starts off in style with a one-of-a-kind performance event and party hosted by Theatre Puget Sound and The Maxwell Hotel. Three local playwrights will create new works written specifically for hotel rooms. Each room/play will be hosted by a local theatre company. Attendees can enjoy food, wine and entertainment in the Maxwell lobby throughout the evening. At 6pm, hourly performance tours will begin, leading patrons on a dramatic journey through the hotel, peeking in on the secret lives of its guests.

Dr. Paul Schultz, Artistic Director of the Northwest Repertory Singers, one of our region’s premier choral ensembles, discusses the “Marriage of Music and Text” as the choir provides a demonstration of some of the word painting in the music of Bach and Handel.

Stone Soup Theatre proudly invites theatre goers, Shakespeare fans, and lovers of all things funny to an open and interactive rehearsal of the hysterical "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)!" Watch as three talented performers attempt to retell all of The Bard's famous works in less than 2 hours while keeping the laughs coming at rapid speed.

Audiences of this open rehearsal will be able to see the magic of theatre behind the curtains as well as interact with the actors, director, and stage crew. Because the show is created in the spirit of improvisation and audience interaction, YOU might be able to contribute an idea or two which makes it into the final performances!

This open rehearsal is free of charge. Little kids who might not understand the language of Shakespeare might want to do something else. Students, parents, and veteran theatre fans will be sure to enjoy one fun and insightful night of drama.

Amitav Ghosh is the internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Ibis Trilogy, which began with Sea of Poppies, a tale of the 1830s opium trade in India and China, and continues with River of Smoke. His fiction has been admired for its precise, beautifully rendered depictions of characters and settings, and its sweeping sense of history unfolding over generations against the backdrop of the violent dislocations of peoples and regimes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

PLAYWORKS presents Arthur Miller's I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING--an insightful comedy about friendship.  Two old friends trade light-hearted banter and stinging exchanges to express their conflicting views of "life's truths." --UNIQUELY SUITED FOR SENIOR COMMUNITIES.

Marianne Trowbridge stars in FOUR WOMEN. This new play by Rebecca Redshaw is a tour de force for the 85-year-old actor who commands the stage for an hour and a half portraying four different women from the ages of 55 to 101! By play's end, the audience finds there are even fewer degrees of separation in life than any connection to Kevin Bacon!

An evening of Ekphrastic Poetry in conjunction with the Arts Now Edmonds Conference Center.  Selected poets have been chosen to take inspiration from Deep Spaces, a touring fiber art exhibit.  The poems will be performed as part of the Edmonds Art Walk and will be on display with the fiber art pieces for the duration of the exhibit.

Come find romance in the museum. Wander through galleries looking at images of love across time and across cultures. Find a seat in front of a comfortable painting, or find something new to explore. After October 13, enjoy Luminous: The Art of Asia, an exhibition of Seattle Art Museum's world-class Asian treasues - just returned from a star-studded trip through Japan. From lacquer boxes to silk screens and new work by contemporary artist Do Ho Suh, the variety and pure beauty in this exhibition is endless.

An evening of art, music and dance anchored by an exhibit from photographer Michael Hipple and visual artist Allison Kline – who worked together to create their own version of the telephone game with pieces of art acting as the conduits for speech.

In this delightful, sweet, acrobatic new show, acclaimed Broadway actor Lorenzo Pisoni transports us to his eccentric childhood spent performing with his father's Pickle Family Circus.

Ever dreamed of writing a book review? Bring your favorite book title and get inspired to write a review to share. Join Nancy Pearl, 2011 Librarian of the Year, for an exciting free after hours talk at the Edmonds Library as she reviews some great book titles. Write your own reviews and share them at the Library and Edmonds Arts Commission website.

The thrilling horror story of a young scientist's disastrous attempt at playing God. Appalled by the monster he has created, Victor Frankenstein abandons his creation. Rejected in horror everywhere, the creature becomes increasingly vengeful and seeks his creator--to strike a ghastly bargain.

The show features improvised scenes, games and musical numbers, based on suggestions provided by the audience. Quick-witted professional improvisers work together to create a live comedy experience that is unique every time. The show is all ages.

BEYOND CRAYONS & FINGER PAINTING YOUTH ART PROJECT is a two component visual arts project featuring a month long Youth Art Exhibition scheduled for Oct 8th-Oct. 29th 2011, accompanied by a one-day Art Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 22nd. 2011 from 11am-3pm. The goal of the project is to introduce artists (ages 7-19) with developing art aptitude to wider access to visual arts opportunities.

Explore bringing Frankenstein's world to life: special effects, writing original script, music and more. With demos. See actor transform into Frankenstein’s Creature—try it yourself. Ask, do, learn! Plus food, drink, music and more. RSVP required: tickets@burienlittletheatre.org, 206-242-5180

A theatrical adaptation based on interviews with local at-risk youth and the challenges they faced. This presentation is a kick-off to New Voices Ensemble Theatre’s community-based program called Our Voices, which was created to give public voice to our communities’ most compelling stories.

Come explore the world of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, playing in November at Youth Theatre Northwest on Mercer Island! Kids and parents will get a sneak peak of a Sleeping Beauty musical number, then enjoy free drama workshop by one of YTN's professional theatre teaching artists.

Art, theatre, literature and community converge in this exploration of Filipino American culture. The evening includes a solo art exhibit by Romson Bustillo, a theatre performance based on the life of author Carlos Bulosan and a panel discussion on Filipino writers in the Puget Sound region.

Enjoy the artistry of the Northwest Repertory Singers, one of the region’s premier choral ensembles, as they prepare for their upcoming Baroque Christmas concert including Bach’s cantata Wachet auf and selections from Handel’s Messiah. Come experience this outstanding and creative choral ensemble.

Be the first to view the 4-minute films made during the Renton FilmFrenzy IV, where filmmakers of all ages undertake the challenge to create a film in just 50 hours.  Screening at the historic Renton Civic Theatre in Downtown Renton.  Films appropriate for all ages.  Free.  RentonFilmFrenzy.com.

All available Date Night (two-for-one) tickets have SOLD OUT. Regular admission tickets are still available for purchase through The Stranger for $10. Purchase yours now at: http://bit.ly/ChrisRyanTix.
Join Christopher Ryan, co-author of New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, for a lively presentation on the book, followed by questions and discussion.

Always wanted to attend a film awards ceremony?  You are invited to the 2011 Renton FilmFrenzy IV Curvee Awards Gala to honor the best 4-minute films created in just 50 hours by filmmakers of all ages.  Films appropriate for all audiences.  Free.  RentonFilmFrenzy.com

The Downtown FilmTalk is an opportunity to connect with filmmakers to hear about their inspiration and zany stories of making a film in just 50 hours during the Renton FilmFrenzy IV.   Films are appropriate for all ages and entrance to the event is free.  Visit RentonFilmFrenzy.com for locations.

PLAYWORKS presents Arthur Miller's I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING--an insightful comedy about friendship.  Two old friends trade light-hearted banter and stinging exchanges to express their conflicting views of "life's truths." --UNIQUELY SUITED FOR SENIOR COMMUNITIES.

PLAYWORKS presents Arthur Miller's I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING--an insightful comedy about friendship.  Two old friends trade light-hearted banter and stinging exchanges to express their conflicting views of "life's truths." --UNIQUELY SUITED FOR SENIOR COMMUNITIES.

FUSE is a performance event created by Dance Gallery of Bellingham by inviting a variety of groups to bring their works together for an evening. Experience a sampling of our dance community including Modern, Belly Dance, Yoga, Break Dance, Flamenco, traditional Afghan and more!