On The List | Capitol Hill art walk, Volunteer Park picnic, Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival, Departure (+15 more)

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Greetings On the List fans. Apologies for the recent, continuing and longer-than-expected outage of the CHS calendar. We’re working on a fix and should have things back up and running soon. In the meantime, let us know via mail if there are events on the Hill we should highlight. Happy weekend!

Thursday, July 11

SeaTech Connect is an office crawl to visit creative and tech offices on Capitol Hill. Its an open house sort of event where you can visit creative/tech offices from 4p to 6p to see the spaces and meet the people who work in them. Check the site for the list of nine offices who are participating. Open house hours are 4 – 6p, with an afterparty at Grim’s to follow.
This month’s Blitz Capitol Hill Art Walk shows include several by current/former street artists and street-art influenced work: Sensei 23 at The Pine Box, Tinglr at Bauhaus, Jacob Dixon at Vermllion. There’s also a coaster show at Apocalypse (coaster sized art), and more. The art walk runs 5 – 8p and later.
First annual Volunteer Park Trust Summer Picnic:
Author readings: join two sci-fi writers now based in Seattle for readings: Jack Skillingstead reads from his speculative fiction book Life on the Preservation and Nancy Kress reads from her short stories collection Fountain of Age. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7p.
The Science of Consequences: Susan Schneider discusses how the science behind choices, actions and consequences and how something deceptively simple can make sense of so much. Town Hall, 7p.
Capitol Hill emergency preparedness meeting, 7p at Saint Mark’s

Friday, July 12

Author readings: Laurie Blauner reads from her third novel The Bohemians and Jerome Gold reads from novella The Moral Life of Soldiers. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7p.
Dance: 127th St. Dance Company presents SPIRITO, an evening of dance Friday and Saturday at Broadway Performance Hall, 8p.

Saturday, July 13

Author reading: Debut novel Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani is getting good press as a compelling coming-of-age story. Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:30p.
Aisha Tyler, actress, comedian, and TV host visits with a book of comedic mistakes and life lessons: Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humilation. Town Hall, 7:30p.
Departure at Lawrence Lofts — 5-10p, building becomes an art gallery once a year.
The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival fills Volunteer Park all weekend:
Traffic alert: 520 and I-405 closures all weekend.
East Precinct picnic!