So much to do. More to add? Let us know about Capitol Hill events on the CHS Calendar.
Thursday, October 20
- Value Village costume catwalks. Every Thursday through Halloween. 3p. Other places on Hill to get your costume.
- Capitol Hill Community Council’s monthly meetings resume with new officer crew and new priorities
- Show and Tell with Emmett Montgomery at Hugo House
- City Arts Festival: Heather McHugh: The Ecstasy of Influence at Town Hall
- Haunted Seattle at History Cafe at Roy Street Coffee
- SIFF re-opens the Uptown Theater
- 2011 City Arts Festival starts
- Culture Club: Pop-Up Art Market at FRED Wildlife Refuge. Free — runs through Saturday as part of City Arts Festival
- Bordeaux tasting at 12th and Olive Wine
- Dinner party wines tasting at Vino Verite
- Last weekend for “The Jacket” at Broadway Performance Hall. The Stranger suggests
Friday, October 21
- Foreclosure protest in support of Dixie Mitchell
- Working Washington alerts us to a Department of Social and Health Services town hall on Capitol Hill:
- Woman’s Century Club Tea and Fall Reception at Harvard Exit
- Global Rhythms: Celebrating the First 10 Years! at Town Hall
- Stephen Mitchell brings his translation of The Iliad to Elliott Bay
- ZomBcon International 2011 – Seattle begins in SeaTac
- Duff McKagan at Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University — “Along with friends and neighbors at Seattle University, we’re delighted to help present legendary musician Duff McKagan—of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver renown—for this evening of conversation and booksigning.”
- Ltd. Gallery grand opening. CHS previewed the new “low brow” gallery here.
- Le Faux Welcomes Shangela — Julia’s
- The Viaduct begins its 9-day closure at 7:30p
- Last weekend for the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Strengthening Local Independent Co-ops Everywhere (SLICE) conference at Broadway’s All Pilgrim’s Church:
Sliding scale; no one turned away. Email us to secure a scholarship.
All Pilgrims Christian Church
500 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 98102
Friday, October 21: 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 22: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Keynote speakers:
Eric Bowman
Margaret Lund
Featured cooperators:
Alison Booth,
Equal Exchange
Eric Bowman,
Northwest Cooperative Development Center
Jodie Buller,
Skagit Valley Food Co-op and The Next Fifty
Delridge Produce Co-operative
Diane Gasaway,
Northwest Cooperative Development Center
Julio Quan,
United Nations University for Peace
Rick Riehle,
Pangaea Organica
Erin Thompson,
Community to Community Development (Comunidad a Comunidad)
University of Washington Student Food Cooperative
Andy Wright,
Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union
- “c.1993 (you never step in the same river twice) is opening tonight at Annex Theatre. This is an exciting production, featuring the hard work of a talented ensemble working under the vision and direction of Bret Fetzer.”
I just wanted to make sure you were aware of a town hall DSHS is holding in Capitol Hill this Friday morning at St. Mark’s Cathedral as part of their outreach around state budget cuts. The head of DSHS will be there to discuss their proposal to the Governor for an overall 10% cut to the various support programs DSHS provides to vulnerable people across the state. Some programs are slated to be cut less, and some more, including a proposed 75% cut to domestic violence programs.
At the same time as they’re making these cuts, keep in mind that Chase Bank takes in more the $100,000 a month from fees they charge to people who receive cash benefits. (Chase manages EBT cards for the state, and they charge 85 cents per transaction every time someone uses an EBT card to access cash benefits.)
Anyway, would love to see you cover the story at the DSHS town hall. The cuts being discussed are dramatic and will greatly impact people in need and those who provide health care and other services to people in need, including countless people and service providers in Capitol Hill.
Friday, October 21 | 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Saint Mark’s Cathedral
Bloedel Hall
1245 Tenth Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98102
Saturday, October 22
- E Madison’s Bottleneck Lounge holds its annual Hillside Harvest Feast this Saturday. Skillet will be on hand to serve up the chow. Doors at 2p, Skillet at 3p until the food runs out.
- Weekly children’s story time at Elliott Bay, 11:30a
- Century Ballroom’s weekly flea market
- “Emerald City Aikido celebrates 20 years on Capitol Hill with an open house and public demonstration Sat Oct 22 at 11:15AM” — 19th Ave E
- Beginning Sewing – Bag at Stitches
- Barbara Johns at Seattle Asian Art Museum
- Lawrence Lessig: The Corruption of Congress at Town Hall
- Wheedle’s Groove at Vito’s
- OmYoga Benefit for Jubilee Womens Center at Electric Tea Garden, 6p
Emily Griffin Beard will lead an all levels Vinyasa Flow accompanied by live music from San Francisco’s DJ J-Boogie. $25 gets you in the class and includes a copy of the CD. All proceeds will benefit Capitol Hill’s own Jubilee Women’s Center, which provides housing and services for homeless women. Tickets available on Brown Paper Tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/201074
Sunday, October 23
- Music Center of the NW: Fall Faculty Gala at Town Hall
- Arm Balancing – Lifting Off with Grace at 8 Limbs Yoga
- Mixtape Reading 3# at Cairo
- “New York poet and librettist Martine Bellen, currently teaching at The Evergreen State College as a faculty member, returns to Elliott Bay to read from her seventh collection of poems, GHOSTS!” at Elliott Bay
Monday, October 24
- Science: Ian McAllister & Andrew Nikiforuk:Wolves, Beetles & a Pipeline at Town Hall
- Road Safety Summit at City Hall
- Central Co-op’s Fresh Starts: A Food Day Event
- Special midnight on-sale opening for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 at Elliott Bay Book Company
Start: 10/25/2011 12:00 am
One of the books we are most excited about, in some time, is the long-awaited English-language translation of Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, 1Q84 (Knopf). Published here in a single volume, at over 900 pages, everyone wanting it won’t want to wait. So—with some details yet to devise—we will celebrate by being open at midnight Monday night to make 1Q84 available. It is a fabulous, amazing book. A few here can attest to that already. Those eager to read and know more about 1Q84 should also mark Monday, November 14 on the calendar. That evening, noted translator Jay Rubin, who translated two of the three parts of 1Q84, is scheduled to be at Elliott Bay to discuss the book and its author. Please check back on our website for updated information on this evening. This will be fun.
Tuesday, October 25
- Write Out writers happy hour at Hugo House
- Seattle Architecture Foundation: Seattle Reservoir Lid Parks Projects at Town Hall
The Seattle Architecture Foundation launches a six-part lecture series, Interacting with Design, which explores the ways people and communities can interact with design in small and large developments. The first lecture by Guy Michaelson and Jonathan Morley of the Seattle landscape architecture firm Berger Partnership, shares developments for the city’s reservoir lid parks, along with the vision, design, and process behind them. These parks redefine the use of previously unusable public lands and simultaneously generate new community developments around them: The neighborhoods become a draw, and future growth is encouraged. Presented by Seattle Architecture Foundation.Advance tickets are $20/$10 students and SAF members/$100 for all six lectures, at Brown Paper Tickets or 800/838-3006.
