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February 2023
The Works of Margaret Wise Brown | February 11 | Hugo House
February 11 | 7:30pm | Hugo House The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by The Works of Margaret Wise Brown Buy your Tickets HERE! Throughout the 1940s, Margaret Wise Brown single-handedly rewrote the book on children’s literature. Groundbreaking works like The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon (which the New York Public Library initially refused to buy) fused poetry and philosophy, captivating generations of readers. “The first great wonder at the world is big in me. That is…
Find out more »The Works of Margaret Wise Brown | February 11 | Hugo House
February 11 | 7:30pm | Hugo House The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by The Works of Margaret Wise Brown Buy your Tickets HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! Throughout the 1940s, Margaret Wise Brown single-handedly rewrote the book on children’s literature. Groundbreaking works like The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon (which the New York Public Library initially refused to buy) fused poetry and philosophy, captivating generations of readers. “The first great wonder at the world is big in…
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Attack of the Book People | March 10 | The Rabbit Box Theatre
7.13 Books & The Bushwick Book Club Seattle present Attack of the Book People! Friday, March 10 - 4:00pm-Midnight At Rabbit Box Theatre in Pike Place Market: 94 Pike Street (1st and Pike, down the stairs) Happy Hour 4:00-6:00 Hosted by Jonathan Evison Music by The Bushwick Book Club Seattle & DJ Sidecar Featured authors: Dionne Irving Steve Almond Christine Sneed Sequoia Nagamatsu Brandon Hobson Shin Yu Pai with special guest Steve Turner of Mudhoney Bushwick musicians include: Drea…
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Anne of Green Gables | April 8 | Town Hall Seattle
April 8 | 7:30pm| Town Hall Seattle The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables Buy your Tickets HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! Cherished for over a hundred years, Anne of Green Gables follows red-haired Anne Shirley out of the orphanage and through a series of enchanting adventures. Imaginative and passionate, Anne has earned her place as one of the most well-known and adored heroes of twentieth century fiction. “Anne, the main…
Find out more »May 2023
Violeta | May 13 | Hugo House
May 13 | 7:30pm | Hugo House The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by Isabel Allende's Violeta In collaboration with Seattle Rep, we are presenting excerpts from Benjamin Benne’s play At the Very Bottom of a Body of Water performed by local actors and directed by Daira Rodriguez Buy your Tickets HERE! DIGITAL PROGRAM HERE! What would it be like to have your life marked by not one but two pandemics? Meet Violeta, born in 1920 near…
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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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