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June 2023
Blue Highways | June 3 | Town Hall Seattle
June 3 | 7:30pm | Town Hall Seattle The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways Buy your Tickets HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! Decades before #vanlife would trend, William Least Heat-Moon responded to upheaval in his life by hitting the road in a 1975 Ford Econoline and chronicling the journey. (“A man who couldn’t make things go right could at least go.”) Without a destination, Least Heat-Moon traveled the country on America’s “blue…
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Charlotte’s Web | September 23 | Town Hall Seattle
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White September 23 | 7:30pm | Town Hall Seattle Get your TICKETS HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! Ever since E.B. White spun this classic tale in 1952, readers have been captured by its barnyard magic. Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider, through subtle meditations on death and change, illustrate better than any human what it means to be humane. Some book. “As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in…
Find out more »Hedgebrook Presents: Great Minds
September 30 | 7:30pm | Town Hall Seattle Hedgebrook Presents: Great Minds: On the Unreliable Narrator, the Necessity of Joy, and What Doesn't Make the Cut Presenting partners Seattle Arts and Lectures and The Bushwick Book Club Seattle. Bookstore partner Elliott Bay Book Company Buy your Tickets HERE! An evening of empowering performances and conversations at Town Hall Seattle! Seattle Arts & Lectures and Bushwick Book Club Seattle join in the celebration as we uplift and delight in the work…
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Where the Crawdads Sing | October 14 | The Rabbit Box Theatre
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens October 14 | 7:30pm | The Rabbit Box Theatre Get your TICKETS HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! Set in the North Carolina marshes of the mid-20th century, this literary smash blends the time-tested coming-of-age and murder mystery genres into a captivating cocktail all its own. Want our advice? Read the book. Watch the movie. See the concert. “Outstanding…Readers should set aside daily tasks, turn off cell phones, forget about laundry and possibly even eating…
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Glory | November 18 | Town Hall Seattle
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo November 18 | 7:30pm | Town Hall Seattle Get your TICKETS HERE! Find the DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! For her second book, Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo tried to write nonfiction about the 2017 coup of Robert Mugabe—what came out instead was the Booker Prize-nominated novel Glory, a bombastic satire in the riotous spirit of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Buckle up. “By aiming the long, piercing gaze of this metaphor at the aftereffects of European imperialism in Africa, Bulawayo…
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InkAloud (E. Briskin, Justine Chan, Tanya Holtland) | December 9 | The Rabbit Box Theatre
InkAloud (E. Briskin, Justine Chan, Tanya Holtland) December 9 | 7:30pm | The Rabbit Box Theatre Get your TICKETS HERE! Find the DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! Story: Get down with the loudest ink in town! Three local authors—co-curation with Seattle poet Shin Yu Pai—inspire three musicians apiece, a gift of nine new songs in this one-night-only celebration of creativity and collaboration. Featured authors/books: E Briskin, author of Orange Justine Chan, author of Should You Lose All Reason(s) Tanya Holtland, author of…
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Aesop’s Fables | January 13 | Town Hall Seattle
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop January 13 | 7:30pm | Town Hall Seattle Get your TICKETS HERE! Find the DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! The collected fables of Aesop, a Greek slave and storyteller, have endured for over two millennia. From The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Fox and the Grape and many more beyond, this sprawling collection continues to enchant readers with its timeless wisdom and humor. “Ultimately the fables represent one of the oldest characteristics of human life: storytelling. The…
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Dogman | February 10 | Fremont Abbey
Dogman by Dav Pilkey February 10 | 6pm | Fremont Abbey Get your TICKETS HERE! Find the DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! From the mind that brought you Captain Underpants, Bainbridge Island native Dav Pilkey’s ongoing saga of a dog-headed cop with a heart of gold (and the breath of an outhouse) digs much deeper than its oddball premise suggests—down, perhaps, to the meaning of life itself. “High-intensity, heartwarming, and, above all, hysterically funny…Whether through nifty Star Wars references, time-honored slapstick, self-aware…
Find out more »Snowball – A benefit for for STYLE
Welcome to the Snow Ball: A Benefit for STYLE! Get ready to immerse yourself in a winter wonderland of music and community. Join us for a night of infectious rhythms and soulful melodies with live performances by Panda Conspiracy and Buzz Brump, two dynamic funky party bands that promise to keep you dancing all night long. This special event supports the vision of STYLE to nurture the next generation of musicians and readers. Get your tickets now! Gather your friends,…
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I Sing the Salmon Home | March 16 | Town Hall Seattle
I Sing the Salmon Home edited by Rena Priest March 16 | 7:30pm | Town Hall Seattle Get your TICKETS HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! To cap off her storied term as Washington’s sixth State Poet Laureate, Lummi tribal member Rena Priest gathered poems from more than 150 Washington poets—ranging from first graders to tribal elders—to celebrate the Northwest’s signature swimmers in this singular anthology. “At long last salmon—the soul of the Pacific Northwest—have been given words to match the ongoing…
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