Upcoming Events

Original Music inspired by Stephen King’s On Writing Saturday, October 19, 2019 at Hugo House Ring in the Halloween holiday with a living horror legend! A known master of the macabre, Stephen King is often underappreciated as a master of the craft - this Halloween, explore King's startling (and inspiring) origin story, his near-fatal car accident, and his astonishing recovery and return to writing. "This is a special book, animated by a unique intelligence, and filled with useful truth."—Michael Chabon

Original Music inspired by Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Saturday, November 16, 2019 at Hugo House Head into the kitchen with Bushwick with a cookbook that breaks the mold & invents new ways to think about food itself. Adapted into a hit Netflix show, Samin Nosrat's bestselling book explores eating through a joyous celebration of four central ingredients: salt, fat, acid, and heat. "This beautiful, approachable book not only teaches you how to cook, but captures how it should…

Original Music inspired by Tara Westover’s Educated Saturday, January 11, 2020 at Hugo House Tara Westover's riveting, bestselling memoir of discovery  and independence took the entire world by storm - now, it becomes a well of inspiration for artists in a night of original music. "This story, remarkable as it is, might be merely another entry in the subgenre of extreme American life, were it not for the uncommon perceptiveness of the person telling it. Westover examines her childhood with…

Original Music inspired by the works of Shakespeare Saturday, February 15, 2020 at Hugo House The Bard at last! Inspiration, invention and imagination abound in the world's singlemost celebrated literary canon - and, at last, it will be drawn upon for a night of original music inspired by Shakespeare's legendary work. “He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Performers will be announced…

Original Music inspired by the works of Cecilia Vicuña Saturday, April 25, 2020 at Hugo House Experience a night of original music inspired by the vision of  Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, curated by Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna. "My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new meanings." - Cecilia Vicuña “Vicuña's work, at its very essence, is 'a way of remembering'—as…

Original Music inspired by Zadie Smith's White Teeth Saturday, May 16, 2020 at Hugo House Religious zealots, oddball scientists, awkward teenagers, experimental mice and (maybe) the end of the world? Zadie Smith arrived on the literary scene by combining these ingredients into a phenomenal story of history, family and change. "Frisky and irreverent...Smith's real talent emerges not just in her voice but in her ear, which enables her to inhabit characters of different generations, races and mind-sets." - The New…