The Mint Collective, part of the NW New Works Festival starting this weekend at On the Boards. Photo by Tim Summers
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Thursday
- Build Here, part of the First Thursday Artwalk, explores how the urban environment changes over time @ Occidental Park
- Absent, a show of new works by Mona Lang, Jen Law, Cyn Moore, & Linda Jo Nazarenus, opens @ the Canoe Club
- I Suck at My Job is the first performance of WTF Productions, a new sketch comedy outfit @ Odd Duck Theatre
- Celebrate the fifth anniversary of our good friends @ Central Cinema
Friday
- The Vaudevillians, a late-night cabaret, opens @ the Balagan Theatre
- Cancer: the Musical–because mortality cries out for a big song-and-dance number–opens @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
- The first weekend of NW New Works Festival @ On the Boards
- It’s the first Friday of the month, which means art, music, fashion, and mingling @ SAM Remix
- If you’re tired of SIFF, you can always switch over to STIFF, which kicks off today @ the Jewel Box, Central Cinema
- Heather Lende reads from her life-in-Alaska memoir Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Saturday
- Art on the Fly is a site-specific performance by over 100 dancers, part of the Beyond the Threshold Dance Festival @ Cornish sites around South Lake Union
- Grizzlies tear through a fake campsite in the Bear Affair @ Woodland Park Zoo
- Crash Test Dummies tear through their hits @ the Triple Door
- Ambiente! SIFF celebrates Spanish cinema with prison drama Cell 211, followed by the gala @ Belltown’s Taberna del Alabardero
- If you’re looking for an all-ages rock show, look no further than Thrice @ the revamped King Cat Theater
- Longhouse Media is also celebrating their fifth anniversary this week @ Sole Repair
Sunday
- It’s the last day of Green Week, which means your last chance to get sustainable @ Seattle Green Festival
- Delorean will make this gray June feel like summer with their shimmery Spanish electro @ Chop Suey
- FREE: The NOVA poetry project is one of the very, very few high school poetry events MvB would send you to. Catch the NOVA prodigies @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
- Freedom ain’t free, so Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman is hosting a KBCS fundraiser @ the Triple Door
- Rebuilding Hope, a documentary shot by Seattle’s Jen Marlowe about three “Lost Boys” of Sudan returning to their homes, shows as part of STIFF @ the Northwest Film Forum
Monday
- FREE (reservations required): Vocalist Jose James blends jazz, hip hop, and soul @ Jazz Alley
- Fresh off their set at the ‘Gum Bowl, Woods brings their dark psych rock @ the Tractor
- The first Monday of the month means it’s time to Rumble, with this month’s guests Motopony and Chasing Kings @ Havana
- FREE: Seattle’s Robin Oliveira reads from her debut novel, My Name is Mary Sutter @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
Tuesday
- Seminal post-rock jazz band Tortoise finally makes it to Seattle to play from their 2009 album Beacons of Ancestorship @ Neumo’s
- FREE: Ah, Seattle and serial killers go together like dark chocolate-dipped cyanide caplets. Capitol Hill author Kevin O’Brien reads from his tenth book, Vicious @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
- The Roosevelt H.S. jazz band has had all year to practice, so they should sound tiiight when they play @ the Triple Door
- Behavioral economist Dan Ariely talks about his new book The Upside of Irrationality @ Town Hall
