Have a great, active and safe weekend.
Saturday, October 15
- 16th Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival — info at http://www.threedollarbillcinema.org/11/
- 520 bridge CLOSED starting Saturday 8p after the UW football game. Re-opens Monday morning.
- Picture book creator Stephen Cosgrove signs at Elliott Bay
- Weekly flea market at Century Ballroom
- 8 Limbs celebrates 15 years of yoga with a free class
- Haiyan Lee, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Stanford, at Seattle Asian Art Museum
- Environmental writer Thor Hansen at Elliott Bay
- Saturday Family Concerts: DJ Baba James at Town Hall
- Metrix Create:Space celebrates two years of making on Capitol Hill
- Capitol Hill trivia crawl
- CakeSpy book signing at Cupcake Royale
- Global Day of Action/Night of 500 Tents — Occupy Seattle
Global Day of Action/Night of 500 Tents Schedule:
12:00pm Global Day of Action Rally
3:00pm March to Chase Bank
5:00pm Tent Raising Ceremony
6:30pm General AssemblySeattle needs your help to reclaim our occupation. We can not maintain our space unless we attain critical mass, and we need everyones help to do it. Seattle is one of the top corporate head quarters of the world. It is important for the integrity of this movemenet and this country that we the people of the great north west let the powers that be, the powers that surround us, know that this occupation is not going anywhere. So this Saturday, bring your tents, and your sunday best.
Sunday, October 16
- Broadway farmers market, 11-3
- Seattle U Mens Soccer RedOut vs Sac State
Seattle U Men’s Soccer is taking on Sacramento State University on Sunday at 1pm on Championship Field. Seattle U is hosting a block party RedOut prior to the game, beginning at 11am. The RedOut is open to all community members to attend and will be held on a closed 13th Ave and the surrounding parking lots. There will be breakfast food, games, and prizes. For more information about the game, please see www.goseattleu.com
Monday, October 17
- “Alexander Maksik, with his highly regarded, Paris-set, debut novel, You Deserve Nothing” at Elliott Bay
- Daniel Yergin: The Quest for Oil Shapes Our World at Town Hall
- Bloom: An Evening of Sustainable Innovation at Sole Repair
what I imagine Phenom Penh was like at the height of the Khemer Rouge, a hysterical older man screaming until the veins are popping out in his head as he makes the crushing motion with his fist with people repeating like clockwork as a small dissenting group is shouted down and attacked.