On the List | Drawing Jam, Volunteer Park lights, Keller, Levesque, Bootleg Burlesque (+35 more)

Seattle U kids got things off to a spirited start at Wednesday’s campus tree lighting (Image: Kateri Town/The Spectator special to CHS)

Jingle bell, rock. Here are the holiday (and more) happenings on Capitol Hill (and beyond) this weekend. Add your Capitol Hill events to the CHS Calendar.

Friday, December 2

Figgy Pudding caroling takes over downtown starting at 5p
Volunteer Park Conservatory celebrates its centennial with a holiday lights ceremony. 5-8p

To celebrate the centennial anniversary in 2012 of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, the Friends of the Conservatory have sponsored the installation of energy-efficient lighting which will frame the Conservatory and remain installed through 2012.

Gorilla FC party at E Pike’s Golazo bring Kasey Keller and James Riley to the Hill:

Gorilla FC & NEF are co-hosting the end of the year party Dec. 2nd, 7:30-Midnight at Golazo. It will also serve as a benefit for One Hundred For Haiti.

GFC will present the Gorilla FC Player of the Year to Kasey Keller who will be one of our special guests there. Taylor Graham and Sammy Ochoa are also coming to celebrate! James Riley will be there to say, “Thanks for all the support!”

Frank Close: Inside the Large Hadron Collider at Town Hall Seattle
More Kurt Armbruster and his new book, Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music at Elliott Bay
Lazarre Cellars tasting at 12th and Olive Wine
Seattle U women’s basketball vs. Long Beach State
The Infection Monologues at the Erickston Theatre

Saturday, December 3

12th Annual Gage Drawing Jam:

The biggest Gage event is about to get even bigger! The 12th Annual Gage Drawing Jam features more opportunities to draw from the model than ever before from 9:00am to 9:00pm on Saturday, December 3.

Named a “must-do event” by Seattle Magazine, the Drawing Jam features free art supplies, food, dozens of models, music and three floors of space — and now the event is expanding to the Skinner Auditorium next to Gage. Dancers, musicians and performers act as gesture models, figure models pose up to an hour at a time, and costumed portrait models sit for drawing.

Kids and Teens FREE, $5/Students, $10/Adults

Holiday storytime at Elliott Bay Book Co., 11:30a: “Our twice-a-week Children’s Storytimes, set for Tuesday and Saturday mornings each month, commence for December with this morning’s reading from holiday picturebook favorites read and presented by actors from ReAct Theatre.”
Sounders Roger Levesque and Mike Fucito visit the Elite to support the Youth Suicide Prevention Project. 6-9p
Chino’s officially opens on E Pike
Bordeaux tasting at 15th Ave E’s EVS
Stars on Broadway 2nd annual lighting ceremony honors Entre Hermanos, Friends of the Conservatory, Volunteer Park, Reel Grrls, Ingersoll Gender Center, and Youthcare. 5:30p on Broadway at John.

For this second annual event, the Capitol Hill Chamber has selected five recipient organizations to be honored with a lighted star. Each STar has been created by artists from the Sound Transit Art Program (STart) Wall Project.

Stevens Elementary pancake breakfast and holiday greenery sale
Pet Santa photos at 12th Ave’s Rex, 1-4p. Sunday, too.
Wreath making class at the Volunteer Park Conservatory
Street Treats at Babeland

Shoppers get free tasty treats from Babeland and Jimmyjane on Saturday, December 3rd from 1pm-4pm. Street Treats, Seattle’s homemade dessert food truck, will be here serving Hot Apple Cider, Hot Cocoa, homemade marshmallows and fresh baked goodies to all Babeland customers. Babeland and Jimmyjane, one of our favorite toy designers, want to say thanks for being so darn sweet, so we’ve enlisted the sweetest truck in town to provide complimentary treats.
Food truck Fusion on the Run serves lunch at Hugo House, 11-2 — Write-O-Rama underway inside
The mayor comes to Madison Valley — Mayor’s Neighborhood Town Hall, Cafe Flora, 11a
Lake Union Civic Orchestra: Family Holiday Concert & Sing-Along at Town Hall
Heidi Pauwels on “Sita in Bollywood: Film Ideals of Conjugal Love” at Seattle Asian Art Museum
Century Ballroom’s weekly indoor flea market
Toys for Tarts Bacon Strip at Re-Bar
Bootleg Burlesque at Happy Endings Urban Mercantile

In an art form where it’s all too easy to drop hundreds of dollars with the bat of one very sparkly, very extended eyelash, what happens when the performer attached to that eyelash is constrained by a budget? And that budget is a measly fifty bucks? And the performer must make up a new, professional routine while staying within that budget? What happens is this:

Creativity. Challenge. And a surprising amount of freedom.

Solange Corbeau and Flirty Sanchez present BOOTLEG BURLESQUE!

Featuring performances by

FANNY TRAGIC

FLIRTY SANCHEZ

HARRIET SCARY

LADY TATAS

MADISUN AVENUE

OLATSA ASSIN

POLLY WOOD

RANDI RASCAL

SOLANGE CORBEAU

TEDDY BARE

with amazing hosting sensation DIVA LE DEVIANTand the sultry jazz vocal stylings of SARA DIPITY

Tickets are $15 each. Cash only at the door.

An event this unique deserves a home that’s just as unique! Since we are borrowing the unconventional retail-turned-performance space of Happy Endings, seating will be limited. Be sure to get there early!

Doors 7:30pm. Show 8:00pm.

18+ (read: booze up before the show)This is a glitter-free event.