(Images: Alex Garland for CHS)
Boldly go where 30,000+ music festival attendees aren’t? If you don’t plan on attending the 2015 Capitol Hill Block Party, here are a few things to keep you entertained around the neighborhood this weekend.
The 2015 edition of Outdoor Trek lands again at the Central District’s Blanche Lavizzo Park this weekend:
Outdoor Trek is an episode of The Original Series of Star Trek adapted for the stage and performed live in Seattle’s Blanche Lavizzo Park. This year’s episode is “Amok Time” (yes, the one where Spock goes into heat). Starting July 18, the play runs every Saturday at 7pm and every Sunday at 2pm and ends August 9. Pre-shows start and hour before the show and food trucks will be at every event. Outdoor Trek features a live band, genderbending casting, and a DIY aesthetic that makes Star Trek’s optimistic future feel close to home.
Velocity Dance brings Strictly Seattle to the Broadway Performance Hall:
Strictly Seattle is a complete immersion to the Seattle dance scene. Five adult programs inspire beginning through professional level dancers with rigorous physical and compositional training in a challenging and invigorating environment.
Participants develop a new work in collaboration with Zoe Scofield, Pat Graney, Kate Wallich (Professional Advanced), or KT Niehoff (Advanced Session – Dance Film Track), Shannon Stewart or Anna Conner (Intermediate), Kaitlin McCarthy or Bryon Carr (Beginning).
Meanwhile, Bobby Morris Playfield at Cal Anderson host two days of LGBTQ sports fundraisers with Jockstraps & Glitter kickball pitting Quake Rugby vs. the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Abbey of St. Joan on Saturday and Seattle Bat ‘n’ Rouge lining up the traditional softball battle of Drag Queens and Dykes on Sunday.
Across the street, “existential transgender wild western” Sidewinders continues at Hugo House, the BadWill Market presents a special CHBP edition just outside the gates at the Rhino Room, and the good folks at the Broadway Farmers Market want to remind you that they’ll be open Sunday during the big party and that eating your veggies and fresh fruit is a good way to stay healthy during a three-day music fest.
For more events on and around the Hill or to add your own, check out the CHS Calendar.
